skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family history of Alzheimer's disease. I wanted to understand my own risk
Read about Michael Milken and his friends... then reevaluate the context of the flippant hostile responses.

There is a valid argument that one can't steal something if it no longer has value son. ;-)
They are talking about the tone of the message. "it shouldn't be this hard" is not the proper way to report a bug at least not in a neutral way. It has the intention to make the maintainer feel bad and increase the likelihood of a change. And that was just in the title.
Switching is easy
You mean remember the thing that is still very much a thing?

I also occasionally get geo-blocked by Japanese websites too.
Conversely I remain surprised to this day that several hundred execs didn't end up with multi-decade long prison sentences for bricking the global economy with this bullshit.
oh goodie I can't wait for forks of kde and gnome to shill Bing and OneDrive
That may be what the original commenter was going for, but it only works if one ignores all other externalities. Their reasoning is just too reductive.

They make the mistake of thinking that “dead is dead” means lethality is not factor. What’s the difference between a bootleg firecracker and a Russian ICBM? Nothing, both can kill you so it makes no difference to treat one exploding as any more significant than the other.

They take a similar mindset of “intelligence is intelligence” and I find flaws with that as well.
Bud, are you OK? You seem to be raging against everything. Capitalist companies exist to make money, and they make money by providing a service that users want. Sometimes they are bad for uses (alcohol, cigarretes, gambling) but nobody is forcing anyone to buy any of these things.

Just because a user likes to spend $1500 every year on latest iPhone because it makes him "feel cool" or "have self worth" isnt fraud. Apple is just catering to that person.
I happen to be in the market for a cheap commuter after I realized I spent upwards of $400 per month on my used ICE vehicle. I'm trying to choose between an older $6000 used Chevy Spark, which would probably save me $350 a month, or a 2021/22 Bolt The silly Chevy 2024 pause on the Bolt means there aren't new ones really available for sale and the new car IRA rebate. I was even considering a late model Volt, which is just a great car, and a shame that it was cut.
Posting AI generated info-dumps is considered bad netiquette.
Does anyone know if the DMA would apply to Playstation? Shouldn't I be allowed to boot whatever software I want (Linux) on my PS5?
The irony of your statement is that many of the core tech, protocol and software systems underpinning these big tech companies were developed in the EU.
10k is the altitude above which oxygen masks are required, and any decompression above this altitude triggers the oxygen masks to drop and pilots to make an emergency decent back down to 10k ft.
I don't feel Lithuanians are the type of people that would like cold messaging
>I would say at the very least that the empire of Japan clearly evaluated them differently when it surrendered unconditionally directly after being attacked with this new technology.

The atomic bombs certainly played a part in Japan surrendering, but it wasn't the only one. They were also facing a land invasion from the Soviets, had an utterly depleted military, waning support from the public, and a potentially devastating land invasion by the US on their doorstep.

>You are saying magnitudes don't influence the identity of something, this is obviously not true.

I am considering these things very dryly and very objectively. I am putting aside emotional pressures and processes and only considering the results which are ultimately all that matters. We already know how much damage an ill-willed intelligent being can achieve, we already know how much more efficient computers can make certain tasks. "AI" is not a "gravest of dangers", given that knowledge.
> Are we all somewhat in agreement that AI/AGI serving their human masters is a good thing?

It's more that it's apparent (or at least should be) that an AGI not serving its human masters is a game over for humanity, period. The best, and quite unlikely, outcome is that the AI becomes a benevolent god that helps or at least does not interfere much; this still makes humanity into NPCs in their own story[0]. Most other outcomes spell doom, with death/extinction being one of the more pleasant possibilities.

Arguably, "the only winning move is not to play", not to pursue AGI at all, but the way technology develops, I'm not sure if it's on the table either.

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[0] - Non-player characters.
UK sysadmin here. I assure you that the GDPR is not hard to comply with at all - unless your business is to abuse your customers' data.

The main technical thing is that all data stores containing Personal Data must be redactable.

For years I've read bizarre GDPR fanfic from panicked Americans claiming that the world will end if they have to pay the slightest attention to data protection. I assure you literally from personal experience that this is not the case.

I wrote this up several years ago: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/606812.html
Fair point, and I sort of understand the nostalgia that's involved. A large part of my disappointment probably comes from the fact that the endless remakes never quite live up to the hype.

I was a big Diablo 2 fiend, it was one of my formative online games. So a few years ago there are rumblings about D2 Remastered, and I'm obviously pumped. Come launch day, Blizzard has my money and I'm deep into the thing I used to love, but it's just... meh. There was a time and place that made the original D2 fantastic, but it turns out that's not here and now. I feel the same thing for Myst/Riven, they were SO GOOD but who actually gives a shit about doing the same thing again with better graphics?

I can't write off the fact that those dudes made a few great games, and that's a crazy accomplishment. I think Myst is the first "real" PC game my family ever bought, and I still remember my mom staying up late at night to click around the world and figure out what the hell was happening. She wrote notes on those yellow legal pads, reminding her of lore and other important shit. But the lightning in a bottle thing works both ways, and that lightning is basically static electricity in todays world :P To borrow your example, id software didn't release the same version of DOOM 30 years later, we got DOOM Eternal. It's not a reskin of their (by today's standards) shitty game, it's a whole new experience that's a damned (hah) blast to play. That's not what's happening with Myst/Riven, unfortunately, but I'd love to see that level of innovation come out of the studio that was once great.
What choices do you have as an iPhone user to download apps from? Or as an iOS developer what choices do I have to distribute the said app?
> housing is so incredibly broken at the moment

It's not just "broken". It's designed that way to benefit large financial groups.
Same as people slashing ICE car tyres and leaving notes. Happening all over in city’s in the UK
Honestly I don't think most users care, at all. The complaints regarding the AppStore comes from a few tech companies and a small percentage of highly technical users. For everyone else it's fine. The EU mandating alternative stores or side-load won't significantly hurt Apples bottom line.

The most valid complaint, and this is something Apple needs to address world view, is the move towards in-app purchases and subscriptions. I believe that is due to a limitation in the AppStore, where Apple isn't allowing upgrade pricing, but allowing subscriptions to enable features. In-app purchases is destroying the AppStore. You could say: Well that would be fixed with an alternative store, but I have serious doubts about other app store operators not being tempted by the recurring revenue as well.
It's too bad the 2023 Bolts are for the most part unavailable new, even though the used 2023 bolts have super low miles, and thus not qualified for the IRA rebate.
For 144 and 240 Hz, the LCM (least common multiple) would be 720 Hz. At 144 Hz that's 5 ticks per frame, and at 240 Hz it's 3 per frame.

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/lcm.php
all statistical AI systems are models of ensemble/population conditional probabilities between pairs of low-validity measures. In practice, almost all relevant distributions are time-varying, causal, and require a large number of high validity measures to capture.

eg., NLP LLMs model, eg., all books ever written using frequencies by which words co-occur at certain distances relative to other words.

But these words are about the world (, people, events, etc.) and these change daily in ways that completely change their future distribution (eg., consider what all people said about Ukraine/Russia pre/post a few hours of 2022).

The LLM has no mechanism to be sensitive to what causes this distribution shift, which can be radical for any given topic, and happen over minutes.

All models of conditional probabilities of these kinds end up producing models which are only good at predicting on-average canonical answers/predictions that are stable over long periods.
uucp and the internet were not the same things - but both hosted usenet and mail.

The big issue with commercialising the internet was really that originally internet connected companies were prohibited from routing packets to 3rd parties, what really changed things was the change of that policy - after that anyone could join
> What other rule do you find impossible?

you will never get specifics out of these guys. They will lead you down a circuitous thread of unspecified fears until it's clear that their business model is to abuse customer data even as they'll avoid actually saying so.
But AI (as we have it today and in the foreseeable future) is nowhere near the definition of a species. It is an enormous _server farm_ doing series of matrix multiplications followed by nonlinear transformations, with us, humans, supplying input data (as well as hardware, electricity, and maintenance) and assigning meaning to the outputs. And we have completely no ideas of doing "AI" any other way.

I agree, that AI may be dangerous if used for destructive purposes, or if used for some critical tasks with too much trust (and the hype that "we're so dangerously near a superintelligence" makes the latter much more likely, in my opinion). But that Humanity will be displaced by autonomous server farms? No way.

(As to the original comment, I think that a bunch of nearly(?) demented elders holding nuclear buttons is a much worse (and immediate!) threat than a server farm which we finally conclude to be intelligent.)
The GDPR is a nightmare. So much paperwork, so much money down the drain. Only for the receptionist still yelling your diagnosis through the doctors office.
I missed that little detail, but even then, it doesn't matter. That just becomes a parse error and any half-decent parser can recover from that error. The important bit is that the spec doesn't specify how to recover, unlike html5, where it goes into great length to specify recovery so browsers are somewhat consistent. So, as the OC mentioned, some systems will recover by keeping the first one and some by keeping the last one, making it so various systems show different things.
I think novelty is for the creators.

They think it is a good idea and that people are nice.

I give it 3-6 months until they realize how many downsides that idea has and close down.
>”I don't see nuclear weapons as any worse than conventional weapons because ultimately people die.”

If you believe this, I am genuinely curious as to what you would consider the “gravest of dangers” to be.
It's not competition when it's not a level playing field.

European and American manufacturers don't get equal access to the Chinese market. Almost all of them have had to enter into partnerships with local Chinese companies with technology transfer agreements to get access to China.

China has subsidized its domestic car industry with cheap loans, cheap land, and direct subsidies for the last decade. What the tariffs do is balance the Chinese government's support of its local car industry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/business/china-exports-ma...

If anything tariffs should have been applied sooner.
Telegram now wants money for 2FA based SMS in some countries
So, with... frequency?
Yes, thanks. I thought that was clear because the HW is not relevant in any way to the concerns at hand, but apparently a clarification was in order.
I looked it up: Xonotic was the answer!

It was actually quite fun, even though I had to compile from source to play on an outdated office server :)

https://xonotic.org/
A distinction without a difference.

In a profession with no agreed upon standards for anything, everyone can call themselves an “engineer,” rendering the title meaningless.
Ask HN: Want to Work in Different Areas
I’ve been doing full stack development for about 4 years now, I’m pretty tired of it. I would like to move more into server side type work but my roles have been more heavily focused on the frontend so far so I’m lacking experience.

I do side projects that interest me in this area but especially in this job market that doesn’t really cut it. I don’t feel comfortable even looking at jobs asking for C++ experience for example, knowing that my side projects that I work on for fun would be my only source of experience to talk about, when the job is asking for someone who has real industry experience.

Are there other things I can do to make this transition? Has anyone else done something similar and willing to share what you did?
Hope? You should demand it. You’ve already dipped money into it.
I can vote for who decides things in the EU.

I have no say in how Google, for example, does their business. I'm way too poor for that. I'd need literal billions of stock to get Satya Nadella's phone number =)
“SA: Yes, I had a heart attack when I was twenty-five. I had a viral infection of the pericardium.”

https://www.furious.com/perfect/shellac.html
Hopefully VinFast will start to introduce lower priced models sooner than later as they gain traction in the United States with their electric vehicles. Perhaps the tariff is to protect VinFast also and therefore US interests in Vietnam.
Is this "Big Tech" or is it mainly just Apple throwing it's toys out of the pram because it's not getting it's own way after years of acting aloof?

Yeah Facebook are jerks but they've always been jerks... But what about Amazon or MS or Google or Netflix or others? Are they acting in the same way? The article seems fairly light on any details of the people we'd traditionally think of for "Big Tech"?
Here's the link if you want to read the contract terms: https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1791539443016536265

They've said they've never clawed back anyone's equity in practice - which is not surprising! If you're threatening people you hopefully don't have to follow through on your threats very often! That's kind of the point of threatening people no? So I don't find that statement partically reassuring.

Here's sama's tweet about how they're going to fix it: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1791936857594581428

My bar for being convinced that this has been handled correctly: the guy who lost his equity gets it back, and other people who previously left openai confirm that they've had some of the restrictive terms of their exit contract (like non-disparagement) cancelled. Additionally, people who made a fuss tell us that they haven't been penalised in terms of access to future liquidity events.
As a Brit who moved to Germany rather than the US as a result of 2016's Investigatory Powers Act and Brexit referendum results, I am not motivated by such things.
We have at least 10k worth of Apple hardware at home I fucking dare them to do it.
Just the other day there was a double-blind study that showed a 50-50 success rate in guessing whether you were interacting with a person or GPT. That’s a turning test pass, no?
yep. From Baldur Bjarnason:

> For months, we’ve been hearing leaks about Apple’s talks with the EU about the Digital Market Act. Those talks were not negotiations even though Apple seems to have thought they were.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...

The EU cannot allow a large business to mess around like this.
Yeah. Especially in Apple’s case, I don’t understand how they can’t see that a more open iOS could easily dominate the market.
No. You're right about the company case: when you look at a company, you only care about its profit today (and in the future). You don't really care about how much money it spent to get here.

But for purposes of global warming, you care about the total amount of carbon in the air. The cumulative sum. The integral.

If a company becomes profitable today, it survives.

If emissions were to magically stop today...warming continues!
It's annoying that most cars today start in the 40's, what happened to basic budget cars? Personally, I just want a reliable and safe car, not a flashy one, and given the CA mortgage I carry, I have no interest in indulging in frivolous expenditures.
I remember doing a LARP variation of this. Imagine the same but with soft combat swords, spears and bows!!

Players with armor could stand more hits because the stamina needed to run to the respawn compressated it.

With scenario variations like capture the flag, keep your fortresses, protect the VIP there was a lot of tactics to do.

We called the cops beforehand and asked for a permission because it was a public land but we had no problem (Spain)
Composition of gut microbiota could influence decision-making
Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347118
Google and Meta could behave like normal companies and require users to pay them money and not sell PII. If that makes them far less successful that's good news for competitors.
wut. I guess we just need to wait for a big enough CME and we don't have to worry about spam anymore; so in that respect, I guess you are right. Though its like using a hammer on a window to screw in a picture frame.
I didn't say anything about modifying the LUTs or adding RF interfaces, I don't know where you got that from.
Apple isn't doing a damned thing to promote my prosperity bud, and glossy consumer electronics is hardly the path to hegemony. Just between me and you, I think consumers, The Market, and tech in general would be better off if Apple imploded in a cloud of minority shareholder lawsuits.
How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels
Andreessen and Horowitz answering questions on the current state of AI, round 2
Its hilarous, some people fear AI takeover and at the same time scam streams and twitter accounts that are hilarousily easy identify as scams stay up.
The users right to delete data?

In practice that becomes the "right to rewrite history". Which should never be a good thing, for obvious reasons.
New link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was...
People with limited and low-end skills, without business domain expertise and the experience that goes along with that, have always struggled to get hired and to keep their jobs in a downturn.

If your skills cannot outcompete an LLM then you need to upgrade your skills rather than worrying about so-called AI taking your job away.
And yet they did and still allow google analytics to exist while it not being GDPR compliant.
I’ve never heard anyone using iMessage in NL. most use WhatsApp, Telegram and some Signal.
please detail the nightmares you personally found!

I detailed my personal experience here: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/606812.html

tl;dr no it isn't, unless your business model is to abuse customer data.
What really amazes me is how a random high-profile website has like 400+ "partners" listed in the cookie dialogs. Each one is building a profile of people in various ways based on the site usage, and internet usage in general.

Where does all that information go? What is the information used for in the end?

The tracking technologies enable many things, and the continuum from "to show you interest-based ads" to full-on Stasi is rather large.

But given the massive scale of tracking and profile-building, at least I have no idea exactly where we are now (though clearly we're not at the worst-case extreme).
> takes over if you try to send an SMS to a person with an iPhone?

That's a huge part of it. Finding good stats is hard, but take Denmark and Sweden, it more likely that not that the person you're messaging also have an iPhone. Still most countries, from the statistics I've seem, have around 20 - 33% iMessage usage. Sure some of these people also have Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, but 30% is still a massive number.

The thing Apple has going for it is that people can't switch, or they can, but the alternative is SMS. Some seem to think that if iMessage goes away, people will just switch to WhatsApp or Signal. NO, they'll fallback to SMS/MMS.
I’m not sure why the guy above you is getting down voted so hard. It’s pretty clear from these tweets that what OpenAI was threatening to do (claw back vested equity) would in fact have been illegal/unenforceable. They are changing the contracts now that attention has been focused on it.
In midsize cities it's an improvement that you can get a ride at all. Last time I tried to use the legacy service they told me they don't do pickup requests on Friday evenings and to try again tomorrow. Lyft got me to my flight and I never called that dispatcher again.
Turing was a WW2 era mathematician. He had no insight or understanding of intelligence, made no study of intelligent systems, and so on (he believed in ESP of all things).

Turing's test is a restatement of a now pseudoscientific behaviourism common at the time; and also, egregiously, places a dumb ape as the system which measures intelligence. If an ape can be fooled, the system is intelligent: people worshiped the sun and thought it conscious. People are desperate to analogise the world to themselves, it is a trivial thing to fool an ape on this matter.

Whatever one might make of this as a philosophical thought experiment, as a test for intelligence, its pseudoscience. What a person might, or might not believe, about a series of words sent across a wire isn't science and it isnt relevant to a discussion about the capabilities of an AI system. It is a measure, only, of how easily deceived we are.
Yes, some people in this world still prefer to operate with paper checks and use the telephone.
Those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
If you have physics solved then you may be able to prove that you are isolated.

As for the game theory - in practical scenarios you want to use conflict theory by shelling, because game theory is too simplistic.
I know. Its such a worry.

You smoke 80 fags a day for 30 years of your life.

You decide to stop smoking because your hacking your lungs up every morning, you can't breathe and your clothes and home stink of smoke.

Many good reasons to give up smoking.

You start vaping to help you stop smoking.

Lo and behold!

Out of the blue!

You mysteriously find you have Asthma.

I don't Adam and Eve it.
This assumes Apple has something to offer the Chinese market that it incumbents aren't already providing. I'm skeptical.
GDPR is mostly only excessively onerous when the business model involves gathering and processing information of people who haven't actually consented to what you want you do with it, or you don't have secure storage for the information.

If a business can only survive by extracting and processing against the wishes of the owner, or by storing it unsafely, maybe that's not actually a desirable business.
"We will never give away" could be read as "we will sell for the right price".