skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ilgpu: A Modern GPU Compiler for .NET Programs
People still buy real diamonds.
Recreating React means you’ll really understand how React works under the hood.
I read halfway and gave up. Were they going to mention the program in the US where a single driving-impaired incident gets a judge to mandate a blow-to-start device in your car? That pretty much stops offenders in their tracks.

Used to be 'third strike' but in many states it's now once-and-done.

There's even periodic talks of new-car mandates to come with such devices.

Of course as the incidence falls the urgency of such programs becomes questioned. There's some semi-stable rate as a result.
Don't use it. It have many problems.

- User auth bugs.

- Security issues.

The developer do not care about fixing those.
I tried quite a lot of multiplatform frameworks in the context of mobile, and for me Flutter is in a completely different league than the rest of them. I really love it.
>This same argument seems to imply that virtually everything should be expensive

Non-zero doesn’t mean “unaffordable” or “expensive”.

> The hard part is looking into the future…

The hardest part is to understand that the content we want to preserve carries more valuable information about us than about itself.

Scientific knowledge can be discovered again, it’s not something to worry about. The preservation shapes the future views of us, leaving the trace in the history of those who preserve, their life and their experiences. Maybe they just needed to accept their mortality and irreversible flow of time?
This better have a Twin Peaks reference ...
You’re aware some people like having security cameras available to prove things, like who broke into their homes or jumped them on the street, right?

“Finally! We’ll have no way to prove anything at all! This is a big win!” Makes zero sense.
The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are:
- one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/
- one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf
- another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077

and so on.

I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job for a year or so. That might be worth it depending on your priorities. Regardless, it bears mentioning.
It's a large industry with many different opinions, but also it's different with live actors as proving their age is simple.

Drawn characters don't have government IDs and birth certificates, so caution is often exercised.
FShade: First-Class Shaders for F#
The phone app still says "X: Formerly Twitter".

Which says it all, doesn't it.
I’ve exported my data on Facebook before.
Right, but we have to acknowledge that while some of us watched Minority Report as a cautionary tale, others clearly see it as a blueprint :)

We can have a meaningful discussion of CBT and which way exposure leans; but I'll put in my vote for us to be a society that punishes actions that harm others, not the thoughts and preferences that may or may not one day lead to any actual actions that may harm others.

It is easy to point out just... an enormous library of movies and video games that use some form of violence. I have a 5 year old kid and already have to explain to him that even the cartoon violence he's inevitably exposed to does not mean that violence is OK in real life. But while I may as a parent try hard to guide and even limit what he's exposed to when, I am nowhere near the point where I lobby to illegilize such violence... LET ALONE JAIL SOMEBODY FOR WATCHING A SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIE! I will absolutely be seemingly unfair and ask - if we feel strongly that watching CSAM will lead to action, what about violent movies, and present a duality of options - is the next step criminalizing violent movies, or are we in a double-standard guided by something other than seemingly scientific studies of exposure?

(gawd, I hate to even appear to be in a place to even seems to be anywhere near condoning even AI generated CP; I cannot underline enough how much that's not my kink! but I am also genuinely terrified by the seemingly rational-presenting suggestions that "bad thoughts lead to bad actions so we need to outlaw bad thoughts" - there's just too much gnarly catholic dogma disguised in 'cognitive therapy angle' in there for my level of comfort :O )
Translation is not intricate, but modern graphics card are not tuned for dynamically setting up shaders.
AI researchers and engineers surely have the free choice to sign with another employer than OpenAI?
Which it probably should at a certain level of realism.

It doesn’t seem obvious to me why we can’t/won’t eventually make 100% completely convincing video games and then how our brain will handle that differently than experiences that really do distort people’s psychology like war, domestic violence, etc.
So funny that people took me seriously... I thought the over the topness was large enough to detect the irony. I really did not want to take the irony down by adding this ugly /s token... Pitty for my karma points...

Edit: my muscle memory of right hand on mouse, left hand on asd, starts tickling when seeing these video's after 'bring 'm on' is clicked.
No but there is the old nature versus nurture debate. If you're raised in a home with a parent who has zero qualms about exploiting human suffering for profit, that's probably going to have an impact, right?
> There's a possibly apocryphal but widely believed quote from Trump, "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her"

Not even slightly apocryphal. You can see the clip on YouTube, e.g. [1] But she was 25 at the time, not 13.

« When Trump was the star of the reality TV show “The Apprentice,” he appeared on the ABC talk show “The View” with his daughter in 2006 and said, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. Isn’t that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?” »

> And because that Ivanka quote isn't well-evidenced

I would dispute that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diMp241gAcw
> or for even more fundamental reasons.

Even more fundamental: you'd need infinite fuel to hang out forever just outside the event horizon — once you're inside, the direction of the singularity is "future" not "forwards", so you can't resist getting there with any form of propulsion any more than you can resist getting to next Thursday with any form of propulsion.
From a user perspective Facebook's feed is spam.

You used to be able to see a custom feed of a selected friend lists but since they removed that option the site has been completely unusable, unless perhaps you do something like remove 90% of your "friends" and groups but that would hurt usability in different ways.
Cult & tribal mentality is in essence the willingness to always explain someone's behavior in a specific light (always positive or always negative) instead of analyzing the situation on merit.

Musk has cult-ivated (heh) a large following in past years while the company was experiencing growth and the stock was going up, mostly on rosy predictions and promises, the majority of which never materialized.

So now he's "spending" that following. But eventually it'll be spent.
To live in a time and age where we have enough compute that we can casually render a model in a notes app for that purpose…
Do you think GTA and such should be illegal? You don't only watch you literally practice crime including much worse stuff (running people over, mass murder with assault rifles etc)

Certain films come to mind too
There’s also the possibility that both are true.

Some people stop at weed, but some people go on and get hooked on bad drugs.

Maybe, some day, they’ll develop an unaddiction drug as well as an unpervert drug or treatment.
It'd be impossible to prevent non-full URLs without also imposing extremely heavy restrictions on images, styling, and html. There are way too many ways to hide, spoof, or obfuscate an url. And even then, you'd need to somehow render the link in a way where the average user can understand it (which part of the URL is the domain and what implications it has).
Its constitutionality and funding structure have been tied up in lawsuits for the past 7 years or so, which has made it hard for them to enforce stuff as much as they might otherwise have been able to. Now those fundamental lawsuits are resolved, with the CFPB's structure and funding being found fully constitutional as legislated except that the CFPB Director is removable by the President at will instead of having extra protections against removal.

At this point, the CFPB will be able to proceed to more useful enforcement - except that years of legal challenges to their regulations which had been delayed by these fundamental structural challenges will now proceed, so it may be a while before they can actually succeed at enforcement in the end. And if Trump and the Republicans take control of the federal government in November, they could easily gut or eliminate the CFPB before that happens.

All of which is to say: The CFPB's teeth have been fully cleaned by the dentists at SCOTUS, but this November's elections will determine whether they have time to bite before they are knocked out. Or some such twisted metaphor.

It's a very tough agency to make work in our current political environment. The entities they are regulating have huge political influence, lots of money, and well-connected media allies, whereas the consumers they are protecting have none of these.
The difference is that there is evidence of one and not of the other.

https://smart.ojp.gov/somapi/chapter-4-internet-facilitated-...
Voir Dire
I think when you’re jumping to arguments that resolve to “Ilya Sutskever wasn’t doing important work… might’ve played the diversity card,” it’s time to reassess your mental model and inspect it closely for motivated reasoning.
Baffled by this kind of thing not working still after so many years. Or has the Windows store recently tightened its requirements?

Next time, perhaps the first step should be to submit Hello World to the store. Then raise an issue to add same to the Electron release procedure...
That is what I like about federation. All the incentives are individualized. I think the scale that was needed for business in the last century has disappeared. Businesses previous needed scale and reach but for an individual to make a decent living in a niche is very easy today.
> It's meaningfully affecting people today near the equator. Look at the April 2024 heatwave in South Asia.

Weather is not climate, as everyone is so careful to point out during cold waves.
> A Sonos executive also said it took “courage” for the company to overhaul its app, which some customers said was dismissive of their complaints.

So now the excuse for shipping bad software is that it took "courage"?

The problem with connected products is that you want security updates (because they are connected to your network, they are a liability), but modern software is usually pretty bad. So say you bought your product because you found it nice, it's highly likely that it will get worse with some update in the future. The fact that it was nice when you bought it was probably more the exception than the norm.

The best products, IMO, are the ones that don't need updates. Because you know the quality of what you buy, and you know the manufacturer won't be able to break it. But that doesn't really work with connected devices.
It's like with restaurants. A lot of them disappeared after the pandemic. Web hosting is not free.
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

(P.S. Good luck, David. The international community stands with you.)
Impossible because it’s really inconvenient and uncomfortable to consider!
The scale of human knowledge, and the pace we're increasing it at, means we probably can't have unique names for everything any more if we aim for short, pronounceable things. "Lora" must have dozens of meanings across different domains. The fact you recognize it from another one is just something you have to deal with.
The size of the Dutch vocabulary is insane!

The average Dutch person has a passive vocabulary of about 42k words, the average German speaker has only 20k passive vocabulary.

In German 1300 words make up about 85 % of a text, in Dutch you need 2000.
How much do you have to pay for data?
Ask HN: Markdown and Anki Setup?
Any recommendation for a simple setup for writing flashcards in md and export them to Anki?
Jim Simons Revolutionised Investing
In Utrecht, the municipality will lend you a bakfiets with all the equipment you need (soil, shovel, tile cutter) to replace a few tiles in front of your house with plants. You don't need a permit to do it. https://www.utrecht.nl/wonen-en-leven/parken-en-groen/zelfbe...
> What do you define worthy content?

It is highly subjective. I’m very curious about the past, but I don’t care if nobody will know the name of Newton or Mandela in 10000 years, but some YouTube blogger will somehow be a legend.

> morally correct

How can enthropy be morally correct or incorrect?
I saw meme beams glitter past Ebaums Gate on the arm of Orion. These moments will be forgotten, like Cheezburgers in the rain. Prepare to die.
How is this enforceable?
> use of the newish term "CSAM" over the old fashioned "CP" seemed out of place here

Training data though.
My colleagues and I submitted a similar talk/paper for a different
NCSC conference (but weren't accepted). I see that this talk by Bert
Hubert covers mostly the ground. so I am pleased, but worried about
what this take misses out.

Hubert is addressing much of the ground that lies between security and
resilience.

Our emphasis is on how mitigation lies in education and autonomous
systems over regulation. Not that regulation is wrong, just that it
doesn't work as a stick without a carrot. We also looked at timescales
and how so much is already too late because of the lag-time from
drafting to efficacy. And what I know from hanging out here on HN is
that technologists appear hostile to regulation, but giant companies
love it so long as they get to write the rules that give them more
monopoly power.

Where we went wrong I think is lack of political tact. Hubert stops
himself from even finishing off the remark about the quality of
Microsoft products. But I don't think the real problem can be ignored
for much longer. Instead, we went all-in and emphasised (as
previously here [0]) that "Big Tech is the cybersecurity problem"
(as Bruce Schniere recently echoed) because it pushes (in addition to
highly centralised single points of failure) an irresilient
"insecurity industry" that is based on protection not security.

Hubert's talk doesn't get to the key issue;

Security and protection are not the same thing.

Protection leads to dependency that ultimately erodes real security.

However "protection" is easy and profitable to sell. Real security is
not.

That is ths succinct way in which it must be put.

If the intel appraisal is accurate and we are entering a serious war
footing than we can have no more patience for the profitable but
dangerous "insecurity industry" that gives an appearance and
simulation of security, without the reality.

[0] https://techrights.org/o/2021/11/29/teaching-cybersecurity/
Partnership between The Pentagon and Silicon Valley giants
Does this include single-line suggestions from Copilot, I wonder? Those are pretty nice because it just finishes what I already intended to type.
The claim that is disputable is specifically that he said it when she was 13, not that he also said it when she was 25.

Half-truths have always been a fantastic method for propaganda.
I’m not claiming that quality or licensing concerns are irrelevant, but that:

1. It will not be possible to reliably detect whether code was LLM assisted or not.

2. Humans are not always 100% truthful.

3. All the concerns cited here also applies to human-written code anyway.

So attempting to treat LLM coding assist tools as a special case here is going to be a losing battle. To solve these issues, we’re gonna have to come up with code review processes and tools that apply to ALL code up for review.
I just tried http://example.org in firefox and chrome, neither gave me a warning. I do get a redirect or warning for http sites in firefox focus, but that's separate from normal firefox.
The State relies on that cycle to consolidate power. These problems circle back to what people think the role of the State should be, and all these Wars on X (like crime).

There was a time you would have to bring a criminal action to court, there was no bs "The People of the State of X" charging. Also, mere possession of things being criminal is a very recent invention.
Where is the “draft Code of Practice for Software Vendors” they want feedback on? I don’t see a link to it from that page.
You're probably thinking of this:

https://youtu.be/Vzq744X4dpw?t=560

TL;DW: It's a video showing the different Windows ME screensavers. The screensaver with magnifying effect seems to be called "Science", and starts at 9:20 (timestamp in the link).

I don't know if it also existed in Windows 98, I didn't search that much after finding that video.
yeah doesn't make any sense lol

if you remove comments and shift it to your own style then it's not going to be distinguishable except for sufficiently complex code where your own codebase's unique idioms may show through and the AI doesn't use them
Some sites that I (and some coworkers) wrote for were basically frozen fairly recently. I told everyone they should make their own copies of anything they care about because I’d put money on a few years from now the sites needing some maintenance work to keep them secure etc. At that point I’m pretty sure that the person responsible wouldn’t spend the resources at to patch things up and will just shut off the sites.
Very good. Well said and most enjoyable.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375029
I don't know if the intention of the article was to stoke worry but actually embrace as opportunity! Users being able to make their own software for their own needs is a worthy and beautiful goal. It's like if people could only eat what was at restaurants and not cook for themselves.

And of course with iteration and feedback loops people can definitely learn how to specify what they want in a fairly precise way.
I'm surprised it's not more. 2013 was long after the days of hobbyist websites of the early net, and into the time when most new sites were business driven. Given how long businesses last I'd expect many more sites to be long gone 11 years later. I guess maybe the death of a lot of community-building spaces (angelfire, Geocities, etc) probably counts for a lot of them going.

What would be particularly interesting would be to graph how long websites last for. I suspect quite a lot of the content from the early days is still around, and this period (2008 - 2018) is the peak of sites vanishing.
Every time I hear about AI-generated code, I'm reminded of this comment from Linus Torvalds (taken out of context, of course):

"You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code is GARBAGE. AGAIN."
We’re talking about “thought crime” and punishing crimes that haven’t been committed here and as usual, we’re using “think of the kids” arguments to justify it. I’m not a fan.
No. Some dude that launches rockets did, though.
I'm all for whistleblower protection and don't think he should be serving time, based on the 15 minutes I've been aware of this, (so don't take this "but" the wrong way)

but,

What exactly was he blowing the whistle about?

> McBride had become dissatisfied with military leadership and increased scrutiny of soldiers.

> McBride's lawyers told the court that he had leaked information in an attempt to bring awareness to excessive investigation of soldiers.

What? Is he a counter-whistle blower? What am I missing?

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower...]

Follow-up:

Ok this article makes it make a bit more sense: https://apnews.com/article/mcbride-whistleblower-court-priso...

> McBride’s documents formed the basis of an Australian Broadcasting Corp. seven-part television series in 2017 that contained war crime allegations including Australian Special Air Service Regiment soldiers killing unarmed Afghan men and children in 2013.

> McBride’s argument that his suspicions that the higher echelons of the Australian Defense Force were engaged in criminal activity obliged him to disclose classified papers “didn’t reflect reality,” Mossop said.
Sufficiently complex code is the one most susceptible to coming from a proprietary solution
Who would watch it? It's super technical so not useful for beginners, it doesn't really help anyone do anything, so no use for people trying to do x with react, so... who would watch it?
The quantity of drugs in the waste stream is surprising. For example: I take 1000 mg daily of metformin. Although I have (of course) never measured it, a person produces 100 to 250 g/day of fecal matter. This is 75% water, so reasonably my excreta, on a dry basis, is up to 4% metformin(!). Metformin is largely excreted and breaks down in the environment only slowly, so it would contribute significantly to the nitrogen figure for waste-derived fertilizer.

Wikipedia says this:

"Metformin and its major transformation product guanylurea are present in wastewater treatment plant effluents and regularly detected in surface waters. Guanylurea concentrations above 200 μg/L have been measured in the German river Erpe, which are amongst the highest reported for pharmaceutical transformation products in aquatic environments."
Everyday life at my company.
Yes.

But usually you realise after the fact learning that it was when you could have interacted with it.

Those things exist then through legends and the collective that still remembers, though that collective is very prone to just misremember.
Okay ngl after the comment was made I looked at the image again and they kinda have a point but not really for the reasons they stated.

The things that do it are (partially) the color scheme/pattern and (mainly) the smoothed "windshield" form which kinda looks like the nubby fatty bit on an orca's head.
2k MIPS is 2 GIPS, no?

Great work BTW
Yudkowsky is a human LLM: his output is correctly semantically formed to appear, to a non-specialist, to fall into the subject domain, as a non-specialist would think the subject domain should appear, and so the non-specialist accepts it, but upon closer examination it's all word salad by something that clearly lacks understanding of both technological and philosophical concepts.

That so many people in the AI safety "community" consider him a domain expert has more to say with how pseudo-scientific that field is than his actual credentials as a serious thinker.
I agree that they are both probably true, but I don't think that fully addresses bawolff's point which I would interpret as harm reduction. If, on net, the B class dominates the other by a big margin then the net harm would be reduced and laws shouldn't be harsh - even if the A scenario plays out sometimes. The law should try to figure out who is actually causing abuse to happen and then target them.

My bet is it would be a net reduction because if you hit someone with dopamine when they are staring at a screen they spend more time staring at screens (I'm pretty sure we found that was how violent video games work out, most gamers are a bit more of the weedy and harmless style in real life). But some stats would be helpful.
Just get Kagi and stop using Google entirely.