skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple AirPods Pro are doing all of this now. They’ll isolate people in front of you, can reject background noise but allow voice, etc. They can also correct both music audio and “transparency” audio using your Audiogram. Unfortunately for me, they average both ears and perform the same correction on both ears and I have notable hearing loss only on one side.

I don’t see any reason proper hearing aids can’t already be doing it now though I am sure some of them are but probably the even more ridiculously priced $8k+ models.

Nuheara is also in this space but marketed and designed more specifically to be a low budget hearing aid replacement. With a similar pride to AirPods Pro.
> Liquid petrochemicals will continue to be used in any application dominated by power-to-weight ratio considerations.

Long distance air travel is pretty much the only scenario where this is relevant.
"I see little point": UK university students on why attendance has plummeted
I'm not sure how that's relevant. Telsas are luxury cars, and my friend lives a luxury life. He pays 33% more for electricity at a supercharger, and it's still cheaper than gas.

A Prius is the same price as a BYD, and the 40mi electric range is the same you'll get from overnight level 1 charging, so daily use can be the same price.
Because
- the situation is like a week old, legal cases and settlements can take months+
- they already put forward their side of it in both a blog post and a WaPo leak

Do you think this is like an episode of a TV show?
> what is there to ai safety?

Bullshit jobs where you get payed for pretending. It is supposed to help “Open”“AI” build a moat based on “safety”.
So... successfully reproduced in ~8.75 hours, taking about 18 kWh / $2.70

The first run actually failed at step 3000 or so, and I realized I had a bug in my attention / matmul kernels, but after fixing that and restarting it worked great

[1] https://github.com/anthonix/llm.c
> Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas.

They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. (Just plug them in once each evening).

> The Solterra (snip) is a very mediocre EV, far behind its competition in efficiency and charging.

The Solterra is roughly competitive with a Tesla Model 3 (Standard Range) or a Chevy Bolt. Which is fine, they're all reasonable EVs, but I'd still call all of these "first generation consumer EVs".

We're at the "everyone has a BlackBerry, the iPhone hasn't been released yet" stage of automotive EVs, in my humble opinion.
> Isn't that region very expensive CoL compared to the local wages?

It's depend, far less expensive than Paris, far more expensive than the rest of France, but a thing is the shore, where anything have touristic prices, another is the inner land where prices are far lower.

> Can you work in France tech sector, without speaking French?

Maybe it's possible, but it would be definitively hard. France is an ancient ex-empire fully knowing the power of the langue on individuals, so they do not like using foreign languages. Of course even in France in tech most things are in English, but the fact that docs, exterior costumers contacts etc happen in English you still need French for all, starting from the public administration.

In salary terms, you normally get FAR less than Luxembourg and still significantly less than Belgium, for a not so lower cost of life, but you still get EU level services, a nice climate, a bit hot now, but with cool nights, with nature around. I'm at 1030m altitude at 7km for the "main village" and I still get a 2Gbps/860Mbs FTTH, a small supermarket nearby, a big one at 15' with Drive, various leisure services and few shops. Not at all at the level of a developed big city of course, but still a good level of services, while in nature. So for me the choice was "higher salary with less nice condition for a period than going somewhere else or less salary but a good quality of life and stability", I chose this one.
ok fine the most innovative thing about openai was blowing up the board to abolish the nonprofit
Life would be so boring if we made everything flawless, we must find ways to spice it up whenever we feel like it's going too well.

I have a friend like that: loves pure functional programming languages; day job? jack of all trades doing buses communication systems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would not say it's snake oil, but it will only help if you've learned some helplessness or are bad at thinking about what someone is saying while they are speaking. A hearing aid or filter is always going to be more helpful if you only can pick one treatment.
NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework (c. 2017-2020)
This rings so true. I noticed a consistent level-up in my abilities once I started to seek the essence of the problem. I ask myself: “I start with this information. The desired output is X. What is the essence of the data transformation that takes me from the input to X?”

When I boil down the task to its nature as a data transformation, the solution flows from my understanding of the problem, and I’ve found that my choice of tools flows transitively from there pretty easily. The problem is “isolated” from the software as you said which makes it so much easier to reason about things.

I sadly have not gotten much traction when I try and advocate for this mindset in our industry.

As an aside: It reminds me of a funny point from secondary education. Did you take AP tests in high school? If you did, you might remember as I do a consistent refrain that teachers used to beat into students preparing for the tests: “Answer the question” Over and over we heard this ad nauseam until it became second nature, whether for AP English or AP Physics - and it was good advice! Because the number one mistake students make on those exams is not actually answering the question asked, which even when couched in the most wonderful prose, results in a failing mark.

I think software engineering is often pretty similar. Even the best, most sophisticated tools will not produce a working solution if you don’t understand the problem.
It's not healthy to love your job. You should like it, but not love and be attached to it and make it define you. Considering this, spend your time on other areas of your life you have more control over and get fulfillment from. Worst case is you will need a new job, and nothing forces you more to find a new job than unemployment does.
I don't think LLM's are capable of AGI regardless of how much powerful they become.

AI Safety has become a rewarding grift though.
Their production is not public. All links in the article to past production actually go to third-party papers analyzing their historic, declassified production.

TBH the article makes it clear they are not perfect, by mentioning that they got Iran badly wrong.
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So this commitee is three businessmen and one lawyer, right? They don't even try to pretend anymore.
I agree from a developer point of view, but the people configuring and deploying the application aren't always the same people developing it.

As a developer I like to make many options available for debugging in various situations, including disabling TLS. This isn't controversial, every Go and Rust library I've ever seen defaults to no TLS, preferring to make it easy rather than required, so reflecting those defaults in the service's configuration is natural and intuitive.

I make sure my example configurations are as close to what will be needed in production as possible, including not just TLS but at least one "mutual TLS" validation. I even sync these back from production if it turns out something had to be changed, so the examples in the repository and built artifact are in line with production.

Yet I routinely find at least some of these disabled in at least some production deployments, presumably because the operator saw a shortcut and took it.

Let's rework Murphy's original law: if there are multiple ways to deploy something and one of those will be a security disaster, someone will do it that way.
They literally pioneered LLMs, RLHF, multimodal LLMs, and many other fundamental techniques that are causing an epic sea change in society and technology.

Don’t be so jaded.
Replibyte: Database Backup/Anonimization Tool
Nah, I reproduced on 4x 7900 XTX machine in 8.75 hours, so a single 7900 XTX (costs less than $1k) could do it in under 24 hours. Was hitting 55.4% MFU.
> Ofc it's hard to prove any of this. But it almost feels like there's an algorithm with a bias at play

It doesn't pass the smell test that there would be an algorithm involved in actions like that. The development timeline and effort involved makes absolutely no sense vs. alternative explanations like manual action. Sometimes even things you'd expect to be algorithmic are not and are really AI (Actually, Indians).

I think the typical explanation for stuff like that on HN is user flagging, which does pass the smell test as an explanation for what you describe. Altman and OpenAI still seem to have a fanclub on HN (real and/or astroturfed), though it's perhaps less dominant than half a year ago.
Delhi's Mungeshpur records 52.3°C, city's highest-ever temperature
Just like every other year.
Sam comes from YC. I know he was fired but Paul always has good things to say about him. It was also sketchy how for the first year there was continuously multiple threads on the front page about OAI.
Can Trump Slam the Brakes on Electric Vehicles?
just like anything else with cryptography, please don't roll your own. all major OSes and programming languages provide primitives to generate cryptographically strong random numbers- use that instead.
Perfect question for HN
yes, one of my clients was hit by this and i was tasked with solving the situation.

i had to create a ticket in a repo explaining why blocking a whole domain instead of a single subdomain was actually pretty bad. they approved it and reverted the change.

finding where exactly i had to open the ticket and what to write was a “down the rabbit hole” experience.
One of the benefits of running a blog, is discovering cool tools that the creators want to write about.

One such tool is ERA, which is a privacy-first note-taking app.

https://blog.javascripttoday.com/blog/the-privacy-first-note...

After receiving this guest post, I checked the tool out, and was quite surprised. It's really nice!

Direct link: https://era.sh/
The 'Spectacular' Failure of Disney's 'Star Wars' Hotel Is Going Viral
Is it me reading it wrong or are you using two "startup" meanings in sentences very close to each other?
The lesson here is that building your entire business on someone else's platform (like the IOS store) is too risky. They have full control over your business and can make one decision to ruin it in a single day.

Amazon ruined my business around 13 years ago. They kept $30K of my money for 6 months and it forced me to shut the business down. The worst part about it is that there was no real appeals process. I was redirected to either an automated response or another department that never responded to calls or emails.

Sure, you can take them to court. But this will bankrupt most people in lawyer fees.

This ended up being a good thing. This experience forced me into a new space, and I had a much more successful business for many years after.
How did they take this long to figure it out? I would have expected this article when ChatGPT first came out.
The most interesting part is that apple decides to ban his account and hold his money with zero way to appeal, except to take legal action via the courts.

This is what it means to own a platform for which they have a monopoly and do not answer to anyone but themselves.

I say the initial steps for the EU to force apple to open their store to competition is sorely needed, and more needs to be done to prevent such type of abuse with zero recourse.
I wanted to mention MQTT (mqtt.org) as good lightweight protocol that has many implementations.

I was surprised author made no mention of it (mqtt.org) but come to think of it it might be because author is specifically looking for queues it seems and MQTT works better as a PubSub, and its durability story which seems the main focus of the author is way different with very cool features - QoS - for delivery reliability but still not a classic queue
> Java the #1 chosen language for new important server-side applications today

What is the evidence for that claim?
The initial post that the author mentions in this update,

Developer account removed by Apple (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394364) - Nov 2023 (425 comments)
In the Netherlands there's been variable interest in LPG conversions; last uptick was in 2005 when gas prices went up, apparently interest is increasing now as well. However, the catch is that LPG cars pay more road taxes (idk why), so it only becomes interesting to do the conversion or switch to LPG if you do more than 15.000 kilometers a year.
Almost like the old days of fixed function pipelines. The example at the top seems a little contrived, I wonder why you would build a shader like that.
Mistral AI launches its own version Open License
More Ontario school boards join suit against social media giants
> what good measures are there to help the current junior roles?

i always make it very clear that anyone can reach me asynchronously whenever they want, and i will always strive to give a clear answer when i'm able to

i think some juniors have been burned by asking the wrong person the wrong thing at the wrong time and believe it was their fault for asking

sometimes people just had a bad breakfast
> There is no existential risk.

According to Altman and the rest of the OpenAI board, there is. They are the ones sounding the alarm, so they should be judged by the appropriate ethical standards.
Maybe people try to tell you you’re misguided because it sounds like you expect a date who respects you to not date other people. This is a silly expectation to have if it isn’t communicated explicitly.
It will be decades yet and cost billions, if not trillions, to convert the whole world to electric; it's likely many places never will.
>The worst case interrupt latency on the original 68000 is pretty terrible?

It has a fixed cost of 44 cycles. Is this somehow bad?

I would call it extremely tight.

edit: 44 cycles... after the previous instruction finishes. Some instructions (infamously slow division, and many-reg movem) can be slow. Worst case is what matters for realtime, but it is still under 400 cycles.
Have you tried earplugs like Loop or Eargasm? I’ve considered them for a while, but never pulled the trigger. Reddit seemed to prefer Loops to Eargasms.

I actually find foam earplugs make voices easier to hear. I can have conversations during concerts with them somehow, in fact. So I figure if foam earplugs can do that for me, then earplugs designed to block only unwanted noise are probably even better.

Case in point, I was recently at a Swans concert—-they play very long sets, like 3 hours—-and my back got tight, so I started stretching. I heard someone 20 ft away talking shit! They said, “yeah, I guess you can do your Pilates here.” I finished the stretch and then heard, “oh, I guess he was just stretching.”
In addition to this, the post is a good highlight that just because you succeed once, doesn't mean you've figured it out. Apps are an extremely hit or miss space to build businesses in, and you can have great successes followed by absolute failures and everything in between. Apps are a part of the attention economy and they live and die by the power of random happenstance on the internet.
Sounds like their success comes from not starting with the results you want and reverse engineering the reasoning to justify the outcome.

Who would have thought removing top-down agendas and starting with a bottom-up approach would end up with a better picture of the truth!
Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
Personal Algorithms
Sorry, but this is bordering on some kind of pathology.

See a therapist, because you make it sound like you're on the verge of a breakdown just because you do some work at home.

Do you have the same reaction to doing household chores?
Just to be clear.

Looks like I’m wrong, making a general statement, based on anecdotal information.

We’ll have to see what the future holds for us.
> Solar and wind are enough, and more and more countries are making more and more of their power needs with renewables. Stop spreading FUD.

Just to be clear - I am trying to say that solar and wind are worthwhile to pursue in addition to the fossil fuel energy sources and infrastructure that exist now.

But solar and wind won't replace fossil fuel, unless we drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption.

> I have residential solar in Michigan of all places and power our all EV household with it. We can do this at grid scale if we just stop listening to the same old lies the fossil fuel and nuclear industries have been pushing for decades.

This is awesome. This is the way. We need more of this. I want this too.
Related previously:

Ontario school boards sue social media giants for $4.5B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851564
It's fun for silly stuff, but I've definitely been on enough slow links that I wouldn't put it in a serious tool.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's really cool, but I wouldn't use it as a universal hammer.
> The requested page could not be found.

Am I the only one seeing this?
> if you're disinclined to hold businesses to higher standards than the norms of business

The only reason to be so disinclined in the case of OpenAI would be that you're sure their existential risk claims are wrong. If that's the case, then I suppose you could just shrug your shoulders and ignore the whole kerfluffle, at least as long as you have no skin in the game. I personally still think the conduct of everyone involved has been childish and unprofessional, but if we take existential risk off the table, then the issue is just that the norms of business in our current culture are childish and unprofessional, which is disappointing, but has no simple fix.
When GPT-4 was released, they published examples of prompts and agent-like scenarios that are considered malicious.

They are even categorized.

The appendix also contains full responses before they implemented changes and further training in reaction to the red-teaming results, at least for most of the prompts.

(starts on p. 44)

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf

I think the categories of prompts are still relevant, and some of the used of LLMs described are already widely deployed (e.g. the one about propaganda on social media)

People tend to laugh about the increasingly strict guardrails of commercial chatbots, and it has proved to be at least in large parts an cat and mouse game.

But I wouldn't underestimate the viciousness of an unfiltered LLM instructed to generate propaganda, hate speech or convincing instructions for humans to perform harmful acts.
Not really. I've never gotten a job or anything on the platform. Messaging people often gets ignored, as well.
Reminds me of Prezi, a lot more than it reminds me of Jupyter notebooks.

However, as someone who prefers to create PDF slides using LaTeX instead of PowerPoint, I completely prefer a scriptable tool instead of a web-based tool.
God is of very little help (here), as pointed by Plato/Socrates in the Uthyphro dilemma. The naturalistic fallacy is not limited to natural rights, as Hume's is-ought is applicable to legal rights just the same - you can't logically deduce from the fact that there are laws that mandate rights a conclusion that one ought to abide by them.

Natural or universal rights does not require theism. Robert Nozick is famous proponent of the secular based position that property is a natural right.
> OpenAI says that multiple technical and policy experts, including Aleksander Madry (head of preparedness), Lilian Weng (head of safety systems), John Schulman (head of alignment science), Matt Knight (head of security), and Jakub Pachocki (chief scientist), will also serve on its new committee.
The top comment of that article is too blatant
I look forward to seeing this in future movies and forensic procedurals. "The hacker left a virus in the mainframe!"
I think you're both correct here to be honest.

Pre dating apps the norm in my part of the world would be to see someone approx 1-3 times. After that, if you continued dating, it would be taken as implicit that they are at least a front runner and the exclusive conversation wouldn't be far off.

Having said that, I don't think that dating apps are a good way to meet serious partners. The overlap between people who use Tinder and people who don't engage in casual sex is extremely low.
I'm aware of this trade-off.
It's fine, even desirable, for high security applications.

For other scenarios with lower security requirements like social networks, games etc... you could set the expiry to 24 hours so if the user uses the app at least once every day, then they will stay logged in perpetually.

The lower your security requirements, the further you can set the expiry time. If your security requirements are low, then you probably don't need the ability to revoke a token in 10 minutes anyway. It works out quite well. You can always have an isBanned flag/property on the user's account object for banning. So inside your access control logic, you check for the JWT and also check that isBanned is not true on the account record... OK, that means you need to look up the account record (which you would have to do anyway regardless of what session mechanism you use because it doesn't make sense to store an isBanned flag on a session object, but you really need that flag) JWT still saves you from managing session objects in a separate Redis instance or other.

If you compare the work and complexity involved in developing and maintaining the two solutions side-to-side, JWT is still much simpler overall for pretty much all scenarios. If you're talking about scenarios at scale, then JWT comes out even further in front. Session IDs require an entire extra infrastructure component; e.g. Redis.
No "terroir" has not the same meaning as earth or land. It's wider and related to both the local environment and local practices.

Wikipedia says:

Terroir is a French term used to describe the environmental factors that affect a crop's phenotype, including unique environment contexts, farming practices and a crop's specific growth habitat. Collectively, these contextual characteristics are said to have a character; terroir also refers to this character.
Alleged Sale of 560M Users' Info Stolen from Live Nation/Ticketmaster
The breadth and (for lack of a better term) concreteness are just fantastic. Thank you for writing this!
Who are the 47 democracy activists facing jail in Hong Kong?
Basically people that are going to do reinforcement learning to ensure the model generates output according to a set of pre-defined values. So, this people defines what those values and principles are, and then they make sure the model generate stuff aligned with those.

We would usually call this moderation, but for branding, marketing and financing purposes it is far more interesting to call it safety because it reinforces on the lay mind an idea that those models are far more powerful than they really are and that we are on the cusp of General AI.

It is like lowering the suspension, painting the wheels black, and putting rear flaps and badges that say "Sport" and "Turbo" in a unmodified Toyota Corola.
I haven’t seen that. My session persists with Tailscale when I’m roaming on my iPhone hotspot to the next day when I am on home WiFi. Only lost a few % overnight on my M1.
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LOL @ those memos. This was long before all our companies adopted the "Don't say anything in E-mail that could become evidence" training. Their ruthlessness and obsession with destroying everything not-Microsoft was truly unique and special. I can't think of any company here in modern times so focused on not only winning but making sure absolutely everyone else lost. Old-school Microsoft was wild.
US billionaire plans submersible trip to Titanic wreck