skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raindrop is not a new app. I've been using it for about five years now.

It's a solo developer project by one guy in Kazakhstan, which makes it all the more impressive. It has a great browser extension, a great desktop app (Electron-based, but very well done), and a great iOS mobile app (no idea about Android). It's also been under active development since I started using it.

One of its best features is its app, which allows you to browse your bookmarks in a split pane.

I've only checked out the AI feature now, since you mentioned it. I'm not a fan of pointless AI features that get added to apps, but this one is actually useful! It suggests places your bookmarks should be moved to. I had a bunch of stuff in an "Unsorted" folder, and it actually made really accurate suggestions for where they should be moved, and it also suggested moving some stuff I had miscategorized or where I had a more specific folder it could be in.
My point is that while the sums might be "not real money", the costs of stiffing researchers is even moreso "not real money", so that it makes sense on the margin to do it, whenever the situation isn't incredibly clear-cut.

After all, it's not like Apple goes around handing out free iPhones on the street, even though a few thousand units are similarly "not real money". Businesses care about small effects on the margin.
How do I know when a user has finished interacting with Accounts­Settings­Pane?
This study looked at water contamination:

https://www.ri.se/sites/default/files/2020-12/FRIC%20D1.2-20...

> Environmental impacts - electrical vehicles

> • Water analyses of selected metals relevant for batteries in electric vehicles did not show any lithium, and only low concentrations of cobalt.

> • This indicates that batteries in electric vehicles did not contribute to pollution of nearby water resources.
> for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought.

Which makes it sound like they really don't want it to become public what the model is 'thinking'

The internal chain of thought steps might contain things that would be problematic to the company if activists or politicians found out that the company's model was saying them.

Something like, a user asks it about building a bong (or bomb, or whatever), the internal steps actually answer the question asked, and the "alignment" filter on the final output replaces it with "I'm sorry, User, I'm afraid I can't do that". And if someone shared those internal steps with the wrong activists, the company would get all the negative attention they're trying to avoid by censoring the final output.
it's possible, we'll see. certainly the stigma is much less now than it was 40 years ago in the vhs age

also most of the camgirls i know in real life block access to people who live in the same country as they (and i) do; that greatly reduces the chance of awkward dialogues with long-distant uncles at the next family reunion
> If for cloud we intend VPS, well, I expect next to zero issues, because someone else computer "origin" and "destination" are essentially the same.

Hardly.

Cloud is cloud because there's a lot that happens outside the VPS.

Autoscaling, monitoring, networking, security, etc.
It's a mixed bag, of course. But it really makes me wonder: before the advent of writing, what would it have been like to think about an event that happened 80 years ago--outside just about everyone's living memory? It seems like those events would already have begun to recede into the age of myth! You might not even have a great sense of exactly how long ago it was.

On the other hand, thanks to the invention of writing, we have a chance at having at least some reliable knowledge about how people lived thousands of years ago, across the world. (I assume your comment is at least partially tongue in cheek. But I take your point that, just because writing gives us incredible ability to make records and to learn about the past does not mean people will use it.)
My maternal grandparents were both born in Greece. I looked into getting Greek citizenship and it appeared like I could have done so, however I was turned off by the mandatory military service which does not have an age limit. Perhaps relaxing the military requirement and providing a path to citizenship would help reverse the population collapse?
Are you saying the terrain is more gravel/sand than solid rock?
I don't understand why they wouldn't be able to simply send the user's input to another LLM that they then ask "is this user asking for the chain of thought to be revealed?", and if not, then go about business as usual.
I believe Yudkowsky has put forth a theory that somewhere in our environment there is a "GLP Supercharger" that's causing the opposite effect of the GLP-1 agonists.

If a lizard bite can make you thinner, maybe there's a metaphorical lizard bite that's making us fatter.
This is not correct. There are three companies formed from the splitting up of GE that all do serious engineering. GE Aviation, GE Vernova (power), and GE Healthcare.
There are competing "safe C++ syntax" projects being advocated by people on WG21 (as well as some members who seem to be opposed to any memory or concurrency safety tools beyond guidelines and linters). It's going to be up an uphill fight for any of them to gain traction, but at least some people are putting in the effort.
The thing that saved the computer industry after the dot bomb was:

1) Broadband. A lot of the 90s business models that didn't work out at the time did work out a few years later as people got faster internet and

2) A little bit later there were smart phones.

The problem I see now is we need some other big thing to come along that would make a lot of business models that didn't work before suddenly start working. We haven't had any big platform shift since smart phones and the industry is now entering into a "maturation state." Kinda like aerospace in the 80s/90s after SST didn't work out and everything became about getting another 3-5% efficiency at mach 0.81 every decade.

I added more thoughts here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41495082
When you say "GPS" what do you mean? Offline maps? or do you mean tracking the location of the device (and kid)?
Fascinating stuff! It reminds me a little of chaos theory. The average person probably wouldn't expect to find structure in chaos, but that's exactly what we have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feigenbaum_constants

And now physicists are finding structure in LLMs.
We are talking about more than the current law here. We're talking about what the law should be, based on what people see as right. And I'd add that Facebook is doing a lot more here than just quietly having a copy of something.
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That's a great idea. Authorizing any kind of physical change should be a default security measures.
Sure, but I don't think civit.ai leans into the "novel/powerful/dangerous" element in its marketing. It just seems to showcase the convenience and sharing factor of its service.
Highly recommend any of the interviews or podcasts Eduard Habsburg has done. He seems very pleasant and reasonable. the author's tone is typical of what writers must do to get published these days, and it makes me wonder how some people would justify themselves without nobility or goodness as a foil.

take away what Habsburg recommends (family, religion, ownership, traditional values that built a dynasty, etc) and what are you left with as far as advice for a good life? middling status eating disorders and yoni sunning from what i can tell. it's good to take advice from people who win, and his family has been in that business for quite some time. it's probably worth a listen.
The breville barista line is what you're looking for.
Maybe you can use the new css @layers to box it in.
Thank you for this write up. As someone who has loved actually doing the mod, and using the machine afterword (hardware and espresso novice for the most part), I’ve felt like I am taking crazy pills following along as an open source maintainer in the past. The weaponizing of CC-NC is wild to me, though I think it might be coming a bit from the 3D printing STL sharing community.

It just all makes my heart hurt. It is a great accessible DIY project with amazing results, but just with insane baggage.
// You can't hold a patent to a cartoon drawing of a mouse //
No, cartoons are protected by copyright, not by patents. And if I'm not mistaken, the original comment which wondered if a general vibe could be intellectual property was talking about something which would be protected by copyright as well.

But the same principle holds for patents. E.g. patenting an algorithm. It doesn't matter what language the algorithm is implemented in, whether you are running it on a binary computer or on some kind of a Chinese room set up, etc etc.

Think about how different two turing machines can be which implement the same algorithm. They don't even have to use the same symbols or states. They could print their outputs in English, French or any other natural language. The only thing that all Turing machines which implement the same algorithm have in common is a "vibe". Same kind of general vibe which the original commenter was talking about.
For my personal projects - Inside my CapRover managed cluster of services, all on the cheapest Hetzner VPS. At work it's AWS RDS.
Ask HN: What product could have only been made with LLM
LLM has been a boon for productivity of a lot of developer, but I have yet to see a radicaly novel product that could have only been made with LLM, do you have any example?
Okay, but that doesn't change how the Internet works.

Encouraging people to be ethical isn't actually a real way to prevent people copying photos you put up online.
In the context of certain YouTube communities - a couple of examples I'm aware of are synthtube or watchtube - "content" is also an advertising term for advertising, since this is really what many of the demo or "review" videos are.

People hawking products on Instagram, TikTok, or wherever fall into the same category. The reality is that the whole influencer industry is pretty much just hawking products and services to people.
Joke's on you - my wages are already stagnate.
> “Speed was the most important thing,” said Jeff Gardner, a senior user experience designer at CrowdStrike who said he was laid off in January 2023 after two years at the company. “Quality control was not really part of our process or our conversation.”

This type of article - built upon disgruntled former employees - is worth about as much as the apology GrubHub gift card.

Look, I think just as poorly about CrowdStrike as anyone else out there... but you can find someone to say anything, especially when they have an axe to grind and a chance at some spotlight. Not to mention this guy was a designer and wouldn't be involved in QC anyway.

> Of the 24 former employees who spoke to Semafor, 10 said they were laid off or fired and 14 said they left on their own. One was at the company as recently as this summer. Three former employees disagreed with the accounts of the others. Joey Victorino, who spent a year at the company before leaving in 2023, said CrowdStrike was “meticulous about everything it was doing.”

So basically we have nothing.
> If the attacker-specified file already exists, then the specified file will be saved with the name “PoC.txt-2”. However, if the event/attachment sent by the attacker is later deleted the file with the original name (PoC.txt) will be removed. This vulnerability can be used to remove existing files from the filesystem (inside the filesystem “sandbox”).

That's bad engineering.
Does an ageing decreasing population matter with coming influx of the robots? What will the impact be on countries like Greece, Japan, and even China?
Simplistically, yes, obviously true.

But how does this theory explain why people lose weight on semaglutide?
Or, without the safety prompts, it outputs stuff that would be a PR nightmare.

Like, if someone asked it to explain differing violent crime rates in America based on race and one of the pathways the CoT takes is that black people are more murderous than white people. Even if the specific reasoning is abandoned later, it would still be ugly.
Ambivalence
Sure, if your threat model is 1 incident per 100,000 days (274 years), your analogy holds.

274 years ago to Present time includes a lot of European wars. Claude AI gives me the following:

7 years war, Napoleonic wars, Crimean war, Franco-Prussian war, WWI, WWII, Ukraine-Russia

So I would argue that your analogy is built on bad data and isn't exactly useful for real world.
in most cases, i don't think the social ramifications to worry about are 'your family finds out' but rather 'obsessed fan won't stop calling you', 'companies decline to interview you for a non-porn job', or 'cute guy turns out to have enough of a hangup about your past sex work to not date you' (which apparently doesn't necessarily imply he's not relationship material, though i'd think it ought to)
They are! The graphics for video games are just a series of matrix multiplications. Before it can get shown to the screen, the graphics are a bunch of triangles, represented by matrices, and in order to do anything in game, those matrices need to be multiplied in order to move them around in 3d space, before getting rendered out to the screen. Making computers better at matrix math means better rendering for video games.
Bunnie bought the cards from Kingston directly, in its original packaging (trays).

Cards were subpar at best, counterfeit at worst. Kingston exchanged them no questions asked after some pressing.

Delidding the cards revealed different components and construction.

So no, buying directly from the manufacturer brought no advantages or guarantees.

Regardless of the packaging and purchasing channel, I’ll only trust my own test. Nothing else.
Isn't the problem with that analogy that there are things like NURBS which are pretty directly analogous to vectors (and isn't a surface a boundary?)

Edit: Along with the fact that blender has a lot of non destructive workflow steps (that usually get baked out into the "bitmap", to further your analogy)
It was shown in the RCA that their QA processes were shit
I share your distaste for "content". To me the word speaks of a lack of interest, understanding, or even respect, for what creators are making.

To some extent it does serve a useful purpose in that it makes it clear that it is in fact the ads that are the main event on these platforms, and that the "content" is merely a palatable delivery mechanism for adverts... which is a pretty depressing realisation.
There's a bit of a difference between producing the laptop that can connect to the internet and creating a web site with information on how to kill someone.
What, are YOU working on the next-gen screen reader that we need to hear about?

If the web were semantic, as it was initially promised to be, then we wouldn't be having a lot of these issues. But alas, the web has mostly been about display without a care about machines being able to read and comprehend its content.

Now we have a celebratory post from a person happy they were able to dodge the bullet of making their site accessible to their disabled customers. Think about that. Take all the time you need.
> And of course, no story about natural resonant frequencies can pass without a reference to the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940.¹

Yes it can because it turns out it wasn't an issue with resonant frequencies & it's just promulgating an incorrect (but catchy) story.

> Just four months later, under the right wind conditions, the bridge was driven at its resonant frequency, causing it to oscillate and twist uncontrollably. After undulating for over an hour, the middle section collapsed, and the bridge was destroyed. It was a testimony to the power of resonance, and has been used as a classic example in physics and engineering classes across the country ever since. Unfortunately, the story is a complete myth.

> You can calculate what the resonant frequency of the bridge would be, and there was nothing driving at that frequency. All you had was a sustained, strong wind. In fact, the bridge itself wasn't undulating at its resonant frequency at all!

I recommend reading the article but the long & short is it's something called "flutter" and they even have a video of the problem.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/05/24/scie...
Apple moved everyone to a "new to the user" OS. Sorry if that wasn't clear. It's irrelevant that OS-X was based on some other OS. To every user of OS-9 it was a new OS for them. Effectively Apple got all of their users to switch OSes. Microsoft should do the same.
On the other other hand, it had the perfect recall of the collective knowledge of mankind at its metaphorical fingertips.
Boeing Starliner astronauts speak out after capsule leaves without them
From that page:

> From Annapurna Interactive, ...

Sounds like it's the same group. I doubt they're leaving with the IP but I also doubt that Annapurna Productions is going to make a game with it.
Not if the (true) purpose of having the bounty program is simply PR, rather than an honest desire to find and fix bugs.
If things like this goes on your fighting a losing battle.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Wait what? How has his family been winning for quite some time?
With tech giants there's really no win win, only 1 win. They win either way. So why bother?
Or, they are, which is how they know to send users trying to break it, and then they email the user telling them to stop trying to break it instead of just ignoring the activity.

Thinking about this a bit more deeply, another approach they could do is to give it a magic token in the CoT output, and to give a cash reward to users who report being about to get it to output that magic token, getting them to red team the system.
And all I'm saying is that, you probably need a different example of what "reasoning" is, because the one you gave is something that Claude is seemingly able to do.
I got Anybox[0] with the lifetime subscription (40$) and have been happy with it (Only for Apple devices unfortunately)

I can choose to automatically download a web archive when I bookmark. Also has a trial version. Can be a bit overwhelming to set things up. But works seamlessly once done.

[0] https://anybox.app/
That's interesting, and funny I was just thinking that it was the NURBS stuff that reminds me of the surface modeling in programs like fusion.
That would be the best news cycle of the whole boom
Yes. This is the consolidation/monopoly attack vector that makes OpenAI anything but.

They're the MSFT of the AI era. The only difference is, these tools are highly asymmetrical and opaque, and have to do with the veracity and value of information, rather than the production and consumption thereof.
Smaller services but not necessarily more binaries.

The current direction I think is to build composable services that could be run together or separately.

Where a service is a logical grouping of an RPC interface.

Here is some public work in this direction from Google

https://serviceweaver.dev/
You mean like taking a Chromecast and putting it into "Apps only mode"? :)

It's a setting right there.
This is what I think it is. I would assume that's the power of train of thought. Being able to go down the rabbit hole and then backtrack when an error or inconsistency is found. They might just not want people to see the "bad" paths it takes on the way.
Oo I love a terminological discussion, well said! I would disagree on your first point though: aren’t most large machines modular monoliths? Say, cars, airplanes, and dams? I absolutely agree that this usage kinda erases the original intent of the word “monolith” in a software context, though. Or at least complicates it greatly…

Personally, I’m putting all my money on cognitive, and the terms that go along with it - say, social, agential, discursive, and conversational. Not to forget the deeper cuts from philosophy of mind (the precursor to CS!), such as dialectic (a highly-mutable data structure with holistic modification functions?), architectonic (code-generators built in to the very “top” of a system, breaking it down into a binary tree of generated-code-facilitated subsections?), and striated vs smooth systems (describes the level of obstruction/complication present in each?).

Ultimately my takeaway from this article is that absolutes (namely, microservices) rarely work in real world architecture contexts. When looked at in those general terms, I think we have little choice but to start treating software like minds to be “shaped” or “sculpted”, to use Minsky’s preferred terminology. After all,

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. I believe further that no useful purpose is served by concealing these beliefs.

- Alan Turing, 1950’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence
The name "OpenAI" is a contraction since they don't seem "open" in any way. The only way I see "open" applying is "open for business."
You’re the one who keeps talking about calories.

It’s my mistake. The OP was maybe going on a tangent, then you have yours and I entered out of left field with mine. Too much talking past each other.
Look I agree with your war effort comment. That simply isn't what the GP is saying though, so my comments are addressing something else entirely.
If you're worried about three letter agencies you're really out of luck. Tampering at the factory is the least of your problems. The more tinfoil conspiracies include backdoors in processor hypervisors and possibly in silicon itself. Or possibly even backdoors in common crypto algorithms, like the defaults we use for elliptic curves. If you want paranoia levels of protection from everything you're going to need to break out VHDL and write your own cpu to run your bespoke crypto algorithms on.
Some years ago I was mildly invested in the idea of finding 'strong dollar destinations' (locations where due to exchange rates and other economic factors the US Dollar was very performant), and using this research to weight vacation decisions that my wife and I made.

I recall that Greece was one of these locations. (Unfortunately we haven't been there yet.)

Can anyone here shed some more light on the friendliness of the locals in Greece towards (relatively) monied western vacationers? In other words, are people generally happy to welcome visitors, or are the visitors viewed as part of the problem (via, e.g. AirBnB driving up local housing costs, etc)? I know that a lot of how you're received anywhere depends on how you act, so assume that the visitor is a well-behaved westerner whom is interested in embracing the local culture and customs.
Ok good luck
Honestly, Apple is a 3.5 trillion dollar company. If the bug bounty program is understaffed then it's an intentional choice and they should fix it. And I say that as someone who's generally sympathetic to Apple.
It seems like the best AI models are increasingly just combinations of writings of various people thrown together. Like they hired a few hundred professors, journalists and writers to work with the model and create material for it, so you just get various combinations of their contributions. It's very telling that this model, for instance, is extraordinarily good at STEM related queries, but much worse (and worse even in comparison to GPT4) than English composition, probably because the former is where the money is to be made, in automating away essentially almost all engineering jobs.
> On the other hand this thing got 83% on a test I got 47% on

Easy to do when it can memorize the answers in its training data and didn't get drunk while reviewing the textbook (that last part might just be me).