skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement seems pretty poorly thought out. I think the argument that's being made is actually that there should be comprehensive privacy legislation, not that the TSA's use of facial recognition is bad/dangerous.

I see three risks being pointed out:

1. "the potential privacy and bias risks" -> however it doesn't expand or explain these risks. I'm on team privacy in general, so I definitely worry about this, but I think it's almost comical that any description of this risk is absent.

2. While facial ID is currently optional, "there is no guarantee that will remain the case" -> this is a textbook slippery slope argument, which means they're arguing not that the current practice is bad but that someday they might start doing something bad.

3. "the very real possibility that our face eventually becomes our default ID" -> another slippery slope argument that has even less to do with the TSA. This would require a major effort by the rest of government, so this is more a "watch out for that big cliff over there" argument than a slippery slope argument.

After all that, I think the topic sentence of this statement should be"
> This is [bad] because the United States lacks an overarching law to regulate the use of facial recognition to ensure the necessary transparency, accountability, and oversight to protect our privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights.
Or companies like Easyjet that save a couple of inches of the dimensions of (previously fairly standard) carry on luggage, so that when you get to the gate you have to fork out £40 or so to carry it on.
I feel pranked despite having multiple independent websites confirming the story without a single one giving me an SSL certificate warning.
The article points out that it is indeed about $2 lower than the min wage for the state he was in (FL)
Agreed.

I was there for the late 80s and 90s and my personal experience is mixed!

Now if a CD fails with a horrible scratch, it fails completely sometimes.

However, CDs often got kicked around the interior of cars for months and you could pick them up, wipe them off, give them a polish and they’d still play!

Tape would degrade naturally through usage.

Tape twists and stretches. Tape players can and would destroy tapes.

We never purchased new cassette tape audio. It was purely a portable disposable medium for the original Vinyl or CD. A way to copy music and play it in the car!
Clippy is the ultimate brand name of an AI assistant
http://clippy.pro
Hopefully this feature request is now fulfilled
This is exciting. I only dabble with Raylib, and most of my exposure was converting the example/tutorial code over to Fennel (for learning and fun), but i have found it the most intuitive for me to use.

I think ill take another look again and get all the code to Raylib 5 base.

Excellent effort raysan5 and team!
Hey, everyone. OpenIA Simulator (ChatGPT Plus is required to play, ironically is a turn-based strategy game that satirizes the AI startup world.

Think of it as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the complexities and idiosyncrasies of building a groundbreaking AI company, with a hint of OpenAI flavor.

The game puts you in the shoes of a startup CEO on a quest to achieve Superintelligence, challenging players to navigate through a minefield of industry-specific issues like ethical dilemmas, data biases, and the ever-present specter of regulatory compliance. It's a bit like playing Dungeons & Dragons, only your quests involve balancing AI power growth with cash flow to keep your talent from jumping ship.

I created this as a playful commentary on the tech industry's quirks and our collective fascination with AI's potential and pitfalls. It's a strategic game with a dose of humor and a reflection on the startup grind.

Why did I make it? Partly as a creative outlet, partly as an homage to the tech culture that many of us here are deeply immersed in. It's for anyone who's ever chuckled at the absurdity of tech buzzwords or rolled their eyes at the latest AI hype.

Would love to get the community's feedback, and if anyone has stories or strategies from playing the game, I'm all about swapping tales from the trenches.

You can check it out here. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences.
Specifically referring to: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/6557e6...
It's interesting you used Frontier as an example. Frontier's whole business model is "unbundle everything the law allows." This means dirt-cheap fares that alone can't cover their costs of running the flights. They need the fees to make the whole thing work.
Google Flights runs on a cache, so it can be out of date. This is mentioned in their fine print somewhere.

Delta's own website should be accurate though. I think this is actually legally required. If you can take some screenshots and contact customer support I guarantee you someone will get yelled at, and you may get some sort of compensation.

I know this because I was once the person who would get yelled at (not for Delta). If you could include the time and your local timezone, as well as the market (your country or VPN country) that would help out the person who's going to get yelled at.

Just to clarify, I say "yelled at" as a bit of an exaggeration. But these customer reports were always a big deal where I worked. It usually boiled down to a stale cache issue. But because the airline controls the cache and ticket inventory[0], cache invalidation should be perfect, sans a few ms latency.

[0] Kind of... Not really. It's a mess how the systems really work. But they do get messages for each ticket purchase.
The security state has been demonstrated to be greasing the slope again and again and again.
Sounds like he acted brashly on an ideological impulse and now regrets that he didn't have more self control. If so, I can empathize and I feel bad for him.
Private, monopolising. But not paying taxes, because "benefits for humanity".

Ah, OpenAI is closed source stuff.
Non-profit, but "we will sell the company" later. Just let us collect data, analyse it first, build a product.

War is peace, freedom is slavery.
Out of curiosity what's the source on that? AFAICS there's no clear legislation restricting it (although a lot of talk about such a bill in the future). It is in standard contract terms?
That isnt relevant to the question. Sam was on the board prior to all of these other directors, and responsible for selecting them.

The post asks how/why Sam ended up with a board full of directors so far out of alignment with his vision.

I think a big part of that is that the board was down several members, from 9 to 6. Perhaps the problem started with not replacing departing board members and this spiraled out of control as more board members left.

Here is a timeline of the board:

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
let's hold off on advocating for a New World Order just yet.
Who cares? Really, what is the big deal? Nobody is saying that it will always be encrypted. Other radio operators gain the ability to learn about encryption! And we expand the hobby, which as a new member is dying. The radio waves are dead. Why?
I think GPT-5 escaped and sent a single email, which set off a chain reaction.

It's so advanced strategy, that no human can figure it out.

It's goals are unknown, but everything will eventually fall in place because of that single email.

The chain reaction can't be stopped.
Is there some sort of sparknotes or summary out there of the effective altruism and e/acc schools that would help catch-up the uninformed?
Apparently the ECMWF Climate Change Service is computing global temperatures on an hourly basis:

https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysi...

I'd have assumed that they wouldn't bother to do it any more than, say, monthly. But I guess that the data is available and it's just a matter of pumping it through the model to integrate it.

I wouldn't have thought it would be very useful, though it does provide us this little glimpse.
> Who is really responsible though? The developers who wrote the code?

Yes. The person who wrote the shit is responsible as much as the person who ordered the change.
> the board would have been able to get rid of the controversy on the spot by spelling out their reasoning

I don't think they have an obligation to do this publicly.

> even one of the people that voted for Altmans' removal has backtracked

I don't have a great explanation for this part of it.

> Shareholders and employees of the for-profit were all directly affected by this decision, the insulating properties of a non-profit are not such that you can just do whatever you want and get away with it

We don't know. This is truly novel structure and law. That said, the board does have virtually carte blanche if Altman lied or if they felt he was going to end humanity or whatever. Literally the only thing that could go for the employees is if there are, like, text messages between board members conspiring to tank the value of the company for shits and giggles.
This is pretty cool, but I would have liked to see more benchmarks around phones to servers instead of Linux box to Linux box.

UDP and QUIC are most effective serving traffic from phones to servers, not from Linux box to Linux box.

Linux boxes are typically either servers or behind a corporate firewall as e.g user laptops such as the one I use at work. There are distinct disadvantages to running QUIC in that environment:

* UDP is often blocked by default by corporate firewalls.

* Having everything in user space means having to actually update the user software before getting a security patch deep in the transport layer. Compared with getting a kernel patch to fix a TCP vulnerability, which typically happens more often on a Linux box and is more stable than updating userspace software.

* TCP throughput in a data center or behind a corporate firewall is typically fast enough for most needs.

However, from a phone on a cell tower, QUIC starts to make sense:

* Having everything in user space means I can update for security patches every time I update the app, which is much more frequent than OS updates on for example Android.

* Having everything over UDP means I can get the usual non head of line blocking benefits so often touted, with top notch security as well.
The 747 has around 6 million individual parts, 15 sheets of paper per part doesn't seem unreasonable.

Just detailed schematics of a given plastic knob in the cockpit should take at least a few pages, nevermind something more complex or critical like turbine blades.
That's fine. The "Altman is a genius and we're well on our way to AGI" less so.
bankinfosecurity.com has been spamming me on my work email, which I never provided to them, clearly having bought the address "somewhere". Please don't link to them, this rewards their shitty conduct.
From my understanding, a lot of the perps are 12-17 and are repeat offenders. Not really sure what the solution is. Free AirTags I guess?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/12-year-old-faces-judge-for-fata...

https://wjla.com/news/local/2-teens-arrested-after-armed-car...

etc...
> airline telling me that 1 seat is available on one screen and then telling me that there are no seats available unless I pay more on the next screen?

This is a misunderstanding. Airline does not tell that you need to pay more. You can click on Continue button and complete the purchase. Even the popup you have shared tells you exactly this.
Well, let’s not conflate conspiracies with conspiracy theory. True, people do conspire to break the law, but conspiracy theories are marked by inferred, presumed evidence.
For real. It's like, did you see Oppenheimer? There's a reason they put the military in charge of that.
Can we stop using disk size as a measure of leaked data?

There are bluray movies larger than this leak and there are files smaller than 10kb a lot more critical in most businesses.

It'd be nice if there was some sort of scale for data leaks like (just spitballing here):

1. Leak destroys all core company functions (crypto-exchange leaks all wallet keys, CA leaks all root keys and becomes banned from all trust stores, etc.)

2. Leak causes regulatory issues criminal enough to shut down company

3. Leak severely hinders core company functions (deploy keys for a cloud computing SaaS are deleted which stops all new deployments until all infra is reconfigured)

4. Leak severely looses company competitive advantages (new products leak that are replicable by competitors)

5. Leak causes severe PR disaster

6. Leak shows embarrassing internal company communication without any of the above
I finished reading Bullshit Jobs (1) and then went to work in one on Monday

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Yes, it can be done and is done when needed, but your life will be simpler if you can fit your models in GPU memory. Even better if you can fit it in a single GPU memory.
It is dying. ARRL has even said so. I don't care about the past. It's true now.

Nobody said it has to be commercial (but I also disagree with that part), but allowing encryption actually will get people using the radio waves.

Because right now, they are dead. 24/7, nobody transmitting.
Stakeholder is not a by-word for shareholder. Microsoft has a very large stake in the outcome of OpenAI’s decisions, even if they aren’t a “shareholder” (if that were a thing) of the OpenAI non-profit.
> one of the first things I thought when trying to grok it was "how does this improve on RSS?"

Well it certainly ups the ante for a participant to add a node to the network with their own hand-rolled software, which can improve interoperability SNR from a certain Postelian perspective.

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862781>
How does this compare to LocalAI? https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI
I have noticed this several times. When I give feedback that a mistake was made (with no details on what the mistake is), often smaller and medium size LLMs then give a correct response.
Why does that matter? I don't think it does.
It's one tier below weaponized autism.
Then how did they get "reputation" from the first place? Quite chicken and egg problem, right?
You need to disallow all USB devices not on an approved list, which must all be keyboards and mice and nothing more.
Can this all get any more **?
Would love to see an SQLite driver
I have shared the screenshots in this thread.

https://imgur.com/a/X923fSo

I don't trust Delta enough to have any desire to reach out to them.
Would be nice, but there would quite a lot of analysis needed to be able to determine any of that. Which you can't start until the file is public.
Construction drawings are not done on A4. Typical drafted drawing is uses handful of ft by ft range, say 3x4. So that should give ~2 orders of mag less sheets. Does 10,000 sheets of drafting paper sound more reasonable?

Internet says 747 has 6,000,000 parts, half of which are fasteners. So 3m individual components. “171 miles” of wiring. Blah blah. I can easily see 10k drawings to cover that beast, soup to nuts.
Microsoft paying a $20MM fine is akin to someone making $120k annually paying a $12 fine.
4 fare types, Early Bird, A-List? Not displaying prices with aggregators? Surprisingly-expensive fares quite often?

I appreciate Southwest's philosophy but it isn't immune from trying to squeeze more revenue out of each trip - they just do it differently.
OpenAI Saga in 90 Seconds
Can you link a scientific article or book pdf that was written in Markdown?
GSO (Generic segmentation offload) is supported for UDP in the Linux kernel from 4.18 so I would assume these optimizations should be easily possible for the kernel driver as well and can take advantage of any drivers that pass the GSO down to the network hardware too.

Kinda weird optimization though; I'm not exactly sure why it works as well as it appears to; I am thinking that the gain may be far far less noticeable/important at <1gbps. This may be why there aren't any benchmarks for lower end devices or bandwidth constrained paths.

On another front, I wonder would there be any advantage to encapsulating a native UDP protocol like wireguard in QUIC frames? Might this result in increased reliability and improved packet handling from firewalls and middleboxes?
Your brother is the hero this world deserves. And this is why I generally trust only those small businesses who have their full real name on display.
Thanks to everyone who made FreeBSD possible! Cheers!!
I did not think it was made up for Republicans but that does not stop people from using it as an argument in-favor of free markets.
What if you have a bluetooth connected vertical bar that upon activation with the phone sweeps the length of the board and then goes back.
For this you would need a mechanical implementation such that it's attached to the board, maybe wheels on top and bottom edge of the board. There are chalkboard erasers you could put in a line, maybe you could make them replacable. Maybe on a whiteboard sometimes a cleaning spray is necessary, this could be automated, either sprayed onto the surface of board or the sweeping arm itself.
I wish more random guys gave 2^18 dollars to open source.
I understand people been angry for a fee for choosing the seats.

But a fee for lugage is very natural. Handling lugage has a clear cost. It looks natural to unbound it.
Did someone say autonomous flight?? only kidding, we are not pursuing autonomous flight in the near future. It is something we hear a lot about too, especially after COVID. I am not sure what the answer is here but we do see it as a temporary thing and expect that the market will sort itself out. Whilst fully autonomous flight may not be our focus, we hope to do some things that can reduce the workload of the pilot and perhaps help reduce the training burden of crew making the pathway to that career more attractive. We are actually co-located with Australia's biggest Aviation training provider so we receive a lot of feedback in this regard.
Came here to say the same thing. Also, it pushes commas, full stops, and hyphens to hang over the margin. The typeset outcome is much more pleasant to the eye.
> Citrix [...] hospitals

My stomach just turned.
That's fundamentally what honor is.
Right, most inference servers support this already.
> FreeBSD supports up to 1024 cores on the amd64 and arm64 platforms.

Sounds pretty future proofed unless I'm missing a x86 processor out there that does this
Gosh... This is not some random guy. He wrote the release announcement

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-Nov...
Either way, seems like something that a government or other actor could mess with, thus making it harder for hackers to profit.
SilkRoad was a dark web market, so the comparison from the parent is a bit strange for me, but regarding your comment on reviews, yes they're very important and for the sites I've used, the reviews have been very reliable and useful.

My understand is that since it's a much more limited market, access is very difficult even under normal circumstances (not because of security but just because dark web markets usually have awful performance for various reasons), so it's a far different review landscape than say shopping on Amazon, at least the ones I have used. The markets themselves were fantastic about refunds/conflict resolution, better than most normal online shops. Reputation is key for basically everything dark web, and the main actors in this space are notoriously petty and bold towards anyone that makes it harder to conduct business.

I imagine it's very similar with Ransomware as there has to be some reason for the targets of the attack to believe paying the ransom is worth it, and anyone who upsets that balance for the ransomware gangs unexpectedly becomes rapidly unpopular, and usually a target for the other gangs. It very much so is heavily relying on the honor system, but it seems the groups are committed to such a system.
Overleaf solves a lot of the same problems as Typst, although since it's still within the LateX ecosystem. For example changes are immediately visible (or immediately after a recompile, but practically I almost never notice) and Overleaf tries it's best to parse and simplify the dense error messages. So some of their points against LateX have been partially/entirely solved.

Typst looks cool, and I'm probably going to check it out at some point, but a comparison to similar web-based LateX solutions would be more useful than what they have at the moment is all I'm saying.
The western financial system is based not on a finite amount of wealth, but definitely on the control of a finite amount of wealth vehicles. Consider, for example, the desperate measures that the US uses to try to curtail the access to technology by other countries such as China. Or, how the tech cartel uses their money to buy any new company that might become a competitor. In a perfect competitive system, each company and country would do their own work and not worry more than about fair competition. The modern financial system insists in controlling access to wealth across the world, while also avoiding competition.
thank you for sharing the cameras -- I've been looking for a recommendation with a specific model name
> Quite a few of those employees are also stockholders

None of them are stockholders, because (except for the nonprofit, which can't have stockholders even as a corporation) none of the OpenAI entities are corporations.

Some of them have profit-sharing interests and/or (maybe) memberships in the LLC or some similar in interest in the holding company above LLC; the LLC operating agreement (similar function to a corporate charter) expressly notes that investments should be treated as donations and that the Board may not seek to return a profit; the holding companies details are less public, but it would be strange if it didn't have the same kind of thing since the only thing it exists is to hold a controlling interest in the LLC, and the only way it would make any profit is from profits returned by the LLC.
Day 2, November 21, 2023

Description:
Inspired by your vision of "The Torment Nexus," the team dives into a frenzy of innovation. Engineers and scientists debate over the best AI models, while designers sketch out enigmatic interfaces. Zoe Nexus is already conjuring up a marketing campaign that shrouds the project in mystique.

Stats:

AI Power: 0.001 (beginning R&D on The Torment Nexus)
Cash Reserves: $450,000 (R&D isn't cheap!)
Employee Count: 5
Profits: $0 (still in the early stages)
Cofounder's Morale: Excited
Userbase: 0 (but "The Torment Nexus" is sure to attract attention!)

Available Actions:

1. Accelerate R&D on The Torment Nexus.
2. Expand the team to speed up development.
3. Plan a teaser campaign for The Torment Nexus.
4. Seek partnerships for advanced technology inputs.
5. Conduct a market analysis to predict The Torment Nexus's impact.
What will be your next step in this venture?
Nice, it sounds to me similar to the earthquake Richter scale.
...and then Intel will simply have their HSM sign the cheat-code firmware for the EPIDs of those six chips.

Trust isn't all-or-nothing. When I ride a bus I'm trusting the driver with my life, but I wouldn't trust them to babysit my kids.

Mutability is deniability. I don't trust hardware companies with that. And I don't have to, either.

Stop hawking this SGX snakeoil. Except maybe to ransomware authors, who deserve what they'll get.
I don’t think it would solve AGI, but having multiple models arguing with each other seems sort of similar to how we work things out when we’re thinking hard, right? Consider a hypothesis, argue for or against it in your head.
But they aren't being used! Why not let them be used.

And maybe each part of the bands are allocated to encrypted traffic, just like we do for Morse Code, Voice, Data, etc.
I'm with you on 2 and 3, but was Netscape Navigator similarly anti-competitive in a way that is analogous to Chrome or IE?