skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of neuro-symbolic AI is a bit like British cuisine: place two different things next to each other in the same plate, like bangers and mash, and call it "a dish".

Nope. This is neurosymbolic AI:

Abductive Knowledge Induction From Raw Data

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/Papers/abdmetarawIJCAI.pdf

That's a symbolic learning engine trained in tandem with a neural net. The symbolic engine is learning to label examples for the neural net that learns to label examples for the symbolic engine. I call that cooking!

(Full disclosure: the authors of the paper are my thesis advisor and a dear colleague).
Sorry, is there any evidence that E2EE eg in WhatsApp, Signal, etc. is routinely broken? I am not talking about exceptional hacking of phones of individual high-value targets for surveillance by nation-state-level actors, but mass surveillance.
European elites seem willing to sacrifice all their liberal values just to crack down on people who oppose unlimited unskilled immigration.
Email as a communication method with your friends/family — absolutely, this has been dead for over a decade I’d say.

However, email has basically evolved into the way you communicate with “systems” and I’m kind of happy about it. Communication with companies outside your network, e-commerce accounts/purchases, communication with government systems, schools, banking, airlines, concerts/events, restaurants, etc. Hell, even RSS is now basically in email — newsletters are growing fast as a medium, not shrinking.

You just book a hotel in Nairobi? It’ll be in your email. No other communication method even comes close for this use case.

Social/chat apps will never unseat this because they’re social. Like nightclubs, the trendy ones come and go. Come back when you’ve set up an interoperable network of virtually every person on earth. Then we’ll talk about email being dead.
Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.
https://nitter.poast.org/bookazoid_/status/18029743269430150...
Fear is a completely normal and often useful emotion.

What scares me is how terribly bad we are at dealing with it. This is the weakness that terrorists try to exploit, of course.

We, as a society, seem to posess the emotional intelligence and maturity of a toddler being scared of the monster under the bed but happily following the friendly guy with a van full of candy.

It makes me so sad.
> Besides, there’s no way of really knowing whether Chat Control would actually be (or remain) limited to CSAM.

I definitely agree with the article here. Probably after Chat Control will be implemented for CSAM this would act as a gateway towards using this tehnology for other things.

I am curious whether chat control will extend to mail or other means of online comunication, if it will be implemented ofc(hopefully not).

I’ll probably start communicating with my friends over phone more either way, I don’t want my conversations to be monitored 24/7.
The pika is an obscure (yet barely interesting...) rabbit thing with no cultural salience, whose most noted features are its alarm call and lack of visible tail, nor are its names pronounced much like the pika in Pikachu in the languages Japanese has much exchange with. Pikachu is explicitly a rodent (a "mouse" with some squirrel inspirations) designed in the early 90s with none of those features.

This claim seems profoundly unlikely.
Like keeping Process Monitor open all the time? Not very convenient, especially for the average user.
Was skiing in Maria Alm, Austria when I was a kid (~late '80s, early '90s). Hotel vis-a-vis Wilder Kaiser mountain had a Ms. Pac-Man and a Ghosts'n'Goblins cabinet.
Covid measures, enshittification of internets. Chat control in Russia has outcomes in people being exploited by thugs in the whole country. How can you observe the world without immediately seing these?
It will really happen. And it will happen fast
lnav is awesome, we recently featured it as tool of the week at terminal trove (1)

You can also install it on your system (2) to try it out or you can quickly demo it via SSH which is super cool!

ssh playground@demo.lnav.org

1. https://terminaltrove.com/tool-of-the-week/

2. https://terminaltrove.com/lnav/
I wonder how it can be legal to repeatedly undermine constitution and push or vote for later high-court-nullified laws and be allowed to repeat as if nothing was wrong with that. Like drunk driving forever. We ban counter-constitutional activities outside parliament and authorities. Why not inside?

I am much for 3-strikes here.
Goes to show how disengaged the voters are.
Welcome to post-modernity*. It's evil and communism in a progressive jacket.
This is a naive take Im wondering if its intentional disinfo.
I'll bring the burgers, you bring the beers.

[maliker starts the bbq]
First two have been utter disasters however, and are directly affecting people on a daily basis now. Here in Scandinavia it’s coming to a head but it’s a similar story further south, in Germany in particular.
We also inherit a lot of network topology already
Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ?

Is it beacuse a lot of people feel unsafe or is it because the people supposed to ensure our security see it as the "easiest" or most effective way to do their job?

Is there so much benefit to having a fuctioning mass surveilance apparatus, and if yes, who benefits of it if not the people for whom these rules for in the first place?
Chat control would benefit people, if they say it's for climate or lbqtg++ protection?

But it won't benefit if they say it's to fight the terror or protect the children?

If you really think that spying is OK, if they have "good enough" excuse, no wonder we get all this shit enacted.
Great news, really missed Amarok. Although Strawberry also does a very nice job. Looking forward to future development for Amarok.
You'd be 100% correct if that was the case.

However, the problem is that she is not a politician and she has no public presense whatsoever.

She was chosen by her party, and eventually elected because her last name starts with A which put her near the top of the ballot paper.
Interpol is an organisation for cooperation between national police organisations. They don't visit ordinary citizens or tourists, nor are they allowed to do any police actions in (other) countries. Are you sure that wasn't part of some (attempted) scam?
Yes: it's a joke. Here, have some chills, on the house:
Thank you for this comment, it brought me back to signal processing lectures from many years ago.
Ask HN: Do you want a repo with examples of successful functional requirements?
Sometimes functional requirements are really poorly written. Would you like to have an open source github repository with examples of successful functional requirements to learn how to improve the quality of the requirements?
This isn't necessarily true: the Identity and Democracy faction is explicitly pro-privacy, digital rights and against Chat Control.

- https://id-party.eu/program/ (ID Party Official Site)

- https://idgroup.eu/news/online-censorship-is-a-threat-to-eur... (ID Group News)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_and_Democracy (Wikipedia Overview)

- https://id-party.eu/declaration-of-antwerp/ (ID Party Official Site)

The ID group is opposed to EU-wide surveillance measures, and promises to protecting individual privacy and national sovereignty.
Perhaps the German pirate party should have sticked to focusing on privacy and digital rights instead of becoming a second Green party with a far left bend.

Really his snide at the right gaining traction in his posts shows that he still doesn't get it.
Meh, I couldn't give a stuff about the personality traits of the Go designers. I like the language, which I think is both better and worse for not having followed every modern trend in PL design. I don't know the designers personally. If they are arrogant, so be it.
Ahh, the Misunderstanding Olympics of 2021

The Apple system was pretty much the best way this could be done short of having a 100% reliable "AI" system on-device detecting bad stuff.
So what if they outsourced production? It's not like the company in charge of the production was some no name Chinesium vaporware company, but a highly experienced manufacturer who also builds cars for Mercedes and Jaguar at the same factory and is been in business for like ~80 years.

You don't need to own your factory to make good solid cars. Sometimes it's best to hand it over to more experienced partners who know what they're doing, while you focus on the consumer facing side.

After all, none of Fisker's major issues were manufacturing related, but software/UX.
Thanks, I enjoyed this and it rings true. This abstract concept of "space" getting filled up thoughtlessly, and that "space" being created by unnecessarily breaking things up into smaller parts that don't really need to be separate, makes a lot of sense and I think I've seen this happen.

The article stops short of proposing a clear plan for how to handle the opposite problem, though: Entrenched monoliths. Once a class (or other abstraction) has grown for long enough (e.g. perhaps someone has read this article and is trying to avoid unnecessary complexity of code structure), it can become very difficult to break it up.
Gift Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/can-you-replace-googl...
Does it work with ISOs from the USB? It looks like it would still need a remote host.
The populace is clueless and/or ignorant, and Brussels has a well earned reputation for being a popular toxic waste dump for unpopular politicians. To give some examples from Germany, we dumped Günther Oettinger and Ursula von der Leyen there in the last two elections, and this year our far-right party managed to place a suspected traitor on the top of their list.
The European Coal and Steel Community wasn't meant to be a political federation, as the name shows. Nor was the European Economic Community to give it its full name.

The concept of the ECSC/EEC/EU as a political federation was always a goal of some small number of federalists (mostly in the beginning communists who were imprisoned on Ventotene during the war), but they didn't have any support for that from the people of Europe themselves, which is why the history of the EU is full of the people building it saying explicitly that they have to lie about their true intentions and can only expand its powers during a crisis.

Certainly there was absolutely no intent anywhere immediately after WW2 to create a political federation. Far from it.
> In many countries a taxi won't tell you how much the ride will cost.

I've only ever seen: fixed price based on destination (typically for fares originating from an airport), negotiated, or metered. A better analog analogy would be metered pricing, but where the cost per mile is a secret.
You can just use 'map' explicitly. It doesn't have to be special syntax.
Those people would ban printing press and jail Gutenberg to protect the children.
> If Ukraine kept the nuclear weapons post USSR collapse we probably would not have the war on Ukraine, lots of dangerous threats but nothing else.

If Ukraine tried to keep the nuclear weapons they would have been invaded within half an hour of that becoming apparent in or around 1994. They had no meaningful operational control over them, thus it would not have acted as a deterrent against that invasion.

Yes, nukes are really potent deterrent. Ukraine's case is not the right one to show this.

If you are looking for an example where nuclear deterrent works Russia's case is much better. They are badly bogged down in Ukraine. The reason why nobody dares to escalate and turn Moscow to rubble is because they have the nukes as a credible deterrent. All the tiptoeing around the range of missiles given to Ukraine and the constraints they have on not targeting Russia directly with them is due to that.
You can say Boe Jiden is a purple Martian born in Backwaterstan.

Boe Jiden will probably sue you for defamation.

The courts will very likely give him the win, slamming you with a hefty fine and perhaps more such as prison time depending on the damages your speech incurred.

You can say Boe Jiden is a purple Martian born in Backwaterstan again, so long as you're fine going through that rigmarole again though you'll probably face even heftier penalties.

You are in no way prevented from voicing your thoughts because the 1st Amendment guarantees your right to do so. You can only ever be prosecuted for the consequences, such as the fallout from making false statements.
Except there are already other much bigger progressive parties here. Really most major parties tend to err on the progressive side these days. So they both alienated people that don't agree on their new focus whiile failing to convince the progressives to vote for them instead of the larger parties.
Am I incorrect in thinking Apple Pay Later only works with the Apple Card? Or was it available for all cards as long as you used Apple Pay to check out?

If that were the case I can see this being like the third party BNPL schemes such as Klarna sure. Otherwise it’s just semantics of where the option lives.
Kind of like instead of buying $10k ADT home security system, just buy the sign for $20 and put it in the front yard.
Ouch, that's bad!
> Now, I want to challenge the notion that essential complexity is irreducible.

> The complexity is accidental, so we can remove it.

Yeah, never mind essential complexity, let's start by removing all the accidental complexity in today's standard web development stack (my estimate: 90% accidental, 10% essential)! Easy, right?
But why not make it open source? Why not identify who you are as humans?

There are ways to establish trust, you aren’t doing any of them.
If we care about keeping open protocols like HTTP and SMTP alive, we need to overhaul DNS.

Or at least create a simplified common abstraction layer.

It’s the most inherently user-hostile thing I’ve ever encountered - and I’m only just now starting to understand it, even though I’m almost 20 years into dealing with it.
No. One was not worth knowing and the other died when I was young.
No mention of what android version it runs...
>As you can see from the table, at 16-bit floating point precision, Gaudi 3 is neck and neck with where Nvidia’s Blackwell B100 will be later this year when it ships. At FP8, however, Blackwell will have the advantage, and Blackwell also supports FP4, which Gaudi 3 does not.

>If you add in support, power, environmental, and management costs, which are the same, then the gap between Nvidia and Intel starts to get a little smaller, but clearly Intel can argue some pretty impressive price/performance advantages at certain precisions.

Intel can argue good performance with huge asterisk.

As the article points out, Intel volumes are small

2024 sales:

Intel $2 billion Gaudi 2-3
AMD $4-5 billion in GPU sales
Nvidia $100 billion (only datacenter)

Not enough volumes to put hard price pressure against Nvidia. Gaudi sales can't fill even one of those new 100k GPU monster datacenters.

When the whole baseboard+memory+GPU system costs $300 - $400k and runs 4-6 years, configuring and finetuning the system for new models, algorithms and libraries that come along the way is a big part of the deal.
Everyone I know uses WA, but a significant amount (~50%) uses Signal as well, most of those are not tech people. Back when they announced the crypto stuff, I knew next to no one with it, so that doesn’t really matter. I think only 1 or 2 people still use Threema in addition to the other apps.

Telegram I only know 2 users, one who’s American, and one who’s into conspiracies …
You can't stop this kind of shit. Even if we do it will be back in a couple of months with another name.
> I drew inspiration from the fictional games I wished existed when I was in school, like Yu-gi-oh

Yu-gi-oh exists though, there are lots of tournaments around the world and even world championships. The game is pretty similar to the one played in the anime, if not the same
The State of AI (2024)
Isn't this a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715449?
HN doesn’t make changes like this. Use one of the many styling extensions to accomplish this instead. On a site like HN it’s very easy to theme it because the markup almost never changes (last 2 changes I remember were unvote/undone and collapsing threads) so it’s not like you have to constantly update your theme.
Exactly. And in a left-leaning stat the right is more likely to be affected directly by surveillance and other digital rights issues.
> How many people did actually bother to vote in Germany?

64.78%, or over 40 million in absolute terms.
I don't understand why the software is built how it's built. Why would you want to implement licensing in the future for a software product that only creates fake processes and registry keys from a list: https://pastebin.com/JVZy4U5i .
The limitation to 3 processes and license dialog make me feel uncomfortable using the software. All the processes are 14.1MB in size (and basically the scarecrow_process.dll - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/83ea1c039f031aa2b05a082c...). I just don't understand why you create such a complex piece of software if you can just use a Powershell script that does exactly the same using less resources. The science behind it only kinda makes sense. There is some malware that is using techniques to check if there are those processes are running but by no means is this a good way to keep you protected. Most common malware like credential stealers (redline, vidar, blahblah) don't care about that and they are by far the most common type of malware deployed. Even ransomware like Lockbit doesn't care, even if it's attached to a debugger. I think this mostly creates a false sense of security and if you plan to grow a business out of this, it would probably only take hours until there would be an open source option available. Don't get me wrong - I like the idea of creating new ways of defending malware, what I don't like is the way you try to "sell" it.
Why should yours? It seemed like you liked musing about this topic so I added a bit.

You (and I) have no idea if the universe is or not a computer. If you don't see the connection of free will to error margin of a deterministic system then I'm not sure how else to put it. Just imagine a deterministic program getting a bit flipped by a cosmic ray and turning non deterministic and apply that to the universe's system of laws.
The upstream comment I was replying to mentioned that SAMA destroyed public trust. If this were the case, then what he had done might be enough for a massive company like Apple to hesitate on making such a deal. And there are alternative routes Apple could have taken (maybe not as good as GPT4, but close in a fast moving space.) It's true that users may not know who the company is (let alone know about SAMA) - but he does have outsized control over a company which "isn't him." He had the power to reverse his sacking, make changes to the board, and is now considering changing the structure such that OpenAI is no longer a non-profit entity.

Where there's smoke there's fire. You don't get to a point where you "destroy public trust" without also destroying investor confidence. The upstream comment mentioned "public trust" - but there were also trust issues with the board. These issues then put further investment in limbo until he was able to change the board.

My point is, that any trust issues aren't likely what they seem given that Apple made such a large bet with the company. Sure, it's "only" a distribution deal. But Apple needs to know that OpenAI will continue to have access to the resources they need to continue servicing massive markets. The trust may be wobbly, but not destroyed.
this is hackernews?
Doc Martens used to be good, but quality has declined steeply.
Their Wikipedia page will give you a good idea as to when and why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Martens
ICBMs are gonna have collateral damage
Why does malware “stop” if it sees AV? Sounds as if it wanted to live, which is absurd. A shady concept overall, cause if you occasionally run malware on your pc, it’s already over.

Downloading a random exe from a noname site/author to scare malware sounds like another crazy security recipe from your layman tech friend who installs registry cleaners and toggles random settings for “speed up”.
It only implies that some people think (or perceive thinking) differently.
It should be possible to have a private chat without spying.

However I have an unpopular opinion, interested to hear what others might think:

We should eliminate anonymity online. If you go on the internet everything you do should be tied back to your name. This can be done using device attestation. Everyone gets a private key tied to their name/address.

This is compatible with free speech. In fact it promotes free speech because being a "troll" becomes a lot more personal.

I think this way of living would be closer to our nature as tribal primates. It would improve behaviour and overall quality of life. Our brains are designed to have checks and balances from wider society which you don't get anonymously online.

This would also reduce the need for govt monitoring because any chat online could be "turned in" by an informer and then any criminals identified.
I don't know much about Greece and don't follow Greece at all. Every time I hear something about Greece, it sounds like a hot mess.
By voting for the members of parliament, and the parliament then deciding everything else... Ideally things should work out as the people want it. Otherwise it would mean that democracy just doesn't work...
> Then why did so many vote extremist anti EU?

Like the parties (again, here in Germany, don’t know enough about other countries) that manage to be even more corrupt? That actually supports my point. The biggest winners here were the anti-EU-pro-Russia AfD and the pro-EU CDU both with the biggest corruption scandals in recent years, and the CDU is even the party that sent the horror that is EU commission president von der Leyen.
"But the pedos" is a guaranteed way to lure voters.

Besides, there is a laaaarge amount of influential, rich and well connected people like Ashton Kutcher/Thorn willing to profit off of it. They're selling out our freedoms for personal gain.
It's been known since ancient times that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Same issue, other source.

The more the better.
> democratic states

Democracy is a spectrum and it comes in many flavors.

For example nobody voted for von der Leyen, the French voted against the EU referendum in 2005 but the government still went with it, there hasn't been any referendum in France since
0-strike. It should be expected that elected officials respect the constitution.
Just sent an email to the Swedish representation in the EU, if some other Swedish resident wants the text to be adapted for your own use, let me know and I will share it.
Which is why so many are shutting down after the minimum wage hike; an industry with barely any margins can't survive it.
> Using van Gogh as an example of “artists who make it” is insane.

So is building a tool that will only generate "approved" art. We need to be able to express our idea, feelings, our perception of the world in ways that do not fit corporate standards of text, audio, or visual communication. It's part of being human.
btw, Sustkever is on record that Transformers are enough to achieve AGI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0SLbtGMcg&t=33s