skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[dupe]

Lots more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379488
I have a bunch of embeds in a story written a few days ago, and those are fine. But embeds from a Oct 2023 are all screwed.

If newer embeds work and older don't maybe the calculus was that the older embeds weren't worth migrating.

I feel like such an idiot for ever embedding content from Twitter, especially after Musk took over.

on edit: well evidently I just have no patience or am cynical because the Oct 2023 ones are working now, I better turn everything into images though - will perform better anyway.
The math term "geometry" has a certain definition. Things that fit it are geometries, things that don't, aren't.

The gee-whiz "what if" sort of question your asking doesn't really mean anything anymore. In about the mid-20th century math finally came to terms with basically anything you can define being a valid subject of investigation. Arguments about whether things like "imaginary numbers" are "real" and therefore worthy of study are largely gone now. (Whether they are "real" for some definition is now a philosophy question.)

Since axioms define the system you are building, if you want "Euclidean except plus portals" you just need to write them down and start studying them. There are multiple possible sets that describe different systems; for a trivial example, you can assert in an axiom that area is conserved on passing through a portal, or you can write axioms that don't conserve that, and follow the implications from there. Video games have had both kinds of portals. Do portals need to be straight or can they be curved? What do curved portals do to other curves if they pass through them? Does "passing through them" even mean anything (note Euclidean geometry doesn't have "time" in it)? How crazy can I be with the portals? What happens if I define a portal as having a boundary corresponding to a Cantor set [1] and pass a line through it in an axiom system that has "time"? There is no one answer to that question, it depends on the axioms you write down, which may or may not even permit such portals.

Mathematicians will accept any and all of these systems if you write them down. Some may prove to be "uninteresting". Some may prove to have contradictions in them. But it's been a long time since a mathematician would even consider berating you about any of those choices not being "realistic" or something.

And I expect it is very likely some topologist somewhere could hear all these idle musings of mine and say "Oh, yes, you want to go to $TOPOLOGY_SUBDISCIPLINE for that." I don't know what the subdiscipline is or I'd name it, but I'm sure there's something already out there for all this. Since the mathematicians stopped worrying about "realness" they've really spread their wings as as discipline.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set
I was involved with implementing the DNF volume counting version of this with the authors. You can see my blog post of it here:

https://www.msoos.org/2023/09/pepin-our-probabilistic-approx...

And the code here: https://github.com/meelgroup/pepin

Often, 30% of the time is spent in IO of reading the file, that's how incredibly fast this algorithm is. Crazy stuff.

BTW, Knuth contributed to the algo, Knuths' notes: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cvm-note.pdf

He actually took time off (a whole month) from TAOCP to do this. Also, he is exactly as crazy good as you'd imagine. Just mind-blowing.
In practice, most real world programs can be written in a way that only uses bounded recursion, so the halting problem doesn't really need to affect real-world programs. Or you can trivially ensure a program halts: add a timeout (and real-world programs like web servers do this all the time).

I suppose the analogy for models is that if it can't decide whether output of another model is "safe", then it is not safe, so terminate. In practice, this could possibly be useful in the way a web server that times out after 1 second is still useful when its response times are normally measured in milliseconds.

(Assuming of course that safety means anything in the first place)
Not really. They've spent that money on hunting equipment only to realize that it would have been more clever to ask the people whose money they spend, if they should do it.

This is why it never happened again.

Learning from mistakes is something good.
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I read a memoir years ago from someone who had been sent away at 7. It still haunts me in a way. The parents’ strong feeling was that’s what you did when you attained a certain class. In the upper echelons, having merely attended “grammar school” was something to ridicule.
For at least a year, Twitter links have only loaded the one message, not any other messages in the thread, or other irrelevant tweets like it used to. Happens across browsers, with configurations that aren’t particularly exotic. No idea what’s going on.
Is there a competent redirect/repost service for X posts?

People have no problem posting links to paywalls, there's just always someone kind enough to come along and post an archive.org link.
So it seems like all twitter.com links break? But x.com links are ok and and don’t require logging in?
Yes, please, but not just for the stated reason. Most of the interesting people on Twitter have fled for Mastodon or elsewhere and much of the rest of the time, there is an original source better capable of leading to high quality discussion than the tweet itself.

At the very least, Twitter (and Youtube) should be whitelisted and rated by individual accounts, and not sitewide, so that the wheat can be separated from the chaff.
tbh it smells like they've brought in too much to their own hype.

Nothing OpenAI have done more recently suggest to me that they are closer to the AGI. They did create a bunch of other models with different input format that are probably based off pretty much the same thing. And it looks like those other models will be much more expensive to run and burn up their runway sooner.
I claim the visitor pattern isn't that weird. The `visit` function is the natural way to move from continuation-passing style to direct style, being of type signature `forall 'ret . (MyObject -> 'ret) -> 'ret`.
General usage stemmed from the Tactical User Terminal's deployed in the 1980s by the U.S. Army in Germany; part of codename TENCAP ELINT programme - and were truck-sized!
100% yes, or with a field for a work-around link and not accepting the link without it.

It’s really weird to try to build a culture of “do read TFA before posting” when a high percentage of links can’t actually be read by most posters. Relying on someone to comment with a working link is silly and backwards.
When is this supposed to be? Because the time I've been talking about is not that long ago...
Your PC is in need of repair if you're not using Linux.
... One can ask for archive links. Usually the request will be fulfilled. I do it all the time on articles of interest. Most of the time, there's already an archive link under the post.

Thats good service by some fellow hackers. thanks!
Follow up tweet from Jan Leike detailing why he left.

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494

Got to wonder what the actual trigger point for his & Ilya's decision was? For the two of them to leave at the same time suggests an event more than just incremental unhappiness with lack of support for safely/alignment. Perhaps a release decision for GPT-4's successor has been made that they disagree with?
Hey I’ve been working on a little hobby project for easily creating markdown based websites and blogs, using TipTap for the content editor and Git as the storage mechanism.

I’d love to hear what you think!

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli
It is excellent that he is speaking out.

I don't believe we can create something more intelligent than us. Smarter, yes, but not more intelligent. We will always have a deeper and more nuanced understanding of reality than our artificial counterparts. But it does not mean that AI can not be a danger.
Do you have a link for the experiment? (I found this https://www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/media/school-of-physical-and-che... )

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A long time ago, we tried to measure the two photons that go in oposite direction when radioactive Sodium deacays and emit a positron that colides with an electron. In the lab were only one detector available, but we coudn't make the second one work :( .
Yes but you can do the same for android, windows, different game consoles, etc

Forums can make tiny groups of people look large because they all aggregate in one place.

The same thing allowed flat earthers and such to believe they have huge numbers of supporters.
I'm not so sure. An idealist might build something to be totally agnostic, and only after adoption from criminals might then realize they need to do something about that, hence adding in a filter. Then that effort is seen as evidence against them?

Lots of open source software activists are idealists. This is why I asked if there's evidence they were actually receiving illicit funds.
Good point, thank you! Move it online and make it async (collect the arguments for a set period of time, then debate it over), or that's too weird or possibly exclusive for non-technical folks? (And using traditional mail is probably going to be too slow for anything meaningful)

The problem I see with legislative approach (esp. if it's a bureaucracy - unelected officials making decisions), is that they could be biased (e.g. lobbied) too, representing the interests of developers - which can be good in some cases (The Dog in the Manger NIMBY areas), but can be bad in other situations. There must be some middle grounds.
What are you talking about? Where is the grid "almost died"? :D

Do you have any trustworthy sources for that?
Fair question, but you have to consider the realistic alternatives. For most of our customers inaction isn't an option. The combination of NER models + synthesis LLMs actually handles these types of cases fairly well. I put your comment into our web app and this was the output:

How do you handle proprietary data being leaked? Sure you can easily detect and redact names and phone numbers and addresses, but without significant context it seems difficult to detect whether "17 spices - mix with 2lbs of white flour ... half teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of thyme [...]" is just a normal public recipe or a trade secret kept closely guarded for 75 years.
no, nitter got destroyed.
when i tried today the site seemed fine on mobile
Content that can't be accessed without creating an account or paying should be banned imo. Regular paywalled sites can be accessed through archive. You could access Twitter content through Nitter before, now that no longer works.
I accept that, even if I don't want war, war may still be done to me.

I do not accept that just rolling over and being conquered is better than fighting a war.

Countries attack other countries. "Legitimacy" has nothing to do about it. The question is, what are you going to do when you're on the receiving end?
nukes are an excellent example, actually! for how many years did the US maintain its monopoly on nuclear weapons, pray tell?
That's how development under open source works. You can't please everyone.
That is good to know... so is ordering off ebay safe? Or how does one get the real deal? I really like some of these watches. :)
https://archive.is/aQwIY
You’ll have to form your own conclusions, but the history of the Māori tribes is often presented as an example of this. Their history is often presented as an example of pacifists vs aggressors.
I remember back around '98, there were a bunch of product that you could get that would turn the electrical wiring in your house into an ethernet network. You'd plug the thing in and then as long as the other end was on the same breaker, it would work great. I used it in my apartment to get network from one room to the other.

This reminds me of that.
Fix/resubmit the link?
Working link hopefully:

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494?t=rRLyUGhp...
What about doing things like port knocking on non-standard ports?

Exposing wireguard to the world isn't much better than exposing ssh
What was the correct link for this?

[dupe] anyways

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391382
I still use nitter.poast.org for threads and it has been fine.
The premise is that LLMs are a path to AGI.

I'm not convinced, you can throw all the compute (btw, it's not growing exponentially any more, we have arrived at atom scale) at it and I'm not convinced this will lead to AGI.

Our rudimentary, underpowered brain is GI, now you're telling me stacking more GPU bricks will lead to AGI? If it indeed does, it would have came by now.
Thanks! Yeah, for sure. It makes the absolute speed of the vehicle less important too, which is great for safety. If you have other objectives besides just crossing the finish line, you're not worried about how fast you're going. In fact, in some cases, you wish you could go more slowly.
I agree that those are also highly significant differences, though I'd consider them a reasonable "easy mode" while we wait for a machine capable of passing Turing's original test.

I focused on the statistical issue because that one seems indefensible to me. The paper's result has no clear interpretation, depending completely on what assumption the interrogator makes about the unspecified prior probability that their witness is human. It's not clear to me whether the paper's authors even understand what they've broken.

Just for fun, I tried a few LLMs and couldn't get them to recognize the statistical issue either. I guess they'll probably learn before social science professors do, though.
Most HN users didn't sign up looking for "Respectful discussions on controversial topics" (and aren't seeking that out), and of course the site wasn't designed for that. It's like me asking why HN isn't a good place to debate atonal music theory: no one else wants that and the site wasn't designed for it.

If "Respectful discussions on controversial topics" is sincerely what you want, check out https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ . There, folks did sign up for that and the culture and moderation was built around it. They also set and enforce rules designed for that use case, like "Explain the reasoning behind your view, not just what that view is (500+ characters required)" and "Only post if you are willing to have a conversation with those who reply to you, and are available to start doing so within 3 hours of posting."

It takes quite a bit of work to do well: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules

You can read or join every phrasing of every conceivable vaccine topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=vaccine&restr... (or search for related keywords).
This is really cool, but usage looks very complex. I keep hoping to find an easy-for-the-casual-user tool that takes photos and videos and produces textured models. Kind of like Canoma was, back in the day.
Seriously, that was a terrible name for the wireless system since it's been used by the Loyola Online Records Access system for half a decade or more before the radio company shamelessly copied the name.
I genuinely want to know their experience in organizing to get better context as to their expertise. They are the one making claims about what works and doesn't work. I don't know jack shit about organizing, so I'd like to know if I should take their opinion as an educated one or a layman.
best man! Prince of Persia was one of the first games I played. So cool to see that! <3 (heart lol)
It isn't bad news - but it feels like it. The forget that they have a place to live during that time and so most of their house payment would go to rent anyway. They also forget that in 30 years they get a place to live rent free (well property taxes - and of course this breaks if you take cash out). House prices generally don't go down so much as stagnate compared to inflation.
No mention of the real Prey (2006) in a discussion of weird geometry in games?
Powerline adapters? They're fairly popular nowadays too, I've got four of them in my house.
As of a few days, X.com tries to trick you into disabling Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection. Any link shows only a completely black page that says "[WARNING] Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379372
I cannot set a random outgoing From: address when sending an email in iOS. In many ways I understand applications not wanting this feature. Non-technical people will see it and wonder: What if I put in someone else's email address here?
Why would you be surprised to see a misogynist position on 4chan? I'm barely surprised to see it repeated here.
Dunno what the link was supposed to be, but [dupe] anyways

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412
Take a screenshot of the...whatever it's called now...and post a link to the hosted image.
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training
If this worked you wouldn't be selling access, especially not for a one-time fee of $10. You'd be making millions.

You could probably get away with charging a subscription fee.
The startup I work at used Workplace when I joined. It's been a few years since we transitioned to Slack (and we now use Discord) but I remember Workplace being a royal pain. Team members would routinely not get messages sent via DM, requiring a hard reload of the app to get them. It was not uncommon for folks to send a message, and if no response 5 minutes later, send a text to that person asking if they received that message. Stuff like this is pretty unacceptable for an app intended for use at the enterprise level. And we were just a team of ~10.
I'd argue that the zero value should always be shown. Otherwise you get different impressions of the rate depending how you scale and subset the Y axis.
https://x.com/jmechner/status/1791226510336045286

that link should work. Thank not me, but @ renewiltord
This is, from what I understand, intended behavior. The worst is when people link the final tweet in a thread so you just get the last message and see no other context. For me, I don't see the value in people posting twitter links.
Symbolic dynamics is a great gateway to DS for computer scientists. You can start with dynamics on words and group actions on graphs; the basics of these fields don't have too many prerequisites and have an immediate computational component you can exploit to augment your study with interesting code.
It genuinely baffles me that we haven't seen more aggressive antitrust action taken against Microsoft with Windows 11. Trying to lock down what people can install, attempting to force users into using Microsoft accounts with dark patterns, tying Edge and Bing into everything, hijacking browsers and falsely saying things like this...

This feels exactly like the Microsoft of the IE6 era, if not worse.

The US and EU governments really need to come down hard on this, just like the latter did in the IE6 era.
In order to gain these rights, women and black people illegally protested. Famously, a black woman didn't agree to be moved to the back of the bus during racial segregation-- illegally, of course! How harshly should Rosa Parks have been consequenced?

Seriously, what's the difference here? They're doing illegal protests same as like when women illegally protested. If you want to punish some students harshly, you should also support jailing Rosa Parks, no?
Beyond Copilots – Exploring the Extractive Capabilities of LLMs
>an the latter is a CCP propaganda outlet

Seems like the US propaganda against TikTok successfully worked. What a sad day. We should never encourage censoring social media and free speech. If a self-proclaimed liberal democracy can only win by censoring it is neither liberal nor a democracy.
Ah now I understand it
I am not advertising this as a stock price predictor. This is for people to make valuation models on stocks but the valuation depends on user input.
But Disney financed and distributed Tron. It wasn't made by a Disney Studio, and most of the animation was outsourced to a Taiwanese studio because Disney wouldn't lend any of their own talent. So I think it's fair to say that Oliver & Company is the first Disney-made film to use CGI.
Now read the article again, and where it says "windows" replace with Tom's Guide.

It's hard to take an article seriously when it complains about adverts, while at the same time putting an advert between every paragraph.

Yes, the competition for being the default search engine is fierce. And yes there are arguments to be made about the current Google quality, and the addition of Copilot to Bing.

But frankly the article is little more than click-bait about adverts from a site buried in adverts.
> they'd be absolutely nothing unless they got, at the very least, a bachelor's degree.

I have long told people what degree you get matters. There are a lot of interesting areas of study that are not valuable in the workplace. If you want your degree to get you a good job - which is the implication of the statement - you need a degree that is valuable. If you can afford to not have a good job (either because you are rich or you already have one) then go ahead and study something interesting to you that the market doesn't value.
To say nothing of the fact that embossing a document in Germany, and Europe in general, is extremely rare and certainly not common on your garden variety receipt or invoice (basically never). They were a bit more common pre-90’s though.

Without the aim of trying to insult anyone, frills like that are more common in the US when trying to emphasize the official nature of documents (e.g., notary public embossing).

Even so, on top of all that, it would make exactly zero sense for the embossing to be the EU stars.
Oh my god man rent free
Show HN: How to Turn Off "AI Overview" in Google Search
I saw a lot of people angry at Google and wanted to turn off "AI Overview" feature. So I wrote a manual on how to do it for Chrome and Firefox, on mobile and desktop.
HN has a predominantly progressive audience that tends to view perspectives challenging their idealistic vision as misguided or offensive. When faced with specific, pointed issues that their position may not adequately address, some users feel compelled to downvote or suppress these viewpoints rather than engaging in constructive dialogue to find solutions. They seem to struggle with the notion of not having all the answers. Even expressing this sentiment sounds hyperbolic, but the evidence appears quite clear when observing discussions here and elsewhere online.
UCSC students uncover security bug for free laundry
Yes, same with paywalls.
It’s certainly not how it used to work, or a behaviour that makes any sense. And I’m pretty sure it was behaving this way even when I was logged in (before I finally deleted my ancient account that I hadn’t used for five years).
Microsoft is very annoying with all the self-promotion

Why can't I save a Word document without it defaulting to a location in MS cloud storage?
My favorite non Euclidean game is antichamber. It's a bit dated now (and the graphics are kind of eye burning) but it was a neat puzzler.

Edit: I had the name wrong, ita antichamber! As many others have correctly stated.
"If they are in trials does that indicate they have a white paper?"

I would think they'd have to in order to have the trial. It probably is not for public distribution though.