skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not simply ban any impersonation of humans? For what honest, economically useful reason could someone want to use AI without disclosing it? Proposed regulations:

1. Notify all users that what is displayed is output from a computer program (see #4 for terminology).

2. Notify all users on whose behalf the computer program is operating: There must be a human or organization (e.g., corporation) named, the business equivalent of the 'beneficial owner'. For example, 'You are using the Customer Helper computer program by Amazon'.

3. Going further: Ban any representation that the computer output is human: No human names, no anthropomorphism, no metaphors like 'says' or even 'intelligence'.

4. Terminology describing the system must include 'computer', and use computer-related terms such as 'output'. (This one needs more thought regarding terminology.)

If that seems too far, why not? What are we hiding? And it would be inexpensive to implement. Also, consider that the biggest risk is manipulating people on an automated, mass scale, which depends significantly on the victims thinking they are interacting with a human.

Especially in these early days, people are vulnerable - most people are not in the HN bubble and have no idea what they are dealing with.

I also think it addresses a clear risk: The chat programs I've seen are clearly designed to appear human, to the point of polite chattiness, apologies, etc. Think about it on a practical level, it's a fun gimmick, a way to show off capability, but otherwise superfluous: how does it benefit anyone? It doesn't increase productivity. It appears designed to manipulate or fool people into thinking they are talking with humans, as does much else about the design and language around it. That indicates a serious problem in the direction of the industry.
I mean, aren't we kind of at a point where "predicted in Xyz science fiction novel" is a bit passe? Mankind is currently grappling with absolutely wild developments from every direction: the advent of AI, the collapse of birthrates globally, the advent of quantum cryptography threatening to make everybody's internet activity an open book, and the collapse of global ecosystems.

If anything, Neal Stephenson did nothing more than mention a simple idea that was practically laying on the ground in broad daylight, and technology finally caught up to the point where it's implementable and deployable.
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More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853463
That assumes users fully understood what they were consenting to. Agreements and Privacy Policies are written to exhaust and bamboozle the users so they just hit “accept.”
https://archive.ph/tTOqB
So the actual equation should be 100 billion times 100 Trillion times clock speed? ( I have zero ideas about how our brains works )

Even we have 10 times higher clock speed, a trillion transistor GPU is still very slow comparatively speaking ?

Surely memory has to come in somewhere?
There are people who use SSB on VHF to talk over long distances. There is always some bending and they can get weak signal. On rare times, troposphere ducting means they can reach hundreds of miles.

This wouldn't be useful for that since, like most handhelds, it doesn't have SSB, just FM.
AWS also forked ElasticSearch into their “OpenSearch” DBaaS. It caused some issues at my last job because OpenSearch limited us to a particular version of the NEST .NET library that was missing some newer functionality. Real bummer and feels like a step in the wrong direction given all we’ve accomplished in tech over the last 20 years.
I'm not sure how you'd determine the least real root to that, given all three have equally zero imaginary component.
I simply used gaming to make it clear attempting to be addictive wasn’t the same as actually being addictive. Social Apps rise and fall in popularity just like everything else.

Meta has billions of users but that’s split across 4 platforms FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. So clearly popularity isn’t the same as addiction otherwise their FB app would be all they need.

Go back a few years and Netflix seem addictive as people binged shows, but I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting they are addictive today.

Q.E.D. New and fun isn't the same as addictive.
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I find Emacs Macros and rectangular editing as more useful in lore situations than multiple cursors.

As for regexps, the syntax in Emacs is hell, but I do know Emcacs has very powerful edit/replace tools.
Boiling it down here... some users hit the "Yes" button when Facebook asked them if it was OK to allow Netflix to access their DMs for a feature that allowed you to chat (bidirectionally) with your friends inside the Netflix app. That's a privacy violation?
Joan Shakespeare
I don't understand the question. Isn't this like asking what happens if pigs don't thrive below the Great Lakes region? If battery farm collapse disorder was a thing, nobody would be freaking out. Native plants do not in fact depend on honey bees for pollination.

Stories will run about native pollinators being threatened by ecological and environmental catastrophes, and we should take those seriously. But from what I understand, honey bees are one of those catastrophes.
Which this one is:

> Garnet has been of sufficiently high quality that several first-party and platform teams at Microsoft have deployed versions of Garnet internally for many months now.

https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs
I see more of a shift to open core.

Many large orgs just say no to viral licenses, and in choosing AGPL, you put blockers to adoption.

Open core releases some of the project under permissive license, and keeps some private or under a permissions license.

We are all still trying to figure out how we can have sustainable open source where people can be paid to work on it full time
FTX had a 32--billion dollar valuation by that point, with over one-million users. Alameda was well over one billion and doing very sophisticated financial transactions.

That's not a tiny little startup hoping to make it big. Your investors and board want you to follow proper corporate governance, especially around conflicts of interest. Your users would like you to follow proper corporate governance rules so they don't lose their money. And do little things like following the express rules you told them you would follow (like FTX not loaning customer deposits to Alameda).

Playing fast and loose with the rules is what got him into trouble. The fact that Lewis doesn't pursue this angle just shows how big the pass Lewis gave him. It didn't have to be all about the lurid details, but the lack of best practices here was pretty bad.
Congrats on the launch! Image consistency is a big thing to solve. I don't make videos, but sometimes I try to get OpenAI to tweak an AI generated graphic and it ends up rendering it completely differently.

Good luck with Eggnog! I think AI generated media is really cool.
Whist the article hints at it, it fails to explicitly state that many managers negatively impact productivity. Companies could further improve their productivity and thus profits by eliminating excessive layers of management.
FOSSY open source conference is back in Portland
I do disagree with it. The moment this tool causes a communication problem is the moment the team loses confidence in it and stops using it.

I do like the thread + AI approach.
I'm pretty sure math is the most poorly taught subject out of all of them. Social studies, current events, history, literature arts are mostly skills most people use everyday.

Math is important so every school is required to teach it however not many schools can. The issue with math is there are never going to be very many good math teachers as that would require many more people who know math. How many adults even know math beyond basic arithmetic?
There is something nice and pure about this site. It is probably just coincidence and random that the number 37 is seen around. Likely something along the lines of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

However none of that matters. What matters is the site is there for all of us to enjoy. It made me smile and I appreciate that.
Yes, I think you've eloquently summarized my thinking on this. Thankfully I've never had to witness people trying to take justice into their own hands, as you have, though I imagine it must be harrowing to witness especially in a mob situation.

It sounds like you're trying to be part of the solution, which I deeply commend. Thank you also for your very thoughtful reply. It's appreciated.
Facebook had a streaming service? This is the first I’ve heard about it.
You’re definitely onto something. The author starts a sentence with the words “In so far as”.
Implications such as?
It will be interesting what the counter-surveillance will be like. The dart has to be adhered well enough that the speedster can’t get a lead on their pursuers, jump out, rip the dart off, and chuck it into the back of a UPS truck.
IMO the FAA’s approach and handling was the most shocking aspect. Not sure what purpose the FAA serves anymore.
I think people using AI for customer service are probably doing it entirely wrong. AI misunderstand hallucinate and your company is absolutely liable for the shit your AI says to your customer as we recently discovered.

The AI and the dumb things it may say ought to be the property and responsibility of the customers AI assistant whereas companies provide a machine parseable database of rules and intents which is to be consumed by users AI assistant.

The endpoints accessed by such intents are intentionally designed flows that insure there is no misunderstanding nor undue friction in helping the user give you more of their money.

User to their assistant: I want to want $SHOW, I see that I can rent it on amazon or add HBO so you can watch it.

User is shown a human designed disclosure of the continuing cost potentially with some surrounding add supporting the value proposition eg other shows people who want to watch $SHOW might also enjoy adding value to the pitch based on information willingly shared about originating purpose.

User: I want to cancel my service

User is transferred to a queue to either talk with someone immediately or schedule a call routing them to retention rather than general tech support.

If THEIR AI tells them that HBO is free or that they are entitled to a credit well THEIR AI told them that the company never did and the user gets the benefit of a singular interface rather than learning 95
This is why OAuth is insufficient for privilege management, especially for multi-tenant systems, or what should be segregated data sets. You want to grant access to dataset abc123, but not dataset abc124 belonging to the same user.

This leads to an explosion of scopes, or an explosion of API keys, unless you have a policy engine, or resource-based access control. A company as big as Meta should be able to (is able to) do better than they did, but they probably didn't think this was worth prioritizing because money lie in attention farming, not in mending the fences.
Some of the books are _definitely_ different than others. In whole, the universe can be seen as somewhat troubling as well, but the vast majority is quite optimisitic. The majority of the universe that is, bad things still do happen in the plot.
> Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author and parapsychology researcher. He proposed the concept of morphic resonance,[2][3] a conjecture that lacks mainstream acceptance and has been widely criticized as pseudoscience.
This is a process referred to in government as "Content Disarm and Reconstruction." But I can't stress this enough: if you don't trust the files, you shouldn't be processing them at all locally.

I built a similar tool that converts >300 formats to images in a remote sandbox. https://preview.ninja/
News reports say that he might serve as little as 12.5 years.
In the sense that some users may not have realized what they were allowing, that's fair. But that just implies that the permission dialog for this sort of thing should be pretty onerous while being very easy to understand.

There are details that aren't clear here too: Did Netflix request read permissions when you signed in via Facebook? If so, that's shitty and is worthy of condemnation, but the onus falls more on Netflix than Facebook there. You should be able to sign in with Facebook without expecting your DMs to be sent to Netflix. It's still on Facebook, but to a much lesser extent: They should make what's being shared super clear when you sign in with Facebook, and that includes making the sign in super onerous and scary if its something like reading DMs, so the user doesn't miss these details. And they should be reviewing third party apps and what permissions they request, and making sure its inline with the functionality the app is presenting.

However, if the normal Facebook authentication flow did not grant this permission, and the permission was only granted when the user accessed the "Netflix Chat" or whatever feature which obviously did, in actuality, require the read permission to function, then this isn't that big a deal.
By any chance does that include interoperability with the ext2 implementation used on theater projectors? Not a gotcha, if that’s been solved that would make my life tremendously easier.
The licensing change only applies to their future versions which they own all contributions of which AWS won't be allowed to leech off anymore.
Facebook: We install a root CA on the device and MitM all SSL traffic
Video of the dart in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiNPvrKRCgg

Seems like a really tricky shot to land since the only way to aim the device is by pointing the patrol car at the target vehicle.

It's still many years away, but I could see specialty homing drones doing a better job of this. By that point, remote disabling of vehicles might be mandatory.
Top of page 2. Never install these apps on your phone.
Made me think of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
I lost my dad to cancer. I was very much furious with cancer while being well aware of the irrationality of feeling that way. Still am, and it's been a few years. It's easy to be furious at cancer, and the pure random destructive wastefulness of it.
Thanks for asking for help in a difficult situation! It sounds like your co-founder is going through a tough situation, and it's great that you want to help. Here are some things you can do:

Listen actively: Let your co-founder vent and express their feelings freely without judgment. Sometimes just having a listening ear can be incredibly helpful.

Validate their emotions: A simple "That must be really tough" or "I can see why you'd be feeling this way" can go a long way.

Focus on what they can control: help them focus on what they can control moving forward. Maybe it's reaching out to a mentor/friend in your network who can help?

Just be there: Sometimes the best support is simply being there for them. Let them know you care and are there for them however they need you.

(You included some irrelevant details about stock and cliffs, but I can understand it's an emotional time and you may not be able to think coherently.)
I can try implementing it in the future lol
It would surely be a quality of life improvement.
But with the current tools, I tried my best to make the syntax as similar as possible to PyTorch’s!
as an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860385
unless I’m wrong thunderbird software has complete access to all your emails when you give thunderbird your email details. Of course, that does not imply that a specific thunderbird employee can read your emails, it is probably encrypted on that end but if they pull a switcheroo and download all your emails into an AWS instance, yes that might be possible (and probably wildly illegal too)
Could be, I can't remember when it didn't run well but WINE has improved greatly the past 5 years especially.
Vultr Just Betrayed Us
If Thunderbird had a hosted web version, yes. Are you arguing that data portability and interoperability should never be possible if the receiving app is an online service?

Of course Thunderbird could send an automatic update that starts shipping your emails to Thunderbird's servers. You dont expect that, but only because you trust them.
Thanks, this is a good suggestion.
Why don’t we try to fix the “cannot be used for bezos yacht”-licenses instead of shunning the numerous companies of especially databases who want to do good in a meaningful way? Source available is good, better than proprietary which is what we get with aws, but still not enough. People are legitimately afraid of rug pulls, like sneaking in essential features into paid offerings. I think a lot of the skepticism comes from those unknowns.

Afaik the non-discriminatory use is the only ideological hard line. I guess people can debate that forever, like with GPL and copyleft and such. But my edgy take is that most people don’t really care about deep ideology yet want something that promotes a healthy hacker- and small-business friendly open source ecosystem. Ideally, a simple, well-understood license that restricts “re-selling your product” and not much more, that you can slap on a project without a legal team, just like with the MIT license.
"The Idea Factory" is a great book about Bell Labs, it doesn't talk about tax breaks or subsidies as much as the need to provide some kind of public benefit to stave off the anti-trust regulator. Which is why they basically gave away the the transistor and the semi-conductor. The Bell system also had a LOT of money, kind of like the Google of their day, so they could fund "moonshots"

"Dealers of Lightning" is about Xerox Parc and is also a great read if you're interested in the subject.

I don't think the level of tax breaks has really changed between then and now for R&D, though maybe reducing the headline tax rate reduced the benefit of them? But I think the main issue is that the money wormhole stopped working - Industrial research labs seem to be a kind of luxury good
Facebook is always going to pull stunts like this.

They don't do creepy things on occasion by accident, they do them intentionally by default.

Same old story for the last 20 years. Zuck is creepy AF, everything he touches is creepy AF.

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
From 25 years ago? No.
Is running an app on ethereum still over 100x the cost to run it on, say, AWS?

I hear CEOs talk about how this will revolutionize the world, but realistically no one needs a cryptographically secure immutable ledger to validate that someone is the true owner of concert tickets or whatever.

I do wonder, if the only real-world application that needs a cryptographically secure immutable ledger, is cryptocurrency.
Apologies if this is a dumb question or a taboo question or both, but what the does “conscious” mean?

We know about lots of complex systems, and systems that exhibit “emergent” behaviors seeming much more complex and goal-directed than the components of the system (the glider gun, that thing with the computer-modeled birds with like 3 simple rules but then the whole flock does complicated, creative stuff, long list).

Because I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone call a virus conscious, or a fire (until this submission I guess) and both of those things consume energy in one way or another, reproduce, avoid obstacles, adapt to situations to reproduce more.

Ok so maybe it’s bacteria, or maybe it’s spiders, or maybe it’s dolphins, or maybe it’s primates, and then abruptly it’s “yup, humans for sure, that’s the one thing everyone agrees on, humans are conscious”.

But is a fertilized human egg conscious, or a fetus at one trimester, or two, or three, or birth? That seems pretty controversial.

Doesn’t this all seem a bit pre-Copernican? It’s like the “Copenhagen Interpretation” of wave function “collapse” via Born amplitudes: if you just give up on trying to force subjective human experience onto hard data and sound math, abruptly there’s nothing really very controversial going on other than some deep, personal introspection about subjective experience.

I regard myself as a spiritual person in the sense that I wonder about my own subjective experience and the existence of some greater plane of reality and the possibility of a creator or deity, that seems to be a fairly common if not borderline ubiquitous thing people describe, but it’s not transferable, and it feels like the goalposts on consciousness are just a bunch of post-facto efforts to rationalize why this observable trait of other people likewise describing some subjective experience into science.

If describing a subjective experience in compelling natural language is an indicator of consciousness then my MacBook is conscious.

I feel like I’m missing something here.
I would encourage you to consider the entire system when applying the “systems thinking” that you are so clearly adept at. I’m curious - do you believe that cars have greater costs than benefits to the economy and society?
Cogito, ergo sum.
The Chandler Visual Programming Model
I saw some discussion of visual programming recently, so I thought I'd do a writeup of the (very) domain specific visual rules engine I've developed over the years for media playback, interactive art, and digital signage.

It pretty much combines state machines with restricted flowchart rules in every state, plus spreadsheet-style =expressions that can be used almost anywhere.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks, that makes sense. FWIW, here are some things it provides which might be worth having:

1. typesafety (for those using pyright/mypy) and autocomplete/intellisense

2. auto-retry (w/ backoff, intelligently so w/ rate limits) and error handling

3. auto-pagination (can save a lot of code if you make list calls)

4. SSE parsing for streaming

5. (coming soon) richer streaming & function-calling helpers (can save / clean up a lot of code)

Not all of these matter to everybody (e.g., I imagine you're not moved by such benefits as "dot notation over dictionary access", which some devs might really like).

I would argue that auto-retry would benefit a pretty large percentage of users, though, especially since the 429 handling can paper over a lot of rate limits to the point that you never actually "feel" them. And spurious/temporary network connections or 500s also ~disappear.

For some simple use-cases, none of these would really matter, and I agree with you - especially if it's not production code and you don't use a type-aware editor.
https://archive.is/CeMH7
I centralized the entire backpropagation around the Operation objects. They store the data about the forward prop in the cache, and serve as the connections in the graphs between tensors. Each tensor has a “parent”, “child” and “operation”. These store who generated the tensor, what tensors it generated, and how it was generated (what operation). I could store the backward function inside of each tensor instead of an Operation object, but I chose the slightly more verbose option because I think it is a little more interpretable and simpler to add new operations.