skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in a zero shot approach. But LLMs are more than capable of solving a similar scenario to the one presented:

- Parse all papers you want to audit

- Extract images (non AI)

- Diff images (non AI)

- Pull captions / related text near each image (LLM)

- For each image > 99% similarity, use LLM to classify if conclusions are different (i.e. highly_similar, similar, highly_dissimilar).

Then aggregate the results. It wouldn't prove fraud, but could definitely highlight areas for review. i.e. "This chart was used in 5 different papers with dissimilar conclusions"
I hope I'll still be alive when they'll announce AlephZero.
Update on Recall security and privacy architecture
Types of Investor Misbehavior
Can anyone provide a time where Sam did not come off as a slimy imposter instead of the tech visionary he would like us all to believe? Literally everything I have read on him dating back years makes him seem like a clueless buffoon who is only in it for the money. Being silver tongued, connected and cunning can make you a lot more money a lot easier than being competent and honest.
To save cost and avoid faulty code in the 60s, IBM created the 'Black Team' (2015)
Since AGI isn't here yet, the eventual implementation that breaks through might be based on different technology; for example, if it turns out to need quantum computing, investing lots of money to build out current fabs might turn out useless.
I don’t mind it in small doses and trust the community to vote appropriately.

Even the Wall Street Journal has lighthearted “A-hed” articles, which have occupied valuable space on their front page for 83 years and counting.
It's important to remember that the pressures involved are very different. The ISS pressure vessels only have to hold 1atm in, and not several atmospheres out.
I've run a reading group for distributed systems for the last 2 years now and I do think that Raft is a better introduction to Consensus than any Paxos paper I have seen (I mean the Paxos Made Simple paper literally has bugs in it). But when I learned consensus in school, we used Paxos and Multi-Paxos and I do believe that there was a lot to be gained by learning both approaches.

Heidi Howard has several amazing papers about how the differences between Raft and Multi-Paxos are very surface level and that Raft's key contribution is its presentation as well as being a more "complete" presentation since there are so many fragmented different presentations of Multi-Paxos.

As a bonus, one of my favorite papers I have read recently is Compartmentalized Paxos: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p2203-whittaker.pdf which is just a brilliant piece on how to scale Multi-Paxos
I guess I’m thinking of somebody like myself, like I’ve known forever the prudent thing to do is disable JavaScript on my browser wherever possible. But I didn’t know PDFs had a built in scripting language until a couple years ago, I mostly use PDF for papers, where this isn’t as relevant.
There has to be some implied period of time for which it's fully usable.

No sane court is going to uphold an adhesion contract where someone pays $100 for a substantially multiplayer game (e.g. not Portal 1) yet the publisher is allowed to disable servers required for the game's multiplayer operation a week later because they cost money to maintain and the userbase hasn't hit targets.
I don’t see why you think this can’t work when the current system has only been in place for the last decade. The majority of things pre-2010 were all “fixed”. If anything, quality has only decreased since then, because companies know they can release the absolute bare minimum, and only have to invest as much as it takes to get the majority of buyers to stop having the energy to complain about it. If that were a fixed game instead, putting in that bare minimum would be a one time event, after which no one would buy from them again.
I think the comment about the kid liking the puddle the best at the zoo is the best comment I have read on HN in the past decade.

90% of HN is off topic drivel, pointless ranting , overall tired and unoriginal, when it’s not flat out wrong. I include most of my contributions in these 90%. Genuinely interesting contributions are then few and far between amongst the 10% which actually desserve to exist. If it’s quality you seek, you can close your account right now and go do something useful with your time instead.

At least, this post is soulful and happy.
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It can go beyond the 100% loss if you leverage.
I have always taken both Taiwanese and TSMC culture to be fairly reserved. So if you see language like "podcasting bro" slipping out, it really means something like "fcking bullsht con artist".
No one is renting a game for $70/month.
Yes! Both are valuable, and sometimes you need to iterate between and within each. Like if the conceptual components are mutually recursive (A is defined in terms of B, B in terms of A (SOLR anybody?)), skimming the docs can give you a "pencil sketch" level model, examples can flesh out the relationships between components, and re-visiting the docs with extra context can provide a more precise model.
Add social media to that list
Am aware, but it seems to have come from a place that was more similar to earth than Mars'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/venus-could-have-b... and other articles make that case. I don't know if that's still current information (heard it a while ago and just looked up a random article as reference now, so this might be akin to cherry picking or confirmation bias), I'm not an expert on this particular topic, but that claim is what I had in mind when saying Venus' conditions are more attainable for earth

Blurb from that article

> Venus was downright Earth-like for 2 to 3 billion years and didn't turn into the violent no-man's land we know today until 700 million years ago.
> Why can't you go to a retail store, buy an anonymous prepaid debit card for cash and then use it to make purchases over the internet

Because when this is made available in practice like 99% of the volume is tied to crime. 99% of users aren't criminals. But criminals use it at scale in a way that dwarfs licit activity. (Without tracking how much each person is using it, you can't cut off the scale users.)
A rice cooker is one of those inexpensive but life-changing items.
> But people expect updates and changes.

This entitled attitude is part of the problem. A game can’t simply be shipped and done anymore. It means the quality can slip, because “we’ll patch it after we ship.” It also means the author has to continue development indefinitely, which means they’re also never done.
Authority and Responsibility – By Kent Beck
The news industry was always a low profit business even in the best times, so one should ask why it is so interesting for powerful people. The answer is the same in the past as it is today, it just takes a little of critical thinking to understand.
There is a tremendous opportunity in bridging the gap between Can be automated and Isn't automated due to technical/cost/time limitation. GPT's are perfect for this.

There are so many things that can be automated out there that currently aren't. Other industries are extremely manual and process driven still. Many here tend to underestimate this.

Some programmers here will argue it's error prone or creating technical debt but most people don't care, if it works it works, one can worry about it breaking in 5 years time after its saved you considerably time and money.
Humans being humans
Banks are incredibly resistant to change. I've heard of projects costing several tens of millions of euros being abandoned because the estimated number of calls to customer service following a change of habit would have been too high.
In that case one can disable it until it is patched assuming there isn't a udev rule that re-enables it. I stay clear of systemd these days so I don't know.
Yes.

In the crypto example, the backend would have to be sophisticated enough to know when the same addresses would be accessed every time, like bitslicing in AES. [1]

The devil absolutely is in the details. This is why I say Yao's capabilities on this front are unproven.

[1]: https://www.bearssl.org/constanttime.html#constant-time-in-b...
This sort of behavior is only going to worsen in the coming decades as academics become more desperate. It's a prisoner's dilemma: if everyone is exaggerating their results you have to as well or you will be fired. It's even more dire for the thousands of visa students.

The situation is similar to the "Market for lemons" in cars: if the market is polluted with lemons (fake papers), you are disincentivized to publish a plum (real results), since no one can tell it's not faked. You are instead incentivized to take a plum straight to industry and not disseminate it at all. Pharma companies are already known to closely guard their most promising data/results.

Similar to the lemon market in cars, I think the only solution is government regulation. In fact, it would be a lot easier than passing lemon laws since most labs already get their funding from the government! Prior retractions should have significant negative impact on grant scores. This would not only incentivize labs, but would also incentivize institutions to hire clean scientists since they have higher grant earning potential.
not sure what makes this "news" but it did give me some nostalgia in the "Getting Started" page:

> Now you are ready to start the installation procedure. When installing to the bare computer, put the CD-ROM in the drive, close the door and shut the computer down.
Detecting images and data that's reused in different places has nothing to do with novelty.
You can outfit an adult life with all of the useful manufactured objects that would reasonably improve it for a not-very-impressive sum. Beyond that it's just clutter (going for quantity) or moving into the lifestyle/taste/social-signaling domain anyway (going for quality). There is just not an unlimited amount of alpha in making physical things. The social/thought/experiential domain is a much bigger opportunity.
I remember having to implement partial file locking in Minix as an assignment in college. Good times,
Idk, I think "rent" and "license" have different meanings. Modern definitions of "rent" include periodicity into the definition, which is at odds with the "one time until we shut off the servers" definition. I agree with the GP on the terminology for these reasons.
"most fraudsters are not evil people, they just follow the incentives and almost non-existent disincentives"

Maybe I'm too idealistic but why does following incentives with no regard for secondary consequences not evil?
It's an odd world where we willingly trade dozens or hundreds of dollars for a couple hours of entertainment (golf, amusement parks, movies, dinner out, bars, vacation) but we're unwilling to trade similar amount of money for software (games) that give you many, many more hours of entertainment.

There's people who have spent literal days entertained by a game, but then complain they had to spend $70 for the privilege. Where else can you be entertained for a couple bucks an hour or less?

In my opinion, if you license a game and play it for a dozen hours... you've gotten your money's worth already. That said, I too would be disappointed if a game I enjoyed was removed from my library.
Maybe not, but Google, with its monopoly, should play fair and not pick favorites because it increases their ad dollars bought.
I think the CALM theorem and this whole line of research is so interesting and it is still carried on by the CRDT people. But I would love to see more of this.

I feel like it doesn't get as much attention as it deserves.
I don't think there is much risk of confusion between a microcontroller and an all-in-one retro computer. They also have different numbers (64/64A vs. 65) and the Mega65 isn't prefixed with an 'AT'.
She was an absolutely wonderful actress. The Washington Post also has an article announcing her death [0]. It goes into a lot of depth about her work and who she was.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/27/maggie-...
Meta prohibited from monitizing youth data
Anyone know the technical details?
Im not sure I follow what you are saying.

What externalities are you talking about?

What does do you mean by a transaction to paying for itself?

What does it mean to lower transaction costs in a zero-sum way? This seems like a contradiction
Once we made these onigiris for a potluck my kid's school hosted and they went away very quickly. So we have stopped exploring other menus and just have kept making them every potluck since. And it goes away quickly every time.

One thing I noticed since is that it can be a great vegan option: You can make one from rice salt and dried kelp/seaweed plus some pickles (umeboshi etc.)
There are reasons.

Mine: phased Vivaldi antenna arrays. Iteration is painful if you have shipping in your run debug loop.
So one other designer plus Google is using alpha chip for their layouts? - not sure on that title, call me when amd and nvidia are using it
> So if we go to "buy", if you get a broken game, that's on you. Don't buy from them anymore. You don't get to hound the developers to "fix" the game. You paid for the thing, they gave you the thing. If you want a refund, return the thing.

No, it's the developers' responsibility to release a finished product that works properly. The ability to simply do updates later has introduced a cancerous mindset to almost all areas of software development, where it is now suddenly OK to release an unfinished, buggy, or broken product and "fix" it later.

> You don't get to hound the developers to "fix" the game.

Generally people purchase products with the expectation of them not being defective.
i think the number of random gamblers who get so consistently lucky that their bet size gets reduced, is probably quite small. this is because you usually lose money betting on sports, because sports betting is bad. it's mainly going to be people doing obvious arbitrage, and secondarily people who truly are professional gamblers.

this can also be spun in a positive way: if that does ever happen, the bookies are literally forcing someone to quit when they are ahead! isn't that considerate of them.

unfortunately, i think sports betting platforms just have many strong arguments that controlling bet sizes in this way is fine.
Definitely. I'll be in that place if VR eventually takes over and I'll have to wear something to get anything accomplished.
Do you tend to believe the weak should be protected at all from the strong? I mean just as an overall belief, not specific to this issue
Musk's X Blocks Vance Dossier, drawing parallels to Hunter Biden flap
Reference counting doesn't have the same cost as a sweeping garbage collector.

Apple has also optimized their custom ARM core to further reduce the cost.

> retaining and releasing an NSObject takes ~30 nanoseconds on current gen Intel, and ~6.5 nanoseconds on an M1

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...

That said, Swift is working toward adding a future opt-in Rust inspired approache to memory management for those who need it.

https://forums.swift.org/t/manifesto-ownership/5212

https://forums.swift.org/t/a-roadmap-for-improving-swift-per...
Honestly even at this high price point I’d still be saving money from current lunch options.

That’s how bad food inflation has been. It’s challenging at this point to get a lunch cheaper than C$15.
If a court subpoenas evidence, and someone destroys that evidence, that's destruction of evidence, which is a specific crime. My point is more general than that. The reason someone could be prosecuted for that, even though it leads to a lack of conviction for the originally-investigated crime, is that destruction of evidence is itself criminal behavior.

One could construct situations where a third party with no knowledge of the subpoena destroys a document for ordinary reasons, after the subpoena is issued. That person is going to be very closely scrutinized, possibly charged, but it's entirely possible to be found innocent of a crime there. Say a corporation employs a document warehouse and the contract says that documents are to be destroyed after 60 days. A court orders on day 58 that those documents be remanded, but the corporation doesn't tell the warehouse, and the court is not aware that the documents are in that warehouse, so they don't send the subpoena to the warehouse.

The operator of the warehouse is not guilty of destruction of evidence in this case. The party at the corporation whose duty it was to produce the documents is guilty. Assuming this is a high-profile case, there will absolutely be additional subpoenas to demonstrate that the operator was not informed of the need to retain the documents, but mens rea must be demonstrated because shredding documents is not per se illegal behavior.
I think the error is putting trust in scientists as people, instead of putting trust in science as a methodology. The methodology is designed to rely on trusting a process, not trusting individuals, to arrive at the truth.

I guess it also reinforces the supreme importance of reproducibility. Seems like no research result should be taken seriously until at least one other scientist or group of scientists are able to reproduce the result.

And if the work isn't sufficiently defined to the point of being reproducible, it should be considered a garbage study.
> The problem with cumulative data is that you can't justify your wrongdoing just because someone else did it too.

In this case, yes, you can.

US, EU became developed by polluting first at the cost of the rest of the world, and now can't simply morally tell India, China to remain poor and undeveloped because that might harm the environment.

You should also keep in mind that, US/EU's manufacture is done in China and other countries in Asia, and when you factor in consumption as well as production, even today, US/EU will fair very poorly.
> "The wealthier you become, the more you want perfect security," says Setha Low, the director of the Public Space Research Group [...] "And that produces an industry making a lot of money off of people's fear." Much like the military-industrial complex, she says, "there's a security-industrial complex — this entire sector of our economy being fed by people wanting this kind of security."

Maybe.

Or, maybe, it's a clear sign that the uber-wealthy are scared by how dangerously unstable the extreme inequities of modern America are making things.

Historically, highly secure & well-defended castles were a sure sign that either (1) there was a war on, or (2) the rulers in the castles were representatives of some conquering foreign power...and the locals were inclined to rebellion over that.
You're far from a scientist, so it's easy for you to put scientists/academia on a pedestal.

For most of the people who end up in these scandals, this is just the day job that their various choices and random chance led up to. they're just ordinary humans responding to ordinary incentives in light of whatever consequences and risks they may or may not have considered.

Other careers, like teaching, medicine, and engineering have similar problems.
"Free Speech Absolutist" loll
With limited exceptions, “physical games” for PCs today are just an alternative delivery mechanism vs. using one’s own Internet connection: you still end-up going through Steam, Epic’s store, or whatever - which means mandatory online activation - which means physical media is no guarantee of irrevocable use.

Methinks we need something like a Criterion Collection but for games… which I suppose would be GOG.com - but if they carried triple-A games from day 1, instead of having to wait a decade first.
I work in Hollywood. I am not sure it has more of a drug problem more than say tech or finance. Maybe it does-- I don't know. The point is when a celebrity is a drug addict you hear about it. When a banker or a lawyer is you don't.

Our experience of things has a lot of bias toward what we want to hear. Generalization plays into sterotypes and ideology.
> premise of DUIs is to punish a person acting recklessly. The premise of KYC is to punish a third party for not conducting mass surveillance on predominantly innocent people in case one of them commits a crime. It's hard to see how these are analogous

You don't see how a bank not doing KYC and thereby financing terrorists and Pyongyang could be seen as behaving recklessly?

> quite a fig leaf for any entity operating at scale

Sure. It's why a lot of anti-money laundering isn't prosecuted and why OP's complaint strikes me as silly.

> conduct mass surveillance

U.S. AML law is actually somewhat terrible for mass surveillance. Records are held at each private institution. This is why, if you've ever been party to wire fraud, it takes the Feds hours to days to gather records. It's pull, not push.

The practical arms of mass surveillance are the credit/debit card rails. (And, increasingly, crypto.)
> Humans haven't lived on the planet on geological timescales. All of human civilization only became possible because 10k years ago the climate cooled and stabilized enough for there to be agriculture.

The average global temperature in the Jurassic era was 16.5C, which is 2.5C higher than the current average global temperature. Average CO2 levels in the atmosphere were as high as 2000 ppm. The planet was teeming with life, an abundance of flora and fauna. While dinosaurs were the apex predators, mammals flourished as well.

> Without agriculture there is no human civilization, no nation states, no institutions. We go back to being hunter gathers.

Since the first part is false, the second part is moot. It also supposes we would have trouble adapting whereas humans are ingenious at finding ways to survive.

> With an unstable climate agriculture disappears. Billions will dies, life expediencies will crater, the modern world you know will no longer exist.

See previous argument.

> Yes, the planet will be fine, at one point it was a giant snowball, humans are fucked.

Yet here we are. Our ancestors survived the Ice Age. Their distant ancestors survived the Jurassic era. My bet is on humans.
> When I buy a licence to use a game, the publisher can revoke the licence the day after I buy it, and the contract is drawn up in such a way that nothing obliges them to compensate me.

On Steam (from Valve) you would be entitled to a full refund in that scenario.

Valve offers full refunds for any game you have played for less than two hours and owned for less than two weeks. In some other situations, they have also applied refunds outside that policy where the game turned out to be a fraud or something.

There are also many titles in people's Steam libraries that are no longer offered on Steam, but you can still download and play if you purchased it prior to it being pulled from Steam.
> You're still using Yao? Pfff.

One-up flex master right here. Unbeatable.
> They’ve gotten gambling legalized nearly everywhere yet are still wildly unprofitable.

They're predicted to profit more than $400 million in 2025.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/draftkings-inc-nasdaq-dkng-br...

Somewhat like Amazon in its early days, their lack of profits was mostly because they were investing their money into growing the company. DraftKings spends hundreds of dollars to acquire each customer.
I don't want to write a whole big thing this morning but I feel it's important to point out that we already have all the solutions we need to integrate our economic systems with the global ecology. All the solutions were worked out decades ago, they are "off the shelf". E.g.: https://newalchemists.net/

We could do it rapidly and with very little inconvenience and everyone can have a nice standard of living while repairing the ecosystem.

We just have to notice this and get on with it.
Yeah well said. I've gone through a similar journey in terms of my thinking on these topics
So it can go to settle their court fines? Or fund their next harebrained legal adventure?