skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is nothing like vaccines. Zero. I can easily imagine a thriving world without copyrights, but I cannot without vaccines.

For the record, the world can and did thrive before vaccines were invented, so you don't have to imagine it. Sure there was more sickness and death, but we have plenty of that now, and I doubt you'd consider today's world "not thriving."

But ok, then. Imagine that world without copyrights for me. In detail. And answer these questions:

1. You're an author, who's written a wildly successful book in your free time. How do you get paid to become a full-time author? Remember, no copyright means Amazon, B&N, and every other place is making tons of money by printing up their own copies and sells them without giving you any royalties.

2. You've developed some open source software, and would like to use the GPL to keep it that way. Amazon just forked it, and is making tons of money off of it, but is keeping their fork closed. How do you get them to distribute their changes in accordance with the GPL?

3. You're an inventor, and you've spend years and all your savings working on R&D for a brilliant idea and you finally got it working. You don't have much manufacturing muscle, but you managed to get a small batch onto the market. BigCo saw one of your demos, bought one, reverse engineered it, and with their vast resources is undercutting you on price. They're making tons of money, and paying you no royalties. How do you stay in business? Should you have even bothered?
Comments here made me realize how heterogeneous our worldview actually is. There is a rather clear split between Canadian and American comments. The first group talks about euthanasia positively, but the second group is largely cautious, looking for negatives but not rejecting the idea altogether. I did not expect there would be such a dramatic rift.
What if it was from the day prior?
> I think this trend of using IQ as a primary measuring stick is flawed.

I agree, but it's difficult to fully describe the impact of a tech where $5 gets you the ability to do arithmetic faster than literally every human combined even if we were all working at the speed of the current world record holder, yet simultaneously it took a billion dollar research team 14 years to figure out how to get a robot to reliably tie its own shoelaces (this September: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advances-in-robot-dext...)

So, IQ it is. Rough guide for a human equivalent intelligence scale, but being mapped to a wildly different architecture so that it, the different architecture, can be reasoned about.

> Even just comparing humans, the fact that one person with, say, a 120 IQ can do a particular job—say they are an excellent doctor—obviously does not mean that any other human with an equal or greater IQ can also do that job effectively.

Indeed, though in this case I would expect that such a human could learn any of those skills.
You're right, they are more complicated machines. It doesn't seem like the velofuso machine has a heater, so that's a huge difference.

The pump is pretty cool though, I hope they can deliver on that. A lot of people will buy that and it will open up cool innovations for new machines. I hope they patent the pump.
I submitted it yesterday, saw the current thread on the front page. Almost celebrated my first post making it there, but alas, it wasn’t mine.
Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
2600 has had meet ups goin’ since forever. The meet up in Dublin is particularly active.
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Also relevant, as you alluded to, cohost is now read-only and will be shutting down at the end of 2024.

https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down
That was fake.
Ah, AI have been doing both farm work and "building things under supervision" work for a while now.

Robots are a thing, AI controlling robots is a thing.
Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37099515 :

> If quantum information is never destroyed – and classical information is quantum information without the complex term i – perhaps our [RAM] states are already preserved in the universe; like reflections in water droplets in the quantum foam

According to the "Air gap malware" Wikipedia article's description of GSMem, the x86 RAM bus can be used as a low power 3G antenna. And, HDMI is an antenna, and, Ungrounded computers leak emanations to the ungrounded microphone port on the soundcard.

Air gap malware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-gap_malware

Stochastic forensics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_forensics
My dad sold a ton of AXA coverage. Think there’s still a mug somewhere. They had great Parties!
I've never seen anyone explain a "straightforward" way to extend the bits without having 90% of the same adoption difficulty. What's your idea, specifically?

Also extension mechanisms like that already exist as part of ipv6.
Just like VW diesel emissions... No better motive to lie than the profit motive!
Eyeballing a sigmoid curve fit to the google's IPv6 charts would support that.
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then it'd be stale
Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food
GREAT example of a Minimum Viable Product. Can't wait to see how this evolves. The devs definitely know what they're doing.
Moore's Law Is Dead – Welcome to Light Speed Computers [video]
1M Uber Rides Concurrently
How is objectivity possible? Your writing and the reader’s interpretation of it are entirely dependent on individual sensory input and mental models, which are influenced by cultural differences in upbringing and other environmental sociological factors.

The writing inevitably leans towards “objectivity” in your worldview.
Gov. Hochul meets fearful CEOs, offers to share state intelligence with corps
Every time I have to clean text I wonder why I haven’t just trained a byte level denoising autoencoder to handle it for me.
From the article:

> the discussion will include the State Police as well as state Homeland Security and counterterrorism officials to show how intelligence can be shared with corporate security.

> “She understood how serious the impact of both the killing and the hateful reaction to it is, and she wants to make sure that the state resources, specifically the domestic counterterrorism resources, are focused on being supportive, sharing information,” Wylde said of her initial conversation with Hochul.
We still use SCCS at the investment firm I work at, to track configuration file change history.

The source code itself was moved to Subversion (via RCS and CVS) long ago, and later to Git, but the configuration files continue to be tracked using SCCS.

There is an open source implementation of SCCS called GNU CSSC: https://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/
For a more refined machine, there is the XScara[0], a DIY SCARA 3D Printer that can be used for more than 3d print. I made one and change the 3d print head with a laser system, and also had a pen that can be used as a plotter.

[0] https://github.com/madl3x/x-scara
The article doesn't explain the charcoal inscription discrepancy?
> Senior Airman Brennon Washington, 25, was stationed at Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa when he approached the girl, who was under 16, at a local park on Dec. 24, 2023, and took her to his off-base residence.

Five years is pretty lite imo.
Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political DivideS [pdf]
It shouldn't be on page 2 if it's only 2 hours old. I believe this means people are flagging the story.
Well, maybe you can.
I work for a major open source network software company, we support IPv6 natively and in the past 2 years I've been asked about IPv6 by my customers exactly...zero times.
I mean nobody needs to bother with anecdotes here. chatgpt.com hit 3.7B visits in October and was #8 in worldwide internet traffic. Open AI say they have 300M weekly active users and 1B messages per day.

The idea that it's some fad with no utility or that the general public knows little about it is at this point laughable. It's the software product with by far the fastest adoption any software product has ever seen.

And if people want to lump that in with bitcoin or VR or whatever, shrug, i just don't know what to say.
It sounds like the justice system is what's broken.
As long as they stick with dumb stuff like this maybe they'll be too distracted to spike inflation again.
> OpenAI has no such advantage yet: a text-based API is about as commoditized as a technology

It has branding, for most people AI is ChatGpt. Once you reach critical mass, getting people to switch becomes difficult if your product is good enough and most people are happy.
Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms
It is a shame that this is flagged for being denigrating or negative. The better comment could be to ask where is the documentation for safety? How do we define it? Where are the disclosures about failures, negative results, etc? Perhaps these things are unanswerable, but raising awareness of them is important.
I think there's a big difference between companies like Google and Amazon that were operated unprofitably for years but did have the option to pivot in to profitability for a lot of that time. I would also consider Uber more of an outlier than the rule in terms of blitzscaling. Maybe OpenAI will be kept alive on life support for a while because there is so much in the industry riding on AI being the next big thing, but their problems are myriad and include terrible unit economics and a complete lack of moat in an environment full of bigger organizations that can pour nigh unlimited money into trying to outcompete them. Maybe it makes me a pessimist to point out basic business fundamentals in the face of unquestioning optimism.
You could require that the input files have the same sha256 hash, that would presumably be more robust than trusting an ID from the file itself
It's a contentious discussion (look at all the dead comments at the bottom), which it's bound to be. Pretty sure that leads to down-ranking.
> I, of course, am not proposing that OpenAI assassinated

Presumably you mean the company. How many decades before AI has that ability.
I'm afraid I don't follow.

The way to express the design in a pure-IPv6 world would be that you use ULA addresses to reach the AWS services that you use and globally-routable addresses to reach the outside world.

Given that the cost that we're avoiding paying with the mechanism I described in my previous post is the ongoing cost for globally-routable IPv4 addresses, I'm not sure what cost you're talking about paying.

And given that the benefits are not having to pay for globally-routable IPs, I'm not sure what benefits you're talking about that we don't get?

Are you perhaps one of those "Hosts must be IPv6-only, no dual-stack allowed!" people? If so, I regard that as a silly stance today, and expect it will remain a silly stance for the next several decades (maybe even the next century, who knows?).
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot.
Is there a DMS as a service anywhere? I know it’s very easy to setup but wondering if anyone is offering this.
Non-paywalled alternative (also the source in the other Reddit HN post):

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblowe...
Yea, I've tried multiple models, didn't like most of the results, so had to fine-tune my own.

That such a noval idea, I might use at some point, thanks for sharing!
Okay. What are his intentions? Since you're a mind reader?
Routing in progress connections to a new module seems a rather different thing to me than merely routing new ones.
That is true of most people and is the most common reason people change their minds.
Excel, the world's most popular functional programming language.
I was trying to show how studies that were once revered are now considered useless.
Why do you not like him?
This CLI should solve similar issues!

https://github.com/keisku/kubectl-explore
How is that gibberish? It's clearly a policy paper/article, and the wording is very in-line with that: it's wordy, but there's nothing factually wrong or outlandish in it.
Macintalk Pro English Victoria was way better than that, even at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
Okay what do you think his primary goal is?
It originates in Yann LeCunn’s paper from 2022 [1], the term AMI being district from AGI. However, the A has changed over the past few years from autonomous to advanced and even augmented, depending on context

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
Curiosity about the world and honest observation - traits of the best entrepreneurs - have a tendency to tilt people that way.
You also want to record a dying declaration and include it with the DMS if you’re afraid for your life. They can carry weight in court even if you’re mot available for cross examination.
My ISP no longer allows port-forwarding of ipv4 addresses as 1 public ip is shared amongst many ISP customers. This is due to a migration to MAP-E.

IPV6 is pretty much my only choice for hosting stuff in offices and at home.

Is MAP-E becoming prevalent?
Because it shows up in the baby's meconium...
That doesn't even get into the second order effects such as mothers then having trouble lactating/nursing.
And beyond that, we should probably question why, statistically, the mothers that have the most children don't use painkillers during childbirth.
And what is he trying to change about society?
They didn't even have perfect records of what hardware was deployed. They had to risk assess what version of the instruction set it was running!
> Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process?

I will take a wild guess and say a qualified no
in the sense that nobody who report directly to these people
said anything against it
and my conspiracy theory is that they were not idiots
who didn't have their own misgivings
but they prized their own personal gain / "professional growth"
by being yes men over doing what they had a professional responsibility.

My favorite example is the Amazon Fire Phone

> Jeff Bezos reportedly "...envisioned a list of whiz-bang features... NFC for contactless payments, hands-free interactions to allow users to navigate the interface through mid-air gestures and a force-sensitive grip that could respond in different ways to various degrees of physical pressure", most of which ultimately did not end up in the final product. He also "obsessively monitored the product", requiring "even the smallest decisions needed to go by him".

Did nobody think that an expensive phone would make sense with a value conscious audience of Amazon.com?
If nobody (who directly reports to the CEO) dares question even a relatively minor thing like this,
how can we expect them to say anything about major/existential issues in a company such as "Open" AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone
Ah yeah that’s true. I’d forgotten about that step in the middle. I suppose too… very valuable lesson learned there for the team: you’ll need to come up with something to augment the optical nav system in that environment!
I agree with this but not everyone does. My argument here is crafted to those who do not understand why taxation is theft.
As a Canadian, i would certainly write a very unpleasant letter to the editor of a Canadian newspaper publishing anything against MAiD. To me, euthanasia is unquestionably necessary. The problem of healthcare availability is completely orthogonal because MAiD is an option available but never forced as an alternative.
The Bill Watterson Interview (1989)
It's nice when a project can find such a simple pronouncable name that is also meaningful.
not have 128 bit addresses for one thing. 64 bits would have been fine. that was one of the biggest consternations that's a huge hit for small packets.

so nat sucks. we needed to have something better. but instead of just extending to 64 bit src/dest addresses, align the fields and drop the checksum or any straightforward extension like that we got an entirely new protocol with new rules, nuances and complexity. so people just said nope. if it had been just a superset of IP with a different packet format and wider fields, it would have been adopted widely 20 years ago.

this wasn't intended to be a contentious take, btw: i was genuinely surprised that the article was ignoring this take. it was a very common feeling in the late 90s and 2000s when IPv6 was coming out. "over-engineered"
Luon looks mostly like Oberon and not so much like Lua, it's not obvious which of the Lua features it incorporated. It didn't seem to have coroutines, for example.

But I am glad that it went with Oberon's 0-based array indices, as opposed to Lua's 1-based table indices.

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/blob/master/specificat...
This is BS, it doesn't support Office documents, it supports only Microsoft's broken office documents which don't obey their own custom specs. Why doesn't this work on ODF files?
Similar to StarCraft, maybe these top performers can just macro continuously while doing micro things. There's orders of magnitude difference in execution there.

I do agree that it's about what they don't do. But I suspect it's largely that they don't do things like optimize computer desktop, window managers, already working build scripts, learning yet another language I won't really use, etc.

See Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy[0].

[0] https://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus
Interesting.. wouldn’t that lead to an echo chamber?
Good. Japan would be better though. China and India need to spend more and charge less
I’ve been studying corporate whistleblowers for more than 20 years. You never know for sure which ones are real suicides and which are disappearings, but TPTB always do shitty things beforehand to make the inevitable killing look like a suicide. Even if people figure out that it’s not a suicide, it fucks up the investigation in the first 24 hours if the police think it’s a suicide. A case of this “prepping” that did not end in death was Michael O. Church in 2015-16, but they ended up being so incompetent about it that they called it off. Still damaged his career, though. On the flip side, that guy was never going to make it as a tech bro and is one hell of a novelist, so…?

The “prepping” aspect is truly sickening. Imagine someone who spends six months trying to ruin someone’s life so a fake suicide won’t be investigated. This happens to all whistleblowers, even the ones who live.

By the way, “hit men” don’t really exist, not in the way you think, but that’s a lesson for another time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

They could figure out how to divvy up their 65 life sentences.

Why do they get to pay their way out of this?

> According to Kavanaugh, former McKinsey senior partner Martin Elling [2] "personally deleted various Purdue related electronic materials from his McKinsey laptop with the intent to obstruct future investigations."

Corporate laptops are backed up, with backups offsite. I find it hard to believe that the only copy was on his laptop.

From the tweet [2], which has a screenshot of an email presumably sent by Martin Elling, he looks to be directing everyone to start deleting criminal evidence.

> McKinsey's payment, which includes $2 million paid to the Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, settles federal civil and criminal charges against the firm and includes a "deferred prosecution" agreement. Under the civil settlement, McKinsey is not admitting liability. A copy of the deferred prosecution agreement was not publicly available at the time of publication.

Given the opioid deaths in 2022 alone, McKinsey should be dissolved and the responsible parties serving jail time.

Can someone explain how this [3] is presented as a win, when only money has changed hands. They paid a fee for aiding in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Does this ruling now shield them from any criminal repercussions at the state level?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-...

[2] https://x.com/CoruscaKhaya/status/1676330070472814593

Here is the original document referenced in the tweet,

https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docs/#id=zhlp...

[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

*edit, found this

https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/wp-content/uploads/20... which outlines at which times various McKinsey employees directed people to delete evidence.
That assumes you have something to withhold which is:

1. Dangerous to someone else

2. Separable from the main reveal

3. Something you're willing to held conceal indefinitely
It's difficult to fully describe, so let's just give up and use a deeply flawed benchmark? Why not try to develop benchmarks that actually work and tell us something useful instead?

The key issue is that there is no result an AI can achieve on a standard IQ test which guarantees that same AI can do any task at a superhuman level, apart from taking IQ tests. Can an LLM that scores 250 replace a human driver? Who knows? Can it replace a senior software engineer? Who knows? Can it replace a manual laborer? Again, who can say? We know a human with a 250 IQ can do all those things, but with an AI we have no idea, because those tasks have many more inputs than IQ.

Rather than IQ, which tells us almost nothing concrete, I think we should focus on what tasks it can actually achieve. What's a Waymo's IQ? Who cares?! I don't care about its IQ. I care about its ability to drive me safely across the city. Similarly, I don't care whether a coding AI can drive a car or write great novels.

Of course it's interesting to measure and speculate about IQ as it relates to AGI, but I think it gives people the very mistaken impression that we are on some kind of linear path where all we need to do is keep pushing up a single all-important number.
The only hypothesis that makes sense to me is that there is something very dangerous on the loose that is being searched for, such as nuclear material. The highest authorities don't want to cause panic so they are executing a search this way.
I'm an applied AI developer and CTO at a law firm, and we discuss the fair use argument quite a bit. It grey enough that whom ever has more financial revenues to continue their case will win. Such is the law and legal industry in the USA.
A case study in the banality of evil sadly. Also a perfect example of why care and enforcemrnt should never be mixed, both for its immediate effects and the lasting distrust it will eventually cause.
A 26yo dying is not "one of dozens," it's ~1/10,000 in the US (and likely much lower if we consider this guy's background and socioeconomic status).
Left hand. COVID proved that we could establish safety & efficacy of a medical treatment in about 12 months, to the point where as I recall a lot of the manufacturers have a legal exemption from any liability for damage done by vaccines.

Right hand. There are these opioids have been around for decades and somehow they reached this huge level of damage. Largely the same cultures of people involved.

I still think the authoritarian policies used during COVID were a mistake. The level of compartmentalisation needed to look past scandals like this one and still force people to trust big pharma unconditionally is pretty extreme. People should be allowed to make their own mistakes based on their own flawed judgement, rather than the flawed judgement of the likes of McKinsey & Perdue. It is bad enough when everything is voluntary.