skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always believed that the Metaverse is whatever modern computing (especially the Internet) has evolved into. It has nothing to do with VR googles. You don't need AAA graphics to make an immersing world -- in fact, some text adventure games are quite immersive, and by the same principle you don't need VR to enter the Metaverse.

Metaverse is escapism and alternative socializing in capital letters. For me, Metaverse in the 80s is me typing BASIC programs, playing Alley Cat, and watching a friend play Prince of Persia (in reality, not VR). Metaverse in the 90s is me borrowing pirated games from a friend and logging into BBS talking trash till early morning. It has always been here. It never left. It IS immersive. It doesn't need some VR devices to be "more" immersive. In fact, the more "modern" we become, the LESS immersive it seems to be, with all those online ads and other shits.

Welcome to the Metaverse.
Could go the google way, capture an image screenshot of state, ocr, then parse it.

They keep throwing it in my url bar. I refuse to click (big warning it sends to google's servers)
> This is a nerd solution to a nerd problem

Yeah, no shit. Some of us have a lot of trouble with making friends, and are happy for any assist we can get.

"Reading the room" isn't something that everyone can do well.
If only that RFC didn't make it a hidden directory.

I can think of a dozen reasons why hiding that folder is a horrible idea, and not a single one for why it would be a good thing to do.
I self-host a lot of things myself. There is one scary downside I've learned in a painful way.

A friend and I figured all this out together since we met in college in the 1980s. He hosted his stuff and I hosted mine. For example, starting in 1994, we had our own domain names and hosted our own email. Sometimes we used each other for backup (e.g., when we used to host our own DNS for our domains at home as well as for SMTP relays). We also hosted for family and some friends at the same time.

Four years ago he was diagnosed with cancer and a year later we lost him. It was hard enough to lose one of the closest friends I ever had. In his last weeks, he asked if I could figure out how to support his family and friends in migrating off the servers in his home rack and onto providers that made more sense for his family's level of technical understanding. This was not simple because I had moved 150 miles away, but of course I said yes.

Years later, that migration is close to complete, but it has been far more difficult than any of us imagined. Not because of anything technical, but because every step of it is a reminder of the loss of a dear friend. And that takes me out of the rational mindset I need to be in to migrate things smoothly and safely.

But, he did have me as a succession plan. With him gone, I don't have someone who thinks enough like me to be the same for my extended family. I'm used to thinking about things like succession plans at work, but it's an entirely new level to do it at home.

So, I still host a lot, but the requirements are much more thoroughly thought through. For example, we use Paperless-ngx to manage our documents. Now there's a cron job that rsync's the collection of PDFs to my wife's laptop every hour so that she will have our important papers if something happens to me.

Thinking carefully enough to come up with reliable backups like this makes things noticeably harder because not all solutions are as obvious and simple. And it's not something that ever occurred to us in our 20s and 30s, but our families were one tragedy away from not knowing how to access things that are important soon after we were gone (as soon as the server had trouble). There is more responsibility to this than we previously realized.
Are IP addresses really helpful in moderation? Moderation usually pertains to the content itself, meaning you would want to block certain content from being posted regardless of the IP that sends a request. Maybe you extend moderation to include banning users, but at that point you have more specific data than IP addresses (like usernames or user IDs).

You can target a list of suspected spammer IPs, though that's often a losing game of cat and mouse where you end up missing some spammers and catching legitimate users in the crossfire.
The performance isn't anything impressive. Power efficiency is probably a real step forward for Intel, but that's to be expected: they finally, for a moment, stopped believing their own lies about their fab capabilities and outsourced the whole thing to TSMC (except for the passive interposer, which Intel is making in-house). But not the latest and greatest TSMC process; no, this is apparently last year's disappointing (by TSMC standards) and expensive N3B process, not the newer N3E.

A few years from now, this will either be an embarrassment Intel tries to hide from the history books (much like how they currently treat Cannonlake), or it'll be looked back upon as a turning point and the beginning of the end of Intel having fabs and chip design in the same company.
s/consider of/consider if/
And then the punchline: computers have gigabytes of RAM, multiple cores with multiple GHz, yet they run slow.
Can we not put another file in the root please? That's what /.well-known/ is for.

And while I'm here, authors of unix tools, please use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. I'm tired of things shitting dot-droppings into my home directory.
We weathered blockchain. We'll get through this one too.
And you know this with certainty because? Look up the energy values of the KT event. Immediately after the asteroid made the Chicxulub crater, it ejected an estimated 64 times the mass of the asteroid itself into the atmosphere, orbital space and into deeper space. That's maybe 50 to 60 Trillion tons of ejecta.

You know for a fact that there's no possibility of prehistoric animal parts to have flown right out into space with such a vast volume of shit?

There's already credible evidence of rocks from earth peppering the moon and in a few cases making it all the way to Mars and Venus because of the impact. A few organic pieces (bone and other hard organic body parts at least) reaching the very nearby moon isn't all that far-fetched at all.
> I wish Yubico had some serious competition, but sadly they don't. NitroHSM is not the same thing

What's not the same thing as what? There's no NitroHSM (Nitrokey has 2 different HSM-related products that are different kinds of things from each other, and neither is called that), and most Yubikeys aren't their special HSM devices.
In Japan, which I’d be willing to wager has a similar culture to South Korea, the emphasis is not on truth, as it is in English culture (and thus those cultures that sprang from it) but on harmony. Harmony preserves the hierarchy, and thus appearance and reputation (reputation being a form of appearance), are cultural corollaries, whereas merit would be the corresponding corollary in English culture. This is why free speech is interpreted differently even though Japan’s constitutional provision for it is based on the US’s.

It is much like the division and consequent attitudinal differences found in individuals who score differently on the Big 5’s agreeableness measure. A disagreeable person cares less about what people think, they are happy with the truth. Agreeable people, however, do care what people think, regardless of the truth of the matter.

So, someone in a society that favours reputation over merit, harmony over truth, or even someone in a society that values truth over appearance but scores highly on agreeableness (which is most women, btw, the main target of such porn) are likely to feel remarkably aggrieved by fakes involving their features.

It’s always good to take into account what the effect of things is to those who are the target and who have a very different situation or attitude.
Wow, it's been a while since I've seen the word "howm" — brings back memories! I used to use howm all the time before switching over to org-mode, which was over 10 years ago. For a while after moving to org, I was still managing my org files with howm.

Back then, howm wasn't really being maintained, and it was a bit of a hassle because it sometime broke when I updated Emacs. So, I'm surprised and happy to see it's being maintained again these days!
> What they are giving up is shoveling snow, which is a heart attack waiting to happen for anyone over 50.

Spoken like someone who's never lived in a prime snowbelt region.

They don't shovel snow, they use snowblowers.
I can imagine that at some point in the next year or two we'll see games that use the GPU for rendering and then the NPU for upscaling, but I don't think that's actually happening yet. As far as I am aware, none of the fancy "AI upscaling" technologies used by games are running on anything other than the GPU so far.
Stephenson is for me a hit and miss author. I adore The Diamong Age, Anathem, Seveneves. I didn't finish the first book of Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon. Some of his other books I don't plan reading since I don't expect them to be good.

I'd say Anathem is his best book overall, but the first 100 or so pages is almost pure world building without much action which might turn people away.

Seveneves is close and is more accessible from the beginning. Just skip the last (after time jump) part of the book which is... unnecessary and bad.
What if each LLM had to register and tell you when/where/what it scraped/ingested from your site/page/url? And you could look at whatever your LLM trigger log looks like, and have a DELETE_ME link. (right_to_be_un_vectorized)
I take it you're from somewhere a bit north :)
Maybe don't use the word launch to refer to something other than a rocket launch...
The important thing is consultants and PhDs get paid and then they can attend conferences to talk to each other and come up with ideas of what their job is.

Nothing like an open canvas with vague fears and a future of undefined risk to get a whole industry of these people funded in no time.
Here is my question to those who understand this "paper":

How does the discovery described in this paper help engineer something the world has never seen before?

As an engineer, I'm always looking for some new thing to make. What does this paper make more possible to make that was less possible to make before?
OpenAI was good about using well known for plugins
America Is Losing Southeast Asia
BSI funds security analysis of Matrix
> My issue with AI safety is that it's an overloaded term. It could mean anything from an llm giving you instructions on how to make an atomic bomb to writing spicy jokes if you prompt it to do so. it's not clear which safety these regulatory agencies would be solving for.

I think if you look at the background of the people leading evaluations at the US AISI [1], as well as the existing work on evaluations by the UK AISI [2] and METR [3], you will notice that it's much more the former than the latter.

[1]: https://www.nist.gov/people/paul-christiano
[2]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-institu...
[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11671
> Browsers zoom in and out in 10% steps

Not entirely true — on Mac I can pinch zoom this Hackernews page super smoothly (in Chrome) using trackpad.
the BS about DNA preserved in ambar was just storytime BS, Michael Crichton himself repeatedly told people the same thing: that he'd made it up as plausible sounding technobabble. But it was BS because of a hard limit to the longevity of DNA in any fossilized context.

Material blasted from the earth maybe including a few animal parts isn't nearly so rigidly improbable, or impossible. We know that massive amounts of ejecta went far into space, and a lot almost certainly slammed into the moon.
Why would I assume you meant the maximum when you didn't specify?

And would you mind not being a condescending prick? If you had taken a second to google you would know Tokyo had highs of 40+ this summer.

Sounds like you're just trying to make excuses for your awful city.
If the capability existed to project voices into people's heads, there would be a startup using it for advertising by now.

Oh, right, that's been done.[1] "In 2007, the advertising and marketing campaign for A&E's Paranormal State broke the mold using Audio Spotlight directional sound technology. A seven-story billboard was erected in Lower Manhattan, New York City, visually reminding the public of the channel's popular new programming. A pair of AS-24i focused sound speakers mounted above the billboard projected directional audio onto a targeted area of the sidewalk – all the way from the rooftop."

"The projected sound produced by the Audio Spotlight speakers was a woman's whispering voice that startled and entertained passersby with spooky and suggestive messages such as "Who's that?," "Who's there?," and "It's not your imagination." To those within the narrow coverage area, the sounds seemed as though they were being whispered right next to their heads, while others standing right next to them heard nothing, thanks to the focused sound beam of the Audio Spotlight."

[1] https://www.holosonics.com/applications/creative-marketing
> Folks with superficial knowledge in one of these areas are not encouraged to apply.

Is this really necessary to call out? Why discourage candidates from applying?
Awesome! I'm glad we could come to an agreement
Maybe instead of selling scraping to end users, invert the problem and sell data to AI companies:

1. Pay users to install a browser extension that scrapes social media content they browse. Or ask them in exchange for a service, e.g. "remember everything I browse and make it searchable", etc.

2. Ship the data you scrape to your servers.

3. Sell training data to companies at a discount.

This gets past the new rate limiters and blocks that Reddit and others have installed.
This is a bit of word salad from Intel's marketing, with a catch buried inside the messaging.

> up to 120 total platform TOPS (tera operations per second) across central processing unit (CPU), graphic processing unit (GPU) and neural processing unit (NPU) to deliver the most compatible and performant AI experiences across models and engines.

Notice they say "most compatible and performant AI across models and engines", this means you don't really get to add all the TOPS up and run them as a unified workload. That sum of 120 is marketing speak, without doubt the CPU will hit ~30w alone just running the 8 cores at full speed, and leave little power for its GPU and NPU. Even with their 50% (claimed) efficiency gain.

They already do this today with their existing laptop chips, so I highly doubt they have changed.

Instead, you get different power targets, TOPS and efficiency depending on the workload. It's the same with Apple, we don't actually know how much wattage the NPU used during their claimed 38 TOPS.

Package power is about all we got until the chip comes out. It's not like Apple and Intel are putting 2w GPUs and 2w NPUs on a 37w package (at least not anymore). They likely utilize 30-50% of the available power.

This is how I read it anyway, I'd love someone else to weigh in and tell me if its different from previous press releases.
I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files.

https://github.com/gollum/gollum
> Because lobbying exists in this country, and because legislators receive financial support from corporations like OpenAI, any so-called concession by a major US-based company to the US Government is likely a deal that will only benefit the company.

Sometimes both benefit? OAI and Anthropic benefit from building trust with government entities early on, and perhaps setting a precedent of self-regulation over federal regulation, and the US government gets to actually understand what these models are capable of, and have competent people inside the government track AI progress and potential downstream risks from it.
I agree, Tim Sweeney sucks. It was still an interesting interview.
They both sound like China 10-20 years ago.

China generally has permanent APEC blue now. Hope the US catches up!
similar to https://spawning.ai/ai-txt
>> 100 days of over 100F heat is going to kill you

I don't know whether you know this or not, but you don't actually have to be out in the 100F heat all day if you live in Arizona.

Somebody has to shovel the snow, though, if you live in the places people move to Arizona from. Otherwise your car can't get out of the garage. Sometimes you can't even get out of the front door.

No robots do that snow shoveling thing yet, when they do, sign me up.

That's still not going to stop the drain of people from Michigan or say upstate New York to Arizona.
Etymologists use it a lot. I went down an etymology rabbit hole a while back looking for the origin of a phrase and google books was immensely helpful
> A government agency determining limits on, say, heavy metals in drinking water is materially different than the government making declarations of what ideas are safe and which are not

Access to evaluate the models basically means the US governments gets to know what these models are capable of, but the US AISI has basically no enforcement power to dictate anything to anyone.

This is just a wild exaggeration of what's happening here.
So this is real-life bluffball.co.uk...

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
There’s a deep irony that I have to make a file to help LLMs scrape content while others claim AI will doom humanity.

A few deep ironies actually.
And it's an even smaller jump to go from "maybe that thing is or has a Mind" to "maybe this entity's nick on Hacker News is HexDecOctBin".

Thus, you should start worshipping me.

But you won't, because you don't actually believe in these small jumps. You want to believe, you try to believe, but you don't. The doubt is there, and it is a healthy doubt (else you would be worshipping me), but it brings you shame.
..again.

less flippantly, it bears remarking that when the TPP went ahead without the US, I think every other participant felt they got a better, more equitable outcome. This is concerning.

Noting most-favoured-nation there are few relationships in the region more lasting than ANZUS and yet, we're already being fed signals that the US will renege on commitments to supply nuclear submarines, despite us paying to keep their building yards open: The effect of congress on treaties makes it next to impossible to believe there will be an outcome, no matter what the headline deliverable.

We (australia) trashed a working relationship with france to secure these secondhand nuclear subs. If it turns out we won't get them, then we traduced a working partner for .. nothing.

This is not an unusual experience for the S.E. Asian communities facing trade and defence relationships with the USA.
I like to think of these people as early adopters. Most of the world will be like Phoenix soon enough!
then we already had a word for it: media
Subheading is a better summary: "Matrix performs well in BSI audit conducted by MGM Security Partners, only for findings to be misunderstood."

Some tech news site claimed there were critical vulns when there really just three low-severity vulns. As you do
Does anybody know if plain ECDH (as used by e.g. ICAO biometric passports implementing PACE) or Ed25519 (assuming Infineon's chips/libraries implement that) are impacted?

The paper specifically calls out PACE as also using modular inversion, but I don't understand either that or Ed25519 enough to get a sense for how bad this is for algorithms beyond just ECDSA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KleseAAmUKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
Take a closer look at the exploits listed, they all have to do with malware manipulating argv[0] when creating a new process; not with a process manipulating argv after it starts.

There is no mention of mutable memory attacks.

(If I was on a computer I'd fire up a C IDE to even see what happens when I mutate argv. I suspect the OS keeps its own copy of what the process was started with.)
Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi
If we were ready for liftoff, we'd know. It wouldn't look like this. This is just a parlor trick.
I'd say computing media (digitized media?)
Of course not, my point was just that the 37W wasn't an NPU power figure, but a package power.
Absolutely.

Same thing for the new Pixel. They actually were using AI as a feature that made their phones better than Samsung phones.

Instead of each company upping the ante on their camera's, its now going to be another five years of companies pushing new things and tweaks their AI can do better. This is just the newest arms race in smartphones.
Could be Apple contributed if it was around the time they dropped 32bit support. I'm kind of amazed the new Doom+Doom2 re-release doesn't support even Intel Macs, despite moving to Kex. IDK whose at fault but it's lame if they let support drop and don't at least offer refunds to recent purchasers.
I went back and read some previous blog posts. He was part of the great 2023 layoff. I'm curious where such a talented guy landed. Did he find a position?
This is super interesting and has a lot of overlap both with the product I'm building and with my need for a website. Looking forward to giving this a real try in the next couple of weeks and will reach back out to you then
In places outside the US where cheques are pretty much extinct, this is how all B2B payments are done.
It’s just the usual way to define the hard barriers of the marketplace to protect their monopolies. They’ll be able to influence it from the start.

The US has a looong history of big companies cozying up to agencies early on for these reasons. It will be a revolving door like car companies, Boeing, Wall St, etc
Not thrilled about this happening with zero input from the Congress.

That said, this is the NIST, a technical organisation. This collaboration will inform future lawmaking.
How about protect us from the scammers? Ever considered that? Theres no agency policing scams, nobody going after them, building cases shutting them down. They attack the weakest and most vulnerable, take them for all they’re worth and nobody lifts a finger to stop them. It’s a shameful lack of action from the federal government.
https://archive.md/ylJ9R
Does anyone here know why we have barely had any hurricanes or tropical storms this year despite the record heat? NOAA was expecting this to be a very active year due to the record temperatures, but it’s been extremely quiet.
Firefox 130 Offers Experimental Access to Third-Party AI Chatbots
I don't think your explanation hits the bottom of the ontic causal hierarchy.

The fact that hbar is the quantum of angular momentum can be derived from the boundary conditions of a wavefunction with a closed dimension (such as an angle), combined with the fact that one h of action phases a wavefunction by 360º.

In particular, for a wavefunction with only angular dependence:

boson: \psi(2pi) = \psi(0)
fermion: \psi(4pi) = \psi(0)

Because the value has to be the same when you get back to where you started.

Therefore, (for a boson) psi must decompose into eigenfunctions of the form \psi(\theta) = exp(i * n * \theta) where n is an integer.

These eigenfunctions satisfy the boundary condition stated above and are a complete basis

We can take the fourier transform of this (closed) function and we get a dirac delta at n. I.e. the fourier transforms of this basis are just dirac deltas at integers in the fourier domain.

But to convert this to physical units, we need to use the embedding from integers to reals, which is done by multiplication by planck's constant.

So, some related questions that I think are further down the causal hierarchy:

* Why does one h of action phase a wavefunction by 360º

* Why does h necessarily show up in the fourier transform