skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some academic fields, books are also just collections of technical papers on some topic, or one really long paper, which is probably not something to earn money from. I assume most are sold to libraries, similar to journals. Though Library Genesis also contains other, more commercial books.
> I also don't go around having intelligent conversations with chairs.

It seems like your functional theory of consciousness is "thing that produces plausible English output," which is, I might gently suggest, a bit flawed.

Why is ChatGPT "conscious" for you but DALL-E is not? They're both big honking pattern-matching generators trained on lots of data. Why isn't ELIZA conscious, according to your theory? (or is it?)
There is no mention that Rocketnotes uses OpenAI's API in either its README or INSTALLATION.
Yeah, people often approach legal in the wrong way: people often want to ask "is this OK?" and have the lawyers say "yes", but basically no lawyer is going to say that for almost anything. Instead you need to ask them to explain what the risks of different courses of action are and take a view as to whether they are important or not.
Aggregate data is not considered personal data by the GDPR.

Managers and everyone else can have charts and graphs without retaining personal data.

The processing of personal data prior to anonymisation to turn it into aggregate data, that part needs protection. But you can do it in a variety of ways that don't require personally invasive tracking.
'Being forced' is doing a lot of work in that statement.

What if I'm asked to drive an employee and I willingly want to help out and drive someone around, and I then simply file expenses and get reimbursed for mileage?

Are taxi companies going to sue every company that has ever done something like that? Two sales reps in one car driving around – sue them as well?
I have been using E*Trade (stock brokerage) continuously since late 1990s. I'm sure I have a few others from the mid-90s, but no easy way to confirm earliest use date without pawing through thousands of old emails for account setup confirmations.
Still have my college email address. But none of the clients can login until I physically go in and reset the password at helpdesk, 4HELP.

I actively use the eBay account I created in 1998.

And my Slashdot burner account has become my main account because my primary account is tied to my old ISP email address. Learned to never do that again.
Apple Can't Build AI, So It's Reportedly Asking Google Gemini to Power Siri
> Every single update we would beg our users to please, please, please, hold off on updating until we put out an update.

This order of operations is wrong.
I wouldn't have thought about Netflix as the service is so fundamentally different today than it was back then. I first signed up in 2003.
TIL linux is being replaced by a closed source OS no one uses
Market consolidation (Microsoft/Google/Amazon) might cause a jobpocalypse, just as it did for the jobs of well paid auto workers in the 1950s (GM/Chrysler/Ford).

GM/Chrysler/Ford didn't have to be better than the startup competition they just had to be mediocre + be able to use their market power (vertical integration) to squash it like a bug.

The tech industry is headed in that direction as computing platforms all consolidate under the control of an ever smaller number of companies (android/iphone + aws/azure/gcloud).

I feel certain that the mass media will scapegoat AGI if that happens, because AGI will still be around and doing stuff on those platforms, but the job cuts will be more realistically triggered by the owners of those platforms going "ok, our market position is rock solid now, we can REALLY go to town on 'entitled' tech workers".
> The only way I can really object is to close the tab, so that's what I do.

Isn't it too late by then?
Amazon — my first purchase was in 1997 for a test prep book.
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I'm very clearly not conflating the legislature and judiciary, as evidenced by the fact that I differentiated between them in my comment.

> a lack of resourcing to quickly enforce laws makes those laws bad

Is true, and you haven't refuted it, only used the emotionally manipulative phrase "bad faith argument".
Sorry but this is a cold take. Open models will massively empower humanity once we can bring the power/compute for a given performance level in line, and regulation can absolutely curtail the concentration of power if we can just summon the political will to create real ones.

The problem is that nearly half the population in America wants to give their freedom away and create a dictator to stick it to the "elites" so moving away from a concentration of power is probably not in the cards.
I suppose it's Yahoo for me too. I thought it was a few years older than that, but it can't be, as it was launched in '97, indeed.
It's one of those "the risk goes up the longer it's attached" type things. I can't find studies, but I presume it looks like a bell curve.

I know there's also a much higher risk of contracting diseases if you can't remove the tick in a careful way. If you smoosh it, or otherwise cause it enough distress that it regurgitates while still attached to you, that will also increase your chances.

If you live in tick areas, get a tick kit, people. They're cheap. Don't do what my dad did and use pliers.
Science is specifically a process of cooperative knowledge building, using testable explanations and minimizing human biases. I would like to hear about your experiments, though. I don't have full faith in scientific journals, and they've had loads of problems in regards to reproducibility and legitimacy of data, but the process is the best we have for determining truth.

You don't blind people to their own birthdays, you mix real astrological predictions and readings with randomized ones, and see if the results fared better than random chance. I'm very skeptical of astrology (to be completely honest, I completely reject it), but I am trying to take part in a real conversation here. I believe that astrology is complete bunk, wall to wall, but I'm open to reading more on it and talking to you about it. I don't want to attack anybody for their beliefs.
Define "online"?

Sure, I have that ebay account that I created when ebay started in 1995, but if we just say "any online service", well, I have run my own e-mail server since 1994, so I guess that predates it. I do not even want to admit this, but my Yahoo account is still valid, I see emails from 1994 also.

If we go with email, I was a sysadmin at a university, and at least two professors in our department had emails from the 1980s. Their account was the same, and still worked, of course, does that count?
Is it just me or does someone else finds it curious that a post with 414 points in 2 hours and many comments is on page 2? There are posts with less points, and less comments in more time that are on the first page.
Is the HN ranking algorithm public?
If you want to elicit trust, you may want to consider eliminating all the trackers and other stuff you have on the site

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My `pobox.com` account was created in the mid-1990s. Active the whole time.

My college email addresses were created three decades ago and are active today. I could switch back to using one as my primary email address everywhere, and do use it in some places, but the pobox address became the primary one after graduation, before the college address was reenabled.

My Amazon account was also created in the mid-1990s. I applaud the company for making complete purchase histories still available.

I am not sure when my `yahoo.com` account was created but it was in the late 1990s. I have never ever used the address anywhere. It gets lots of spam.

My eBay account was created in the late 1990s. Active the whole time.

I have a low single-digit Slashdot account.

I also have a valid ICQ account from the 1990s, I think, but never used it.
Me too. I now use it for "I don't care" accounts so it is literally full of spam.
Science is about facts, evidences and models, theory. If someone belive in something without critical thinking, was missing one key fact that made science successfull.. and can become propaganda, or even worse, so often the need of so many peoples in something to believe, will transform even the arguments of science in something similar to religious beliefs.
But even religions have a -logic-, ethics and moral, and without become fanatism.
This days, so many claims more or less scientific become propaganda, is not a problem of science, but big parts of societ are missing the capacity to understand ad use the scientific knowledge, and often even the simplest logic about everydays facts..
IDK, the line seems fairly clear. Asking someone to upgrade an existing product for security makes sense. Similarly, asking to switch to two factor isn't a bad idea at all, even if there are secondary motives.

Asking someone to come over from a competitor's current product doesn't sound like an actual security intent.
I know this is not the point, but... Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct? I mean I guess at this stage in his life what does he need the money for, but you'd think they'd give him like a "visiting professor" title or something.
Character created: Tue Oct 3 09:43:00 1995

A MUD. Still logged in all the time. Had a few characters before that one.
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Tick gut bacteria takes awhile, but tick borne viruses that multiply in their salivary glands, like Powassan virus, are much faster. 15 minutes transmissions.
Indeed. And the limit sounds like not just silicon lottery, but possibly also hard voltage limit, but maybe the breaks come off for the Pi500.
One of very few things I hate about current Samsung phones - there are popups about updates of their preinstalled (and uninstallable) apps from their own store.

I always ignore it, and within few hours there is another notification how they were updated. Seems like most idiotic approach, illusion of choice, effectively frustrating users.
Just how Google's internal culture has killed their ability to ship research projects into reality, I do also feel Apple's internal culture is going to make them struggle to ship a competitive AI.

Neither is encouraging the behavior needed for either of those things, leaving an opportunity for others.

Although I doubt they'd partner with Google in the end.
I thought we, the Americans, literally did that "act of terrorism" and said it was the Ukranians.
Yes. Although in fairness, the "cookie rule" part has been updated since then. But not anytime recently.

And the GDPR's subsequent entry into force created the current emphasis on how actively (and individually) you need to consent to things, and how much you have to be told about them first. Stuff like "clicking anywhere on this site, tells us you consent" was a lot more common, pre-GDPR
> this discussion will soon be futile

Yes we could simply ask the AGI what to do anyways. I hope it's friendly.
Technically AMD had CPUs boosting to 5GHz in 2013, but it was the horrible buldozer FX series with abysmal IPC.
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> The researchers published this challenge to the paradigm as a brief, "Unifying Fluidic Excretion Across Life from Cicadas to Elephants," in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Is that a Windows installed by the manufacturer or a Windows installed by somebody else with possibly not all the right drivers for that machine?
I would argue the most serious of disciplines ask themselves this question constantly. This is because a serious discipline will be pushing the boundary of human knowledge and that necessarily comes with a boatload of failure and uncertainty.
> Also anecdotally, pregnant belly-sleepers frequently rely on cushioning

I mean, undergoing pregnancy is in and of itself not great for one's health (especially without modern healthcare), so I don't know how much that specific thing should be factored into healthy lifestyle choices.

In particular, pregnancy puts a lot of pressure on internal organs in a way that means one should not be surprised to have only one working sleeping position by the third trimester. At that point it's governed by Newton and another growing human, not choice.

(To be clear, I'm not saying pregnancy is a bad lifestyle choice, just that pregnancy is not kind to the human body.)
I gave it above, you're just too dense to even begin to try to understand what I mean. If you have a specific question I'm more than happy to try and answer it.
I love to bring up this glossary whenever I see a post about sound subcultures. I'll admit that I have bought a variety of nice headphones over the years. I also admit that any group that needs a glossary this "muddy" for how to describe things is likely a little lost in itself. Like most religions, the first thing to do is invent some language.

https://headphones.com/pages/glossary
> Before the advent of these models, the main argument against automating these tasks was that machines can’t think creatively.

Really? For me it's always been, and hasn't changed since LLMs have been released, that it's much harder to explain in enough details what you want to an AI and get the correct result than to actually code the correct result yourself.

Prompting is like a programming language but keywords have a random outcome, it's 100% inferior to simply writing the code itself.

LLMs will help with tooling around writing the code, like static analysis does, but it'll never ever replace writing code.
> its a dubious claim at best

Wow I’ll bite, proof by contradiction. There isn’t a single credible article claiming apple sells their customers information
This is normal, the 6th word of the blog post is a link to it.

> After the initial buzz of [pwning Chattr.ai] had settled down, […]
> And my Slashdot burner account has become my main account because my primary account is tied to my old ISP email address. Learned to never do that again.

4 digit account #s forever :) (in practice, hadn't logged in for forever till now).
Binding a hotkey to `bash -c 'flameshot gui -s -r | tesseract - - | gxmessage -title "Decoded Data" -fn "Consolas 12" -wrap -geometry 640x480 -file -'` does the job for me.

I just press the hotkey (Super+O), drag the selection over whatever I want to OCR, then immediately get a popup dialog containing the captured text.
Archibald sells a vicuna sweater for $3.1k, and they say the at cost price is $1.9k [1]

Given maybe $500-800 in production cost, shipping, duties etc, the cost is probably $1k. It is significantly more expensive than other fibers.

1. https://www.archibaldlondon.com/us/collection?category=vicun...
Slightly off-topic, but if you fancy writing compilers in your free time, Cranelift has a great Rust library[0] for doing code generation - it’s a pleasure to use!

[0]: https://docs.rs/cranelift-frontend/0.105.3/cranelift_fronten...
Unfortunately another theme of Michael Crichton books is that because of human hubris and corporate greed, the disaster is inevitable. Regulation and scientific ethics don't matter because humans find a way. Although, maybe that's because it wouldn't make for a very interesting book if government regulation successfully prevented Hammond from experimenting with DNA.
Opportunity for exploitation.
Yeah. She was awarded the Crafoord prize this year, a distinction similar to the Nobel prize in other disciplines.
(Other mathematicians who were awarded the prize include Grothendieck, Deligne, Connes, Tao, Bombieri...).
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No moreso than the OS itself. The real responsibility actually lies with the people causing the remote access (e.g. the website operator, the remote hacker, etc).
This sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't. A similar thing happened with Machine Learning (Springer) and for the same reason: the entire editorial board abandoned it and founded the Journal of Machine Learning Research (https://jmlr.org/). But Machine Learning recovered and is still a dominant factor -- and still charging high fees.
Interesting question.

I think my oldest account that still works would be my Slashdot account in the 70k User ID range.

Possibly my Amazon account.
Large-scale study explores genetic link between colorectal cancer and meat
I hope for the day such tool will convert Oracle PL/SQL to Postgres
Only if they can understand the proofs first.

However, LLMs aren't capable of writing proofs. They can only regurgitate text that looks like a proof by training on proofs already written. There's no reasoning behind what they produce. So why waste the time of a human to review it?

If the provers' kernel and automation make the proof pass but it makes no sense, what use is it?

People write proofs to make arguments to one another.
Yeah, it was insane how long it took for developers to start taking transport security seriously. I can understand people in the 90s or early 00s thinking "well it's not like you have an attacker on your LAN or at your ISP, right?", but Firesheep was in late 2010, properly into the era of smartphones, social networks, and free wifi, and you could just download an Android app or Firefox extension and trivially steal someone's FB account
I was sifting through old email recently and rediscovered my neopets account from early 2000s. I had to contact then to unlock it as it had been soft deactivated in the interim but they were friendly about it and I answered some questions and got access.

There's not much going on with neopets if you're curious.. it's basically a zombie IP at this point in terms of features / game play.
I use Tesseract semi-regularly and only rarely have recognition issues, including with receipt scans (or even photos). How are you specifically using it?
All the other techie sites are sticklers for - and this is true - bad behavior.

The reason is, techies live their lives more in browsers than other people. Just because most people don't, doesn't make it right.
Its well known here for past decade. Maybe having wife working as a doctor helps, but this info is freely available. Also, if you ever interacted with any doctor with suspicion of a tick bite, this is first thing they ask.

If you are outdoorsy type, this is should be around top of your list, just like knowing inside & out of say various mosquito-borne diseases and their spread vectors when traveling around.
how do car auto updates work?

I would inclined to believe that maybe the manufacturer sends out an email or sms to notify you of am update and then you choose the time, while also being given a change log of what exactly is being updated.

otherwise what would prevent a bogus server asking for an update you have no idea about and installing something malicious and - whoopsie daisy - your car grows legs and disappears?
Making sure those productive minds sell ads rather than do science. Value creation!
Could an iceberg with a few seal families on it have drifted from the Arctic to the Antarctic? Presumably in the tropics the seals would have had a bad time and gone hungry and overheated, but once they got to cooler waters again, they would have been surrounded by food they love with zero competitors.
I suppose that'd be my Amazon account (mid to end nineties). Other than that, my Microsoft account, which used to be my Skype account from 2003 (IIRC).
Scientists can now remove nanoplastics from our water with 94% efficiency
I would wager that there were more cars with CarPlay and/or Android Auto sold in 2023 than Models Y, or any Tesla for that matter.
Paul Graham is right still.

Eu bureaucrats could have expected that many companies _need_ tracking to survive.

While most people do not actually care about tracking.

Not to mention that behind most companies are the people who earn their living. By honest work (advertising is not guns smuggling you know).

So eventually those stupid bureaucrats didn’t really solve anything, but made life slightly worse for everyone.

Which proves original Paul’s point.
Some other rideshare app(s) will come in and fill in the void. I had zero issues getting around Austin when Uber/Lyft pulled out of that market.
???

The ultimate goal of an organization (and society) is to stay alive, with minimum changes. It will evolve if it needs to, but it won't if it's not necessary.

Disrupting happens in a really really competitive enironment, and is only ONE of the different possible strategies to survive. Most of the time, disruption happens to the whole domain, not to the organization.

Others might be to "buy" the competitor, to build "regulatory barrier"...
You're not the only person who has had this idea. I have too. This is the first time I've seen someone else say it quite like this.

I have to say, it's more confronting to hear it come from someone else.

The interesting part will be the violent conflict inherent in this turn of events. Will it be so easy to mow down billions of people? Will a way be found to do the job without the natural resistance of empathetic humans (A virus? A very large drone swarm? Pin-sharp training of a traditional police force?). How fast is too risky to execute? How _slow_ is too risky to execute?
My gmail account turns 20 this year. Ebay says I joined in 2001. The winner, so far, is Amazon; my first order was in 2000.
> The law isn't that bad actually

I've clicked 3 cookie banners today alone and its not even 2pm yet.

How many cookie banners have I clicked in my life so far? How many cookie banners can I expect to click over the remaining 40-50 years of my life?

The law is objectively bad.
That's been my experience, but unfortunately _that's_ where cargo culting comes in. As part of $NEW_WEBSITE_CHECKLIST we have to "check with legal" which inevitably involves a laundry list of stuff like this, and the default is to accept what legal says, unless we _really_ don't like the answer at which point we're going to do it anyway...
I'm trying to move a legitimate domain to them but I'm getting this error:

Entity reference not found [Object does not exist]

Has something similar happened to you ?
IIRC it wasn't truly stable, just stable enough to sometimes finish a Geekbench run before crashing.
Modifying mouth bacteria to remove cavities
The deeper you get into scientific communities, the less controversial it is to speculate since the more likely you are to care about knowing enough about the topic before saying anything (or otherwise have a better read on how much you don't know of what you're talking about).

The controversy comes up because it has become pop science to discuss alternative proposals to DM/DE without properly conveying why DM/DE are the leading candidates for their associated measurement abnormalities. So you get a lot of people who functionally know nothing about the topic arguing that DM/DE are illogical because according to them scientists are just fudging the data.

This is a thing even with the more informed/STEM-minded crowd of HN.
The specific example I remember (because I'm the one that fixed it) had something to do with how Image I/O handled TGA images. I don't remember all the details, but it was definitely not the case that we were misusing the API. Per the documentation everything had been above board, and everything was still above board. The images causing the issue were well-formed. Just something subtly changed with the CGImageSource API for TGA images specifically that required finding a workaround.

Why that customer was using TGA images in their workflow in the 2010s I'll never know.