skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it have j/k navigation yet?
> OpenAI would be second-most valuable US startup behind SpaceX

Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 (yes, 21 years ago).
It is a private company with $4.6B in revenue in 2022.
Characterizing it as a startup seems weird.
If P!=NP, probably nothing changes.

If P=NP, a very large class of optimization problems probably become practical to solve, which would be a big win for science and technology generally, to the extent that I think it would be felt in daily life.

Edit to add: and also as another commenter mentioned, most existing encryption would likely be much easier to break, which would also be felt.
The claim upthread is that regulation in labeling would materially curb fentanyl deaths. It would not. Materially restricting access to high-test opiates might, but we have ample experience from well-labeled high-test opiates to suggest that uncontrolled access to any of them is likely to be deadly.

If by "regulation" you mean "restriction", then, sure, I buy that, stipulating that it's somehow possible to restrict access. But what the preceding commenter meant by "regulation" was labeling. No, that won't work.
How are illegal threats made by users the fault of the communications platform?

We don’t vilify the phone company when someone uses a phone to make a bomb threat. Why is this different?

You don’t report crime to the communications service provider. If someone makes a bomb threat you aren’t dialing 0 to tell the phone company.
Much like any art the limitations of the original tweet were what made the medium interesting.
Yes, if a polynomial algorithm is found for a single NP-complete problem then any other NP problem can be converted and solved polynomially
And not very secure either. In my experience you can send a pdf of a utility bill and those are quite easy to edit.
"Helped" is one way to describe it. "Sat down and kicked their feet until they got their way" is another.
If nothing else, there is one good thing of Elon's acquisition of Twitter, and it's that it has made the case for making social media outlets responsible for their content evidently clear.

For better or worse, when management changed, the narratives and atmosphere in Twitter changed. Its content changed. This would be absurd if social media communities were organic or independent in how they spread ideas, but they are very much not. Either before or after the acquisition (I have no dog in this race, really) the platform controlled its content, and as such it ought to be responsible for it. If Twitter decides which among the millions of messages it decides to publish they are as responsible for that as I am when I choose which among the combinations of characters I output from my keyboard.

Any corporation that pretends they are only doing the proper thing by controlling speech within its platform should be called out for what they are doing: media manipulation.
Bluesky’s ability to federate was touted, but doesn’t meaningfully exist (otherwise I’d be running a node).

It’s still got centralized censorship, same as Twitter or Facebook.
If it worked like that, then sure, why not.

In watching the internet come into being and become what it is today, I assume that it will be abused and misused significantly. The idea of weaponizing misinformation wasn't on my bingo card, so I'm much more cynical now.
1. Small sample sizes

2. No preregistration(?)

3. Finding which will likely be shared on social media virally.

Check. Check. And Check. I’ll put this one very firmly in the “won’t replicate” category.
Indoor VOC emissions from a live Christmas tree
I actually agree with you, and I feel terrible about it in every case (it sucks being forced to treat aggrieved colleagues as adversaries), but we've gotten shit from clients over the poor data stewardship on this issue. It's not just the employee's vacation photos and recipes on the device.

There are other factors too-- one new challenge terminations in a WFH world present is that after HR notifies them, the employee can simply not log out and still have access to the local filesystem...and external media. Or if they slammed the lid shut in anger, they'd later log back in to Windows using cached credentials in Airplane Mode.

So employees were regaining access and exfiltrating data indiscriminately. It's been much less of a clusterfuck if we just reset the FDE key once HR is done with them, then negotiate return of specific files they identify. (Sometimes we do let them keep the laptop too, after recovering their stuff and wiping the rest.)
It's not impossible to prove P==NP if that is the case as the program is the proof. Also if we assume "if P==NP then there exists program less than a trillion lines" then P!=NP is provable if that is the case.
Also surprised to to see Warp get any mentions.
I think the subtext implied in the respondents tone is that they don’t consider millions or even billions of people dying off as existential.
It could be because it would prompt a huge pain in the ass process or question of, does their discharge status change? Granted, they dont (at least not during my service or my dad's, to give context I served 2013-2018 and dad 1995-2003) give our dishonorable discharged. But a general discharge or other than honorable (OTH). If these are pardoned UCMJ violations that lead to a discharge, does it prompt to change their discharge from OTH or General to Honorable?

My guess is also the UCMJ is like a separate court system out side of the usual court system. Since military are held. to a 'higher moral standard' and such. Even if it were made legal for citizens, it may not mean military rules are amended to allow use. An example could be Spice. While you could buy spice at a head shop and smoke it, not illegal, the military deemed it against the rules and you could get kicked out for smoking spice.
Its not using GPUs. Its using Groq's own HW - LPUs
About 10 years ago, I was working on a site that served several hundred million non-crawler hits a month. Many of our millions of pages had their content change multiple times a day. Because of the popularity and frequent changes, the crawlers hit us constantly... crawlers accounted for ~90% of our traffic - billions of hits per month. Bing was ~70% of the crawler traffic and Google was ~25% of it. We noticed it because Bing quickly became very aggressive about crawling, exposing some of our scaling limits as they doubled our already significant traffic in a few short months.

I was working on the system that picked ads to show on our pages (we had our own internal ad system, doing targeting based on our own data). This was the most computationally intensive part of serving our pages and the ads were embedded directly in the HTML of the page. When we realized that 90% of our ad pick infrastructure was dedicated to feeding the crawlers, we immediately thought of turning ads off for them (we never billed advertisers for them anyway). But hiding the ads seemed to go directly against the spirit of Google's policy of showing their crawlers the same content.

Among other things, we ended up disabling almost all targeting and showing crawlers random ads that roughly fit the page. This dropped our ad pick infra costs by nearly 80%, saving 6-figures a month. It also let us take a step back to decide where we could make long term investments in our infra rather than being overwhelmed with quick fixes to keep the crawlers fed.

This kind of thing is what people are missing when they wonder why a company needs more than a few engineers - after all, someone could duplicate the core functionality of the product in 100 lines of code. At sufficient scale, it takes real engineering just to handle the traffic from the crawlers so they can send you more users. There are an untold number of other things like this that have to be handled at scale, but that are hard to imagine if you haven't worked at similar scale.
Most of the "GIFs" you encounter on social media these days are actually autoplay videos without sound. So it's not that crazy. I think they're waiting until they have a robust solution figured out for video support before they land "GIF" support.

One of the alternative clients (Graysky) supports GIFs through some integration tenor.com, I believe.
Jaron Lanier: Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI [video]
Apple Product Security email to Google about BLASTPASS vulnerability is public
It feels like Bluesky missed their chance to be the twitter alternative after how well Threads has been going. I'm sure zuck will find a way to ruin it but its gonna be a long road a head for Bluesky.
It seems to me it's medicine to blame for people treating autistics as a group, since that is literally how they prescribe that they be treated.

They used to have 3 divisions, PDD-NOS, Aspergers, and Autism and thought that they overlapped and overlap was supposedly bad.

The root of the problem hardly seems to be pop culture, which to me has shown a pretty wide spectrum of autistic behaviour and generally portray it far more positively and heterogeneous than medicine does, which treats somebody having a diagnosis of Autism in the same light of them having a diagnosis of cancer. It's pop culture which has eased the stigma, it's high culture which truly looks down upon autistics as poor lambs to be saved.

When I was a kid, doctors were in love with emphasising how I would probabilistically never succeed. Meanwhile, Hollywood put out a bruce willis film about how autistic children are smarter than NSA cryptographers. I listened to Hollywood, and ignored the doctors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Rising
All gone :(
It's not AGI but it's still really impressive. It has the feel of the nascent personal computer industry or the internet pre-dotcom. Yes, there's hype but there's legitimate value propositions in play.
BlueSky is the only place where I have ever received death threats, the only place where I ended in multiple blocklists for upsetting god knows whom, and the only place where I had to block hundreds of accounts to avoid getting porn and questionable furry stuff in the main timeline, even with moderation on.

But it seems to work fine for a particular brand of extremely online people.
Also a lot of cybercrime seems to go back to Russia where they seem to have a semi official policy to leave them to it.
Do you honestly think more technology is the answer? Look at how far we’ve come with technology and how happy we really are as individuals.
Did they really close the 'loophole' though? Jake said on Twitter they were actually hit with a manual penalty. So doesn't seem like it's patched. Seems like if he didn't boast about it they'd still be doing well.
My ideological objections are around ownership.

I want to install a binary without a dozen security hoops I can't turn off.

I don't want my local documents being scanned for whatever Apple caved to some government about this year.

I want to own the private keys to the hardware I buy, not a company who can lock me out if they feel like it.

I want to buy third party components, without needing them to be crypto locked to my machine or needing to get corporate approval. again if they feel like it and they're having a good quarter.

I don't want to be forced to discard perfectly working hardware when Apple decides to stop supporting it.

In short, they really, really hate the idea of you owning something they don't control from the atomic level to the cloud.
The tv show Person of Interest was great in this regard.
It seems heavily drive by algorithms

My feed is almost pure politics because I engaged with some

My SO’s in the other hand is all wholesome sunshine and rainbows, I’m trying to protect that by just showing the occasional thing in my screen instead of sending it to her
Blitter Discusses Creating Those Photoreal Renders in Blender
yeah we'll see. i'd love to actually see any kind of mildly successful non-censored platform but realistically i guarantee it either dies because people go out of their way to portray it as "that nazi site" or it'll live because they change their mind.
Bluesky is an open protocol
Certificates aren't "free." They cost time at minimum, and complexity (you're forced to add a bunch of tooling to renew them) to satisfy the arbitrary requirements based around the fact that somehow their bits get old. The "free" ones think they get old in 90 days, and Apple decided for the whole world that I think one or two years is the absolute limit and anything longer-lasting is also "invalid."

A cert signed by your own CA isn't scary. You can trust and install your own CA, and unless you're an idiot and publish your private key you're not harming your security profile one bit, but like I said, I understand how we got here because if it were easy and not presented as scary, naive users would be tricked into installing new CAs every day. It's just annoying how it has (in practice) imposed this external prerequisite to use TLS encryption itself, which I think is pretty obviously the reason it took like 15 years for SSL to become ubiquitous.
Yeah, after reddit fuckery I'm not falling for that again.
Bluesky is a different protocol than Mastodon, but conceptually I think it's fair to say they're similar.

I think Bluesky would clean up if it could also interop with Mastodon - people want to leave Twitter but it sucks having to choose between Mastodon and Bluesky and so I think some folks are just in a holding pattern waiting to see what wins. Bluesky feels more like Twitter so I think it would get a lot of folks, but I think people hesitate to bet on it just yet.
It generates code really really fast.
How big is their moat? Actual open source projects seem to be closing the gap. I feel like openAI will plateau and there will be a red sea of competition in 2024. Is the company really worth that 100b?
There’s more to AI and deep learning than LLMs
I disagree that this is an important problem. Even in the unlikely case that some NP-hard algorithm is P, it may be completely infeasible to compute on modern hardware. I'd wager that to certainty be the case if any solution exists at all.

I am not aware of any practical use of P=NP outside of pure complexity theory, and the P!=NP case is already ubiquitous assumption anyways. P=NP would be a notable result, but probably not important.
If you put any restrictions on usage or what can be done with it (like selling), then it's absolutely not open source.

open source doesn't mean source code is there. open source has a specific definition. There is a list of acceptable open source licenses, as defined by OSI. similarly there is a list of acceptable free software licenses, as defined by FSF. Broadly, the two lists are the same. Commons Clause is definitely not open source.
Its too incoherent to really understand, but as far as i can tell, i think its a long winded way to beg the question.
I'm already living in this world due to my motherboard[0] maxing out at Windows 10 ver 19H2 for reasons I don't understand. It's honestly really refreshing to just be able to use my computer without it rebooting out from under me all the time and leaving "presents" for me afterward, like how Edge got re-pinned to my taskbar any time any update required a reboot. I'm sick of the update treadmill and especially sick of all the scare-mongering about not being on the update treadmill. I even have some XP machines and they've all been fine too. Come hax0r my Gibson and prove me wrong.

[0] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SAE “Note: Win 10 OS can't support beyond 19H2 version”
The great nanometer chip race
>I've replaced your word "it" to make the point as clear as possible.

>"And you chose to quote it, and to make the point that" [unexpected behavior] "is not the sort of thing we want on public roads"

Ah, so we're playing the "I didn't say what I just said" game now. Here's what you actually wrote:

"That’s true, but also one of the selling points of some AI tasks. As a non hypothetical example, the DoD hired a company to train a software dogfighting simulator with RL. What surprised the pilots was how many “best practices” it broke and how it essentially behaved like a pilot with a death wish. Possibly good in war, maybe not so good on a public road."

Anyone with the slightest familiarity with language will find no credibility in your claim that in this comment, the thing that is being called "possibly good in war" but "not so good on a public road" is anything other than the one explicitly-mentioned aspect of the system that you have specifically chosen to present as an example. Furthermore it was completely reasonable for dcow to respond "modern AVs are not driving like they have a death wish by any stretch of the imagination" after you chose to make the above statement.

With your latest response, you continue to put more weight on an anecdote about this unrelated system than you do on the extensive empirical evidence from testing the actual system that is the subject of this article.
I have reports that this sandbox is failing intermittently only in Safari. I don't have a Safari machine to test with. Reports say that the content pane on the right is empty. By default, there should be a clickable button in it, which is the sandbox output.

https://mutraction.dev/sandbox/?view=normal

Reports say there is some iframe load failure showing in the network monitor. Every file being loaded is a normal static file served from a CDN. Also, sometimes, when it fails there's a rare chance that a reload will make it work?
> If nothing else, there is one good thing of Elon's acquisition of Twitter, and it's that it has made the case for making social media outlets responsible for their content evidently clear.

Agreed. He showed that they were engaging in widespread editorializing of conservative content while lying about being neutral. They should never have been allowed to do that, even under the existing laws at the time. Reddit is even worse.
There is no reason to think any of the other approaches would help either
Interestingly enough, I follow people on both sides of the aisle, and only left-leaning people have left Twitter. I haven't created a threads account because they're blatantly asking me to share every data they could access + their awful content moderation rules. At least there are plenty of options for people to share their opinions.
Seriously? Says they're all still unused in my view in the app. Dang.
In fact I think it’s more useful than AGI will be. IMO AGI will be a novelty, but generative AI has exceptional potential as a tool.
They extended the length of the registers for the eZ80, which they didn’t do for the 816, it is explained really well here

http://www.zilog.com/docs/um0077.pdf

I made it through (most of) the 1980s with a 6809-based TRS-80 Color Computer but I think the 6502 was the most popular CPU in the US then, as the 6502 based PET, Apple ][, C64, Atari 400, Atari 2600 and NES used them. I think it was rare to see Z-80 computers with color graphics, framebuffers, sprites, etc. but it was used in arcade boards and they had this

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

in some other countries.

I wonder if you could build a OS for eZ80 that could run CP/M software, that would get you a pretty large base of software to run.

In an alternate timeline, Apple comes out with the iiGS a few years earlier than it did instead of the Mac but no the ‘816 was not that chip and they would have been looking for a replacement around the time they got looking for a 68k replacement.
> Done correctly

History, unfortunately, shows this rarely, if ever, to be this case. Every utopian ideal of the 20th century ended in mass murder, world war, or totalitarianism, and the more pragmatic ones (e.g. liberal democracy) are struggling desperately to survive. One only need to consider the current political state of the two most powerful countries in the world developing AI (the US and China), to not take such a Panglossian view of how it will be used.
This is the original goal of making machines and has been the assumed desire path since before even Joseph Schumpeter had anything to say about it.

Keynes et al assumed that humanity would align around machines to literally eliminate human labor.

Those of us that have been obsessed with AI since we were toddlers have been literally talking about this since day one

Welcome to the party everyone
What if files just aren’t relevant as an abstraction any more, 40+ years later? As most data lives somewhere in a database the cloud anyway, the concept of a file as a somewhat tangible, autonomous chunk of information may just be outdated.
> Someone please explain how a social network is supposed to succeed when it's invite-only? Hype alone won't carry it.

It may be that the industry has evolved to a degree that this is no longer viable (I also don’t know if I believe this…), but invite-only or otherwise limited launches formed the backbone of the current web.

Facebook was only available if you had a school address. Gmail was only available via invite. Obviously a service can’t stay in a limited state forever and the hype will run out, but it’s not exactly a new approach to limiting access early in the life of a service.

Google+ failed because Google killed it. I never experienced what you describe, but admittedly got an invite very early, and interacted with people who had also gotten the same thing.

Limiting onboarding does not eliminate the network. It just limits it. Again, to your point, this can’t last forever, but is not by itself the issue as long as they continue to scale up access. There are plenty of other issues that will make or break a network.
But there’s a difference between “impressive” and “100B impressive”, no? It’s not clear how big the market will be (depends on tech advances) and how much of it they can retain.
Proving the equality would be huge.

But nobody seriously believes that to be the case. There are no practical consequences of providing something generally assumed to be true. Possibly the proof itself would be enlightening, but without seeing it we cannot guess how.

Providing the inequality would reduce the time we spend dealing with cranks, but that's about it.
From 2020. This article is hagiography - while it's worth celebrating how far HDL has come, it's also worth looking into what's holding us back. Verilog is one of those things, so here's a short complaint.

Modern Verilog/SystemVerilog is profoundly hobbled by Verilog's origins as a loosely typed, ad-hoc language (think: Perl, MATLAB, or on an especially rough day, PHP). It has evolved in a committee-and-footgun-rich way reminiscent of C++ - to the point that the article ends by admitting "[i]t is difficult if not impossible for any one engineer to be fluent in the complete language." The language is simultaneously too simple and too complex.

I write VHDL where I can, am hopeful about Clash/Chisel/Lambda, and am optimistic that efforts like CIRCT can replace Verilog in its weird role as machine-produced and machine-digested RTL. In the meantime, though, I don't think Verilog's supremacy is something to be celebrated uncritically.
I think depends on the algorithm, but the algo is fairly broken. I know some people are complaining about "For You" full of "almost naked" persons there...

Mine is mostly about tech, I believe.

Which is a problem for me because I like political things, so I still use X, don't judge me.

But there's a chronological-following timeline on Threads anyway.

The problem is that there's no way to really control the algo timeline. You can't say you don't want these type of posts, or add topics you are interested - like Twitter.

All it cares it's the posts you like. As I like my friends (tech) posts, that's all I get. Plus some cats.
I've already pointed out why I believe the "robo only" numbers are more useful, and that the broader dataset says mainly the same thing.

I'm sorry, but a dog running out in front of a car is not a "traffic fatality" by any conventional sense of the world, and it's certainly not an at-fault accident for the driver.

At this point, I believe you are trolling.