skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, go away. The problem is that Google has monopolized web aggregation. Without it these sites wouldn't be worth making.

So how will you find things?

> Ad driven search engines rank ad driven blog spam

We don't have actual concrete proof that Google (or others) rank content with ads higher because of the ads.

As a contrary corollary, generally as society grows, we've seen an increase in "proof-of-person and proof-of-residence on every public X". Want welfare checks or charity, prove yourself. Want to buy cough syrup or booze, prove yourself. Want to drive, want to shoot a gun, want to XXXX.... get an ID.

In early America, men used to vote by everyone going into a big room and shouting for a while (some minor exaggeration). Now you have to register in advance and show ID, and they maintain registries of everyone and their affiliated party.

Showing identity comes with a lack of trust, and volume + anonymity decreases trust as it's slowly abused.
I have a feeling he would like to publish some stuff, and apple doesnt do that
pretty sure he's going to Microsoft
It's already become the norm in Big Tech for layoffs to avoid filing WARN notices.
Where NS records show up in DNS replies depends on who you ask
Once again, never use someone else’s computer. Again, this means you SHOULD NOT BE USING CLOUD APPLICATIONS.

Full stop.

They’re convenient sure, but they’re also restrictive and all too often just a protection racket via subscriptions.

Sorry, but that’s just how it is.
What next? Meta?
It can be though. "Short Term" tends to win when CEO pay is contingent upon hitting certain share price at certain times. Founders tend to not have this issue, and I'm sure other CEOs can have pay packages crafted this way if we desired.
cash out and live the good life? Start his own AI company or support company? Build the next better AI? The sky is the limit
Thank you! Added w/b!
They seem to be partners of spamhaus. From the recent feed [0] it looks like it's often just IP addresses so you would need to add it to your firewall.

[0]: https://urlhaus-api.abuse.ch/v1/urls/recent/
I find that dragging the cursor to the right is fast enough. However, removing that initial selection of the entire URL takes a couple of frustrating extra taps.

Removing complete selection in a single-line input is a weak point of editing experience on iOS (it is easy in a textarea since you have space to just tap away).
It's only meaningful for traditional computing if you can build circuits orders of magnitude more efficient than we can currently.
So to try and be very charitable and read between the lines to get something out of your vague insults... you think FOSS needs to be possible to wrap in proprietary in order to get enough funding or labor to succeed? Because that could plausibly be a defensible claim, but I think I still disagree; even if AGPL really meant it was impossible to use without publishing everything (which I'm pretty sure isn't actually true but again IANAL) software can still be created and used purely by non-commercial actors (i.e. actual human beings writing software to be useful to themselves and others), and also by pure FOSS companies (see: sourcehut).
The vast majority of philosophers believed that men were superior to woman and that those of lighter skin were superior to those of darker skin and in general that philosophers were superior to anyone who was not a philosopher. They either didn’t spend time debating this because they all agreed, or in cases where they did, their arguments are not hovered in teaching material because we “want to focus on the pats that are actually true”.
GPT4's free availability could greatly boost all AI startups
Did I miss it? (The article is dense.) I'm not seeing how the authorities identified him. I see lots of identifying information from disparate sources, which when taken collectively does seem damning. But not how it all got put together, nor any discussion of why now.

I mean the guy offered his own $10m bounty if you could track him down.

I knew back when the Boeing data got out, that it was a fatal mistake and he'd be hunted down. It obviously wasn't easy since the $10m would have been enough incentive for the army of internet super sleuths. I don't care at all about what the bits and pieces are, what I want to know is the HOW. as per the title
Isn't it consensus that AGI will never arise from LLMs?
a highway road side storage yard of salt
I don’t understand why you think Google’s freedom of speech and association should be restricted. It’s not like you can’t just go someplace else, like you’re own computer.
Countries which decide elections in court, lecture us on howto conduct elections
That was my reaction to the latest story: isn't there some darned sysctl to just turn that off globally?
Yep, see for example ‘Earth 2’.
Einstein wasn't arguing just against the Copenhagen interpretation, he was arguing against the very notion of physical nondeterminism.

In fact, his arguments against nonlocality were later disproven experimentally in the '80s, as quantum mechanics allowed for much higher fidelity predictions than could be explained by a hidden variable theory [0].

I don't think anyone _likes_ the Copenhagen interpretation per se, it's just the least objectionable choice (if you have to make one at all). Many-worlds sounds cool and all until you realize that it's essentially impossible to verify experimentally, and at that point you're discussing philosophy and what-if more than physics.

Intuition only gets you as far as the accuracy of your mental model. Is it intuitive that the volume enclosed by the unit hypersphere approaches zero [1] as its dimensions go to infinity? Or that photons have momentum, but no mass? Or you can draw higher-dimension Venn diagrams with sectors that have negative area? If these all make intuitive sense to you, I'm jealous that your intuition extends further than mine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball
Yeah, like when Cheney shot Harry Whittington and it was Whittington that apologized.
> Is that notice in violation of the constitution? I’m guessing the NYPD legal department has written this so probably not?

I wouldn't count on that. The NYPD was caught with signs that prohibited photography in the lobby of their police stations which violated the law. Someone actually had to take them to court before they'd change the policy and they still fought it.
https://www.airthings.com/view-plus isn't included in this comparison, but should be. Very happy with it.
Apple and Google Introduce Cross-Platform Unwanted Tracking Alerts
Yes, they are fairly well-known. They have been partnering with Spamhaus: https://abuse.ch/blog/abuse-ch-appoints-spamhaus-as-a-licens...
There’s nothing stopping it except that investors solely want short term gains and are rewarding CEOs and management for delivering that and punishing them when they don’t.
Why is the web browser try to act like SNS web service? You are an user agent for SNS web service, not the SNS itself. Now be a good boy and fetch a SNS web page like a good little dog.
The simplest thing that might work (and did work up until about 2015) is to not police customer data.
The 6.0L E65 Mercedes? The 4.0/5.5/6.2L E63 one? Everyone is lying, thats what marketing does.
Soon: Netflix, AppleTV+, and Peacock will all move to the ad-supported tier in the Comcast bundle, thereby completing the cycle.
What about the HP iPAQ 112 then? Wasn't the HP iPAQ 110 Classic released in November 2007?

Also why are you entering questions into the Google search prompt?
Unlikely. The alleged medical benefits of turmeric are largely illusory; the only medically interesting property that it's been conclusively shown to have is that it interferes with a wide range of biochemical assays.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b00975
Another story worth looking at was the one of Olivetti: https://designwanted.com/brand-story-olivetti/
There aren’t any people left in business in the US who don’t approve of “getting in bed with china”

- this message was made in china, like your shirt, your shorts, your socks, and so on snd so on.
First, "objectively beat" doesn't matter. Comparative LLM performance means more or less nothing without application.

Let's say Google's LLM has slightly poorer reasoning, and you have to be really clear when you tell it to delete your old emails. What are you going to do, go to ChatGPT and have it very eloquently walk you through how to manually delete your emails?

But the idea that Google, the terrifying nation-state, who covetously gobbled up most of the bright minds of a generation, just couldn't fathom RLHF, means you think there is some inherent magic at OpenAI.

I use OpenAI's models a lot, obviously they're great, but whole-thread-as-context as a product is not a product, and Google has people plural who could execute that from first principles.
Having built tools to organize and drive human curation, human review only means that you get different errors and different people get fired as scapegoats. When you're doing content moderation, rather than simple data curation, you don't even get "far" better results - you frequently get worse results! - and you start traumatizing your moderators enough to destroy them. On top of that, who the fuck would ever use a product if their private notepad was going to be read by a human moderator? There is no easy answer here.
It was being planned and talked about internally in ~2010. They had this idea that because everyone knew how to use Facebook and they already had your data, why not provide an HRIS system built around that.
I'd like to be able to confidently turn off Nagle's algorithm system-wide, but I'm always going to be concerned that I'll some day run a high-traffic application that depends on it without explicitly enabling it because it's been the default for so long.

I think this is one of the rare cases where I'd prefer if the kernel had a "magic" setting that went something along the lines of "if a connection isn't explicitly setting its use of Nagle's algorithm, default it to off, but occasionally look at the connections in this category that are generating the most packets on the sysetm and turn Nagle's on for these connections if their packets are mostly small (or other heuristics)."

Potential waste from overly fragmented packets is going to be negligible on connections that don't represent a large portion of the system's traffic, so there's no reason to bother observing and tuning them (in case there are many of them and the cost of doing so becomes noticeable). It's really only the highest traffic connections where Nagle's might help, and selectively turning it on for connections that seem to benefit from it would maintain backwards compatibility while still reaping the nodelay benefits for the majority of software that doesn't care.
I agree, I paid for Claude for a while. Even though they swear the context is huge and having a huge context uses up tokens like crack, it's near useless when source code in context just a few pages back. It was so frustrating as everything else was as good as anything and I liked the 'vibe'.

I used 4o last night and it was still perfectly aware of a C++ class I pasted 20 questions ago. I don't care about smart, I care about useful and this really contributes to the utility.
Thank you for giving me some friendly response. :)

I understand the feeling here, definitely wales and corporations are not of the same ontological class.

What I was trying to point out however, was that just because a jurisdiction give an entity the status of person, it doesn't mean it give to it the same extend of rights.
Wow. Just… wow.
Perhaps the reason they do not talk about it is because they find it convenient, like me. Could be adjustment period, or you need to play with your keyboard settings (spellchecker and so on).

I find typing extremely easy and fast for the most part, except when swipe-typing gets the wrong word.
the author didn't get locked out for writing, she can still access the document, it's sharing to more than 80+ people that's been prevented. which is still a problem, but a different sort of one.
It seems really clever, especially the encoding of a signature into LLM token probability selections. I wonder if synthid will trigger some standarization in the industry. I don't think there's much incentive to tho. Open-source gen AI will still exist. What does google expext to occur? I guess they're just trying to present themselves as 'ethically pursuing AI'.
Who could've guessed that. But in the end that decision may have developed innovations as at least a couple of those seniors started new companies.
Already happened https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
I kind of love that this continues to haunt you :).
AI is the reason interviews are harder now
This is a great comment.

Firefox used to _stand_ for things that internet savvy folks cared about, and at least some of that would trickle down to make even the non-savvy user's browsing experience better.
Minor reason is still real, as is major, and you said there are no other reasons besides made up safety.
Ang why do you need to be an expert here?

but I see you can deny even the much more basic fact that ' isn't punctuation...
That sounds about right, it just seemed that everyone who replied above who had access to the new model were paid users.
Ask HN: Facebook generic groups generated by FB?
People who have Facebook accounts with very few friends or group subscriptions see a lot of posts on their feed which have generic names like:

"Beauty of History and Archaeology", "Old History Life", "History Vista", "Mountain Cabins Style.", and seemingly infinitely more examples.

Are these generated by Facebook to give the appearance of more content than actually exists? Or are there some external groups generating these (for reasons which are unclear)?

Many of them are obviously AI generated images, especially the home related ones. But the patterns are similar across most of these groups. Even the comments appear to be following a pattern.

What is the goal here? I first thought it was some external party trying to get clicks, but then I reasoned that it made more sense for Facebook to be generating this fake content as a way to appear more relevant. Are there any insiders who wish to carefully clarify what is going on?

It's probably obvious to the HN crowd that Facebook would have many fewer users like me/us were it not that some businesses unfortunately only "exist" on Facebook...
End of Lee era for Singapore as PM steps down
Just so you can see the bias to early numbers in the distribution:

for i in $(seq 1000000); do
echo $[RANDOM%10000];
done | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb; set xtics 1000; plot '< cat' using 0:1 with boxes"
tnt is the more commonly used metric but to put it in more practical civilian terms that would be around a trunkload of anfo (might need to share the back seat but who uses all that legroom anyway)
Immediately after FSK collapse, Biden vowed to cover it. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-federal-governme...
The insurance companies refused to pay for the Nordstream. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240312/nord-stream-sues-insurance...
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I think it's less that only 4 wizards on earth can create it, and more that hardly anyone wants to.

If Apple, Google, or MS are integrating LLMs, they can't get away with "you can talk to this website". The intersection of "has the cash to train a LLM" and "LLM is itself the entire offering" is very small
> "Whims said her content is explicit"

Shouldn't that be called Erotica rather than Romance, then?
"Publisher given unsolicited sexually explicit manuscript, declines to publish it".
I mean. Stallman sets a high bar, but to a significant degree it is possible, if extremely inconvenient, to actually take that thought all the way. Whether that's a reasonable decision for the individual is left as an exercise to the reader, and I would tend to be open to other corrective measures, but you can live a life without FAANG.
It doesn't matter if AI makes interviews harder. An utterly broken system is not practically worse when it becomes more broken.

We were already well past the point of futility before AI became part of the system. The only real way to get a job is by the equivalent of mass spamming and luck (which also means low chance of fit if hired) or by human connection and familiarity (the one true way for anything in life).
Lest you find yourself in a private jet careening into the ground.
No, explicit content is what "romance" means.
Real life Miles Dyson
The article being discussed:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
ah exhibit A: and The West has public extrajudicial executions, as well as semi-public ones more formally

…where is your boycott of Silicon Valley? you don’t feel it is an ethical issue to bring money and knowhow into that country? which country passes your standard exactly
Not true. I don’t use a single Google service. That’s my recourse.
As an alcohol-hating wine-lover I can't wait to get this product. Hopefully something similar is going to be invented to break down sugar as well.
Related:

Open Source Spectral warping wavetable synth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30597079 - March 2022 (41 comments)

But it looks like there's just a waitlist now? waitlists don't make great HN submissions.
The article does a good job of addressing the nuance, but the headline and most attention grabbing parts of it don't.

Most of the new housing built may have been illegal under previous parking rules, but it doesn't logically follow that similar housing couldn't have been built without the parking rules change, just that it's cheaper to build without it.

The article/quotes acknowledge this,

> “It’s impossible, really, to tie a specific code change to changes in the market,” explained Brennan Staley, a strategic advisor for Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development. Other local regulations, housing prices, and international finance markets all play a part in the real estate market. Michael Hubner, who works on long range planning in Seattle, agreed: “It’s very difficult to point to a causal relationship.”

and also note that off street parking is still present in the majority of new housing

> In both cities, the majority of new buildings still included off-street parking voluntarily
Alcatraz Escape Attempt
Even in NY State, Hudson River Valley, I've seen them with real color. They're different each time.
People can downvote this all day, but it is a fact that the Kremlin believes the US was behind both attacks. What the Western leaders and mainstream media say is irrelevant to Russia. https://nationalfile.com/russian-fsb-chief-says-us-ukraine-b...
> For example, open an iMessage text and paste one or more images.

I never until today thought of pasting images. I always add them using the Photos button, then just write my message as normal.

I see now how moving cursor around rich text with embedded objects is glitchy, and I imagine if you deal with that on daily basis it could be frustrating.

However, none of the other issues you or others described seem to be reproducible on my phone. Double-tap to select, or tap to place cursor, seem to just work in regular plain text areas.
> But there might be no actual possible course of action which would avoid both forms of outrage!

Is weird to think outrage is normal ?

There's no pleasing of every single human on earth, and any company with a large enough audience needs to balance their position and have priorities. Once they made a choice, it's natural they get the scrutiny for the consequences, and if they're not happy with the tradeoff they're free to adjust and piss off another group of people.

If the goal is to give them a pass because choices are hard, I'd say no. They should deal with the outrage.
There is more money in AGI than LLMs.

Whatever it is, language seems key to intelligent algorithms.

Nah, he departed due to politics (failed coup) and shift from research first to profit first. Same with Karpathy I believe.

He’ll most likely go somewhere where he can get a lot of compute and go back to research first.
Until they sell products that respect customers’ autonomy, privacy, and property rights. But realistically, just self host.
If Gemini Flash is just faster Gemini, then I would say that bad answers aren't better when delivered more quickly.

I ran Gemini Pro side by side with ChatGPT 4 for a few months on practical coding, systems architecture, and occasional general questions. ChatGPT was more useful at least 80% of the time. Gemini was either wrong or laboriously meandering in reaching a useful answer that it wasn't worth using, in my experience.

Faster isn't what I needed... Maybe it's also "smarter" (more useful) too now?
Board game companies make so little money, don’t begrudge them for asking for money in exchange for completely optional content
We plan to compare more monitors. This is the first of this kind of reviews so we want to first see how well it is accepted and then do more.
I just landed a contract today after 9 months of not working. It was dumb luck.
I wish you all had experienced the golden age when running a program was as simple as apt-get install program and run it.

I find it hard to discuss the merits of Linux va windows with regard to deploying software without addressing the elephant in the room which is the replacement of a collectively maintained system that ensure software cohabitation by the modern compartmentalised collection of independent programs.
Simple uses of phantom are easy to remember, but the obscure ones are just as hard as remembering what type of variance co and contra are. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/phantom-data.html#table-of...
FRED has SALT revenues around 2.038T[1] in 2023. It looks like about 1.5T is State. This seems to be up 25-35% over historic averages when adjusted for inflation. It has spiked in the last 2 years for reasons I'm not clear on.

FRED also had Federal Receipts at about 17% of GDP [2] between the Trump and Biden terms, which seems average. This was preceded by 15 years of below-average receipts (by this metric) during Bush43 and Obama.

Maybe your data source is more accurate than the fed? Otherwise, it seems like there is plenty more room to tax. It also very clearly matters who you tax. The poor and middle class are mostly tapped, but JP Bezos and big private finaceers have way too much and could stand to be taxed much harder.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QTAXTOTALQTAXCAT1USNO#0

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S#0
Maybe Microsoft, for being so close with OpenAI. Maybe Apple, who really needs a tech lead for AI. Maybe Google, his previous workplace, or work for Elon, who was successful in poaching Andrej in the past. Or a startup, he can raise billions if he so wishes. Wherever he goes in a year will compete with OpenAI. Previous time lead researchers had a philosophical disagreement with Sam they left and created Anthropic, which recently caught up to OpenAI. That's the risk of letting Ilya go. And where Ilya goes, other top researchers will go too.
I remember my fancy black deck I was so proud of and all the nights playing against tooth and nail, a deck full of cards many of which was worth as much as my whole deck. It sucked. I won 1/3 games at my best because I wasn’t willing to sink hundreds of dollars into my decks

Playing with printed cards though is janky. It’s not how the game is meant to be played and contradicts the aesthetic experience. Better to switch to dominion where the intended experience doesn’t revolve around pay to win
It depends on the anti-compete clauses in his contract.
N-acetyl cysteine
No one knows for sure. There’s no published direct link between the two identities. However, the article identifies years worth of ransom crypto transactions / bank deposits + FBI deep infiltration of LockBit as important advantages.
There may be a small print limiting his options.
He makes good stuff, but do the allegations give you any pause?