skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made the mistake of triggering Siri in the car to play an album I owned…and it signed me up for a one week Apple Music trial subscription instead. The switch was seamless until I saw the accompanying email. And there was no confirmation via the interface (visual or verbal). I still have the listing in the Subscriptions area of iCloud after I made sure it was cancelled. It hasn’t happened again, which I suspect is because of the listing.

A possible cause is the Siri-enabled button on the remote that can trigger music requests.
The TL;DR is that a product was developed in the 80s that poisoned the roaches, but not immediately so they could return to the nest and spread the poison. And it worked for a long while until the only survivors are ones that aren’t attracted to the taste of the poison.

This approach was used to suppress rabbits in Australia, us in the disease myxomatosis. The infected rabbit didn’t die immediately but would return to the burrow to spread it. When I was a kid you could see myxie rabbits outside, dying, with pus coming out. Of course the survivors eventually were the ones immune to myxomatosis.
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?
What were your favorite podcast episodes released in 2023?

Hardcore History: Twilight of the Æsir Parts I and II [1][2] were good.

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-69-twilight-of-the-aesir/

[2] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-70-twilight-of-the-aesir-ii/
It matters what ends up being best for humanity, and I think there are cases to be made both ways on this
We're going in circles here.

>If you don't understand why she is being closely scrutinized now, just check the front pages of major newspapers in the last weeks.

So far as I can tell, she's being scrutinized because she was involved in some controversial stuff. That is perfectly consistent with the "Controversial figures get more scrutiny" explanation from my previous comment.

>That is not an academic integrity check, it is a campaign by lowlifes to take her out of a position where they don't want her to be.

You didn't answer my previous question. What should we do in cases like this? I'm sure a non-zero amount of the scrutiny is from "lowlifes to take her out of a position where they don't want her to be", but the same could be said for people digging up dirt on politicians.
The way I see it, if the NYT goes under (one of the biggest newspapers in the world), all similar outlets also go under. Major publishers, both of fiction and non-fiction, as well as images, video, and all other creative content, may also go under. Hence, there is no more (reliable) training data.
The parent comment, before flagging, said something to the effect of 'but we know scholarship isn't why she got there.'

My point being: Scholarship isn't why anyone becomes president of Harvard. It isn't why anyone becomes a dean at Harvard. It probably isn't even why anyone gets tenure at Harvard.

That's base level academic competency + politics.

So accusing Claudine Gay of 'getting her position for reasons other than scholarship' is... yes, that's why everyone who's ever sat in that seat got it.
By not budgeting.

One of the many benefits of being frugal and moderate is that I don't have to worry about a budget. I save most of my money in accounts and in a sock under my bed. I have ample funds for emergencies and occasional gifts. I don't need to worry about daily spending limits because I'm not spending daily. I only buy what I need. And when I need it, there's always enough money to buy it.

It's freeing.
To add to the list, clamp:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/modern-fluid-typogr...

Such a nice property, makes responsiveness much easier to build in
Indeed, autocorrect got a lot better. That coupled with how the stack traces and error messages are so much better now, I really cannot recommend anyone use anything but v1.10. Some releases are a more incremental (v1.7, v1.8), but this one and v1.9 have been some massive advancements. It almost feels like another language with the VS Code integrations just performing a lot better and the startups feeling smooth. I think it's now time to focus on binaries and interfaces.
But it's only 25 twonies per year!
Explore the journey of building a Python package for fetching YouTube channel details in this insightful blog post.
Another amazing product is Bravecto for ticks and fleas.

I've had dogs all my life in a very tropical climate. I've battled with ticks for ages. It was always a combined-arms war of attrition just to keep them in check.

But then came Bravecto which is basically a WMD/Genocide machine for fleas and ticks. Just one simple pill and it eradicates them all. It stays active for 6 months too so it really just wipes them out from the area and the dogs stay clean for over a year after that.

This is a massive technological conquest, IMO
Here’s how I do it now, three machines two are linux and one is windows: I use Logetic MX master 3 mouse, it can connect to three devices via Bluetooth, if I need to switch from one to another, I click a button in bottom to switch it to the next one, and being wireless is very handy since one machine is far away from where I sit and it’s connected to a big screen.
Hyundai Ioniq EV battery replacement costs $60k, more than new car
> For the patient, this condition first manifests as pops of light or dark spots, known as floaters, which dance across their vision like fireflies

Flashing light/dark spots are a sign of retinal detachment. Floaters are something different [0].

[0] https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/benign-eye-floaters
I get "error: Service unavailable"
Slavery was legal...
It’s not neutral if all the content is in the model, regardless of whether you had to twist its arm or not. What does that even mean with a piece of software?

A printer is neutral because you have to send it all the data to print out a copy of copyrighted content. It doesn’t contain it inherently.
I think it's a transcript of a podcast, to be fair. But yeah I had the same reaction.
What if a court interprets fair use as a human-only right, just like it did for copyright?
There are actually a number of lighthouses in Boston Harbor. Historically, there had been many more. Some are described at the National Park Service website: https://www.nps.gov/boha/learn/historyculture/lighthouses.ht...

Not all of these are "lighthouses", per se. Nixes Mate is actually just a concrete-and-paint reflector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixes_Mate
To be clear, the current version of Scratch (version 3) is written in Javascript and other web technologies.

TFA isn't the current version of Scratch. It's Scratch 1.4—which was written in Smalltalk—running in a browser via Squeak.

If you've used modern Scratch, it's interesting to see what has changed (and what hasn't).
As an introvert with dogs, this is spot on. I also think that for some introverts, part of the introversion has a social anxiety aspect where we’re over analyzing every interaction, which is also exhausting. With dogs you have none of that. It’s relaxing because of how straightforward it is.

That isn’t to say “replace people with dogs”, we all need human relationships. Just that it’s sometimes nice to have a furry friend who doesn’t judge you.
Yeah that's the larger story here imo. How incredibly lonely modern life is for many people, and the internet maybe the greatest communication tool for connecting humans ever is not being used by corporations to help, but basically to hack humans' need for companionship and profit from it.
Drug companies are only shielded for specific vaccines deemed necessary countermeasures. It isn’t automatic for all vaccines; the COVID vaccines had to be deliberately added to the list via a formal process.
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I think not, because stealing large amounts of unlicensed content and hoping momentum/bluster/secrecy protects you is a privilege afforded only to corporations.

OSS seems to be developing its own, transparent, datasets.
The open source community can improve the tech - and they can then use it on their huge amounts of text and image data.

Legal problems? Update TOS like usual(did they already?). Some might leave, most will stay.
If they included the prompts, OpenAI would just patch them and say they fixed the problem.
>This kind of filler-laden writing will be quickly eradicated

It's a transcript of a podcast. I agree it was annoying to read, but the purpose of a podcast is not maximum-efficiency transmission of information.
>Switzerland isn't special, they're in the NATO sphere of influence and (behind the scene) can't say no to big brother.

As you can read the owner was the CIA and the BND [1] and NOT FIS. BUT:

>>According to a Swiss parliamentary investigation, "Swiss intelligence service were aware of and benefited from the Zug-based firm Crypto AG’s involvement in the US-led spying".

[1]The company was secretly purchased for US $5.75 million and jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until about 1993.
It's possible. Perplexity.ai is trying to solve this problem.

E.g. "Japan's App Store antitrust case"

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Japans-App-Store-GJNTsIOVSy...
The Internet and the future of news (2010)
open source won't care. they'll just use data anyway.

closed/proprietary services that also monetize - there's a question whether it's "fair" to take and use data for free, and then basically resell access to it. the monetization aspect is the bigger rub than just data use.

(maybe it's worth noting again that "openai" is not really "open" and not the same as open source ai/ml.)

taking data, maybe it's data that's free to take, and then as freely distributing resulting work, that's really just fine. taking something for free (without distinction, maybe it's free, maybe it's supposed to stay free, maybe it's not supposed to be used like that, maybe it's copyrighted), and then just ignoring licenses/relicensing and monetizing without care, that's just a minefield.
> The internet did change things pretty dramatically.

For sure - I grew up in the mid-late 70s having to walk to the library to research stuff for homework, parents having to use the yellow-pages to find things, etc.

Maybe smartphones are more of a game changer than desk-bound internet though - a global communication device in your pocket that'll give you driving directions, etc, etc.

BUT ... does the world really FEEL that different now, than pre-internet? Only sort-of - more convenient, more connected, but not massively different in the ways that I imagine other inventions such as industrialization, electricity, cars may have done. The invention of the telephone and radio maybe would have felt a bit like the internet - a convenience that made you feel more connected, and maybe more startling being the first such capability?
Traps that do the same with ants has worked for me too. Put it out, they swarm it and after a bit ... they're all gone.
Not silly at all when you actually read the article -

"Photographing the Eiffel Tower at night is not illegal at all. Any individual can take photos and share them on social networks. But the situation is different for professionals. The Eiffel Tower's lighting and sparkling lights are protected by copyright, so professional use of images of the Eiffel Tower at night requires prior authorization and may be subject to a fee."
I don't understand why Christians would necessarily be against the use of cannabis when you consider that it's a naturally growing plant. It strikes me as people second-guessing God and basically saying that he made a mistake in leaving it lying around. It would at least be more consistent if they also banned caffeine.
Since "state" means majority of people, id say is more of a question of what set of rules we want as society. Im also pro drug legalization but towards a different form of regulation there, minimizing harm created by drugs in total. I think writing laws from a CS perspective and with less politics could go a long way.
I don’t think your conclusion follows from the premise at all.
Personal Capital is free. But I no longer budget for anything.
It's all about finding the minimum of costs between headcount and infra-spend while taking into account risk of failure and a few other factors.

If you need to hire someone to manage stuff you have to build or do yourself because DO doesn't support a solution yet, then that's something you could have spent on AWS. Do you really have spare devops talent just waiting around?

For example - SQS is pretty good and reliable - but you could use something like a rabbitmq droplet https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/rabbitmq

How much traffic can that droplet handle? What happens if it fails? How is the droplet maintained and patched?

Or I could just call boto3 sqsqueue and be done with it... are queue's really the top cost of infra? Probably not - your top cost is probably database.

People probably build up a solution using AWS tech - and see where things suck. Then they move off those bottlenecks or cost tent-poles. If there are none - then stuff is left as is.
A lot of variables and uncertainty. You have to remember we live in a bubble of people ultra-focused and attached to the news. Many others aren't as focused yet. As we get closer and election season is the top story of the news cycle, I expect polling to shake out in a different direction.

To help illustrate: the election is 10 months away. 10 months ago was February 27th. Back then, there was prominent argument and speculation that Ron DeSantis was the future of the Republican Party. Look at his polling now.
> If a person with a very good memory reads an article, they only violate copyright if they write it out and share it, or perform the work publicly. If they have a reasonable understanding of the law they won't do so. However a malicious person could absolutely trick or force them to produce the copyrighted work. The blame in that case however is not on the person who read and recited the article but on the person who tricked them.

Is that really true? Also, what if the second person is not malicious? In the example of ChatGPT, the user may accidentally write a prompt that causes the model to recite copyrighted text. I don't think a judge will look at this through the same lens as you are.
Thanks for the reference.

The Long March Through the Institutions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEt9XepeGt4
> "Good tv" like a good john Oliver show or Frontline is chock full of information, further avenues of research if interested, and dense.

I have seen John Oliver state errors or misrepresent data/leave out information in favor of the comedy/supporting a particular viewpoint. A good HN thread with people knowledgeable about the subject or in the field about a John Oliver episode will usually be full of more information.
We're trying to solve AGI but can't solve sources/citations?
Typically the researchers pay the subjects.

It's a very active area of research though, and many reward schemes have been used and studied.

Derek goes into some of the research here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA
This seems clever and useful enough to be turned into a manufactured product.
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That's not the point I'm making. The point is that people do have "learning preferences" and these have an ultimate effect on learning.

To use your example: some people prefer listening to Roman history podcasts. Others would rather watch a film. Still others prefer a book. If you want to maximize learning, it seems best to pick the style/format most suited to your preferences.
I think TikTok is merely a symptom of the problem. Religion had solutions to a lot of recently rediscovered problems, like impulse control and lonelieness, it's just that moderns abandoned religion.

TikTok is just filling a hole.
His book Thinking, Fast and Slow makes it clear that these are conveniences and not real systems in the brain.
Would be fascinated to hear from someone inside on a throwaway, but my nearest experience is that corporate lawyers aren't stupid.

If there's legally-murky secret data sauce, it's firewalled from being easily seen in its entirety by anyone not golden-handcuffed to the company.

They may be able to train against it. They may be able to peek at portions of it. But no one is downloading-all.
It’s a simple architecture that works directly with the hardware, without an operating system. That’s a good gateway to embedded programming, and it’s fun.
Thanks for the info.

> when I hear "unaware of objects on their left side" my gut reaction as someone with a brain is "that sounds like brain damage, you need to go to the hospital."

To be fair, the answer it gives is "a stroke".

(For anyone who hasn't looked at the supplemental files the answer is E).
What’s with the funky ‘g’ character in this blog’s font? Very distracting.
Webflow and Plasmic seem to have taken up those spots.
The Long March Through the Institutions [video]
Feels like Amazon's entire business strategy has turned into "if someone has subscribed to Prime, they will never unsubscribe, no matter what".
The issue as I see it is that every bit of data that the model ingested in training has affected what the model _is_ and therefore every token of output from the model has benefited from every token of input. When you receive anything from an LLM, you are essentially receiving a customized digest of all the training data. The second issue is that it takes an enormous amount of training data to train a model. In order to enable users to extract ‘anything’ from the model, the model has to be trained on ‘everything’. So I think these models should be looked at as public goods that consume everything and can produce anything. To have to keep a paper trail on the ‘everything’ part (the input) and send a continuous little trickle of capital to all of the sources is missing the point. That’s like a person having to pay a little bit of money to all of their teachers and mentors and everyone they’ve learned from every time they benefit from what they learned.

OpenAI isn’t marching into the online news space and posting NY Times content verbatim in an effort to steal market share from the NY Times. OpenAI is in the business of turning ‘everything’ (input tokens) into ‘anything’ (output tokens). If someone manages to extract a preserved chunk of input tokens, that’s more like an interesting edge case of the model. It’s not what the model is in the business of doing.

Edit: typo
I don't know why western media always talks about myopia (in Asia) as if it's some sort of mystery. Where I'm from, everyone believes that myopia is caused by... the habit of looking at close objects for prolonged periods, such as electronic devices or books. Like how shocking (it should not if you know how muscles around your eyeballs work). I think it's even written so in the textbooks.
This attitude itself seems quite out of date in modern times. My dad is 70 and brought home a 486 in the 90's which was my first computer, and he didn't work in technology; the people who did got their computers about a decade before that. People can still be bad with tech, but the Greatest Generation (who were obviously first in line when they were handing out generation names) and Silent Generation are basically gone and on the way out respectively and were really the last ones who could use the excuse that they never learned them. Boomers might not have been born with the tech, but it was an important force in the world for the majority of their lives.
The example code in the article is a bit weird. Why are the query parameters handled on a case-by-case basis in the cgiHandler function (in the web server)? CGI normally passes parameters to the script in the QUERY_STRING variable or on standard input for POST requests. See the spec[0] for details.

An older version of the article[1] also handled the headers in the web server instead of leaving it up to the script as you normally would with CGI scripts. It's really more of an example of executing a subprocess than implementing CGI.

Also, the "significant vulnerability to injection attacks" has nothing to do with CGI. It comes from taking plain text as input and then treating it as HTML without actually converting it to HTML. The solution is not to "sanitize" it but to encode it into the format you want to output.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3875.html

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231226033541/https://rednafi.c...
You probably want to have a look at your tv settings and turn off the frame interpolation.
Speaking of New York—everyone’s story with roaches is that they get them when a new neighbor moves in. You can’t get rid of roaches in your apartment as long as your neighbors contribute the steady stream of new roaches.
> She spent "$25,000 looking for companionship"

Sounds exactly right. People are lonely. The other day I saw my relative who works cybercrime and heard more stories of people taking out home equity loans to send it all to a scammer through bitcoin ATMs or other means.
What about papers like these that suggest creation of task-oriented manifolds?

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/764258v3
Which dozen outlets can replace the New York Times overnight? I will stipulate that the NYT isn’t worthy of historic preservation if it’s become obsolete — but which dozen outlets can replace it?

Wouldn’t those dozen outlets suffer the same harms of producing original content, costing time and talent, and while having a significant portion of the benefit accruing to downstream AI companies?

If most of the benefit of producing original content accrues to the AI firms, won’t original content stop being produced?

If original content stops being produced, how will AI models get better in the future?
> I think there’s a huge assumption here that more LLM will lead to AGI.

I'm not sure you realize this, but that is literally what this article was written to explore!

I feel like you just autocompleted what you believe about large language models in this thread, rather than engaging with the article.
Engagement might look like "I hold the skeptic position because of X, Y, and Z, but I see that the other position has some really good, hard-to-answer points."

Instead, we just got the first thing that came to your mind talking about AI.

In fact, am I talking to a person?
> What if "instinct" is also just (pretrained) model weight?

Sure - then it will take the same amount of energy to train as our reptilian and higher brains took. That means trillions of real life experiences over millions of years.
The internet did change things dramatically, but the change wasn't as dramatic as industrialization. And that one matured over two centuries.
Still is in many countries with excellent diplomatic relations with the Western World:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-kafala-system
How do our base reptilian brains reason? We don't know the specifics, but unless it's magic, then it's determined by some kind of logic. I doubt that logic is so unique that it can't eventually be reproduced in computers.
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I posted last week on here but I'm not seeing the post. I'm a recruiter but am looking to see if I can network through HackerNews since its such a great community and I could use some guidance to whoever is willing to help. (making my own LLC) Is that something that's acceptable?
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That almost never happens if you don’t do anything superspecial such as building huge contraptions.