skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, but honestly this feels pretty weak.

There are already a bunch of Zigbee energy harvesting switches on the market that work well. There's the Hue Tap that I mentioned, plus other commenters have pointed out other ones.

If you replace the "one or two RF power transmitters to power up all switches inside the house" with a Zigbee gateway you've got a packaged solution that you can buy right now.

The rest of the article talks about sensors, "seamless automation", etc and feels like future thinking (i.e., they don't have a solution here but they're working on it), but also feels like more already-solved problems.

For example, lighting driven by occupancy is something you can easily do by adding a Zigbee motion sensor to the system.

HVAC zoning is also a thing, but a lot more complicated as it requires dampers and needs to be designed as a complete system. You can't simply open the dampers for just the occupied rooms, you have to keep in mind that the furnace needs to maintain a minimum amount of airflow so that it doesn't overheat. You could also go with a mini-split heat-pump system where each major room (e.g., bedrooms and living rooms) will basically have its own HVAC system. I doubt that the costs of a zoned HVAC system would ever pay for itself in energy savings vs, e.g., an Ecobee thermostat plus sensors (another off-the-shelf solution that you can buy right now).
You miss the part that people who get access to stronger AI can similarly use it to improve their odds of not being found or getting better outcomes, while the poor guy gets fined for AI hallucinations and doesn't have the money to get to a human like the court is now one big Google support.
Most people in Poland don't even understand how rail has been privatized and shattered into half a million companies. To a regular person, if it's a train, it's "PKP" (Polish National Railways) - therefore something the government is responsible for.

I don't think Law and Justice will be happy about some corp screwing with infrastructure and having the voters blame the government for it.
> Of course we understand how they work, we built them! There is no mystery in their mechanisms, we know the number of neurons, their connectivity, everything from the weights to the activation functions. This is not a mystery, this is several decades of technical developments.

The discovery of DNA’s structure was heralded as containing the same explanatory power as you describe here.

Turns out, the story was much more complicated then, and is much more complicated now.

Anyone today who tells you they know why LLMs are capable of programming, and how they do it, is plainly lying to you.

We have built a complex system that we only understand well at a basic “well there are weights and there’s attention, I guess?” layer. Past that we only have speculation right now.
I hope this ends with something similar to the time they "let the fans decide" on a name for their new flavor.
Curious take. I would think that "a cushy office", which normally means sitting for very long periods, would directly lead to many of these issues over the long term. Indeed, I've seen many research reports and articles over the past decade declaring "sitting is the new smoking".
According to https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20..., Firefox still has 4.7 % global market share, 4.9 % in the US, and significantly more in some relevant countries, like Germany with 15 %. So this may be a bit premature. It’s still a significant-enough market share to support. Of course, if it continues to decline further, Firefox will eventually become irrelevant. Let’s hope this won’t happen.
Manufacturer, not repair workshops - the repair workshops just won the bid and vendor decided to retaliate.
Firefox, however, was not. It was created because people didn't use most of the tools built into the Mozilla suite, and they were difficult to port (because they had a Motif frontend AND a GTK frontend).

https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
They aren't saying after 25 years the cars are safe. Right in their statement they acknowledge that the cars may not meet safety standards.

I suspect the 25-year cutoff is mostly about allowing enthusiasts to drive classic cars. There's a small number of them. Allowing millions of new unsafe cars to be sold to random consumers would be a terrible idea. I think the rules make sense.
> Will the RAID AI crawl a stream without the streamer’s permission?

> The MTN DEW RAID AI will begin crawling all concurrent Gaming livestreams from December 1 - December 8, but that doesn’t mean the AI is watching your streams or keeping any data.

What the #$&@X are you talking about? If an image-recognition algorithm is crawling livestreams and verifying objects inside of them, that does mean you are watching the streams and keeping data. This is not how words work, you can't just change definitions like this, you are writing a FAQ not a post-modernist art essay.

Mountain Dew is watching the stream and is keeping data: at the very least it's storing data about which streams had Mountain Dew in them and which streamers have opted in and out. And all of that data processing is happening serverside so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say there's probably other metadata being preserved too. And sure, streams are public and Mountain Dew can crawl them and they could have given an answer of "yes, we are, they're public". But how little do you have to think of your target audience to instead decide to give an answer that is this blatantly a lie and to think that it will fool people?

I am going to sneak into the house of whatever advertiser wrote this and put spiders in their bed. But that doesn't mean I'll be trespassing, because apparently words mean nothing at all and I can say anything I want.
The TLDR is a little too short.

- Decompile C# for Sparky bot [a], rewrite Sparky to be a substitute online opponent, connect Sparky vs you online as if you're connecting a human in a match, have Sparky auto-concede and jack your win rate.

[a] Note I thought was interesting was: "C# is also really nice because it utilizes metadata tokens to associate elements of the compiled code with their human-readable names, which are still stored in the compiled .NET assembly. That means I can see all the function, variable, and class names that the developers wrote when they wrote their code." Which means its super easy to reverse engineer.
I have directly asked many relatives/friends in their 20s/30s, and they have told me they would assume an Android user has a higher likelihood of being “weird”.

The barrier to entry to installing WhatsApp or Signal is near zero, just a minute of one’s time. And given that most everyone is using Meta’s other apps anyway, the privacy costs are moot. In fact, all of the people I asked have WhatsApp already, but mostly to remain in legacy group chats with older family.
Beeper desktop supports iMessage too, I'm using it right now.
simply, changing the name, and padding the file, is a dead form of obscurity.
this is a client side scan, data retained on device, until it is improved, and pointed at suspected CSAM or terrorism.

alternative, would be, repurposing filenames as human devices again, making search by filename convenient again.
Semi-tangent: With Wikipedia being one of the last great resources (imo), it's interesting to see the amount of hate and negativity sent their way.
I mean, you're right, but so are they, just in the wrong place. :)
Which ones doesn't it remove?
I think, reading it, it could be £1000 worth of wine. For example two cases of decent Gevrey Chambertin, I myself could bring myself to accept such a thing.
"Bitcoin will enable terrorism"
"Ghost guns will enable criminals to commit murder"
"Social media will enable hate speech"

AI will be a useful and world changing innovation which is why FUD rag articles like this will become more prevalent until it's total adoption, even by the article writer themselves
Rubber Chickens and Purple Boxes (2014)
They wouldn't have to ban it, they could just alter the protocol to make it impossible. iMessage is designed to only work on devices manufactured by a single company. All of those devices have secure cryptographic elements built into them. It's not a stretch to think Apple could lock down iMessage under the guise of security.
Psy* pseudoscience is among a few hills I am gladly die for. Also free/libre software, Lisp and cryptocurrency with no premine.
Only slightly tangential to parents post but I hate that Wikipedia moderators need articles to be import enough. A lot of deep dive articles into niche shows are all relegated to fandom wikis. Those sites provide no way to get a dump or even has any sort of knowledge graph

I had been working with the zeshel dataset and wanted to build a knowledge graph on top of the dataset for the model that I was planning to build. If those articles were a part of Wikipedia, there would have atleast been some effort integrate them to the larger Wikipedia knowledge graph
> The difference at this level is you're not looking at personal productivity, you should be looking at a much broader interpretation.

That's one of the arguments made by CEOs who are trying to justify their insane salaries, yes. But it's very unpersuasive.
Are you just referring to how you assign labels and taints to nodes, which in a physical datacenter could include labels like which aisle the baremetal server is in?

Of course that's feasible, to tell the Kubernetes scheduler that you only want to schedule the workload on a very specific server, but that's not really best-practice...
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully. Doing it this way is against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was not fake news, there is strong evidence which does not conclusively prove its use. Worth noting that Israel has admitted to past improper use of it. There's also new evidence of them using it again in Lebanon.

Which of the hospital bombings are you referring to? All or one of them?
Speak for yourself but I have no problem at all staying engaged when my life is on the line. And FSD beta with me supervising is I must admit a way safer driver than myself alone.

The biggest delta is probably follow distance in edge cases.

I generally try to keep good follow distance pretty religiously, but FSD does it better. And I’m not talking about the amount of distance. If anything it is closer on average then I would be. I’m talking about the edge case moments when overtaking or getting over to an exit; it is consistently, assiduously, safe at points where I might take a risk and it will not. It also sees way more than I can.

Also, it does not have an ego.

And it lets me detach my ego involvement with how another driver is behaving. Related, it handles stop and go absolutely amazingly and completely removes the stress of the experience.
Ask HN: Why is it taken for granted that LLM models will keep improving?
Whenever I see discussion of stuff like ChatGPT it seems like there is this common assumption that it will get better every year.

And in 10-20 years it’ll be capable of some crazy stuff

I might be ignorant of the field but why do we assume this?

How do we know it won’t just plateau in performance at some point?

Or that say the compute requirements become impractically high
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/23andme-genetics-palestine
Yes, crazy moon math! I am not a cryptographer, and try to be careful when I wave my hands around.

Cryptocurrencies seemed to accelerate the revision, implementation and deployment of newer cryptographic techniques. Range proofs are used in that space to obscure transaction amounts, using techniques like bulletproofs.

A more primitive but easier example to understand would be a hash chain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain.

The issuing authority signs a hash of some shared secret seed value x times, where x is my age. If I want to prove I'm over 18, I hash the seed value x - 18 times and give it along with the signed hash. The verifier hashes it 18 times to get the signed value and thus knows I'm "at least" 18 years old.

If I include a second hash of 150 minus my age, I can use that to disclose that I'm under a certain age as well. Together, I can establish an age range.

Range proofs will really loosen the amount of design consideration you need to make when creating credentials with strong privacy considerations.

For example, even processing metadata like expiry times for a credential leaks correlatable information, unless you take additional care. The renewal date for a corresponding physical document may be spread out evenly over the year and often stays consistent, so the expiry time of the physical document might divide people into one of 365 groups without some (potentially painful) additional considerations.

A range proof instead would say 'the current is within the validity period of the document'.

At the extreme this gets to verifiable computation, where I can verify that an output was created from an input document and a set of instructions. However, I can do so without seeing the input document. With this, you could externalize the entirety of processing, and rather than getting personal information back get a message saying "yes this meets your policy".
I wish there were a nation-wide "college exit exam". I also think there should be a "high school exit exam". This would allow advanced students to prove themselves earlier and it would set a universal standard bar that can be used to compare colleges and students. A college exit exam would have to be comprehensive enough that it would probably take 3-4 days to complete.
The open source communities I've been involved in had a really high density of smart and motivated people that saw trade offs, maybe higher than FAANG, so it's likely your bar is quite high.

I just mean, I've worked at startups where people could say, write a for loop, but didn't understand how threads or concurrency worked at all, or why you'd want to use a set vs a list etc.

At least FAANG is pretty good at filtering the latter type of folks.
submitted using an archived link. the original is still up but the images don’t load. the archive preserves the chicken and the box in their full glory.
I don't know why you're downvoted. This is risky stuff and needs to be handled as such. This "might as well blow up the country" attitude that's become more prevalent in the last several years isn't a healthy one.

"No point in steering now!" --Doug McKenzie realizing his brakes are out
Isn't the term for this "unfalsifiable"?
I feel like there are two questions Beeper needs to ask itself...

1) Are they going all-in on being an antagonist to Apple?

2) Will the users be willing to stick around during any outages/downtime/failures due to the cat-and-mouse game? (That I agree will follow and continue.)
If you had a non-traditional computer education (I definitely did) there will be huge holes because your skillset is going to be hyper practical.

All of these concepts are just somewhat arbitrary rules nerdy white guys came up with 30+ years ago, there is no way someone would understand them unless they were specifically taught them. Programming isn't like music or math where there is a natural order underlying the man-made rules.
Oh yeah. The exciting thing is that is pretty low hanging fruit (at least for the common modalities)

What would a Large Language Model that can manipulate audio-visual data as expertly as it can manipulate text look like ? This is beyond just Text to Speech or Captioning and Image Q&A. I think we'll find out very soon.
And if the manufacturer could have justified the additional $3mln in cost besides "vendor lock in" maybe they wouldn't have to break the law to keep customers coming back.
uhhh, more public transport please!
Excellent...but the nylon still has to be melted (heated to ~200 C) for the catalyst to work - so there are for-sure serious asterisks on this potential magic bullet.
It's not really the same, in this case.

The AARD crash was an intentional break in compatibility, while this is more like planned obsoleteness.

Leaving a train stationary for "too long" would disable it? Microsoft would have loved to control the platform to that level :D
Threat Actors Exploit Adobe ColdFusion for Initial Access to Government Servers
The things you describe aren't prevented by focusing on semantics, and are in fact enabled by it. Every modern app looks different for branding purposes, so users don't know what the buttons do. Things are complicated because we abandoned standard UIs that used to use the same widgets across every application.

And government stuff should work differently from 99.9% of commercial websites. Again, the goal should be for it to work. The government does not need to do marketing and make you feel like they are trustworthy. If you want to interact with social security, you go to ssa.gov. If you want to interact with the IRS, you go to irs.gov. End of story. They don't need to act like commercial entities because they do not have to worry about market share. Their share is always 100%. They need to just make their stuff reliably work, easy to figure out, and should make it cheap and easy to build. Basic HTML with minimal optional styles checks all of those boxes.

If you view the computer as a tool instead of a toy, you see that you really just need most websites to be a more convenient version of paper forms. It doesn't need to look fancy. It needs some boxes to type information, it needs to always work, and ideally every form on every website would stick to the same 5 or so types of input (rendered consistently by your OS) with no surprises. Government sites should take the tool approach. Commercial sites can sell toys.
True, unless they use noise which is already present online to carry information, for example by applying steganography to spam.
Here's an idea on how to turn this ship in the right direction: get Musk interested in funding a project which will fork the code base, clean up the cruft - pocket etc. - and relaunch Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. That is what a Phoenix is supposed to do after all, when the time has come to die it will burn to ashes from which it arises all new and fresh.

Why Musk? The choice seems clear as are the tangents to his other activities. He is one of the few "tech zillionaires" who does not kowtow to the demands of the censorious identity politics crowd which has instantly turned him from one of the darlings of "progressives" to "undesired person #1". He seems to have the drive to keep that crowd from dominating the 'net. Having all major browsers - Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox - under the control of that same crowd in one way or another is not conducive to the diversity of opinion on the 'net, the only type of diversity which really matters and yet the one type of diversity which is shunned by the aforementioned I.P. crowd.

What is needed is developers ("developers, developers, developers!" [1]), funding and mindshare. The latter is probably fairly easy to get given that there are many who are more than tired of all that identity politicking. Funding should not be that hard to arrange either given the way money is being thrown around. Developers who are versed in the Gecko code base and are willing to work for a project which explicitly states to be politically neutral - as in 'does not push any narrative' - is more of a question. If there is anyone here who works/worked at Mozilla who can shine a light on that it would be helpful. Do those who work/worked there actually support Baker's push towards politicising the Mozilla project while the flagship product - Firefox - is heading towards oblivion?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33grif58qO8
I think it's also worth mentioning mtr, which is what I use much more frequently than traceroute. It can help diagnose intermittent packet loss, and gives you an averaged sense of how things flow.

This article from APNIC explains more about mtr and how to read it (plus some interesting details about how MPLS can obscure true paths)

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/28/how-to-properly-interpret-....

Also worth noting: It's also sometimes useful to trace with UDP, and many routers will drop ICMP selectively under strain.

Nice article, and excellent presentation!
Ad company Unit9 going by an AdAge article.

https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/mtn...

(Archive: https://archive.ph/NGrwn)

Also notable is that Doritos recently did an AI advert that removes the crunch sounds in streams and voice comms. Maybe someone in PepsiCo marketing is on a bit of an AI kick :)
Interesting comment.

I think it is clear that GPT-4 contains a LOT of information. You can ask it explicit factual questions and it often gets the right answer. When it gets the answer wrong, its wording is typically syntactically correct English, or syntactically correct code.

I'd argue that just because some of the errors it commits are "semantic errors" such as calling a method by an incorrect (but often similar) name in a segment of code or printing false statement in well-crafted prose, it nonetheless gets a lot of the semantics right.

What is reasoning besides a set of language patterns that we define as valid reasoning? Imagine evaluating statements in various formal logics. Nonsense in one can be valid in another based on semantic rules alone.

One could derive the model (model as in model-theoretic semantics) of a formal logical system by sampling a list of valid and invalid statements.

LLMs are doing that kind of thing, it seems. There are gaps, but they are not necessarily gaps that the LLM itself cannot notice.

For example, I will often ask GPT-4 to formulate a plan for something or to create a list of priorities/considerations for an undertaking. I will then ask it to draft an initial plan. After that I will ask it to review/critique its draft based on the initial goals. It typically points out exactly the kinds of gaps that a human would point to as deficiencies that indicate the LLM is not reasoning.

In my view, this indicates that the "knowledge" of how to do the task was always aviailable to the LLM, but the interface (or some aspect of the internal implementation) did not allow the knowledge to be applied all at once. This is not necessarily dissimilar from human intellectual work, in which drafts and self-critiquing is not an unreasonable series of steps.

I have done some work with parallel promopts and various "roles" for different LLM interlocutors toward the same task. While it does sometimes go off the rails, it seems clear that multiple prompts with role-based instructions do achieve a greater level of analytical rigor than a single prompt.
Ing having bank.ing is the best one.
Your projects are super inspiring!
I just moved to Canada about 2 years ago, so yes, I do have a giant network back home, but hardly anyone in the west. Trying to figure that here as well now.
Nice tool. I don't use WireShark every day, but this will be handy for the times I'm breaking it out.

Thanks!
It's an Albany expression.
People forget how vast and sparse the interior American West is; the New York City metro area has a larger population than the whole Mountain timezone.
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This is something a bit different, the effect in the paper comes from the eigenvectors of the data matrix. I'm no expert on kernel density estimation, but since it is basically just convolution, I would guess the effect you are describing comes from multiplication in Fourier space.
The joke will be when they increase iMessage security to prevent these solutions from working well ;)
He just posted a new video. NSFW. Uses AI images and voices. https://youtu.be/pQs26c1klAU?feature=shared