skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering Microsoft are bringing in a ‘feature’ to record your desktop, I wouldn’t be surprised that an additional ‘feature update’ further down the line will simply take all those chats with your self-hosted AI models to train AI models.

So in my opinion, it just doesn’t matter if you are using self-hosted AI, the weakest link in your chain for keeping your data private is the very OS’s that you’ll be interacting with said self-hosted AI.

And with all the manufactured fear mongering going on around AI, that data will -already- be deliciously irresistible for prism-participating, lovable, trustable companies like Microsoft.

Sorry to burst some pretty bubbles for the lovely naive people.
From my understanding, this is exactly what https://extropic.ai is working on, and I wouldn't be surprised if https://normalcomputing.ai/ (authors of the paper) is as well.
>I tend to root for the underdog against an institution, but we've already witnessed significant exaggerations and manipulations from the defense in public cases. The Serial podcast comes to mind, as well as the series Making a Murderer.

None of what you're referring to is new at all, and, unless this idea/concept is new to you (which is OK!), shouldn't really cause a shift in worldview. Parties on each side of cases such as these will often exaggerate and attempt to manipulate the court of public opinion, have done so for eons, and will continue to do so.
In this case, the existence of earth is an even number, so I don't see how this is a fallacy.
Show HN: Create and share your own text adventure games by editing a JSON!
Hello! I built this app over the past couple of days using tools that my co-founder and I created. I’m new to frontend (my background is in healthcare ML) so I wanted to see what I could build quickly using our tools! I had so much fun working on this app and discovering creative new ways our tools can be used. We’re opening up a private beta so email us at hello@phenoml.com if you’re interested!

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBP-Egpu07g

How:
PhenoUI Figma to Flutter plugin
- Used a number of default Flutter widgets that our plugin supports (e.g. Buttons, Forms, Webview) and also used custom Flutter widgets (described below). You tag the elements in Figma with the corresponding Flutter widget you want to use and can add configurability if you desire (the demo in the youtube video shows this workflow in more detail)

PhenoUI flutter library
- Created a question manager to store and traverse the corresponding JSON to build the text adventure or questionnaire.
- Created both general purpose Flutter widgets (e.g. EmailButton for launching a mailto upon button tap) as well as those for this specific app: AdventureCard-supports both fade and card flip animations using transformation matrices, TextAreaJson -extends our default Text widget to load prettified JSON

What can you do in the app?
- You can play the default text adventure game (an artistic take on my personal ADHD experiences) or a healthcare questionnaire (what can I say, we like building in healthcare) or you can create your own by editing the JSON
- The text in the game and questionnaire supports rich text so you can add emojis to the title, content and buttons
- The JSON validator checks for valid json as well as the specific overall structure required to run the text adventure game or questionnaire but I definitely could improve the verbosity of the error messages!
- Once you’ve created your own game or questionnaire you can play it yourself and then share with others, so they can play your creation!

Observations:
- Once you abstract a text adventure game and a healthcare questionnaire to the same data structure it becomes hard to not see everything as a tree or graph structure
- These tools are not no-code, they are a hybrid between low-code and dev tools. I really enjoyed getting to focus on logic and animations and not having to worry about layout, alignment, or overall responsiveness (the phenoUI-flutter library utilizes the Figma layout for this)
If employees don't need money to have fun, so Google should be seeking to make LESS profits, because it's all about having fun and not the need for money, isn't that right Mr. Sundar?!
Death sentence in this case made literally no sense either.

Was this person at risk of going and shaking other babies?
Yes of course, but your mentioning unit tests in a comment about moving work steps but they are totally different things in this context.
And the USA would rather be friends with China. We threatened nuclear war with Russia in order to protect China in 1969. We created special carvouts to help industrialize China. The USAs actions are not those of a country that wants to be adversaries with China. I friggen loved 2010's Shanghai and the people there (though I'm told it's nothing like that anymore).
The benefits of having less is underrated.
I don’t think that the autism had anything to do with the crime, itself. It had everything to do with how he was perceived by the cops.

Many cops tend to rely on getting a “feel” for the suspect. High-functioning autistic folks often have “resting bitch face.” They don’t come across as “likable,” and people can “get their back up” over it.

I’m a bit “on the spectrum,” and, as anyone in my shoes can tell you, we’re bully magnets. My grade school days were absolute hell. I got the shit kicked out of me, on a regular basis, for no other reason, than “I don’t like the way you’re looking at me!”. I spent many years, training my “resting face” to be fairly open and friendly. People seem to think I look like an idiot, but that’s OK, because they also tend to underestimate me. At least, they don’t think I’m being hostile.
Was this original threat even legal? That vested equity was already theirs - it was part of their contract and had been satisfied. I don't see how they could withhold them from their ex-employees without a separate contact agreeing to it.
The main point of this is that natural gradient descent is a second-order method. The main GD update equation is:

∇̃L(θ) = F⁻¹∇L(θ)

which requires solving a linear system. For this, you can use the methods from the author's previous paper [Thermodynamic Linear Algebra](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05660).

Since it's hard to implement a full neural network on a thermodynamic computer, the paper suggests running one in parallel to a normal GPU. The GPU computes F and ∇L(θ), but offloads the linear system to the thermo computer, which runs in parallel to the digital system (Figure 1).

It is important to note that the "Runtime vs Accuracy" plot in Figure 3 uses a "timing model" for the TNGD algorithm, since the computer necessary to run the algorithm still doesn't exist.
So they’re running a keystroke logger and masquerading it as “telemetry”? That should be outlawed. It’s not a drafts feature, it’s not an online word processor, it’s just a straight up keystroke logger.
slaps you with a trout
My wife is still using her 2012 MBP. We maxed out RAM and gave it an SSD in 2016. She uses it for video editing and music production. The thing look like new. Completely ridiculous. Only downside: no OSX updates since I don’t know when.
As someone alluded to, the narrative that management drives has been examined and studied many times over. What is management saying, what are they not saying, what are they saying but not loudly, what did they say before that they no longer speak about. There are insights to glean but nothing that is giving you an unknown edge. Sentiment analysis and the like go back well into the late 80s, early 90s.
Global Sales Tax Compliance and Remittance
AI in general rather than GenAI?

Gosh, that's easy.

Chess.

PageRank.

Automated address reading in the postal system.

Protein folding.

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Just LLMs?

Very quickly finding texual needles in long-document haystacks. Can't generally do that with a plain text search unless you already know what the needle looks like, and doing it as a human is expensive — see Terry Pratchett's experience with German soup adverts.

Real-time translation within the price constraints of tourists.

Rapid prototyping.
Other than the US using a fake vaccination program to find Osama.

I say this as someone who got the vaccine as someone first in the line.

I’m pissed at the government doing this, because I can’t blame folks for not trusting the government over this. And what that means is the next pandemic will take so much longer to deal with because of this distrust.
Reminds me of the Mastodon accounts that admonish people about the environmental impact of saving family photos to your hard drive.
It’s not ironic if a mechanic is a bad race-car driver
I have what I believe to be an adequate criteria for inflicting the death penalty:

1. A person has to commit and be convicted of, and sentenced for a (potentially) capital crime.
2. That person has to escape from their final prison.
3. That person must then commit, and be convicted of another capital crime (probably with some mitigating circumstances, like murders that are arguably part of the escape and evasion don't qualify for the death penalty, but escaping, then going out of your way to murder a civilian do).

For most bad crimes, life without parole is more than adequate. And if you escape and dedicate yourself to keeping your nose clean, then the worst you should face is an extended sentence. The death penalty should be reserved for people who pose such a proven, dire risk to society that the goal of the punishment is risk mitigation for society, not justice. Ted Bundy is the best real-world example I can think of.
There were UNIX written in Ada and Pascal, naturally C has a special relationship.
Web Export and SharedArrayBuffer in Godot 4.3
i thought that story was about 3 programs that were missing, a text editor being one of them.

I'll have to check because my memory is failing me atm.
I could conceive of a future where nothing is required of most people besides continued consumption, as their eyes on a piece of content will generate revenue, which will be taxed, and those taxes will pay for the consumer class to live and continue consuming. If your system relies on fake numbers getting bigger and bigger, you'll eventually have to pad those numbers out.
If you are very rich, fame seems to be a big liability. You can't even spend your wealth properly without nosey people following you around and make a big deal out of everything.
You misunderstand, employees don’t need money to have fun, shareholders still do. /s
> For a case that doesn't involve AI at all, consider situations where a voice actor in a cartoon is replaced (sometimes while still alive) by someone who can perform a voice that sounds the same. Decisively not illegal.

Because there are contractual clauses. Do you think Hank Azaria owns the voice of 'Homer Simpson'? Or does Fox own that? It would be crazy to develop a show and then be held hostage to your voice actors for all future shows - what if they get hit by a car?
True - oxygen is very abundant, though, so its presence is not surprising.
Was going to point out the same. Glad to have the paper to read but I don't think the findings are significant.
I wasn’t presenting an either or. I said some people are motivated by doing the thing for pay but not owning / running it. This is truth and many of the best agency people I’ve known are like this.
On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
> with repairability just being a means to that end.

You know those "prepper" types that use "simple technology" so they can be sure they can survive the nuclear apocalypse? They eschew any and all electronics, then build everything using modern high pressure hydraulic systems with very tight machine tolerances and hoses made from materials that cannot be manufactured without an entire modern industrial supply chain? Their whole rig ends up being not only very inefficient but also does nothing to make the apocalypse more survivable.

In theory building everything with hydraulics is just a means to end of surviving the apocalypse, but deep down, you know they just liked playing with hydraulics (who doesn't--hydraulic machines are cool!) and backed their way into the justification.

The right-to-repairers remind me of those people. They got this idea in their head that repairable electronics equals some combination of eco-cred, lower-cost and fuck-the-man. You can't really reason with them because it's a religious belief. They "just know" that repairable electronics result in cheaper, less e-waste products, and no amount of evidence will ever convince them otherwise.

Their goal is not cheaper, more environmentally-friendly electronics. That's merely the justification. The actual goal is cosplaying electronics repair technician.
It has been years since they let me use my ultra short ICQ number from the 1990s.

See ya'!
> I'm deeply convinced there is a Microsoft plant undermining everything.

It's conspiracy theory thinking, but I'm getting there, too. These things have been too close to being complete replacements for commercial products for so long, but somehow still fall over on problems that have been complained about for a decade or more.

There's not one of them that some massive corporation with sights set on adding a letter to faang couldn't pick up and turn into a legitimate competitor in a month or six, khtml-style. Instead they often sit on moribund subpages of some larger project website, with a blog updated once every year or two.

These projects have to be targets for sabotage by their commercial competitors, just as government initiatives are, just cheaper. For e.g. Adobe it's less than a rounding error to e.g. spend 500K/year supplying a developer to e.g. Scribus[0] to make sure that it remains difficult to contribute to, or makes bad architecture choices, and that hypothetical developer could be one of its biggest actual contributors.

Maybe it's just because they have to spend a lot of time chasing Gtk, which makes it another redhat problem?

edit: The 95% state of all a lot of these FOSS packages is also evidence that there are zero tech billionaire philanthropists. It would take a total of one of them to grab all of these projects and wrangle them into good form.

[0] This is an actual hypothetical, I'm not making an accusation about Scribus. Between the GIMP and Inkscape, they literally are the only people who made a real effort with color for years. Inkscape openly said that their software was only for making images for the web (as opposed to print), as if there were a rational reason to cripple their product and narrow people's interest in it. Now that deviantart is gone, will anyone care about Inkscape anymore? Will the dopamine hit hobbyists get from sharing generative art cause Inkscape to be totally left behind? Why is it hard to design a form for your office's paperwork in Inkscape, a vector drawing program, if forms are just straight horizontal lines and text? Why aren't they trying to merge with Scribus (and LibreOffice Impress/Draw) and create a complete pdf solution? I have no idea.

I'm being very ranty here, and I do want to say that I very much appreciate the work that people are doing for free, in their spare time, for others.
There is also Zulip, that I think is opensource.
"Yes I Would Recommend Calling the Police":Norm Inconsistency in LLM Decisions
+1

I recently upgraded from a 2019 Intel Mac to a similarly-specced M3 Mac, and it really is night and day. My battery life is more than doubled - I can run IntelliJ and multiple Docker containers on battery for more than my whole work day, when before it would barely last a couple hours with that load and be slow while doing so. The fan hardly ever runs while on my Intel Mac it would run constantly.
1657721. Yeah. Why do I remember this 25+ years later. I guess you did have to tell someone else the number so they could find you. Maybe that's it?
> All these examples seem like deliberate attempts to get weird/nonsense answers back.

I'm not sure that I agree.

If a child hears a rumour, or sees some joke online, that claims that gasoline cooks spaghetti faster they may search to find out if it's legit.

During Obama's term, there was a right wing conspiracy theory that gained popularity that claimed that Obama was Muslim. Someone coming across that conspiracy theory years after the fact, completely devoid of any context (ex: a pre-teen who wasn't even alive yet during Obama's term), might do a search to find out if it's true.

There WAS an NPR article that cited a study claiming that parachutes are no more effective than regular backpacks. AI results have not been enabled for my Google account yet, and currently if you search for "are parachutes effective?" you get a feature snippet that clips that article and links to it. Now take that link, with all of its context, out of the picture and imagine that someone hears that claim casually and wants to search to see if it's true. Currently, in MY search results, you get the link to the NPR article that not only explains where the claim comes from but gives you the full context with all of the "gotchas." It sounds like with Google AI the first thing you get is a definitive, authoritative claim that no, parachutes are not effective at saving your lives and you might as well jump out of an air plane with your carry-on pack-back on.
Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
The main blocker for this is that LLMs are slow. Imagine waiting 3 seconds for your output in a pretty happy case, only for it to be invalid and have to wait an extra 3 seconds, with again non negligible chances of being wrong.

We envisioned doing this for an SQL query generator at work but with our constraints a single query already takes 15 seconds.
Meta will train AI with data from European users
Camping improves mental health and wellbeing, screen people should listen
I’m struck between the similarity between this and the big antenna (?) array that the ballon that went over the USA carried…
They have the natural right of way. No matter who's paperwork isn't filled out, if a spray plane hits my drone I am at fault.
As far as I can tell that's the copy they've had in place since 2016 - a year before even the original Transformers paper that kicked off today's LLMs - to cover their own tiny old-school ML models for things like channel recommendations.
It's never felt better to just be running Debian on everything.
Increase in balding, increase in microplastics found in blood, increase in depression and loneliness, increase in social media addiction. Definitely concerning times.
889246**

I forgot what I had for lunch yesterday but somehow I can remember my ICQ number.
NOTAMs are largely optional especially for things like making cropdusting passes in uncontrolled areas.

In this context the local pilots aren't out of compliance with any rules. The regulatory issue is that for almost all purposes human piloted craft have priority over remotely piloted craft, and there isn't a good way, currently, to communicate with pilots in the area.

Believe it or not, there are parts of the US, rural areas especially, where it is perfectly legal to fly an airplane without a radio or any other electronics.
It's immensely frustrating, as if you're of a certain age (I am), a non-trivial amount of your formative young adult relationship-building took place through Facebook. I remember having the prescience to lament that this wouldn't allow old relationships to fade away quietly, but instead, through the magic of social media, rot slowly. Joke's on me, it was that and worse.

Zuckerberg and co. muscled their way in and extracted value out of the dismantling of traditional social dynamics and cohesion, and left us with a hole where the scaffolding of youth should have been. Very Uber-esque. Actually, it describes any number of start-ups from the last 2 decades. Maybe "disruption" has a negative connotation for a reason.
It's because you know more about the USA's internal politics (and internal embarassments) than about China's. China has plenty of shitshows, but most of them don't reach international news.
Being first mover isn't an advantage, mostly.

Atari is dead. Shoutcast is dead. Compuserve and GEnie are long dead, AOL is dead too. Outside of forums like these, nobody knows who made the first personal computers or smartphones, because it doesn't matter to them.

It's a lot easier to build the second insant messaging system than the first because you can see how it works before you build it.
It occurs to me that I don't know who Alex Northstar is; he could quite simply be an AI creation as well. I now understand why the greybeard dream is to move to an off-grid cabin.
So if two people have legal guns.

They can start shooting at each other.

Completely legally because they are both standing their ground?

Texas is wild west. Of course they would probably dig that characterization and think nothing is wrong with this situation.
That's the power of Javascript!
The consequence of this post is that it very much does!

Though I would just leave those strings out of the WAF.
Different paths for different styles of work. In my experience you have teams who can have a pulse with the incoming work, more often development, so being able to limit the disruption makes scrum easier to work with.

On the other hand, if you have a team who is going to be working on more "at the time" needs, Kanban lets the disruption get absorbed in real time while the team gets to focus on the WIP pipe. I've seen it used most successfully in teams that have smaller, more isolated tasks to deliver that are able to be isolated to the scope of the team. Intra-team coordination with Kanban is more difficult than scrum (but doable) as long as the working model is understood on all sides.

My preference is to operate more in a Kanban model but when working with other groups who operate with scrum you need to tweak things to integrate.

It also isn't a system that, once picked, you're stuck with. I had a team who did scrum for a few weeks, twice a year during organizational planning so we are kept in rhythm with the rest of the company. Once we had a good enough idea in how we were going to move forward, we switched to kanban to manage our work until the next Co. planning cycle.

There's no true Scotsman when it comes to planning and agile and you'll never find a definitive correct answer that can be broadly adopted. Being open to change to make it work with your org and the people you work with is going to get you closer than blindly following any strict dogma.

// ramble
This kind of absolutism always surprises me.

I get "it's not good enough". I get "even occasional mistakes are unacceptable in my field". I get "it's not really intelligent" even though I think that's a question of terminology.

I don't get "worse than crypto" or "unable to find a single use".
Ah, yes, sorry - I should have made it clearer that I don’t disagree that this is a problem, more that the methods they are using might make people more paranoid rather than giving them actionable ways to protect themselves. It is all whacky gadgets and bad science.
> I allocated a week each to the operating system, the shell, the editor and the assembler

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050414215646742
I agree this isn't earth shattering, but I think the benefit here is that it's a general solution instead of one trained on financial statements specifically.
I'm amused to note that those are effectively the exact same policies that Slack have in place!
A great case study on the value of taking the time to think until you have a highly accurate model of the world.

Doing it right:

> "I do open source because I think it's the only right way to do software..."Git' is really trivial, written in four days. Most of that was not actually spent coding, but thinking about the data structures.”

Versus not: (thinking about open source only at a superficial level)

> "Eventually BitMover did open-source BitKeeper...in 2016"