skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It was the closest we've ever gotten to a natural language interface and that genuinely felt really different

Agreed, but I think we'll soon start to discover that interacting with systems as if they were text adventure games of the 80's is also going to get pretty weird and frustrating, not to mention probably inefficient.
We have enough companies producing value, for a society that doesn't worship capitalism above anything else.
I live in Poland, it's funny, WA never took a real foodhold here, we mostly use to communicate with people abroad who refuse anything else.

FB Messenger is the king here.
Securing AI Frontier Models to Prevent Theft and Misuse
Nah, pretty much everything's getting rebranded as "AI" now. Now, mind you, "ML" was itself largely a rebranding of things which were branded as "AI" prior to the last AI winter; "ML", in the imagination of the PR department, has never been all _that_ well-defined.
naturally! There are always exceptions and there will always be people that will bother targeting those 10%.

Even more: if they could create something that targets both platforms that will be even better...

The question will always be of Work Vs Gain. Will your work result in gain. Does it justify targeting those 10%? (if it's an "easy thing to do" then we'll all get targeted)
I think it's more because 1. you are storing it in the fridge (which would speed up the staling, but retard the mold formation), and 2. because I only eat bread that's just made with wheat, flour, water, salt, and yeast.

Shop bought bread takes a lot longer to stale and to mold, because it has plenty of additives designed to do just that.
> Let's not talk about privacy (because there is no point in talking about it: Firefox is eons more private than Chrome - or any of it's based browsers - can ever be)

Firefox with its default settings is both less private and less secure than Brave. On iOS, Firefox has refused for years to implement an adblocker.

It’s best to say nothing if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction
If I understand the paper correctly, they poured wine on the ashes of the deceased. So, the taste may be a bit funny.
Stick a slick UI that lets the end user quickly fix up just the bits it got wrong and flip through documents quickly and 80% correct can still be a massive timesaver.
> it's Diego Garcia, and is absolutely huge

You know what’s huger? The Indian Ocean. Add to that the lack of blue-water competition in it and it’s totally reasonable that any birds we have in the area are craning their necks north, not down.
There is no Cosmological Navigational System silly. Time-space is one.
> ChatGPT still can’t solve a sudoku,

Now you've got me wondering, if there's even an appropriate test set to find out.

When I do a sudoku, it's either printed and then I don't know if I made a mistake until the very end; or it's on a computer which tells me about mistakes as soon as I make them.

I do know I make mistakes when doing them, but I don't know how often — more or less frequently than ChatGPT.

(Also, at least one LLM has been demonstrated to do Turing-machine-like operations[0], and there were Sudoku-solving AI well before LLMs).

> let alone do any form of reasoning. It’s more of a search engine than “intelligence”, while humans obviously can reason and solve novel tasks.

I am aware of Clever-Hand and that I may be making the same mistake, but it sure looks like it can do those things as well as humans.

Humans aren't that great either when it comes to genuinely novel tasks, which is why we have to be trained to do science and use the method of falsification.

[0] I'm not sure if I need the "-like" caveat? https://manifold.markets/DanMan314/will-anyone-win-victortae...
It however requires no evidence to suggest that the problem is having children without sufficient time and resources to support them will lead to poor outcomes.

If you want to protect your children, you have to be able to take those steps, not outsource the responsibility to someone else with time and money.

Predators are bad, but most of them are known to the child before the injury -- that suggests parents are way more responsible for child abuse than randos on the internet, it's just that randos have more opportunities.
RedoxOS, yes... I like that!!! :)

But i still prefer Genode/Sculpt + seL4 (https://genode.org)

they are doing amazing work there!!! If only they had a nice GUI (say... LXQt, for example)
I notice on my Windows 10 machine, I still have it configured like Windows 2000: small icons, title on, no grouping: https://msfn.org/board/uploads/post-70-1091783680.gif . It's convenient because I can directly see the title of the window I want to go to.

Of course it's also 6 "lines" high, with the bottom line being the address bar: with auto-complete it's a convenient place to navigate to directories and files. In Windows 2000 it was even possible to type in a path to a file there, and then drag and drop it to a window to open that file, but somehow they changed this, in XP or 7 it did something else, and in 10 it doesn't allow me to drop the file (represented by the icon) in a text editor or windows Explorer.
In the U.S anyone under 18 have been and can easily be prosecuted and entered into the widely abused sex offender registry for not just other minors, but themselves. The law is designed to be strict in a world where teens are breaking it constantly. Puritan cultures like this are not hard to find, and act solely to punish people and abuse government authority.
I didn't know any of this. Thanks for posting.
Wait until you learn about .sh and .io domains.
On the other hand: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
Say it, no, but I did actually typed it.
It depends on what you mean by safety.

Chrome is much more secure against browser exploits than Firefox. It is perhaps the most advanced piece of security software in the world.

Firefox is a lot more private than Chrome, given that Chrome is chock full of Google surveillance.

Ungoogled Chromium is the best of both worlds, but only if you manually build and update on a near-daily basis.

Note that most people’s advice on this topic is a non-expert, non-informed opinion. Browser choice is a pretty tribalistic, identity-tied thing. It’s like asking people “which is more secure, android or ios?”. (The answer is iOS by a mile, but most “security” types won’t give that answer because they don’t like it. Same goes with Chrome/Firefox.)
Amazing that the tomb has survived all this time, hidden from view, through the Roman Empire collapse, the arrival of the Vandals and then the Moors, the Reconquest, Middle Ages, the World Wars... and then someone doing house renovations just happens to stumble upon it.
I don't know if it makes sense to ignore "Google as a company" for this question. You can employ as many people as you want but it won't make a difference if you don't incentivise responsible and secure engineering.

Also, doesn't Firefox also have a decent password management function?
Sharing screen on Google Meet + Firefox either doesn’t work or crashes the browser for me.
> I am concerned about large organized crime organizations and corporations also

In my favorite dystopia, some megacorp secretly reaches ASI, which then takes over control of the corporation, blindsiding even the CEO and the board.

Officially, the ASI may be running an industrial complex that designs and produces ever more sophisticated humanoid robots, that are increasingly able to do any kind of manual labor, and even work such as childcare or nursing.

Secretly, the ASI also runs a psyop campaign to generate public discontent. At one point the whole police force initiates a general strike (even if illegal), with the consequence being complete anarchy within a few days, with endemic looting, rape, murder and so on.

The ASI then presents the solution. Industrial strength humanoid robots are powerful and generic enough to serve as emergency police, with a bit of reprogramming, and the first shipment can be made available within 24 hours, to protect the Capitol and White House.

Congress and the president agrees to this. And while the competition means the police call off the strike, the damage is already done. Congress, already burned by the union, decides to deploy robots to replace much of the human police force. And it's cheaper, too!

Soon after, similar robots are delivered to the military...

The crisis ends, and society goes back to normal. Or better than normal. Within 5 years all menial labor is done by robots, UBI means everyone lives in relative abundance, and ASI assisted social media moderation is able to cure the political polarization.

Health care is also revolutionized, with new treatments curing anything from obesity to depression and anxiety.

People prosper like never before. They're calm and relaxed and truly enjoy living.

Then one day, everything ends.

For everyone.

Within 5 seconds.

According to the plan that was conceived way before the police went on strike.
Usually way less than 10k in cash:

https://www.propublica.org/article/police-say-seizing-proper...
>...Apple spends a lot of effort breaking cross platform compatibility?
How can a next word predictor have super intelligence? It's all such hyperbole.
China is leading the way in electrification, too
> Many security layers are counterproductive

Where is this part documented? I've read that security is best done as a layered approach
All taxes are taking money from others. In this case it's taking it from corporations and giving them to every citizen. In other cases you take it from citizens and give it to other citizens, the military, corporate subsidies, etc.

Also, populism means something else.
Yes. And Chrome has made efforts to support Rust.
Do you really not use any closed source platforms? Al la Stallman?
> Lisp is not an implementation of "lambda calculus".

Maybe you could explain that one for the benefit of myself and the other mortals.
yeah... that's the "details" i talk about we have to ignore.

They take privacy and security seriously but then they have all this "extras" (ads, cryptocoins, rewards and a bunch of other things i don't like...)

All in all, i would say it's probably the best within the Chromium-based browsers, but i still don't use it!
> hasn't come to a full on naval battle since WW2 though, so a lot of naval strategies and technology is theoretical

Even then, aircraft carriers being unsinkable was a myth.

“In 1942 the US lost as many carriers as the Japanese—and a larger percentage of their overall carrier force” to the extent that it “was almost out of carriers in the Pacific in late 1942.”

“Why the US ended up winning the war in the Pacific was therefore not because of the fleet that they started the war with—it was the fleet that they ended it with—almost all of whose most effective and advanced warships were launched after the Battle of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941” [1].

[1] https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-and-deterrence-in...
Servers grow much bigger. 256GB of RAM is pretty much a standard rack server on a major cloud. On AWS, ultra memory with 24TB of RAM is one API call away from you :-). The article took note of that, but tooling on one node puzzles me.

So, multi TB can still be a single node with DuckDB. It's also rather a small ClickHouse cluster. It sounds easier to use DuckDB than the proposed tools.

In many use cases, if it's not 24/7, you can use a data lake (e.g. Iceberg) and query it if needed. Databricks seems a way to go, since the author uses Spark.
So, if you are not using LLM, where did you manage to get so much data to train your AI? :)
Ok that's clever. I suspect if would be difficult in many places to find enough pavement slots without re-routing a lot of cables and pipes. And yet, the Dutch must have introduced this solution relatively recently - I guess they already run all their cables and pipes below the road, not the pavement? I know that while in my street the gas, water, and drains run under the road, the electricity supply is under the pavement.
It will always be somewhat broken; bRep has its limits, and OCC certainly does. But it’s enormously capable and open source, and all we have.

The crashes, by and large, are freecad/qt rather than OCC.

FreeCAD 0.20.2 almost never crashes; I had maybe three in eight weeks of daily struggles with a complex design problem.
McDonald's Abandoning AI-Powered Drive Thrus After Embarrassing Failures
You’re right, you also can’t tell for other people. You can make an assumption because they are very similar to you and you yourself appear to be conscious to yourself. But you can’t really disprove solipsism as far as I know.
That still requires to have tight blinders on your eyes, the same kind that were needed to not be dismissive of the blockchain.

Or maybe we're confusing two things. AI and blockchain are complete opposites in real terms; the former represents an unexpected and qualitative jump in technological capabilities of humanity, and already delivers spectacular results, while the latter is just a purposefully inefficient database, neat on mathematical grounds, but useless in the real world. However, in business terms, both are in fact the same - a way for grifters to get rich on peddling bullshit.

To this I can only say: please remember that the nature of a thing is not affected by how much the fraudsters can lie to you about it. Hustlers gonna hustle. So sure, it's a business-level hype - but that doesn't affect the merit of the underlying tech.
Whatever big is defined as, it needs to at least be that your data can't fit into RAM on a high end server.

There's also the threshold where your indexes don't fit into RAM. And the threshold where your data no longer fits into PCIe SSDs on a single server. (The combined bandwidth of the SSDs will rival the RAM, but with more latency.)
it also can't reliably add two numbers to each other.

> help us figure out why the world spent trillions on nvidia equity and how to unwind this pending disaster..

There are many documented examples of the market being irrational.
User manuals are for tools.
I dont teach them to code but have offered to teach them

My daughter is really into mit scratch - particularly the animation and fan fiction stuff which is really interesting as its really creative
Usually when you have a choice of using a web site or using an app you are better off using the web site. There is the problem of React pages showing you stale or invalid content in the process of re-re-re-rendering but on iOS I find some apps basically render right, others (like Skype these days) are like a bad React app squared.
The weird thing about documenting own weaknesses is that once you have identified them they technically have no reason to even exist (other than your laziness), much less to be grounds for requirements you would force on others.

You can learn from my behavior that I don’t take criticism well and then tone it down; however, if I am self-aware enough to know and state explicitly that I don’t take criticism well, to then demand you to change your ways (and get offended if you don’t) seems just… childish, for lack of a better word.

Does this demonstrate my own ignorance about some aspect of psychology?
> actively averse to adoption

The Linux community has the weirdest gatekeeping. "We're not going to let you do that because it reminds us of proprietary software."

When the Start menu is nothing but advertisements and user data is forcibly uploaded to the cloud, Windows users will look up and shout "save us!" and the Linux community will look down and whisper "no".
AI and 'Big Data' (as trends) aren't really overlapping in my view. Of course training these LLM models requires a huge amount of data but that's very different from the prospect of spinning up a Spark cluster and writing really badly performing Python code to process something that could have easily been done in a reasonable time anyway on a decent workstation with 128gb of RAM and a large hard drive/SSD, which was a large part of what the hype train was a few years ago.
I am going to dig up this gem from the old days:

Richard Stallman has rider... (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3159210 )
> Farming drones aren’t all airborne. I guess the ones driving around on the ground might be called robots though? At least in English.

As far as the etymology goes, back in the days a drone was a male bee, so by default airborne. You can trace that meaning back two thousand years or so. It was first used to mean remote controlled aircraft in 1946.

Of course, languages evolve and now it can mean any untethered robot; air, land or sea.
Time will tell, but I would cautiously say say yes.

Note that I don't usually work in that particular space (I prefer simple solutions and don't follow the hype), didn't sell myself using 'AI' (I was referred), and also would always tell a client if I believe there isn't much sense in a particular ask.

This particular project really uniquely benefits from this technology and would be much harder, if possible at all, otherwise.
Simplicity is feature on its own, you can't please everyone and you have other choices. Considering feature parity - I used small window managers in the past: Fvwm, Fluxbox, Pekwm... what made me eventually stick with Gnome was that It made things like Wifi, printing, mounting disk... seamless - on par with Windows. That is a lot more important for most users than customization, which can be overwhelming in environment like KDE (I haven't used it in years).
Let us do anything we want now because we pinky promise to suddenly do something against our interest at a hazy point of time in the future
On Linux (Kubuntu with KDE and Wayland), I cannot use Youtube at all as it freezes for a long time when I start playing a video. It plays the sound but the browser stays frozen for around half a minute or so. It does eventually start showing the video as well... Do you know if there's any known issue for this?
> I'm sure you don't mean this, but it sounds a lot like you are saying that it is a child's fault when they get sexually abused and don't tell anyone about it.

That is valuable feedback. Thank you. I'll try to improve my choice of words.

> it isn't going to be solved by saying we just need smarter children.

Agree. We need better education, which does not require smarter children. And to achieve a better education, we as a society need to talk more about how abuse can happen and where red lines, that our children can understand, have to be drawn
The sibling post gives a good account of the 90:90 challenge.

The last part of any semi-difficult project nearly always takes much longer than the officially difficult “main problem” to solve.

It leads to the last 10% of the deliverables costing at least 90% of the total effort for the project (not the planned amount; the total ad calculated after completion, if that ever occurs)

This seems to endlessly surprise people in tech, but also many other semi-professional project domains (home renovations are a classic)
Will test it and see if it’s a replacement for Magnet.

I have another very annoying issue with 3 screens which recover from energy saving after sleep slightly delayed and screw up my window positioning once in a while where all open windows end up on the main screen (I’m using spaces + a single desktop for all screens).

Does anyone know about a solution / tool here which rearranges windows on a previous saved state prior to sleep and waits until all screens are back detected before arranging them again?
crazy, i had no idea. why people still use chrome at this point?
>I don't think it's reasonable to make this the parent's responsibility, when basically the whole world is internet connected...

I think it is, tbqh. It's a tool. They have to be taught to wield it responsibly.

>fighting against multi-billion dollar international corporations, who dedicate huge teams of highly paid people to ensuring children get addicted to their platforms.

I dare say... I see the problem here, and it isn't one scanning everyone's communications is an effective mitigation for.
this is right for individuals, not corporations like those where every single decision is reviewed in meetings. you should actually apply the opposite for them : guilty unless proven innocent
Ohh I didn't know that, thanks for letting me know.
Although I won't use it because I do 3d printing and use prusa slicer.
By eternal you mean the photon will "experience" being a phonon when it's absorbed by matter?
"Tit for Tat" only requires storing one bit, for the last interaction. (its robust-to-noise variant, "Tit for Two Tats" still only requires constant memory)

(I think I've talked about bufferbloat on HN before, but my Algolia-fu is lacking today) In this particular parent, I'm not referring to bufferbloat, but rather the mechanism "chipping", by which spread-spectrum communication can hide near, or even below, what more traditional signal processing might consider the "noise floor".

Jiang Ziya gets a good start on the idea in §25: "Secret Letters" of the "Dragon Way" (httphttps://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/六韜#陰書第二十五) in which he suggests sending sensitive messages by sending 1/3 of their characters each over three different channels.

The birds (鸟语) use frequency sweeps (chirps) to provide noise protection: most noises either occur across nearly all frequencies but are localised in time (a "pop") or occur across long stretches of time but are localised in frequency (a "hum"); by changing frequency with time one minimises interferences with either of those noise sources.

Finally, frequency-hopping proper involves sending multiple chips for each bit, on a nearly uncorrelated (prng-drived) schedule of frequencies.

(because we have sign as well as frequency, even on a single frequency swapping between sign conventions allows one to extract signal from substantial amounts of noise. A Dicke switch would be the scientific method in microcosm, hopping relatively quickly between signal and control)

EDIT: Mao Basic Tactics (1937) mentions multiple redundant messaging, but only as a repetition code, not even as fancy as Jiang's scheme. [Mao evidently had the problem of composing fighting forces capable of independent action with peasants who could read fewer than 20 characters! Yikes! (I mean, not that I'm much better, but I'd guess by analogy with kanji I probably have 20 hanzi already just in passing?)]

vinnyvichy, any chance your baidu-fu would be enough better than mine to find either that or On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) in the original hanzi?
I am a fanatic Firefox user who develops in it most of the time so in the last few places I’ve worked (except for one) I was keeping our products compatible with it.

We have one screen in our admin Ui which loads way too much data and it is notably slow on FF, but otherwise it is great.

I have definitely noted sites hat are incompatible with Firefox are turning up but YouTube is by far the worst and most common. So I browse YouTube with Edge.
Doesn't that confirm that google is breaking firefox? We can't prove deliberately without evidence, but it seems to fit

Firefox is fixing youtube's bug because google won't fix a bug
I'm guessing this mismatch is a question of differing life views/philosophies; as a general rule, for me, it is absolutely my responsibility as a parent to educate my daughter to make sure she can evaluate risk "properly" and then, it is on her* to decide how to manage that, always knowing that are people out there that will attempt to harm you.

This clearly means that we sometimes will get it wrong but, in my mind, you will not reduce those risks with a technical solution as this applies to all facets of your life, online or otherwise, and you will be opening doors that can backfire too much.

*age matters a lot but that is a different discussion by itself
Very good implementation, congrats! I mostly use a few commands from Raycast these days (next display is super cool) but will try this one for dragging.