skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t that
> Overall, current LLMs remind me of those bottom-feeder websites that do no original research--those sites that just find an article they like, lazily rewrite it, introduce a few errors, then maybe paste some baloney "sources" (which always seems to disinclude the actual original source). That mode of operation tends to be technically legal, but it's parasitic and lazy and doesn't add much value to the world.

Another way of looking at this is that bottom-feeder websites do work that could easily be done by an LLM. I've noticed a high correlation between "could be AI" and "is definitely a trashy click bait news source" (before LLMs were even a thing).

To be clear, if your writing could be replaced by an LLM today, you probably aren't a very good writer. And...I doubt this technology will stop improving, so I wouldn't make the mistake of thinking that 2023 will be a high point for LLMs and they aren't much better in 2033 (or whatever replaces them).
do they make one for Argentine/Porteño roaches?
> Temporarily?

The post starting this thread seems very confused about how long a few thousand years might be when compared to the several hundred thousand year history of just H. sapiens.
Copyright in its current form needs to die. It doesn't protect the artist, it protects their publishers and those who benefit from the sweat of their brow after the artist is dead. Protect works for 7 years renewable for 7 and no more.
JSON mode and function-calling with a JSON schema in the OpenAI API.
Does the UAE actually want Gaza? It seems like a country a bit closer would be better off taking control even if UAE wants it. However, it is important to note that none of the neighbors want the Palestinians (Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan). They may want the land though?
Researchers have gotten large chunks of verbatim text. Suggesting it’s only infringing if the entire work is reproduced is legally incorrect and therefore irrelevant.

https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-revealed-personal-data-...
Begins @ 27:21

In addition contents of the presentation, in terms of timeline...

2018 (September): First undocumented MMIO-present CPU launched, Apple A12 Bionic SOC.

2021 (December): Early exploit chain infrastructure backuprabbit.com created 2021-12-15T18:33:19Z, cloudsponcer.com created 2021-12-17T16:33:50Z.

2022 (April): Later exploit chain infrastructure snoweeanalytics.com created 2022-04-20T15:09:17Z suggesting exploit weaponized by this date.

2023 (December): Approximate date of capture (working back from "half year" quoted analysis period + mid-2023 Apple reports.

The presenters also state that signs within the code reportedly suggested the origin APT group has used the same attack codebase for "10 years" (ie. since ~2013) and also uses it to attack MacOS laptops (with antivirus circumvention). The presenters note that the very "backdoor-like" signed debug functionality may have been included in the chips without Apple's knowledge, eg. by the GPU developer.

So... in less than 3.5 years since the first vulnerable chip hit the market, a series of undocumented debug MMIOs in the Apple CoreSight GPU requiring knowledge of a lengthy secret were successfully weaponized and exploited by an established APT group with a 10+ year history. Kaspersky are "not speculating" but IMHO this is unlikely to be anything but a major state actor.

Theory: I guess since Apple was handed ample evidence of ~40 self-doxxed APT-related AppleIDs, we can judge the identity using any follow-up national security type announcements from the US. If all is quiet it's probably the NSA.
I no longer have an Acorn Electron, but using ElkJS (https://elkjs.azurewebsites.net/) I did:

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Haven't read this particular book but the Tibetans definitely package it as a preparatory and post-death service.

Now that would be a doable product. Not sure about the karmic implications tho.
Did something illegal
> Microsoft is training an AI to help get nuclear reactors approved

Microsoft and user safety never went hand in hand.
That’s a broad area. I work in astrodynamic simulations, and don’t know anyone doing much work in Julia. Maybe a couple of grad students playing with it, but that’s it. 99% of the work is Python, Fortran, and C/C++.

Are there subdomains that use it a lot? I am not sure what the diffeq landscape is exactly although it sounds related to dynamical simulations?
I hated this post up until the last section, then it won me over at the end. None of the infinite canvas interfaces look like anything more than a pile to me. I see no structure at all. If I was forced to use an interface like this for anything crucial, I couldn’t function.

But the last section that shows the same information presented in different formats won me over. This is more of what I’d like to see. Let people who think spacially work spacially if that’s what works for them. Let the people that think however it is that I think work in whatever format the fits in their brain best. Embrace neurodiversity.
I wonder if this was at least a factor in Switzerland remaining neutral in both world wars. If a significant portion of your military age men are unfit for military duty due to goiters, that would certainly affect your ability to conduct a war.
Nothing particularly wrong with saying "outrageous" things if that's what you personally believe. People should be able to just speak their minds in good faith without shame. If others don't like those ideas, oh well. They're not invalidated by being "outrageous".

Discussion here is certainly a lot better than many other places on the internet that will just straight up ban you if you post ideas the moderators consider wrongthink. Moderation here has been pretty fair. I don't generally see people getting censored here. Sometimes discussions get out of hand and dang asks people to stop reducing the quality of the site. That's absolutely fine and they're actually quite nice about it.
> I don't know jack about hardware but it would seem obvious that when one designs a chip, you make sure it does not have 'unknown hardware registers' or unknown anything when you get it back from the manufacture.

well you are in trouble then. all of modern hardware have such hidden parts in them, and are most of the time referenced as "undocumented" instead of "unknown". I know this seems pedantic, but from a public eye, anything undocumented is unknown. what makes those special however, is those are not used at all by public software, thus truly unknown as one can only guess their use or even their mere existence.
What other private company languages are there? Swift is the best example I can think of, which matches Mojo's situation down to the head of the project.
I'd presumed that patents are presumed valid unless invalidated (which I think is a problem in itself)
Because they wouldn't have enough good quality training data then probably.
Good firearms, yes. Up there with Browning and Stoner...? I don't think so. What incredible design did he invent?
Both for marketable and fun skills: I've started working on learning Spring Boot, Microservices, Docker, and Kafka. I'm hoping to understand how to use these tools over the next year. I'm no stranger to distributed computing, I've just never used these tools before so I'm hoping I can learn how to combine these together with a personal project.
The problem is many patents are incomplete, they don't actually contain step by step recreation instructions and it's especially problematic in the sciences fields.

The other issue is there are patents on ideas that aren't novel. There was some tightening of the rules such as the Alice software ruling but still lots of holes.

Case in point personally, our competitor patented the "idea" of putting a flexible PCB in a type of product. That's how bullshit it was and that was granted in 2020. Luckily we have prior art of a flexible PCB in a product of ours from 17years ago if they decide to ever start shit.
what a potential!
Many new parents know how invigorating a 10 second nap can be.
When I lived in the Bay Area I used to use a driving service to go to the airport and the owner had an early Model S. We had several conversations about how many hundreds of thousands of miles he already had on it and how well it was holding up. He said that he wouldn’t be surprised if it lasted a million miles. Obviously the battery was degrading over time but the powertrain was so much more reliable than an ICE.
> I do think they should quickly course correct at this point and accept the fact that they clearly owe something to the creators of content they are consuming.

Eventually these LLMs are going to be put in mechanical bodies with the ability to interact with the world and learn (update their weights) in realtime. Consider how absurd your perspective would be then, when it'd be illegal for this embodied LLM to read any copyrighted text, be it a book or a web page, without special permission from the copyright holder, while humans face no such restriction.
LLMs are not a fad for many things especially programming. It improves my productivity at least by 100%. It’s also useful to understand specific and hard to Google questions or parsing docs quickly. I think it’s going to fizzle out for creative content though at least until these companies stop “aligning” it so much. Hard to be funny when you can’t even offend a single molecule.
The model of GPT-4 those researchers had was not the same that’s available to the public. It’s assumed it was far more capable before alignment training (or whatever it’s called).
It's not just a social formality. A lot of people buy into it. It's wierd. It's a sort of lie told to ourselves. If a person lies to themselves basically it means that part of them believes in the lie, and another part of them knows the truth.

Everyone at least has one lie they tell themselves so you can sort of relate. Everyone and I mean everyone is aware of the social formality you're talking about. There's literally no need to spell it out because you're just regurgitating truths that are obvious and self evident. The only time you would need to spell it out is when you encounter a poor soul who lies to himself. That's why my post was sarcastic because it's so obviously not true. Rich people do not actually respect poor people... it's absurd. Anyway as for lying to one self... This is exactly what wolverine is doing.

There's no winning here. That person will continuously construct a scaffold of rational points to support his beliefs because not doing so results in some sort of admission he can't directly face. But even so... an aspect of him knows you're telling the actual truth.
Show HN: I made a GPT to reflect on your past year and the year ahead
For many years, my wife and I would end the year by filling out a YearCompass (yearcompass.com) booklet.

The booklet is a fantastic resource with thought-provoking activities and questions that helped us start each year with intention. Oh, and it's free!

This year, being new parents, we haven't been able to prioritize it.

So, I thought I'd create a GPT to make it easier to have that reflection through a simple conversational interface.

Comments/feedback are welcome!

If people find it useful, I'll build it into an app.
I recommend taking a look at Autotools—if anything for historical context. It quickly becomes apparent that many features in CMake (and likely meson—no experience there myself)—are derived from some functionality in Autotools. It also helps one appreciate the package maintainers role in the software development lifecycle, as many of the GNU coding standards have influenced software packaging/distribution—be it RPM, Deb, Pacman, etc.

While there is certainly value in using CMake (as so many projects have chosen it as their build system)—it also becomes a sort of cautionary tale whence projects try to reinvent the wheel to fix some deficiency, only to build a complex system with it's own set of deficiencies. Obviously, part of this is due to the fact that commercial entities (cough Microsoft) deviated from any sort of standards-based approach to building software.

But for every build-configuration system, Autotools seems to be the only one which dictates that a developer machine merely have POSIX tools installed. Nowadays, that's all the big players, considering that MSYS2 on Windows is better than ever. And it supports many languages to boot: C/C++, Objective C/C++, Go, Fortran, Erlang.
I think open source came first, though it wasn't thought of as such at the time. Sharing the source was just what some folks did. A company locking down the source to a printer was one if the reasons Stallmann decided to make the GPL.

"I noticed this because I had the good fortune in
the 1970's to be part of a community of programmers who shared software.
Now, this community could trace its ancestry essentially back to the
beginning of computing."

[...]

"And then I heard that somebody at Carnegie Mellon University had a copy
of that software [for the broken printer]. So I was visiting there later, so I went to his
office and I said, "Hi, I'm from MIT. Could I have a copy of the printer
source code?" And he said "No, I promised not to give you a
copy." [Laughter] I was stunned. I was so -- I was angry, and I had no
idea how I could do justice to it. All I could think of was to turn
around on my heel and walk out of his room. Maybe I slammed the door.
[Laughter] And I thought about it later on, because I realized that I was
seeing not just an isolated jerk, but a social phenomenon that was
important and affected a lot of people."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt
It's also non-deterministic if you drop the temperature to zero. The only way to get deterministic responses is to lock the seed argument to a fixed value.
Ok, so a lot you've written but it comes down to this. What law did he break?

Neither MIT nor JSTOR raised issue with what Schwartz did. JSTOR even went out of their way to tell the FBI they did not want him prosecuted.

Remember, again, with what he was charged. Wiretapping and intent to distribute. He wasn't charged with trespassing, breaking and entering, or anything else. Wiretapping and intent to distribute.

> His actions started to affect all users of JSTOR at MIT. The rate of outflow caused JSTOR to suffer performance, so JSTOR disabled all of MIT access.

And this is where you are confusing a "crime" with "misuse of a system". MIT and JSTOR were in their rights to cut access. That does not mean that what Schwartz did was illegal. Similar to how if a business owner tells you "you need to leave now" you aren't committing a crime because they asked you to leave. That doesn't happen until you are trespassed.

> Go ahead and demonstrate some wholesale distribution - pick an author and reproduce a few works, for example. I'll wait.

You violate copyright by transforming. And fortunately, it's really simple to show that chat GPT will violate and simply emit byte for byte chunks of copyrighted material.

You can, for example, ask it to implement Java's Array list and get several verbatim parts of the JDKs source code echoed back at you.

> How many could I get from what Schwartz downloaded?

0, because he didn't distribute.
btw, there has been a pretty nice effort of reimplementing the tidyverse in julia with https://github.com/TidierOrg/Tidier.jl and it seems to be quite nice to work with, if you were missing that from R at least
Sounds like they are on the wrong medication. That’s a trend now to put adhd patients on personality changing anti depressants, lately because of the difficulties and cost of prescribing stimulants. Kaiser tried to push this on me and I noped tf out after reading the common side effects.
Gay should be fired. Meanwhile: almost every comment you make on HN is a social science argument of one sort or the other. You're a social science nerd. It's fine if you think social science at Harvard is being done badly; that's a colorable argument. But I don't think you of all people can put yourself above the whole endeavor of social science.
They have the budget to do both easily.

Like how the NRO used to design and launch satellites that cost more than aircraft carriers but are now working closely with private companies like Maxar to find more economical solutions.

https://www.maxar.com/press-releases/nro-awards-maxar-a-10-y...
Sorry for the incorrect assumption, and thanks for replying. I use email a ton also, in a lot of different contexts, but I've never needed to match up email addresses with contact cards, for whatever reason. I could see this becoming more common now that Apple is making it easy to share selected info with a nearby phone. I suppose I'd share my email address under those circumstances, even though I wouldn't normally spell it out for sharing with someone.
Yes and OpenAI sells its copies as a subscription, so that’s at least copyright infringement if not theft.
The two part “Why’d I take speed for twenty years?” episode of Search Engine by PJ Vogt

Part 1: https://overcast.fm/+BBVQRWO5g8

Part 2: https://overcast.fm/+BBVQSkynRM
The funny thing is that "no porting" is often a better experience than "half-assed porting."

Which is to say, if all you do is wrap some late-90s/early-2000s never-been-mobile-optimized .html in Cordova — then when you open the app, you just get a regular webview, that shows you the same old webpage. It probably starts out too small, because it was laid out for PCs; but you can still pinch-to-zoom, rotate to change the viewport, or whatever else you do to regular websites on a mobile web browser. By default, all those web-supporting browser features are there, in every webview.

Or, to put that another way: by default, Cordova's webview is just showing a webpage using the same logic a browser does; and by default, browsers show webpages as webpages, rather than as pseudo-apps.

It's only when someone has started down the mobile optimization journey, and starts embedding meta viewport user-scalable=no et al, that you start to see these wrapped apps suffering from all the UX jank you're talking about.

If you've got an HTML4 webpage, you don't need to test it specifically wrapped in Cordova, to know what it will look like when Cordova attempts to render that HTML4 webpage. It'll look like it looks — and work like it works — when a web browser on the same OS loads that webpage. And you can test that just by loading the same webpage in one of those browsers (or through one of the many SaaS sites that do so by proxy.) Or even forego testing entirely, if you know that people were already successfully using that HTML4 webpage from the browsers on their phones. A "raw" port won't change anything about that experience.

If you do decide to start down the road of trying to mobile-optimize the webpage, though — then yeah, you're gonna see a lot of jank, and will want some heavyweight local simulators to debug that jank.
I’ve really been enjoying the “Safety Third” podcasts from William Osman and co - not particularly informational but very entertaining, especially given most of the guys are from a science and engineering background.

Darknet Diaries is also one I recommend - Jack is a great host and storyteller.
Unless the new tenants brought a new colony with them. It's pretty common for people to have eggs inside their electronics and furniture when they move.
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Taser maker Axon has a moving backstory. It's mostly a myth
Algorithms alone don’t qualify as transformative, which is why making an MP3 doesn’t count as a new work.

Copyright is insidious because people tried all sorts of ways to get around it in the past. You can’t for example replace all the words in an article with synonyms and get a completely new work. Thus, asking ChatGPT to summarize an article is problematic because the output is based on the original work irrespective of what’s happening internally.
It somewhat encourages companies to act this way by making it the safest path, but it absolutely does not force them to. Service providers are not required to act on invalid dmca requests.

Consider wikipedia which regularly rejects most [1] of the dmca notices it gets because it cares enough to actually read them and ignore the ones that are bullshit.

[1] according to https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/transparency/2023-1/dm... in a 6 month period they got 29 dmca requests and ignored 27 of them.
This is the same reason I can't watch Dateline, where telling the story linearly and with just the facts would actually take about 3 minutes.
> leads Kaspersky [..] to the [..] rational conclusion: that Apple cooperated with the NSA on this exploit

doesn't the article states precisely otherwise? that while the FSB accuses Apple of cooperation, Kaspersky does not have any reason to believe so, especially since it does not look like any known state actor.
Legend has it that he did all the early test firing with his left hand so that if there were a catastrophic failure he could still draft the next version with his right.
Or they have assets working at Apple... or they hired an ex-Apple employee... etc.

That's the problem with this sort of security through obscurity; it's only secure as long as the people who know about it can keep it secret.
> Two different things.

you don't get to tell people what they meant. That's why your responses are a "well akshually...".

> Emphasis added. Apparently cable has ads now, who knew.

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.
> chemistry is all that matters to me

This. I can't listen to audio only podcasts with boring hosts.
Actually lockdown is better. It leaves E2E encryption alone, but restricts attachment types, which should be enough to block the initial exploit in the chain.

Disabling iMessage would fall back to SMS, allowing messages to be snooped / modified in transit.

Hopefully they’ll also have a way to disable RCS, since it allows attackers to modify messages, and also has a larger implementation attack surface than SMS.
What's the Point of Bonds in a Portfolio?
He made the polymer pistol work and created an entire industry. Polymer pistols won, everyone makes them now.

Polymer not only saves weight and cost, but also provides deformity under the stress of firing which absorbs some energy rather than sending it through your wrist.

Glock is now a platform - with patent expiration, Glock is now like 1911 with many manufacturers supporting interchange with Glock parts.

Even with many "pretty" pistols in my collection like Staccatos...I still trust the Glock 43 as my EDC and it has been flawless even with junk discount ball ammo.

its not a contest...Browning and Stoner are legends too
I've been making the same joke.

I also laughed a lot when some article described someone (Fetterman?) commenting "in a post on X"
I don't know what to tell you. New antibiotics are discovered pretty often. They aren't brought to market, but they certainly are discovered. This headline is just wrong.
The Darknet Diaries episode "Zero Day Brokers" goes into this. Apparently Argentina hosts a lot of outsourced exploit development. Here's the transcript: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/98/
Oh, that's good to know. Throttles are commonly by-wire, but I must have misinterpreted the move away from hydraulic to electric steering assist as moving from mechanical to signals. Thank you for the correction.
What's wrong with JS/TS or Lua as a fast dynamic language?