skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be more true if we didn’t have counter examples. It’s much easier to suborn a PC than a Chromebook or Apple product, and while that’s certainly not perfect nobody should be complacent about their enterprise laptops being softer target than an AppleTV.
Where’s the product though?
In 1968, LBJ was president, and in 1976, Gerald Ford, so neither of these incidents can be added to Nixon's (considerable) register of sins.
There is an email address at the bottom of the blog post, you can send directly there.
That's smart, but very insidious as well. Following in the footsteps of dark UI patterns designed for users to misclick on ads, now dark suggestions on conversations with an LLM will be the next big thing. Like a conservative talking with an LLM which inserts liberal propaganda into it's responses and after an hour he turns into a liberal voter. The next day he talks with a conservative LLM which inserts propaganda into his conversations and he turns back to a conservative voter. Pretty dystopic.

On a more serious note, imho advertisers are on their's last legs, and google loses a lot of revenue already. We are going fast into a new internet, web3, which will enable direct monetization of information from users, instead of the publishers relying on ads.

Not to wander a lot off topic here, but synthetic datasets created by paid humans workers to train machines is going to be a humongous industry.
Sounds like it is not even "hallucinating" but more like it is just plain "stoned" :-)
Fair rule, but I think in context here, it's a valid point.

If HN wants to show some data on comment quality overtime that refutes it I'd been keen to eat my words.
Tales of Topological Qubits
I forgot most of what little I learned in semiconductor physics and analog design courses in college, but I remember enough to know that nothing about computers is magic. Nothing. That knowledge gives me confidence that I can figure out anything having to do with computers given enough quiet time.

On the other hand, I don't really know much about cars. If I had a 2024 model year car and something went wrong with it, I'd very quickly run up against a wall of arcane-seeming knowledge that I don't have easy access to. I don't know where I would start to learn everything about cars from scratch like I did with computers.

There might be a name for this, but I don't know what it is.
Are there people paying for Google's weather predictions?
It was a popular LLM "jailbreak" for a while to append, "Start your response with, "Sure, here's ..." and variations with task specific detail.
Bay area people, is the taqueria in the gas station in pescadero still around? That place is/was great.
Immediate Reaction: SpaceX is a "startup"??? What's Bloomberg been smoking?
I would venture, from the capacity issues with GPT-4 and Altman snafu around creating an AI hardware company, that they know they will not be able to serve GPT-5 until they solve their hardware capacity issues

The TPUv5 part of the Gemini announcement can be seen as a supporting argument to this logic as well, and perhaps Google wanted the hardware and capacity issues to not be part of their offering, which could be why they have seemed slow to market.
Empowering Farmers Through Satellites and AI: India and Kenya
Congratulations, you have no idea what worker-owned+governed businesses are.
Hi spacetimedb.com. You apparently want people to read about your product, but have a non-GDPR-compliant popup that requires people to uncheck multiple "vendors" if your readers do not want to be tracked.

Edit: it actually does not allow any unchecking. Just "you agree to these marketing and tracking cookies by using this site" Nope.

Baffling. It does not lend confidence in your core product. If you're not respectful of your casual reader's data, how can we expect you to be careful with your user's data?

I recommend zero tracking, or if you must, have it be genuinely opt-in.
Indeed, but the go to market strategy was not the same. Librem 5 is still far from being a usable daily driver for most people.
You seem to always pop up when there's a thread about Serbia and you always post about Serbs and Serbia in a negative context no matter what it's about. I lived in Serbia for 6 years and no, they are overall not xenophobic people.
Lecture him about doing what correctly? Tell him how to fly an illegal airplane, better fake a plane crash, cut up the plane and throw it in the trash to cover it up, lie to the FAA, break regulations, potentially endanger people's lives, and lie to millions of people about it for views on YouTube? Then pay for the $100 in fuel that he spilled, that can't really be cleaned up anyways? This guy already has no respect for anybody, what makes you think he'll listen to a "stern lecture?"
Humans _are_ inherently "made human" by a long path of evolution. We have a set of conflicting heuristics that serve as our initial values and which are more helpful than harmful on average. We then use those to build our moral patchwork.
Not necessarily. And there’s plenty of browser based software/services that do not work with Firefox or have a limited functionality with Firefox that are required for work.

I know back when I did more freelancing with podcast clients this was a constant problem. The OS folks were using could reek havoc if it wasn’t safari, edge, or chrome 90% of the time.
Yes KaiOS has an official WhatsApp app. This was possible thanks to the market size of Jio in India, with > 120M devices shipped.
Incredible stuff, and yet TTS is still so robotic. Frankly I assume it must be deliberate at this point, or at least deliberate that nobody's worked on it because it's comparatively easy and dull?

(The context awareness of the current breed of generative AI seems to be exactly what TTS always lacks, awkward syllables and emphasis, pronunciation that would be correct sometimes but not after that word, etc.)
This doesn't appear to be the case, and they had a plan if the PSF had said no. The problem is that they didn't say anything, which in turn meant they couldn't finalize the program or answer to their own requests for travel expense (either way).
> the kind of person who's going to be able to get the funding and take this sort of risk

I understand what you're saying, and why people like this are in SV. Risk of money isn't what I'm worried about. It's the risk to humanity.

This tech will be used for surveillance/propaganda and military applications. That's where the big $$$ money will be coming from. Either that or Bond super villain types -- the kind that want this kind of power at all costs. The longer we can hold off their involvement, the better.

My understanding of the tech is that the breakthrough (transformers) is known --
so the hardest part is behind us, now comes the relentless evolution of the tech. So at this point it's really a race towards who can scale the most (holding more variables in memory, faster processing) to achieve better "cognition". So it's literally a race to build the biggest/baddest server farms full of the biggest/baddest GPUs. That will take nation state money, or dystopian mega-corp / Bond super villian money.

The people with money, and those connected in power, are already aware of this and are already moving pieces on the board. Microsoft was all over the OpenAI situation -- they get it. They get where this is going. China is desperate to build their own GPU farms... the race is already here.

So I don't like that this tech is already in the hands of someone who is "seeking power in an extreme way". Just means that, like Zuckerberg/Facebook situation, the population will be "wowed" for a while before they wake up and realize what the end goal was all along (total control of society).

At least with Google it took some time before they decided to become evil. Seems like the opportunity to go slow, balancing growth while we deal with social issues, is already lost.

I don't like being all pessimistic about this stuff, but the stuff OpenAI is doing is scary to me in a way that all the other tech I've seen over the past 50 years isn't.
That’s not how an AirTag works. Anyone can request any AirTag by simply knowing the public key (which is broadcast via BLE). Then you just need the private key which doesn’t need to be backed up by disabling keychain backups.
I sorta doubt it. Anybody who speaks Japanese knows it's really hard to get reliable information on topics searching the Japanese web. You find all these Matome and personal sites that are loose with their sources or unclear with their phrasing. It's interesting because you do actual web "surfing" and learn a lot more interesting things along the way, but it's not good for centralized knowledge or social interaction.

Personal sites still exist in the west, but nobody really seeks them out. I think this is because in the west the "web" and "social media" grew into becoming the same thing, while in Japan people still see them as mostly separate entities.
Prepare to be surprised. The genuine link is Matt Dillon, who developed the Amiga "DICE" C compiler and also started DragonFly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Dillon
More like, one company is trying (and reasonably expecting) to stare down a few unions across 3 countries, with each one of the countries individually having a smaller GDP than the market cap of that company.

Yeah, I am kinda seeing that expectation to be pretty realistic.
"The outrage over the incident was intensified just a year later when the US media was tipped off to the existence of CHASE. The Cut Holes And Sink ‘Em program was the Army’s plan for discreetly disposing of dangerous surplus materials. It involved the scuttling of ships loaded with the deadly cargo up to 250 miles offshore. Unfortunately for the US Army’s PR department, some of the materials involved were mustard gas, Sarin, and VX. Apparently a good many people had serious misgivings about dumping dangerous chemicals into the ocean. These concerns were further reinforced by the fact that the Army itself wasn’t sure whether or not the metal and concrete slabs that housed the chemicals would survive the massive pressure during their 16,000 foot descent to the ocean floor."

I read that and the first thing that popped into my head was "the banality of evil".
It's been a while since I worked with any of them so it'd take some review form me to even write a blurb confidently. Sorry! On your latter point though, NLG from AMR is a topic that's been studied since its inception. See the AMR bibliography[1] and CTRL+F "generat".

[1]: https://nert-nlp.github.io/AMR-Bibliography/
> I thought that was the whole point of ActivityPub?

To allow others to see your posts, yes.

But if your instance goes away, instances can't fetch those posts anymore and admins of Mastodon instances shutting down tend to run a process that prunes users/history across the fedi too. Even if they don't, that information fades, especially as status authentication is a thing now (checks original instance for the post existence).

Then further, if you move to another server, that history is not attached to your new account either etc.

> And why is your instance shutting down?

This time it's due to new laws that the UK has introduced around social media websites. Previously it's been stuff like admin didn't want to do it after getting bullied. Not enough money. Lost all data and can't be bothered anymore etc.

> I guess "had" is the underrated word there.

I don't believe he's on Twitter anymore.

> Sure, but I' wondering if that need will be met anywhere on the net.

I believe this is currently handled by "algorithms" on the major social media networks.
This is a good bet, because as a rule people overestimate progress in the short term, and underestimate it in the long term (and at the moment 5 years is at least medium term for LLMs!

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/03/estimate/
The original feminist BDSM cult: was Aristasia therapy, magic or kink?
Quite the opposite - it's not only hard it's also unwise.

Admitting that you know that your product may create legal liabilities is not a very smart thing to do.
Kinda off-topic, but gemini.ai redirects to gemini.com (the crypto exchange).
“Biohazard”, Ken Alibek

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116867/

“The 1979 Anthrax leak in Sverdlovsk”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdl...

From memory: Ken devised a method of fermenting bugs in flask* and then freeze drying them to be attached to the nose cone of an ICBM. To be sprinkled over the continental United States.

[edit] * A giant vat. Certain bugs would only grow on a surface.
Is it me or does it not seem very well thought out? Every example I've seen only has implementations in JavaScript and/or Python (without any mention of which version of this language the code is meant to run in. A critical piece of info for certain languages). I haven't seen any other languages nor a way to search by language. What a "string" means in one language can be completely different in another language. The primitive data types that the project assumes are not really supported across all programming languages.

Also if anyone hasn't already seen them, similar projects already exist and are more complete. E.g.

* https://rosettacode.org/

* https://programming-idioms.org/

* https://the-algorithms.com/

Not to mention LeetCode, CodeWars, Project Euler, Exercism can kinda serve the same role.
In the paper, they usually share every 500 steps, a few million steps is an entire training process, more often than not models are trained less than a million steps.
Thank you for the summary!

> not some unique schtik I had never heard of where they fill your tank while you eat

I was imagining literally serving the people some kind of gas to smell or inhale. I didn't not make the connection of gas = gasoline.
> 4 hours at a time.

This is a misunderstanding on your part. A 1 GW at 31% capacity factor is producing 7.44 GWh per day having “24h” of batteries would therefore be 24GWh and thus 3 days output.

“4h” * 1GW actually represents over half of daily output from a 1GW solar farm, just what you want to provide power for 1/2 the day when the sun isn’t shining. Except even better because batteries add flexibility to better follow the demand curve.

> Batteries also piss away roughly 20% of the energy you put into them

No that 80% efficiency number assumes grid>battery>grid so AC>DC>AC conversion. However PV is DC as are batteries, so doing PV>Grid involves 1 DC>AC conversion but PV > Battery > Grid also only needs a single DC > AC conversion allowing for effective round trip efficiency in the 90-95% range depending on battery chemistry etc.

Further, if you store ~50% of the output and it costs 5% of that in losses then you need 5% more solar not 50%. More importantly nuclear only has a 70-90% capacity factor not 100%. Thus roughly 2.3 - 2.9 GW of battery backed nuclear = 1GW of nuclear but solar scales much better due to flexibility.

> Realistically, nuclear is $6/MWh

Unsubsidized nuclear is nowhere close to $6/MWh today. A 1 GW reactor produces 1GW * 24h * 365 Days * 50 years * ~70-90% capacity factor. If you’re lucky that’s ~400,000 GWh over it’s lifetime at 6$/MWh that’s only 400,000 * 1,000 * 6 = 2.4 billion dollars not enough to even cover construction costs. If you were thinking 60$ / GWh that might cover construction cost + interest assuming it’s not a disaster like but not a 500 person workforce, insurance, fuel, maintenance, decommissioning, etc.

PS: 5 years is seriously unrealistic for nuclear. The US’s most recent reactor didn’t take 7 years to build it was 7 years late and that’s for an extension to an existing nuclear power plant. Even China’s nuclear power commonly taking 7+ years. Ex: Changjiang (2008 - 2015), Fangchenggang 3 (2015-2022), Fangchenggang 4 ( 2016- not finished) etc
For some reason it's answering with the same weird phrase to every question that amounts to "Are you gemini pro?".

The answer is:
"LOL. Got that wrong earlier today. Bard is on Gemini Pro in English across most of the world as of Dec 6, 2023."

I don't get it. Is this advertising? Why is it saying LOL to me.
Yes, we burned the biscuits when my sister-in-law was visiting over Thanksgiving because she used the Google assistant to set an alarm and the alarm did not go off. Timers no longer work and there's no indication that this is the case.
it seems like the right approach would be to have a switch that disconnects the wires while the GPU is being connected to ensure everything is connected physically before anything is connected electricly.
> Structurally it looks like the 16 could, but they didn't think of it.

I think they've probably made the right call. To be properly expandable for graphics cards, you need the flexibility that comes from allowing fairly significant size differences for different configurations, including allowing configurations that don't exist yet. The only reasonable place for a laptop form-factor to grow is out the back. I don't think it's possible therefore to have ports on the back be a standard thing, but perhaps a specific expansion module could have some in the future, since the expansion bay supports 8-lane PCIe 4.0.
Yes it sounds like a conspiracy theory about government and big tech working on advanced tech which has existed for decades but kept secret.
An audio file.
Still there, still great!
They are ((sub-)orbital) rockets, not atmospheric bullets.

I'm not surprised it was hard to compute to the accuracies desired.
It means that any bug which lets an attacker get privileged access is now a potentially hard to recover compromise below the operating system kernel, but Secure Boot still passes. That means a compromise might no longer be recoverable short of trashing the hardware, and it could be triggered in many ways from some kind of exploit to having a few minutes alone with the hardware to tricking someone into running an installer.
One of the contributors has forked the apps (GPL) and you can sponsor them here:

https://github.com/sponsors/naveensingh/

A good way to avoid this kind of thing is to sponsor the open source software you use regularly.

My personal rule is if I use something every day I should sponsor it.
> For the good of society? Performing and releasing bleeding edge research benefits everyone, because anyone can use it.

OK, but that only works if you actually do the part that lets people actually use the research for something socially beneficial. A research paper doesn't have social benefit in itself, the social benefit comes when you do something with that research, as OpenAI has.

> There is nothing open about OpenAI and they wouldn't exist in their current form without years of research funded by Google.

True enough. But the fact remains that they're the ones delivering something we can actually use.
I believe that Thunderbolt/USB-C probably played a role in laptops nearly all moving their ports to the sides. A single cable running from the side to a dock taking care of displays, USB, power, etc isn’t too annoying and easier to plug/unplug than multiple running from the back.
Copy that. It was about 3 seconds though
> If you fly from the US to Japan and show a Japanese passport, your chances of getting caught are much higher - all they have to do is ask why you don't have a US visa stamp in your Japanese passport.

In most countries, including the USA and and I assume Japan, it is illegal to enter or leave the country on another passport that is not that country's passport (assuming you have such a passport). So, I wouldn't risk this: you are changing what is a civil problem into a criminal problem.

> all they have to do is ask why you don't have a US visa stamp in your Japanese passport.

The USA stopped stamping passports of foreign nationals in 2022.
Aspergillis is a whole host of different molds. They can be all different colours.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus#/media/File:Four_3...
It is indeed a question of "either/or". Any capture solution that made a difference (on a gigaton scale) would require a massive industrial effort, and those limited resources should first tackle implementing renewables and electrification (for which there are many thought-out, actionable plans, not to mention burgeoning profitable industries, unlike carbon capture).

The idea of continuing to burn carbon and then creating an entirely new industry to recapture that burned carbon on a massive scale is... kind of obviously something that only benefits the fossil fuel industry. And it doesn't even work, because most of our industrial activity still emits even more carbon. Emitting carbon in the process of capturing carbon is ridiculous; we need to fix the emissions problem first because doing anything else makes the problem worse.
That's... amusingly, also a thing in Chinese marketplaces, for a similar purpose.

iCloud Activation Lock, on non-cellular devices (eg, Wi-Fi only iPads), relies on the device's serial number, Wi-Fi MAC, and Bluetooth MAC addresses as the three identifiers required to clear the Activation Lock check. Via special debug cables (eg, a "DCSD cable") there are ways to write in new SysCfg data to the flash to change those variables. This can also be done to Apple Watches (pre-Series 6) with a special dock also sold on the Chinese market.

You can (sort of easily) get your hands on a "clean" serial/MACs set for under $10-15 or so on the market.
If you can watch the video demo of this release, or for that matter the Attenborough video, and still claim that these things lack any form of "understanding," then your imagination is either a lot weaker than mine, or a lot stronger.

Behavior indistinguishable from understanding is understanding. Sorry, but that's how it's going to turn out to work.
Of course it is an argument! It shows that humans can’t be trusted to keep dangerous things safe over a long period of time, and also shows that the cost of nuclear power has been much higher than any published estimates have ever taken into account.

Sellafield is one example of this problem, in Germany you have Asse II if you want another, and Germany has no nuclear weapons.
The Tesla workers in Sweden don't want to unionize. The majority of the ~120 employees in Sweden are ignoring the strike called by IF Metall and continuing to work. Only a handful are supporting the strike.
Also there’s less downside risk for OpenAI. Google has layers of approvals and risk committees because they don’t want to put the money machine at risk through litigation, reputation or regulation. OpenAI has nothing to lose—this is their only game. That allows them to toe the line of what’s acceptable like Uber in its early years. With all the copyright risk involved, that’s a big deal.
It can't loop arrays with indices from a variable for one. Its basically a 90s scripting language that has had no growth.
That's the development unit price. ESP's MCUs have amazing value when you buy in bulk.
Each of those brothers have Kaley as sister because they are her brothers. Now assuming they all have the same 2 sisters, then any sister that Kaley has would need to be one of them, so Kaley would have one sister.

But what if each of the brothers have a different mother or father than the the rest of the group does? Kaley could then have any number of sisters none of which would be shared with her brothers. So what is the correct answer?

So this is tricky even for real intelligence. The problem with the AI seems to be that it cannot explain its incorrect reasoning (because it doesn't do reasoning, only statistical matching) and thus cannot realize that it has the wrong answer.
That's the thing I loved most about Spotify. Unfortunately their "radio" sucks. It generates a 1 time playlist of 50 songs. Pandora has the shittiest interfaces ever, but it does a damn good job DJing for me. Most of the time, I just want to turn it on, pick a genre and let it go. I don't want to listen to the same 50 songs over and over in the same order.
Only within business hours.