skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not to make excuses for Intel ME, which is entirely unauditable by third parties and has harbored significant security vulnerabilities in the past. But, remember, we all use one processor architecture from one of two vendors, so Intel doesn't have a whole lot of motivation to do better. Lest you respond that ARM is the way, remember that modern ARM SOCs used in consumer devices have pretty much identical capabilities.

I actually took advantage of one such security vulnerability to unlock my old Moto X's bootloader! The details of the exploit are quite interesting:

https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2015/03/getting-arbitrary-c...

https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2015/08/exploring-qualcomms...

https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2015/08/full-trustzone-expl...

https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/02/unlocking-motorola-...
Right! I guess they are exceptions because we cut them before eldery, not because biological reasons. Cows older than 4yo are an exception because we slaughter most of them before but they could live 5 times more.
that's right; and its pretty good at this, see here a few examples : https://git.osr-plastic.org/osr-plastic/osr-ai/src/branch/ma... (check the generated scad files). For some reason, chat-gpto looses relations, after 5+ parts within an assembly.
They’re doing licensing deals left and right.
It is interesting that they both licence content and say it is fair use. Seems like those who complain the loudest will get something for their content and everyone else will get nothing.
Marketing firm admits using your own phone to listen in on your conversations
Your long-held suspicions are confirmed, according to a report: Your phone really is listening to you.

A marketing firm whose clients include Facebook and Google has privately admitted that it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and then places ads based on the information that is picked up, according to 404 Media.

Cox Media Group, the television and radio news conglomerate, admitted in a pitch deck to investors that its “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence to “capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations,” according to the report.
This is fun!

I don't have a Remarkable so it's not clear to me how the file gets to your server. Are you sending it directly from the Remarkable or connecting a Remarkable cloud account?
Here you go:

1) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664714902446469

2) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664738495508815

3) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664761425752232

4) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664784586612822

5) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664807512735933

6) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664830442971550

7) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664853436190909

8) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664876584587741

9) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664899686551807

10) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664922893521096
Thank you for sharing this encounter and for re-foresting the land.
Yes we should bury all human work under fair use for AI training data, otherwise we will lose the AI race…

How funny it will be if/when we realise that LLMs aren’t even the way to get to real AGI, and we destroyed the value of all human labour for nothing.
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/master/login-u...

edit: basically login(1) execes your shell with - prepended, so an example where POSIX expects this
To be precise, the HN term is “dead”: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#dead>
But why? We have the internet.
There are essentially two "easy" ways to add neutrino mass to the standard model without breaking things too much.

One is to use the Higgs to give neutrinos mass. For technical reasons this only works if there are both right and left handed neutrinos. We have only ever detected left handed neutrinos, so you'd have to also add right handed neutrinos, and just say that they don't really interact with anything else.

The second way you can do it is add a very heavy Majorana particle to your theory for each of the 3 neutrinos we know about. These Majorana particles are their own anti-particle (just like the photon is) and as a result are able to have a non-zero mass without the Higg's mechanism. The three types of neutrinos we already know about would then get their masses as a result of some slightly complicated maths involving the masses of the three new Majorana neutrinos.
> In feudalism, the artistocracy and th emonarchy extracted that value.

Feudalism was in some ways a bit kinder, because part of the basic arrangement was the expectation that the nobles would protect the peasantry (for pragmatic that's-where-the-food-and-supplies-come-from reasons, not ethical ones). Capitalism has no such expectations or incentives.
I'm from Spain, so I'm quite sure of what I'm talking about. Spain might be a highly developed country, but its gdp per capita is not too high compared to the likes of Germany, UK, France, Denmark, US, et al.

Basque country is, again, rich because it has an special tax treatment and could be considered a tax heaven to some extent.
Allbirds Announces 1-for-20 Reverse Stock Split
I can kinda see how one can argue that this is a feature rather than a bug, but I still think this points to the more distinctive feature in these coops being democratic governance of workers rather than ownership.

I own shares of past companies I've worked at, but I don't have any representation in how the company is run. It doesn't matter if my interests have diverged from current workers, because I have no influence.

If a company compensates its employees partially with RSUs, and those employees own and can eventually transfer those shares freely, and the company was also democratically governed by its workers ... could you not have "real" ownership (by current and past workers) and still protect current workers' democratic governance?
What do you do now? Did you switch to software?
> This is an unusual take considering Drew DeVault actually does have experience developing new kernels in experimental languages.

Not exactly, a new toy kernel is different than reimplementing Linux!

> Meanwhile, what Drew's suggesting is a kernel that aims for ABI compatibility.

Drew and you are missing the point, which is: we don't want to wait years to use a new OS that may or may not come. "Hey, go fork it!" is a fine response to plenty of feature requests, but not this one. The point here explicitly was that in-tree support is/was better, so everyone got watch the development of the thing.[0]

Moreover the actual problem is bad behavior by C kernel devs, to which a leader would say: "This is something we are doing. This project can fail for lots of reasons but it won't fail because kernel C devs are too toxic to work with. You'll apologize to Wedson. You said -- you're not learning Rust. Guess what? Your contributions are paused, while you learn Rust, and assist in building the ext2 reimplementation. Perhaps, as you do, you can make clearer your concerns to the Rust for Linux team, and learn what theirs are as well."

[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/10/1261
>The great thing about that book was: once you understood the title, you didn't really need to read the book.

Seriously, it's something I've never thought about, but once you hear "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" you kinda know what the theory is and it makes sense.
they'll certainly mine them for archaeological information.

that's one of the reasons I keep my trash in neat layers ordered chronologically
Piss off with that bullshit. He's right. Not to mention it's illegal under discrimination law.
Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD – IT Notes
For the sake of analogy:
or the sea food we buy from them
Teen 3D Printed a Working Boombox "Soundwave" Transformer [video]
What? Do you only start working on something the day before your deadline? Do you not plan ahead at all? If you’re always behind the eight ball, scrambling to land whatever you can slap together by the end of the sprint, it’s not going to work. But if that’s the situation you’re in, nothing will work. You’ve got to plan.

It worked fantastically for me at my last job as a lead, and it’s working great for me now as a consultant.
There is no violation because it can be argued that the AI is a sentient entity, and sentient entities have a right to read and remember texts borrowed from the library.
I did nanowrimo a decade ago. Dunno if it changed, but back then the only prize was the pride of having finished writing a short novel.

So why not “accept” ai content? You can’t really cheat at solitaire. You would just be cheating yourself. It’s not like anybody else is going to read it.
PropelAuth (YC W22) is hiring engineers who love to write
This kind of stupid behaviour does not improve the image of drug use.
We're working on something that should separate the concept of 'have you paid us' from 'who are you', at which point you'd be free to use (the existing) bitcoin payment method and have a pretty private experience.

Hopefully out in the next few weeks but no promises.
Replit Lifeboat by Hack Club
In August, Replit (replit.com) cut down its free plan - many students won't be able to afford to keep using it.

We (hackclub.com) quickly built this tool in response - plug in your email and token and get a zip file containing all your Repls, with full Git history constructed from Replit's files' history.

We hope this will help students to be able to keep working on their projects.
Can confirm. My family has (collectively) cashed about $1,000 in settlement claims.
open ai making money isn’t the social good tho
"Bad" is relative. Someone may believe that something is industry standard and not worth talking about e.g. crunch time in games. Also, plenty of people internalize the bad bits of their jobs and won't think to discuss them unless you ask specifically. It's like asking for feedback from colleagues to their face, unbounded requests for criticism are psychologically hard for humans to answer.
Founder Mode – Brian Chesky
Initiative aims to turbocharge wildlife-crossing construction across California
> we destroyed the value of all human labour for nothing.

FTFY: "we found a way to remove the archaic copyright system"
We make it high effort as we want to prevent low effort submissions - we only have limited resources available to review.
True.

However, lots of socioeconomic cohort studies show that the smartest of the lowest quintile rarely do as well as the weakest of the upper quintile.

Intelligence may be genetically inherited, but how far you go with it is almost completely dependent upon the resources around you.
I don't think fair use applies at all.

First, it may not even be a thing in some countries.

Second, I can't upload the bee movie on Youtube for free and claim fair use. One key consideration in fair use is whether your use of the copyright work competes with the author. It's why you can take a screenshot of a GUI (which is copyrightable) without worries since nobody is going to be like "I don't need to purchase Affinity Photo because I found a screenshot on the Internet for free." In the case of AI, several whole classes of artists are vehemently and justifiably complaining that it will take their jobs.

It would be like saying photobashing is fair use, or collages are fair use.
> Only broken clay was really waste.

> Cities didn't collect trash - they collected ash.

So is ash broken clay or is your first statement just incorrect?
That's neat.

Autodesk Fusion already knows how to apply those kinds of constraints. This is an easier way to input them. The general problem is to express "what am I pointing at" in cluttered situations. Just figuring out how to do that was a huge problem in CAD. For decades, you had to have multiple views on screen just to select. The UI for doing it in one view was really tough.

It still doesn't translate well to fat-fingered devices such as tablets and phones. There are lots of construction people who could really use a tablet that has the design, knows where it is in space, and shows what's supposed to go there.
So-called "fair use" for editorial and review purposes seems like the social good you're talking about?

I'm not sure OpenAI offering a service for profit falls into that category.
We can make plastics from bio sources, or directly from elemental carbon. Oil is a lot cheaper, but we can do it. In WWII the Germans were running on synthetic gas. Last I checked you can buy synthetic gas - at about 5x the cost of standard pump gasoline. (synthetic gas has more energy per gallon so sometimes it is used in a race)
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'd like to point out that there are other victims too- the wife suddenly being accused of murderous intent is very much a victim too, and in some cases the person hearing the voices acts first.

I had a friend who developed similar symptoms, and I was very afraid for my own safety when he started sending me paranoid threats.
Reminds me of one of my projects:

https://github.com/blackhillsinfosec/skyhook

Round-trip encrypted file transfer. Uses WASM to decrypt files on the client side.

Aims to bypass IDS.
Oakland Police Are Towing Teslas for Crime Scene Footage
Giant Wyoming Carbon Capture Project Pulls Plug for Lack of Clean Power
It took a few weeks for our developers to learn basic sewing techniques, but once we did that we were able to move onto automating the looms fairly easily.

Looms were the original computers so it was easier than you'd think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
They don't often list on tech sites. They don't have the technical expertise to accurately describe what they're even looking for. IT and tech is a blackbox for them.

Usually they either have NGO/charity specific sites (charityvillage in Canada, for instance, is a job aggregator site), or just go by word of mouth.

If you find one you're interested in, just sending them an email or directly to whomever is in charge of hiring might work. Arts and culture nonprofits also have a strong networking component - if there's a local event, introducing yourself and what you can offer, would also work.
> it can be argued that the AI is a sentient entity

Can it? And how would you make that argument, exactly?
Although this is still true for AD environments, Microsoft has been pushing Entra ( or whatever they call it these days ) hard and would prefer for that to no longer be the case. It's also been getting harder to actually run on-prem AD at a reasonable price point per user.

Effectively, expect even enterprise to be online first with an escape hatch for those customers that need it, obviously only available on E5 or something like that...
> primary goal is to fight the scourge of phishing attacks. The EUCLEAK attack requires physical access to the device

Something to consider: If someone is going to go through the effort to get physical access to a Yubikey, they only need to swap it with one that has a similar level of wear and a similar appearance. At that point, the victim will merely believe that their Yubikey is broken; and/or the attacker will have enough time to use the Yubikey.

For example, I have two Yubikeys. Someone could sneak into my house, swap my spare, and I wouldn't figure it out until I go to use my spare.

Basically: This attack is only "worth it" if your target is so valuable that you can target them in person. At that point, I'd think the target would use something a little more secure than a Yubikey.
If you argue the current AI is sentient, then you have to deal with the morality of forcing a sentient being to be a slave to a corporation.
Point taken. Though I do wonder how much of the methane released is from plastic decomposition and how much of it is from food/biomaterial decomposition. I'd naively assume the primary emission would come from readily decomposable materials and that most plastics would remain fairly stable for a lot longer than yesterday's half eaten hamburger.
Yup. These folks can decide to "take matters into their own hands."

When you are absolutely convinced that someone is out to kill you, it's perfectly reasonable to kill them, first.

I have family that suffers from Schizoaffective Disorder, and they have decided that I was out to kill them. It was absolutely clear (to them) that I was "one of them," and I, quite literally, had no communication with them that could even be slightly confused for hostile.

That can be ... uncomfortable.
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My experience at startups has helped me learn how to build systems, and how to keep them running, simply and with minimal resources. For example, as of this writing, Checkmate Champ has been running for 753 days without my intervention.
Thanks for the notes! I'll look into spline.

I've never of a web app that lets you pull panels to a second screen. Sounds neat though. Is there a good reference?
This anthropologist thinks so, he researched ISIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc .

A lot of people seem to treat their political identity like their favorite football team, it's pure tribalism in the form "My 'team', right or wrong!". Kind of sad that they'd rather have that "in-group" feeling rather than be a defender of what's moral and fair. And/or that they manage to twist their position to be the moral and fair one.
You are very right:

> Approximately 46% of the 79 thousand tons of ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets, some as large as football fields, according to the study published in March 2018 in Scientific Reports

While generalisations may be misleading, when people talk about ocean pollutions they often think about the patches.
The supreme court ruled in Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. that google scanning entire books and showing snippets was fair use. I don't see why AI training wouldn't also qualify.
I read this weekend that OpenAI may go to market with a $100 billion valuation. Why not share some of that with creators?

It's hard to come up with percentages though. I'd probably borrow from the app store model and assign 70% of whatever they raise to creators and they keep 30%.
Why do you think the copyright system is archaic? It's the only thing protecting the livelihood of millions of people around the globe.
I can see it now. Every hospice will come with an onsite attorney to "help" your loved one get everything in order.
Apparently, the term is pesce-pollotarian? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That didn’t go so well by wow standards. Paying extra to “avoid the late access” and the xp nerf after early access didn’t go over well with the players.
How much are they selling social good for these days? $5/1 million tokens?

Was the addition of a former member of an alphabet agency part of their social good initiative?
I did not know that (only know it from Windows), thanks for the explanation.

It looks like

conda config --set auto_activate_base false

would be another fix for that. Or adjusting .condarc manually if you insist on not using the CLI. However I think teaching students about (virtual) environments will require them to know at least some CLI basics anyway.
When they leave or retire how are the earnings taxed?
I think their point was the delivery of that garbage over time is subject to entropy, and from first principles probably took more energy consumption than a sustained 84MW over the time period the landfill is a viable source for energy.

I know nothing about landfill engineering here, to be frank, simply being a grease for good online gearing.
But LLMs aren't sentient.

And the whole "if a human does it, I can make a machine do it for profit too" argument doesn't hold water in the context of copyright.
Absolutely ridiculous argument. AI has no rights as far as any court is concerned, and if it had, you would soon go to jail for slave labor as you do not pay your sentient AI its wages.
>Horror stories, like pop music and alcohol, are designed first and foremost to make sex possible. Horror stories let young men place their arms across the shoulders of young women.

So much here to unpack about the author's world view in just two sentences. I think I'll stop reading here.
> the founder loses their investment

So does the bank, and the state that (more often than not) subsidised said investment through diverse vehicles. If the bank goes belly up, we've seen what happens, we collectively contribute to save them... because we're collectively sharing all the risk of investment in our financialized economies.

I agree that some people don't want risk and others do, but as soon as you start sharing ownership that dichotomy simply disappears.
It was so frustrating when a dude at work was trying to bust my balls for not using the recycling for my plastic bottle. I didn’t have the energy or patience to explain to him how our city has single stream recycling and there was 100% chance that bottle was being shipped overseas, dumped in the ocean or something else way more stupid than just being buried in the city landfill.
Let's face it current AI/LLMs are nice tinker-toys, but they are the tiny building blocks that the real power will come from some day - when we can run tens of thousands of these models to solve real problems and not...AutoComplete++. The hardware will need to be exponentially more powerful, efficient and cheap before the real AI-powered future we've been hyped/promised can be realized.
OP is thinking of people who bumper sticker "Believe Science" but never took science beyond grade school or a required "science for poets" class. People who think "chemicals are bad, but organic is good".

These are not bad people, but they don't know what they're talking about enough to form their own opinions, but they don't know that.
Question is the same as it ever was, can you locate your data and your compute close to your users.

Issue with search is there's a lot of data, and a lot of compute to run over it, so you end up replicating PBs just to reduce latency.
>and we destroyed the value of all human labour for nothing.

How exactly does AI training "destroyed the value of all human labour" when "LLMs aren’t even the way to get to real AGI"? You could plausibly make the argument that AGI might make all human labor obsolete, but the current LLMs are nowhere close to replacing human labor. Sure, some value might be lost, but nowhere near "destroyed the value of all human labour ".
Ha... a pointer reuse problem.
The goal is to try to set precedents so that eventually it is taken seriously and isn’t a joke. Hopefully some day it will apply to people like Kissinger.
It is totally legal to train on this stuff, but illegal to reproduce copyrighted works. Interestingly, Google's business model could have been criticized the same way. They construct a big index of copyrighted works, reproduce them, and monetize it.
https://genius.com/Bright-eyes-laura-laurent-lyrics
It's great that you were able to notice that this was not normal and get treatment, I wonder why you were able to when many others aren't. I wonder if a propensity for religion or other types of magical thinking make it harder for some people to realize the voices or intrusive thoughts aren't "normal".
How come their software is so shit if they are so good at coming up with clever interview questions?