skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT are all relatively similar in sophistication, my primary criterion for selecting one is based on its responsiveness to my requests versus its tendency to educate me on the "potential harm" of my inquiries. Claude falls somewhere between Gemini and ChatGPT but is notably less advanced than ChatGPT in providing direct answers to my queries. It is really castrated, though obviously less than Gemini.

For example, when I asked Claude to rephrase the above statement it responded with:

"I apologize, but I don't feel comfortable rephrasing your statement as written, as it makes some claims I disagree with. While I respect that you may have a preference for AI assistants that are less cautious about potentially harmful content, I don't believe that providing requested information without any regard for potential harms should be the main metric for sophistication or usefulness."

ChatGPT just did it.

Another example was me asking Claude to rephrase some text I wrote about MacOS being more closed than Windows and it schooled me about how it "enforces negative stereotypes about operating systems" (WTF).

You are the machine here, I tell you what to do, not the other way around.
Trained over a hundred style transfer mlmodels – here they are
I became fascinated with style transfer models and I spent the last few months training mlmodels using CoreML. Here they are on GitHub. I didn't think I had so many (though there are some which are very similar). Some I trained to attain some sort of structure and some to get a style that has a certain color.
The dolt implementation uses a 20 byte address space with a SHA 256 cryptographic hash function. The risk of a collision is trivial.
You make it sound as if the Apple App Store did not track you.
5,800 pounds of batteries tossed off the ISS in 2021 will fall to Earth today
But but but arllms gen ai is the futureeeee, agi here we gooo. Seriously though, the last Lex Fridman podcast with Yann Lecun is hilarious at times. Lex is desperately trying to be the llm poster boy and Yann is always like "um, no."
They’re being rude, I don’t think you have anything to be sorry for. Very cool project, well done!
Since modern torps, much like cruise missiles and anti-tank missiles as well as rockets, a more often than not guided (laser, wire...), yes, the line of what isba drone and what is a torpedo get blurry.

Drones, IMHO, have more loitering capability. It is very interesting to see how drone warfare develops.
I'm guessing, but it should be possible to pass anything remotely as a proxy with an ID: calls to a closure or the resolution of a promise cause further RPC, and sending it back recovers the original value.
Seems like exactly the sort of thing that the NSA pressures large American tech companies to do.
OBS is great when I want to record precisely, but needs a lot of setting up.
I wish there'd be something as easy to use as print screen but for record too. Press button, mark rectangle/select window, press start, record for 5 sec, export as gif/mp4, directly upload to Imgur and save link in clipboard. Would pay money for this.
If you're an Eu citizen - you should care that russia is stopped in Ukraine as they said multiple times - their goal is up to Lisbon.
This is nothing new in Claude 3, either. But the model seems quite impressive in other ways
Well, hiding under water is another obvious adaptation...but it does not automatically mean sea mammals evolved gills. They did evolve but in other ways. Some weird things just don't happen.
I had a similar experience with a similar time frame. It didn't completely go away, but I stopped noticing it as much. Except for situations where it's hard to not notice like at night or when it's dark or I actively pay attention to it, I ignore it without having to think about it most of the time.
Exactly, the comment in question is basically a noisy upvote.
Computational shift is a quick and dirty fix for a random picture with the – auspiciously, should I say – «misaligned» perspective that can be salvaged without the detriment to the composition.

Oftentimes that is not the case, though, and results in a crop anywhere between 25 and 40% completely ruining the composition.

Both have their merits, and I occasionally use the computational shift to fix the perspective in my phone camera snapshots with a varying degree of success, but if the circumstances are conducive, I will bring and use my full frame DSLR with the trusted manual TS-E 24mm lens. It is much more fun that way, too.

Tilt, however, is a completely different cattle of fish…
"Fraudman"
> But any (IMO) sane WM that agrees with me that it's a good user experience to make all windows look visually similar, will do something like this.

Have you looked at Discord on Linux? It ~~not using~~ trying not to use CSD just looks fucking terrible and has been one of my main grips with it... If an app isn't designed around having SSDs (or is something like a game) it just looks majorly out of place.
Regarding security of NetBSD:

"Specifically, the NetBSD source tree is periodically analyzed by two separate code scanners to maintain and improve code quality: Coverity - a commercial code scanner, and Brainy - a private code scanner developed by a NetBSD developer.

Several security features are available in NetBSD, including IPsec, a homegrown firewall (NPF), a file integrity system (Veriexec), a kernel authorization framework (kauth(9)), disk encryption (CGD), among others.

In terms of exploit mitigations, NetBSD supports a good number of modern features: W^X (in both userland and the kernel), Userland ASLR, Kernel ASLR, SMEP, SMAP, and a variety of other internal kernel bug detection features. Support for these mitigations sometimes depends on the capabilities of the hardware."

https://www.netbsd.org/support/security/
What’s wrong with making a comment? It’s not like there’s a limited supply of them. If you don’t find a comment interesting you can just ignore it, no harm done.
I agree it is noisy and apologize for being too concise (I hoped it was clear it frustates) but find it concerning there is no agreement it should have been there. No rules for that? old articles need to he dated. videos needs to be tagged.

I added the comment as it is a clear omission and did not get revised by moderators. open source feels like to draw people in, but then you find out it is platform specific/mac-only. If this was there, it would have saved me and others time by ignoring it.
Byzantine-Resilient Gossip Protocols
> Our current society needs resources that have to come from somewhere.

If we ban advertising, suddenly our current society needs only a fraction of the resources ...
Kinda feels like if 90% of the people you’ve hired for your not for profit are what you’d call “greedy”, maybe the fault doesn’t lie with those employees.

Anyhow, the goal of the foundation is AGI, earning the money you need to survive until you manage that does not sound evil.
Under the Hood of the Ethereum Gossip Protocol
Somehow, I lean more the Joker-way, on the pile of money question, not the terrorism stuff.
There are two sides to EU directive compliance: Commission action and legal action through the European Court of Justice.

Apple can talk to the Commission all they want and persuade them not to take action. However, they cannot bend the ECJ's ear. If someone forces the issue through the courts (yes, it's a slow procedure and yes the ECJ can choose not to pick up a case, but that's down to the skills of the involved legal heads), what will matter is the directive as written.

Apple will likely continue to drag their feet, but the outcome looks fairly inevitable. It might well come when we've all moved on to "AI, show me data" instead of using browsers, but it will very likely come.
> their goal is up to Lisbon

That was in fact Mitterand's goal in late 1989 - early 1990, the other way round, that is, until the Americans (well, the honorable James Baker) freaked out and nothing came out of it. I still think from time to time what could have been if "from Lisbon to Vladivostok" had become real, just as Mitterand had wanted it. [1]

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/155777507.pdf
+1 would be interested to see the actual study and can’t find it. There’s apparently a lot of work on the two effects mentioned here, Endowment Effect & Regret Minimisation. But it’s psych research so last time I heard, you could safely ignore about 40% of published papers.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1942711
Writing a Paper Abstract [pdf]
You just inspired me to build my own version of it for learning German. Thank you
But can it draw a unicorn or not ?
It's not set by default. (and even when it is set, does it modify the behaviour of the --cacert option?)
DING DING DING DING DING DING unless that was sarcasm. Then, cheers
That’s so cool, It can compile to many different targets!
> Minor correction: it falls back to Apples CA store if the initial check fails. So wouldn’t add more computation for nothing.

Not GP but that is extra computation? It should just fail at that point, instead it's doing computation. According to the result, it's then either 'for nothing', or in order to give the incorrect result.
Personally the way I'm thinking is AI cooperatives. Democratic membership controlled organisations with relatively low fees to train AI aligned with the interests of the members.

Such organisations won't solve the fact that functioning AGI or very effective LLMs that can program or solve general text tasks precisely reduces the power of workers, but they'd at least mean that ordinary people control their own propaganda apparatus and are not stuck with models that are part of other people's propaganda apparatus (the state, Microsoft shareholders, some charity board that they do not control etc.).
One of us IANAL folks have one thing ChatGPT doesn't: we don't make up stuff up.
> Obviously I think differently.

:)
So, almost like, gasp, union?
You'd never operate a superconducting magnet at its crtical temperature.

Check out figure 5 here. The relevant bit is the vertical slice along the left edge. Crtical current density and internal magnetic field both go way up when you go below LN2 temps. You could make an LN2 HTS magnet, it just wouldn't be in the 1T+ class.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2277484/files/Bruker%20HTS%20Fit....
It's not a speech on how "humans are terrible". He's putting things into perspective, echoing similar thoughts to some of the astronauts that have seen Earth from above - that we need to work together to preserve our fragile (in terms of human survival) planet. The view of the astronauts is similar to the view of Sagan - a sudden realisation of how small we are. Not because some rocks and space are bigger, but because we're so similar and so close to each other in the vastness of space.

You're ragging on it being emotive as if that's a bad thing, completely and utterly missing the point of what he is saying.

Edit: it's not so much that you're missing the point of what he is saying, but I think you're severely underestimating the power of emotion in argument. I see it constantly on tech-oriented discussion sites.
Although that would be really useful in some ways, I'm not sure[0] how that distinction helps with self-awareness in particular?

[0] from reading a summary on the topic rather than watching the videos, I don't have time for 2.25 hours of video right now
I think parent doesn't mean Daniel is never wrong even without proof but if one side claims a bug is a bug and the other says it's not than you can pretty sure it's a bug if Daniel considers it as one.

It's about the evaluation of a finding.
> How do they verify the person hitting "agree" is legally able to consent?

See my long response to @Brian_K_White just below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39650782).
Given we know the AI isn't self-aware, if our current definition doesn't suffice we'll just have to keep refining the definition each time the model surpasses it until neither artificial nor human intelligence can.
Thanks for the warning! FWIW, I'm using MacPorts to override many of the tools that come bundled with macOS (curl being one of them), because they tend to be out of date or otherwise broken. I've long since lost trust in Apple's bundled software.
So much about Apple caring for the security of its users.
Do I understand it correctly if the idea here is to insert some logic into the inference loop?

I might not have a clear idea how the inference loop works but it sounds like a whole host of solutions could present themselves if it was easy to plug in various types of logic at inference.
STM32 MCU family goes 64-bit with the STM32MP2x (Cortex-A35)
Divide both by a few billion (doesn’t even matter exactly) and they’re the same.
I think it should warrant more dialogue than that first line support shut down though, even if the Apple team's gut reaction is to disagree.

Not 'Daniel' specifically, but in general when you're packaging a tool and its author/maintainer(s) contact you about it.
While 7 liters is less than 1,500, why would they call this a helium-free system?
What is RC4?
"If you want to kill someone without people knowing they were the actual target, wait until they stand next to the President" - Bobby Lee Swagger (could also be a line from that old dude in his cabin)
Show HN: PaRappa the Rapper 2 (2001) decompilation
I'm a big fan of rhythm games, and I've been quite a big fan of PaRappa for a while - I played all the games and watched the anime (not to its fullest though!). So one day, I got curious enough to take a look at the PS2 sequel on Ghidra/IDA and got motivated to start a decompilation of PaRappa the Rapper 2 (PS2).

It builds to a 1:1 matching ELF, and it's quite easy to set up (just make sure you can run i686 executables)! Ubuntu is recommended.
Make sure to check out the 'develop' branch - that's where most progress is made.

Thank you very much.
Secrets of China's Hacking Industry Unveiled [video]
_Most_ regulatory enforcement, in practice, is “letters asking questions”. The formal cases you see are generally where the response to the letters was unsatisfactory.

(In some cases this is itself somewhat formalised.)
> You've misread. I didn't mention existing models.

No you didn't, and that's why I didn't limit my rebuttal to existing models alone.

> 1. Current gen AI may only seem like a stochastic parrot, but there's no reason to believe that human intelligence isn't just a really fancy stochastic parrot.

There is no reason to believe that human intelligence is a stochastic parrot. We have a large body of research to indicate emotion and thought are interdependent [1]. Cognition is not a simple, discrete quantity.

> 2. The Chinese room experiment just confuses things by anthropomorphizing a single part of the whole intelligent system (i.e. saying there's a man in the room). If you look at the room as a whole, then yes it does understand Chinese. Similarly if you go the other way and imagine each of the neurons in a Chinese person was a tiny man following simple instructions, does that mean the Chinese person no longer understands Chinese? No of course not.

It sounds like you are confusing things. The Chinese room argument is arguing intentionality, that it is a necessary prerequisite to real human cognition. We have zero evidence of any display of intention by these models. The rest of your argument here I honestly can't follow.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2366118/
> everything good in your life is because of applied intelligence

If this is true then everything bad in my life is also due to applied intelligence as intelligence itself doesn't have a moral connotation. "[N]ow imagine 1000x the intelligence at 1000x the intensity".

Both claims (everything good/bad because of intelligence) sound false to me. I guess the litmus test to the 1000x engineer (for example) is do we have 1000x the speed of product development.
The remark was that in places where you cannot get reliable power, you often have a more physically intense day to day, so the "cost" of exhausting yourself to power something is "higher" compared to the less physically intensive lifestyles of many people in environments with stable electricity available.
Ask HN: Why software developers complaining about subscription pricing?
i see a lot of software developers earning more than 25 dollars per hour (in america) and when it comes to use a software that only costs $10/month to help them save time or helping them earn money they start complaining, why just whyyyy ?
The yellow colour of gold is one of the best known relativistic effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
Well, the entity behind IKEA the brand. Same for Bosch.

Difference is, both IKEA and Bosch don't raise questions about their corporate governance. Which OpenAI pretty much does.
Proxmox Dev here, albeit personally speaking here, so do not make more out of it than the educated opinion this is.

No, I do not think we leave much money at the table.

In short, we're targeting enterprise users with a mix of a (soft) stick (e.g. pop-up to note that one isn't having the most production ready experience) a carrot (way better tested updates and depending on the level also enterprise support).
Homelab users aren't in the target of our subscription services at all, and if we'd target them with cheap prices that would be just misused by companies too, we know this for a fact because the project is over 15 years old, and there was a lot tried out before getting to the current design.
And while there might some protection mechanisms we could set up, we rather avoid DRM'ifying Proxmox projects and avoid wasting time playing cat-and-mouse games with entities trying to abuse this.

Note though, that we still cater to the homelab in other ways even if it isn't our main target audience, like being very active on our community forums for all users, or simple having 100% FLOSS software, no open-core or other, in my opinion rather questionable, open source models.
And the price of a pop-up or using the still very stable no-subscription repository is IMO also quite small compared to the feature on gets 100% for free.

If one wants to contribute to our project but either cannot, or does not want, to afford a subscription, then I think helping out in the communities, submitting elaborate bug reports and thought out feature requests, spreading gospel at the companies they work with/for is not only cheaper for them, but also much more worth for the project.

ps. The actual license is the AGPLv3, which is always free, what we sell are subscriptions and trainings for additional services.
I have been usin Peek for this. https://github.com/phw/peek

Not perfect, but works.
A stream cipher.
this kind of harms the appeal of a homelab. If you search youtube, you will find many creators sharing their labs. But when you look at the services they host, 80% of it is just stuff to maintain their infra (hypervisors, monitoring tools, high availability stuff, etc).

All of this is very interesting, but not very useful. I'm personally most intrigued by how people are maxing out their old hardware for years, like many examples in this thread
Productivity gains of using Node.js are a myth. You will be better served by C# + ASP.NET Core with massive performance gains while writing about the same amount of code. Or sometimes a little more but cutting down 10 times on ensuring it works correctly.
Can you change the names/numbers/genders and try a few other versions?
Not going to happen as such. Has been around for several thousand years, so people on the whole don't seem to mind too much.

Also, very unclear how much advertising (in narrow sense) contributes towards consumption.
Eh? No; the US works broadly the same. For instance, a rather amusing recent one: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/31/tesla-reportedly-facing-doj-...

The “probe” here would be, at least in the first instance, usually mostly letters asking questions. Note that it is “reportedly”; the media didn’t find this out because the DOJ had a banner on its website saying “we are investigating an alleged glass house”. That comes later, if things are not resolved.
...or through the name?!
Well at some stage we have to admit that it all adds up. We have all the things you mentioned, now "AI" and while I agree some amazing breakthroughs have and still might come from "AI". It troubles me that everything is going "AI" and thinking about how much energy that will actually require.
> Altman will put in some ambitious but clueless Microsoft manager to run it and move on to his next thing

Gervais principle agrees with you.
Most PhDs are not able to be competitive in the job market
>Under what theory is EU supposed to sit back and watch a bordering country get invaded and not pass that country intelligence?

Has EU, or more aptly the comprising countries thereof, declared war?

The only thing I hate more than warmongering are proxy wars.

I'm all for Ukraine winning, because if they lose then Putin and Russia are vindicated in warmongering as a proper form of diplomacy, but I'm sick and tired of proxy wars.

As an aside: Yes, as an American I stand with the Republicans in denying further aid to Ukraine if we're going to continue doing the same thing. If we're going to lend more aid, either we punt the money figures up a few orders of magnitudes or we send in American boots to settle it ourselves. No more halfassed "aid" that only prolongs the war indefinitely and enlarges the suffering of civilians.
Pocket size gamma spectrometer [video]
I had an old Radiacode 101 model and it's really awesome (bought it two years ago also after NurdRage's video on it). Wanted to share with some nerds here who never heard of it.
There is no cost basis. It's just another way to making the point that, if you do anything serious on their platform, you owe Apple some serious cash. Extortion is a strong word, I prefer the more objective "parasitical rent-seeking".
Because it’s a selfish reason and also it’s entirely based on speculation. Who knows what I’ll regret?
Creator here - sorry about this! I've found a few people are running into this, and I'm not sure what the cause is - going to be looking into adding password auth as a workaround, but that will obviously take a hot second.
Yhtua open source desktop cross platform OTP manager
Yhtua is an open source and free desktop application and Authy alternative designed to provide secure and convenient two-factor authentication (2FA) management.

As Authy is EOL soon this month, I find interesting building my own open source version and give back to the community in some way. It's not yet perfect but it does its main job, manage and get your OTP code from your computer. I'm also open to new contributions and ideas.
Companies often push their luck with regulators, because sometimes it works, and, as here, the consequences for failure often aren’t significant. For practical purposes Apple’s back where they were a week ago; from their point of view why _not_ chance their arm?
Now this is just an anecdote and probably exaggerated, but if you're ever on your feet wanting to scream at someone at work then that is a serious problem that you should definitely look into.
Old encryption algorithm, don't use it.

Infamous for "kerberoasting", among other exploits.