skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are colocated in a data center and you need physical keys to access the rack.
This is called "Skill based matchmaking" and it is absolutely something that many games already do. Studies have shown that it increases player retention significantly. But also, there's a chunk of people who absolutely hate on it at every opportunity.

Cheating happens regardless.
That's taking it too far. By that logic, rootkits can't exist for Windows because the super user is called "Administrator", not "root".
Sorry, I don't know him and have never met him. Never even went to a Mavericks game.

I don't even know if a comparable number of positive or negative comments are to be expected.

But he does seem as real a billionaire as you can get, and pretty level-headed when I see him on Shark Tank.

Something really impressive when I found out about it was the dedication to fighting for lowered prescription drug prices. This has truly been completely impossible forever up until he took some action, looks like no one with adequate wherewithal made any effort before. It may not be very completely possible yet, but it's surely less-impossible now and that's a move in the right direction.

I guess I do kind of favor it a bit when people make the impossible possible.
5 to 10 years
Solution: submit them for an account ban.

The games that have the most cheating either:

1. don't do account bans

2. don't limit account creation

You can trivially limit account creation by just charging money for the games.
I'm saying that by moving towards explicit "search" and "linking to sources" they have set the stage for being able to charge to be recommended by their search features (ie, ads and pay-to-rank, same as Google search).

There aren't any ads in their demo, we haven't seen the real deal yet, but I'll be watching HN for that day.
Does Apple store answers to security question in encrypted format (i.e. bcrypt)?
Hello bot. This is a search functionality not a new model.
> A world model is not a requirement for next token prediction in general.

Conjecture. Maybe they all have world models, they're just worse world models. There is no threshold beyond which something is or is not a world model, there is a continuum of models of varying degrees of accuracy. No human has ever had a perfectly accurate world model either.

> One white paper with data that _suggests_ the author’s hypothesis is far from proof.

This is far from the only paper.

> This is a tired stochastic parrot argument that I don’t feel like engaging again, sorry.

Much like your tired stochastic parrot argument about LLMs.
What is your "almost certainty" based on? What does it even mean? Every thread on LLMs is full of people insisting their beliefs are certainties.

What I'm certain is we should not praise the inventor of ball bearings for inventing flight, nor once ball bearings were invented flight became unavoidable and only a matter of time.
Agreed, it's as if someone completely ignored the meaning of the word and just decided what sounds good for an AI app.
LLMs have the chance to cannibalize the web and become the primary interface for knowledge. But if websites remain the final destination, it’s good for content creators.

The only other way to kill the web without killing LLMs in the process would be to create a way for people to upload structured public content directly into an LLM’s training. That would delay public content into release batches unless training can be sped up significantly.
So glad that we're boiling the ocean for this.
One thing about Amazon is that I have never seen them overpay for an acquisition (as in they really penny pinch and negotiate hard). So Perplexity’s high price tag may turn Amazon off
Reference? This isn't mentioned anywhere and certainly is not implied.
I asked it the current weather in my area and the temperature was off by 23 degrees F.
Usually “nonstick” in the cooking context means “nonstick without any added fat”. So a stainless steel pan is never “nonstick”.
> When you install a game that runs on user space you are not trusting the vendor nearly as much as you are trusting a hardware manufacturer.

I'm not sure where this trust comes from. I absolutely do not trust any hardware vendor. I just have no choice here.
ChatGPT isn't a great name, but it's easy to say, spell, and remember. And at this point, a lot of people just know them as OpenAI, which is a great name.

Perplexity sounds like a parody startup name from the Silicon Valley TV show. Way too complicated and unnatural.
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If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?
I gave it a quick spin and my initial impression is much worse than perplexity.
Settled https://xkcd.com/1235/
If it ends up anywhere near as popular as Google, those sites will have a financial incentive to allow the crawlers.

The average person just does not discover content without the search engine recommending it.
Carbon steel has the same maintenance requirements as cast iron. I do like it better because of weight though.
Advancing Embodied AI: Progress in Touch, Dexterity, and Human-Robot Interaction
Tests don’t care what you name the variable
Gemini API and Google AI Studio Now Offer Grounding with Google Search
Honestly, if I can disable ads by paying them, then I'm ok with it.

Google will suck all your data even if you pay, and link the entire earth of services to your identity.

For now, chatgpt doesn't care, and I already pay for what they provide.

May they kill Google.

20 years old me would freak out hearing me that, they used to be my heroes.
Are ads what people want?
Maybe you don't understand how this works?

It's able to query the relevant documentation, put it in its context and then use that to generate code. It's extremely relevant to giving existing models superior functionality.
To provide relevant responses to your questions, ChatGPT searches based on your prompts and may share disassociated search queries with third-party search providers such as Bing. For more information, see our Privacy Policy and Microsoft’s privacy policy. ChatGPT also collects general location information based on your IP address and may share it with third-party search providers to improve the accuracy of your results.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9237897-chatgpt-search (TFA links to it in the How it works section)
Brains can’t understand either that’s not what neurons do
@forbiddenvoid what is the product you need?
Yeah . It needs to filter seo optimized articles first and search more niche sites or it will be your average chat gpt with search project from github.
That link just takes me to what looks like a normal chatgpt prompt. (I tried asking it the same things they showed in the article and I just get generic AI answers, not web search results.)
The Vancouver SkyTrain also uses LIMs.
I wouldn't be so sure. Jack Daniels sued (and won) against a maker of dog toys that looked like Jack Daniels but were named "Bad Spaniels". Turns out trademark law actually is complex.

https://www.today.com/food/news/jack-daniels-dog-toy-supreme...
My interpretation of the original article is they use the fuzzer to find an arbitrary very small bitmap input which when passed to the library causes it to crash. It’s unclear if the input image is even a valid bitmap image format that would correctly open in an image viewer.

This is definitely still a problem because there might be situations where you’re allowing an end user to pass an image file in and are then passing it unmodified to this library to interpret the barcode in it, but it’s not the same as some special barcode that encodes data that crashes the library.

So for example this blog entry does not describe a situation where you can just print out a barcode and when you scan the barcode then the library crashes or has the opportunity for arbitrary code execution. That would be a very exciting exploit. They don’t actually rule out the possibility, but they didn’t get anywhere near fuzzing at that level in this blog post.
For as long as there have been tanks, I think there have been cheap anti-tank weapons that are effective when tanks aren't operating as part of a combined arms team with other maneuver, fires, and protection elements.

There does seem to be a good case for replacing manned attack and reconnaissance aircraft with unmanned aircraft, and the Army appears to be moving in that direction with the recent cancellation of the FARA program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Attack_Reconnaissance_A...), plus the use of Shadows since retiring the Kiowa fleet ten years ago. Replacing tanks with unmanned aircraft, however, would be replacing one tool with another tool that has an entirely different purpose.
It's already happened in a subtle way via who got to partner with them to be displayed in results vs not.
Glue e.g. in bamboo spatulas, porosity and bacteria, hardness for scraping etc.

Usually you would use different materials for different tasks.
It became a good name once it became a watershed viral phenomenon. Everything being equal yeah not a great name but it defined a new hype cycle so it got a pass
No one is ready. You become ready by just doing it
Right, but it's undeniable that LLM's are a core part, if not the most important part, of modern SEO spam. Particularly because they're much harder to spot.
Is this more than just ChatGPT with search API resulted concatenated the prompt?

It feels like it might be. It feels tasteful in the same way that Apple ecosystem integrations just work really nicely and intuitively. But then again, there is an art to keying and retrieving embeddings, and it might just be that.
" - This one single scientific paper changes everything and you are negligent if you don’t immediately change your life based on it."

Is not a reliable, frequent, pattern that is in any way a valid criticism of the community as a whole. Incredible
Why, just because search has ads therefore anything that is a superset of that must also?
EFF Launches Digital Rights Bytes to Answer Tech Questions That Bug Us All
You either die a hero or mumble mumble
The new website itself is at:

https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
Might have something to do with the fact that they're also still losing billions operating their services at a loss!
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Making billions but spending trillions for no moat (GPUs and models aren't moats) means that the only moat they have are users. Users aren't paying enough to offset costs, the only way to get value from non-subscription users for their scale is through ads.
Makes me question why Google never bothered to create something like search sessions which could be enriched with comments/notes and would be located in a sidebar just like the chats in ChatGPT/Claude/Mistral are.

They really had the potential to do something interesting, but were just focused on their ad metrics with the "good enough" search box. What have they been doing all the time?
Are you claiming this because you believe one side has a monopoly on the truth?
2 years for ads, 6 years to remove the yellow background.
Looks like they've also enabled advanced voice mode on the windows desktop app.

Does not support search for anyone wondering.
The model is likely to had already seen the exact phrase from its last iteration. Adding variation generalizes the inference away from over-trained quotes.

Every model has the model before it, and it's academic papers, in it's training data.

Changing the qualifiers pulls the inference far away from quoting over-trained data, and back to generalization.

I am sure it has picked up on this mesa-optimization along the way, especially if I can summarize it.

Wonder why it hasn't been more generally intelligent, yet.
You want to be the boss. Start a company. You want someone else to control your employment, work for someone else. It’s simple.
You mean poor person. As long as it stomps a poor person. The rich don’t have a habit of getting stomped. They direct other poor people to stomp their contemporaries. The poor don’t have a chance.
Good point. Sadly, I suspect that a lot of people would consider home cooking to be DIY these days.

But even a mediocre cook with a limited menu can eat better food at 1/10th the cost by cooking it themselves.
> Even back then we were told to talk about how RPA (and by proxy AI) empowers your team to focus on the really important things.

As a non-politically savy person ;-) I have a feeling that this is a similarly dangerous message, since what prevents many teams to focus on really important things is often far too long meetings with managers and similar "important" stakeholders.
This is a genuinely interesting perspective that I think nails my original point and fear of AI being used as “spark notes” for complex topics. To me, LLMs are like a calculator for language, except the math is always changing (if that makes sense), and I’m not sure I like where that’s heading as the first cohorts of AI tutored kids learn from these kinds of procedurally generated output rather than reading the original historical texts, or maybe it’s fine that not everyone reads Plato but more people at least have heard of his concepts? Idk philosophy is pretty far outside my expertise, maybe I should open a book
Abstract: "The Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) is a widely used objective for training deep generative models, such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In the neuroscience literature, an identical objective is known as the variational free energy, hinting at a potential unified framework for brain function and machine learning. Despite its utility in interpreting generative models, including diffusion models, ELBO maximization is often seen as too broad to offer prescriptive guidance for specific architectures in neuroscience or machine learning. In this work, we show that maximizing ELBO under Poisson assumptions for general sequence data leads to a spiking neural network that performs Bayesian posterior inference through its membrane potential dynamics. The resulting model, the iterative Poisson VAE (iP-VAE), has a closer connection to biological neurons than previous brain-inspired predictive coding models based on Gaussian assumptions. Compared to amortized and iterative VAEs, iP-VAElearns sparser representations and exhibits superior generalization to out-of-distribution samples. These findings suggest that optimizing ELBO, combined with Poisson assumptions, provides a solid foundation for developing prescriptive theories in NeuroAI."
The First Automatic Rice Cooker's Unlikely Inventor
Slightly more accurate: they're raising billions making pennies.
Carbon steel is not nonstick without adding oil. Also you can’t use it with acidic foods. I actually prefer stainless steel most of the time, the sticking is more of a feature for many foods since it promotes browning. (But I do use basically every type of pan for different things)
No, it's using the Bing index. The generated responses are OpenAI

Many search engines use the Bing index but return different results
I sympathize with your concerns for stability and testing, but I think that you might reconsider things in open-source ZFS land. OpenZFS/ZoL have been merged since the 2.0 release several years back, and some very large (e.g. Netflix) environments use FreeBSD which in turn uses OpenZFS, as well as being in use by the various Illumos derivatives and such. It is true that there has been some feature divergence between Oracle ZFS and OpenZFS since the fork, but as I recall that was more "nice to haves" like fs-native encryption than essential reliability fixes, fwiw.
More precisely, it is illegal to cross when there is crosswalk within 100 meters.
This is either bullshit or tautologically true, depending specifically what you mean. The study of human intelligence does not take place at the level of tokens, so of course they wouldn't say that. The whole field is arguably reducible to physical phenomena though, and fundamental physical beables are devoid of intrinsic semantic content, and thus can be ultimately represented by tokens. What ultimately matters is the constructed high dimensional network that relates tokens and the algorithm that can traverse, encode and decode this network, that's what encodes knowledge.
Normally when launching the "linux terminal" on ChromeOS aka crostini - a kvm is created with lxc, the default penguin container and any additional containers run as lxc containers inside inside this vm.

baguette appears to allow launching linux directly as virtual machines, skipping the lxc portion. Based on the flags this seems to potentially provide things like pci passthrough which would make chromeos even more versatile.

Currently it's possible to launch kvms from crostini but it happens from inside the lxc container using nested virtualization.
Why would anyone ever write their own JSON parser? There're countless libs available that are hyper-optimized.
Probably not long, some users already got A/B'ed into testing "sponsored results"

https://i.imgur.com/UpAptFL.png
It's an aging populace. They are the leading indicator of the demographic Cliff of urbanization and post-industrial countries in post-industrial economies.

Old people don't like to adopt new technology or ideas

Countries with demographic cliffs likely also try to extract more labor out of older people. So decision makers for adoption of new technology and techniques which would go with management or some other analogue, have reduced neuroplasticity and won't adopt change as readily.
“Way to put public content directly into an LLM training” - sounds like Chatgpt
venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python
What the hell did you ask it / what was the source? I just did the same thing and it gave me the correct answer and used my countries best known meteroligcal site?
If you could even just pass an array of objects to be collected or something, this would so much easier.

Magic, code or otherwise, sucks when the spell/library/runtime has different expectations than your own.

You expect levitation to apply to people, but the runtime only levitates carbon based life forms. You end up levitating people without their affects (weapons/armor), to the embarrassment of everyone.

There should be no magic, everything should be parameterized, the GC is a dangerous call, but it should be exposed as well (and lots of dire warnings issued to those using it).
I cook over easy eggs a few times a week in my cast iron. Works great.

I've also done it in stainless steel and while it does work there's a bit more of a learning curve imo. Have to heat the pan first then add the oil at just the right heat (when a drop of water glides around but doesn't evaporate too fast).

All in all I'm glad I learned how to use and care for cast iron.
Waning demand might be one factor, but the word on the street about the F-150 Lighthing has been generally pretty negative (justified or not, I don't know). So softening of the EV market may not be the whole story.
I love the zone Europe/Busingen. Büdingen has about 1500 inhabitants.
You're mis-representing my examples by shifting the context, and quoting a wikipedia page that literally gives the same examples to two of the main ones I mentioned at the very top of the article as key examples of security through obscurity: "Examples of this practice include disguising sensitive information within commonplace items, like a piece of paper in a book, or altering digital footprints, such as spoofing a web browser's version number"

If you're not understanding how memory allocation randomization is security through obscurity- you are not understanding what the concept entails at the core. It does share a common method with, e.g. using a closed 3rd party firewall: in both cases direct flaws exist that could be overcome with methods other than brute force, yet identifying and specifying them enough to actually exploit is non-trivial.

The flaw in your firewall example is not using obscurity itself, but: (1) not also using traditional methods of hardening on top of it - obscurity should be an extra layer not an only layer, and (2) it's probably not really very obscure, e.g. if an external person could infer what software you are using by interacting remotely, and then obtain their own commercial copy to investigate for flaws.
There may be no investigation of your specific question, but is there evidence of known dangerous chemicals. If it was covered in dog poop, would you use it unless there was evidence that the use of dog-poop-covered spatula at the exposure level of domestic cooking caused significant physiological effects?

A more fundamental error is say 'there's no proof, therefore I assume it's false'. There's no proof that it's safe either. We make almost all decisions without mass longitudinal studies.

And worse, IMHO, is the poison rhetoric: 'If I can shoot their plane, I'm smarter than the person trying to fly.'
I'm absolutely not a fan of giving a game the level of kernel access these games take without my permission. That said, cheating is an existential threat to a good game experience online, and I really don't know of any other solution. What's been frustrating over the years is when kernel anti-cheats, unbeknownst to you, are causing issues with other games entirely unrelated to what you are playing - because some game developers had a bad habit of leaving them running/idle even if you were not playing.

I have a dedicated laptop for gaming that I do absolutely nothing else on, not even logging into email accounts. Just steam + games + whatever video software I might need. This is my sane compromise as someone who participates in a lot of competitive games. it sucks, but I see no better solution than to disclose it (insane this wasn't the standard already). Even that is hard, because if you disclose too much, cheaters can take advantage.
This article is not very clear. After the author realizes that they don't have low-level access privileges they just... do the thing that failed 20 times before and suddenly it works with no explanation as to why.
How does stainless steel compare to ceramic? I find that as much as ceramic coatings are advertised as nonstick, I have to clean them anyway.
Looks like this was timed to coincide with Google adding search grounding data to Gemini API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008834 // https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-api-and-ai-studi...
The Rise and Fall of Homework Help Sites: Discussion on AI's Role in Education
With the closure of major homework help platforms in 2024 and emergence of AI-powered alternatives, I'd like to discuss: How should we balance academic integrity with technological innovation? What are constructive ways AI could support learning while preventing misuse? Looking for perspectives from educators, technologists, and students.
The new web search icon appeared for me straightaway in the ChatGPT macOS desktop app, within an in-progress conversation, without even having to restart. Before I'd even seen this official launch announcement. Very smooth!
Why would i want condensed results ? Why Do you think i would want to have a condensed version of this post [0] for example.

[0] https://danluu.com/ballmer/
"""Search will be available at chatgpt.com (opens in a new window), as well as on our desktop and mobile apps. All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as SearchGPT waitlist users, will have access today. Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks. We’ll roll out to all Free users over the coming months."""

Can confirm that free users who signed up for the waitlist can use it right now (even if they didn't actually get in)
Cereals run around 5 mg iron for a bowl [0].

A pan is about 1 kg (a good cast iron one could be much heavier). That's enough for 200,000 bowls of cereal.

Even if you reckon the pan is degraded enough to be obviously useless after losing 5% of its weight, that would require you to use it every day for 30 years, not "a handful of cooks".

[0] https://www.haemochromatosis.org.uk/breakfast-cereals-and-th...
> All non-stick frying pans die within a year or so.

I'm very interested about how you can achieve this.