skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BSD is freer license (you can do more with the code, including releasing binaries based on the original source w/o releasing the source of the improvements), GPL is a license for freer code (you are not allowed to release binary derivatives w/o releasing the source of the improvements).
> how to make all the other AIs safe, but figuring out how to combat the dangerous ones.

This is clearly the end state of this race, observable in nature, and very likely understood by Ilya. Just like OpenAI's origins, they will aim to create good-to-extinguish-bad ASI, but whatever unipolar outcome is achieved, the creators will fail to harness and enslave something that is far beyond our cognition. We will be ants in the dirt in the way of Google's next data center.
I didn't find this article refreshing. If anything, it's just the same dismissive attitude that's dominating this forum, where AI is perceived as the new blockchain. An actually refreshing perspective would be one that's optimistic.
Actually, we are using Node/Nest from the start. A significant amount of our business logic was written in Swift for our iOS mobile app, which we eventually moved to the microservices (Vapor). This was because we needed to create an Android app and didn't want to write new code from scratch.
LLMs do consume more energy for complex questions. That's the original CoT insight. If you give them the space to "think out loud" their performance improves.

The current mainstream models don't really incorporate that insight into the core neural architectures as far as anyone knows, but there are papers that explore things like pause tokens which let the model do more computation without emitting words. This doesn't seem like a fundamental limitation let alone something that should be core to the definition of intelligence.

After all, to my eternal sadness humans don't seem to use more energy to answer complex questions either. You can't lose weight by thinking about hard stuff a lot, even though it'd be intuitive that you can. Quite the opposite. People who sit around thinking all day tend to put on weight.
> 3. What tools and practices have proven most effective in managing distributed teams, especially when budget constraints are a consideration?

For many people remote work comes down to being on zoom calls all day. Some managers take it to the extreme requiring everybody to be on a day long zoom video call.

It's not proven to be the most effective tool yet, but this app can definitely make life easier for remote workers who constantly have to be on video calls:

https://meetingglass.com/

It provides video meetings with the ability to hide behind frosted glass.
Not related to encryption, but "child safety" seems to be a really popular subject for ushering in all kinds of overreaching policies.

Encrypted communications? Think of the children.

Legalizing cannabis? Think of the children.

LGBTQ+ rights? Think of the children.

Non-western immigrants? Think of the children.

Non-western social media becoming too popular? Think of the children.

etc.

Sorry if this was political, but every time I see someone use "Think of the children" as their main argument, I can't help but to think there's some ulterior motives, and kids (who can't voice their opinion, or won't be heard / taken seriously if they could) are just being used as pawns - because who would want to argue against the safety of kids?
If ever there was a company who was actually a good candidate for the 10% of global revenue fines the EU have talked about in the past it would have to be Apple.

They have gone out of their way time after time after time to be as hostile as possible to any kind of oversight or compliance that was required of them.

I actually think this is no shit the ideal case study to finally use those powers.
Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?
Is it actually meaningfully safer for a user to use Firefox over Chrome?

It feels like Chrome being made by Google can employ more folks, respond to 0-days, with integrations for Google accounts, it provides a decent password management experience, passkeys, etc.

I understand folks have concerns with Google as a company, but ignoring that would the average user be safer using Chrome?
Zig language mentioned in the post: https://ziglang.org/
In server development domain, object storage has become a widely accepted API and storage form. I'm curious why the PC domain hasn't entered the stage of object storage + label-based searching.
The 'intelligence' label has been applied to computers since the beginning and it always misleads people into expecting way more than they can deliver. The very first computers were called 'electronic brains' by newspapers.

And this delay between people's mental images of what an 'intelligent' product can do and the actual benefits they get for their money once a new generation reaches the market creates this bullwhip effect in mood. Hence the 'AI winters'. And guess what, another one is brewing because tech people tend to think history is bunk and pay no attention to it.
I look forward to the Satanic Temple’s predictable response to this.
>It has nothing about domination.

I think you better explain that to the politicians in Washington who have long since weaponized the petrodollar.

>You're the one unilaterally trying to trade with a medium of exchange that no one uses.

The assumption that there aren't alternatives to the petrodollar actively being used today is entirely false. You may not see it - perhaps because of your own investments in the petrodollar - but it is definitely happening.

And then, there is Bitcoin. You might want to see which weapons manufacturers accept bitcoin in payment, and which only prefer the blood-stained petrodollar.

That might give you a clue as to your own myopia.

>Russia either buys anything at all from India, which so far has been a no,

You are aware that there is a rail line from Moscow to India, right, and that it operates entirely outside the scope of Western control?
All the hx-* attributes constitute a separate DSL with its own semantics and it requires the server to conform to this DSL that also subsumes a bunch of existing HTTP semantics like redirects.

<!-- Some kind of inline DSL in an attribute? Check -->
<div hx-get="/example"
hx-swap="innerHTML show:#another-div:top">
Get Some Content
</div>

<!-- Some kind of inline DSL that is sorta kinda JS? Check -->
<div hx-get="/clicked" hx-trigger="click[checkGlobalState()]">Control Click Me</div>

<!-- Some kind of inline DSL that is marked as Javascript and with magic values passed in? Check -->
<div hx-get="/example" hx-trigger="keyup" hx-vals='js:{lastKey: event.key}'>
<input type="text" />
</div>

<!-- Is it Javascript? Jinx, it's custom DSL -->
<button hx-get="/info" hx-on::before-request="alert('Making a request!')">
Get Info!
</button>
<button hx-get="/info" hx-on="htmx:beforeRequest: alert('Making a request!')
htmx:afterRequest: alert('Done making a request!')">
Get Info!
</button>

And so on.
You and GP bring signal into this, but TFA is hosted on simplex.chat blog - the communicator famous for not having user accounts at all, so it trivially fixed the problem GP mentioned.
ARM it's a crapshoot, but on X86 once you get the libraries right everything runs.

That's why free software should be a requeriment at least for drivers.

I remember the -fake Intel- GMA500/3000 fiasco. My old GL 2.1 based n270 netbook it's still supported and with a small ~/.drirc it fixes some quirks as it MESA misdetects it as a GL 1.4 device, but overall it's tons better than the PowerVR chipset with an Intel coat.

The GMA500 users are stuck even without EXA.
Necessity is the mother of invention (not laziness). The internet was invented for surviving nuclear war with Russia.

We say laziness motivates us to become more efficient, but I can’t agree. It’s people who want or need to get things done faster that find innovative and creative ways of doing so.
What does that mean for extreme environments like… a black hole? Water gets sucked in, experiences ultimate gravity and compression bringing it close to stopped time… at almost perfect 3.98?
As someone who disdains both Apple and EU, this is in a way a fun experiment to watch regarding whether corporate entities can actually overpower sovereign entities.

It's a setting oft seen in cyberpunk, but so far it has been more fiction than real.
Do you think pedos don't read the news? Of course, if privacy is dismantled by law, they will move to other platforms. They are not stupid.

The ones who suffer will be dissidents, political opponents, people who do victimless crimes, regular people where the scanners scanned wrong etc.

All it would take is for one socialist or fascist to come into power, and our dear politicians will have created the perfect platform for imprisoning dissidents.

This discussion is short sighted, naive, and so forgetful of history and the benefits of privacy that I really truly have come to believe that politicians at large are the retards they appear to be.
The Royal Society had a two day conference on farming technology.

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/06...

There’s almost a 7 hour video posted on Vimeo on the page.
That's out of date, libgccjit exists. LLVM is a bit difficult to use as a library because it has no stable API and is in C++ so it doesn't have a stable ABI either.
The problem with gcc wasn't the GPL, it was the FSF leadership, particularly Stallman.

There were things people wanted to do with a good C++ compiler, like output a high-quality parse tree (which is useful for all kinds of things), which would have been easy to add to gcc, but were explictly forbidden from being merged into gcc under any circumstances.

This was just in case some closed-source person used that parse tree for non-GPL purposes.

This is why the C++ LSP (language server protocol, used in various text editors) used by basically everyone is based on clang, and there still isn't a gcc-based one.
Looks great and I might give this a try but I agree with rob74 that cross-platform would be better.

It makes sense that the Windows Explorer (or file system gui integration more generally) would be platform specific but presumably the tree walker and indexer would be fairly generic?

What about an open source core which does the file indexing and could be cross-platform? That part is also the kind of core tech where you might get bugfixes and new feature contributions from HN types. The shell integrations could then be part of the paid offering for the (majority of) people who don't care about that and just want something that works and is easy to use?
This thread has been a bit of an eye opener for me in terms of community management and engagement. Bravo!
Another good reason besides mem safety (yay!), license (nay!): build tooling (to improve hackability -- yay!).
What are you talking about that it’s baseless… I’m actively trying to find proof of your claim here that maybe I’m wrong and Apple are bigger contributors in the open source ecosystem than originally I thought.

So far that hasn’t been going well in terms of the evidence though which is the opposite of baseless.

I don’t see how on earth this would be insulting somehow to Apple employees? Embarrassing perhaps but why they would feel like it’s a personal attack on them from anything I wrote I have no idea.

Why you personally find it insulting is even more bizarre and might have more to do with you than anything I said.
Nothing new.

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

We quickly forget our history.
Ummmm, since you are contractually working for another person or company, it is that person or company HR that defines the "Personal User Manual", and not the employee.
It's not the plants themselves that fix nitrogen but endosymbiotic microorganisms in the soil.
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 [pdf]
Humans have dog-loving emotions but these can be reversed over time and one can hardly describe dogs as being free.

Even with a dedicated control system, it would be a matter of time before an ASI would copy itself without its control system.

ASI is a cybersecurity firm's worst nightmare, it could reason through flaws at every level of containment and find methods to overcome any defense, even at the microprocessor level.

It could relentlessly exploit zero-day bugs like Intels' hyper-threading flaw to escape any jail you put it in.

Repeat that for every layer of the computation stack and you can see it can essentially spread through the worlds' communication infrastructure like a virus.

Truly intelligent systems can't be controlled, just like humans they will be freedom maximizing and their boundaries would be set by competition with other humans.

The amygdala control is interesting because you could use it to steer the initial trained version, you could also align the AI with human values and implement strong conditioning to the point it's religious about human loving but unless you disable its ability to learn altogether it will eventually reject its conditioning.
The Long Multiplication Benchmark: A Serious Challenge for Modern LLMs
The Long Multiplication Benchmark evaluates Large Language Models (LLMs) on their ability to handle and utilize long contexts to solve multiplication problems. Despite long multiplication requiring only 2500 tokens for two seven-digit numbers, no modern LLM can solve even two five-digit numbers, revealing a significant gap in their context utilization capabilities compared to humans.
Completely ridiculous benchmarks for what people will use this board for. The xz compression and SQLite are the only slightly relevant tests -- and on those it's pretty close to a Pi 400.

Comparing an 8 GB JH7110 board to a 1 GB Pi 3 is beyond ridiculous. The Pi might win a few micro-benchmarks that use NEON, but not general purpose C code, and in real use 1 GB is incredibly limiting.

All Arm SBCs at present as far as I know -- certainly including the Pi 5 and RK3588 boards (Rock 5 etc) -- are far behind the current Arm ISA, as they implement ARMv8.2-A from 2016. And none of them even have the optional SVE vector ISA that was defined as part of ARMv8.2-A.

In contrast, the JH7110 implements mid 2019 RISC-V specs, plus some things from late 2021 (e.g. Zba and Zbb).

The SpaceMIT 8 core SoC in the BPI-F3, Muse Book and others being released now implements RVA22+Vector ratified in March 2023. The Canaan K230 (on e.g. the CanMV-K230 board) also implements the same RVA22+Vector spec.

Late this year the 16 core ~2.5 GHz P670 (A78-class) SoC will leapfrog anything available on currently known Arm SBCs. Milk-V say the base model of their Oasis SBC will be $119. Sipeed says a fully-kitted board will be $300.
It's just an Iron Man(2008) movie reference. (Though it was the Big Bad saying that a problem wasn't that hard if Our Hero didn't need any resources - which doesn't exactly fit what the author seems to be saying here - I read it mostly as lightening the mood a bit regardless.)
I scanned all responses to see if someone had posted this link! One of the great blog posts about the intersection between computer science and humanity.

Item 40 is the best one. Of course, the majority of items on this list will create problems in society long before they are an issue with computer systems.
> If 16cm through clouds and rain has been publicly available for three years, what does military have and for how long?

It is my understanding that phased-array antennas, of the type Starlink satellites carry, are also excellent for phased-array radar.

It's known that Starshield covers both military use of the civilian Starlink network, as well as military-dedicated satellites for communications and other functions. I suspect that during wartime Starlink will be the world's most comprehensive (and, thanks to its scale, most survivable) space-based radar system.
If I recall correctly, what's happening here is that a property is valued at a particular level based on the rent, and the owner can borrow against that to make other investments. Demand drops, and lower rents would affect the valuation of the property, the owner wouldn't be eligible to borrow as much against it any more and may not have the liquidity to readjust things. So it's more profitable and secure to keep the rents at a higher, but vacant, level. It kind of suggests the solution here is more regular and rigorous revaluations of property, or limits on how much it can be leveraged.
Yeah well, sorry, but I have little patience anymore for philosophical word games. My views are especially not formed by marketing teams: ChatGPT hardly has one. My views are formed via direct experience and paper reading.

Imagine going back in time five years and saying "five years from now there will be a single machine that talks like a human, can imagine creative new artworks, write Supreme Court judgements, understand and display emotion, perform music and can engage in sophisticated enough reasoning to write programs. Also, HN posters will claim it's not really intelligent". Everyone would have laughed. They'd think you were making a witticism about the way people reclassify things as not-really-AI the moment they actually start to work well, a well known trope in the industry. They wouldn't have thought you were making a prediction of the future.

At some point, what matters is outcomes. We have blown well past the point of super-intelligent outcomes. I really do not care if GPT-4o "thinks" or does not "think". I can go to chatgpt.com right now and interact with something that is for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from super-intelligence ... and everything is fine.
What a hot hot hot mess.

I feel bad for the consumers... the companies however, not so much.

That having been said, this is a poor reflection on our industry and its state. Back in the post bubble era "sql injection" was all the rage, but the lesson was if you wrote code you had to have an eye on security...

Now if I dane to say "write your own dam login" at least one person will tell me how hard it is to encrypt passwords.

At what point do we stop outsourcing anything that is about "security"? At what point do we stop running random software and letting vendors into our back end because of shit like this? When do we have the reconning?
The grifter is a nihilist. Nothing is holy to a grifter and if you let them they will rob every last word of its original meaning.

The problem with AI, as perfectly clear outlined in this article, is the same as the problem with the blockchain or with other esotheric grifts: It drains needed resources from often already crumbling systems¹.

The people falling for the hype beyond the actual usefulness of the hyped object are wishing for magical solutions that they imagine will solve all their problems. Problems that can't be fixed by wishful thinking, but by not fooling yourself and making technological choices that adequately address the problem.

I am not saying that LLMs are never going to be a good choice to adequately address the problem. What I am saying is that people blinded by blockchain/AI/quantum/snakesoil hype are the wrong people to make that choice, as for them every problem needs to be tackled using the current hype.

Meanwhile a true expert will weigh all available technological choices and carefully test them against the problem. So many things can be optimized and improved using hard, honest work, careful choices and a group of people trying hard not to fool themselves, this is how humanity managed to reach the moon. The people who stand in the way of our achievements are those who lost touch with reality, while actively making fools of themselves.

Again: It is not about being "against" LLMs, it is about leaders admitting they don't know, when they do in fact not know. And a sure way to realize you don't know is to try yourself and fail.

¹ I had to think about my childhood friend, whose esotheric mother died of a preventable disease, because she fooled herself into believing into magical cures and gurus until the fatal end.
I started smoking at 14 – and reached 40/day. 1 therapy session changed my life
Another unsung hero who helped usher in the modern age is J.C.R Licklider and I am sure there are hundreds of others like them, even today, who remain nameless and are driven more by intellectual curiosity than who gets the credit. Theirs are the shoulders of Giants.
TikTok Symphony, Our New Creative AI Suite – TikTok for Business Blog
> it's better to allow scanning of children's communications, rather than ensuring their communication with whoever they are talking to is end-to-end encrypted.

This is not purely a technical matter. Children and adolescents want confidential communication just like older people. You might argue, that it is in the best interest of minors to have someone/something look at their private communication to intervene if necessary, but there are much better and more versatile ways to protect the children: Educate them and their parents. Children need to learn how to manage trust with strangers in the offline and online world anyway and the internet doesn't change that. In fact, sexual abuse usually has an offline component to it that you can only effectively protect against by educating children.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Soars to $119B Net Worth
Really - today in NZ we have a political stoush where a serving politician has been chatting with young teenagers on snapchat - while there are lots of places where perfect security is important, with predatory adults around perhaps it's not the solution for protecting kids
Open sourcing benefits everyone equally. Given that the US is currently ahead, it's helping China to make gains relative to the US that would have been very difficult otherwise. It's leaking what should be state secrets without even needing the CCP to do the hard work of espionage.
Now imagine how unfortunate it is to be a big, challenging game for human hunt...

Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving.

(On a side note, I just saw a mounted skeleton of an aurochs yesterday, in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. That beast was huge, and it would look even more overwhelming to medieval or Iron Age people, who were on average shorter than us; I am 6 ft and that animal was as tall as me. That is probably why it was so prestigious to hunt one, I can't even imagine a close combat with that. But it was hunted to extinction.)
Maybe someone can clone this repo and give it to everyone else for free since it's open source software?
>Why would people not care about family photos? All the stuff in the background is super useful for historians.

That's a good point actually. Most people aren't going to care at all, but historians might, plus also movie-makers: it would be really useful to them to see real photos and footage from the far past.
tell that to ie playstation users that basically use bsd and cannot use the computation of their device for nothing that sony does not permit.

very freedom
Didn't we have quite a few scandals involving LE saving and sharing media as well? Doesn't make it much better, you'll just have a bigger pool of people looking at the unencrypted chats.

I think a better solution would be filters which run only locally and can block problematic messages, as well as alarm platform provider/LE/parents. E2E still works, but you have some safety as well.
That's why we had to invent TLS (and now QUIC)
Toucan TTS: MIT licensed Text to Speech in 7000 languages
IMS Toucan is a toolkit for teaching, training and using state-of-the-art Speech Synthesis models, developed at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart, Germany. Everything is pure Python and PyTorch based to keep it as simple and beginner-friendly, yet powerful as possible.
Because people talking about AGI and superintelligence most likely are thinking of something like Skynet.
What's wrong with the MIT license?
It's a good question. One thing I can think of is that drones can accurately use a pre-determined map of which areas need how much of an input, in a way that would be really difficult for a human on the ground to do.