skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're the foremost expert on cephalopods with decades of experience in the field yet can't be bothered to spend 10-15 minutes to scan the study. Got it.

Love how you keep capitalizing cephalopod like you just copy pasted it off a google search to get the proper spelling :P

Remember kids. Animals in captivity always behave exactly as they do in the wild. Also every individual is exactly the same so you never see any variation in behaviour regardless of inhabiting a wide range across multiple oceans.
I know this isn't the point of your comment and that a pair of Converse aren't an ergonomic marvel, but I do a lot of bushwalking and I prefer not to have prominent arch support in shoes and boots. I've found that it tends to interfere with the plantar fascia.

A lot of cheaper boots have these huge foam wedges that ram into your arch. I've got a pair of Keen boots that cause crippling pain after about 5km that I should throw out, and a pair of Merrell walking shoes that are only comfortable because I swapped the insole. Meanwhile, more expensive boots have limited arch support that's less intrusive.

While it depends on foot shape, I'd rather walk longer distances in a shitty pair of Converse than an equally shitty pair of shoes which advertise arch support.
I don't think you can really get away from noise, zfs writes to disk every 5 seconds pretty much all the time...
90% of everything is crap. Perhaps AI will make that 99% in the future. OTOH, maybe AI will slowly convert that 90% into 70% crap & 20% okay. As long as more stuff that I find good gets created, regardless of the percentage of crap I have to sift through, I'm down.
What you’ve described does indeed sound scandalous irrespective of its scope.
> What made you think that is measurable and if it is then we can build something like that ever?

What makes you think it isn't, and that we can't? The Turing test was proposed 75 years ago, and we have many cognitive tests today which current gen AI also passes. So we clearly have ways of measuring intelligence by whatever criteria we deem important. Even if those measurements are flawed, and we can agree that current AI systems don't truly understand anything but are just regurgitation machines, this doesn't matter for practical purposes. The appearance of intelligence can be as useful as actual intelligence in many situations. Humans know this well.

Yes, I read the article. There's nothing novel about saying that current ML tech is bad at outliers, and showcasing hallucinations. We can argue about whether the current approaches will lead to AGI or not, but that is beside the point I was making originally, which you keep ignoring.

Again, the point is: if we can build AI that mimics biological intelligence it won't matter that it's not biological. And a sidenote of: even if we're not 100% there, it can still be very useful.
Writing Code for the RG35XX H
The best iPhone of all times!

Same category of headline...
Altman wants to escape OpenAI’s research roots to focus on shipping products. Anyone that disagrees will get pushed out. Honestly, it’s impressive he’s consolidated his power this effectively - very Stalin esque. It seems going forward he’s going to have complete control.
Smoking, in many countries, is no longer aggressively advertised (if it's advertised at all).

Gambling in some of those same countries is now very aggressively advertised.
Only true if the punishment for both is the same.

If they come forward they should be punished more lightly, but if not at all it only encourage "we'll just apologize latter" sort of thinking.
"The way we discover interesting websites needs innovating, why not let anyone contribute to any webpage?"

I remember there was a website that did this in 1999, using frames to allow people to post comments on any website. The courts shot this down as an illegal infringement of trademark. Does anyone remember the name of that website that did this?
The link you gave does not support your claims about Waymo, it's just speculation.

What "critical" intervention rate are you talking about? What network magically supports the required low latencies to remotely respond to an imminent accident?

How does your theory square with events like https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-waymo-robotaxis-f... that required a service team to physically go and deal with the stuck cars, rather than just dealing with them via some giant remotely intervening team that's managed to scale to 10x rides in a year? (Hundreds of thousands per month absolutely.)

Sure, there's no doubt a lot of human oversight going on still, probably "remote interventions" of all sorts (but not tele-operating) that include things like humans marking off areas of a map to avoid and pushing out the update for the fleet, the company is run by humans... But to say they aren't particularly autonomous is deeply wrong.

I would be interested if you can dig up some old skeptics, plural, saying probably centuries. May take centuries, sure, I've seen such takes, they were usually backed by an assumption that getting all the way there requires full AGI and that'll take who knows how long. It's worth noticing that a lot of such tasks assumed to be "AGI-complete" have been falling lately. It's helpful to be focused on capabilities, not vague "what even is intelligence" philosophizing.

Your parenthetical seems pretty irrelevant. First, models work outside their training sets. Second, these companies test such scenarios all the time. You'll even note in the link I shared that Waymo cars were at the time programmed to not enter the freeway without a human behind the wheel, because they were still doing testing. And it's not like "live test on the freeway with a human backup" is the first step in testing strategy, either.
Court dates can be a long time after the initial arrest. Some people have been held months to years in pre-court jail, even after they've been cleared of any wrong doing, because they can't afford the release fee. But even a few days could lose you your job, your kids if you're a single parent, your car or housing if you miss a payment, etc.
As an interesting aside, the US measures hunger not by metrics of starvation, but by metrics of "feeling hungry and not being able to quench that sensation". They call this "food insecurity".

So you end up with a whole bunch of poor overweight people who need 4500 cals a day to sustain their mass, reporting that they have a hard time sustaining their diet. Obesity is a huge problem in lower income demographics, the same demographics that report high food insecurity.
Our legislators don't seem very interested in consumer rights and protections anymore, so I'm not terribly interested in their copyright laws.
Looks like the PiEEG.com spammer is back with a new account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Christiangmer.

Measure 32 signals from brain with shield PiEEG -32 for Raspberry Pi (pieeg.com)
2 points by Christiangmer 3 minutes ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671113

A Novel Tiny Open-Source Board BioRon_EEG for Dry Active Electrode (researchgate.net)
13 points by Christiangmer 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639809

A Novel super Tiny Open-Source active device for EEG for everyone (preprints.org)
5 points by Christiangmer 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636120

Free brain computer interface from PiEEG for cool idea in neuroscience (pieeg.com)
14 points by Christiangmer 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612336

[dead] Free brain computer interface from PiEEG from cool idea in neuroscience (github.com/pieeg-club)
1 point by Christiangmer 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612332

Easy eliminate noise during EEG measurement (pieeg.com)
3 points by Christiangmer 9 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41574166

PiEEG-16 measures 16 channels of biodata on a Raspberry Pi PiDay Raspberry_Pi (adafruit.com)
1 point by Christiangmer 13 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538726

If you follow the history, https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pieeg.com it leads to a bunch of other dummy accounts posting nothing but PiEEG related links. It's really high effort spam. Anybody want to send an email to @dang?
The contract reporters are also personally liable for what they submit. So there is absolutely zero incentive to risk going deep on a topic, let alone investigate anything.
And yet having lived in the London area for almost 7 years now (previously born in NZ):

In New Zealand I saw large vehicles like utes and defenders doing actual jobs on the terrain that they were built for. The only SUVs that I really saw were out in the wops where they wanted a dual purpose vehicle or the time I saw Saudis laughably trying to drive a 1.5 lane width full-size hummer in central Auckland.

Whereas in London, YoY since I moved here I only see more SUVs clogging the narrow roads. No pop-up headlights on a sports car for me, because they'd endanger pedestrians! But a 2 tonne defender with a brick wall of a front is perfectly fine! Not only that but it seems like >20-30% of the vehicles on the road are SUVs and are usually driven by a single occupant!

It's honestly think it's a sign of the times and of the direction our futures are going. The dystopian novels were real.
Great. So he's well-motivated to dig up and publicize hitherto-unknown (or barely-known) shenanigans from Forbes etc al, and he knows where to look.

If he wasn't going to investigate this, who would? CNN? USA Today?
Having it unregulated as fuck was, I can go bet anywhere anytime and get drunk there too. It should be way more serious, then people wouldn't go there to chill.
> Razor blades are 100% locked up, the electronics sections is more or less for show

Ok, but both of those things have been behind cases for a decade+. I remember needing to get an associate to get a Nintendo 64 game from the cabinet at Toys-R-Us. I'm talking about the recent push to put darn near everything in cabinets, not the highest risk things. Cabinets so pervasive you can't even buy socks or Tylenol or toothpaste without getting an associate. Walmart and Target stores where there are turnstiles to get in and out of the store. CVS/Walgreens locations where practically every isle is locked cabinets. I'm talking about the recent push to put far more stuff in cabinets. I don't think you've seen the kinds of stores these people here are actually talking about if you're thinking razorblades in cabinets are the epitome of what people here are complaining about.

> they may believe they're preventing shop lifting, but they're not.

> No, they think "this will prevent shoplifting" - and it does.

So they aren't preventing shoplifting with the cabinets, but the cabinets prevent shoplifting. The mental dissonance here is astounding.

> a lot of this is 100% their own fault.

Blaming the victim here. If they didn't want their stuff stolen they wouldn't have made it so easy to steal!
Would you consider incorporating the AT protocol into it? It would be nice if every reader had their own moderation filter, like a web of links, but-bluesky-ified.
To what extent should society protect people from themselves?
For many years, the official guidance on the trademark has explicitly been that WP was not the trademark and people should use that instead of WordPress. Tons and tons of people use WP in their businesses, domains, product names, etc.
You suggest that I get my news from a place that vehemently pushes flat earth videos to me because I happened to watch a video laughing at them?

YouTube has an extreme bias to pushing conspiracy theory content.
When he said this was he imagining an "elderly but distinguished scientist" who is riding an insanely inflated bubble of hype and a bajillion dollars of VC backing that incentivize him to make these claims?
Maggie Smith, beloved 'Downton Abbey' and 'Harry Potter' star, dead at 89
You can also have a special metadata only/ small files dedicated special VDEV. ZFS can pull of many tricks if you configure it well. Of course, the L2ARC is better, if you don't trust the caching device that much (e.g. only have a single SSD).
> 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.

I think that previous generations were not any different. For most people, trusting is the default mode and you need to learn to distrust a source. I know many people who still have not learned that about the internet in general. These are often older people. They believe insane things just because there exists a nicely looking website claiming that thing.
To add a high level context, Islam forbids gambling and interest bearing loans (Riba) because they're considered taking people's money unjustly.
Allah says in the Quran:
"O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful." 5:90
"...But Allah has permitted trade [buying and selling] and has forbidden interest..." 2:275
The assumption has been that Telegram provided significantly more access to Russia years ago, as it remains unblocked (with channels even run by the government), and Pavel Durov wasn't arrested when he visited Russia after laws were passed that would apply to Telegram but he claims they were refusing to follow.
I forgot about taht game, I loved it.

source for the rest:

https://codeberg.org/badsector/PetraEngine
My real wake-up call was the introductory class in my data science master's program. We spent a whole week learning about all the clever tricks Harrah's data scientists found to keep people in the gambling halls. The course's instructor really lionized Harrah's for doing this, and loved to talk about how much profit it made for the company.

For my part, I was horrified. I couldn't find a way to see some of these tricks the use as anything but a form of highly evolved confidence artistry. Legal con artistry, sure. But a legal scam is still a scam. Even if the people getting scammed never wise to the scam, it's still a scam.

The arguments about tax revenues and suchlike don't make me feel any better about it. All I see in their success is a demonstration that a great many people will happily turn a blind eye to abusive behavior if they believe they can materially benefit from doing so. And, of course, they never do, anyway. The promises of professional con artists that our communities will benefit if we grant them imprimatur for their operations turned out to also be a scam. Con artists pulling a con; quelle surprise!
So for YouTube I haven't been able to find quality reporting for the most part (outside of an occasional niche issue).

For X my experience is that it's essentially impossible for me to vet personal accounts that people have. Also it runs into the issue where everything is just anecdotal so it's easy to get an inaccurate picture from that sort of information. This is without even getting into the huge problem with bots and even state level disinfo on X (and social media in general). Not that I don't use it at all, it's just not trustworthy or accurate for most things.

Edit: not that "mainstream media" doesn't have some of these issues. It's just not as bad as some of these other sources and it's much easier to get a sense for specific organizations than trying to understand the bias and veracity of a myriad of YouTubers and random people on X. Like it's much easier to understand the biases and issues of Reuters than a bunch of YouTubers and random people on X so for basic information I will go to places like Reuters first.

Edit2: for issues with YouTubers you have to remember they make money through engagement (and real news is less engaging). I think this is a lot of what's killed traditional media so I doubt YouTube, which is if anything more tied to this, is unlikely to be better. Then also look at the recent Tenet Media scandal. Like yeah I get some news from YouTubers but it's a real minefield when it comes to good information.
The penalties would undoubtedly been much higher if they didn't disclose it. Of course, perhaps it never would have been discovered, but whistleblower protections/incentives and high enough penalties for covering up issues can set the right balance.

It's similar to just about any other violation, really: if I injure someone accidentally—even through negligence—I'm going to get a much more lenient punishment if I don't try to cover it up or run away from it.
> "Every news site has advertising sections"

Ahem, bbc.co.uk/news * *?

* Note, not bbc.com ;-)

* Also, editorially, BBC News has also gone a little downhill in recent times. But it's all relative.
I think we agree. I hate it, and I can't stop it, but also I definitely won't participate in it.
I've never heard of Wordpress.org banning any legitimate WordPress site from accessing their plugins and themes repository. It would have made zero business sense for WP Engine to prepare for being banned like this.
We can’t compare AI with an expert. There’s going to be little value there. AI is about as capable as your average college grad in any subject.

What makes AI revolutionary is what it does for the novice. They can produce results they normally couldn’t. That’s huge.

A guy with no development experience can produce working non-trivial software. And in a fraction of the time your average junior could.

And this phenomenon happens across domains. All of a sudden the bottom of the skill pool is 10x more productive. That’s major.
Perhaps it's not ruining sports, it's just forcing us to confront the emptiness of sports.
The imaginary crime of money laundering. If the underlying activity is a crime, we already have laws to deal with that. Why is any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering? Why does making any tool that help law abiding citizens have financial privacy, also guilty of money laundering?

Of course, now that most people have bought into money laundering, the goal posts are now getting moved that any attempt at privacy can be considered illegal.

You use or provide a messaging service that has unbreakable privacy - we'll make this a crime too!

Why should it be illegal to use a crypto tumbler/mixer service?

Oh because some people use it for crimes.

Then arrest the CEOs of gun companies, because guns can be used to commit crimes!
My the most fruitful approach is to wall myself off anything which wastes my cognitive ability. No smartphone except of regular calls, no websites with animations, no any books or articles which contains some words I consider as "bad". Less attention to dull people. Appreciate when your brain suddenly remembers for you something unexpected like the fact which was sitting here for tens of years without any use before you have remembered it successfully, any time I meet this I think deeply about how is it possible to remember anything for so long. Living without any mood disturbances is my top priority.
This looks fantastic. Can't wait to get a printed version.

Anybody have further suggestions for books about games I should own?
It’s nothing to do with trusting in terms of being true or false, but whatever I read before I felt like, well, it can be good or bad, I can judge it, but whatever it is, somebody wrote it. It’s their work. Now when I read something I just have absolutely no idea whether the person wrote it, how much percent did they write it, or how much they even had to think before publishing it. Anyone can simply publish a perfectly well-written piece of text about any topic whatsoever, and I just can’t wrap my head around why, but it feels like a complete waste of time to read anything. Like… it’s all just garbage, I don’t know.
End-of-Life Notice for OBiTALK
It's like you let the kids play with fire but then you make sure to have the first aid kits ready.
I still like it. Even if it is flawed I totally agree that the web could be so much more than social networks. Where to start?
AI Chatbots Could Become Cybercriminals' Latest Weapon
I agree with you.

He's conflating memory safety with languages that provide memory safety (by which I think he means Rust, as that's another thing listed in his "disliked" things list) - that's what I feel is the dumbest about this. For me, this seems like the most of his code is riddled with use-after-free, double-free, not freeing etc. bugs. He may be intelligent, but if his intelligence goes to no use (besides making random C side projects..), it is not worth it. Also he claims he was a member of Mensa, no comment on that one.
FWIW, my team is me and maaaybe 30% of another guy, but point noted. :-)
> They should pay up and submit to extortion and the whims of one guy

Not necessarily, just saying that "extract only, never give back" has some inherent risk as a strategy. It could piss people off or it could dry up the well.
But that's the problem. Unique, quirky mannerisms become polished out. Flaws are smoothed and over sharpened.

I'm personally not as gloomy about it as the parent comments but I fear it's a trend that pushes towards a samey, mass-produced style in all writing.

Eventually there will be a counter culture and backlash to it and then equilibrium in quality content but it's probably here to stay for anything where cost is a major factor.
I don’t use Google, but I used to pay for Apple News.

Apple uses algorithmic ranking by story, and pays news sites by article views. It is basically all spam. If you block the spam sites, their stories still show up in your feed with a note that you blocked the site.

Instead, they should let people structure their feeds by news organization, like podcast apps do. They should steer you back to reading the sources you’ve opted into, and mix in a bit of stories from related news organizations, not stories with high content similarity, or high “trending” scores.

(As far as I know, Apple News+ is the only product still operating in the paid news aggregator space, but if there’s another one, I’d love to hear about it.)
If I go to an online store and buy a paperback, they will mail me a copy of it that I may keep for the rest of my life. I can read it 100 times if I want to.

Before this law, I could go through that exact process to get a e-book, but then they could come back later and revoke my ability to read the e-book that I “bought”.

Those two cannot use the same word. They are not the same class of transaction. The latter is more like a rental or lease. They both live behind a “buy” button, though.

If I’m told I’m buying an e-book, and the seller later steals it from me by making it unreadable, I have no qualms about obtaining a replacement copy through other channels. I already paid for it; I’m going to have and enjoy it.
I wouldn't recommend combining those two. It's only begging for problems.
Reminds me when used to redirect or/and replace images on sites in cafés with zANTI.
This is not a cleaning process (in the sense of "removing dirt"). One way to create PCBs is to use a board with a copper surface, put a protective mask on the locations that should have traces or pads and then etch away copper from everwhere (else). In the end, only copper under the protective mask will remain. Etching is faster when the solution is moved around during the process. This machine does exactly that.
> Or just scrub the board with a bit of ferric chloride and a sponge.

If you use ink pen and transfer pads like I did decades ago, the sponge would almost certainly wipe the pads off. The best way that I'm aware of to ensure the copper is being consistently covered by the solution is to use an air pump to produce bubbles under it. Those used in aquariums are quite cheap and durable.