skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something similar when I was tired of going down to the laundry room in my apartment building only to see that the “empty” dryers still had people’s clothes in them. I figured out how the API worked by using a proxy and built a system to show me which dryers had been finished the longest. Then if I came down and there were still clothes in them, I wouldn’t feel guilty about removing them.

The thought did occur to me to see what happens when I add money to my account, but I didn’t end up trying. There are no API keys or authentication or anything. The only thing you need is a location code which is trivial to get from a proxy.
Open source/science! If open models approach/maintain near-SotA capabilities, then there's hope for avoiding a Big Tech AI aristocracy. Currently, that means Meta releasing their 405B GPT-4 killer (and probably subsequent models).

We'll need community unity, to implement research results, test/harden models, create/aggregate/clean massive new datasets, figure out distributed training, lower hardware requirements, encourage experts to join the effort, praise companies who contribute to open source, etc.

You don't have to tell me that we'll fail. I know. But we have to try. It's the only way we'll have AI aligned to us, not a handful of techbros with savior complexes.
There's a Dalek in a room on the lower left, looks like a kind of police booking room. Scooby and the gang are just above them.
I'd like to voice an opinion that i couldn't find already in the comments.

Security is a trade-off. At some point, security becomes so expensive and inconvenient that it's cheaper to address the root cause of insecurity than to pay for protection.

For instance, there is a point where avoiding generalized war or limiting climate change becomes cheaper than to protect against them.

A lot of people benefit from the war. To them, the costs of security is an externality.

I do not believe it was naive from public transport regulators, for instance, to design with the assumption that gps network would stay reliable, when the alternative is so much more expensive for all parties that it can only happen in such a state of general corruption (aka misaligned incentives) that is not worth designing for. If we are now in this prewar state, we are in much bigger troubles I'm afraid.

War is not a fatality, it's the result of some politics. Fixing political issues may be cheaper than making our highly technological society resilient.
> You're not born aware of yourself, you spend the first few years of your life figuring out that you are embedded in this thing called a human body

This is Piaget-level garbage.
The next war will boil down to math. AI powered drones where intelligence and strategy will determine the fate of the war.

AI powered drones are useless without the logistics and manufacturing base which they came from. They also cannot take land, because they're drones, not infantry killbots. They also lack the attribute and strength of tube artillery, rockets, fighter planes, etc.

It's also missing the dimensions of counter such as direct energy weapons, SHORADs, electronic warfare, etc. Drones are prominent now because counters hadn't been sufficiently developed or widely deployed.

Also, we don't know when the next war will erupt. 1 year? 5 year? 10 year? It's quite bold to make such prediction.
> mathematical notation has changed over the years.

I agree. Math notation has changed in response to problems mathematicians have faced, and as their thinking have evolved. It should not change because tool builders for mathematicians - when the tool builders in most cases are not even professional mathematicians - decide some other notation is better.

> array.mean().round(digits=2)

might be good (it is not) when you are operating on one object. As soon as you have a binary operation (say multiplication), this notation completely breaks down. Because the operation is often symmetric, or "near" symmetric, meaning it is not so different as to write something as ridiculous as x.product(y).

But more importantly, (common/dominant) mathematics is functional in nature. It's decidedly not object oriented. Given a matrix, M, doing something like M.eigenvalues() is vomit-inducing because eigenvalues is not a property of a matrix M. For matrices, its a map from a set of linear transformations (of which M is merely one item) onto a set of numbers. It is its own thing, separate from M.
I suppose in theory the FPGA could contain a hidden CPU that has full read/write access to the FPGA program.

All of them do at this point. It isn't hidden.

You can't buy a large FPGA without an ARM core in it. The ARM cores all have an opaque signed blob running in EL3 that you can't replace. This isn't a soft core on the fabric; it's dedicated silicon. And it has access to the ICAP (internal configuration access port) on Xilinx devices, and the equivalent on all the other manufacturers.
My reading of this is that what OpenAI wants is safety from competition.
> I know a guy who is reverse-engineering the boot ROM and is writing replacement code in Rust

Have a link to the work?
That rather sounds like Palantir is dangerous and not OpenAI.
> Having a society of mostly idle people that cost you money doesn’t really sound like a great or sustainable idea, nor does there seem to be any benefit to society.

So what are we going to do with all of the excess humans once human productivity jumps one, two, or three more orders of magnitude?
> If email didn't need fixing, spam wouldn't exist.

Let's start with something easy - [1] define spam. [2] Can spam be identified with a purely mechanical (no humans involved) process?

Do you have a definition of "spam" that is substantially different from "mail that I don't want."

It's also interesting that you assume that spammers can't generate new identities. (Yes, you seem to think that introductions solves everything, but it doesn't)

I ask that because "I don't want" requires mind-reading by the sender.
In the United States, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the landlord. Maybe not for things that reach criminal levels of malfeasance but for your average renter with a crappy landlord there is zero leverage, it is particularly bad now because housing is so incredibly broken at the moment.

For a long time, you have needed references from prior landlords to rent another place.

This was especially challenging for mediocre landlords. Where there was nothing worth a court date but they may have ignored real problems and garnished the deposit with no reason.

Rental management companies are practically incentivized to deliver the worst service for the highest price.

It’s like the taxi industry before ratings from Uber and Lyft came to provide some recourse for riders.

Ridesharing’s present outcome isn’t to strive for but neither is the taxi industry of yore.

Most folks who talk up the benefits of renting haven’t done it in a very long time.
Not really though.

Modern "publicly known and commercial" AI is effectively all machine learning

For a sample of non-ML AI that ML still has trouble solving, see papers published in:

https://ijcai-23.org/main-track-accepted-papers/
I know a person with sort of an odd type of diabetes that requires multiple different ways of treating to keep her blood sugar low. She was taught to walk daily, not to help her blood sugar today, but to literally help it tomorrow. Her data seems to back this up.

Whatever the cause, there seems to be a causal relationship with brisk walking and lower blood sugar the following day.
Do you have any data to support this statement?
The core issue with this is that I don’t think people have free market choice of rental accommodation? That’s the entire reason for stratospheric rent increases: property is increasingly mass owned by corporations, that collude on pricing. As a result fewer people can buy homes, and ever more end up being owned by rental corporations.

At no point does “what is management like?” come into the equation.
Not to mention the difficulty of hitting a planet-sized target at 99% of the speed of light from 5 light-years away. I'm pretty sure this would be vastly more difficult than anything we've ever accomplished as a species.
I appreciate simplicity, but this could use take advice from https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Yes, now that it's public knowledge. Had this not been leaked, that wouldn't have been an option.
If it's used to write code that runs on an ICBM without verification, yes.

If it is used to write the firmware that runs inside 1 million lithium battery BMS systems that causes them all to catch on fire after 65536 seconds of runtime due to an integer overflow and code crashing and a FET getting left in the on state, then yes.

I'm not an AI safety nut and don't think AI itself is a threat, but what is a threat is lazy humans using shitty AI to take over things that humans should be doing.
It’s too late to talk about safety when your product is already free to use and actively employed to pollute the digital space with all sorts of fakery. And AGI? Please, how can they be so delusional to the point of believing they are on a path to achieve anything remotely resembling it? It’s so cringe. I feel like chance has put too much power and influence on the hands of a couple of immature adults. GPT is a state of the art search engine. Period. But they had to anthropomorphize it, and again with GPTo. There’s no genie in the lamp, get over it already.
According to other comments, the data centers are less than 5% of the emissions in question. The data centers simply aren't relevant to this discussion.
Building a Homelab, Part 4 – Nixification, Kubernetes
This is super cool!

A few questions:

1. just how low is the latency?
"Netris delivers a zero-latency gaming experience that won't eat up your data plan." What does this mean? Wouldn't the latency be at least from my computer, to Netris server, to the game server?

I would assume you can't play FPS/MOBA games on these?

2. "10,000+ games supported" "games that come with their own launchers are not yet supported"
I'm curious about the technical differences between steam games and games with their own launcher. I guess I was assuming that you're more or less just pixel streaming to me(?)

3. how does it compare to GeforceNOW?
Would love to see one of those long charts with checklists.
Now you're gatekeeping on who is a real mathematician?

I don't think this subthread is going to be productive and I'm bowing out.
Same; really wish they’d increase the target sizes on mobile devices.
Black tea is great, but I want to remind users to never use any tea bags whatsoever. These days they all partially have plastic in the tea bags which is extremely harmful, also triggering much acid reflux. Loose leaf is the preferred way.
Don’t forget about “rights of man”; those only exist as babbles philosophy not immutable physics

Perhaps you have no special rights as an individual since you are not that meaningful to its success or existence…

…it’s trivial for someone else to do what you won’t and turn the mirror around for you. Your semantics games can be played on you.

“Adults” sure act afraid of kids. Good. They should be afraid of getting old and having the kids revolt on them.

The other billions aren’t trapped in here with you … you’re trapped here with them. Stop trying to look clever arguing semantics. Do your job and pay your taxes or start conflict and be ended. See what they do to college kids? Why care about the walking dead?
Seek by iNaturalist – Identify Plants and Animals
What an asshole.

I mean, the article describes a guy who isn't just an asshole on occasion, it describes a man who has devoted over a decade of his life to acts of assholery grand and petty.
huh, ill recheck. I guess its been years since I looked
Why?

Do you think they'll be reliant on planets for food an oxygen? That's daft — they will be growing their own food and mining their own oxygen.

Also, I doubt they will be "scattered remnants" — there's likely to eventually be a far larger population off-planet than on.
> the correct price point is like price of a car.

>> By 2020, with 15% of 7.5 billion people projected to own an automobile [0]

15% in 2020, so let's be nice and assume 17% by 2024. Let's be super nice and assume an additional 10% can afford a car, but choose to not buy one for some reason. What happens to the other 73% of people? (5,475,000,000 human beings)

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/World-population-and-the...
The guy who made it has a legal background, I won't fault him on design. He has been immensely popular in Australia over calling out illegal rental actions.
Generalized churn of physics continues and yet some of you think specific things the media tells you about had some outsized impact on your life.

Perhaps you’re just paranoid from reading paranoid opinions all the time.
That relies on introducers/mutual acquaintances, which isn't enough.

Here's an easy problem that it doesn't solve. I'm giving a public talk and want to provide an email address so that people can contact me.

How do you [1] let legitimate responses get to me AND [2] block illegitimate responses. (Note - I have no control over the audience.)
Solar-Powered Cities of Europe
Beautiful, and agpl3 too! Can't wait to try it.

I think self hosted game streaming is a field that could use a lot more attention, from consumers as well. I set up moonlight/sunshine on my pc and now I can play cyberpunk on my 3080 machine from basically anywhere in the country, on my phone! Just got some gamesir controller thing to turn it into a sort of Nintendo switch type device and away I go. Actually, I have basically every emulator I could get my hands on as well, so my phone basically is a Nintendo switch so long as I have a decent internet connection. That's super cool to access my game library from any device that can run moonlight! (That's many devices btw. I recently found a moonlight client on the 3ds homebrew store. Haven't tried it yet but gives you an idea how absurdly widespread it is)

This stadia thing seems more about streaming through a browser so I'm really curious how things like Bluetooth controllers will work, whether there's onscreen controls available for mobile devices, that kind of thing. Will try it and find out! I REALLY love that it seems like I can share with my friends, as a jellyfin, audiobookshelf, konga, navidrome, and calibreweb / opds enthusiast, if I can add videogames to the mix that would be amazing. I already share my steam library through family sharing with some friends cause why not? Otherwise it's going to waste!
>I can't imagine if Ukrainians had incredibly advanced drone/robot tech,

sufficiently advanced for supply disruption

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1cse...

and profit denial, something international sanctions seems to have failed to accomplish, here 1400km away from border:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1cns...

> them throwing all their drones at the Russians, loosing them all

'losing' by blowing stuff up

>and then saying 'Well, we used up all our drones, I guess we'll give up now.'

is that what you see here (NSFW):

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1cuq...

are 20 burned russian bodies Ukrainian way of saying 'I guess we'll give up now'? Drones enabled $500-1000 kills, the cheapest way to erase enemy manpower ever achieved.

This is typical ru trench run

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1cth...

and mopping up leftovers

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1cum...
Somebody needs to run the real numbers ... what activities cost the most energy ( training to get weights, answering queries using weights, etc ), cost of types of energy in terms of external effects (fossil based energy Vs wind|sunlight) demand, bandwidth use, etc.

It's not inconceivable that there's an answer that meets needs based on only running the most energy consuming operations during daylight and migrating those operations about the globe during sunlight hours while having less demand operations run at night.

There's a real issue that needs addressing surrounding ever increasing global emissions, giving lip service while continuing to increase emission related activity is double think.
Such a damn waste. If you're going to put your freedom at risk using niche skills, at least have a pro-social goal

Going to tag physical objects -> make it real art with humor and social commentary.

Offensive hacking -> exfil shite to keep newspapers busy for decades but try not to get caught with lazy opsec.

Prison seems almost be a "crime school" reward. Sigh.
> If the rabbit is injured, making noise and hoping for humans to help is a fools errand as the fox is more likely to hear and eat the rabbit.

> This is engrained in our evolution.

Literally the exact opposite?

> Recent research has also shown that the acoustic properties of human screams can be reliably detected within noisy environments, something presumably indicative of having evolved in noisy environments, such as dense forests, where there is a strong adaptive pressure to reliably signal danger (Nandwana et al., 2015).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341...

> Rabbit Basic Science: The only vocal sounds that are made are a loud high-pitched scream of terror or a range of growls and hums that denote pleasure or defence. Apprehensive or frightened rabbits will thump the ground with their hind feet. The loud thumping sounds acts as an alarm signal to other rabbits in the vicinity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7158370/

> Screaming among rabbits indicates alarm associated with fear, pain, and psychological distress. Your rabbit may scream because it is scared of being attacked or dying. Rabbits also scream when they’re in excruciating pain, or when they’re having a seizure. …it is a sign of extreme pain, terror, or calling out for help.

https://www.rabbitcaretips.com/why-do-rabbits-scream/

> Lima beans release volatile chemical signals that are received by nearby plants of the same species when infested with spider mites. This 'message' allows the recipients to prepare themselves by activating defense genes, making them less vulnerable to attack, and also attracting another mite species that is a predator of spider mites (indirect defence).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_signal

IMO "Dark Forest Theory"— The idea that (1) nobody would ever help anyone else and (2) nobody could ever understand anyone else because (3) we're all dumb forest animals capable of nothing higher than survival, so we may as well (a) hide and (b) kill anyone that tries to talk to us­— That probably says more about the people arguing for it, or about our own providence, than it does about any probable intestellar ecology.

> Humans become a rabbit, the malicious species a fox, the benevolent species humans.

In fact, if anything, using humans as the example of a benevolent society points out the absurdity of assuming that more technologically advanced polities must necessarily be malicious.

Killers don't prosper in civilized societies. And technologically advanced societies ruled by killers don't last long.
When the shit hits the fan, you'll either be saved or doomed by one of those "dumb guys".
What if you don't sign? If you leave a company on your own it's not like you're getting a severance anyway.
I’m sure I’ve bookmarked it too, but few weeks tried to search for it and just no way my keywords worked
I think the fact is that although predicate logic is a foundation of mathematics, it is not what mathematicians spend the majority of their time thinking deeply about. You might use English every day of your life, but still struggle to explain what a transitive verb is, or a gerund.
Oh the gangs are doing that already.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-cartels-more-bomb-dropping...
> On what basis has Altman/OpenAI earned the distrust of so many in the HN comments? All I seem to find are speculation about the future and what reads a lot like petty jealousy.

Genuine question, do you care to know? Or are you only asking this question as a prelude to delivering insult?

When you ask why people believe X in one breath and then suggest it's because of "petty jealousy" in the next, you'll succeed at conveying your dim view of them but fail to create a conversation where it is possible for you to learn something about why people think that way.

Jealousy is a particularly slippery hypothesis because it is fully generalizable. You can explain any criticism of anybody as jealousy. It is my observation that people often accuse others of jealousy when they want to dismiss a perspective. In that way, it functions less as an explanation than as a defense mechanism; an escape hatch from the uncomfortable feeling of simultaneously disagreeing with someone and acknowledging that there perspective might not be meritless.
> Um, closing access to their model code when "Open" is right there in their name and was the original promise they made?

Tech people who don't like OpenAI have got to come up with a better line. Everytime I mention to someone normal that this is a complaint immediately eyes roll.

No one says "North Korea is bad because they call themselves a Democratic People's Republic despite having a dictator" because that is incredibly not important nor was it ever expected.
oh, the submission was yours too, didn't notice until just now. Hah! I'd added the comment linked above to my favorites, which helped me track it down. Thanks for the links.

Edit:

> The "cognitive bias" you mention (does it have a name? perhaps cognitive dissonance?) is a likely reason for this amount of antagonism. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671824

I think the term you're looking for is 'confirmation bias': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Option 3 doesn't work if they have a decoy planet to catch hostile attackers.

PBS Space Time discussed these 3 options and more recently.
> 10,000lbs of tungsten hitting the earth at 99% of light speed would not destroy it

I mean, the planet would exist, but it wouldn’t exactly be capable of sustaining life any more.
This result reminds me of a paper I read last week via Andrew Gelman's blog [1]. It's a very thorough review of the, so called, bat and ball problem and is an up to date summary of something brought to many people's attention via Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. As other commenters have suggested, the most reasonable explanation for the mathematicians to get this problem wrong is something more like carelessness than a lack of logical reasoning ability.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/04/21/now-heres-...
I wrote a BASIC interpreter in golang a few years back, and somehow the child really fell in love with the classic "guess the number" game:

https://github.com/skx/gobasic/blob/master/examples/55-game....

I taught him how to divide the range in half to cut down on the number of guesses, and once he got the hang of that he was hooked.

We played a couple of simple text-based games together after that, but most of the classics were too hard, too long, and required too much typing for him. So the game I made was deliberately simple.

Even so the first time he played he had no idea that a rug could cover a trapdoor. That level of hiding things was too much for him to leap to himself, I had to direct him.

These kinda shared activities don't replace his love of Minecraft, or Super Mario Bros (original NES version!), but I'm still glad we can do them together.
Suppose many of those projects would not be built out without channeling significant capital to it, and carbon credits being an effective means of securing that capital. Would that change the calculus for you?

Note that I recognize many (possibly most?) carbon credits programs are bogus or worse, but trying to draw attention to circumstances where it's not always so cut and dry.
"Only China can build an aircraft carrier in relative secrecy."

Well if this is indeed supposed to mimic opposition forces, then China knows something that's supposed to be a secret, and the above statement is not (quite) true.