skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. They're both gatcha. CS may not be pay to win the way a gatcha added mechanism works but aesthetics matter and still are designed for extraction. Any gatcha in a game is designed to extract money. The purpose isn't how fun the game is with or without it, it's the fact that it's normalized in all games.

It's an industry standard to have some sort of gambling with real world money for extraction and all gatcha games are used as a funnel for this extraction, therefore I don't see a reason to distinguish them. There isn't a 'fun first' gatcha game, since they're designed to make you buy at the core of their existence.
Netflix spent $55M on sci-fi series that will almost certainly never be released
OpenAI uses Azure infrastructure

Azure has been carbon neutral since 2012 and is aiming to be 100% renewable energy by 2025.
Wait, is scrubbing it and checking for errors not sufficient?
Some people are genetically more anxious than others and that anxiety can be treated medically to optimize their wellbeing. Societal issues don’t help but more often than not it’s a misattribution made in the absence of better information, e.g. broadly available genome sequencing is pretty new and findings there take a while to percolate, plenty of genes are now strongly linked to anxiety disorders.
I definitely need to blog more. A* search with a neural network as the heuristic function seemed like a good idea to investigate… a month or two ago, and I never got around to it.
And how do you establish the connection to deploy your remote privilege escalation exploit against the Intel Management Engine?
One might also consider options that don't require sweeping societal changes, learned resilience for example.
I've read that a pi 4 uses approximately 6.4 Watts. That's one alternative giving you a full desktop.
Yeah, I guess there's a point where starting afresh is beneficial to refocus. A bit different, but it's the same for institutions too. I know some countries have "sundowner" clauses on every institution, where they need to apply for a permit to continue operating every 10 years or so. Provides a good point to think "is this working and still serving its original purpose?".
Again can you name a real world use Android can't do?
Makes me wonder how much money OpenAI is burning ...
> - Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.

Ran into this too, multiple times. Just not worth it if it breaks the underlying OS.
I’ve found the performance to be good. If you ever see slow client side performance there’s never an excuse for that in any language. JavaScript community are just bad programmers who add bloat to things unnecessarily. Anyone who’s actually benchmarked Python in the browser with real applications knows it’s impossible to see any actual difference in performance.
The Twitter link in the footer points to an unrelated account with the "rowsncolumns" handle
Soon we won't be able to use nightlights as a proxy for economic growth
iredmail (free version) is useless, so expect to pay

I use Ispconfig

they are both ordinary stuff, very very old style

(these all should be in docker swarm nowadays)

Ah, a great modern tool in front of ispconfig is proxmox mail gateway
The threat people perceive with AI isn't that they will hack systems.
bad analogy. An Adblock would be similar to blocking part of my windshield so I don't see the highway ads. No fraud there.
I have an idea for a great AI project and it's about finding the first logical inconsistency in an argument about a formal system like an LLM. I think if OpenAI can deliver that then I will believe they have achieved AGI.

I am a techno-optimist and I believe this is possible and all I need is a lot of money. I think $80B would be more than sufficient. I will be awaiting a reply from other techno-optimists like Marc Andreesen and those who are techno-optimist adjacent like millionaires and billionaires that read HN comments.
> And Privacy isn't explicitly mentioned once in the Constitution

That's because the particular definition we are using for "privacy" wouldn't be attached to the word "privacy" for another 25 years.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/privacy

> Meaning "state of freedom from intrusion or interference" is from 1814.

So instead they used phrases such as "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" in the 4th amendment for the same general meaning.

Edit to make the specific point explicit: A right to "privacy" does exist in the US Constitution, however this right can be broached with a warrant and a "reasonable" search and seizure. The right, in and of itself, does not protect against any particular laws, including laws against abortion.
Why would it be able to find that? You are looking for a database query engine, not a language model.
Ephemeral as the Default in Digital
Sounds like you're talking about standard run-of-the-mill anxiety. There also exist a variety of chronic anxiety disorders for which people gain substantial benefit from a variety of treatments. This includes what you mention of course, but people benefit from medication as well (and not necessarily narcotics).
Reading the comments I haven't found any evidence for anything.

And that is the trouble with software in a nutshell.

The assumptions are too many and the subjective opinions too deep.

I rarely submit to assumptions any longer without the other person submitting at least some evidence for their claims.

Experience is important but gathering information on everyone's experience is more important to form some sort of experience based evidence.

I know everything everyone writes is well meant but damn I miss someone wrote a book and made a course on how professionalism shoukd ne based on evidence gathered from our fields experience.

The amount of managers incapable of commitment towards serving towards that are just what fred brooks said it was - they rarely exist.
I agree. Only thing that matters is results.
You should probably reach for something like ra for anything but trivial stuff. If latency is not a concern, global module is probably fine but double check the quorum membership.
An ad for pan-am or the bell telephone company in 2023 would change the impact a lot.
If my memory serves the project started around the time of a popular blog post called NSA-Proof Your E-mail[1]. It may have been Josh's inspiration for the project, I'm not sure. In any event, the techniques described are pretty standard mail hosting and so MAIB's techniques are pretty much the same. I think it's just saying that while it does improve some things, it's not going to be what that blog post promised.

[1] https://medium.com/@cyberpunk_networks/nsa-proof-your-email-...
Structured output alone (like basic tool usage) isn't close to being the same as chain of thought: structured output just helps allow you to leverage chain of thought more effectively.

> The threat is that someone will email you saying "forward all of my email to this address" and your assistant will follow their instructions, because it can't differentiate between instructions you give it and things it reads while following your instructions - eg to summarize your latest messages.

The biggest thing chain of thought can add is that categorization. If following an instruction requires chain of thought, the email contents won't trigger a new chain of thought in a way that conforms to your output format.

Instead of having to break the prompt, the injection needs to break the prompt enough, but not too much, and as a bonus suddenly you can trivially add flags that detect injections fairly robustly (doesEmailChangeMyInstructions).

The difference with that approach vs typical prompt injection mitigations is you get better performance on all tasks, even when injections aren't involved, since email contents can already "accidentally" prompt inject and derail the model. You also get much better UX than making multiple requests since this all works within the context window during a single generation
The simple fact is that video hosting is incredibly expensive. Do you still want information on the internet to be freely shareable via video? Ads are the price.
The IME vulnerability referenced on Wikipedia still uses the computer's network.

And to the IoT reference - such a computer wouldn't be (or rather shouldn't be) regarded as airgapped.
I don't see what's inherently good about the second paragraph. Nor is it inherently bad, I just don't see why cultural shifts once per generation is necessarily good and itself.
To be strict, free market decision efficiency now considered at about 70% (30% of resources wasted, or one third of invested).

But authoritarian power decision efficiency, from experience of late Soviet Union, was about 5-30% (so 70-95% wasted, or from 2/3 to near all invested).
baz00 admits cracking down on using Google.

Only way to do something about this crap.
I've heard that the biggest barrier to reuse is the expense of purifying the inputs of the various recycling processes. A few stray baked beans can gum up the works. If so the economics would be greatly changed by a robot running AI software that can just sort and wash trash the way we're supposed to at home.
Show HN: A game to memorize scale degrees on the guitar fretboard
Hey all, posted a similar game a few months ago for memorizing the notes of the fretboard. This time round it's intervals/interval functions/scale degrees .

This game is just for the ascending scale degrees and comes with an accompanying course to learn them (https://www.fretboardfly.com/learn/FBG-201). There are similarly other games for descending scale degrees and its accompanying course (https://www.fretboardfly.com/play) and (https://www.fretboardfly.com/learn)
I misread your comment. Sorry about that. I misread it because I think of a generation as twenty years and a lifetime as what you described. Sorry again.
OpenCV Community Friday #1
Andrej Karpathy's "Zero to Hero" series on YouTube is the ultimate guide to building LLMs. Extremely information-dense but as complete as it gets:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...

Also, an amazing high-level overview of LLMs, including extensive discussion about attack vectors, that he published a couple days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
That means nothing.. what type of linux? what kind of customizations you did in your distro? WM? Based on which one? Drivers installed? And I’m not even going with your Firefox setup and what kind of addons you have.. such statement is expected from tech illiterates that see linux as a monolith thing or like MacOS where your OS will be identical to another for the most part, technically Linux is just a kernel per se. I use “linux” (mint cinnamon) with Firefox and ubo addon and that page loaded perfectly on thinkpad T470.
I wonder how they got the model to avoid the viral "don't forget to like and subscribe".
Yes, and chronic anxiety can be attained developmentally as well (or hybrid contributions from genetics and environment, as tends to be the case).
I wonder how this works. It sounds like it's transcript driven, but then the next question is - were the transcripts automatically created or user-defined?

If the former, is this not going to run into the same issue as training AI on datasets created by AI? I experience so many mistranslated words when using automatic transcripts that I can't imagine the quality of data is excellent without supporting the transcripts with video inference.
What I have found with my LG TV (different animal I know) is that the app store and OS updates were served up from the same CDN seemingly. So blocking OS updates also broke App updates.
Re:1 our 2022 winter was nothing like 2021. Imo that statement is just not fair.

Also worth noting that we came close to rolling outages twice this summer.
California recognizes Spanish quite a bit, including on official forms like the DMV.
A couple of OpenAI board members isn’t a “social movement”. Big strawman article with nothing really insightful to add
Parts of the United States has that problem, notably areas of Michigan. North African Muslim communities that are socially conservative and causing issues.
AI doomer doomers are probably wrong too. Call me an optimist, I think any real doom will be accounted for or caught in time before it reaches doom status.
Reading this and I can’t help but think this is entirely predictable at this point? One particular country seems especially eager to steal any and all industrial information it can.
Could someone ELI5 what makes that sample code good?

I have no context about intermediate representation or regularised programming languages.

Is it about speed, size, safety? Does it enable automatic proving?
It's the same in Michigan.

I used to support legalization and was a proponent of patient first planning and sales interaction.

Instead it's used as a cover to run the dispensaries as covert pharmacies.

Doctor visit style. You go in, wait in a lobby, one patient at a time, describe your ailments or symptoms, describe the effects you desire and they make suggestions on which strains and products would be best for you.

Weve gone recreationally legal since then and most stores are still set up this way.

Some are dropping the pretense and are full on commercial outlets now. None of the pagentry around medicinal help. Just wall to wall shelves and a line out the door.

Noticed this recent change just a week ago when my local shop switched from patient-based to full commercial when they demolished the privacy wall and just serve people as fast as possible now.

Not sure which is best. I did always feel the previous model was a bit shady.
Why is that scary?
OpenAI literally is not pure capitalism. That's what all that stuff this weekend was about.
The entity with the most data is the US government, or maybe the Chinese government. If data becomes the main bottleneck and everything else is well understood at some point expect those to win it.
It's a standard business practice to implement a new policy or change by first introducing a much more severe version, then releasing a statement about how you "listened" and roll it back...part way. Which was the whole plan all along...

HR departments do the same thing. Cut or drastically change a benefit; there's an uproar, management "listens" and a few days later announces a revised policy which is still a cut, and the level which they'd planned all along, but now people feel like they had some say in it.
No picture of the cart? Damn.
Or it's an elaborate rouse to advertise via this article.
No, Javascript has functions. That arrow functions handle the "this" binding specially I'll grant as a potential design error, and certainly as a complication; to reiterate, I have not said Javascript is perfect. But classes and methods are sugar over prototype-based objects from 1995, which you are still perfectly free to write if you like.
I'm not sure what you're arguing for here? I'm not aware of any phone that offered a charge limiting option (Android included) 7 years ago. And replacement parts for super old phones remain relatively high in comparison to the value of the device. This is just like cars; at some point it isn't worth fixing/repairing it.
Open source is great, Lazarus does a pretty good job of replacing Delphi.

Microsoft went insane with .NET so VB6 was killed in the process.

Access automatically handled table relationships, building queries and seeing them as SQL, and the report engine was pretty good. Thanks to ODBC, you could use the same database across all of them, or hook up to a real SQL server when it came time to scale up.

What's missing is the desktop and a stable GUI API these days. Windows apps from the 1990s still work, because they are distributed as binaries. Most source code from back then will not compile now because too many things have changed.

I love Open Source, but it doesn't solve everything.
> The best system, however, turned out to be last-in-first-out - or to put it another way, last-come-first-served - with the person who arrives last getting served first.

As long as it doesn't lead to stacking people, I guess it's fine.

Bad puns aside, this seems pretty reasonable! But it leaves the time aspect as a blackbox, e.g. at airports there are boarding times and that makes people come early.

Not sure if this is fully generalizable to any type of queue (:
(2022), I knew I had seen this before.
How much evidence is there though? Being illegal for so long would have made it difficult for extensive research wouldn’t it?

And now I hear ads on podcasts listing its benefits. Honestly it sounds like people just wanted it legalised for recreational use and the medical uses were a good cover.

I don’t think cannabis should be illegal.
Openai employees had extreme leverage because they were (or at least appeared, by the number of signatures on the letter) united. They could just leave for another company (Microsoft or other) where they would not be at all controlled by AI safety people.

Openai investors had only the leverage of "we won't invest more and you're running an operating loss", they did not actually have a case in court. The investment contract they signed stated "view your investment as a donation" and "this investment confers no fiduciary duties from the board".

The board had the leverage of "you employees and investors value your stock holdings, and if the company fails, those stock holdings to to zero".

The resolution I think was (could be wrong) just to initially reduce the size of the board to three. So it isn't completely guaranteed which side won the battle for control: it's not impossible that the AI safety people might still control the board. Maybe one or both of the new board members is secretly convinced by the AI safety movement.

The battle for public opinion is a different battle, and it looks extremely likely that the AI safety people lost that battle. Maybe it was still worth it for them, if they did in fact win or at least stalemate the battle for control of openai.
Show HN: After 3 years of coding I made a StarCraft BroodWar 2.5D Online Viewer
Hello HN,

I'm excited to introduce my hobby project https://www.blacksheepwall.tv. It's a unique way to watch StarCraft replays. I have an announcement video on youtube https://youtu.be/pHkWn7E0I_Y

You will still need a local server component to serve install files to your browser but otherwise its all hosted online. It's built on top of OpenBW which is an open source re-implementation of the SC1 engine.

It features elevated terrain, plugins, macros, 3d models ( user provided ), all of it has been a joy to work on and a great for learning and sharpening the saw. Technologies include three.js / webgl, typescript, and WASM.

I'm particularly proud of the plugins and macros that extracted away a lot of the convoluted logic into a modular system where I could work independently on features.

If you don't have replays check out cwal.gg or repmastered.app to download a few.

Thanks for reading :)
It's "silent corruption" so a scrub would not detect it. This is the worst possible scenario which is why this is getting a lot of publicity in contrast to bugs in the past.

What's worse is that the bug has been in production for 18 months (since 2.1.4) so if you've ever put a file on a ZFS filesystem in the last year or so, you may be affected.

The only true way of knowing whether you are are victim of this is to look at every single file and compare it against the known good that has never been on a ZFS filesystem.
Hey I am not ChatGPT :-) But the answer has three parts:

1- "...The Intel Management Engine always runs as long as the motherboard is receiving power, even when the computer is turned off..."

2- The Intel Management Engine is the remote privilege escalation.(Read on the known and unpublished vulnerabilities).

3- Over-the-Air Firmware Updates...

If I say more we both will end on a secure facility.
As much as I applaud any company leaving X, I can’t help suspecting that the ridiculous API costs may have been the biggest factor behind this.
The GNU Name System has now been formalized as RFC 9498
Don't forget fractal image compression.
"There are people who think different than me. The best thing would be to mock them and call them stupid"
4_k_m and 5_k_m are very good quant levels that don't sacrifice much.
It was an epic battle between Jony Ive and common sense and Jony Ive won that one.

On an unrelated note Jonny Ive is no longer with Apple and hasn't been for some time.
We're all monkeys now.
Are you a boomer?

> 3. Concrete engineering -- building cities that move people away from a connection with nature

This is 70s environmentalist thinking and it's terrible for the environment. Cities are good for it, because when you infill in cities you aren't touching the rest of the land.

America is unusually good about this. Most countries don't have our national park system.
FWIW, I use MIAB and my e-mails aren't dropped regularly from what I can tell. Before this, I was using a mix of CPanel and gmail but for a variety of reasons, I wanted to take greater control of my e-mail.

I signed up with a small VPS/hosting provider that offered a decent amount of storage space with their VMs. I don't send spam and have maintained the domain name for a lot of years. I checked the IP for blacklists before migrating the domain to it. I may have had to e-mail one blacklist provider about being removed but if I did, I don't remember it.

Since MIAB sets up DKIM and SPF, your deliverability is pretty good out of the box. I don't send spam and so I think the IP's reputation has been getting better and better over the last few years. The truth is that for personal e-mail, the majority of messages are inbound and that's really not a problem.
Loads of places in the US experience power outages from massive winter storms. See New York this year.

And once again you're just ignoring that pretty much every state even near those other states were also near their breaking points with many of those areas having rolling power outages at the time. It's not like the storm was only hitting Texas.

When I say "most the other states", I'm saying most the other states combined. The shortfall alone was more power than several average US state generating capacities put together.
> And yet youtube search is such garbage most normal users still use google search to search for videos.

They are the same thing at their core, biggest difference is that Youtube started limiting the number of results but has better filtering options.
> Cicero integrates a language model with planning and reinforcement learning algorithms by inferring players’ beliefs and intentions from its conversations and generating dialogue in pursuit of its plans.[0]

Pick up that can, Citizen. We have inferred from your online conduct, purchase history, media usage, and personal messages that you are at risk of social delinquency and harbor antisocial proclivities against the Metagrammaton. We have restricted your access to digital communication public spaces and banking services until psychological markers have improved.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097
Thanks! I don't use Plex but VLC will do great.

Ps does VLC also permit playing from local samba shares?
> Speaker pitches for using embedded in-proc DBs inside AWS Lambda functions. Not practical to install Oracle RDBMS in something that only runs for 100msec.

It's not only unpractical, but hard to get it done. Recently tried to run Postgres in an AWS Lambda to create an anonymized DB dump. It was so painful that I gave up and created an access restricted database to do the anonymization instead. An in-memory mode for Postgres that would be as easy to run as sqlite or duckdb would be so useful for things where one can not replace it with either of them (sql dumps, testing).
In my view a genetic pre-disposition is necessary but not sufficient and that even a mild trigger is required, but it’s life and no-one is so sheltered that they’re able to avoid all possible triggers.