skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but also would almost certainly cause environmental impacts at least on the scale of climate change, and possibly worse.

Or, possibly better. The deep oceans don't have a lot of marine life because there's not much plankton, because all the nutrients have sunk to the bottom. Regions where there are natural upwellings that bring bottom nutrients to the surface tend to have massive plankton populations, leading to massive fish populations (Grand Banks, the west coast of South America, others).

That's why it would be important to do experiments to see what happens when it begins to get scaled up.

"We don't know what would happen" is not a reason to avoid experimentation (indeed, "we don't know what would happen" is pretty much the reason why you do experiments).
I disagree. I think having an easy to search database of everything I've looked at would be very useful.

And if I ever want such a thing, I'll be happy to go and find one and install it myself. I don't want it anywhere near my computer unless I deliberately select and acquire it myself.
Hey solardev, I'm on the team at Vercel.

To clarify, the Vercel OSS program isn't going anywhere. Glad to hear you've had a good experience with Vercel. If an open source sponsorship is something you want to explore, please shoot me an email - lee at vercel.com.
Federal Court: Cease/Desist Letter Insufficient to Revoke Auth for CFAA Claim
Original title which was edited for length:

Federal Court Rules Cease-and-Desist Letter Insufficient to Revoke Authorization for CFAA Claim

The case is L’Occitane, Inc. v. Zimmerman Reed LLP, et al.

> Here, the court found that L’Occitane’s website – like LinkedIn’s public profiles – falls into the first category, and thus L’Occitane could not revoke authorization to its public website under the CFAA through a cease-and-desist letter alone. Put another way, an unwanted visitor continuing to access a public website after receipt of such a letter is not akin to “breaking and entering” – an analogue that the Ninth Circuit found to have guided Congress’ intent in enacting the CFAA.

> Despite the uncertain future of cease-and-desist letters in different contexts, we can confidently catalog this decision in the growing body of CFAA case law because the court dismissed L’Occitane’s claim without leave to amend. In a subsequent filing shortly thereafter on April 22, 2024, L’Occitane conceded the court’s reasoning and agreed to a total dismissal of its CFAA claim.
In a sense, wouldn't it get better? The loonies are gonna be dating AI chatbots to get their fix and not engaging with the dating market, leaving more normal people.
Seattle/Washington has no elite or quasi-elite universities. That’s probably the #1 reason.

Compare it to Boston which is a similarly sized city.

Boston/New England has Harvard, MIT, BC, Tufts, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Brown, etc. It’s the most educated region of the world with huge pool of founders and talent. Even though it’s not a tech focused place the way Seattle is it’s a better place to find young talented people willing to work for or start a new company.
The main factor impacting the RAM requirement of the instance is the size of the data that you feed into it, especially if you need an in-memory index. (If you are curious about peak memory use etc., you can profile Pathway memory use in Grafana: https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/tree/main/examples/pro....)

One point to clarify is that "Pathway Community" is self-hosted, and the "8GB RAM - 4 cores" value is just a limit on the dimension of your own/cloud machine that the framework will effectively use. Currently, if you would like to get a "free" cloud machine to go with your project, we suggest going for "Pathway Scale" and reaching out through the #Developer Assist link - add a mention that you are interested in cloud credits. You can also go with 3rd party hosting providers like http://render.com/ who have a (somewhat modest) free tier for Docker instances, or reasonably priced ones like fly.io https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/.
Ansel Adams Estate Condemns Adobe Selling AI-Generated Images Mimicking Style
> In other words, if full determinism removes agency from the perpetrator, then it also removes it from everyone else.

This is irrelevant to their claim. Normative statements don't require anyone actually have agency. After all, it's possible that everyone should do something that nobody can do.

If you want to say that fine then their claim is irrelevant too, then sure, but it's in no way inconsistent. I think it is relevant though. We can do things differently than we do them, like after reading this comment section; we just can't do them differently than we will do.

Worse still. Your guilty of the same thing you're accusing the poster of.
So how does freenet prevent the spreading of slander, libel, or otherwise abusive content?

I understand not many places have an answer for this question, I'm wondering if Freenet does yet.

I'm asking this in good faith. I actually like Freenet.
> it's always been fundamentally anti-startup from it's very nature.

Apollo, Akamai, BBN, DEC, Data General, Draper Labs, EMC, Prime, Raytheon, Stratus, Thinking Machines, Wang...and numerous others I'm probably forgetting.

The 128 and 495 belt used to chock full of tech companies.

Nowadays it's a lot of bioscience startups.
But the domain of “AI Research” is broad and imprecise - not simple and discrete like chess game states. What is the type of each point in the search space for AI Research?
One concern is that if it’s not one thing it’s another: a particular spot in the ocean might be iron limited but if you supply iron you might burn up all the calcium (or something else.) so you are just bringing the carbon capture earlier in time.

The water limit is important when you are considering agriculture and biomass projects that so far we are doing on land.

Note there are biomass energy schemes where you capture CO2 from fermentation or combustion known as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_...

and these do compete directly with direct air capture.
I think capitalistic pressures favor narrow superhuman AI over general AI. I wrote on this two years ago: https://argmax.blog/posts/agi-capitalism/

Since I wrote about this, I would say that OpenAI's directional struggles are some confirmation of my hypothesis.

summary: I believe that AGI is possible but will take multiple unknown breakthroughs on an unknown timeline, but most likely requires long-term concerted effort with much less immediate payoff than pursuing narrow superhuman AI, such that serious efforts at AGI is not incentivized much in capitalism.
That's certainly an understatement. The bill wouldn't just abolish the Board of Governors as mentioned in the title; it would repeal the Federal Reserve Act in its entirety, leaving the US with no central bank.

It's hard to overstate just how wildly irresponsible and self-destructive of an act this would be. It's not even clear what it would mean, given how dramatically the US financial system has grown and changed since 1913.
Whenever you see a public policy issue that seems to be based on totally ignoring logic consider immediately jumping to the word “trust” and analyzing things that way.

People refuse to take a medicine despite the fact that science says it’s clearly the right move? They don’t trust the scientists.

Environmentalists refuse to see this as an engineering and accounting problem? They don’t trust the people who will be responsible for keeping the numbers in balance.

And so on.

It’s usually much less complicated when you look at things this way. And while I share the desire for the world to head in a more pragmatic direction that coldly analyzes the costs and benefits of policies, at some point we might have to confront the problem of “experts” being fundamentally full of shit across many aspects of public life.
I figured the IBM slogan would be something like "We have a product people actually want to buy?"
This is pretty common advice but I think it is fighting the previous war. This idea is useful for virtualenv-type tricks if you want to ensure use of your personal version of the interpreter on a shared system, but you have to boil an ocean of scripts. You don't know if you caught them all. Docker won instead - a quick filesystem namespace comprehensively catches everything. Just use #!/bin/bash.

EDIT: I was thinking about Linux, but I suppose macOS users are stuck with needing this for Homebrew-supplied bash?
My theory is that they know it won’t work, but they’re scaring developers into using and improving AI and taking pay cuts, so that they can eventually replace them. Every penny they can take from humans and invest in AI research is being used in order to be able to get rid of the humans, eventually.

The AGI that might eventually come won’t free humanity from labor, it will free the wealthy from having to manage and support laborers.
I'm probably much older than you and I don't mind, and in fact, I regularly watch vertical videos. They don't bother me.

But here is some sloppy code you could create a basic browser extension and shove in content.js:

function hideVerticalVideos() {
const videos = document.querySelectorAll('video');
videos.forEach(video => {
if (video.videoHeight > video.videoWidth) {
video.style.display = 'none';
}
});
}

// Run hideVerticalVideos() when the page loads
window.addEventListener('load', hideVerticalVideos);

// Run when the DOM updates
const observer = new MutationObserver(hideVerticalVideos);
observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
> They want to be responsible for their choices, but this is compatible with a deterministic universe.

This is a controversial claim. How can someone be responsible for something they have no control over? I'd agree that's possible, but I don't think that's how most people understand it.
From https://freenet.org/faq#faq-2:

> In 2019, Ian began work on a successor to the original Freenet, which was internally known as "Locutus." This project, a redesign from the ground up, incorporated lessons learned from the original Freenet's development and operation, and adapted to today's challenges. In March 2023, the original version of Freenet was separated into its own project, and what was known as "Locutus" was officially branded as "Freenet."

And https://freenet.org/faq#faq-3:

> Anonymity: While the previous version was designed with a focus on anonymity, the current version does not offer built-in anonymity but allows for a choice of anonymizing systems to be layered on top.

So what has been known as Freenet and the new Freenet are quite different apparently.
So apparently this project isn't the old Freenet, that's been renamed to "Hyphanet" - https://www.hyphanet.org. The same team started a new project, originally called "Locutus" and then renamed that to Freenet. A bit confusing.

I remember hearing about Freenet like 20 years ago, I think on Kuro5hin, kind of amazing it's still going.
The overlap between land that's good for growing crops and land that's used for raising livestock is pretty small.
I think what may be confusing is that the author is using "search" here in the AI sense, not in the Google sense: that is, having an internal simulator of possible actions and possible reactions, like Stockfish's chess move search (if I do A, it could do B C or D; if it does B, I can do E F or G, etc).

So think about the restrictions current LLMs have:

* They can't sit and think about an answer; they can "think out loud", but they have to start talking, and they can't go back and say, "No wait, that's wrong, let's start again."

* If they're composing something, they can't really go back and revise what they've written

* Sometimes they can look up reference material, but they can't actually sit and digest it; they're expected to skim it and then give an answer.

How would you perform under those circumstances? If someone were to just come and ask you any question under the sun, and you had to just start talking, without taking any time to think about your answer, and without being able to say "OK wait, let me go back"?

I don't know about you, but there's no way I would be able to perform anywhere close to what ChatGPT 4 is able to do. People complain that ChatGPT 4 is a "bullshitter", but given its constraints that's all you or I would be in the same situation -- but it's already way, way better than I could ever be.

Given its limitations, ChatGPT is phenomenal. So now imagine what it could do if it were given time to just "sit and think"? To make a plan, to explore the possible solution space the same way that Stockfish does? To take notes and revise and research and come back and think some more, before having to actually answer?

Reading this is honestly the first time in a while I've believed that some sort of "AI foom" might be possible.
Related Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend (22 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613677

It applies to PHP, running on Windows only in CGI mode only where the locale is set to Korean, Chinese, or Japanese
my brain holds a set of values, I rely on deterministic physics for them to be expressed through my decisions and actions,
I do not want a magic quantum 8-ball meddling in the middle

Who I am aligns with what I do because the universe is deterministic.
Yeah that jumped out at me as well. It's a really unfair comparison.
It isn’t typed since the response from the http call can be anything. It could be a Todo, a generic success wrapper that contains a Todo, or maybe it was recently changed to return a Checklist instead of a Todo. Since the response can be anything we have two options, either make the type be any or unknown. any is an escape hatch typescript provides that allows anything, so if you access a field that doesn’t exists on the response you’ll get a runtime exception. With unknown typescript doesn’t let you do anything with the value until you figure out the type. In this example the next step would be to try to decode that unknown into a Todo, or fail with some error[1]. This guarantees that the object your code expects is actually what you are expecting both at compile time and runtime.

Given the goal of effect is to provide type safe tracking of a codebase; having an any breaks that assumption, while unknown forces you to add validation to keep it type safe.

1. https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/blob/main/packages/schem...
Three Views on the California Math Framework [pdf]
Even my power bill is generated by a platform called OPower. The O stands for Oracle as far as I can tell
To me this seems like a different aspect of security. The push with the winxp service packs onwards was to make it secure by default against the network (trying to be vague because I'll probably be wrong on the details), I'm fairly sure it was xp where you could be infected before setup was complete if the network was plugged in, or that acquiring third party AV was something you must do for anything that touches the internet or media from a source you can't 100% trust. Now with defender this is far in the background for most users that they don't need to think about it at all.

The difference with recall is about blast radius of any unauthorized/unintended access, which still happens even if it's less common or via something like clicking a bad link in an email. That's in addition to mistrust of MS or large corporations sucking up data, and how secure they are (what would a Ashley Madison type breach look like with recall data?)
I had to get a new setup spun up very quickly, didn't know what to get, so I went out and got a bunch of cameras ranging from $49 to $500 from MicroCenter. For my requirements the cheapest cameras ended up serving my needs the best.

I ended up returning all of the expensive stuff and only keeping a bunch of really cheap Amcrest PoE cameras.

Here is one such example:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/634071/amcrest-5mp-ultra...

I've been very impressed with Amcrest cameras.

They support being configured without an outside internet connection.

They support dual streams.

They have all kinds of tuning settings, and come with sane defaults.

They support H.265 encoding, so you get good quality at small file (and bandwidth) sizes.

They also have MicroSD slots, and some cloud stuff that I don't use.

They work great with Fridate and Google Coral with is what I use them with.

Highly, highly satisfied and recommend.
The Holo Routing Protocol Suite
I'd say that's the wrong priority to focus on in a project like this.
I definitely agree, but in the meantime we cannot depend on these strategies when making long-term plans to combat climate change because we don't know whether their side effects will prove to be tolerable.
lexbor – web browser engine library (Apache 2.0 license)
Agreed: this would have been better as a Tell HN: [same headline] with the text of the email. See my posting history for other examples.
But I thought the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligence that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources.

NB: I agree; I think AGI will first be achieved with genetic engineering, which is a path of way lesser resistance than using silicon hardware (which is probably a century plus off at the minimum from being powerful enough to emulate a human brain).
Why was this not a thing during the GB's heyday? Lack of hardware that small / advanced? Or simply no market fit? I mean this was during the walkman / portable CD player era, I recall having a small portable radio around then as well.

No gameboy though, those things were expensive! Relatively anyway, like 4x our birthday budgets.
For those who have not been keeping up with recent events.
The United States government, is currently reevaluating its relationship with Microsoft due to recent security issues related to Russian and Chinese state-funded attacks.

[Microsoft Storm-0558 Incident, cited as a recent example]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/14/ana...

Microsoft recently pledged to improve its security practices through incentives to executive pay and other initiatives.

[Microsoft Blog on recent Commitment]
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/06/13/microso...

Despite these pledges, several members of Congress are making it known that they dont see Microsoft as being serious about their recent commitments around security. It is worth noting that several of these members of congress influence how much Microsoft gets paid.
The Recall feature is often used as a lightning rod to bring to light the rushed rollout of Microsoft's features without concern for security.

[Video with timestamp of Microsoft's President being questioned by Florida Congresswoman, Recall mentioned]
https://youtu.be/kB2GCmasH4c?t=8217

While I suspect there may not be any sole reason for the release delay, it would seem to me that having Microsoft's biggest customer using Recall this way, may greatly influence the company's decision to hold off on the release.
I dunno, when it get's to the point that even Piers Morgan is questioning the narrative from the IOF, I am inclined to think maybe you are wrong.
That's interesting actually.

Wealthy parents mean that their kids are more likely to be able to do risky things like doing startups, and their connections allow the kids to get funding that is otherwise unavailable. And so there's a real temptation for the kids to do something risky, as they know they can get bailed out if they fail too hard. So the question then: How to keep them in school?

A degree provides its own sort of security, which any parent would want for their kids. A naive way would be to just cut off the kids if they fail at some risky scheme to make money; But I doubt many people would be able to do that, it's just too cruel. Then, incentives don't work very well, as the kids already come from money, and there's few other incentives to offer, since money simultaneously provides security and makes life generally easier. Punishment also comes to mind, but again the problem with the parents enforcing that sort of thing. I'm honestly stumped.

Then, if it's hard(er) to keep kids of wealthy people in school, does that mean that that process results in a generation of people that have inherited wealth and that are poorly educated? Does wealth naturally lead to people that have trouble with advanced topics and concepts, because their education is lacking? That paints a pretty grim picture of the future, since wealth controls so much of many people's lives, and having the poorly educated as part of the de-facto ruling class is generally bad for everyone involved (even them).
I don't think it's fair to take that tone against climate activists without considering the larger context of the issues here. We have been lied to for decades by the industry and it's lobbyists. They knew damn well what greenhouse gasses were going to do to our world back in the fucking 70's, just like tobacco companies knew what their products would do to people's lungs, just like they knew what lead would do to people and still put it in gas, pipes, and fucking paint. Even now many are still clinging to the bullshit "check your energy impact" garbage, shaming individual consumers for the fact that they knowingly are setting the planet on a course to large-scale ecological disaster and have been since before most of us were born.

It's also worth considering that carbon capture is not a bulletproof solution without costs. The machines themselves are quite large if you want to capture at a scale sufficient to actually offset climate change, and if people hate the look of windmills, oh just wait till they get a look at carbon capture hardware. I've also not yet seen a carbon capture application for motor vehicles, industrial or otherwise (though I would love that). And, carbon capture does not assist us at all in getting off of oil in general, which is a finite resource that we only have so much of and so we really need to figure out different things for that. Not burning oil and it's byproducts saves a hell of a lot of oil for plastics, which we also need.

It is mostly an engineering problem. It's also a lying bastard corporation problem. It's also a complete failure on the part of regulatory structures to take on the problem, and political meekness from every standing government on the face of the earth. It's a problem that ties directly into many systemic failures of our society; the over-centering of profit above any and all other considerations, including our survival. It's a loaded issue.
Top Gun Maverick movie starts with reenactment of that scene. Totally worth watching.

Sad part of the story is that the other pilot of the original Blackbird incident didn't survive. The surviving pilot saw his companion's parachute and was thus (thinking that he survived) motivated to fight for his own life.
Seattle became a tech city because of Microsoft and Amazon, period. If they didn’t decide to have their HQ there, we probably wouldn’t consider it a tech city.
There’s a kickstarter going for a fancy breadboard that adds a USB power supply. It also has some programmable routing features. I’m watching it but haven’t backed yet.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandwizz/the-sandwizz-b...
Who is the real Owner of your Data?
How about we don’t do that? And if it indeed starts getting cold, we regroup?
I really enjoyed this post, resonates with many small experiences I had learning the various patterns that do and don't work in Rust.

Also blows my mind how crazy complex these language design topics are.
Anyone know if Eloqua is included in this spin down?

https://www.oracle.com/cx/marketing/automation/
Denuvo Owner Shuts Down Clone Sites, Perpertrators Seem Up for a Chase
this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system.

i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results.