skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, this is the big flaw in the Preppers' thought process. If the shit actually hits the fan, as they say... a lone family defending their remote land with grandpaw's shotgun is not going to win against even a small band of armed marauders. A rich guy living in an underground bunker with servants is going to last about as long as the servants take to realize they can just gang up and take the compound over. Your off-grid solar panels and stockpiles of food and water don't stand a chance against the local warlord who wants to just take it.
This discussion started around 2006-ish, before any of the "actual AI problems that currently exist" were actual problems currently existing, and has its eye on keeping humanity alive for a longer timespan still, because there will be more problems down the road as more discoveries are made.

Today's immediate short-term problems are also important and nobody is denying that. But to some extent, you have to skate where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
Interesting, I always thought the holdup was that third party things used in-app were expressly forbidden because they're not vetted by the app store onboarding process (in addition to the requirement of using webkit). Didn't occur to me that webkit could be extended to support webext either.
> Good luck finding a chip not fried in safflower or sunflower oil in 2023.

... Wait, when were commercial chips _not_ fried in one of these (or possibly rapeseed or peanut oil)? Also, what's wrong with sunflower oil?

> the fact that no alternatives appear to exist

What were you expecting? Olive oil and lard would both have smoke points too low to be practical, I would think. Like, what do you think they should be using?
> which is more than can be said for CFB+MDC mode

That seems like a red herring, at least if taken out of the context of this thread. OCB mode is already supported by GnuPG and had been added to the draft RFC before GCM was added. Werner has argued that there should only be a single AEAD mode, OCB, to simplify everything, including interoperability. But-for patent issues, GCM likely never would have existed; OCB is at least as secure, simpler, and substantially more performant. If one of OCB, GCM, or EAX turns out to be meaningfully less secure than the others, it's unlikely to be OCB.
I guess it's like a reverse swamp-cooler?
It is not that mind blowing if we are talking about “evaluation” How many people care launching a satellite tomorrow more than chatting with a girl/man on Facebook? I think it is quite obvious.
Don't forget Airbnb. Two or three years ago they claimed they needed scanned photo IDs of all users to eradicate racism on their platform, and they were going to use cutting edge ML to do so!
http://www.6502.org/source/floats/wozfp1.txt

Might be useful.
On the contrary I'm quite surprised how well FSD performs. Of course, it's not fully autonomous like Waymo, but here in the Bay Area it works remarkably well on the suburban stroads outside of San Francisco. I basically never have to intervene at all. Moreover, when you read news like how Cruise actually has a manual intervention every 5 miles [1], it seems that actually Tesla is not really as behind as some naysayers claim.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/06/cruise-confirms-robotaxis-re...
I can’t access the article because it’s behind a paywall, but what does it mean to be a night person? It seems that society always favors morning people as more productive, active, healthy, and happy than night people, I disagree. I personally feel more creative at night, I do my best work at night, and I have my ah-ha moments at night too. There are also studies that suggest night people are more intelligent (1)(2). Besides, being a night person doesn’t mean you can’t have a healthy lifestyle, especially when most gyms are indoor anyway and also you happen to live in a cold climate.

(1) https://personal.lse.ac.uk/kanazawa/pdfs/paid2009.pdf

(2) http://primate.uchicago.edu/2014INT.pdf
Show HN: Unified access to top AI models, supporting GPT4, Claude and more
Hello hackernews, I am looking for feedback for Labophase.com which is a app that focuses on returning results from multiple ai models at the same time. I currently support: GPT4-Turbo, Claude-2, Google PaLM2, Llama2, Mistral, and OpenOrca. Working on supporting Gemini soonTM.

I built it to solve a couple of personal pains I experienced. After reaching out to a couple of users in r/localllama, seems that people would have similar approach to address hallucination, availability, and comparing ai models. Initial feedback came in with some surprises that I'm hoping to get feedback from the bigger HN community:

1. Do people prefer a "search" interface over a chatbot interface i.e. (one to many as opposed to one to one interaction with ai)?

- My experience is that it's the best defense against hallucinations and misinformation from models because models often hallucinate and fail in different ways and is very obvious when you compare it against other responses.

2. Do a lot of people manage multiple subscriptions and billing to access more than one ai model?

3. Is local setup for accessing the top open source ai models so painful that most people don't bother?

---

Note: Labophase is in beta, accounts is not fully working and expect some bugs here and there. Free access will continue until I run out of credits.
Counterintuitive Statistics: St. Petersburg Paradox
And, apparently, no, not really:

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/truth-tel...
> And tools for enforcing any kind of rules on your own are hot garbage. Especially any that a normal person could possibly hope to figure out.

Online ID check?
Yes, air-gapped and the entire operating system is running off overlayfs + tmpfs, so no data persists after power off. There's also a problem with TEMPEST emanations from the computer's display - the problem is almost non-existent on mobile devices such as smartphones, which are very well shielded. So disable the modem physically, and run everything locally.

Of course the risk of targeted surveillance still exists, and nothing is going to stop a hidden camera from being placed in your home.

But in most cases there would be no reason to ever place the average person under such surveillance. So the bulk mass surveillance of the population would be hindered. And they won't be able to persecute people for reading or viewing certain things anymore. So that puts an end to the morality policing that has been enabled by the Internet.
This is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, because the developers of these projects probably don't even have relevant AMD devices to test that, because why would they?

The only reasonable way to break the cycle would be proactive intervention by AMD to contribute code and testing and easy "works out of the box" installation to all the major popular projects to add AMD support so they can sell more their hardware later, but I'm not seeing AMD doing that.
Enjoy your tuna and beef flavored human chow.
There is an ongoing question about whether AI can be trained on copywritten works.

If the AI pioneering companies are able to push back against the entire publishing industry and have nothing more than a conversation about it, then why would I ever expect any company to respect me or my personal data?

In fact, I think there is a large and growing portion of the population who have watched big business scoff at laws and regulation (see Wells Fargo, Uber multiple crypto exchanges, etc) and are realizing that profit is the only motivator.

That's not even talking about the chaotic political landscape.

I think we will soon see a crisis in institutional trust across the board.
I'm sorry, you're right. I got confused with some other papers like Plenoxels that use voxels.
It's a really good, clarifying post; I've had it in a tab for a week or so while I've been writing.
I just go to a dermatologist once a year who scans my moles. Totally worth it.
I use Kiwi, I take the risk for the ability to run my own extensions (though I use a two-fisted approach where I use Chrome for deep accounts). It's a shame it's not updated more often, it's an open source project I would support.
Insurance isn't a suicide pact that ties you to one particular, shitty GP.
They're crowd engines. It's akin to how human clans can achieve more than a single human, but can scale up to a certain point.

The funny thing is I had this discussion during my theory of computation course with my professor, and I'm trying to disprove it daily for decades. I was unable to find a single, real world example.

Fractals are also found in the nature, however since we need to zoom into them, they end at a certain point.

Also, nature is a fractal in a greater sense.

Stars follow an orbit in a galaxy. Planets follow an orbit around a star. Satellites follow an orbit around a planet. While an edge case, flying bugs follow an orbit around a light source. At the end electrons follow an orbit around a nucleus.

IOW, a fractal is not more complex than nature itself.
Europe != EU.
After some meditation, I don't find this line of inquiry to bear fruit:

I don't recall any entity, nor the entities named (Uber / self-driving cars) talking about the trolley problem - that's a well-known thought experiment in philosophy, but not something covered as a stark binary choice in self-driving cars planner systems.

I also don't recall traffic cones being a very difficult problem beyond Cruise + cones on windshield in SF. I have no love for Cruise. But its straightforward to pause if there's a large object on the windshield.

I don't think Corey's observation w/r/t A) loss-making companies over years B) focusing investors towards speculative advancements that would make their current business model profitable without changing applies here, OpenAI is _very_ successful.

After all that, I'm left at "Corey would take a bit of offense towards their thoughts on corporate responsibility via 'Uber is a predatory massively unprofitable company lying about odds they'll invent self-driving via talking about trolley problem' misshapen to critique a very profitable company funding fundamental research in the interest of safety that would be needed if their current rate of improvement continues.
`It's complicated`. :)
The biggest problem with AI is not the tech but the people. White billionaires worrying about SkyNet but totally overlooking the impact on the everyday "poors".

The individuals who never had to go through a second of adversity in their lives cannot be expected to understand. In fact, their sociopathic tendencies only skyrocketed through the years of isolation from the real world, with COVID compounding the effects.

Casually talking about how robots should replace humans as a species because of "efficiency"...

By the way, did you know that Sam Altman was VERY active in politics until the latest drama?

He was backing a candidate to primary Joe Biden, but now he had to go take care of his own stuff. The outcome of this would be pretty obvious to those who follow American politics:

https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2023/12/a...

My point is, a person that cannot draw a straight line from F---ing Around to Finding Out cannot be trusted with something infinitely more complex.
Oh... no... $1500/mo?
Can you elaborate on the product management motivations?

It seems to me projects like Iceraven demonstrated years ago that a great many extensions were usable without any changes. Why not just slap a "here there be dragons" warning on untested extensions and let users have at it?

To be clear, I'm not asking you to justify decisions you didn't make, just to provide some visibility into the process if you can. Mozilla was pretty opaque about it.
The populace electing lawmakers.
I absolutely understand why NVIDIA is incentivized to maintain CUDA dominance, and I absolutely understand that within these market parameters, AMD/Intel/others have dropped the ball.

However it's worth noting that in the end, it's the consumer that loses out when these technical/capability moats maintain a de facto sort of monopoly on certain use cases.
I have no problem with people speaking up just with people that want to be edgy and write a sob story when a opportunity arises. As I said you deciding to speak up now but not about other conflicts says more about you than you think. Do you really not sleep?
Why not just take it for its word?

I don't see, for instance, why they might use Svelte instead, and some evil genius decided to just hardcode that into the window object.
I find the hero-worship of Pat Gelsinger — examples in sibling comments — really weird. My impression of him at VMware was very beancounter-y, not especially technical, and too caught up in personal vendettas and status games to make good technical leadership decisions.

Granted, I may have just gotten off on the wrong foot. The first thing he said to Pivotal during the acquisition announcement was, “You were our cousins, but you’re now more like children.” So the whole tone was just weird.
> and saying that the "southern border" is at fault

There's people posting like that here on HN.
Copying and pasting Urban Dictionary's definitions of "to schmidhuber"[a], "schmidhuber"[b] and "schmidhubered"[c]:

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to schmidhuber

When you publicly claim that someone else's idea that is remotely resembling your own is stolen from you.

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schmidhuber

1) To interject for a moment and explain how one's recent popular idea is a few transformations away from your 1991 paper.

2) To miraculously produce fifty years of relevant literature after someone claims to trace the origin of an idea in a particular work.

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schmidhubered

Being "schmidhubered" looks something like this:

1) Invent something brilliant that no one cares about. Experience derision.

2) That thing becomes popular years later. Someone else is given credit for inventing it. That person appears in the New York Times and is declared smartest person alive.

3) Go on a campaign explaining the situation and how you are the rightful inventor and thus the rightful Smartest Person Alive.

4) Everyone accuses you of being a sore loser and no one takes you seriously.

5) A verb is named after you.

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[a] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to+schmidhub...

[b] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmidhuber

[c] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmidhubere...
I have been hoping for them to go this route for a while now, maybe eventually they will.
Waymos offer truly driverless rides in San Francisco. I just took one last week, without anyone in the driver seat. It's great!
It does not. An artificial lamp will never be the same as the sun.
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> the hypothetical Jimmy would eventually be replaced by someone else who would invent this pencil.

As I've seen it historically, here's the crux of your argument. "If not for this employer, some other person would have done what they did, so it's not even really their value."

The problem becomes the devaluation effect this has on ideation, which misaligns incentives away from innovation and progress. Since when do we presume someone would have done something, discounting the person who actually does? This wouldn't apply to the laborer who constructed the pencil, I observe. "Well, anyone could have constructed this pencil, so why value the production?" Nobody makes that argument.

Additionally, this devalues the organizational contribution of coordination between the lumberjack and the miner. Jimmy coordinates their raw materials into an environment where they can be combined in the first place. Even if he doesn't invent the pencil, he still creates value by building the environment for the job to exist. Absent someone in Jimmy's role, none of the pencil-construction jobs would exist.
I was going to say that, early terminals had less resolution than many TV's, in the early days, especially as graphics drivers weren't standardized yet or had CPU/Memory constraints on how many pixels it could draw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display_standard
Will increase in value due to its deflationary nature combined with retail and institutional adaptation.
Media Matters Sues Texas AG Paxton to Stop His Bogus, Censorial 'Investigation'
The idea that hunter gathers didn't have "territory" or resources to defend is a misnomer. There are richer lands with more plants to gather, and those that are arid. There are plentiful hunting grounds, and those that are devoid of wildlife. These areas are valuable, and people fought for access to them. Nomadic peoples usually stayed in one area for quite a while until the resources were exhausted, and then moved on elsewhere. Specific peoples differed in how they did things, but this pattern was typical of many North American indigenous groups. They setup semi permanent settlements meant to last years. Other peoples followed migratory animals for hunting, and therefore been more mobile, but their valued resource (the herd) was still vulnerable for others to take.

"Nomadic" didn't mean people just aimlessly wandered and sustained off of whatever they chanced upon that day. You can't go just anywhere and expect to feed your family off of what you find. When you found some place or something good, you tried to claim it and defend it from those who encroached on it. You moved on under your own volition only when the resources were depleted/left.
The most appropriate behavior is implemented by regex.

Find the empty string and replace with say

`($&)`

where

`$&`

refers to the captured variable, and with input

`xyz`,

the result is

`()x()y()z()`

With an empty input, the result is

`()`.

The result of indexOf can consistently return the first index of the first half open subrange in a string. It just so happens that the first subrange of an empty string in an empty string is [0, 0).

The limiting case is also an interesting way to look at it:

()a()b()c()
()a()b()
()a()
()
If you just want less of it, the baked chips have rebranded to 'air-fried' since an air fryer is just a directed convection oven.
Not entirely true. S3 Glacier would only come out to $830 a month.
> but for what it's worth the subset of bottlers would be limited to those supplying Walmart

That would be ~all of them, I would think. The whole point of having loads of bottlers is to avoid having to haul the stuff very long distances; I think they'll normally just supply from whichever is closest.
>It was unreadable

Which paper was that; I've always found his writing relatively clear. Are you sure it wasn't just the case that you didn't understand the paper?
I got a copy, it says "~0.0001-0.05" W/m^2 for their material, which they put at the same order of magnitude as "Hydrovoltaic" harvesters, and several orders below something like wind or solar. But they do list theirs as the only 3D scalable, "continuous and ubiquitous" harvester.
pcengines apu platform is great if you're comfortable with command line. they are EOL now (no new hardware updates) but doing the same thing with any Linux box is trivial... plenty of off the shelf options for modular hardware.
Related: Dijkstra, ”Why numbering should start at zero”

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
Programming a mainframe while working from a hotdesk. Who would have imagined.
And ChatGPT itself is NOT built using JS or React if that's your question... It's a model built using PyTorch, I believe, using some very expensive hardware.

Just the user interface is [theoretically] coded in React.
This is an exceptionally real example. People invent things all the time and build companies around their ideas.

It's not "should", it's "is". This is happening, all over the place, right now.
Well, can you elaborate on what exactly you observed/felt from Intel that makes you skeptical about these claims?
It doesn't, but it can't go faster than 40 mph so it wouldn't be pleasant to go 40 mph while people are zooming past you at 70 mph on the empty autobahn.
There are four examples in the first category (imagination), there are five more categories with lots of other examples.

Currently, there's no API for Gemini Pro, so you need to use bard.google.com to ask it questions.
A lot of "classic" flavors cannot be brought back since trans fats were banned (as of mid 2018 in the USA).
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I think its the cliche "man cave" taken to the extreme. Talk to most guys and they too would want their own bunker. Look at all the popular videos on Youtube, titled "I built my own bunker"
What about launching a for-profit Social network from Anoox non-profit
We are looking to launch a for-profit Social network & Search engine from Anoox non-profit Social network & Search engine.
What do you think about this?

Now it may seem this is an unusual investment opportunity, since the core technology has been developed under a non-profit to be moved to this new Start-up with proper funding. But in fact there is a great example of such model. That is OpenAI™ of ChatGPT fame was founded as a non-profit internet company, almost the same year Anoox was made into a non-profit Search engine & Social network AND based on many of the same philosophies that Anoox was formed into a non-profit Search engine & Social network. And just like we are interested to launch a for-profit spin-off from Anoox non-profit, OpenAI launched a for-profit version called OpenAI LP™ since a non-profit is just not financially viable given that a non-profit is primary dependent on donations and one just cannot reliably rely on donations to operate and grow a tech company with its immense expenses for hardware and for qualified talent whom will only go to companies that are properly funded.

Details:
https://www.anoox.com/invest_to_shape_the_future.php?sre=139

If you want to help us out with this fund raising please do so knowing we have an excellent "5% Finder's Fee" if via your reference we do close on an investment deal
I'm no food scientist, but it's probably better to cook perishable items in butter than it is to eat a bunch of foods made shelf-stable by a giant laundry list of ingredients that you would never eat otherwise.
You should flag anything that you don't think meets the criteria to be worth posting.
China deploys plausibly deniable backdoors into internationally shipped network devices. Bugs that are remotely exploitable if you know they exist, but not obvious enough that they provide justification for the devices to be banned from import. These consumer devices are not exploited for intelligence gathering, but rather deployed as proxies that fall into one of two common buckets: acting as SOCKS proxies to relay attacks, and allowing a remote operator to scan for nearby wireless networks and bridge into them.

The NDAA blacklist was a happy compromise by the US government of banning the most egregious vendors that might find their way into sensitive facilities (Huawei, Hikvision, etc) while letting consumer focused brands that do the same (TPLink, Jetstream, Wavlink, etc) slip by so it didn't appear at face value to be a blockade of all Chinese made networking gear.

Taiwan on the other hand is less concerned about how China perceives their relations and bans all these vendors. They also ban Zoom.
They would have to admit that their current Orea has differed from the past despite being marketed as the same Orea that it always had been.