skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very awful take, Brian.

Don't you realize that libraries are under attack by mostly all fronts (governments, politicians, publishers, copyright cartel, right wing zealots just to name a few) plus they're on the front lines of the country's problems because our government are too corrupt to do anything to help the marginalized and underprivileged.
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/18/libraries-ebooks-hoopla-lib... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474151

Also read here: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643
I've played around with Suno a bit. As someone that has literally negative music talent, it was cool to be able to create music. I can't tell you if it was good by any musical standards, but I had fun with it and some lols, so from my perspective, a fun app.
Yes! You'd probably enjoy this blog: https://ciechanow.ski
>RLHF works on problems that are difficult to specify yet easy to judge.

But that's the thing, that it seems that everyone here on HN (and elsewhere) finds it easy to judge the flaws of AI-generated code, and they seem relatively consistent. So if we start offering these critiques as RLHF at scale, we should be able to bring the LLM output to the level where further feedback is hard (or at least inconsistent), right?
Greg Egan anything. Can't recommend him enough. BIG ideas.
Great! if most other people are walking and biking, that's less traffic on the road to slow you down and endanger those young children.
I like JetBrains products but every time I click on a youtrack link it takes 5 seconds to load. SPAs have gone too far.

If their goal is to be as agitating as Jira, they succeeded :)
Do you know what base model was used to generate the image? Was it SD v1.5?
Publishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad for Everybody
That's fair, I couldn't stomach typing the full word out an extra 46 times
Concur - I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency and my doctor prescribed an initial regimen of prescription tablets at 50,000 IU and then suggested 3,000-5,000 IU daily.
Not just the complexity but the absurd amount of human effort behind to produce every object around us.

As John Collison tweeted: "As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects."

https://twitter.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976
lol. Now I will know what people are talking about at all the cool tech parties.
Why EVs are now almost as cheap as gas cars
Since AI has been trained on the generous gifts of the collective (books, code repos, art, ..), it begs the question why normal societies would not start to regulate them as a collective good. I can foresee two forces that will work against society to claim it back:

- Dominance of neoliberalism thought, with its strong belief that for any disease markets will be the cure.

- Strong lobby from big corporates.

You don't want to intervene to early, but you have to make sure you have at least some limits before you let the winners do too much damage. The EU has to be applauded for having a critical look on what effects these developments might have, for instance which sectors will face unemployment.

That is in the interest of both people and business, because the winner takes it all
means economic and scientific stagnation. I fear that 90% of the worlds' data is already in the hand of just a few behemots, so there is already no level playing field (which is btw caused by aforementioned dominance of neoliberalism).
A few additional cons to be aware of:

WebSockets lack flow control (backpressure) and multiplexing, so if you need them you either roll your own or use something similar to RSocket.

Also SSE can't send binary data directly. You have to base64 encode it or similar.

WebTransport addresses these and also solves head of line blocking. But I'm concerned that we might run into a similar problem as we had with going from Python2 to Python3 and IPv6. Too easy for people to keep using the old version, and too little (perceived) benefit to upgrading.

As long as browsers still work with TCP, some networks will continue to block UDP (and thus HTTP3/WebTransport) outright.
I don’t come to hacker news for this.
I'm curious... If you settle without remediating, aren't you still open to lawsuits from other plaintiffs?
> However any discussion or information about RSUs that doesn't mention an 83b election is at best incomplete.

You can't 83b RSUs.
More specifically, local phone lines are full electric circuits from you to whichever piece of equipment you're currently talking to (connected via relays through many other pieces that you've finished talking to). That equipment knows you're still on the phone because current is still flowing through the circuit, regardless of the audio signal.

But for long-distance, to get the most calls out of the fewest wires, they used frequency multiplexing, with no steady current flow. Instead, unused frequency carriers carried a steady 2600Hz tone, which meant the circuit wasn't connected. One end detected the lack of current flow in its local circuit and added 2600Hz; the other end detected 2600Hz and interrupted its circuit. (These frequency-division systems interfaced as local phone lines at both ends). I'm not sure how this worked bi-directionally.

So by sending a 2600Hz tone, your frequency multiplexer would still remain connected, but the other end's frequency demultiplexer would think it had disconnected. When you stop sending 2600Hz, it thinks a new connection is getting set up through the same channel (i.e. HTTP request smuggling), and interprets whatever it receives as the setup instructions for the next connection. So you send 2600 Hz, then you send the super-secret MF-tone encoding of the phone number you want it to connect you to, or you send some super-duper-secret encoding that you normally couldn't dial on your phone. Input sanitization and translation is done in the exchange your phone directly connects to, not in the core of the system, so now that you are talking to the core, you can pass it unsanitized input (i.e. server-side request forgery) - there are no buffer overflows or CSRF, but you can call things that your exchange doesn't give you a way to access, such as internal departments of the phone company that are meant to be called by operators for assistance on complex requests, various test signals, and numbers that are only meant to be dialable locally, such as the operator in that exchange.

I highly recommend checking out https://evan-doorbell.com/group-1-playlist/ which hosts podcasts of an actual past phone phreaker explaining all of this with actual recordings of the phone system from back then highlighting all the dial tones, conversations with operators, internal machinery working noises and so on.

(Networks still work this way, by the way, just with better filtering. If you could somehow get packets into the middle of your ISP's network, you could send them to all sorts of places you can't send them to from your end of the connection.)
I live in a US state where I do pay property taxes but there is no income tax. Those property taxes and the overall sales tax are the main sources of revenue for the state.

I don't expect to live in an area without paying something to maintain it.
It's been a while since I've used websockets, but at least the last time I did, "simple" wouldn't be the word I'd have used. All kinds of annoying issues between different browsers. SSE was generally much simpler.
> don't think I've ever seen a worse AI detector in my life. I hope that this is not a real demo of the product.

"I tried it on anime images and it didn't work well on that class" would have been sufficient.
So what's the famed MediaTek based Pine64 device? And who are these Pine people, exactly?
Impressive and at the same time brutal.
iOS and android push does not rely on mobile carrier capability afaik, it has its own service
- The country with proven mass surveillance of its own citizens.
- Only country caught tapping German Chancellor's Phones.
- Country trying to put Assange in prison for 100+ years.

etc....so much more I could add. This country that does not need to be named is now banning an app on the pretext of intelligence? Poetic.

This is also very anti-capitalist which is slightly more worrying. Many businesses now depend on tiktok. Much of ecommerce growth in the past 2 years has been due to tiktok.

I hope the ban does not happen but if it does, China should ban the production and sale of Tesla's or something similar.
(This is my preferred type of pillow as well - an old, thin down one - and I can tell the difference when I sleep with or without it.)
Look, accessibility* is great and important to many people, and if you can afford to prioritize it early on in your product development, that's great - but it is not productive to treat commercial products like critical infrastructure, ignore the costs of implementing accessibility features (common tooling and standardization make it much easier, thankfully), and exaggerate the benefits.

The article starts off with the over-cited and misunderstood 1/6 figure, which comes from the WHO's claim that 1/6 of the world suffers from a "significant disability". I couldn't find a breakdown of what the WHO considers a significant disability in the first place, but the CDC in the US lists the following six disability categories in one of its studies: hearing, vision, cognitive, mobility, self-care, and independent living. How many of these are actually relevant in software? I have never once heard calls to make software more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities, and mobility/self-care/independent living categories are simply irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of software use cases. So no, you're not growing your audience by 1/6 by implementing screen-reader support for your website. If your product is growing, you're better off focusing on internationalization (which, technically, is a form of accessibility, but obviously not the subject of the article).

* Do we really need to abbreviate "accessibility" everywhere? It's just nine more characters than "a11y" and - speaking of accessibility - is more readable!
Yes. Specifcally, anything that is an observational epidemiology study (which is much of it) is extremely low credibility. Observational epidemiology is historically terrible, low-quality research that gets lots of hype but doesn't stand up to rigorous analysis.
Good start as another layer of defense with DEET, clothing, and such.

The next iteration should be a pill that causes ticks to avoid humans altogether.

Bonus points if there were a pill that also causes mosquitos to avoid humans.
It might be more possible than you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Mechanics should be wearing sufficient PPE if they are working with particulate pollution. Take asbestos out of the brake dust but they still do things that generate plenty of particulate, which is only an occupational hazard when coupled with improper ppe.
Ingesting data from GA4 with a few Python statements
Not a lawyer, but helped addressed these concerns on the dev side at a previous large company.

It's going to vary a lot, but one metric that's used by lawyers in finding companies to sue is whether it impedes another protected action. For example, hiring employees has lots of rules and protections, therefore the website where people can look at and apply for your jobs needs to be accessible, especially if there is no other way to apply.
Doesn't seem that out of place for a blog post on the exact change they made to comply though.

I mean you'd expect a pharmaceutical company to mention which rules they comply with at some point, even if not on the actual product (though in the case of medicine, probably also on the actual product).
I am not envious of the policy folks at Youtube who will have to parse out all the edge cases over the next few years. They are up against a nearly impossible task.

https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
If you mean taxis, yes, we call them cabs in NYC.

If you mean Uber/Lyft, no, we do not call them cabs in NYC.
I like how you picked lead paint and not doom scrolling on your phone while sitting on the couch instead off going out and getting exercise and being social.

God forbid our own industry hold up a mirror and admit we might be part of the problem.
> It's more morally permissible for corporate decision makers to install a global surveillance complex

No, it's more transparent. Unlike cookie banners.

If only cookie banners protected the consumer, but shadow cookies work fine.
The complexity of a object is not just the complexity of its ingredients. It's also the complexity of the factory needed to create that object. Time is a very important factor - and again, not just the time to make an object and the time to make the objects the object is made of, but time time to make the object that makes the object.

I've recently discovered Assembly Theory. There are so many interesting ideas in this interview, I don't know where to start. I think my favorite is: According to complexity: the Earth is the largest place in the universe. The Sun is simpler than a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI0DJME_D4
At least where I work, RSUs are often dangled to you as a way to justify a lower base salary. RSUs are built into the 'compensation philosophy', wherein the RSUs are combined with salary to calculate total compensation.

You're underpaid with regard to salary, so you'll lose a lot more by foregoing RSUs than you would if you were just paid a fair base salary without RSUs.

The other day I was talking to my wife about my frustrations at work, and she said "Well, just don't quit before you get that RSU vest." And I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had such conversations.
Speaking of curb cuts, recently in my town, they ripped up the sidewalks with already existing curb cuts, and added a new yellow pad with raised bumps in addition to new curbs (with the cuts). I was going to ask what this was for, but a quick search indicates that it is likely for blind users to feel the end of the sidewalk with a cane.

https://www.simplemost.com/sidewalk-bumps/?utm_partner=gray_...
At Rootly we also recently released an on-call paging solution and many of our customers have been making the move off of PagerDuty. We’ve made it super easy to migrate and our solution is about 50% less expensive than PD. But really the biggest benefit is probably the consolidation of all incident mgmt into one tool. We’re always happy to demo the tool (no obligations). If you happen to be at KubeCon or SRECon this week, we’ll be there giving live demos as well!
Exactly, CICO seems like a great approach until you realize it means counting calories for the rest of your life. I think keto is the way for me. Eat to satiety, exercise, live life with an even energy level.
Oooh boy you touched a pet peeve. I mean who needs authentication on the modern Web right? /s

The even more irritating thing is that there is nothing preventing this, and every server I've tried supports it. It's only the browser WebSocket API that was designed without this. Cookies are the only thing browsers will deign to send in the initial request.
Thank you, I read the first book but didn't come away with even half of that. I don't know why, but I couldn't follow the book at all.
That stuff almost always gets into the lungs of the workers making it. Oftentimes stuff gets banned because nobody can handle it properly.

Its actually kind of like nuclear power. The electricity isn't more dangerous to consumers, but observation of the mortal nature of man lead to the conclusion that it'd be better to keep corporations away from it.
Are you really going to use the word “useless” here?
Deceit usually implies some sort of intent to defraud. I'm not sure using software to generate background music for a video fits that description.
Honestly, all the techniques for this stuff have their problems, including the refresh button.
How exactly does a company of 12 people implementing the research of others on compute paid for by investors lacking in technical savvy “change everything”? Is it really possible to just pay for an article in rolling stone now? You could write essentially the exact same piece about dozens of other start ups in the generative AI space right now.

Might be effective PR, but it’s bad advertising.
Google Workspace, really considering moving, though sadly means I'll lose the Google account associated with it (and all the google services that belong to that Google account)
Pornhub pulls out of a Seventh State, Texas
Came here to recommend the same. Excellent mini documentary. Loved the extensive detail of the discovery process.
I'm fascinated to find out how they pulled this off. There's been cases before where a malicious gameserver controlled by an attacker could RCE clients which connect to it, but in this case the server was controlled by a trusted party, and the attackers shouldn't even have been able to know which server they were playing on, nevermind connect to it since they weren't invited. There must be layers to this one.
What sort of preparations do you recommend?
"A melancholic electronic ambient song in the style of boards of canada"

I got a female singer songwriter playing a downtempo acoustic song singing words describing my prompt, ha

Still impressive, but not "chatgpt for music".
79% real (100% DALL-E 3) https://trial.nuanced.dev/demo/file=/tmp/gradio/171cf07b209e...
suno v3 actually generates some really good music.

most genres are more formulaic than people want to believe.
I like to think how even things as common as screws have a huge world around them. There are different heads with quite a history behind each. There are different sizes and measurement systems. The angle of the thread is meaningful, the material, the various forces a screw can tolerate, the lead, the pitch, classes of fit, handedness.

It's a huge world and those are just screws. Almost everything is like that.
On yet another hand, house fires wouldn't be so devastating if they weren't making multifamily balloon framed timber structures.
That's probably a factor in its popularity, but it's in the category of "numerical contractions" like i18n [internationalization] or l10n [localization]. Numerical contractions were already very popular in the space of "making things work correctly for more people" [accessibility, localization, internationalization...].
What would you do then if you could prepare for a world where it's already here? Where the asteroid already hit, to use your own metaphor.
If AGI and artificial sentience comes hand in hand, I fail to see how our plans to spin up AGI's as a black box to "do the work" is not essentially a new form of slavery.

Speaking from an ethics point of view: at what point do we say that AGI has crossed a line and deserves self autonomy? And how would we ever know when the line is crossed?
There was also Spectrum Forth apparently, although I never had a chance to use it: https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/spect...
to be perfectly honest, we can't really work safely with trans-uranic compounds, just look at rock mountain flats
I think it's worth noting that the 3 body series were originally written in Chinese and translated to other languages. Some of the issue with characters and dialog can be attributed to Chinese culture where people cannot or will not speak their mind in public or to their superiors for example. I think in some cases where a character in the books makes outright puzzling decisions from a western perspective probably makes perfect sense from a Chinese perspective. Some of these issues can probably also be attributed to the translation as well. Personally I really enjoyed not only the hard sci-fi aspect of the books but the predominately Chinese perspective you get from the books. I loved the way he tied the story historically back to the Cultural Revolution in China for example.

I have read the creators of the Netflix series have adapted the story to make it more of a global epic, changing some of the characters from Chinese to other nationalities and you see that in the trailers as well. I think this probably makes a lot of sense for Netflix given their target audiences but I hope they still keep a lot of the Chinese aspect of the books and some of the characters as I do think it's important for the story.
My first 'job' as a kid was working at Oasis Software on White Lightning, which was a Forth based game making kit for the ZX Spectrum (amongst other platforms). About a million years ago now. Or now ago million, if you know Forth. https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/white...
Disagree [1]. Blackrock owns Invitations Homes, which does indeed own a large portion of US housing stock. They buy in cash or with loans that are a lot less interest rate than you or I would pay.

[1] https://slate.com/business/2021/06/blackrock-invitation-hous...
You can do mobile push notifications to a phone even if they aren't connected to a mobile carrier.

That said, I'd argue SSE is the browser equivalent of mobile push notifications.
I think that proper defensive driving is about identifying risks around you and achieving separation from those risks proactively. That can involve "classic" defensive driving stuff like going the speed limit, staying in your lane, etc. But it can also involve passing a driver who's clearly not paying attention so they (and their decisions) take place behind you, where they can't hurt you.

For example, if I'm behind a vehicle that's constantly braking because the driver is screwing around with their phone, I'm passing the fucker. That vehicle is dangerous and being operated by a moron, and I'm not going to subject myself to that risk. Similarly, if I see a car weaving through traffic in my rearview, I'm going to temporarily close the gap with the car in front of me so that the wannabe street racer doesn't get tempted to swipe in front of me. These are both things that classic defensive driving tell you to absolutely never do, but for me, they mitigate the most proximate risks.
How often do you see mechanics with any kind of PPE?
Unfortunately PPE is not always taken seriously by automotive tradespeople (and their employers). It is common to see both professional mechanics and home mechanics doing brake jobs without PPE, in many places.

Also, smaller amounts of brake dust are distributed everywhere in the environment where vehicles are operated.
I'm glad this was said, now I can finally ditch my EV
Bioaccumulation is certainly a factor to be concerned about, but you can't skip over the part where you definitively demonstrate harm.

Lots of things bioaccumulate, but cause no problems at all.
Does more exposure to sunlight help? I remember there’s UV light treatment that shines for a few minutes.
IDK, I feel like creating music and causing music to be created are not the same thing.
Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
There was a recent episode on The Latent Space podcast where they spoke with one of the Suno founders, I really enjoyed it

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2c1yL8hlttlkCs6nPysVi0?si=O...
We should consider ourselves lucky that it is not somehow cheaper for low cost homebuilders to fill their drywall with plutonium.
Huh, interesting. I confess I didn't get that at all, but perhaps it just bounced off me. It wouldn't be the first time.
We're not going to _completely_ phase it out - it's too useful for a number of products - but we could absolutely reduce our use of it, and if he thinks the line is going to continue to go up, he's probably wrong.
And where the document talks about SSI, it essentially means SPI (just with differential signalling etc.)? In other words, is it this SSI?: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Serial_Interface>
That sounds even better than training LLM on my own. Thanks.