skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GeminAI

Missed opportunity + its an anagram (GAI) for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) :/
Excuses.

ChatGPT available in Europe.
There’s probably an anti-competition angle here: with end-to-end encryption, you need a trusted central authority to distribute the public keys, which would make interoperability across different messaging services more difficult (impossible?), something that regulators have been trying to make happen.

If I owned the largest messaging networks, I would enable end-to-end encryption by default too.
Disk2Disk

It’s the computer version of frottage
"get" is a common second level domain used by Google for all their TLDs. Look at get.app, get.dev, get.zip, get.mov, get.meme, etc.
Exactly. Gaming performance is not a good reason to switch to Linux. But there are many other good reasons (for instance no ads and telemetry, and no continuous nagging to use Edge).

Being able to get a respectable gaming experience will for many be the reason that they can stay in the OS that they prefer for other reasons.
Note that most E2E encryption services still let the service read your messages. Apple, Facebook, etc. can still read your messages.

This is because encryption needs keys, but when you talk to your friend over these services, under no point did you personally exchange any keys. This means that you’ve decided to let the service generate and keep the keys for you.

It’s like getting a deposit box at the bank but instead of keeping your key, you give your key to the bank to keep.

What would stop the bank from opening your box would be its own ethics policy and the quality and depth of their internal processes. They are not physically prevented from bypassing them however.

It’s still a W with these rudimentary E2E chat implementations because your ISP and government might find it a lot more difficult to read but it’s not quite exactly super strong security.
The new Marathon game seems to be very loosely related to the originals and not even having a single player experience.

Pretty much only Mac users played the original.

I think it would have been better if they gave the game a different name. To me it feels a bit like a “betrayal” of the original game and with very little, if any, benefit.
I'm no expert but I do pay attention and I don't know of anyone working in this space that believes it's right around the corner. What's motivating a lot of PQC work --- besides that it's a full-employment program for asymmetric cryptography researchers --- is the idea that we need constructions today that will remain resilient 20-30 years from now.
I grew up playing Marathon, play way too much Destiny, and actually do enjoy the extraction shooter genre. I'm sure there are dozens of us, dozens!
Just installed z. After activating it, it outputs the directory when you use cd. Can one make that stop?
It's more expensive than most sandpaper. It's only cheaper when you take into account that it lasts longer, something that many consumers aren't great at doing. so I'm sure they had to split the difference.
That’s the kind of task I really want to see LLMs used for - not just to replicate things humans can already do, but to explore things that humans haven’t figured out yet. Maybe we don’t know enough to pick up on the rhyme and reason of whale communication yet, but brute-forcing it with an AI seems like a great way to get a fresh perspective.
We'll need some kind of hybrid system to deal with this. For example the LLM 'indexes' the text it reads and assigns importance weights to parts of it, then as it moves to new text it can check back to these more important parts to ensure its not forgetting things.
The keys could be generate on the devices and never leave them.

Of course, if the software is not open source, that's hard to police. But abstracting away the key generation from the user doesn't mean that the services can read your messages.
again, I'm not talking about arrest or punishment.

I'm talking about prevention. Like "don't walk at night in this area alone".
Ask HN: Developers/DevOps, how do you manage environment variables?
Hey everyone!

I've been trying different ways to manage and keep track of environment variables, like using .env file, AWS Parameter Store, Spring Cloud Config and k8s ConfigMaps. But I keep running into issues like:

- Forgetting to add env variables in different environments (Staging/Production)

- Not knowing if we still need certain env variables

- Unsure if the right env variable is being used inside the process or if it got mixed up

- Old containers might still use old values

How do you guys handle your environment variables? Any problems you've faced? Would love to hear some tips or stories!

Thanks!
There's a lot down there, people have been dumping chemicals weapons in the ocean for at least a hundred years. Once it sinks you can't see it anymore so that means it's gone forever and you don't have to think about it.

https://nonproliferation.org/chemical-weapon-munitions-dumpe...
The highest performing open source graphics driver available anywhere is RADV.
> stable banking system and a currency that isn’t subject to massive devaluation at the whims of your government

In practice, BTC value is more volatile than currencies in advanced economies, no?
The #1 thing that sounds impossible is how do tie a payment to an account anonymously? Unless you only take anonymous payments, you end up putting a credit card number on every account.

>No one other than the people in the conversation can know who is talking to who and when.

This also means the infrastructure cannot block messages. Or tell the difference between spam and legit messages. Effectively you can DDoS a client with messages.
That is in no way a requirement for doing science.
You wouldn't actually need to extract the executable for reproducible builds to be useful.

You could also just have the ability for your phone to reliably tell you the hash of the executable, without giving you the executable itself.
I know the argument is somewhat moot because they're all closed source. But with WhatsApp and Apple shipping key transparency, this isn't necessarily true anymore. You can verify that the keys that were given to your contacts are the keys that were generated on your device without needing to meet in person.
That's what I'm trying to figure out too. I guess it's just harder to remove?
AMD ha presentato la sua ultima serie di processori Ryzen, la 8040, durante l'evento "AMD Advancing AI". Questa nuova serie, nota come "Hawk Point", segna un notevole passo avanti nell'integrazione dell'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processori consumer. Pur mantenendo la base Zen 4, la serie 8040 offre un potenziamento fino al 40% dell'unità di elaborazione neurale (NPU), grazie a un incremento del 60% della capacità di throughput.

Non solo la serie Ryzen 8040 è in arrivo, ma AMD ha anche anticipato il prossimo Strix Point (Ryzen 8050) con NPUs XDNA 2. Questi processori, previsti per il prossimo anno, promettono un triplo aumento della potenza di elaborazione rispetto alla generazione precedente.

Questa significativa evoluzione nell'elaborazione dell'AI è strettamente collegata ai piani di Microsoft per il futuro Windows (12). La casa produttrice del sistema operativo più diffuso al mondo sembra orientata a integrare in maniera più profonda le funzionalità dell'AI nei prossimi PC. La serie Ryzen 8040 è pronta a sfruttare appieno l'ecosistema di Windows 11 per ottenere prestazioni ottimizzate e pieno supporto delle sue caratteristiche di sicurezza.

Il nuovo Windows (12) si preannuncia come un'interessante fusione tra il cloud e i dispositivi client, sfruttando appieno l'hardware AMD per alimentare varie app basate sull'AI. Si prevede che i sistemi dotati dei processori Ryzen 8040 potranno accedere all'AI di serie con il Window Studio Effects Pack, garantendo funzionalità come la sfocatura dello sfondo, il tracciamento dello sguardo e la cancellazione del rumore, sia a casa che in movimento.

La serie Ryzen 8040 comprende una vasta gamma di modelli, dai potenti processori octa-core Ryzen 9 8945HS ai quad-core Ryzen 3 8440U, offrendo differenti livelli di prestazioni in base alle esigenze degli utenti.

In conclusione, la combinazione dell'hardware AMD avanzato con l'introduzione dei processori Ryzen 8040 e 8050 preannuncia un futuro intrigante per l'integrazione dell'AI nei dispositivi Windows (12), promettendo un significativo salto nelle capacità di elaborazione e funzionalità avanzate per gli utenti finali.
Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants
Apple says that iMessage uses asymmetric encryption, the private key of which is stored only on device. You can choose to believe they're lying, I guess, but what they are describing is indeed possible.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/imessage-security-o...
It's slightly better, because lying about this would be securities fraud for the company.
Is there any reason to use the format package rather than printf? Aside from C++ people who claim to hate C needing to save face?
They could create a separate limited liability legal entity that is a full subsidiary of Google. That subsidiary could license the technology or platform from the parent company and they'd be able to launch worldwide.
You can compare verification codes on WhatsApp and (starting ~next week) iMessage [1]. And both are in the process of establishing a mechanism similar to Certificate Transparency for x509 certificates [1][2].

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-contact-key-verific...

[2] https://engineering.fb.com/2023/04/13/security/whatsapp-key-...
Contrary to what others have replied there are much more stressful situations than being a father/husband and they're such that you may never want to be one!

> I don't want to find an out if a strong enough stressor turns me into and adult or not.

Stress doesn't necessarily mean you have to grow up in the sense that you stop having fun. It just means you notice subtleties, know better, and are otherwise prepared for whatever life throws your way. In many ways this just makes life more fun.
People who are not 23andMe customers might nevertheless be harmed by these breaches due to the peculiar nature of DNA data, and they could conceivably sue without being bound by any TOS.
This reminds me of their last AI launch. When Bard came out, it wasn't available in EU for weeks (months?). When it finally arrived, it was worse than GPT-3.
I'm not sure, IANAL but I would say that much of what a EULA or ToS covers is not that novel, companies skate by on technicalities, and a nontrivial portion of a typical agreement may even already be invalid but lacks case law. If companies weren't worried this might be true they wouldn't need the severability clauses. For example, disassembling or repairing items you paid for or duplicating legally owned copyrighted works for personal use (not distribution) were rights that were well established, but sprinkle in the right technology (even if it has no purpose other than to interfere with these rights) and suddenly it gets a pass. It's not a novel situation, it's a loophole to opt out of established law.

You are right that we won't be happy with the new laws, as so far and with the examples I gave new laws have mostly removed consumer rights, not asserted them.
It just seems like a real perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good way of approaching it. Going to Japan would take a lot of money, so you need to spend a lot more money on a guide (does that really get you more bang for your buck than accepting that you might occasionally lose a few hours to getting lost)? You want authentic experiences that you feel would be too risky without a guide, so you'll hire a guide (never mind that that will itself destroy the authenticity of those experiences)? All of that is too expensive, so you won't go at all? I'm hardly a fan of the bus tours, but it sounds like at the end of the day they'll see a lot more of Japan than you.
They have a very bad reputation as an employer, though their track record with their games is quite good.
If what they're competing with is other unreleased products, then they'll have to compete with OpenAI's thing that made all its researchers crap their pants.
They are owned by T2.
Is there an actually privacy-respectful genome service like this or is 23&me literally the only game in town(the world)?
It's like the supposed amazing Stable Diffusion killers that nobody can use, or the music generation platform.
So they sold at peak. Good for them!
You can just make your own scripts. No bloat, instant launching.
That's the perfect intelligence test, as Ilya said: ask it about something it has not been trained, but might be able to infer.
I feel like the analogy has always been about spending time now so that I save time and reduce errors in the future. Often to me it isn't replacing tools so much as spending time figuring out how to use them more efficiently. I don't feel like "switching" tools is the right way to think about this. It MIGHT be the right choice, but usually it is about learning how to use your tools well and leverage the capabilities that require preperation or familurization.

Examples are:
1. Creating templates inside your tools. Like any jetbrains ide. This has literally saved me years of time in laguages that have more boilerplate like java.
2. Configuring your tools to your usage patterns, using plug-ins or extensions.

Once done, I could do something like generate my style of code in keystrokes. If I found myself making something more than once that isn't reasonably abstractable, I often made templates, plug-ins or infra.

This can also be extended to something like if I know I am going to be configuring some type of system a bunch and I anticipate the technical/business needs changing a bunch, I'll spend the time to create a fluent configuration interface for it and it saves me TONS of time in the future.
> This also means the infrastructure cannot block messages. Or tell the difference between spam and legit messages. Effectively you can DDoS a client with messages.

Not necessarily. Eg as a simple model, assume that you 'send' a message by publishing it to something like a usenet group (and perhaps that group charges you a fraction of a cent for doing so).

There's no denial-of-service for a client that receives a lot of messages, distributed or otherwise, but still outsider don't see who is sending what to whom.
That was the stated reason for the acquisition, and why they put so much money towards retention bonuses.

Unfortunately, since Sony is scaling back their live service ambitions, seems like maybe this wasn't the best move. Then again, this article makes the situation sound pretty dire, and it isn't like those things would be different had the acquisition not happened...
The github issue:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50253

Note that the person mixing java knowledge and C++ isn't Daniel Lemire.
My personal little conspiracy theory with zero proof: he wanted to destroy Twitter all along. But he cannot just shut it down, I think that would make him vulnerable to some legal battles. Much better and much more sadistic to gradually destroy the good name of Twitter.
A brief history of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
Read the whitepapers, the client side generates the keys and only transmits the public keys to the server. E2EE is truly end to end (as in client to client). Meta has no access to the content of your messages, same has been true for WhatsApp
Imagine there were a set of a few common terms that businesses could select, each with an icon, a high-level explanation, and the detailed legal copy.

I think there is a common set of those that would probably cover 80% of needs.

The remaining 20% could be "extended", custom terms for this company.

Such a system seems like it would make things much easier for consumers to understand, and also save legal fees for most companies. Maybe a good standard for a TOS-generator company to design and promote?
Until now, Apple hasn't offered any way of actually comparing what keys you are writing to, though. In other words, there was nothing technically stopping Apple (or somebody with the power to compel them) from adding additional recipient keys to your account that your or your contacts would not be aware of.

This is about to change with contact key verification and transparency, though.
It is probably largely nuclear. Nuclear plants pretty much never get turned off since they're roughly free to run, and there's much less power used at night.
I would think there is some benefit to synthesizing, and compressing. Summarization is similar in that the heavier weighed text remains and the rest is pruned.

If the same basic information is all over a text, combine it.
I would like more details on Gemini's 'native' multimodal approach before assuming it is something truly unique. Even if GPT-4V were aligning a pretrained image model and pretrained language model with a projection layer like PaLM-E/LLaVA/MiniGPT-4 (unconfirmed speculation, but likely), it's not as if they are not 'natively' training the composite system of projection-aligned models.

There is nothing in any of Google's claims that preclude the architecture being the same kind of composite system. Maybe with some additional blending in of multimodal training earlier in the process than has been published so far. And perhaps also unlike GPT-4V, they might have aligned a pretrained audio model to eliminate the need for a separate speech recognition layer and possibly solving for multi-speaker recognition by voice characteristics, but they didn't even demo that... Even this would not be groundbreaking though. ImageBind from Meta demonstrated the capacity align an audio model with an LLM in the same way images models have been aligned with LLMs. I would perhaps even argue that Google skipping the natural language intermediate step between LLM output and image generation is actually in support of the position that they may be using projection layers to create interfaces between these modalities. However, this direct image generation projection example was also a capability published by Meta with ImageBind.

What seems more likely, and not entirely unimpressive, is that they refined those existing techniques for building composite multimodal systems and created something that they plan to launch soon. However, they still have crucially not actually launched it here. Which puts them in a similar position to when GPT-4 was first announced with vision capabilities, but then did not offer them as a service for quite an extended time. Google has yet to ship it, and as a result fails to back up any of their interesting claims with evidence.

Most of Google's demos here are possible with a clever interface layer to GPT-4V + Whisper today. And while the demos 'feel' more natural, there is no claim being made that they are real-time demos, so we don't know how much practical improvement in the interface and user experience would actually be possible in their product when compared to what is possible with clever combinations of GPT-4V + Whisper today.
You wouldn't send via your inbox. And anyone would be able to download any inbox, the data would just be useless without the key.

There might be problems with the proposed model, but they aren't the problems you suggested.

(As an individual, you wouldn't want to download just your own inbox. But to obfuscate, you can download a random subset of inboxes that often-enough includes your own.)
The whitepapers:

Messaging:
https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Messen...

Labyrinth E2EE storage:
https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TheLab...

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In a different perspective, the magnetic field itself is a result of special relativity. The magnetic field is an alternative way to explain electromagnetism without citing special relativity. (Or to say, electrostatic field and special relativity are sufficient to explain everything in electromagnetism, the existence of magnetic field is unnecessary.)

If the existence of magnetic field is unnecessary, there is no reason to even search for a magnetic monopole.
I never said the keys are sent to any servers.

They keys are still generated and kept using software they wrote.

Second, they also control who they trade the keys between.

This is contrasted to some chat apps (which are painful asf to use) where you have to manually exchange keys, meaning you have to engage with the party you want to talk to and so you can confirm who you are really encrypting messages for. It’s physically impossible to be given the wrong person’s key because you personally had to get them.
https://archive.is/KI11F

More useful I think: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

Tldr:

- take a VERY low dose (0.3mg, most pills are 10mg)

- it drags your sleep period towards when you dose

- to move your sleep period earlier, dose 7 hours before your target bedtime (e.g. 5pm for a midnight bedtime)

- to move your sleep period later, dose immediately on waking up

- dose just before target bedtime for jetlag (alternatively, just follow the above dosing schedule)
Same. Disposability and waste is false convenience with externalities.
Use it via a VPN and with a telephone number that is not associated with your identity.

This is what I do.
> By that account, above discussion of what is and isn't virtue signalling is itself virtue signalling--mere platitudes rather than contributing to actionable outcomes.

If you're just saying it for the upvotes, yes. If you're actually trying to get people to shift their efforts towards more effective things (such as translation support libraries that don't insist on avoiding English at every level), then no, it's legitimate effort.

> I'd think us, or any foundation for that matter, should be able to lay out an agenda before outcomes are achieved, how (un)realistic they may be. A dot on the horizon to aim for, not necessarily achievable but a heading at least.

An aim is fine. It's a question of sincerity.
The individual devs impacted by layoffs did not make that decision; please leave these types of quip comments on reddit, where they belong.
Interesting, I thought the plan was to finally make all three Meta messengers interoperable with end-to-end encryption.

I wonder what changed. Maybe testing showed that people actually prefer them to be separate?
We live in a very sad world if software projects now have official religion.
As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam:

* https://lutris.net

* https://github.com/lutris/lutris

It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net).
I mean yeah. To get anything through the FDA you have to hire these “FDA consultants”—former FDA employees—who mostly chill out on your payroll. The FDA sends random questions about whatever you’re doing every once in a while and you have to come up with some answers. A few years of this and your drug’s approved. Anything resembling a standardized pathway where you simply test the drug threatens this grift.
> Just make sure you comply and get it over with. It’s not that hard to build a privacy centric product that doesn’t steal my data.

Eh, given that Europe struggles to build anything tech related, I'm going to say it's pretty hard. Far easier to make overpriced luxury handbags and the like.
Why would you trust the hash function if you don't trust the rest of the platform?
I don't see Apple taking NVidia's crown for training. Apple's hardware acceleration is fine for low-power on-device inference, which they were designed for, but competitive training requires an order or three magnitude more power, which they aren't.
Halo is in many ways an extension of the Marathon lore but with a different plot. Since Halo is a Microsoft IP Sony probably saw this as a good way to have their own Halo.