skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally do not engage with people who call me a child nor spend much time on state propaganda designed to garner support for more censorship and war with other countries, but I will point out some glaring flaws in this narrative.

Try to create a fake Facebook account. If it is not shutdown in a day or two, try to gain a significant following. Then try posting information favorable to Russia or China and test how many people actually receive it through the Facebook filters. Now try scaling this by creating many fake accounts. I can tell you with high certainty, that you and even a small army of people will not be able to reach many people or have much persuasion influence.

The second problem here is attribution. The claim is that these were Russian or Chinese accounts. Any of us savy with the internet know how easy it is to proxy our traffic through foreign IP addresses and leave the right fingerprints. If Russian or Chinese state actors created these accounts, you would have no way of knowing who or where they are.

As we saw in the Hamilton 68 hoax, the accounts that were banned were mostly Americans with dissident views rather than Russians.
regardless of legal definitions, I posted responding to what seemed like a belief that the only way to "cross a high bar" is to do so in the moment.

I've given a clear example where that's not the case.
I assume because they haven’t been able to fully test them yet. Better to offer no app than a broken one.
Even for basic service running, complex dependencies are so much more manageable in systemd.

I'm glad systemd "won"; it's much more maintainable IMO than shell scripts written once and forgotten about (until they break).
A turbine is a huge magnet that turns right? I think it’s heavy. But maybe a spinning thing could transfer the rotational energy down the line and the turbine can be ground based. I’m sure these people have discussed all of this
Yes, exactly.

The challenge - alluded to in the article - is that having a functional military requires a domestic manufacturing base and machine tool industry. The U.S. generally tries to keep its arms manufacturing in-house, for obvious national security reasons. But even if you've kept the existing defense contractors alive, you lose out on the ability to repurpose the country's civilian manufacturing base if it doesn't exist. This was pretty critical in WW2: General Motors made more TBM Avengers than Grumman, Chrysler made more tanks than all German manufacturers combined, Kaiser made Liberty Ships by the hundreds. Without the ability to quickly tool up, you'll end up defeated in any war of attrition.

There's a pretty significant risk that we'll find out that the U.S. is a paper tiger if it comes to any sort of prolonged war with a near-peer power.
I've heard they even preserve a whole group of islands next to Argentina among other places.
There is no longer enough domestic infrastructure to fabricate complex equipment within a competitive budget.
OpenAI removes ban on military use of its AI tools
Looks like it retails for $30K, I won't be surprised if the $20K is the bulk price they are paying, so the numbers could be correct.

Though as a wise man [1] once said: "The more you buy, the more you save".

[1] Jensen Huang, NVidia's CEO, says this quite often at conferences, its become a meme at this point, one example https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/917681161391841280
Seems? That is exactly the point of an advertising company's product.
OTOH, the visual aspect is not the most important for Spotify (as long as the music plays) or Netflix (as long as you can play the video). None of these 3 services really need to be that immersive. On iPhones and iPads their website behaves well enough. I am sure the experience will be good enough for videos being played from a website.
> European seems to trigger something in some folks around here.

Nothing personal against you, but we see a fair number of self-described Europeans that are a lovely combination of naive, ignorant, and arrogant. It isn't fair to stereotype, but it takes ongoing effort not to.
Ah true, that would be a differentiator. I’d guess there’s not a large catalog of content that could work. But if they could, it would be a neat trick, and might allow them to charge a hefty premium to subscribers who can afford an AVP.
Are you now claiming that you know how to clone and grow people for spare organs?
Is that why people are dumping billions of dollars into AI development? Because they seem like they’ll be good at clicking upvote buttons?

Yeah, “just make everything on the internet attributable to a specific individual” is actually a pretty bad worst case IMO.
Surprised by that. I've used AWS DMS quite a lot to do both on-prem to AWS and AWS (MySQL) to AWS Postgres migrations and long term ongoing replication. Whilst there is some complexity/gotchas there it's always been more than up to the task. Takes a little bit of validation/testing to understand but it's very well documented too.

What sort of issues did you hit? In all honesty I'm not sure I've been more impressed by another AWS service.
I didn't give it much thought, tbh, just picked famous/controversial people. Goebbels was actually my first thought, but he didn't have internet.
Maths stuff. Pattern recognition and machine learning by Bishop.
>The problem is that replication studies aren't done hard enough.

>And by replication studies I mean "take this paper, try to replicate, write a paper on it".

You don't necessarily need to perform a straight-up "replication study" in order to do some useful sanity checking on published results. It can be done as part of another novel study that builds upon prior work. That's basically what happened with the fraudulent UCLA political persuasion study several years ago [1]. Some Berkeley researchers wanted to extend the ideas in that earlier published paper, reused similar methods under the assumption that the UCLA folks were correct, and couldn't get anything reasonable within the ballpark of what was published.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-u...
I agree on both points. Was just engaging with the legal aspect because that's what this thread was about. But now we've converged to the actual reason the author should probably care: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39049622

If you never want an exit then probably doesn't matter.
$7 billion is a lot, but not comparable to the GDPs of countries which are in the trillions (unless you compare to the smallest of the long-tail).

Meta's annual revenues alone exceed $100B+ at this point, assuming these purchases are staggered over 2-3 years, it is basically adding a 2-3% overhead to their expenses on an annualized basis.
now imagine you decided to do the maximum amount of harm to your fellow humans. You could do a lot of damage
Wow, is the one from OpenAI for real?
Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
Some of my passwords weren’t found on that tool but I was able to find them on but scatteredsecrets.com - I searched because I was getting 2fa emails from services with that password. Just keep in mind it isn’t a definitive list
> Artists must allow AI companies to harvest and learn from their output but people can't take OpenAI output for the same thing?

No one said that. Just that you're probably violating ToS and OpenAI might come after you. Is that fair in light of what OpenAI has done? Of course not. But if you're running a business, it's still worth considering.
If you have any familiarity with the kind of people seriously spreading these kinds of conspiracy theories, you'll know that framing "truth bombs" as jokes is par for the course because it creates plausible deniability.

If it really is a joke, what is the punchline? How does it work? What's being made fun of? That it would be outrageous for someone to say that seriously? As "red pillers" like to say: keep making jokes until the joke really lands (i.e. accustom people to hearing it by framing it as a crass joke so they'll no longer flinch when it is said in earnest).
And yet, European cities exist and are fine without wide streets.
Youtube Premium subscriber here. It's my favorite "streaming" service that I pay for. I'd cancel Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+, etc.. long before I ever canceled YT Premium.

With that being said, I don't think your comment is fair. The anti-Google sentiment is justified. They violate your privacy. Not wanting to support them by signing up for their paid service isn't being a "selfish freeloader".
I agree, this conviction is really about challenging corporatism and making them look bad. They really want "the peasants" to know their place and not peep through the nobles' windows. The state will almost always side with those with the most money, unless lawyers somehow shine the light of public opinion on it, then they might have a chance. This is why you do stuff anonymously.
Stop him, he's getting more knowledge!
> I think they saw Google's decision to defund Makani as a sign that kite power wasn't viable

I am very disillusioned with VCs in general.

They aren’t as clever as they make out to be - they have herd mentality, they allow themselves to be bamboozeled and sometimes they outright don’t do their homework and invest in Theranos

Really it’s more poker than science
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Exactly. The solution is simply to have had the system work differently in the past.
They found a bunch of potential molecules that bind to 5HT2A, that's cool.

But the really important conclusion of the paper, which I truly hope bears out, is that AF2 models are useful for finding binders to GPCRs.

GPCRs are one of the largest (if not largest) drug targets and work (including my own) showed that modelling protein dynamics using expensive simulations was likely to be necessary to make accurate predictions of GPCR binding molecules. If this paper is correct, AF2 is actually able to recapitulate much of the detail that we previously believed required expensive dynamics simulations, which is about the best possible news because it suggests that we can omit these costly calculations.

It's almost certain now that AF2 will win the Nobel Prize, as this represents some of the most exciting breakthroughs in the past few decades.
I see. You weren't saying the size was exaggerated. You were saying that the unusable land was being exaggeratedly described as "barren nuclear wasteland". It's unusable land, so it is nuclear wasteland, but it isn't barren AFAIK.
Any RSA scheme must pad messages, otherwise you can leak huge amounts of information.

A high level approximation of what I vaguely recall from back when I worked on crypto (non scam money version) you get stuff along the lines of ((p^m1 mod N) * (p^m2 mod N)) mod N being the same as (p^(m1+m2) mod N). The padding also acts as something of a nonce, and prevents you from inferring the length of the message itself (e.g. you want 'no', 'yes', 'of course I still love you despite you losing all our money investing in beanie babies' to be the same length).

Of course all of this seems more relevant for protocols that are optimized to perform small data transfers in the key exchange itself due to the monumentally giant key exchanges RSA needs to achieve the same security as ECC (seriously people just use ECC), but I'm sure some cryptographers who understand math better than I ever will can explain why these problems also apply even if all you're doing is an exchange of truly random AES keys.
Damn. Gonna really boost Apple Music and Apple TV+ then over time if Apple Vision Pro works out. Already both great products. Especially with the more recent improvements made to Apple Music.
The difference is simply a function of smarter leadership and experience.

Of course nobody, today, would act exactly like MS did - that would make it trivial for people to see their game. Instead, Apple gives you something to show they're trying, "honest, guv" - but in ebbs and flows, only when pushed, and slower than everyone else despite being the most profitable company on the block.

To be honest, nobody would really care how many releases they push or how many features they push, if only they let other browsers compete on iOS. But they don't; so they carry a responsibility to be at the forefront of standards and look absolutely beyond reproach - which, at the moment, is not the case.
Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
I've often heard about the Linear B mystery and its final decipherment, but never in so much detail. That was fun. Now, when will there be something similar for the Iberian language...
I wouldn't assume that any application doesn't edit documents, especially metadata. My PDF application remembers the last location and zoom level viewed, though I don't know how.
YouTube sells ad-free access for $14 a month. It's as easy to avoid as can be.
My interpretation is that they prohibit using distilled models to compete against OpenAI, i.e. to offer a foundation model as a service. This particular app is a product not a foundation model so seems pretty clearly fine to me.

Of course, this restriction is commonly ignored (eg 'open source' inference server companies offering distilled models) and who knows what applied products OpenAI will eventually build.
Inside Meta’s big AI reorg
I own about a quarter of these. I find it interesting how many are 30+ years old.
Wow somebody hire this person they’re fast!
RSA-KEM isn't padded. It fills the whole modulus with random bits, transforms it, and then feeds that to a KDF to generate an encryption key.
The site actually has some tutorials for creating these sorts of animations with a specific focus on perfectly looping gifs [1]. Looks like it's all done with Processing [2].

[0]: https://bleuje.com/tutorials/
[1]: https://processing.org/
So let me guess: all the marketing promises are aspirational goals, the product doesn't actually work very well or at all, and there's no clear plan how to get there besides hoping it works out.

Isn't that the standard playbook for AI startups?
Yes, but at least they're making soothing noises about going in that direction. Here's notes on coreboot work: https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...

The chromebook variant already runs coreboot, with all changes upstreamed: https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-chr...
This narrative imagines a future where everything is controlled by a single uber-AI. Is that necessarily the case? Today we have lots of separate systems and even the internet-connected devices are pretty autonomous. Maybe the future will remain similarly distributed?

It feels like everyone's worried about the runaway AI taking over everything when right now a runaway AI wouldn't even be able to turn off my porch light without asking someone to do it. It'll be decades before that changes. Why the huge concern about how smart it is?
Well, at some point they pretended to care about user experience. They could not have got their user base if they were that user hostile from the beginning.
Your argument doesn't really make sense because the problem isn't lack of houses or apartments, there's plenty of places to put everyone. The problem is one of affordability. The costs of stuff that already exists and has existed for ages isn't really tied to the current cost to build, even if we buy the specious argument that all regulation raises costs and those costs are inevitably passed directly to tenants.
Thankfully YouTube offers a quick and convenient way to opt out of advertisements then.
It is clear that ornamentation is not what makes a luxury apartment.

I would say the biggest component of a luxury apartment is the layout. A huge open space is amazing if you want to throw large parties, and can easily use up as much space as 3 studio flats. But the one huge luxury apartment will never realistically degrade into 3 studio flats.
OpenAI partners with Arizona State University to use ChatGPT in classrooms
If I can learn it later when I actually am proven to need it versus getting better use of my time now…

Well, yeah, I’d rather not waste my time. Time is money.
Discover Your Discounted Cortexi Below While Stock Lasts
I'm hoping that NVidia doesn't give up on the consumer market and keeps producing low cost (and by that I mean $500-1500) GPUs that we can use for hobbyist AI / ML / LLM.

Right now, only the 3090 and 4090 have enough VRAM (24 GB) among the consumer models to make them worthwhile for most LLM work. I'm hoping the 50 series (5090?) has more VRAM and stays affordable - though I'm not holding my breath either.
The UK replies entirely on the mercy of USA for its nuclear deterrent (Trident)

For the UK at least, that ship has _long_ since sailed....
Wales, Chile, Greece, China and Egypt aren't countries? That's news to me. Its even more surprising since all of those imaginary countries have museums that hold ancient artifacts that did survive the British museum's "preservation".

Even if you accept the argument that the British Museum "saved" these artifacts, what argument is there now to keep them? Greece has gone so far as to build an entire world class museum in anticipation of the return of the artifacts they claim.

Sarcastically: If there is real concern about these artifacts wouldn't it make sense to remove them from an insular island monarchy with unstable governance and a declining economy?
The app isn’t just about playing music in the background but also browsing catalogs, curating playlists, search, discovery, playback controls, casting and more. All the current UX is designed with touch in mind, so who knows what the actual experience on the Vision Pro will be.
This seemed like a bad idea right from the headline, but then I clicked on it to give it a fair chance and noped the fuck out five seconds in: all the suggested texts were the worst kind of creepy redpill shit, which would frankly be unethical to suggest to romantically-inexperienced people even if it did work (which fortunately it probably would not).

No more of this of this, please: our industry is getting enough accusations of ruining the world, even without cases like this where it's obviously true.
So how are the investors making money at all right now? Dividends?
Yes, it's odd: I had several debilitating behaviors and symptoms for decades, and nobody had ever identified them with me, so I hadn't discussed them or tried to ameliorate them.

For example: anxiety. I've always suffered from quite debilitating anxiety, which has verged into hypertension, panic attacks, and assorted complications by now. But 30 years ago, nobody was discussing this basic trouble with me, and so I had no tools for even recognizing it, much less reducing its impact on my life.

I was homeless/poor/unemployed for a long, long time, and intellectually I had no satisfying explanation of how I got into those situations. Once I was able to deeply reflect on myself and identify some root causes, and then gain tools to work on those debilitating symptoms, I was much better equipped to fashion a better life, some realistic goals, and a future for myself.
I’ve worked at plenty of places where we did a ton of labeling by hand.

People concerned with data quality from LLMs should really see the inconsistencies we came up with!
>Without the ability to quickly tool up, you'll end up defeated in any war of attrition.

Why is this a risk? The biggest tool makers in the world are Germany and Japan which are in the US sphere of influence whether they want to or not and are therefore incentivized to sell to the US as many machines it would need to fight a war.

The risk for Japan or Germany not wanting to sell tools to the US feels insignificant, as they aren't in a position of power to refuse to play ball.
Don’t get hung up on the price I listed, it’s just an example which is dependent on publication and article length/content.

Your argument is pretty weak too. Of course I could subscribe but obviously I don’t for any number of reasons. I am saying I wish I could pay on a per article price. Sorry for wanting to pay for the content I consume.
> If, following a thorough assessment, a medicine does not achieve the required value for money standard at the price proposed by the manufacturer, they are presented with two options: to not have the drug reimbursed in the UK at all, or to lower the effective price, so that the drug becomes cost-effective.

Which is effectively price controls, because the number of people with the money to pay out of pocket will be low, so the choice is essentially to sell at the regulated price or not at all. And the company would be crazy to choose the latter because the high cost is to pay for R&D, not manufacturing, so they'll never be better off to abandon the market than to take whatever they're offered.

Then you have prices being set by the political system. If the regulators get captured by pharma companies (as would be likely if implemented in the US) they'd overpay when the drug isn't worth it. If not, the regulators would have all the leverage and very little reason not to set prices too low, reducing the incentive for R&D and causing more people to die.
Worse than I imagined it would be.
So let me quote my original question

>Does this imply that everyone living under the kites will have to wear one too?
I mean, virtually every business that doesn't have a team of lawyers on staff (read: everyone outside the F1000) just uses a stock and mostly meaningless "we can do anything and we promise nothing, sorry-not-sorry" TOS and privacy policy anyways. I wouldn't really hold that against a solo-founder business as something shady -- just a sign of a small company.
They are certainly preserving the right to self-determination for the people who live there…
Carmack seemed to really despise their culture too.
A couple of times on Twitter I encountered people that used a dog dewormer medicine (Fenbendazole) to treat their cancer and these people claimed it cured them. Or people they know of.

Interesting and extremely cheap.

Seems scientist did find benefits as well in various trials, examples (more can be though with Googling, e.g. I know of a study of the effects on breast cancer in mice):

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30093705/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437363/

- https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/human-patients-are-given-f...

Not everyone has had success:

- https://karger.com/cro/article/14/2/886/820730/Drug-Induced-...
Do you have any sources that present this to be the case in terms of diagnosing ADHD or autism at all?
They won't need apps, just use the browser. Sure you won't get native level features, but at least users can still access the web-app versions. Something is better than nothing.
The [empirical] study linked in my comment found that only 6-15% of Autistic people actually have a genetic disorder like fragile x.
I would love to play with an iBot wheelchair! https://collection.museumoffailure.com/ibot-wheelchair/

The hulahula hawaii-chair advert video is classic: https://collection.museumoffailure.com/hawaii-chair/
Exactly. Normal Patreons and such are run by entertainers/craftspeople who aren't pretending to be your friend, or lover.
AFAIK it was released to "researchers" behind submitting a survey, someone filled out the survey and put it on torrents. There was no way it wouldn't leak.
Investors have myriad tricks up their sleeve to deceive and take advantage of founders. I’d have absolutely zero ethical issues with clawing something back in that relationship.
> After the tether reaches its maximum length, the ground station winches the kite back in. Though the Hawk must expend energy for reel-in, it expends only a fraction of the energy

work=force*distance, so presumably the kite can be controlled such that it exerts less force when they reel it back in?
You are completely overlooking a few Chinese companies that have been collecting data online and IRL from a population as large (or larger) than the active users on FB.
“responsible agi” is a bit of an oxymoron imho. It’s like giving birth to a human, you can prepare it, train it, guide it, and tell it what not to do, but eventually that human becomes entirely accountable for their own actions