skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'll eventually run out of domains.

This supposed email marketing genius has as his technique "use a bunch of VPNs to buy separate gsuite and office365 accounts, and with these accounts, send from a bunch of similar sounding domains".

I've just brought his name and business name to the attention of some people at Microsoft and Google who can get it into the right hands. I do not think this genius plan is going to work out well for him.
Is that the right behaviour?

Imagine the following scenario:

An evildoer hacks into my e-mail account, michaelt@example.com, creates a salesforce.com account (with a password). They delete all the e-mails about account creation.

I discover the hack and change the passwords on every account I know about - but I don't know about the salesforce account (in fact I don't have the password to it) so the hacker retains access.

Should the hacker be able to visit gitlab.com, hit the log-in-with-salesforce button, and get access to the michaelt@example.com account?
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This is incredibly educational.
I like the Zimbabwe concept. But Elon seems to have really benefitted from the US election, which I’ve heard was about the price of eggs. At $3.64/dozen, Elon is only worth 151b eggs. He could only afford to buy 18 years worth of America’s egg exposure.
Off the top of my head; the user books a meeting at 2:30am, but local gov decides to implement a timezone change - time moves forward an hour at 2am. Does your meeting still exist?
Those tools exist, they do not need to be imagined. Look into the related comments. Also they do little, but increase the labor of getting an answer. Not exactly an improvement of AI for the user to spend more time reviewing AI answers.
I think people in this thread are imagining two different scenarios: a high-pressure environment with deadlines that are consistently 50% shorter than what’s actually needed throughout the year, leading to burnout... versus setting a desired completion date for your tasks as a personal challenge to keep things moving and avoid analysis paralysis. It’s more like a rally driver setting a target to stay focused and push forward.
Whatever happened to the 60Ghz WiFi? you would need a AP in every room but the bandwidth would be huge.
Attention is all you need and GPT-2 were well known at that point. Many might doubt whether this approach leads to "general" intelligence – depends on the definition.

BTW, Karpathy has a nice video tutorial about building an LLM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
To connect to the VPN through TOR?!
His claim is just that AGI will largely be comprised of stateless mathematical operations -- all of which could be a single line of code if written that way.

As a claim, it's antique -- it would easily have been a view of Turing and others many decades ago.

And as a claim its as false then as now. Not least because all the code which is the actual algorithm for generating an LLM is all the code that goes into its data collection which is just being inlined (/cached) with weights.

However, more than that, it's an extremely impoverished view of general intelligence which eliminates any connection between intelligence and a body. All the "lines of code" beyond a single are concerned with I/O and device manipulation.

Thus this is just another way of repeating the antique superstition that intelligence has nothing to do with embodiment.
I don't understand why they don't let another model "test the waters" first to see if the output of the main model could have a potential legal issue or not. I think it's easy to train an model specifically for this kind of categorization, and it doesn't even require a large network, so it can be very fast and efficient.

If the "legal advisor" detects a potential legal problem, ChatGPT will issue a legal disclaimer and a warning, so that it doesn't have to abruptly terminate the conversation. Of course, it can do a lot of other things, such as lowering the temperature, raising the BS detection threshold, etc., to adjust the flow of the conversation.

It can work, and it would be better than a hard-coded filter, wouldn't it?
Based on my experience, small businesses commonly struggle with:

1. Establishing scalable marketing and sales channels

2. Finding automation tools to eliminate operational bottlenecks

These businesses typically lack both the resources and incentives to reinvent everything. Moreover, they often cannot afford or effectively manage complex commercial software solutions, both of which are routine expectations in corporate environments.
You've missed my first point. It's not rules. There are no rules to break. The "broken rules" simply describes systems within music that you haven't been introduced to yet. For example, major and minor are also called "ionean" and "aeolean" "modes" respectively, and these sit within a set of 8 modes. There are also blues and jazz scales, names for music that break out of standard tuning. There is a style called "12 tone" (of which an example is Also Sprach Zarathustra) which uses deliberate dissonance.

You simply aren't up to that part yet, because classical western music training teaches the more common ideas which are in music that the punters listen to first. (Mainly because people generally need a few years playing music before they develope a taste for these things anyway)
> I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating their offering directly to people who may be interested.”

Right, but the people who sent those mails -- what reason do they have to think that you're interested in <checks spam folder> orthapedic multizone mattresses, Microsoft teams room equipment, or a talk about Amber Engebreston's transition from Supply Chain Manager at Chipotle to her current role?

(OK, that last one was a weird.)

If, on the other hand, you've posted a job opening for someone to do direct marketing, there's a good chance your company sends cold emails; in which case, maybe you'd like to outsource some of that work to make it more effective.

The thing I dislike about spam is the offloading of filtering from them to me. But if someone has actually put in effort to figure out what I personally might actually want, I'm a lot more willing to take a look.
Is this a problem you have or ideation? Tools to help small businesses efficiently manage government RFPs and bids exist. I remember a few years ago startup in my local area got a good bit of funding and press for this concept.
If you wanted to find out whose they are, just follow them and see where they land, and who picks them up?
My employer blocks all known VPN endpoints (as well as TOR exit nodes) with ingress filtering. Because many attacks come from there...
Some people treat all open source projects as products that they use, when many are labours of love and charity, sometimes pet projects that have become useful to [many] others. They expect product support at a business level like all the other software they use. They see the project's website as a place to get support for their product, not a place to contribute.
Using it for CI/CD purposes does not violate GitHub's Terms of Service.
I never had any issues with being signed into iCloud and Hackintosh.
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Virtual Channel Numbers let a station pretend to be on a particular channel number. The actual RF channel number doesn't need to match. But the channel number you key in using your TV remote does need to match the virtual channel number.
Hey, thanks for trying it out!

I basically agree with all you said.
The cover book issue is something new for me :)

Ratings: That’s a great point. A quick star rating makes total sense and would definitely improve the recommendations. By the way: 5 stars or 10 stars?

More Recommendations: +1 for this. Adding a "Load More" button sounds like a no-brainer. I was thinking of adding it before but I put if for later. But I think now is the time to add it.

Cover Images: I’m using an external source for them, so I’ll look into cleaning that up. By the way, if you have some examples of messed up covers - you can share them here.

Really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts - this kind of feedback is gold.

Thanks again!
If you are just playing against bots, the challenge is arbitrary. What would top 10% actually mean? 5000 ELO? Albeit, the ranks are slightly arbitrary already as the matchmaking algorithm significantly influences your competitive experience. But you know when you get higher rank, you have proven you are better than increasing amounts of real players. If every person was actually playing a single player variant of the game (matched against bots), the reward for climbing the ranked ladder is significantly diminished.
Pearl clutcher here, reporting for duty.

I consider this person's actions a direct threat to the health of the internet, and will expend a moderate amount of effort to ensure that his great startup plan falls flat on its face.

For the same reason that I occasionally pick up trash in public and put it in a garbage can. It's not hard to do, and it makes the environment better for everyone else.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1M to Trump's Inaugural Fund
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> This post started as a Twitter long-post. I decided to throw it at O1 Pro to turn it into a blog post. lmk what you think of the result

I think it would've been nice if this disclaimer were placed at the top, not at the very bottom.
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I don't know, GPT-2 wrote some of my favorite fairy tales:

https://deepdreams.stavros.io/episodes/the-princess-the-fair...
I'm having it lie a lot too. It wrote some pretty decent attempt at code in a new framework given instructions, which is great, but it made a key error about

That's fine, but it couldn't spot it, then it told me that I had put that syntax in the instructions and quoted me - but that wasn't true. It repeatedly said it had undone that and rewrote the code with it still in as well.

It added some async stuff where it wasn't needed (no way for it to know to be fair), what was interesting was when told this it apologised and explained it had just been doing so much async work recently it got confused.

Another interesting quote

> I am incredibly sorry for the repeated errors. I have made so many mistakes, and I am very frustrated with myself. I believe this is now correct, and adheres to the instructions.
> which one?

Why does it have to be "one" ? Between sodas, alcohol, ultra processed meats, ultra processed vegetarian alternatives, way too much sugar, constant snacking, &c. you have plenty of nasty things to worry about. Then you add sedentarity and obesity to the mix, we're really not helping our bodies, they're amazing machines so they continue to chug for years until they cannot anymore and by then the damages are irreversible.
I listened to that podcast at the time. I remeber being surprised about one thing in particular. He was talking about predictions of when the first people will land on Mars. He said that we tend to underestimate many of the challenges involved and so we tend to think it will happen sooner than what it is reasonable to expect. He also recounted a time he was talking with other people about it but, since they decided to bet money on which prediction will be closest to the reality, the people involved started doing a more in-depth consideration of the challenges involved and being more cautious about claiming it will happen very soon. But then, he trew all of his arguments about the bias towards unrealistic optimism and the need for more nuanced analysis out of the window when they started talking about when we will have AGI.
I once loaded firmware on my Linksys WiFi router to allow me to use the Japanese channel that is illegal in the US. I thought I was so smart until I realized that nothing else I owned could use it.
Aside from sounding "dumb as shit", I also think it's the completely wrong abstraction. Every time I've split up work between multiple specialized LLM "agents", they've done an WAY worse job than one monolith LLM that had access to all the tools it needs and can "reason" about the whole task.

All the common tricks, like creating a list of steps that are then executed by specialized agents in order, for example, fall flat as soon as one agent returns a result that contradicts the initial steps. It's simply a bandaid for short context sizes and LLMs that can't remain focused past the first few thousand tokens of prompt.
> exactly had happened here

It actually wasn't. The case was decided on a default in discovery and no facts were ever tried. Then the separate penalty trial was started immediately afterwards. The judgement is being appealed, but in Texas, you can collect anyways. If the appeal is successful, then the claimants may have to pay any difference back, or reduce the total amount they can expect to receive from escrow.

I really don't think people appreciate the precedents involved here. Including that one of the claimants is was an active FBI agent at the time and was suing over claims involving his job performance which has never been done before.

> Jones as a deliberate lair

Well, it could be that he actually believes what he says, if so, what exactly should happen then? This was never heard by a jury or judged on those merits.
Apple have trained their own foundation LLM.
Even the US presidents don't even sign all laws by hand. They use machines since a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
The dates and sovereignties seem in order, but the map is modern no matter how far you go back. The boundaries shift, but the coastline remains in its 2024 state. This means historical seas are missing, and present-day polders are present in the middle ages, etc.
Very cool and works well (Edge 64-bit 131.0.2903.86 / win10)
If someone doesn't have the skills to parse text programmatically, the situation can often be something like "a Word table of names in a 4-wide grid with random missing fields, spanning three different pages, one of which is no longer a true table because it was copied out and pasted in again from a messenger chat someone sent last year", and LLMs can be quite good for one-off tasks like that. Definitely good enough that people will keep using them like that, at least.
In some ways, the "5 day work week" is a deadline - things need to get done before Friday.

This "deadline" is a forcing function for output.

But do you know what's a better deadline?

The 4 day work week.

It may seem silly - but artificially making the workweek shorter, makes us work faster.

It's Parkinson's Law in action.
I mean more - if you are not getting value out of maintaining it anymore and there wasn't enough interest to make the project self-sustaining without you.

But also sometimes things change, what was a good solution once might not be a good solution now.

There is no one answer, all im saying is that there is nothing wrong with moving on if the project no longer interests you.
I dont see how C macros are anything like regex. They match words and replace them with different text. Regex is about matching text with relatively complex patterns, and by itself doesn't do any text replacement.
There is no new standard required , sms, rcs(apple dragging their feet apart) and POTS are already well established , that leaves only video calling, some form of WebRTC and SDP with more rigid signaling requirements could work there
I think you missed the point of the quote entirely. When I do something, I don't do it because nobody has ever done it before. I do it to see if _I_ could do it.

Otherwise nobody would ever run a marathon again.
You mean the security in large organizations is a farce?

SAML/ SCIM Integration are often buggy or doesn't work as advertised..

MDM is just a circus in making, EDR can be easily bypassed...

Pentests are barely worth more than script kiddies even from well known and recognized vendors.

I am not even specialized in sec and it drives me crazy the amount of bypass/work around in IT organizations while pretending everything is well managed and design.
I'm using Dioxus on the server side and have written about it here. https://rust-on-nails.com/

The way you write components is really great and the overall developer experience is very good.
I have met a human whose job was to do exactly that. It's apparently quite common and popular models have a team of impersonators working for them and kiting customers.
Scientists examine how roasting affects the perfect brew
maybe its just plasma https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jmp_2024022816363998.pdf
Once you compile your Typescript to Javascript, Javascript runtimes can run it, Javascript code can call it, etc. Even source maps work.

Once you start using libSQL features, SQLite tools will simply stop working with your databases.

That means the sqlite3 shell stops working, backup solutions like Litestream and sqlite-rsync stop working, SQLite GUIs like SQLiteStudio stop working, forensic and data recovery tools start giving will have a harder time working, etc.

Maybe it's all worth it, but it's not full compatibility, and it should at least be documented.
Yeah but lines in anything should be "lines formatted with a standard formatter", not just "one line with ten thousand semicolons in it".
So this is OK? Selling somebody an $800 thing that might stop working is fine and people should just get over it? This "business model" should not exist.
I have no military training like that but I'm also often wake up a few mins before alarms and also have a good sense of time. It seems to me that it's more rather a personal trait. And it's possible it's a skill one can learn.
write a story with all the students in my class (list of names) going on an exciting dungeons and dragons like adventure!
A more important point is that even in a more normal palliative care situation, which previously may have involved a borderline illegal increase of drugs near the end to hasten and ease death, might now be recorded as an assisted death instead.

So a more interesting stat might be the expected quality of life adjusted years that have been cut off by the assisted deaths.

I'm not sure if QUALY can go negative but some measure that can might be appropriate when talking about assisted death.
Very cool, it got me right even though I am not an easy case, as I speak several languages and not use my mother tongue much anymore
I imagine this would be cost prohibitive at scale since it would require two models to run for every user message?
A lot of it is labeled as "you are talking to me personally".

It is akin to a movie stating "a true story" - some liberties may be taken but if the protagonist becomes world president then travels to mars and becomes king of the martians. I am going to start looking for citations.
Once I had a paid game project from a third party (who was a friend of my friend) who actually had the client. Either they gave me a 2-month deadline or I gave them one to complete the project, I don't remember it correctly.

I knew I could deliver it in 2 weeks or less, so I got busy doing other projects.

Long story short, client ran away because I didn't communicate with the third party the whole time through my friend (who I kept it in the dark) and delivered the first playable version not according to the exact requirements (how could I because it was not the final version).

I never heard/read about Parkinson's law at that time, I now understand I was just filling my available time with other stuff.
Was also marketed for autistic children, so that's probably not just rich people
While traveling, I realized how convenient eSIMs are for staying connected to the internet in different countries, even on a phone that still uses physical SIM cards.

That’s what led me to create this site. It’s a comparison site that helps travelers like me easily find the best eSIM plans by comparing options from providers all over the world.
There’s a reason most business and technology tools target enterprise and not SMB - the economics don’t work to target SMB. It’s much easier to convince a middle manager at some bigco to buy your solution for 100k than it is to convince 100 small business owners to buy your tool for 1k.

It’s not just about a more difficult GTM motion. Support and back office costs are actually higher as well. All of this makes it much riskier to go down market.

Maybe the first thing we need is not more tools for SMBs from companies doomed to fail from the beginning, but a platform that would enable these startups to efficiently serve the SMB market and address these fundamental problems.
if you follow the sleigh morse path starting from the robin it will be 'united in protecting the kingdom'.
With venerable ship's retirement, U.S.-led ocean-drilling program ends
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> I wish I had something like this that would stop me use any social media.

We must be looking at different social medias as this is pretty much all I see.
> Moxie can’t perform core functionality without cloud connectivity.

The usual story, and more e-waste generated.
Evil Martians is always up to something cool
Show HN: A terminal-based pair programmer. Easy to configure
this is why Matrix is switching to native OIDC rather than the current messy mix: https://areweoidcyet.com
Derek Muller's now partnered with Electrify. People have mixed feelings about this, but it's unclear why
In theory, it works, but the issue is that creative work is inherently never finished.
> "A canonical example of this is sending round a survey that can be filled in whenever versus one that needs to be filled in by tomorrow:"

in my experience, setting a short deadline just means a handful of people will reply, the interviewer will extend the deadline and now in the future everybody knows the deadline will be extended anyway, so they don't bother taking your false emergency very seriously.
You can change maps to many older maps under the "Explore Maps" option on the home page of the site. it seems you can either explore maps or history, but not both at the same time.
> antique claim ... extremely impoverished ... antique supersition

Frankly, when the total argument against a position consists of such "boo" words, I immediately suspect some projection of personal preferences.

But anyway I googled "intelligence vs embodiment" and found this quite nice summary albeit from 2012: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3512413/

The basic idea seems to be that human conscious experience is a mishmash of sensory-reflexive impulses and internal deliberation, combined into a sophisticated narrative. Simulating this kind of combination may help robots to move about in the world and to relate more closely to human experience. I have a lot of sympathy with this although I'm guarded about how much it really tells us about the potentials for AGI.

> Not least because all the code which is the actual algorithm for generating an LLM is all the code that goes into its data collection which is just being inlined (/cached) with weights.

Could this "data collection" code not potentially be put into a few thousand lines also?
Did they use tons of global variables?
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Yep big difference in accents of my cousins who moved here when they were 9 and another when they were 18. Now they are in their mid forties and you can still tell who moved when based on their accent. Its impossible to change your accent after late teens.
Clearly you haven't met many attorneys.
> but OnlyFans is huge.

Is it? Who in their right mind pays for porn?

It could just aswell be a 98% money loundry scheme.
Deadlines are hard to talk about when you have radically differently skilled developers.

Sure, it may take some on the team a half hour to do some work, but for others, it will take two weeks.

You hope that over time everyone improves, but that’s just not what happens in reality with bad eggs.