skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing is awesome. Low power microcontroller and LCD watch movement coupled with the legendary battle tested Casio cases. Hardware is fully open source and hackable too. Even if you don't want any custom functionality, it's a temperature compensated quartz watch with ~10 seconds per year of accuracy.

I wear mine every day. I've been helping out with the firmware's maintenance too. We recently merged dozens of pull requests. People actually wrote games for this watch, it's insane. The movement software is undergoing a major refactoring in preparation for the new board's release so it should be even better in the future.

Really looking forward to getting the new Pro board and the custom LCD which has more features than the Casio LCD as well as none of the limitations. It's showing hints of becoming a fully custom watch. People have designed and manufactured custom titanium cases. Who knows what the future holds.
> H0(H1(m)) has the security of just H0. Hashes are not made to protect the content of m, but instead made to test the integrity of m. As such, a flaw in H0 will break the security guarantee, no matter how secure H1 is.

But this isn't true for all flaws. For example, even with the collision attacks against SHA-1, I don't think they're even remotely close to enabling a collision for SHA-1(some_other_hash(M)).

Similarly, HMAC-SHA-1 is still considered secure, as it's effectively SHA-1-X(SHA-1-Y(M)), where SHA-1-X and SHA-1-Y are just SHA-1 with different starting states.

So there's some value to be found in nesting hashes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC#Definition
Disagree. There should be no distinction between the two. Those kind of distinctions are what cause unfair advantages. If the information is available to consume, there should be no constraint on who uses it.

Sure you might not like OpenAI, but maybe some other company comes a long and builds the next magical product using information that is freely available.
If the EU decides to build any legislation around SKG, they will give developers ample warning before things go into effect. Apple had years to prepare for USB C. This is still years out. So the answer is: negotiate compatible terms, or don't use the third party library.

This is merely an issue to begin with for companies that are absolutely massive, like Sony or Activision. Smaller developers just don't do stuff like that in general: you download the game and then you have the game.

Since the ask is for a reasonably working game, maybe as a developer in that position you can just cut out the functionality that depends on the library or replace the library with something similar or mock it out or use a static cache of request vs response for all possible requests. The technological possibilities are endless.

It's not like as developers we're these helpless infants who have never solved a problem in our lives. It's a tech problem, tech a solution to it, that's why you're a professional and not bush league.

Ultimately if someone can't figure out how to do their business without scamming people out of ownership then that's a skill issue. If they're not creative enough to figure it out, the business is doomed to begin with. Legislation often has the additional positive effect of ridding the market of people who shouldn't be there to begin with, like food trucks infested with cockroaches and pizza places that use fake cheese.
On a modern Linux system, it’s better to use the CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability instead. Then you don’t need to start the process as root at all.
I’m a privacy advocate but I just can’t pass up the otherwise amazing value of some of the smart tvs that have been released in the last few years, the size you can get for an reasonable price is incredible and for the first time is actually suitable at the viewing distance most people view a tv at. The colour, contrast and brightness is fantastic.

Having said that I added this block list to my router https://github.com/mboutolleau/block-samsung-tv-telemetry
You can add it to a pi hole or to your router of it supports black listed domains.
Sadly I can’t confirm if this blocks all Samsung tv’s shit.
You can also never connect it to the internet and use an apple tv or something over which you don’t have more control.
A single hard drive can be part of a larger fault-tolerant storage cluster, not to mention much more easily duplicated and backed up. The digitization process is key.
I may have been understating the amount I've watched his stuff. I watch a lot of interviews with music artists so I've watched a lot of his interviews over the years. I meant it in the sense that I'm not a fan so don't actively follow his content.

I just watched a compilation as you suggested and I can't say my opinion has changed.

And to be clear, I'm aware this is a me thing. The reason I left the comment is because I know he's popular and people like his stuff, it's just that I don't get it. I guess I wondered to what extent that's just me or if others find his interview style annoying too.
I just use lpr or netcat if I haven't written a printcap on a system.
if you are not running cups browsd some kind of printer auto discovery service you are not affected,

and multiple distros e.g. only start it temporary if you are about to print. So even if you run cups in some cases you also have to actively print for it to be exploitable.
Thanks, got a copy!
There were news reports that Russia spent less than a million dollars on a massive propaganda campaign targeting U.S elections and the American population in general.

Do you think it would be possible before internet, before AI?

Bad actors, poorly written/sourced information, sensationalism etc have always existed. It is nothing new. What is new is the scale, speed and cost of making and spreading poor quality stuff now.

All one needs today is a laptop and an internet connection and a few hours, they can wreak havoc. In the past, you'd need TV or newspapers to spread bad (and good) stuff - they were expensive, time consuming to produce and had limited reach.
Your argument appears to be jumping from (lack of causal associations) to (assumption that causality is in the opposite direction).
Oh, you still code in Visual Basic? Fascinating. May I ask what's the use case and how are you finding coding in VB these days?
His Lydia Lunch interview struck me as particularly acrimonious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92qnnRlQ2w
In my experience it is true, but only for relatively small pieces of a system at the time. LLMs have to be orchestrated by a knowledgeable human operator to build a complete system any larger than a small library.
Copilot is pretty bad compared to cursor with sonnet. I have used Copilot for quite a long time so I can tell.
this is how ptrace works in essence, so if you look in the man pages for that ptrace there's an example. you just ptrace_attach from the parent to the child pid. it couldn't be more straighforward usage of ptrace. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html

long ptrace(enum __ptrace_request op, pid_t pid,
void addr, void data);

. to debug oneself you can try
https://gist.github.com/x64-elf-sh42/83393e319ad8280b8704fbe...

it prints -1 due to some fail, but it cannot attach GDB to it :P

edit 9001: it notes the bash is attached to it which spawned the exe, not sure if that's correct or just buggy btw
There's no such thing. Every company is up for sale, if you have the money.

Rare exceptions are old companies where the founder is still around and rejects deal after deal on pride. OpenAI is nothing like that, as the profit/non-profit drama exemplifies.
The podcast has been amazing. I started reading along at the beginning but couldn't keep up. It's been great to get such an accessible but in depth look into the book. Fascinating look at tactics and strategies for influence and power along with a ton of history of New York. I would highly recommend it.

https://99percentinvisible.org/club/
The question I had is whether the attacker can enumerate known printers, too. Replacement is a lot more damaging if they don’t have to discover the name of your default printer first.

The interaction question is complicated because there are three modes: the most damaging is when the attacker can trigger the exploit directly, since that’s where we start seeing worms and other untargeted attacks. The next level is where the attacker can exploit something the user normally does - hence the question about default printer replacement since that is something the user has done many times before and thinks of as safe. The lowest level of risk would be if they need to get you to click on a different printer: still bad but nowhere near as easy to exploit on a large scale.
Yes, but up until now it's been (very) rare. At least for games.

I fear that companies will view a change like this as a door opening wider to remove digital content as they please. Or perhaps worse, only offer strictly time-limited access with a "well, you're getting exactly what you asked for" view of it.
I'm in a job now where I am stuck in a chair for eight hours. I wish I could go for a walk.

Even my other non-work activities after suffered because I am mentally numb at the end of the day. My health is noticeably poorer.

I used to go to the time gym a few times a week but as I got older gym life always is like a 20-something bar dating scene it felt alien and annoying to me.

I have gone for a few bike rides on the weekends and that alone has helped I can feel it. But overall I'm am not even maintaining my health over the year. Summertime I can be active outside and weekends but the winter is the worst for no activity and more calories.
I'm running a 4090 at 280W, and I'm seeing ~96% of the performance of 450W. There's no need to run it at full power.
I can confirm WordPress felt like it was fundamentally flawed in 2009, yet it amazingly continues to grow in market share.

I think they’ve succeeded by staying stable with minimal large changes for 20 years and maintaining strong backward compatibility. Meanwhile the rest of the web chases the latest technology cycles, where everything needs to be redone every 5 years because there’s a new way to do things.

The developers who make WordPress understand and are pretty empathetic to their audience / user base, and don’t expect them to put in much work to install and maintain their website.

Other technologies seem to almost intentionally create backwards compatibilities in order to set user expectations that, yes you need to put in work to continue use our framework.
> PC gaming was always a niche market relative to the consoles, and it will probably remain so.

The difference is not that huge though. Supposedly 43:57 by revenue:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-pc-vs-console-g...

According to other stats:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/292460/video-game-consum....

PC is even bigger.

And this is by revenue, I would guess that on average PC games might be significantly cheaper? Meaning that more people actually play them.

Or it might just be skewed by some highly addictive/competitive in Asia etc. (where IIRC console gaming was never that big outside of Japan).
> Train one great model (i.e. Claude 3.5) and you can get much more than $80/month worth out of it

Until the competition outcompetes you with their new model and you have to train a new superior one, because you have no moat. Which happens what, around every month or two?

> the hardware is getting much better and prices will fall drastically once there is a bit of a saturation of the market or another company starts putting out hardware that can compete with NVIDIA

Where is the hardware that can compete with NVIDIA going to come from? And if they don't have competition, which they don't, why would they bring down prices?
Thanks ahaha
>and now I'm here ruining it further!

Come on, let's finish it all the way.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontExplainTheJo...
Marina Hyde has a wicked sense of humour...
1M AI Models on Hugging Face
Question: there is a million models on hugging face. Is there any work being done on merging models. So someone without a giant server farm, could take multiple other models, and merge them.
Many such similar stories, except where the crutch is alcohol. Back to the original question, would you propose banning alcohol as well?
> We can no longer assume that a book is legit simply because it looks legit.

The problem is that this has been an issue for a long time. My first interactions with the internet in the 90s came along with the warning "don't automatically trust what you read on the internet".

I was speaking to a librarian the other day who teaches incoming freshman how to use LLMs. What was shocking to me is that the librarian said a majority of the kids trust what the computer says by default. Not just LLMs, but generally what they read. That's such a huge shift from my generation. Maybe LLM education will shift people back toward skepticism - unlikely, but I can hope.
> (or, well, heh, intended profit; of course all LLM-based enterprises are currently massively loss-making, and may remain so forever)

This undermines your own point.

Also, open source models exist.
I'm right there with you. I write short and medium form articles for my personal site (link in bio, follow it or don't, the world keeps spinning either way). I will never use AI as part of this craft. If that hampers my output, or puts me at a disadvantage compared to the competition, or changes the opinion others have of me, I really don't care.
> You're editing a file (or parts of different files) and are focusing on say 5 methods that are interacting. I want to see all of them on the screen at the same time, without having to struggle to open and manage many windows with for example VS horizontal/vertical sliders.

I think that is, why editors like emacs and vi are really popular.

- Data conversion. So I created a HashSet for something but realize I need to change it to a Dictionary or a Tuple, just make it happen. If it requires brainwork then show me all the places that requires supervision where I have to say ok or make an edit myself.

How different would that be from changing the type and editing all the places the compiler complains about?
Reading a bit their LRS wiki made me think that it's another case of a perhaps very good programmer but with some kind of mental disorder, which certainly modify how I would approach their software (trustworthiness, long term evolution and support...).
Exactly, his weirdo vibe works because he pairs it with an incredible love for music and respect for the artists he speaks to. I think Drake said it best in the hourlong interview they have together, along the lines of "I don't do interviews because most people want to catch me slipping up and find some dramatic quote to drag me with, but with Nardwuar it's 100% about the music, that's why we're here"

Best example of this is probably the first Pharrell interview. This was before Nardwuar was famous at all, outside of Canada anyway, so Pharrell wouldn't have heard of him, and Pharrell spends the first part of the interview obviously a little weirded out at the goofy-looking guy in front of him and probably wondering why his manager booked this for him in the first place. About five minutes later Pharrell says "This is one of the most impressive interviews I've ever been a part of" and as mentioned in the OP article immediately calls Jay-Z and says hey you gotta talk to this Nardwuar guy.
Your use of “only cause” was the first in this discussion.

Lots of people get sued for lots of things. Nowhere does it say that suits can succeed only if the defendant is the sole cause of the problem. See: Takata air bags. Huge liability, but in any given incident it wouldn’t be a problem unless someone else caused an accident. Yet Takata does not get to say “or defective product wouldn’t have been a problem if Mr. Doofus hadn’t rear-ended you”

Binary is great for computers, less good in legal thinking.
Copyright is too long. It's impressive but a waste of talent for people to reverse engineer what should be publicly available source code.
I saw someone who used two humongous, external watercooling radiators to cool both their GPU and CPU. Apparently these are now available to buy.
Once, only once, my blog got me hired. It was a lifestyle blog that I kept while working a non-tech job. The editor of a local newspaper followed it actively and I had no idea. I got fired from my job and posted about it. The editor saw the post and reached out a few days later. I interviewed and was offered me a full-time tech job a week later.

On a side note, I have a photography site that I have rebuilt many times since 1998. Each time I experimented with new design approaches and the underlying tech. Those experiments served as learning experiments I put on my resume. Multiple times I have been hired for languages or frameworks I only learned from using in my photography website.
Race realism died long ago when education mattered far most than genetics, at least on behaviour.

- African tribe culture not used to give playtime/talk to kids when they are babies: behavioural problems raise at adulthood.

- Western world used to it, no matter the class or money: potentially good adulthood.

The problem is that the wealthy class didn't like to have educated citizens in Africa; but a brute workforce, like donkeys, to get nearly free raw goods.
From the hip, maybe something like "UPDATE DRYRUN ...". It'd report how many rows would be updated.

Or... "DRYRUN UPDATE ...", which is more like "EXPLAIN UPDATE..."

Thoughts?
It is not just the corporations though. This is what this paranoid, puritanical society we live in wants.

What is more ridiculous than filtering out nudity in art?

It reminds me of taking my 12 year old niece to a major art gallery for the first time. Her main question was why is everyone naked?

It is equal to filtering out heartbreak from music because it is a negative emotion and you must be kept "safe" from negativity for mental health reasons.

The crowd does get what they want in this system though. While I agree with you, we are quite in the minority I am afraid.
PostCSS Canadian Stylesheets
Also should mention that it's MIT licensed, not MIT software.

But a cool program nonetheless!
OP could have been more substantive, but there is no contradiction between "current AI tools are sincerely useful" and "overinflated claims about the supposed intelligence of these tools will lead to an AI winter." I am quite confident both are true about LLMs.

I use Scheme a lot, but the 1970s MIT AI folks' contention that LISPs encapsulate the core of human symbolic reasoning is clearly ridiculous to 2020s readers: LISP is an excellent tool for symbolic manipulation and it has no intelligence whatsoever even compared to a jellyfish[1], since it cannot learn.

GPTs are a bit more complicated: they do learn, and transformer ANNs seem meaningfully more intelligent than jellyfish or C. elegans, which apparently lack "attention mechanisms" and, like word2vec, cannot form bidirectional associations. Yet Claude-3.5 and GPT-4o are still unable to form plans, have no notions of causality, cannot form consistent world models[2] and plainly don't understand what numbers actually mean, despite their (misleading) successes in symbolic mathematics. Mice and pigeons do have these cognitive abilities, and I don't think it's because God seeded their brains with millions of synthetic math problems.

It seems to me that transformer ANNs are, at any reasonable energy scale, much dumber than any bird or mammal, and maybe dumber than all vertebrates. There's a huge chunk we are missing. And I believe what fuels AI boom/bust cycles are claims that certain AI is almost as intelligent as a human and we just need a bit more compute and elbow grease to push us over the edge. If AI investors, researchers, and executives had a better grasp of reality - "LISP is as intelligent as a sponge", "GPT is as intelligent as a web-spinning spider, but dumber than a jumping spider" - then there would be no winter, just a realization that spring might take 100 years. Instead we see CS PhDs deluding themselves with Asimov fairy tales.

[1] Jellyfish don't have brains but their nerve nets are capable of Pavlovian conditioning - i.e., learning.

[2] I know about that Othello study. It is dishonest. Unlike those authors, when I say "world model" I mean "world."
No mentioning of the energy requirements. I can see they are using artificial light exclusively. I am certain they will not be economically competitive on the markets.
Three things that get me about current AI discourse:

- The public focus on AGI is almost a distraction. By the time we get to AGI highly-specialised models will have taken jobs from huge swaths of the population, SWE and CS are already in play.

- That AI will need to carry out every task a role does to replace it. I see this a lot on HN. What if SWEs get 50% more efficient and they fire half? That's still a gigantic economic impact. Even at the current state of the art this is plausible.

- The notion that everyone laid off above will find new employment from the opportunities AI creates. Perhaps it's just a gap in my knowledge. What opportunities are so large they'll make up for the economies we're starting to see? I understand the inverting population pyramid in the Western world helps this some also (more retirees/less workers).
> Why buy stakes and not the whole thing

To give less reasons for people and governments to accuse them of monopolistic behaviour. Maybe. Wild speculations from my end.
It's unknown yet, but the main point is that the inputs don't matter, as long as the output does not replicate the full content, it is fine.
there's nothing inherently wrong with recreational drug use
Because some people keep asserting that LLM’s “don’t count as stealing” and “how come search links are on but got reciting paywalled NYT articles on demand is bad??” Without so much as a hint of irony.

LLM tech is pretty cool.

Would be a lot cooler if its existence wasn’t predicted on the wholesale theft of everyone’s stuff, immediately followed by denial of theft, poisoning the well, and massively profiting off it.
Actually it has gotten worse because our software abstractions have become a lot more complex.
Dude is the king of incels. What I see is a lot of "I'm lonely" on the page, but at the same time he lives out in the woods and has the kind of personality that made this page. Dude would probably benefit greatly from some dude taking him under his wing and getting him cleaned up inside and out, but that is a huge task for anybody to consider. This guy is really far gone at this point.
An electric kettle boils water in 2 minutes. This GPU will be on for hours.
Well, he’s not their direct customer.
You haven't used Humble Bundle lately have you? They increased their minimums on the bundle and increased their required cut. Now, did they do this because they are hurting for money or for greed? I don't know.
That suggests you don't understand what git-absorb does. git-absorb takes a pattern of good habits and makes one part of it faster and easier.
Yeah the low effort / gratuitous ones (either AI or stock) are jarring.

I sometimes put up the hero image on my blog posts if I feel it makes sense, for example: https://blog.senko.net/learn-ai (stock photo, ai-generated or none if I don't have an idea for a visualization that adds to the content)
Although presently at least it's still quite obvious when something is written by AI.
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