skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...like banning folks from downloading, or interacting with your bug tracker etc. Often those bans will be ineffective [including because the folks you banned can interact with an intermediary]

You miss the point. I'm not sure if this will help, but I'll see if I can expand and reiterate. Seeing this whole reply now, I apologize for the length. You might go back up to the parent comment and re-read what I was addressing: the claim that one's ability to "ban" is "not even OSS". Regarding ban evasion through Tor or similar, that plays into whether a ban is technologically feasible -- rather than about ability and freedom to make your choice in the first place -- and I won't address it further here.

If I don't want to interact with someone, I make that choice for myself. No open source license prevents me from making and implementing my choice for myself. If I previously chose to interact with someone and am now no longer willing to do so, then open source licenses have either no continuing obligations (eg BSD) or extremely low continuing obligations (eg GPL).

(If someone knows of a license that meets the Open Source Definition, to use a handy threshold, which does in fact require me to interact when I would prefer not to, then I would appreciate the counter-example. In fact, when I wrote "low" in my parent comment, I was thinking specifically and only about the GPL's requirement to provide source code for 3 years after interacting with a party, so I'd appreciate any counter-example that requires more than that.)

If others choose to interact with that same someone, then that is their choice, not mine. I am not a party to their interaction with that same someone. I may even choose to now include them in the list of people with whom I will no longer interact -- but that only goes forwards and does not change prior interactions -- and whether I even desire to make that choice is now getting far away from the topic of ability to make that choice.

My choices not affecting other people is very much in the spirit of open source and FLOSS, as I understand them.

The part that you quoted from the Open Source Definition is that the license cannot have discrimination terms. That has nothing to do with whether I choose to interact with anyone else on any basis that I choose, regardless of whether that basis is socially acceptable or not.

What that OSD requirement does do, however, is prevent my interaction choices from affecting others when I use an open source license. You might imagine a hypothetical license that discriminates against particular nationalities or industries, and contrast that with someone who uses open source licenses while still refusing to interact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or North Korea, to use two current, real-world examples.
I am using iovir it has some read algae in supposedly does kind of the same thing
Not enough plastics, glass, or metal in the air to make it happen. You need a scrapyard. Actually, that's how the LLMs treat knowledge. They run around like Wall-E grabbing bits at random and assembling them in a haphazard way to quickly give you something that looks like the thing you asked for.
> AI needs unheard amounts of energy…

… and it always will? It seems terribly limiting to stop exploring the potential of this technology because it’s not perfect right now. Energy consumption of AI models does not feel like an unsolvable problem, just a difficult one.
Apple have a measure twice, cut once approach.

Microsoft seem to just hack away, cutting in the dark and don’t bother to measure at all. ;-)
I think the big problem is that people use social media and other highly biased sources for important information (political, health, etc). In theory, school reports and experiments requiring citations are supposed to demonstrate the way to scrutinize and select sources of information. It seems that's mostly lost though.
> now you can use AI to easily write the type of articles he produces and he's pissed.

You really cannot.
Minimizing Risk: Properly and Safely Resolving CVEs in Your Dependencies
I mean, in general, if you’re taking CEOs at their word, and particularly CEOs of tech companies at their word, you’re gonna have a bad time. Tech companies, and their CEOs, predict all manner of grandiose nonsense all the time. Very little of it comes to pass, but through the miracle of cognitive biases some people do end up filtering out the stuff that doesn’t happen and declaring them visionary.
Depending on the websites you usually browse, Dillo or Netsurf could be enough. But if you need to deal with online banking or government services - time to open "real" browser.
The puzzling rise of cancer in younger people
We have lots of defenses. Unfortunately viruses evolve a lot faster than we do.
It appears you can get different modes using search params <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L8>

Using locrian as the default is wild <https://github.com/ja-k-e/noise/blob/main/Sound.js#L26C6-L26...>
There’s Ultravox as well (from one of the creators of WebRTC):
https://github.com/fixie-ai/ultravox

Their model builds a speech-to-speech layer into Llama. Last I checked they have the audio-in part working and they’re working on the audio-out piece.
You can build logic circuitry with pure hardware circuitry is the simple answer, you don’t need a cpu.
> Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics. He predicts that we may have an all-powerful superintelligence “in a few thousand days.”

It seems fair to say Altman has completed his Musk transformation. Some might argue it's inevitable. And indeed Bill Gates' books in the 90s made a lot of wild promises. But nothing that egregious.
I'm curious if this is true.

Are there specific historical examples of this that come to mind?
Awesome! I wonder what his electric bill is like.
Jobs was a sort of cracked genius and a very imperfect human who wanted to be a better human. Money didn't make him worse, or better. It didn't really change him at all on a personal level. It didn't even make him more confident, because he was always that. Look back through anecdotes about him in his life and he's just the same guy, all the time.

Even the stories I heard about him from one of his indirect reports back in the pre-iCEO "Apple is still fucked, NeXT is a distracted mess" era were just like stories told about him from the dawn of Apple and in the iPhone era.

Musk and Altman are opportunists. Musk appears to be a maligant narcissist. Neither seem in a rush to be better humans.
I think people think* of ChatGPT not as the web UI, but as some mysterious, possibly thinking, machine which sits behind the web UI. That is, it is clear that there’s “something” behind the curtain, and there’s some concern maybe that it could get out, but there isn’t really clarity on where the thing stops and the curtain begins, or anything like that. This is more magical, but probably less wrong, than just thinking of it as the prompt UI.

*(which is always a risky way of looking at it, because who the hell am I? Neither somebody in the AI field, nor completely naive toward programming, so I might be in some weird knows-enough-to-be-dangerous-not-enough-to-be-useful valley of misunderstanding. I think this describes a lot of us here, fwiw)
The headline is some of the best output I've recently seen.
Proof that security questions on websites are one of the most garbage "security" practices out there.
> AI can magically decide where to put small pieces of code.

Magically, but not particularly correctly.
Is this meant to be ironic? The example given is a great example of the sort of extremist strawmanning meant to warp people's views to promote a boolean mindset on the issue.
It also matters how productive a person is during those hours. I had a boss tell me that he’d give someone a project/task and after 3 weeks they still had nothing to show, but if he gave it to me he’d have it back in a couple hours. When it comes time for promotions and raises, will it go to the person producing results or the one who isn’t?

People have drastically different rates of output. Longer hours is one factor, since we can assume people aren’t working late just to slack off, but there are people who need to work long hours just to keep up with some more productive co-workers who still head out the door at 5.
Best gut related health I ever had was living in France and eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods. Like clockwork.
For an intelligence to be "General" there would have to be no type of intelligence that it did not have access to (even if its capabilities in that domain were limited). The idea that that's what humans have strikes me as the same kind of thinking that led us to believe that earth was in the center of the universe. Surely there are ways of thinking that we have no concept of.

General intelligence would be like an impulsive 12 year old boy who could see 6 spatial dimensions and regarded us as cartoons for only sticking to 3.
Yes, but it doesn't matter, because the point is not "what could have been discovered by a proper due diligence", it is: "is YC a good judge of character".
Why do you assume that google translate is anything other than an LLM in 2024?
Right, but the whole point of DO NOT SUBMIT is that it doesn’t need to be in the compilation step. It can be in data files, comments, etc.
You can change your syntax highlighting theme to spot the typos x (I added them with a keyboard shortcut anyways)
Ask HN: Where do avatars like this come from?
I see avatars like this one very often on GitHub but I really don't know where they come from. It seems a corner of the internet culture totally unknown to me, probably dating back to the previous generation of programmers (early 2000s).
You might as well move to any Chinese t1/t2 city; the cost of life is even lower, and you'll probably have more opportunities.
I honestly thought that, too, until I got my first digital camera and started trying to take photos that I liked as much as other ones I saw. Then I realized how much of a craft it is and I gained a much deeper appreciation.
https://youtu.be/dbKwJM06fRM
> PCANS nasal spray could effectively block infection from an influenza virus (PR8) at 25 times the lethal dose

A certain amount of influenza virus acts as a toxin and just kills you?
This right here is what a university is for, and why it's useful to cram a bunch of people with widely-varied specialities into a shared physical location. It's about exploration of knowledge through cross-polination of ideas. Social science and computer science students in those classes learned things from each other that they wouldn't have otherwise.

We see over and over again through history (Renaissance Italy, Bell Labs, Romantic-period Berlin, early-Google's cafeterias) how cross-disciplinary conversation inspires innovation.

The "useful" classes are necessary, but if institutions (or students) stop there then they have missed the whole point. They're treating class-work as office-work, and making that the summit of their ambition.
Ben Horowitz plans "significant" donation to Kamala Harris
The Atlantic is really going out of their way to hate on Altman. That publication has always been a bit of a whack job of an outfit
Why favor a definition of “journalist” that approximately nobody else uses? It seems like it would just make it hard to communicate.
The closest real-life thing (and probably what a lot of believers in this particular conspiracy theory are drawing on directly) is probably the Phoebus lightbulb cartel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

It’s rather hard to imagine even something like that (and it’s pretty limited in scope compared to the grand conspiracy above) working today, though; the EC would definitely stomp on it, and even the sleepy FTC would probably bestir itself for something so blatant.
Ill do it and get back to you.
"Altman is no physicist. He is a serial entrepreneur, and quite clearly a talented one"

Not sure the record supports that if you remove OpenAi which is a work-in-progress and supposedly not going too great at the moment. A talented 'tech whisperer' maybe?
Around the time of the board coup and Sam's 7-trillion media tour, there were multiple, at the time somewhat credible, rumors of major breakthroughs at Open AI -- GPT5, Q*, and possibly another unnamed project with wow-factor. However, almost a year has passed, and OpenAI has only made incremental improvements public.

So my question is: What does the AI rumor mill say about that? Was all that just hype-building, or is OpenAI holding back some major trump card for when they become a for-profit entity?
I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever died from bisphenol-A poisoning. Searching the medical literature finds no case studies of emergency-room visits or dying epoxy painters.

Rat studies like https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d... and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236345183_Pathologi... come up with acutely lethal oral doses around 2000–3000 milligrams per kilogram, by which measure it has about the same toxicity as table salt. It also has about the same pharmacokinetic half-life as table salt. The concerns (documented meticulously in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_Bisphenol_A) are largely about its possible effects as a xenoestrogen, and in particular its potential to cause obesity. There have also been concerns that chronic exposure might be carcinogenic, but so far those haven't panned out, so it's clear that if BPA exposure has an effect on cancer risk, either positive or negative, it's very small in magnitude.

I don't think there's anything in the obesity concern, because the obesity pandemic seems to be associated with eating ultra-processed food rather than handling thermal-printer receipts or drinking out of Nalgene bottles. My best guess is that we'll find out that a few food additives that became popular 50 years ago upset the intestinal microbiome in a way that promotes obesity.

In the meantime, though, it doesn't seem unreasonable to try to minimize your exposure to the stuff, even if ultimately it turns out to be harmless or only slightly harmful. But I wouldn't worry about it.

Eating synthetic imitations of food, though, seems overwhelmingly likely to be bad for you.
This is called "HLS" (high-level synthesis) and exists. The emitted RTL is atrocious.

Anything but the simplest programs will require way too much logic to implement with discrete components.
> it appears to have plateaued. GPT-4 now looks less like the precursor to a superintelligence and more like … well, any other chatbot.

This is such a ridiculous sentence.

GPT-4 now looks like any other chatbot because the technology advanced so the other chatbots are smarter now as well. Somehow the author is trying to twist this as a bad thing.
Any person that thinks “automating human thought” is good for humanity is evil.
There are plenty of examples of good things being unavailable due to market manipulation and corrupt government.

But I don't know of anything nearly as extreme as destroying an entire invention. Those tend to stick around.
Car analogies are a little fraught because, I mean, in some cases you can even die if you put just the wrong parts in your car, and they are pretty complex mechanically.

If you had a printer that could print semi-random mechanical parts, using it to make a car would be obviously dumb, right? Maybe you would use it to make, like, a roller blade wheel, or some other simple component that can be easily checked.
We may have passed peak obesity
Dissolve the safety team. You just made everyone stop reading the rest of your post by falsely claiming that
I scammed the scammers when I was in-between jobs. I told them to click on a link to get access to my money and it was a fake Gmail login screen telling them they needed to re-authenticate.

I got their password and access to their account. It was filled with images of passports and drivers licenses.

The sad part is that 99% of the people scammed were old men that were lonely after their wife had passed. I tried to warn all of them through email to stop sending money, but most refused to listen.

I eventually just changed the password and locked them out of their own account (the scammer, not the victims).

Hopefully it saved a few people...
Michael Jordan, Anti-Monopolist
Yes right, i can add bluetooth widget, wasnt aware of that. Would be useful if i could also add wifi or airdrop widget
Whenever I read Dickens or whatever and there's a sentence like:

"Stop!" he ejaculated

I can't help adding a mental full stop to make 2 sentences. Childish I know :D Makes for some strange additions to the story
>The wealthy and powerful will never allow free abundance of physical goods in the hands of the little people.

Then there would be a violent revolution which wrestles it out of their hands. The benefits of such a technology would be immediately obvious to the layman and he would not allow it to be hoarded by a select few.
It only worked at the time because it benefited the public at large.
We are not going to win people for Christ through brute force. Let the Holy Spirit draw those whom He will His way.
Which components feel ad hoc?

In most real applications, the agent has additional logic (function calling, RAG, etc) than simply relaying a stream to the model server. In those cases, you want it to be a separate service/component that can be independently scaled.
You all just sit back and not pick at every word he says, just sit calmly and let him cook. And he’s been cooking
Yes, you're right and I agree with you, but there's a difference between doing borderline things (and dealing with the consequences), and not giving a sh*t one way or the other. There's also a difference between "fake it until you make it" and trying to sell someone else's work as your own, that you didn't make and arguably don't even understand.

But in the end it's possible the only actual difference between a crook and a master of the universe is one got caught and the other didn't.
Cortex M0 chips are 10 cents and boot instantly.
Either.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...
How could they not. The word `wealth` or idea of "money" is completely misleading here. It's cancerous accumulation of resources and influence. They are completely detached from consequential reality. The human brain has not evolved to thrive under conditions of total, unconditional material abundance. People struggle to moderate sugar intake, imagine unlimited access to everything. And it's an inherently amoral existence leading to the necessity of unhinged internal models of the world to justify continuation and reward. Their sense of self-efficacy derailed in zero-g. Listen to them talk about fiction... They literally can't tell the price of a banana, how can they possibly get any meaningful story told? All that is left is the aesthetics and mechanical exterior of narration. How can there be love or friendship with normal people grounding you? You could make everyone you ever met during your lifetime a millionaire, while effectively changing nothing for yourself. Nobody can be this rich and not lose touch with common shared reality.

Billionaires are shameful for the collective, they should be shameful to everyone of us. They are fundamentally most unfit for leadership. They are evidence of civilizatory failure, the least we can do is not idolize them.
High risk people are more likely to get the vaccine.
Should be noted that constipation relief is far from the only benefit that probiotics provide to your gut biome. Healthy gut biome has been linked to lower levels of depression and lots of other things seemingly unrelated.
There's good reason for the angst. A cornerstone that's absolutely necessary for representative government to function is a well-informed public.

Mis/disinformation becoming more prevalent and more convincing, already making it extremely difficult to debunk effectively, and the echo chambers afforded by social media algorithms and tailored-to-your-bias balkanization of traditional media makes debunking nigh impossible. "more speech" doesn't work when it can't penetrate the bubbles people live in.

So, we're in a bit of a catch-22: risk destroying freedoms via censorship or leave things alone and let them disappear on their own as society self-destructs due to a populace that no longer lives within a shared reality. A viable third option would be really nice.
When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me.
Humans can survive in space and on the moon because our intelligence is robust to environments we never encountered (or evolved to encounter). That's "all" general intelligence is meant to refer to. General just means robust to the unknown.

I've seen some use "super" (as in superhuman) intelligence lately to describe what you're getting at.
Gotta hit up the cheese fests now
All hype. Remember when the whole "oh we are so scared to release this model" happen back in the day and it was worse than GPT3?

All of these doing the rounds of foreign governments and acting like artificial general intelligence is just around the corner is what got him this fundraising round today. It's all just games.
> That publication has always been a bit of a whack job of an outfit

This is a bizarre take about a 167-year-old, continuously published magazine.
The glass half-full in me feels that the advantage to this is that in a few years the average person will know better than to trust anything that could be faked like that, instead of the old situation where someone who was willing to put in that effort could actually trick a lot of people.
I’m looking at them, they’re nice.. be more specific?
Yet again, I wish we all had ECC ram!

Here's the code: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/dram_emfi/blob/main/linu... -- the basic idea is

> Hardware setup: This time I put the "antenna" wire on DQ25, which will fault 64-bit values to +/-32MiB

> Exploit strat: We fill up as much of physical memory as possible with page tables.

> When we fault a PTE read, we have a good chance of landing on a page table, giving us R/W
access to a page table from userspace.
No, not ironic. One side says the government should be involved in the decision (and may tell you that you can't get care). The other says it's up to you. There's no third option.
this one https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ

it's in italian tho
It's not really the cost that's noteworthy so much as a general lack of gaming-optimized CPUs with that many physical cores, and also that it just doesn't make sense in terms of playable resolution. With that core count you're looking at future hardware (for best general gaming performance) or workstation processors (for lower general gaming performance, but maybe best for sims). It's just kind of an odd recommendation, not saying that it is right or wrong.
Reminds me of when Fabrice Bellard figured out how to broadcast digital tv signals using VGA cards: https://bellard.org/dvbt/
These people that posts these links is what makes HN extra good
You think that people with zero interest in programming are trawling the LKML to fix a low-level kernel issue with their USB device?
I forgot what scientist said this but “survival of the fittest” is a misnomer and it’s more about straight up surviving. You need to have tolerable constant pressure for evolutionary traits to propagate. Also, its very possible we already developed thicker mucus than our ancestors millenniums ago.
That’s really not how it works
> When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me

Because people dying of covid are just “imagining it”?