skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has several red flags, IMO.

#1: Authorship is a big one, and the conflict of interest developing during the review process shows that these are not disinterested researchers.

#2: The type of study is a nearly worthless type, in that it has no real statistical control and is just asking people to report on things on the internet. What ends up happening with these studies is that people self-recruit by word of mouth. Survey respondents may have been asked by other participants to register adverse events, and survey respondents may have never given the medication to a pet or seen an adverse event. There is no controlling for that apparent in the study.

#3: The survey instrument is supposed to be in the appendix and it is not, yet it is not described. Their recruitment process is described only as "distributed electronically by mail throughout the United States to veterinarians, veterinary clients, pet caregivers/owners, kennel club groups and on social media sites between August 1 and 31, 2018." There are lots of complaints about the adverse-event reporting system, the worst is that adverse events are merely enumerated from reports and there is no real way to put them into a statistical study. This is just getting another enumeration of events and putting a different denominator under them.

In my prescribing I have seen only one adverse event worth reporting: a dog was heartworm positive and received ivermectin, doxycycline and afoxolaner at the same time. It had a transient episode of low blood pressure treated with fluids. For a drug that, in their denominator, gives 80+% adverse reactions, that is very surprising. So, the study doesn't really pass the smell test.

There have been other drugs that have caused adverse reactions in significant numbers of patients. We stop using them immediately. The difference is very noticeable.
There was an attempt with FoldingCoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8963209
I'm old enough to have thought, "Hey, this Visual SourceSafe is a pretty great idea!"
> You just conceded we are both ignorant, but I'm the only one making the argument of ignorance fallacy? Double standard?

If you accept that the only real claim I've made is that we're too ignorant to say definitively whether these systems are or are not conscious (or sentient, or intelligent, etc.), what is the argument from ignorance fallacy that would undermine this position?

> ChatGPT being conscious is roughly as plausible as a "hello world" program being conscious.

Under a scientific interpretation, that's absurd. Of course if you want to go beyond materialism, feel free, but don't pretend it's a scientifically plausible statement.

> they show no sophistication or complexity in ways we would associate with consciousness

I disagree with that claim entirely. LLMs absolutely do exhibit intelligent responsiveness to perceptual stimuli they've been trained on (particularly multimodal LLMs). Text-only LLMs have no perceptions beyond digital word tokens, and as a fairly anemic view of the world they often fail spectacularly at making sense. This is arguably why multimodal LLMs improve accuracy in those scenarios.

> Talk about plausibility instead of directly making claims? But I don't remember making claims either, to be honest, so I'm not sure how I'm the only one making the "argument from ignorance fallacy" allegedly?

It would be fairly strange to start a conversation by drawing an analogy between sophisticated conversational information systems and inert chairs, as you did, without intending to take a fairly clear position on the matter.

Unless it wasn't your intent to dismiss all of the compelling indications of human-level intelligent responses as no more interesting or compelling than a chair that squeaks when you sit down? And it wasn't your intent to take the position that such apparently intelligent responses are a clear reason why one should be compelled to "go around rhetorically demanding "mechanistic models"" before taking a strong position on the presence or absence of consciousness, intelligence, and so on?
This sort of thing isn't unheard of. It's not like the USA wouldn't do the same to diplomats from other countries if it wanted to. It's not like every pair of nearby embassies and the host country don't have various radio beams pointed at each other all the time. You can easily imagine at least one simple possibility: Cuba replicated The Thing and is using a microwave beam to power it which is too strong.
This comment shows a remarkable lack of curiosity. You're not the least bit interested to know why so many people find tools like Docker to be valuable?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/15/macbook-air-wal...
Whenever I think of "I, Pencil", for some reason, I think of John Wick.
Hollywood Actors Are Leaping into Video Games
There is this paper, "Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake", Hall ea 2019 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

They tried to control for all that, the same amount of sugar, fat, calories etc.

And yet people ate more of the ultra-processed food.
The claim ”smallest readable 3x4 font” is a bit confusing. Are there bigger 3x4 fonts?
Chunked transfer encoding (which is indeed the underlying mechanism behind server-push) predates XHR, and AFAIK is still supported and will continue to be as long as HTTP/1.1 is still supported.

You can use a frame/iframes, but you can also just have content that is updated with multi-part MIME that doesn't cause the page layout to be redone.
> “Really it shouldn't be up to the developer it should be up to the disabled person to buy tools. Just like someone may need to buy a wheelchair to move around, they should have to buy a specialty browser that handles their limited visibility needs or brail tool interface.”

No, that’s the wrong analogy. The ADA is there to ensure that people with wheelchairs can find a barrier-free entrance to a building, and a curb cut at an intersection.

It should be on us, the developers, to ensure our apps work with the tools of the trade to enable people with limitations. So, our apps should be usable by screen readers. The screen reader is the analogue to the wheelchair here.

This is one of the great things about HTML. Even ignorant / lazy / time-constrained developers are likely to output something that sorta works, just since they’re using divs and imgs and whatnot.

And the bar is so low! Adding accessibility labels takes not much effort at all. And, as an added bonus, accessible apps are easier to test, since testing frameworks like Playwright can hook into accessibility info directly to validate assertions.
A little ironic that Bloodhound is so meta right now, too... there's seeing through walls and then there's seeing through walls :P
Ex150-9 review: Down 4lbs, broke through 220lbs
There is one fundamental flaw with the AI generated code: unmaintainability and unpredictability.

An attempt to modify the already generated specific piece of code or the program in general will produce an unexpected result. Saving some money on programmers but then losing millions in lawsuits or losing customers and eventually the whole business due to an expected behaviour of the app or a data leak might not be a good idea after all.
> Our entire world is built around and for people who see, hear, speak, walk, climb, and crawl.

As a parent, I would disagree with the world is built for those that crawl. New parents are told/suggested to crawl around their house just to get a closer eye-level exprience of what their toddler will have.
ChatGPT, how easy is it to find vulnerability?
How is it to hack (red team) GPT to find some high stakes vulnerability? E.g., reproduction of other users' chat logs, someone's password info, etc.

How do companies mitigate this risk today if they're integrating GPT based features for their product?
> To be effective, warnings like this have to be MANDATED on the item in question, and FORBIDDEN when not present.

I think for it to be effective you'd have to require them to provide an itemized list of WHAT is AI generated. Otherwise what if a content creator has a GenAI logo or feature that's in every video and put a lazy disclaimer.

> (This post may have been generated by AI; this notice in compliance with AI notification complications.)

:D
Yes, but then you spend more time chewing. And maybe that causes you eat less.
I like that this article was about solving the problem and not lecturing the person that they should have done it all up front before it was ever successful.
This may be a good thing, as it could teach the public some skills for identifying whether or not content has been AI generated.

Eventually, it may be completely indiscernible, but we aren’t there yet
I upgrade the _container_ using what you said (actually Podman auto upgrade, but it's basically the same thing). This subsequently sends Nextcloud into maintenance mode 9/10 times - I guess could have another/init container which pessimistically runs `oci`.
I have a more entertaining: "typical google, getting somebody else to give them training data in exchnage for free hosting of some sort"
Baby powder these days, in Europe at least, is finely divided starch, usually potato or maize. Has been for a long time.
What I dislike about all the comments here saying something similar is that it suggests that empathy only go in one direction. I sometimes run into situations where society isn’t set up for my needs in a particular way (for personal reasons, I won’t go into specific details). But my reaction isn’t “society should do whatever it takes to remove this issue I’m experiencing, no matter the cost.” I know that doing more to improve my personal situation is going to insure a cost that means that others are going to have less of something. None of this is free.

Where that line gets drawn is open for debate, but a lot of comments seem to be livid that people are suggesting the line should be drawn somewhere. Life is about compromise, and trying to do the most with finite resources. Understanding that tradeoffs exist is a basic requirement for creating a functioning society.
I can still forsee oil becoming another jevons paradox resource even after it gets phased out for transportation. Last I read 5% of oil production used for plastics, I can imagine a future where we adopt more plastic materials with $10-20 barrels and some new material science. MIT developed plastics comparable properties to steel a couple years ago, supposedly less resource to produce than steel/gass. Wouldn't count oil out if it can replace most steel for cladding purposes. Or even structural.
A pretty effective genocide and cleansing campaign. Bomb crowded camps, target valuable people who glues the people together, doctors, academicians, engineers. Watch the society disintegrates.
Yes, and I went one step further, specifying the "N-good" protocol, which characterizes objects based on the (log) of the number of components. Raw material is a 0-good. Something with 10 components is a 1-good. Something with 10000 components is a 4-good, and so on. An aircraft carrier is an 8- or 9-good. Of course there is some ambiguity around what constitutes a component - perhaps a better way would be to count the number of distinct operations required to produce the final product, recursively. But I think just counting the parts is probably okay for most things.
I commute by bike in my US city, and the weather concerns are alleviated 90% of the time just by having the right clothing. If you have gym clothes, that's what you wear during hot/warm weather. If you have cold weather hiking clothes, that's what you wear during cold/cool weather. Pack a small towel and a change of clothes for your destination, and you're all set. It's actually easier to do this during the warm months because you wear fewer layers and the clothes aren't as bulky. I use a rack-mounted bag more often in winter to carry those extra layers.

The remaining 10% of the time is for just straight up unpleasant weather that catches you by surprise. For example, if I bike to work in the morning and there's a huge rainstorm when I would bike home in the afternoon. When that happens, I just leave my bike at the office and catch a bus home. Or Lyft if I'm feeling especially impatient.
It's a difficult idea to put into words, but I'll try to elaborate on what I mean.

There are many things which respond to stimuli that most people wouldn't consider "conscious". When you press the gas pedal on your car, the car goes faster, for example. The means by which the stimuli causes a response is entirely mechanical here (the gas pedal causes more fuel to be injected into the engine, causing more energy to be released when it combusts, etc).

Most people don't think of the car as "feeling" that the gas pedal was pushed, because it's a machine. It's a bunch of parts connected in such a way that they happen to function together as a vehicle. If the car could feel, would a pressed gas pedal feel painful? Wood it feel good or satisfying?

There are also times when people are unconscious, yet still respond to stimuli. For example, what does it feel like when you are in deep sleep at night and you aren't dreaming? Well, it doesn't really feel like anything; your "conscious" self sort of fades out as you fall asleep and then it jumps forward to when you wake up. But if while you're asleep someone sneaks into your room and slaps you, you wake up right away (unconscious response to stimuli).

I hope this helps.
The shocker isn’t the mosquitoes->milk equation, but that you’re using bat milk on your cereal.
LLMs: RAG vs. Fine-Tuning
It is, but Havana Syndrome doesn't seem to have much to do with communism. Every country spies on every other country - even allies - and embassies are good places to do that - so there are all sorts of radio beams flying around those areas. The simplest hypothesis is that one of them accidentally also interacts with humans and Cuba doesn't really care much to fix it (wouldn't blame them).
Unless you are pouring bat milk on your Cheerios, I'd reckon you're not going to be affected by that particular fun fact.

The same can't be said for the legally acceptable portion of rat feces that makes its way into pretty much all processed grain products.
> The problem is that there wasn't a rule that could be used to take a misleading video down.

Of course there was. The community guidelines have prohibited impersonation and misinformation for years.
Yes. Extra CO2 and global warming is far less likely to scuttle your reelection attempts, and voter deaths don't matter if they're diffuse enough no-one will point their finger at you.
Of course, YouTube is well-known for its methodical approach to video removal, strictly adhering to transparent guidelines, rather than deciding based on the "computer says no" principle.
I had the machine lightning version for the Commodore 64. I remember that the manual was printed red paper so you couldn't photocopy it.
I take 12k IU of D3 + K2 to keep my calcium and vitamin D levels adequate.

Also, I have anemia of unknown etiology.

Not recommended for everyone, but supplementation should be calibrated with regular blood tests. This should be the standard of maintaining homeostasis.
+1 in France at least, food products must not suggest that mandatory properties like "preservative free" is unique. When they advertise this on the package, they must disclose it's per regulation. Source: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/particuliers/denrees-alimentair...
Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)
> Power is applied to the chip, and the RUN pin is high. The chip will be held in reset for as long as RUN is not high.

Is that a typo, or do I not understand this? Should it be "as long as RUN is high"? Because I assume that the RUN pin is active low, so as long as it is high, the chip will be held in reset?
Will this cover all those product "review" videos that are clearly reading some copy or amazon reviews?
>I kind of miss long polling. It was so stupidly simple compared to newer tech, and that's coming from someone who thinks WebRTC is the best thing since sliced bread.

I still use it all the time. There are plenty of applications where the request overhead is reasonable in exchange for keeping everything within the context of an existing HTTP API.
I think your point is true, but the implied causation is the other way initially - it's when we started getting rich (= increased productivity), that we could start to support increasingly large populations...which then in turn did lead to more humans producing more knowledge
We have heaters for diesels, I do not understand why battery heaters aren't more of a thing.
Dial up as a part of an appliance was a fairly established pattern. I remember working with IBM in 2007 and they had a tool for a fair number of products that was just about dialing in to a terminal. However, I don't think it dialed back to IBM - people just used the terminal over dialup.
genuinely curious what is not goofy in your experience. While books are not perfect, imo they are one of the best hard fiction books available. I think I enjoyed only several other books more in this genre: Blindsight for example.
My partner had to use a wheelchair for awhile and it can still be useful (difficulties walking), and boy has it caused a strong desire to just keep a spare bag of concrete and a bucket in my trunk. Or even just metal shims. I've definitely got the same experience of "why is everything so __needlessly__ difficult?" When many could be solved or significantly eased with just a few dollars worth of materials.

> Why do I have to go a long way extra for an elevator?

- Why did I just walk past 3 flights of stairs on my way to the elevator?
- Why did the handicap subway car drop me off at the far end of the station?
- Why did 3 people rush in front to get to the extra wide gate when there are 5 empty normal gates?
- Why does the flat moving walkway have a divider that's meant to prevent bikes but also prevents a fucking wheelchair or walker!

The last one really triggers me... I mean I get why they do it but it also feels like a spit in the face (I'm glad they still help old people and those with limited mobility though). But come on....
It's really important to recognize the incredible resource we have. All of the inventions, all of the music, all of the stories, all of the buildings. All made by humans.

Humanity is how we are going to cure cancer, deploy green energy, travel the stars, and answer the big questions. I really hope the current projections showing human populations will peak in the next century are wrong. I think we should aim for as many humans as can feasibly thrive.
Apple is doing it, but doubt they'll use something in-house that's still very much a work in progress when they can actually get paid by Google to use Gemini this year.
By chance, is there a list anywhere of the various regulations the EU has implemented to regulate tech companies? It's really phenomenal work, and I'd love to read about the arc of it all.
Marvel, or worry about how drastically our ability to make things will break down in a disaster? Eg, a big war or solar flare or certain climate problems or COVID shortages?
> The Xata Postgres service is using AWS Aurora under the hood

Not sure I'd consider that open source, even if some of the tooling around it has been open sourced.
That's a distinction only relevant for research, not an actual product.

People can and do use AI detectors on any art style, often to justify harrassment of suspected AI use. In the anime community, it's especially very common to do so.

A bad AI detector is worse than no AI detection at all, so extra scrutiny is justified.
Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am
I had a 6 digit one... some person used my computer and deleted the account long ago though.
No I couldn't make it out even scaled up.
I'd see a square, or three dots, and even relying upon context of other nearby letters I could reasonably well recognize there's no way to see if that's an [a, e, s, o, n, m] or what.

At this pixel scale I say just blat brail onto the screen and give people one more reason to learn that already well established and unambiguous writing system.
Amazon EC2 High Memory (24TiB RAM) Instances
The Prop 65 warnings are probably unhelpful even when accurate because they don't show anything about the level of risk or how typical or atypical it is for a given context. (I'm thinking especially about warnings on buildings more than on food products, although the same problem exists to some degree for food.)

It's very possible that Prop 65 has motivated some businesses to avoid using toxic chemicals, but it doesn't often help individuals make effective health decisions.
No way. YouTrack is the least bad of the pack. It's the tallest dwarf.
Blindsight is my fav if you didn't read it yet.
Or such construction/arch things such as "TITLE N" compliance...

For any physical build there are typ "TITLE 25" such disclosurs that are required for any new-build plans...

Maybe we have TITLE N as designed by AI discolsures that will be needed...
I enjoy the part where I'm putting the solution together in my head, working out the algorithms and the architecture, communicating with the client or the rest of the team, gaining understanding.

I do not enjoy the next part, where I have to type out words and weird symbols in non-human languages, deal with possibly broken tooling and having to remember if the method is called "include" or "includes" in this language, or whether the lambda syntax is () => {} or -> () {}. I can do this second part just fine, but it's definitely not what I enjoy about being a developer.
Even assuming a mere 7 Falcon 9 launches (to get some variety of orbits) and 350 satellites - that'd be (using some Starlink numbers, and a supposed Falcon 9 list price) ~300kg satellites, and $3.8M per satellite - R&D and manufacturing - to squeak in under the $1.8B budget. (Or supposed budget...)

Vs. Tomahawk cruise missiles supposedly have a unit cost of $2M each. And over 80 of those (one-shot, expendable) missiles were launched in just one day recently, against Houthi targets involved in the current Red Sea conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia

"The Saudi economy is highly reliant on its petroleum sector. Oil accounts on average in recent years for approximately 40% of Saudi GDP and 75% of fiscal revenue, with substantial fluctuations depending on oil prices each year."

"In 2016, the Saudi government launched its Saudi Vision 2030 program to reduce its dependency on oil and diversify its economic resources. By 2022, Saudi Arabia had only modestly reduced its dependence on oil."
Nope. RUN is active-high:[0;pg12]

> Global asynchronous reset pin. Reset when driven low, run when driven high. If no external reset is required, this pin can be tied directly to IOVDD.

RST pins tend to be active-low, which is the same thing. Perhaps Raspberry Pi decided to call it the "run" pin instead of the "reset" one to avoid possibly confusing hobbyists?

[0]: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...
Shutter glasses were also used on PC even where games did not support them. I remember playing WWIIOL on a CRT with shutter glasses. The effect was amazing, even though a few non-3d assets rendered flat. When VR came along I was hoping that it too could be handled entirely within drivers, negating the need for a title to "support VR". I am so far disappointed.
I was so confused, because I tried an episode of "Three-Body" on Amazon Prime. This is the Chinese TV adaptation which seemed like a one-for-one adaptation of the book. It seems that very few people are aware of this series though.

I didn't realize there is also now a Netflix series. I saw the promo on Netflix, but I thought they just licensed that same Chinese-made series. I'll have to check out the Netflix adaptation to see if it's more accessible than the first-mover.

Review of "Three-Body" here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/television/three-bod...
> Why do companies do that?

Sane hiring practices are inversely proportional to company size.