skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Seriousness of outcomes” is a bad way to approximate the appropriate degree of regulation. We have many examples of very serious industries (e.g. pharmaceuticals, autonomous vehicles) where overly cautious regulation results in many more deaths on net.

Better rules of thumb are “whether externalities are internalized”, “asymmetry in upside vs downside”, “ability to measure outcomes”.
https://archive.ph/ZMqxg
Don't they get pushed via System Settings some time after a major update has been released (usually when the first or second dot release is out)?
Upselling the few commercial users.
Browsing is not the same as using a personal assistant.

First, it takes much less compute to serve a page than to run an LLM query. LLMs are slow even if you eliminate all network.

Second, your expectations when browsing are not the same as when using a personal assistant.

Right now even when I simply ask Siri to set a timer it takes more than a couple of seconds. Add an actual GPT in the mix and it’s laughable.

In any case, even with a private relay, Apple’s phrasing does not deny sending device identifiers and allowing ClosedAI/Microsoft to build your shadow profile (without storing requests verbatim).
I'm happy to trust many kinds of people, dentists included, just not the kind people who find themselves at the helm of companies like Apple and Google.

Better to trust many people narrowly (e.g. I don't trust the bus driver to drill my cavities) than to trust a small handful of people broadly (e.g. like Apple expects of their users).
I was in Brazil once, atm skimmed my card and 100% of money in the account was withdrawn.

There was a resolution process, and it was great. Bank refunded 100% of the money….after 2-3 months.

I was extremely happy all things considered but you simply don’t have that risk profile with credit cards.

(I had used an official atm inside a mall with armed guards and cameras, which Brazilians and guides recommended. After the incident I instead used the atm inside a bank, past their bulletproof glass and metal detected security, guarded by a guard with a machine gun. No skimming there.)
I think you misunderstand the whole concept of P2P payment apps - it’s meant to be digital cash and replace physical money.

Credit cards can afford to protect you from fraud because of the high level of trust between companies and the point of sales - too many fraudulent purchases and they stop accepting the transactions. Not to mention the fees they charge to both the purchasers and sellers!

If you get scammed with a debit card, cash, or a P2P app, that’s a matter for small claims courts, and if you’re lucky, maybe the police will charge them with a crime. But the risk is on the individual, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
Meanwhile, Google Pay has emerged as the king of UPI payments in India, with annualised transaction value worth $110 billion.

Sometimes, so tightly focused US-only news without even recognising it as such amuses me.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/india-stumped-on-how-to-cu...
I've had a few friends get hit with massive fraud on their debit cards. Completely wiping them out cash-wise. They didn't have any credit cards either, because hey credit cards are evil and a trap.

It left them with absolutely nothing for weeks while the bank sorted it out. They couldn't make rent. They couldn't buy groceries. They couldn't put gas in their car. Sure, the vast majority of the charges were considered fraudulent (not all) so they mostly got their money back, but it was a rough few weeks for them. I've seen that played out three times so far.

Meanwhile there's been fraud on my wife's credit card a few times over the years. Zero impact to my daily life, because 1) generally the credit limits I have are far higher than the cash I'd normally keep in a checking account and 2) I could still fall back on the cash and other credit cards I had.

Also, IIRC, every time I disputed those transactions I think it instantly released that credit hold on my account, so I had that credit back right away.
I've used both and like both. It's pretty smooth to use gleam code from elixir, so you could implement core data handling and business logic in gleam then still just use phoenix for the webapp layer.

But also just try elixir? In a lot of ways it handles like a typed language because of exhaustive pattern match and being able guard/match in function parameters. There's not much practical difference between matching on Some(data) or {:ok, data}. I prefer having types too, but for everything elixir (or erlang for that matter) gives you, it's a manageable compromise.

Anyway elixir is getting a type system right now. I like gleam a lot but I'm not sure it's really aiming to be a universal elixir replacement.
Energy is the base layer of money
While you are legally required to hand over the passcode, they can confiscate the device for two weeks or more, which is probably a large deterrent for most people.
I don't think we will be in time to prevent climate chznge to a large degree. However I'm quite hopeful that technology will seriously decrease the cost of the consequences of climate change.
I wanted to ask if the Darwin Award is also possible if you manage to get yourself and your child killed but the father had another daughter which is still alive
>Rather than warning of failure, Green explained that the sounds indicated “irreversible” damage. “It is my belief, substantiated by many years of experience, that composite structures all have a finite lifetime,” wrote Green, who died in 2021. “While I do not intend to be an alarmist, I did not sleep well and arose early to send this message.”

There sure does seem to be a lot of strong expert advice that was willfully ignored, per the article, that their materials choices, testing methodology, and damage monitoring system were setting them up for exactly the disaster that occurred.
> I don’t know if other riders were aware of that fact, which should have been communicated to them as a big red alert.

As I understand it, the passengers were made aware of the risks.

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-oceangate-waiver-titan-...
They didn’t offer just that, but also bragging rights for people for whom a few $100k is peanuts.

Basically the same reason people climb Everest and not peaks ‘nobody’ knows about that are a lot less crowded.
I don't think space is milder, but to get up there, you first have to build a working rocket, which will make sure that you generally know what you are doing. The ocean doesn't have such a barrier, you can theoretically lower anything into the water and try to get to the Titanic...
How about you Google DMA Memory Attacks, VM Escape attacks, Memory scraping and sniffing, Memory Bus Snooping and so on.

As long as the data is processed externally, no software solutions make it safe, unless you yourself are in control of the premises.
such a click-baity title
Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost
Slop
Tangentially it's not the main subject of the book, but in Burn by Herman Pontzner he discusses how the human body burns a set number of calories as measured by double labelled water studies and he speculated that the immune system goes into overdrive in sedentary individuals since we eat a certain amount each day and the immune system will be more active since they have excess calories to burn. In a South American hunter gatherer society they found they had so many infections that they speculated that immune system activity was using a significant percentage of their daily energy. There was an African hunter gatherer studied that did not have the issue with infections but were more active daily.
I imagine the real offer was a certain thrill and uniqueness. People do base jumping, motocykle street racing, free solo climbing on skycrappers, and various other incredibly risky things for a reason. Maybe adrenaline hiy, maybe experience, but certainly not a well thought of risk/benefit balance sheet.
I feel like the privileged guy in the room, as I was running POV-Ray on a fancy new SPARCstation back in those days.
I'm reminded of Dave Barry's comment on the Diesel engine, which was named after Rudolf Engine.
No.

Re-wind the clock:

- A google engineer says "google has AGI"... this leaks and is dismissed.

- MS writes a paper that says GPT has hints of AGI.

- OpenAI signs deal with MS saying they can have everything OpenAI does till they hit AGI.

That last one. Thats not a bet you make if you think AGI is a decade away. Its a bet you make if you think your close.

OpenAI thought that they were close. They fell for the classic AI trap of "if only we had a bigger model". They got high on their own supply and thought that some sort of tipping point would come with size or scale. That a bigger model with MORE data and MORE information would have AGI, sapience or sentience emerge.

It was a bad bet. Q* isnt going to get there, the LLM line is dead.

Why do you need to worry about safety or super alignment if you arent going to get to AGI. They left because there is no THERE, there..
always read the fine print...
Some companies are stupid, news at 6.

It's not Apple's (or any computer manufacturer's) responsibility to put out products that can solve every problem with the base model.

I'll never understand why companies pay high salaries then give employees sub-optimal computers to do their job.
Of all Google's confusing product duplications and overlapping function, "GPay" vs. "Google Pay" vs. "Google Wallet" was possibly the most confusing.
I hope I'm not too late to this thread, but I have a couple comments and a question.

The experience is better than Amethyst or Yabai, but there is a learning curve. I think it would help if the documentation was one single searchable page, instead of several subpages.

The default keybindings interfere with macOS's special characters, so I would recommend changing the modifier keys away from option+ and option+shift+.

One thing I couldn't figure out. My setup is as follows:

h_tiles
└── v_accordion
├── window1
└── window2
└── v_accordion
├── window1
└── window2

I would like to limit the total number of horizontal tiles--more than two is too many--but I can't figure out how to make new windows automatically go into either accordion stack instead of a new horizontal tile. Is there a way to set mins and maxes per tree level? This is one of those features that Amethyst has that seems like a no-brainer.
There’s not a single homomorphic encryption implementation out there which can do real world quantities of computation
This is a common thought on this but I grew up and have lived in mostly California suburbs and it's pretty easy to be within biking distance to things (1-2 miles).

People talk about the dangerous cars but they were there 40 years ago and my friends and I would bike to school, the mall, or into the hills surrounding us.

My 9 year old's friend lives just two blocks from us and her parents don't let her walk here alone. When I was that age we were riding our bikes for miles in car infested San Jose.
Research on the visual rabbit illusion takes a leap forward
32+ years and still kicking. Simplicity at it's best: all you need is a text editor and lots of CPU time.
Generating synthetic data for intent classification
The Wired article clearly paints Rush as someone who was irresponsible and cavalier about even the basics of good engineering before testing a complex thing with real human lives that trusted him too much.

In the essence of that argument at least, they're right. His using a prototype he knew to be a failure to then explore the ocean with customers aboard, under the same conditions as those that caused its test failure, is criminally negligent.

However, pointing to all sorts of mistakes and gambles small or large as narratives towards a full blown condemnation of extremely dangerous efforts is mistaken I think:

In the world of exploring extremely harsh environments, some heavy risk is inevitable even if you do everything you know of right. In such contexts, something could go catastrophically wrong just as easily as it could all end successfully and a narrative will be constructed for why either was the case even if either outcome was interchangeably plausible..

Pushing immediate blame on someone for something going wrong in an inherently risky activity is to fall into this above narrative trap. It also implies the idea that people who do dangerous but potentially worthy things are wrong for doing so because they didn't have perfect foresight.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fruit-fly-brai... He mentioned a structure and scientists hacked a fruit fly Kenyon organ to process language which it does pretty well, also at MIT.

The approach is relatively straightforward. The team began by using a computer program to recreate the network that mushroom bodies rely on — a number of projection neurons feeding data to about 2,000 Kenyon cells. The team then trained the network to recognize the correlations between words in the text.

The task is based on the idea that a word can be characterized by it its context, or the other words that usually appear near it. The idea is to start with a corpus of text and then, for each word, to analyze those words that appear before and after it.
Ever used the virtual keyboard on treasurydirect.gov? I have resorted to DOM manipulation in DevTools so I can just paste my password in.
Show HN: I made a site to save you 6 months before building your startup
Hello,

I've launched about 13 startups now, and all of them failed because I was trying to solve problems that didn't exist.

Thus, I've come up with an idea: every time I start a new venture, I'll check my idea with SEO keywords to see if people are searching for the problem or not.

Would like to know your thought about the product.
More communist interference in the "free market". This would never have happened if Trump was president.
> far as I know, in the US you can politely decline a phone search if you are a US citizen

Same with being filmed at the airport. Last time I passed through US airports there were signs that you're monitored and it goes to blah blah database, and that if you're a US citizen, you can request to be removed. If you're not, go fuck yourself and pray all your biometric data isn't stored at the cheapest possible vendor and about to be leaked.
From stealing to Spotify: the story behind how music got free
This experience is so far from being accessible to a typical resident of the US, what exactly are your motivations for framing it as "shrug there's no issue with urban planning"?
I'm not gonna read that book. I started and stopped after few chapters because it is based on and aims at manufacturing minds that follow game theory logic. Science (studies, reviews and application) got damaged quite
a bit when too many people started following game theory logic.

We are, from our aware POV, a very young civilization.

And you only ever need game theory logic when you have to survive, got no thing and no skill to trade and you are too pathetic to move back in with your parents to work on your mind and or fuckability. Making money by ways of game theory logic compensates for all that but also diminishes the survival chance of the users' offspring to zero once super-unalligned AGIs start to assess the entire supply chain of wealth and how it impacts the evolution of human organisms and the ones inside them.
One interesting thing about this saga is we learned just how much of a badass James Cameron is.

James Cameron put together the team that designed the DeepSea Challenger, which he took to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, far deeper than Titanic. One interesting tidbid (IIRC) is that they spent 3 years just designing the pressure vessel in software before they ever built anything, so precise the engineering had to be. And even then they did have some system failures on that dive but nothing catastrophic.

OceanGate was an exercise in hubris from people who didn't know better and didn't want to know better. It was pure ego from the uninformed. I personally found the general reaction to be fascinating too: it's like a whole bunch of people discovered class awareness and solidarity.
> That's some low quality snark.

I'm on your side in all the comments I've read so far (especially the "freeloader" one), but this one is a clear "assume the worst" which isn't fair to GP. Their comment could very well have been a legitimate and innocent question. Of course it could have been a majorly failed attempt at a troll (since the question has great answers) but assuming the worst just drags everything down. IMHO better to give benefit of the doubt, even if only for the other people reading it later.
> He already got punished by life, no need to blame him posthumous.

There absolutely is.

Hubris, stupidity, learning from the mistakes of others.

Blaming him is a giant, flashing sign.

DON'T BE THAT GUY
It can, but it’s not good. 2D data doesn’t give you enough information to reconstruct it in 3D and then infilling the details with generative models leads to inconsistencies.
Can’t you just paste the DL image into a Note and then password protect it?

I frankly just have photos of DL and insurance cards in my photos with tags to make finding them easy. Although note with the text searchable images that’s largely not even needed.

I don’t get what the security concern in. My photo reel is way more secure than my actual wallet.
NATO's intervention in Kosovo is the one that routinely cited.

That wasn't defensive by any means, but that also doesn't make it unjustified nor should it really be called "aggressive".

Chomsky, naturally, denied that ethnic cleansing was happening there because it wasn't the US or "western" countries doing it.
Do they? With a credit card, the impact of a fraudulent charge is I click "dispute charge", and my credit limit is effectively lowered by the amount of the fraudulent charge. If the dispute is resolved in my favor, great. If not, I eventually have to pay it off.

It's my understanding that with a debit card, even if you dispute the charge, the money is still gone until the dispute is resolved. Is that not true? If so, that's quite a big difference. I suppose it's the "same", but there's a big practical difference between "my money is gone" and "my credit limit is reduced."
I’d kill for a smaller phone.
Is this down through the old Google Pay app, not through the newer Wallet app? I use "Google Pay", as in the payment processor, every day, but it is being done through the wallet app.
I was mistaken, I just rechecked the rules and apparently having an offspring no longer disqualifies a candidate since the offspring only inherits 50% of the nominee’s genes.

So everyone in the sub are eligible now.
Author here: was wondering how Apple would get the data needed for fine-tuning their 3B parameter model. Imo synthetic data using larger models (like GPT4) is a reasonable approach, so we wrote this quick article showcasing a prompt from the paper "LLM2LLM" that helps in generating the data.
I can't speak towards Apple's or $your_government's trustworthiness, but MTLS wouldn't protect against an attack where Apple collaborates with a data requester.

There are people and orgs out there who (justifiably or not) are paranoid enough that they factor this into their threat model.

This is a bit academic right now, but it's also worth mentioning that in the coming years, as quantum computing becomes more and more practical, snapshots of data encrypted using quantum-unsafe cryptography, or with symmetric keys protected by quantum-unsafe crypto (like most Diffie-Hellman schemes) will be decryptable much more easily. Whether a motivated bad actor has access to the quantum infrastructure needed to do this at scale is another question, though.
Time-to-fun: game design metric relevant to all software (2021)
None! The Sun has a forcefield called the heliosphere to protect it, and this protects the planets as well. This paper is arguing that the interstellar medium may have been dense enough to shrink the heliosphere to within the orbit of some planets, but it'd take a helluva lot more to shrink it down to the Sun's surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
Apple's recent track record (Apple Music, Apple TV) is surprisingly good. The apps on Windows and Xbox have been trending better/gaining features at a good pace with respect to Mac OS and iOS.

There is a sense that Swift has opened up cross-platform app initiatives at Apple that they wouldn't have done just a few years back.
Cycles is not the only one, about half of mainstream commercial 3D renderers are using the GPU for rendering now. Possibly more than that.
Unfortunately, that's the exact problem here: Google tried to force their Indian application internationally without exactly understanding the differences between different markets (big one is forced mobile number registration, which I understand is not a big deal in India but it's a significant friction in the US). For users outside of India, it is a mess compared to how Apple (and even Samsung at this point) does it.
the fact that you can manually tweak your prompts for any problem and agent, is still super useful (joke: *and the only reason our civilization still exists)
ReScript is really solid in this niche IMO. It's basically ocaml that compiles to js. The standard library includes excellent bindings to react, so you can use react components without too much extra work. You do have to write your own type annotations for them, but it's way way less trouble than elm ports.
Microsoft delivers AI recall
Everyone hates it
Apple integrates AI into every facet of a device that is highly personal
Everyone loves it

Please make it make sense.
Love how they clarify payment apps #1 and #4 have the same name.
Is slop new or is it just a continuation of SEO, blogspam, and “content”? I love that we have a new better word that captures the nuance, but it doesn’t feel like a new phenomena.
So, wait, how long from never seen a boat before to yolo sailing around the world ?
I'll followup here, it's really good but will have to ask my wife. This will take a few hours, she's a teacher and at a workshop so unavailable ATM.
Absolute unit of a camera.
I just hope all of this can be toggled off, I don't want it on my devices.
Do you generally carry up to $500k in cash with you every day? A level that most corporations would consider high enough to use an armed guard with an armored car?

This is exactly my point. The bank gives you a login. Claims the design of the product is your responsibility for everything and you have to protect your login and then washes their hands of any responsibility.
And would anyone be surprised if asking to be removed was also a way to get subjected to additional screening in future?
The word "found" implies judicial discovery of truth through due process. This was a settlement. Nobody was found to be at fault, the information was highly dangerous and therefore valuable, if you want to eliminate the market of buying silence reform due process protections so they cannot be subverted by so called plea "deals" and so called settlement "agreements".
There is definitely a strange stereotype of suburbs in online discourse. Pretty much every suburb I’ve been part of (6 or 7 across 4 states) have been quiet with low traffic, low speeds, and even kids playing outside. About half of those it is possible to walk to school and some shops safely without crossing major thoroughfares. The suburb where I live now, when school is out there are high schoolers walking home and crossing large roads in packs of around a dozen.

There’s decent choice when house shopping, at least the places I’ve lived. If someone chooses a suburb surrounded by 2 miles of other suburbs, that’s their choice. There’s plenty of “old city” suburbs (what used to be the edge of town 25 years or 50 years back) that now have sidewalks and stuff nearby. HN trends wealthy though, so I imagine many people only look at housing on the current city edges.
Easy solution: Travel with a burner phone.
I did a master's in complexity science and a lot of it was basically "what if this graph of things is a computer? what does it compute?"