skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defects
It's analogous to phone call metadata vs. the contents of the phone calls.
There is a video on twitter showing it generating text (looks a bit like image diffusion)

https://x.com/ArnaudPannatier/status/1799055129829839166
Indeed. And then someone will just fork it and the situation will be messier.
The amount of response may be self explaining.

Not my main work, but spending a lot of time gluing things together. Tweaking existing open source. Figuring out how to optimize resources, retraining models on different data sets. Trying to run poorly put together python code. Adding missing requirements files. Cleaning up data. Wondering what could in fact really be useful to solve with ML that hasn't been done years ago already. Browsing the prices of the newest GPUs and calculating whether that would be worth it to get one rather than renting overpriced hours off hosting providers. Reading papers until my head hurt, that is just 1 by 1, by the time I finish the abstract and glanced over a few diagrams in the middle.
Not just efficiently, can't solve.
Most likely yes. In Google v. Oracle, the Supreme Court ignored whether software APIs are copyrightable and instead performed a fair use test. Oracle's Java APIs remain under copyright, but Google's use of the APIs were fair use.
< and > are handy shortcuts, thanks, didn't even know of these! A downside is they have to be pressed for every video (mildly annoying if watching a playlist or if the keyboard isn't within arm's reach) (they also top out at 2x, this may or may not be a problem depending on preferences).
Have you stress tested it? "Springfield" is a very common name in the US. I'd love to know how it handles "Sandwich" as well.

Again, probably overboard for a fun app!
I wonder if this would help especially for computer code generation, where what is output at a given step may materially depend on what would be written at a later step.
I can't think of any long term, open source project that has removed and ripped out more code than OpenBSD.

They are know for doing exactly what you are suggesting.

Go ask @tedunangst. It was literally called "tedu'd" for ripping out old crusty code.
How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I
This looks like an easy DDoS exploit waiting to happen.
pip install pytorch

Environment broken

Spend 4 hours fixing python environment

pip install Pillow

Something something incorrect cpu architecture for your Macbook

Spend another 4 hours reinstalling everything from scratch after nuking every single mention of python

pip install … oh time to go home!
The buildings are more than symbols, we have no clue how they were built, just theories, but remember there were no power tools before 1895. There were no cranes. Those massive Roman columns, were carved in perfect symmetry by hand tools?

The beings who built the cathedrals had methods and technologies of amazing power that we know virtually nothing about. They are artifacts of something that is now, presumably, gone.
Just remember your just as likely to be the guy they force out. also, from 0-4 years you went from nothing that nobody believed in to probably $10-$50M company.

Also, it's the tech founders probably getting f'd.

the guy that used duck tape and bailing wire and everything else under the sun to hold all the crap together long enough to attract enough attention to make it work to the point you can actually have resources to start to do things right.

here's an alterative if you don't think they can make it don't start something with them. Don't use them until they don't have any value you to you anymore.
The laptop was purchased with upgraded RAM, so there wasn't any OEM sticks to swap in. That is a good idea if possible though.
Yeah, which is why I'm over on Linux now.
Computability is of critical relevance.

Our mental capacities can be patterns. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

> There's literally almost nothing in the distribution of text tokens that corresponds to any features of these processes.

There's nothing in evolutionary fitness that necessitates intelligence or reasoning ability either. Yet here we are.

Sorry but if you don't see the connections then you need to do some reading on theory of mind, cognition, information theory, physics, philosophy. All of the fundamental basis are met to allow reasoning to emerge in LLMs.

It is clear now where your confusion lies, and why you are led to believe so strongly that LLMs cannot reason: it is because you are an ML practitioner you overweight your expertise yet you don't know what you don't know, and have foundational gaps in your knowledge. You lack the context in these other fields. If you had them, your position should be closer to agnostic than this strong belief of yours that LLMs in their current form cannot reason.
I've seen a few customer freakouts, and in every case it was started by tired staff maybe making a mistake and some psycho making a mountain out of that molehill. Like even if we presume the guy really did ask for no lettuce and the burger assembler or order taker fucked up, that's not a rational reason to start throwing chairs.
This is a large problem in industry: defining away some of the most important parts of a job or role as (should be) someone else's.

There is a lot of toil and unnecessary toil in the whole data field, but if you define away all of the "yucky" parts, you might find that all of those "someone elses" will end up eating your lunch.
Supposedly, the win11 refactoring of the code base made it infeasible to allow. My hot take on this is if their code is now so unmanageable so as to disallow where a rectangular bar with some minimal interactions is positioned on the screen, it's time for me to get off of it wherever possible.
I agree, the ability to take screenshots is unsafe and should be removed. A virus is just a PRT SCRN away from stealing everything! (/s)
OpenBSD is also known for this. They constantly push back against adding configuration knobs or running non standard configurations.

Have you used OpenBSD? You're telling them they should be doing something, that is already basically their mission statement.
Maybe pip should not work by default (but python -m venv then pip install should)
Thanks for sharing. I love how detailed that writeup is. And you used the tools that I wasn't smart enough to employ for mine.
As the parent comments note, LibreSSL ripped out tons of code. Not "hidden behind build flags". Deleted.

There's plenty of flaws with any project, but OpenBSD is pretty well known for doing exactly the thing you're claiming they don't do.
Restriction Rules like this is what lead HAL 9000 to go crazy.
In the sense that,

- You don't know your partner, you know what you remember of what you've understood from what you've seen them say and do.

- You don't know the text, you know what was printed.

- You don't know which grains of rice you will scoop out from a bag.

"Reality" as held above theories (models) and the evidence for and against them is an unreachable standard of truth.
this is one of the first things mentioned in the article
We're fine. The real chaos starts when food is a luxury.
Those are on embedding vectors, not on words. They use embeddings created from translated sources, eg., wikipedia articles.

Yes, if you construct an embedding vector on texts-A, and another on texts-B where (A, B) are translations of each other, then an "unsupervised" algorithm really will give you the dizzying heights of a little above coin-flip accuracy on highly engineered self-selected benchmarks.

They evaluate by by looking at the most in-use words in each vocab.. so you take the most in-use words on translations of Wikipedia, whose frequency is decided by the need of translation.. and then you use that to evaluate.

It is blindingly obvious that the structure and frequency of heirglphys on tombs, Chinese glyphs in poetry, and latin in medieval liturgical literature are not distributed by Reality.. written in this order by God so that the Langauge of Reality is what places "d" alongside "oor". We already know this to be the case. The assumption of its opposite is rank pseudoscience.
Were you there?
SSH Certificates are vastly different then the certificates you are referencing.

SSH Certificates are actually just a SSH Key attested by another SSH Key. There's no revocation system in place, nor anything more advanced then "I trust key x and so any keys signed by X I will trust"
> I've been self studying architectural engineering.

Get the form and forces textbook. It’s fantastic.

> I hope to some day build my own home. It may well be a tribute to brutalism, we'll see.

Don’t tell any architecture students this, they will rip you apart (just re-visiting their trauma upon you from when they were inevitably criticized for thinking “brutalism is cool” when they first got to arch school).

> The experienced architect (or engineer) can "see" how a structure may future collapse by the intuition of reading moments of force and how they influence forms.

Absolutely, any structures professor/lecturer worth their salt IMO should always be encouraging students to develop this ability. One excellent way to develop it is through the method of graphic statics (covered extensively in the aforementioned textbook) which was out of vogue for quite a while but has since started to gain some traction again as a pedagogical and design tool. The catenary is the oft-cited (and boring) example of a form-found structure.

Membrane and tension structures/the force density method would be another thing to check out in this realm.
The more relevant portion is this: “As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho’ it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.”

You invoked Franklin’s statements about “populism.” But Franklin thought that humans were made by God and that God-created law was a real thing that existed. Under that world view, it makes sense that a democratic society couldn’t decide to say legalize the murder of rich people, because God’s law was higher than man’s law. But presumably we are not having a theological discussion here. If we don’t accept the notion of divine law, how can there be limits on what democratic governments can do with the consent of the people? The people’s law should be the highest law, right?
> However, Mallory had a fatal flaw, well known to his companions. He was one of those people who are both absent-minded and clumsy with equipment. [...] above 21,000 feet in the death zone of Everest [...] intricacies of using the large, awkward oxygen bottles...

One really wonders about the competence of the committee which was selecting climbers for the fatal attempt.
This is a horrible comparison. Browsing history doesnt show the contents of the page. It doesnt show you what you were doing on that page. It doesn't reveal anything other than you went there and maybe how long.
Xiaomi SU7 blamed in fatal accident Xiaomi denies EV's fault
I'm pretty much exclusively a Linux user and when I did my OSCP (24 hour infosec exam), you were not allowed to screen record the exam, but you were allowed to take excessive screenshots (such as 1 per second) .

Screenshots were essential for the post-exams report / write up that you had to submit the following day.

Rather than have to rely on taking screenshots, and my bash history I did exactly this, including OCR to help me search for the relevant image. It was super useful, and for this sort of requirement a perfect fit.

Recall does have a usefulness, but it's just been implemented poorly so far.
make it a separate program that people can install if they want to. if its really that great then people will download it
I think OP forgot the quotes around "accidentally". You're right it won't be a true accident; it will be intentional and just called an "accident".
I use both PKCS#11 and OpenPGP SSH keys and in my opinion, PKCS#11 is a better user experience if you don't also require PGP functionality. Especially if you're supporting MaxOS clients as you can just use Secretive[0]. As you say, FIDO is even better but comes with limitations on both client and server, which makes life tough.

[0] https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
I wanted to refrain from profanity and used “product” instead of “shit” ;-)
> that little thought has gone into privacy or security.

I think the thought is proportional to the amount of thought a non-tech customer will put into it. Nobody seems to care about or understands privacy these days. Everyone knows they're being tracked everywhere they go physically and on the web. People use their real names, address, etc for every junk service they sign up for, without seeing any reason not to. If you tell people that their TV is tracking and taking screenshots of what they watch [1], they say "yeah, Netflix knows too".

It's literally, "how it's always been" for any non tech person under 30.

[1] https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows...
Needlessly Public
This entire thing is a hoax.

> It has become an extremist meme, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL maintains a "glossary" of every random meme and inside joke from 4chan and claims that they are all somehow connected with Nazis.

The ADL itself is in fact considered a hate organization by many people.

>Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.

https://droptheadl.org

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-def...
Literally any other lang. lol
> Physics gets large amounts of commercial investment.

Almost all funding for basic research, including for physics, comes from governments. There are a few niche areas of basic research, like quantum computing, that also attract commercial investment, and there is plenty of applied research, but governments are almost the only game in town for basic research.

I think fraud is actually a much larger problem in commercial research, because the incentives to cheat are much stronger. There's real money at play. Theranos was a massive fraud. There's plenty of fraud and misconduct in the pharma industry. And when it comes to academia, the fields that have the most commercial potential (like biomedical research) have the worst problems with fraud.

> How is the co-author of this paper still employed if funding agencies punish it?

Is the co-author guilty of fraud?

> Where are the university funded research-police departments?

It's the funding agencies, the journals and other academics that are most involved in finding fraud.

> Why do we keep hearing cases like this Alzheimer's one

Because there's a huge volume of research, and some small percentage of it will be fraudulent.

> why are there never any announcements by Vice Chancellors about doubling investment into fraud investigations as a consequence?

That might be a bad allocation of resources. If fraud is a rare phenomenon and isn't severely impacting a field, then the current level of investigations might be sufficient. Add to that the fact that the way most of these frauds are uncovered is by competing researchers.
I'm shocked that there are so many repos. To be sure, are these all really separate repos and not just directories?

I've only worked at monorepo companies, and when I see the "monorepo vs. multiple repo" debates, I always picture in my mind that we're arguing about 1 vs. maybe 5 or 6 repos--like a repo for each major project. But thousands of repos, one for every little nugget??? That is totally wild. Is this an actual industry practice?
Dynamic 3D Gaussian Fields for Urban Areas
If an attacker got root with recall they might not need to wait the user to type their password and risk detection. The information they want to know might be already in the recall database.
I have an extension like that called uBlock. If that ever gets compromised or sold, I will have much bigger problems ...
> That very analysis will include the fact that they have no launch abort system like normal capsule based systems and that the belly flop landing is much more dangerous than landing a capsule. Space Shuttle memories may come to mind.

You are talking about this as if it is based on feelings as opposed to probability calculations. SpaceX will present a probability calculation to NASA, who then either accepts it or disagrees with it on engineering grounds, not "memories". There is no formal requirement for a launch abort system in NASA's safety standards – just a requirement that the probability of death be below a certain threshold. A launch abort system is one way to get that probability below the threshold, but if you don't have one, that's okay so long as you have some other way of getting there.

> So the only realistic way to get the 1 in 500 confidence would probably be to really land hundreds of times for unmanned missions and not mess up even once.

What they do is list every possible failure mode, give it a probability of happening and probability of a lethal outcome if it happens, multiply those two probabilities together, and then add them all up. If the result is above the threshold, they will fail certification. If the result is below it, they then have to convince NASA engineers that (1) their probability estimates are accurate and have sufficient evidence to justify them (2) there are no failure modes they've omitted in the analysis. For (1), actual flight experience is a valid source of evidence, but there are others as well – such as simulations and on-the-ground testing of components. There is no minimum number of flights required to gather sufficient evidence, it all depends on how much non-flight evidence is available and how NASA engineering evaluates that non-flight evidence (which is going to depend on the component or failure mode we are talking about).

You are looking at this from a "big picture" perspective, whereas NASA will be looking at it scenario by scenario, component by component
And based on initial estimates, the actual data stored by Recall is pretty small on a daily basis, making exfiltration a potentially very fast process. One researcher was able to use existing info stealer malware to exfiltrate the entire database before windows defender could kick in and remediate the issue.
The API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/recognizing...

In my experience it works remarkably well for features like scanning documents in Notes and in copying or translating text embedded in images in Safari.

It is not open source, but free to use locally. Someone has written a Python wrapper (apple-ocr) around it if you want to use it in other workflows. The model files might be in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TextRecognition.framework if you wanted to port them to other platforms.
Obsidian 1.6
The two aren't exclusive of one another. We've also witnessed situations, with major companies, wherein an SSH "leaks" outside the VPN due to network misconfiguration or misconfiguring interfaces on the server.

As I said above, keys are actually more convenient than passwords. Only reason people still use passwords is because they believe keys are difficult to use or manage.
Meta's AI can translate under-resourced languages
where everyone including engineering was beholden to old school IT departments that take months to spin up a VM after pages of bureaucratic back and forth. The cloud moves it from an IT issue to department budgeting.

My F500 company put a stop to that. There is new paperwork in place to requisition cloud resources. The bureaucracy will not be replaced.
How's that even legal. There should be laws about this.
Yeah, that's pretty purple for white. But still amazing how far this tech has come.
Feel free to reference where they have said this.

I see from your other comments you are saying this was supposed to be some AI that can navigate websites and perform tasks with no user input.

Maybe you had some unrealistic expectations about what they were offering, as it has been quite clear they only offer limited integrations. It was even widely discussed that it was just some langchain (or similar) driven agents - apparent to anyone who has read even basic information about the product.
announcement tweet: https://x.com/obsdmd/status/1799112876676018291
One difference is that Web browser history has been there 30 years, since before most people at the time had even touched a Web browser.

At the time, it wasn't very thinkable that someone would have the audacity to take and abuse that information.

It dates from when Internet people overall were more savvy about privacy than users overall today are, but it was also when the Internet was closer to a trustworthy environment, and before Wall Street sociopath types took over the tech and the culture.

Lots of kinds of abuse that today are routine and almost universal, for even startup tech companies, (e.g., embedding third-party trackers into Web site, and getting even worse from there), I think would've gotten them ostracized, and outraged demands for criminal charges.

During the dotcom gold rush, there was such a flood of totally new, posturing people, and so much money being thrown wildly at everything, that any remaining outrage was lost in the noise.

And now virtually no one knows any different.

But if you're trying to push some new abuse today, I think ordinary people are starting to have some awareness of what vicious sociopathic buttholes tech companies have become, and so acceptance might not be a slam-dunk.
Why would this not be resolved with a firmware patch?
It is extremely difficult to get an ADHD / autism diagnosis and the needed support as an adult. Look up clinics dealing with these in your area, then exclude the ones that deal with children only, then exclude those who don't accept new patients unless in acute crisis, then check the wait times to be seen. Then try to actually message the few left and again, exclude those for more.
Why would you disable instrumentation instead of just filtering the recorded log?

That only makes sense if the instrumentation overhead itself is significant. But, for a efficient recording implementation that should only really start being a problem when your average span is ~1 us.
I really wish grocery stores near me would either shut down self checkout (implied: hire more human cashiers!) or at least give me a modest discount for doing that labor myself. Even if it was just 10 cents per checkout, at least that token discount would be an acknowledgement of the labor I'm doing myself that a person used to get paid for. That would take the sting out of it.
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> But the Impossible Burger did more than talking ever did

TBH, nah, I don't believe the impossible burger has really done anything truly notable, as far as vegan causes go.

Now, if you were to end beef subsidies leading to something like 25% of beef farms changing over to a more vegan friendly or environmentally friendly alternative uses, or developed protein alternatives that reduced food costs for the average person, then yeah.

Impossible Burger isn't a bad product, but as far as the big picture goes, it's a slightly tastier virtue signal than black bean burgers.
Do we know anything about Linux support for Snapdragon X.. Personally, I don't trust Qualcomm with Linux support. Their WiFi adapters don't work properly with Linux. Their mobile SoC that supposedly have mainline support only have the CPU part working, but GPU, modem, Bluetooth, etc. won't.

Also, wasn't their history of closed source drivers and their short support timeline was the reason Android devices only ever got 2 years of updates only a few years back?