skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really would have expected an app like iA to not depend on either Google or Apple's sync - because both suck in their own rights. iCloud is just technically inferior by the way - I mean most of the time it's a coin toss on whether and how it works even for their own usage like iCloud Tabs, iCloud Messages and Photos and what not.

As of now I try to avoid any app that is married to either Google (drive or whatever is the latest there) or Apple (iCloud) sync. Because my experience with these has been really inferior. Anyway that means I have to either use a Google a/c which I do not use anymore for personal needs or iCloud which is clearly inferior.

Imho it's better to offer an e2ee custom server wherever you can (preferably on top of some open standard/spec). I am past "but I would rather trust robustness of Google and Apple's backend" after these 3-4 years.

And I can completely relate to the pain of supporting all those Android models and their sub-models and their sub-sub-models. It used to be a real nightmare when I had to deal with that.

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Having said - I have felt the might of these big companies in a very small way recently. My Play Store account (which I kept for learning/testing purposes - sharing apps among friends etc) was terminated even though I fulfilled the criteria 2 days before the last date. No refund was provided either because I could not find out how to add a bank account and they didn't share even though I had asked them 3 weeks in advance for that info. I would ask "how to add a bank account" and they would reply with the same text "… please add a bank account for refund…" and I would again immediately reply asking "..but how the hell I can add a bank account - there is no info on this in your docs and whatever I could find doesn't even apply because I can't see those settings in the first place"… and they would respond with the exact same text again and again and again. I checked - I was indeed communicating with humans.

After the last day I received the final response: "…was deleted..requirement... T&C.. and there will be no further response". That was it.
Unfortunately, a 1070 TI will struggle a bit even without VR. It is 7 years old at this point.
No it's more like, with the direction of company there are lots of unhappy people - but this gave them the right opportunity (and optics) to leave (now they don't need to justify leaving this corp to their friend)
They may be advocating for that, but I'm not against them doing so because it gives the rest of us the opportunity to present the arguments against it.

I take this view lately because I've noticed that younger generations are starting to take up ideas that my grandparents and parents were vehemently against, because they'd either experienced those things or they'd listened to the arguments. As those people die out, and because we naively think that some argument are settled once and for all, we stop presenting them and thus, people get sucked in by the bad stuff.

So I say let them say it, and let us argue back and never forget what we find from these arguments.
Surely at this point your average pdf viewer is sandboxed to hell and back? (Eg your browser).

If I wanted to run JS in someone’s browser I don’t need a pdf to do it.
Recently, there have been scam Android apps in India that request access to users’ contact lists. These apps then blackmail users by threatening to send deepfake videos to their contacts, falsely accusing them of heinous acts like rape.

Tragically, some individuals have even committed suicide due to this blackmail(1). So dozens of people have actually killed themselves because they mistakenly gave a permission on their phone.. just let that sink in.

Google is in a difficult position. On one hand, they need to protect user data with strict security measures. On the other hand, these measures can be seen as overly restrictive. It’s a delicate balance, and unfortunately, there’s no easy solution.

(1) https://www.thequint.com/news/india/bbc-chinese-loan-app-doc...
On unexpected nice feature of the GC is it makes compile time function execution easy, as the engine for it doesn't have to emulate your custom storage allocator.
Altman is basically a younger Elon. He failed to build his own company Loopt, already has disturbing allegations against him from a family member who I absolutely believe, and lied under oath.

I expect grand promises, nothing delivered, and a personal enrichment agenda that harnesses a cult of idiots while ruthlessly silencing/bankrupting critics.
> I don't see any reason to doubt she worded it herself.

Because ... that's not how these things are done in high-profile companies.

I myself have done the job of writing PR for executives, and at a vastly lower-profile startup than OpenAI.
Rendering _and streaming_ is already a problem at jet speeds.

Given that you can jump to any point in the planet, I don't think it's a high priority for them.
I think he also wrote an implementation of a tcl-like language called Jim.
I would rather they require the stores to sell the software not just change the wording for the existing BS.

Changing the wording to “license” just encourages “seasonal” licenses and no single payment option.
Not sure if you're arguing against common packaging systems still in wide use, or arguing for more modern packaging systems (arch, nix, docker, flatpak, snaps etc). The latter will all "win" on their merits at some point and become fat and lazy themselves as they evolve and grow, or fail to gain marketshare and wither. For now the fat lazy ones hold the lion's share, they are what Enterprise customers are used to dealing with, because those companies prefer reliable, predictable and boring. Obviously you can use whatever you want in your startup, 95% might be here now but probably gone tomorrow.
(I could be wrong) I think there is an argument for a critical mass of where explicit policy gave way to more of a doom loop - as people then flee due to declining services and amenities caused by policy driven white flight.

Feel free to disagree.
I am an SpinRite customer. I primarily purchased a copy to support Steve Gibson because I enjoy his SecurityNow podcast. I didn’t care or expect much from the tool.

I have experienced SpinRite improving the read time on some older SSDs I own. However, it’s rather difficult to get to run on newer hardware, though I believe Steve is working to or has made that a better experience in 6.1. I had to take drives out of a EFI-based machine to one that still had BIOS compatibility for success.
Right? Like if you run with the argument that people are making then we can't give people a life sentence because they may die in jail when they're innocent.
It’s not incoherent. It’s a rule that could be made and adhered to for a project.

It’s not possible for GPL projects to restrict the code this way, but the peripheral assets like trademarks, servers, conference slots, board seats, core contributor status could be restricted.
I don't think anyone would argue that lawyers shouldn't get paid for their time, but in many cases their rates are excessive. When people's rights and freedom are at risk the cost should never be a barrier that most people can't afford to clear.
Yeah, they added that a long time ago, but it's not at all the same as built-in support. My experience was trying out fragile third-party projects with little or no documentation. The whole point of using Tcl/Tk for writing a GUI was the convenience.

Things may have changed over time. I no longer pay attention. Maybe I'll give it another try.
Two's complement being in the standard is overrated and for the most part doesn't really make much about the language better.
> what's the difference in having a random death lottery?

Due process?
In the long run, in many cases, it probably would be cheaper. It's just that the incentive structures between the long-term health and executives are not aligned .
You're acting like 99% of humans aren't very much dependent on that same scaffolding. Humans spend 12+ years in school, their brains being hammered with the exact rules of math, grammar, and syntax. To perform our jobs, we often consult documentation or other people performing the same task. Only after much extensive, deep thought can we extrapolate usefully beyond our training set.

LLM's do have memory and thought. I've invented a few somewhat unusual games, described it to Sonnet 3.5 and it reproduces it in code almost perfectly. Likewise its memory has been scaling. Just a couple years ago context windows were 8000 tokens maximum, now they're reaching the millions.

I feel like you're approaching all these capabilities with a myopic viewpoint, then playing semantic judo to obfuscate the nature of these increases as "not counting" since they can be vaguely mapped to something that has a negative connotation.

>A lot of people don't even consider the ability to solve problems to be a reliable indicator of intelligence

That's a very bold statement, as lots of smart people have said that the very definition of intelligence is the ability to solve problems. If fear of the effectiveness of LLM's in behaving genuinely intelligently leads you to making extreme sweeping claims on what intelligence doesn't count as, then you're forcing yourself into a smaller and smaller corner as AI SOTA capabilities predictably increase month after month.
There are many more countries enforcing some limitations on the internet, and ECH will just turn passive DPI into active court orders, I believe. At least explictness is better.
I always write the where first. It's kinda like thinking in RPN or postfix. I put the parts in out of order in a way that prioritizes the minimization of error.

But this is stupid. These are computers, we can make whatever we want. Executing a delete or update should, if one desires, not have to be database knifeplay.
Imagine GTA on that map. Wondering how many years away are we from this.
We already see mass censorship of legal speech via centralization and deplatforming, particularly via Cloudflare (which continues to happily host CSAM, animal SAM, and various other genuinely illegal websites). It is the unfortunate reality that the Internet will become various internets.
That's fine, and in exchange we get significantly more tax revenue and close a gaping tax avoidance loophole. If taxing profit was a good proxy for business activity companies would use it when making their pricing tiers. But they don't. They use revenue and headcount because profit can
and is gamed. I can't deduct my expenses on my own taxes and the world didn't end.
It's hilarious that this should surprise anyone at all, or that Sam Altman is anything but a mendacious, self-serving, compulsive liar of the worst tech world kind. For example, Elon Musk gets lots fo hate for all kinds of things. Some of it is very valid, but much of it also goes to the point of there being derangement syndrome around him, partly (I suspect) because of his openly stated zeitgeist-contrary political beliefs, yet i'd pick his sometimes crude, bullying but fundamental openness about who he is any day over the shiny paint job of platitudes and false correctness found in someone like Altman. Not to mention that the overall value of Musk's companies trumps anything I've seen done by Altman's sludge-pumping AI technology so far. This last is of course not a moral judgement but a practical one.
On human lifetime timescales much of life is very much so a zero sum game.

Only the exceedingly privileged cannot grasp this fact of life. Academic bubble theories don’t help a generation of rust belt manufacturing workers, but it sure as hell made a whole lot of other folks rich at their direct expense.

The same academics are happy to talk about income inequality while ignoring the elephant in the room.

Ignoring this fact is exactly how we’ve gotten to where we are today. Politicians have only just begun to exploit this blind spot so many seem to have.

I have directly benefited from this fact and have done quite well for myself. But it’s so obvious I can’t believe it’s even an argument. Comparative advantage may help their grandchildren, but it doesn’t help the 49 year old machinist with no realistic job opportunities and bills to pay after the executives ship the plant off to Mexico or China. I personally watched it happen.
Stripe was founded when Sam Altman was 25. Loopt, Sam's first company, was founded when Sam was 20, and was Sam's mechanism for meeting Paul Graham, so this story is pretty obviously wrong at some level.
There is already the shared source model.

What people call things is a marketing phenomenon. You can complain all you want.. and you should.
Correct, you already half name it. I'd call it image processing with pattern recognition
It’s almost comically familiar. A ratings agency (Demotech) favourably rates small insurers so their policies can be used to sell mortgages to Fannie & Freddie.

If a big storm hits the insurers collapse, borrowers default and Fannie & Freddie have a mess on their hands. The only missing piece is a depository institution (or someone levered by one) with a bunch of Florida mortgages with Demotech-rated insurance, but I’m sure that’s squirreled away somewhere in Florida’s financial system. No doubt each of the small insurers, Demotech, and the mortgage originators will be incredibly sorry about the state of affairs, an apology they will have to regrettably deliver from a yacht moored off Saint Croix.
IIRC SpaceMobile showed direct-to-cell satellite communication recently with 5g. Still to be seen if they or someone else (SpaceX?) can make it work large scale.
Wait, if I train octopuses to click ads on my website, it's not ad fraud, is it? They're not bots...
That's been my strategy with photos for the last couple of decades. I don't bother organizing them, figuring ML/image classification will do the trick eventually.

I'll probably never bother, but it has saved me the time of organizing it.

(Apple does let me search based on its object classification, and I have searched for tag that came on my apple tree based on a word that appears on it, so I guess that strategy has worked somewhat.)
It's naive to think this is a technical problem. Someone powerful at Starlink does not mind Russia using its tech. More than that, a lot of US allies, even NATO members, supply Russia with dual use tech even now and the White House cannot do much about it. The United States does not have that much power in the world as we used to think.
You have to consider that eating meat or not is not matter of life and death for an animal. It's a matter of either living and then being killed, or not being born at all. When people don't eat meat, farmers don't breed the animals.

Now, you still might think that not being born at all is a better alternative, of course. I'm only pointing out it's a different dilemma.
Getgud.io is able to autonomously model a game's physics, from server side data that all FPS or MOBA multiplayer servers already have (events such as player position, attack, damage, heal, spawn, death, etc.) and by leveraging AI, observe every in-match player movement and behavior, detecting things like aimbot, aim snaps, speed hacks, rapid fire etc.

As an example, Getgud.io creates detailed weapon specs, such as kill-cone, rate of fire, effective range, spread, and more. When these parameters are breached, the cheater is detected.

We also tackle more elusive behaviors like player snaps, linear movements, wall hack, wall pass, speed hacks and aim anomalies. If a human can detect suspicious play, our algorithms can too - often catching things even experienced players might miss.
Yet some creatures have many more than two eyes. Spiders, for example.
Presumably you need to monitor the situation and require that there's a significant enough amount of interdependence.

The issue with China is that they don't need the US as much as the US needs them.
I hoard interesting digital media a bit since stuff does disappear from the Internet, but don't hoard anything physical. Takes up too much space.
I have to say that I love these images. I love the earth images, the AI enhancements are cool, but above all I love the actual designs themselves. For me these designs are supreme examples of human creativity.
the 'ol going to Mars bait and switch
I'm baffled by Tesla's approach to this.

There are two ways cars currently do automatic wipers.

One way uses a very clever, simple, cheap but very effective sensor. Technology Connections did an episode [1] a few months ago on these sensors. The electronics in it are just a couple infrared LEDs and infrared photodiodes.

The other way is to use a camera, such as the camera you already have for your driver assist functions, and try to use computer vision software to figure out how much rain there is.

Pretty much everyone except Tesla uses the first way. Tesla uses the second way.

What baffles me is that of the three options they might have pursued:

1. Use a rain sensor like the ones everyone else uses,

2. Use a camera and computer vision software which doesn't work as well, and

3. Do not have automatic wipers,

it seems to be that #2 is the worst option. Automatic wipers aren't really needed. Once you get used to where the controls are and how they work on a car without automatic wipers adjusting your wipers for the current conditions becomes one of those things you do completely unconsciously.

So if my next car, like my current car, does not have automatic wipers it is not going to bother me.

But if it has them and the don't work well, that very likely will annoy me, at least until I get tired of having to manually intervene and turn auto mode off or until manual intervention becomes something that I do unconsciously and so forget about them. In either case I end up back in a situation equivalent to a car that doesn't have automatic wipers, but with a lower opinion of my car maker.

Thus this seems like a feature that the car company is better off not doing unless theirs will be as good as what everyone else has which currently means using the IR LED/photodiode sensor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLm7Q92xMjQ
Summary:

Real estate properties in Florida are increasingly at risk due to climate change.

Established insurers ran their numbers and noped out of Florida quickly.

New low-quality insurers came in and filled the vacuum.

Established rating agencies looked at the new low-quality insurers and came to the conclusion that they are trash.

New low-quality rating agencies came in and declared those new low-quality insurers to be a-ok.

Lenders, fearful of being left holding the bag (from climate losses that are likely to bring down the low-quality insurers), sold mortgages in Florida to Freddie Mac and Fannie May (i.e., the GSEs, which are financial institutions that purchase mortgages en masse and implicitly backed by the US Government).

Freddie Mac and Fannie May bought those mortgages because the properties are insured by (low-quality) insurers declared a-ok by (low-quality) rating agencies.

As is usually the case, the government will be left holding the bag.
A fair point, although nmap does list results as "closed", "open" or "open/filtered".

Which can be ambiguous if the port is open or firewalled.

However, if the nmap reports that port is "closed," it most likely is:

Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-09-26 20:02 EDT
Nmap scan report for [host] (localip)
Host is up (0.00084s latency).

PORT STATE SERVICE
631/udp closed ipp

I'd add that GP specifically requested an nmap command.

All that said, you're absolutely correct and if nmap returns something like this:

Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-09-26 20:04 EDT
Nmap scan report for [host] (localip)
Host is up (0.00058s latency).

PORT STATE SERVICE
631/udp open|filtered ipp

then further poking could be required, as you suggest.

I would point out that cups-browsed isn't really necessary unless you desire to have printers automatically added without any user interaction. Which is poor opsec in any situation.

If we're talking about a corporate environment, adding printers can be automated without cups-browsed, and at home or in the wild (cafes, public wifi, etc.) that's an unacceptable (at least from my perspective) risk and printers (if needed in such an unsecured environment) should be explicitly added by the user, with manual checks to ensure it's the correct device.

As such, rather than checking to see if cups-browsed is running unsecured, simply check to see if it's installed:

Debian and variants:

'sudo apt list --installed | grep cups-browsed'

RedHat/Fedora and variants:

'sudo rpm -a -q | grep cups-browsed'

And if it is, remove it.

Edit: fixed typo.
The amount of spectrum the US military "owns" in the United States is absurd and needs to be adjusted - and at this point the excuses for why they can't vacate are making them look geriatric

Yet another reminder. What happens when you have organizations that aren't beholden to outside pressure
the openai team, including the tech community, should've sided with the board, not sam. the fact that ilya had a hand in it should've given it weight and backing.

"openai is nothing without its people." well, the key people left. soon, it will just be sam and his sycophants.
Maybe that's the goal. By creating the Kia Boyz situation, through omission of proven controls used in other countries, we created a nice conduit for more draconian measures.
When MS Flight Simulator 2020 came out, I wrote a blog post about how these kinds of virtual worlds will be used to train our robot helpers. I'm looking forward to playing this new one. https://medium.com/@jmugan/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-i...
> the revisionist Chinese and Russians

Or perhaps "revanchist", meaning that they want to conquer some territory they believe (or at least pretend) used to be theirs.
I don't think that's true, doesn't the file picker have recent files in it?

> Or open the last file the user was editing as it may have been edited elsewhere.

When is this a particular use case? Auto open a file I opened elsewhere?
Doesn't Cloudflare decrypt and MITM all traffic? In that case they can snoop on everything.
> but if you think they're general intelligence in the same way humans have general intelligence (even disregarding agency, learning, etc.), that's a you problem.

How is it a me problem? The idea of these models being intelligent is shared with a large number of researchers and engineers in the field. Such is clearly evident when you can ask o1 some random completely novel question about a hypothetical scenario and it gets the implication you're trying to make with it very well.

I feel that simultaneously praising their abilities while claiming that they still aren't intelligent "in the way humans are" is just obscure semantic judo meant to stake an unfalsifiable claim. There will always be somewhat of a difference between large neural networks and human brains, but the significance of the difference is a subjective opinion depending on what you're focusing on. I think it's much more important to focus on the realm of "useful, hard things that are unique to intelligent systems and their ability to understand the world" is more important than "Possesses the special kind of intelligence that only humans have".
>Deng Xiaoping in the 80s marks a stark ideological change that transformed China to the core. Who is the last US president one can say that of?

Possibly George W. Bush. His disastrous illegal invasion of Iraq marks the point, I think, where America really started going down the tubes.
As a Russian, I agree in the part that it seems extremely unlikely our government would even think about doing something like this. (Wikipedia says it started explicitly in 1990’s RuNet though, which I am inclined to believe.)
Am I missing something or can I just write such library in a language with RAII or ARC (Nim, Swift) memory management? I don't understand why Rust people believe Rust is the only option.