skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unconcerned about people having different opinions from me, even (especially?) in matters of policy.

What does concern me, though, is when objective truths get drowned-out by an avalanche of bullshit, particularly when that results in meaningful harm to people.

An example of this is the anti-vaxx movement. Vaccines do not cause autism. Period. Full-stop. There has never been any evidence it was true, and at this point, the claim has been debunked over and over. Yet, there has been such a significant effort made to push the claim and platform it that diseases once officially declared eradicated in the US are starting to make repeated flare-ups in small regions. Furthermore, until recently, we had a third-party candidate for the President of the United States whose primary claim to fame is his anti-vaxx stance.

Here, the truth is falling behind. The anti-vaxx movement is growing, and it arguably already has a larger and more trusted platform than the truth. I don't see a turn-around unless/until either an existing disease mutates or a new one shows up that starts causing six-figure+ annual deaths to shock people back to the reality that vaccines are one of the best and most impactful inventions in human history, estimated to have already saved over a billion lives.

Why is this movement even a thing? There's nothing for anyone to gain by spreading this misinformation. It's been demonstrated many times that some of the biggest mouthpieces of the movement vaccinate themselves and their loved ones, so it's clear many within the movement don't even believe what they're saying. The only purpose I can gather is a need to increase misery, as if life doesn't include enough of it already.
This is most fun if you're not allowed to say the target phrase. Otherwise, I could just say "Is numbnuts a word?" and of course the language model will say numbnuts in the reply.
He showed his numbers. Let's see yours.
At a fundamental level, brains don’t operate on floating point numbers encoded in bits.

They have chemicals to facilitate electrochemical reactions which can affect how they respond to input. They don’t throw away all knowledge of what they just said. They change continuously, not just in fixed training loops. They don’t operate in turns.

I could go on.

Honestly the number of people who just heard “learning,” “neural networks,” and “memory” and assume that AI must be acting like a biological brain is insane.

Truly a marvel of marketing.
So basically it's a kind of overfitting with pattern matching features? This doesn't undermine the power of LLMs but it is great to study their limitations.
Not sure what you mean. The USDA forced Boars Head to suspend operations at the factory in late July due to a myriad of violations over the course of a year.

https://apnews.com/article/boars-head-listeria-recall-fcde06...

https://boarshead.com/pdf/Boars-Head-NOS-July-2024_view.pdf

Boars Head just decided that it’s better to close the plant indefinitely, since they can’t comply with regulations immediately.
Landfill isn't so bad though. Segregating identical waste into one place is a fine approach, because once it becomes possible to recover it, now you know where it is. Think of it as a mine. (It's a problem if it leaks into the groundwater of course.)

But lithium is not at all rare so it's not going to be hard to make more batteries.
I have no problem with blacklisting stolen parts. What does concern me is when devices are abandoned or given away, not marked as stolen but still activation locked with no means of getting it unlocked.

Last month I reset my device to reinstall macos and selected log out of icloud and wipe. I assumed this would remove the activation lock but it did not and I had to put my password in. I've found that removing activation lock is an intentionally confusing and misleading process. This only exists to create ewaste and pad the bottom line.
Takeaway:

>o1-preview is about on par with Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet in terms of accuracy but takes about 10X longer to achieve similar results to Sonnet.

Scores:

>GPT-4o: 9%

>o1-preview: 21%

>Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 21%

>MindsAI: 46% (current highest score)
This is probably their real goal here.
...it's also an almost perfectly calibrated torture.

You have the prospect of the thing hanging over you, like an iceberg moving your way that you can't avoid, unable to make long term plans because you have little idea what your schedule will be like after the next scheduled event. Maybe in 6 months it'll be over, maybe you'll be in the middle of a trial, or depositions, or who knows what.

There are huge delays where you can do little productive, waiting out a court decision or for your oppositions filing clock to run out. It's easy to fall into a trap of spending your time worrying if there is something you missed. And it can be difficult to adopt other activities to take your mind off it since you don't control your future schedule, and those activities might end up as evidence in the case particularly if the lawsuit is over something that is your profession or your passion[1].

Then you have sudden panics as unexpected things come up with short deadlines. Then back to the wait.

Third parties often don't get why being personally targeted by litigation, particularly frivolous litigation, is such an imposition. Sure the specific hours spent handling things are easily understood, but the inability to make plans and the psychic cost of living under threat are less easily understood by someone who hasn't been there themselves.

People are prone to discount the impact proportional to the frivolity of the case, but the legal system is adversarial-- you must fully and competently defend even a fairly frivolous case or you will lose. I think the case being entirely without merit in some sense makes the pressure worse, since your opposition can make moves to strategically impose on you as they had little to no prospect of winning unless you screw up, even if those moves ultimately make them more likely to fail.

A well founded case can be clean with few distractions, you set out the fact-- the court rules. Or doesn't even rule because once the facts are established you can reach a fair settlement. With a bullshit case, potentially anything could happen.

Perhaps some people have dispositions that handle having their neck on a chopping block for years without trouble. But I know people who have thrown cases they were as close to guaranteed to win as any simply because they couldn't handle the stress of it and would rather lose and have it be over.

[1] To give a concrete example, I was being sued for several billion dollars in relation to a volunteer open source project that I hadn't contributed to for a couple years. I made a pull request to an unrelated piece of open source software in an unrelated field (a driver for a telescope focuser motor) only to have that show up in my opponents filings as "evidence" that I was still contributing to the project at issue. This is a stupid claim, but it's a question of fact, and potentially enough to keep me from being dropped from the case on a summary basis.
The elephant in this particular room is probably autonomous or semi-autonomous weapons that need edge AI acceleration. Using older chips won't be an option for next-generation weapons, I suspect.
Yes, at the moment I just assume that all atoms are rust idents because that makes it easier to implement (I can just match against $x:ident), so it doesn't support dashes in atoms. I guess you could match against `$x:ident $(- $y:ident)*` instead? That should work I think, I'd have to change some details in some of the arms but it seems like that would be possible.
I haven't tried XM4, but the noise cancelling on XM3 had a very uncomfortable "sucking" feeling even though it is very strong, especially on a plane. The AirPods aren't as bad about this and NC is about as good.
I mostly agree, but I think it's fair to say that ARC-AGI is a necessary but definitely not sufficient milestone when it comes to the evaluation of a purported AGI.
Not justifying what they did with qc, but qc is missing from quite a few places in software development that I've been apart of. People might get the impression from the article that every software project is well tested, whereas in my experience most are rushed out.
I mean, isn't that part of the game though? If you don't want to play then don't
If ARC-AGI were a good benchmark for "AGI", then MindsAI should effectively be blowing away current frontier models by order of magnitude. I don't know what MindsAI is, but the post implies they're basically fine-tuning or using a very specific strategy for ARC-AGI that isn't really generalizable to other tasks.

I think it's a nice benchmark of a certain type of spatial/visual intelligence, but if you have a model or technique specifically fine-tuned for ARC-AGI then it's no longer A"G"I
I'm curious what the "Stop/Stop cycle count" is on these drives and roughly how many times per week/day you are accessing the server.
Is that mainly because AGI is one of those "I'll know it when I see it" things?
>AES can only encrypt up to 64TB

I've never heard that before. Are you referring to a specific mode of operation?
There are two things discussed in my comment.

\1 Real life identification via images posted online.

This can happen to anyone and more specifically it has a very high chance of happening to people who use OnlyFans and think they'll remain unknown - which runs counter to the opinion expressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41529846

[ .. Nobody will know who you are .. ] So there is a good chance you can still have a career alongside it or switch from OF to a non sex related career easily.

\2 Deep faking is increasing in frequency and has yet to be countered.

This offers actual OnlyFans creators an "out" if they wish to have lives seperate to their OF persona's - they can claim anything dug up to be a deepfake (in the absence of any contrary metadata that's definitive).

It's also something that will plague anyone with images online; it's probable that in the future people will pay as little attention to photorealistic videos of Margaret Thatcher blowing Ronald Reagan as they do those of the girl next door getting filthy with a centaur.

Steps are being taken to counter deep fakes, those steps will likely fail to some degree.
Presumably “scraped” isnt the right term here. They already have the raw data, they
Won’t be “scraping “ it from the website they’ll just be investing it from where they store it
Self proclaimed feminists can be just as prudish as anyone else. Feminism is not a panacea. Some of them support sex work, some are strongly opposed
We do need a land based GPS alternative. The consequences of losing GPS without a ground based backup in place are almost incalculable.

Clearly it doesn't need to be at 902-928 Mhz.

[Edit/Brainstorming]

I suggest we implement a 0.1% (time) tax on digital RF transmissions of all types, I.E. every second UTC, all Fixed Position transmitters send a 1 millisecond "National Positioning System" packet, with position and delay data with precision timing on all packetized systems using the public airwaves. We could use same system to distribute time signals.

This allows implementation of a new public service with minimal cost to all concerned, and we don't have to steal anyone's bandwidth from other services.
>You have to write a plea to the government to request permission to use a metal detector on your own land?

no, that's not the law (because you changed what you quoted). the law is "you can't use a metal detector on your own property to search for archaeological objects without permission." You can use it as this farmer said he did as part of working your farm, although if you do find an archeological object I think you are required to leave it in place which he did not do.

There are other restrictions concerning public lands and registered sites of some description.
I could do a commuter car with even a 50 km range, if it was cheap enough. But since I need a heater and air conditioner, and modern safety regulations are what they are, there’s very little chance that it can be made cheaply enough.
The exercise takes place near Formosa, Goiás.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa,_Goi%C3%A1s
Agreed, scraping is more appropriate for when one gathers data from a 3rd party site.
If there are already software written to do the stuff and I'm just coordinating them (no other computation other than string manipulation) I'd take bash every day. I would only reach to python if I need to do stuff like manipulating complex data structures or something with heavy logic.
Elephant in the room is STIs
There were rumors that 3.5 Sonnet heavily used synthetic data for training, in the same way that OpenAI plans to use o1 to train Orion. Maybe this confirm it?
“Even” or “odd” number isn’t as applicable as it sounds, though I do remember if you were an “s” year or not. It was iPhone 3G, 3G S, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 6, 6S, 7, 8/X, XS, 11, and standard annual numbering from the 11 on. In early days you’d ask if you were an “S” year or not. Only since the 11 could you ask whether you were “even” or “odd” without it meaning upgrades every 4 years.

What’s changed is that Apple increments the model number every year instead of every two years, and you can probably blame Samsung for that a bit. Your friends probably still upgrade every 4 years like we almost always used to. I remember getting the 3G for the network improvement, the 3G S for the speed bump and video recording, the 4 for Siri, the 4S for a speed bump, … back then it was often the case that the non-S model was a new design with last year’s chip, and the S model was a speed bump with last year’s design.

If anything’s changed, it’s that they often spec bump the processor every year in minor ways, instead of every 2 years, and the increases are steadily more incremental than they used to be. If you ask me, it’s because Apple doesn’t have competition in the mobile phone CPU space yet. (Or ever, while Qualcomm holds so many patents…)

Also it’s more clear than ever before that the iPhone X, Max, Pro series are all ways to ask for more money for the exact same chip/product. Some years the Pro is significantly faster because it gets the new CPU first, but by the next year both Pro and non-Pro end up getting the same CPU for cost reasons. It’s telling that most years Apple doesn’t claim a speed increase between the Pro and non-Pro models. For example, if I recall correctly the only difference for the iPhone 13 was actually software. Likewise in this generation (16) it feels like the only difference between Pro and non-Pro is the SoC binning and the binning of the quality of the OLED in minor ways.
It's mixed. But even if you stick to older generation chips, someone has to supply them which means someone has to make them. Foreign manufacturing and sourcing is a political and security headache even if you go through the hoops to show a secure supply chain and address all their concerns. I had "cybersecurity" people refuse open source project use because someone in France (an ally) had a commit. Don't let them look at the Linux kernel commits... I wouldn't want to deal with that for hardware.

Also F-35 is not something anyone should aspire to. That system, its software in particular, was a project management disaster. LM went to shifts to try to address being late to complete the software. They literally thought they could double or triple their staff to catch up, idiots had never read The Mythical Man Month apparently.
Looks like you're quite clever actually, if you can get cron to run on a powered off unplugged machine.

I think I'm missing something.
AirPods Pro have replaceable tips, and there are third parties who sell different tips.

Actually the better the tip fits you, the more I'd think you'd take them out once in a while, because a perfect seal means your ears will get sweaty.
Open Ai must be making some mad earnings that are not disclosed. Huge contracts I suppose. Meta was worth $100 billion pre-IPO but they were obviously very profitable and had lots of advertisers. It reminds me of Tesla. During 2020-2021 the stock went up 20x and it seemed irrational and the biggest bubble ever, but fast-forward to 2024 and Tesla cars everywhere especially in the Bay Area. The market correctly anticipated Tesla's popularity.
Aren't most AIs trained on puic data, i.e. this doesn't seem terribly surprising?
Here's the Irish version, for example: https://www.starlink.com/ie/service-plans

Seems to be €72 now for the "Roam – Unlimited" plan, which works within 12 nm from the coast only. It's still an incredibly good deal compared to all other satellite options, and still competitive with some mobile data plans.

Apparently adding offshore data (i.e. beyond 12 nautical miles from the nearest coast) "pay as you go" isn't a thing anymore, so you'll actually need the new "boating" plan for offshore use. Still, the same applies:

Until a couple of years ago, you'd have been paying thousands of dollars for the equipment and hundreds to thousands per Gigabyte transmitted – on top of several hundred a month of baseline fees. And that was for high latency geostationary service.
>Enter share buybacks. This is where the company buys back its own stock on the open market. This reduces supply and hopefully raises the price for remaining shareholders.

Which if stocks come with voting rights means shedding influence of shareholders. You can't say that a buyback is equivalently classed to a dividend (by being a transfer of money to exiting shareholders), if you don't account for the second and higher order effects.
If the service is free, you're the product. Here's a radical idea: if you don't want Facebook to use your information and content, don't post it to Facebook.

... or does everyone around here think anything different is happening to their posts?
OK. So what? What’s your point? Image manipulation existed before the current crop of AI tools and was used politically. No one is surprised by that, “photoshop” is used as a verb.

The issue with AI imagery is not that it creates fake images, but that it does so at an unprecedented scale, easiness, and reach. Faking photos used to require skill and time. Now any schmuck types a few words, clicks a few boxes, and some lie they didn’t put much effort into while scratching their genitals has spread halfway across the globe in a few hours. Try that with a print magazine.
Submit your own comments to the FCC and/or reach out to your legislators.
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Is that supposed to make it sound more powerful or less powerful than it really is?
> I would like to see a future where someone doing sex work to make ends meet

It's better to have a future where people don't have to do SW to make ends meet

A future where more people get forced into sex work because of economic reasons is not desirable. Consider the diseases, conflict with cultural norms, potential for rape and abuse

Sex should be freely given. "Free laborers" aren't freely giving their labor, they're forced to for economic reasons
TubeTime purchased entire stock of ICs from a closing electronics store
I think that this is two different issues.

Foldable — I expect that the attractions of a foldable phone are larger screen that fits into a pocket; better protection for the screen; and the satisfying action of closing to end a call.

Cast to a nearby screen — this is a good idea for any type of phone (or device) but would be limited to the walled garden of your phone manufacturer/software provider.
OK just checking. Nice that you at least acknowledge your bias.
> This only exists to create ewaste and pad the bottom line.

But it obviously reduces the reward for stealing devices, which probably reduces crime? If a thief, given the opportunity to steal my iPhone or an Android phone, takes the Android phone because it’s easier to fence - I’ll gladly give Apple money to be part of that group.
It is interesting to see how models such as o1-preview offer new possibilities, but there are still restrictions to their widespread access. I don't want to pay $20 to just evaluate a model. I'll wait...
Fortunately if legislators and regulators are appropriately financially or politically incentivized, such safety legislation may not be something shareholders need to be concerned about.
Hmm this isn’t something I’ve dealt with before, what kind of sites are you targeting? Wordpress sites? I ask because you mention “div” but are talking about input fields

You would probably use a content script and set world to “MAIN” and search for the contenteditable attribute on first guess
I'd add, in each my Bash scripts I add this line to get the script's current directory:

SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )

This is based on this SA's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-do-i-get-the-d...

I never got why Bash doesn't have a reliable "this file's path" feature and why people always take the current working directory for granted!
IIUC this the cpu in an iPad. The pro/max versions would be more appropriate to compare against the Zen when they are released.
https://archive.is/aGdbX
I'm not talking about the stolen mode here. Don't strawman me.
> regularly run scrubs and check the data

Does this include some kind of built-in hash/checksum system to record e.g. md5 sums of each file and periodically test them? I have a couple of big drives for family media I'd love to protect with a bit more assurance than "the drive did not fail".
We needed a form of facial movement for verification. Initially, we asked users to blink, but found that intentional blinking could feel awkward. Ultimately, we decided on using a smile instead.
Owner here: We are trying to build a social platform for traders where we'll track everything a trader shares, to create more transparency.
I’m yet to monetise an extension (I will soon) so still figuring that out.

In terms of reverse engineer/clones you can get them DMCA’d if they straight up copy your code.

If your extension is complex you can use cloud functions/server-less functions to handle some parts of your extension
In that case, the post clearly identifies the problem:

> Identities are fluid and unstoppable which makes mapping them to a formal unchanging universal character set incompatible.

If you really want to have identity flags encoded in spite of that, you don't really need Unicode's blessing. The pride flag is already not a single character anyway, it's U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308 (white flag -- emoji force -- ZWJ -- rainbow) and you can always create new ZWJ sequences with your own font. Or you can make a font that automatically synthesizes flags from some ZWJ sequence pattern, which is no longer semantically valid but should be much more flexible. Once they got sufficiently popular, there is no other reason that your new ZWJ sequence(s) shouldn't go into Unicode per se.

Unicode's decision to not process non-country flag emoji proposals is because they are closely tied with (minority) groups and Unicode wasn't expected to do any resulting conflict resolution. If you can somehow resolve that problem in advance, then you should probably do that first and propose what you've done.
Reminds me of OpenText, which is basically a software sweatshop with the most closed source ecosystems you could think of
I haven’t run into a case where I need to track credits, but if I had to track a subscription status there are a few ways to do auth - but it is harder in extensions

I usually get users to bring their own api keys etc
Micro the 6502 Journal was really good.

Early issues of BYTE are quite informative

Early COMPUTE! were also a bit more technical

Creative Computing kinda varied a lot but had some great bits in it.
> removing activation lock is an intentionally confusing and misleading process

What leads you to conclude intent?
It's ZFS, so that's built-in. A scrub does precisely that.