skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha it’s a new one being accused of being a shill! It’s so obvious, I’m in the pocket of Big chem, Big Open Source AI, and Big Tabletop! Stable Diffusion and Zöecon (makers of Gentrol) are gonna send those checks any day now…
The verbatim responses come as part of "Browse with Bing" not the model actually verbatim repeating articles from training data. This seems pretty different and something actually addressable.

> the suit showed that Browse With Bing, a Microsoft search feature powered by ChatGPT, reproduced almost verbatim results from Wirecutter, The Times’s product review site. The text results from Bing, however, did not link to the Wirecutter article, and they stripped away the referral links in the text that Wirecutter uses to generate commissions from sales based on its recommendations.
Of course NVH aren't "significant faults" to a firm who specializes in safety feature auditing.

NVH are most assuredly THE most significant faults to sales operations analysts and finance auditors who see lack of return buyers, or literal returns of the vehicles.

Just because a manufacturer passed safety audits that KEEP ME ALIVE does not mean they automatically get to keep my 60 grand for doing so at the absolute bare minimum.
For German speakers there's also this 'Geschichten aus der Geschichte' Podcast episode on the matter which does a fairly good job telling the story IMO.
https://www.geschichte.fm/archiv/gag368/
Advent of Technical Writing (Complete)
Glad you got yours taken care of! They were definitely concerned about the tear, they're apparently common but when asymptomatic they're hardly noted (or even noticed if in the peripheral retinal areas).

The laser is definitely uncomfortable, hard to say if it's even pain when your ocular globe is injected with so much anesthetic. Brain freeze, but extremely acute and right behind your eyeball might be accurate. During one of the prophylactic treatments he did some 'spot welds' near my optic nerve. I couldn't tell if I was even looking at his ear like he told me to, every burst of green triggered my reflexes. It was impossible to keep my other eye open. At least the discomfort is so temporary, I forget about it until someone asks if it was painful.
Hey! Whaddaya know! https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609
I question the ability of the market to measure quality. Note I'm not talking about 'commercially successful', but enduring, historic/academic quality. Even though they made bazillions, will students in the high schools of 2523 be reading through scripts of Friends and Breaking Bad the way we slogged through King Lear and Othello?

What makes it to market is already a constrained selection. It has to make it through a bunch of commercial filters (investors and publishers who'd rather do a predictably bankable franchise product over a new whole-cloth one), and then you have the issue of only hearing from those who are financially and physically stable enough to create cultural works in the first place. How many potential writers can't start their novel because they're working three jobs, or hiding for their lives in Gaza?

Copyright itself also produces a huge filter by discouraging iterative creativity. It silences people whose talent is building on or expanding existing work. See the guy who is being ordered by the courts to destroy his LOTR derivative product. Perhaps there's a chance to make better Tolkein than Tolkein himself, but we won't know for another 50 years or so.

I'd rather we tell artists "go crazy, you're guaranteed 70k per year, whether you make the next Iron Man, or something so avant-garde only six people actually get it, and four of them are just claiming they do to fit in." We'll at least get more diverse products, and let history decide what's meritorious.
Ask HN: Why does Apple login redirect to secureX.store.apple
When I try to login apple store it redirects me to an address like secure4.store.apple.com. So, I understand there is a dns based loadbalancer but what I don’t understand is, why the address name changes? They could put the addresses behind the same host name. I understand the data locality and storing the data in certain regions but it doesn’t feel like this is the case here. What’s going on?
I drive a mercedes diesel van whose engine is likely to last 1M miles. The problem is that engineering the rest of a vehicle to last even half that is incredibly challenging. Suspension systems, steering, braking, even just body panel fit over 500k miles are all subject to incredible demands. At this point, I feel that the 1M target is a bit silly. Given technological change (often but not always progress), a 20 year target seems like a sensible compromise.
State actor attacks on another state actor. Incredible sophisticated and just goes to show you that it basically can’t be defended against
I'd like to learn about these ideal ways. The most usual way to share a contact I know of, other than typing its details by hand, is by forwarding the contact through WhatsApp, and then it still wouldn't have the email because it whoever originally created the contact typed the details by hand (and included only the name and phone number).
And a lot of people who’s work is stolen.
My first thought when Bircher's political, and other, actiobs where mentioned in the article, was: Why am I not surprised?
Very nice story. Love this stories of scientific progress. Thank you.

And after reading it whole I must say. Fuck you Bircher.
Has the narrative moved on? The historian and blogger Bret Devereaux presents a view on a 2022 blog post that seems to back up what the Deepmind CEO is saying.

> The specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact.

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
I had the same experience in a big building. I basically rendered my own kitchen unsafe for human food preparation with all the poisons I tried, but still it hardly made a dent because there was a near infinite population of german cockroaches waiting to recolonize my unit from the walls and surrounding units.
let's see: on the one hand, a sticky trap I can put somewhere out of sight, and gives visible evidence of its effectiveness.

On the other hand, a bunch of little insects that fly around and catch the other little insects.

Tough choice.
This appears to be exploration, to see if we can find new useful ways to display and interact with information.

There have been many, many experiments in the past. Design features that work (such as listy designs, tabular designs, 2D designs, non-overlapping designs, etc etc) have stuck around. By "work", I mean that they are useful, practical, easy to understand, easy to implement, non-patented, etc etc.

If we stop experimenting, then we will stop finding new useful design features and UI design will stagnate.

Yes, current UI design is "good enough." But where's the fun in that? Whatever you believe the purpose of life is, experimenting and furthering humanity's knowledge is typically considered a good thing.

I think that this particular experiment is useful, and that there is potential here for more efficient note-taking and knowledge sorting (which could, in the future, potentially benefit everyone). Imagine an author writing plot point ideas into an infinite canvas, then assembling them on the fly. And then they bring those points into a second canvas, where they group them by character. Then they can freely move the plot points between characters, or leave them to the side, not assigned to any character but there, on the "plot points by character" canvas, ready to be dragged on. But then if they're looking at the plot points on the "plot points by time" canvas, and they set a plot point's character to "X", then it will automatically move that plot point into the region of character "X" on the "plot points by character" canvas.

That's just one example. I can imagine more, such as a materials researcher trying to design an industrial process. They could be working through potential chemical products, trying to decide which to use at a particular point of the process. This freeform canvas would let them keep a card for each potential choice right next to the place in the process that it would be used. That proximity of information could be useful.

I've found that Blueprints (a 2D scripting language) in Unreal Engine get really messy, and you're constantly neatening your programs. This particular experiment, with its anti-overlap and automatic grouping features, might lead to good changes in Blueprints in UE that make them neater by nature.
Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wage increase
That will make zero difference to site performance. If I didn't have uBlock running, half the sites on the Internet have 100MB+ payloads now. You could save more than those 50 compressed bytes of text by just optimizing one image on your site :)

I beat myself up about performance issues like that all the time and have to catch myself to go do something more useful instead.
Guess people can visit Canada or Mexico weekly
SBF on Odd Lots describing yield farming [1]. For context, this was before the FTX meltdown or any allegations about Alameda using FTX customer funds. Was honestly stunning to hear someone unintentionally explaining their business as a ponzi scheme.

[1] - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sam-bankman-fried-and-...
I extremely know nothing about this field. Would a naive approach would to have a coordinated “crop rotation” type tactic where all hospitals switched to a primary antibiotic every C years/months do anything?
We already have blood diamonds[1], now we'll have blood chips as well. I will keep buying AMD.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond
> Insurers will pay for many non-medical allied health services including registered dieticians (RD) in cases where those meet coverage rules based on scientific evidence.

Saying they will pay out in their brochure and actually paying out are two very different things. Anyone who has spent any time trying to get reimbursed for medical expenses knows the maze of dark patterns that insurance companies will use to avoid paying out. They wear you down with broken websites and “lost” form submissions until you give up. Medical insurance companies don’t make money by providing healthcare. They make money by collecting premiums and not providing healthcare. And actual scientific evidence has very little effect on what’s covered easily and what gets the runaround.
> likely because not focusing on photorealism allows for more freedom with the artwork itself.

How does constraining color and design schemes allow for more art freedom? There are much fewer options in art design for game developers on a hardware-constrained platform like the Switch as against PC or the mainstream consoles. You can make minimalist and cartoonish games on them as well, if you wish.
Thank you for this write up.
RRB-trees will give you an immutable data structure with pretty darn ok random access and insertion, and free undo/redo.

Not only that, multiple cursors is simple.
I'm hoping you're not basically saying the plan is to pull everyone back into an even smaller open-office where you play musical chairs?
There’s opportunity cost of what worse might be on the radar.

Sunk time isn’t always invaluable.
This could be it, but it could also be the case that a streamlined repair pipeline (including parts and labor) simply isn't in place for the vehicle yet. Hyundai/Kia isn't exactly the most reliable/responsible car marker (just ask the Kia Boyz).
Full midday sunlight is about 100,000 lux. Recommended illumination levels for office buildings are 300-500 lux. Domestic rooms will often be lit at less than 100 lux.

My workbench is illuminated to 10,000 lux, which compares to common daylight conditions. Just lighting that small area requires 120 watts of high-efficiency LEDs. Lighting the whole room to that level would require nearly two kilowatts of LEDs. Most "super strong indoor lighting" is in fact very dim compared to sunlight. We don't realise it, because our visual system is incredibly adaptable to changing illumination conditions.
Human and pets have soft tissue that don’t seem to be bothered by it. I meant inhaling a large amount of fine powder of any type is a problem. Boric acid seems to be pretty heavy that they’re not airborne easily.

Boric acid was used in detergent, pool cleaning, eye wash, mouth rinse, toothpaste, skin treatment, and some food preparation.
Yes; metalworking is readily detectable through slag and furnace remains.
According to TA, most cases of myopia are caused by being inside all day. There might be a genetic component, but it doesn't seem to be that relevant (yet).
It doesn't appear that's the kind of cockroach they have in NYC. But it was the kind we used to have in Atlanta.

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

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach
Freakonomics is so consistently good. Dubner is one of the best interviewers out there. Great follow-up questions that force the guest to elaborate on or defend their positions. So many other interviewers in the business/econ/investing space just lob softballs.
A human can't credit the source of each element of everything they've learnt. AI's can't either, and for the same reason.

The knowledge gets distorted, blended, and reinterpreted a million ways by the time it's given as output.

And the metadata (metaknowledge?) would be larger than the knowledge itself. The AI learnt every single concept it knows by reading online; including the structure of grammar, rules of logic, the meaning of words, how they relate to one another. You simply couldn't cite it all.
“I can put a battery in my Leaf from a newer vehicle … and increase range to a couple hundred miles“

I think you’ll find putting a battery from a newer LEAF generation is not going to be trivial or cheap. Cars invented planned obsolescence, computers have nothing on them, so there’s likely to be non-trivial differences between batteries.
That's fine. Solve it a different way.

OpenAI doesn't just get to steal work and then say "sorry, not possible" and shrug it off.

The NYTimes should be suing.
For a monkey it's impossible to design... pretty much anything beside a few simple tools. So, no. A monkey cannot design a bow, a loom, a tractor, a computer, or an AI of any kind.

We had designed many tools that beat us in various aspects. This is an invalid analogy.
That's fascinating considering the TLDs for places like East Germany and Yugoslavia were dissolved.
Interactive AI to break onto the scene in 2024
My favorite translation of the Book of the Dead is Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis. Not a literal translation but a reinterpretation of the original text Truly beautiful and full of spirit.
They are really successful with that, aren't they? But by mentioning The Long March through the institutions, OP hinted at the liberal, left intellectual elite.
Trapped in truck, Indiana man is rescued after 6 days surviving on rainwater
Interesting confounding factor. That says average price of ground beef without specifying the %. As a kid I do not recall often seeing 95%+ lean ground beef, whereas today that's essentially all I buy. The price span can be easily be double... Doesnt explain the full 5x but interesting to wonder if the data is cognizant/adjusted of that detail?
You keep saying "airgapped", and I don't think you understand what that means or what it is for. Airgapping is putting a machine on a physically isolated network to ensure data integrity/security against external network access. None of the failure modes for LLMs that you've described would have anything to do with that. Moreover, a reddit bot, by definition, cannot be airgapped.

Also, your "airgapped machine" (locally-run LLM) can refuse requests just as easily as GPT can; it's all about the system prompt you give it, which you can choose with the API.

On that note, the product in your screenshot is ChatGPT (a gpt3.5/4 api interface), NOT the GPT3.5/4 API itself, which is what you would be using. The "usage limit" pictured only applies to Chatgpt, the API is pay-per-use. You can try it out here: https://platform.openai.com/playground
Infinite canvases like Figma give me infinite anxiety. There's no way to easily and sensibly hyperlink to specific areas/contexts within the canvas, and it's really difficult to find things unless you know exactly where to look.

It's like the manifestation of a cluttered desk of papers in the digital world - exactly what we tried to avoid when building new digital interfaces for so many decades.

Edit: there is a way to hyperlink directly to sections in Figma (see comments below), but I've never been a recipient of them :lol:
Copyright is not about ideas, style, etc. but about the concrete shape and form of content. Patents and trademarks are for the rest. But this is a copyright centric case.

A lawsuit that proves verbatim copies, might have a point. But then there is the notion of fair use, which allows hip hop artists to sample copyrighted material, allows journalists to cite copyrighted literature and other works, and so on. There are a lot of existing rulings on this. Legally, it's a bit of a dog's breakfast where fair use stops and infringement begins. Upfront, the NYT's case looks very weak.

A lot of art and science is inherently derivative and inspired by earlier work. So is art. AI insights aren't really any different. That's why fair use exists. Society wouldn't be able to function without it. Fair remuneration extents only to the exact form and shape you published in for a limited amount of time and not much else. Publishing page and page of NYT content would be a clear infringement. But a citation here and there, or a bit of summary, paraphrasing, etc. not so much.

The ultimate outcome of this is simply models that exclude any NYT content. I think they are overestimating the impact that would have. IMHO it would barely register if their content were to be excluded.
A great episode, but not released in 2023
That DARPA electrolyte fluid replacement idea the other day really seems like the best way forward for large batteries, hope they can make it work, well actually they did make it work I guess the hope it to make it cheap.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38756441
While I think the verbatim text strengthens NYTimes argument, I think people are focusing on that too strongly, the idea being that if OpenAI could just "fix" that, then they'd be in the clear.

Search for "four factors of fair use", e.g. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/, which courts use to decide if a derived work is fair use. I think OpenAI will get killed in that fourth factor, "the effect of the use upon the potential market", which is what this case is really about. If the use substantially negatively affects the market for the original work, which I think it's easy to argue that it does, that is a huge factor against awarding a fair use exemption to OpenAI.
Great read, but I'm wondering why this began in the 1920's? Or was it always an issue for human beings living in Switzerland?
Emmitropization is a fact. Peripheral over focus causing myopia is well documented and peripheral defocus is also well studied. Peripheral defocus lenses and low dose atropine are well studied. The mechanism is understood, and proved by multiple different ways to interfere with the mechanism.

Optometrists are clothing salespeople. Only some ophthalmologists even know about atropine as an option.
Stating with problems actually belonging to B2B customers that they have tried and failed to solve and are willing to pay for good a long way instead of being a solution in search of a problem.

Being a solution in search of a problem is being everything on one hypothesis of what you built being correct instead of problem based thinking that would line up multiple hypotheses to then select one to start with.

Startups are a learning engine and most don’t get setup to learn and iterate based on customer feedback.
Possibly unrelated, but a specific frequency of infrared light has been found to have a protective and possibly even regenerative effect on aging eyes.

"Upon transcranial delivery, NIR light has been shown to significantly increase cytochrome oxidase and superoxide dismutase activities which suggests its role in inducing metabolic and antioxidant beneficial effects. Furthermore, NIR light may also boost cerebral blood flow and cognitive functions in humans without adverse effects. In this review, we highlight the value of NIR therapy as a novel paradigm for treatment of visual and neurological conditions, and provide scientific evidence to support the use of NIR therapy with emphasis on molecular and cellular mechanisms in eye diseases." [1]

NIR = near infrared light, 670 nm wavelength. This wavelength is present in sunlight, but not found in basically any indoor lighting with the possible exception of full spectrum LEDs and IR bulbs. Another study found improvement from NIR exposure, but only from exposure in the morning (for three minutes, once a week, at 670nm wavelength), and only in individuals older than 38. The study proposes that the effects they found from NIR exposure is due to improved mitochondrial function in the retina. [2]

The human retina ages faster than other organs, with a 70% decline in functional ATP production by mitochondria over a lifetime. The aging mitochondria, in addition to not producing as much ATP, also spit out junk amino acids that can cause chronic inflammation in the area (and signal cell death where none is called for?). As an aside, improved mitochondrial function is also proposed to be responsible for the significant health benefits of fasting and prolonged calorie restriction.

Another study also theorizes this mechanism:

"Our data suggest, 670 nm light can significantly improve aged retinal function, perhaps by providing additional adenosine triphosphate production for photoreceptor ion pumps or reduced aged inflammation." [3]

More study is clearly called for the better understand what is going on here and why. It seems like it could potentially have implications for age-related degeneration throughout the entire body, not just in the retina.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7738953/\\
[2] https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/75/9/e49/...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5364001/
Pets have soft tissue and not bothered by it. It’s a fine powder causing sanding problem for the thin exoskeleton hard shell of the insect. It might cause scratching on the nails or claws of pets but they are so thick.

Edit: research suggests that consuming a large quantity of boric acid causes problems for pets or small animals.
More to the point, Israel can't indiscriminately kill tens of thousands of civilians (including Israeli civilians) and torture civilian hostages while claiming they care about civilian lives, and still remain plausible to the world.

Indeed, this hypocrisy is even more important to point out. Do you believe Israeli civilians bear collective guilt for Israel's ongoing war crimes, like you believe Palestinian civilians do?
This appears to discuss it a bit more. Not certain if it's more helpful than the comment (still going through it), but it does cover it more in detail.

https://risingentropy.com/the-arithmetic-hierarchy-and-compu...
I frankly don't understand why photorealism is a goal for almost _any_ game project.

Look outside games for a moment, at the "Spider-verse" movies. Universally lauded for their splashy, comic-book style animation. Imagine those movies if the CGI was photorealistic… or if they were just straight-up filmed!

Fantasy and fantastical stories benefit from artistic flair. Even a game like Call of Duty, IMO, would benefit from some cel-shading and a more rotoscoped look. (I'm probably the only person who was disappointed to see that the next GTA game looks more like reality than GTA box art, which always should have been their stylistic lighthouse.)