skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make me, an EU consumer, incredibly mad. I do not want interoperability or openness. I chose a closed ecosystem for a reason. Now it’s being pried open and I hate it.
> I also find it difficult to rationalize third-party dependencies these days

I would love a deeper insight into what you mean by this. I can't imagine you're rolling your own http server, database communication layer (as in like, postgresql's jdbc driver), json parsing engine, etc.
License file now added to the Github, thanks! Currently, the Cybersecurity Fabric (decentralized network service) is in Beta, so we're only offering free "as-is" developer licenses. We anticipate that eventually, the service will be approx 50c/user/month or there abouts.
ChatGPT was the first to come along, so the subreddit was given a perhaps short-sighted name. It's now about coding with LLMs in general.
> You're also in a minority

[citation needed]
The Senate is quite deliberately there to protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
I'm pretty sure the plan has never been to just make these tools that make us more efficient. If AI stays at the level it's at, it would be a profound failure for companies like OpenAI. We're all benefiting from the capital being poured into these technologies now. The enshittification will come. The enshittification always comes.
IANAL but I think this justification sits on very shakey ground when the private company is doing it in the name of the law (DMCA). For the same reason, I of course think the government demanding encryption backdoors by private companies violates the fifth amendment.
I mean, it was fine for 50 years.
Well, that's usually the case with everything, sadly. The only way I know how to get Meta accounts back is generally to pay an employee off to put a ticket in.

I don't have a banned account with Reddit (fortunately), but I know those who have had bad experiences, so I thought it was worth bringing up.
Good timing! If you have a spare hour that is. Coffeezilla just released two videos digging into the csgo skin casinos business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jhjjVy5Ls
You have a choice. What is preventing choice?
Finding out about childrens' language (1970) [pdf]
Isn't Germany big on clubs? Join a club around an activity you enjoy - or that interests you.
Or buy colo space and they do it for you. It's not all cloud vs owning a datacenter - There's a thousand shades of ltgrey
You got my exact point and elaborated really well with even research on the guy! Thanks it means a lot.
The US greenback is defended by a country with a very strong defense that includes a nuclear weapon arsenal.

How does bitcoin defend itself?
ha pop ups pop ups every where except the terminal long live the terminal;
Does this remove the color profile, though? I strip all mine with exiftool, but I exclude the color profile otherwise the entire image is screwed, especially if it's in some odd colorspace.
How do you know the answers are correct?

More than once I got eloquent answer that are completely wrong.
-USA stops supporting Ukraine war efforts and Ukraine is forced to cede large portions of land to Russia, creating a DMZ along vast stretches of the new border.

-Expanded land use restrictions and federal tariffs against solar and wind, resulting from pressure from fossil fuel lobbyists and the new head of the department of energy.

-Another CEO is shot.

-Crypto has a major correction; bitcoin finishes the year well under $100k.

-US grocery prices are higher than ever.

-Pierre Poilievre is the new Prime Minister of Canada and holds a majority.

-EVs continue to grow market share at a linear rate in North America.
Switching from weekly to monthly helped revitalize a group I meet up with. Getting together every week was becoming too much for folks with kids and attending randomly resulted in sparse attendance. Consolidating on all meeting the same week of the month restored critical mass which made people want to attend more.
Raphael Lemkin, the person who invented the term Genocide, also helped craft its definition in international law. The Rome Convention was based on his proposals, so the idea that his own definition of the term that he created "waters it down" is simply ignorant.
So there is a theoretical framework which can be tested against to achieve AGI and according to that framework it is either not possible or extremely unlikely because of physical laws?

Can you share that? It sounds groundbreaking!
Ya, when Gnumeric fails to load in my browser, there are never any annoying “Got it” buttons that make it work.
"A majority of voters (68%) think the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, are unacceptable. Seventeen percent find the actions acceptable, while 16% are unsure" [1]. Also [2].

[1] https://emersoncollegepolling.com/december-2024-national-pol...

[2] https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabRepor... page 12
Google is becoming less useful in many ways. Their "push for AI adoption" in sheets and docs proves they no longer know how to build products people want to use and must use tactics like this to farm engagement.

They are playing the same playbook as Google+. Soon we'll be forced to use Gemini to open Sheets in a tone-deaf IVR voice "If you could tell me a few words about what you're opening Sheets about, I can better direct your experience."

I almost think they want people to hate AI so they think it's garbage and don't switch to using chat.com vs google.com for searching which has been scary how much better it is without all the ads and the relevance to what you want to find.
If Apple somehow implements interoperability perfectly, sure. But I don’t believe that they, or anyone else, can. I’m sure any API will have unforeseen consequences and bugs, and those will affect me.

And I don’t really get to opt out either as eventually I’ll be forced to update my software.
Robert Frost reads "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1952) - about 25 seconds in:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rebVUgCgSAU

Plus some opinions by him shortly following his reading of the poem:

"... but what I'm interested in is not political freedom: I'm interested in the liberties I take." and his explanation of this.
the biggest problem with any of these theories is the sun. the sun puts out a mind boggling amount of millimeter wave radiation so it's very hard to believe a-priori that the cell signals are a problem.
And yet with multiple OoM more data he still didn't cost millions of dollars to be trained nor multiple lifetimes in gpu-hours. He probably didn't even register all the petabytes passing through all his "sensors", those are some characteristics that we are not even near understanding and much less replicating.

Whatever is happening in the brain is more complex as the perf/cost ratio is stupidly better for humans for a lot of tasks in both training and inference*.

*when considering all modalities, o3 can't even do the ARC AGI in vision mode but rather just json representations. So much for omni.
How do you address this problem with people? More than once a real live person has told me something that was wrong,
I think that's more to do with how we perceive competence as static. For all the benefits the education system touts, where it matters it's still reduced to talent.

But for the same reasons that we can't train the an average joe into Feynman, what makes you think we have the formal models to do it in AI?
Years ago we had an opsec competition called "Karmageddon". The goal was to get as many upvotes on Reddit on an account in one day, with absolutely no ethical limitations to achieving that.

I was winning against 10-20 people by posting a lot of random "f this politician" garbage in the political subreddits (this was in late 2016 and it was a feeding frenzy), until someone posted a "check out this picture of me and my brother I haven't seen in 10 years wearing the same Ghostbusters shirt!" post. It wasn't his brother, he found it somewhere, but it was going viral and I was about to lose.

So I filed a DMCA takedown request with Reddit, and they deleted the post and the picture very quickly after, no questions asked. I ended up winning the competition, but I think we ended up giving the prize to the Ghostbusters guy anyways.

The DMCA is 100% an attack strategy, it works.
No, high dpi displays did not make everything tiny and then huge. They just forced Microsoft to finally put some effort into making their UI scalability work properly.

Displays with less than 100 dpi are still widespread, and today's software and web pages have far more padding and wasted space than they did 20 years ago. A 21" 4:3 CRT back then was at least as usable as a 27" 16:9 LCD today despite the newer displays having twice as many pixels. 17" displays in any aspect ratio are frustrating to the point of uselessness on today's desktops, but were fine in the '90s. The UI bloat is real whether you measure in pixels or inches, and very strongly correlated with the rise of touchscreens.
so do teachers and books, in the future we need have multiple variants to cross check
> Not really. Throwing a bunch of unfiltered garbage at the pretraining dataset, throwing in RLHF of questionable quality during post-training, and other current hacks - none of that was expected to last forever. There is so much low-hanging fruit that OpenAI left untouched and I'm sure they're still experimenting with the best pre-training and post-training setups.

Exactly! LLama3 and their .x iterations have shown that, at least for now, the idea of using the previous models to filter out the pre-training datasets and use a small amount of seeds to create synthetic datasets for post-training still holds. We'll see with L4 if it continues to hold.
What human experts do you blindly trust without double checking?
We get a GPT Phone (an AI phone) that's UX is all built around your phone becoming your personal AI assistant.

When you pick up the phone you basically see your personal AI assistant like they are always on Facetime waiting at your beckon call. You could skin your AI personal assistant to be a celebrity or a deceased friend or relative who is always there to guide you through your day. It has vision AI and can see when your happy or sad and respond to how you look if you have that setting on. It does everything for you via text, voice or hand gestures.

The iPhone and Android seem stale (released in 2007 & 2008) and boring in 2024 after using chatGPT as my personal knowledge chatBot for awhile.
A nuclear bomb will be detonated somewhere other than North Korea.
So things any smartphone can do but stuck behind proprietary apps and/or protocols?
> Even if it isn't against the letter of the law it is against the spirit

By that notion YouTube has the right to call a jury if I decide to cancel.

Where we agree is in the sanctions. For the safe harbor to be removed there should be more process, and it should be explicit.
One reason you may need to continually plead with people about this is because so many of us have had lived experiences with valid medical claims that should be covered under our policy, denied outright. Not a health insurance company saying “oh, that’s too expensive, go here for less,” but outright denial of coverage. And if we eventually succeed in having these claims covered, it is because we were willing to spend countless hours combing through paperwork, initial delays, and denials.

Also, the same CMS statistics you cite can be combined with other reports to conclude that 500 billion dollars of excess administrative costs PER YEAR are attributable to our lack of a single payer system — something UHC has lobbied heavily against in order to protect their profits over the improved health care of the average American. You can read the numbers here:

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/12/10/health-care-...

“private insurers currently have administrative costs that are 1,000 percent what they would be under single-payer while hospitals currently have administrative costs that are 158 percent what they would be under single-payer. The excess administrative expenses of both the payers and the providers are because of the multi-payer private health insurance system that we have.

When you add it all up, excess administrative expenses — defined as administrative expenses we have under the current system that we would not have under single-payer — are equal to 1.8 percent of GDP, or $528 billion per year.”

Another reason your pleading falls on deaf ears is that, sure, provider payments can be reduced (and this addressed in the above article), but at the end of the day, private insurance is a purely rent-seeking enterprise that provides no value to Americans while these “overpaid providers” are actually delivering the care.
> Why did you view the XML file directly?

There are many reasons why I do personally this.

1- Check that the link actually loads and works!

2- See how much content and does it contain last n or all feed history by default

3- To see if the feed gives summary or full content of posts

4- Just for curiosity like in this case I wanted to see what is this feed that prompted a blog post that reached HN front page.

It is usually a superposition state of those reasons. But this is why it is aggressive limit and I know it her server her rulee but this wasn't pleasant experience for me as an end user. I was just sharing my experience.
I can check but I am pretty sure that using a different argument to try and prove something is wrong will not make another person's invalid argument correct.
Extreme levels of padding just means zoom makes thing tinier than they should have to be, its still a problem even if continuing to zoom out and get more on the screen.
Also relevant: https://www.wired.com/2008/05/army-removes-pa/
and people just don't know what they don't know - they just answer sillyness the same way
Looking back, my friend has had some paranoid instances in the past, going back decades, usually on alcohol and drugs. So we feel like maybe it was always there, and it's possible menopause really brought it out, or stopped holding it back.

The problem is she never reconciled any of those episodes that it was her being overly paranoid. She just wrote those people out of her life and moved on. Which is what she's trying to do now to literally everyone in her life, and it's never occurring to her that the problem might be her. She thinks she's in a giant Truman Show and all her friends and family are punking her.
Plus, I feel like GP hasn't ever seen an actual data center. One does not simply strap on on top of a rocket (even a SpaceX Starship) and toss it into LEO.
Ya I think they probably will, but "the chatgpt company" is not worth 157B. It might not even be worth 1B.
(iv) sure sounds like giving them your true identity to me.

You have to give them information to sue you (or do other nefarious things), but they don't have to provide you with information that say, you could use to sue them for perjury or try to recover damages from the time it was taken down.
There’s something to needing to actively sustain it I think.
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>I like index funds so much , that everything else feels a time / effort waste even though I am aspiring to be a programmer , maybe that's partially why I don't see much reason in crypto.

Crypto is the future of money and finance. If you are aspiring to become a programmer you should internalize this and get in.
What locked features are you referring to?

Because with Android devices you can sideload any app, alternative stores, you can set any 3rd party app as default, they can handle pretty much any type of file, etc...
You forgot the most important one - !!! Beach Towel Wars !!!
> Ever tighter security standards. JavaScript over http is dying, for example.

Bert, I can assure you that this is not the case.
I don't think that makes sense in general, but does remind me of an idea I had where it does make sense: 8-bit program synthesis.

Your dataset is all of the 6502 binaries, corresponding manuals, and descriptions of gameplay generated by multimodal AI looking at videos, screenshots, etc. Maybe even screenshots and memory captures of games could be input along with sequences of key or controller inputs.

But if you feed in a large chunk of the Z80 and 6502 programs and as much metadata as you can and for a training signal make sure that the thing runs without freezing on an emulator and maybe shows the correct loading screen or something.. I think there are enough 8-bit programs and games for this to work, at least to some degree. Maybe. Start with shorter simpler programs and work up. Generating BASIC might be easier in a way, I don't know.

But the idea is you would describe your game along with maybe a screenshot or cover art or something and it would generate the machine code.

You could also do something similar but on a frame-by-frame input-by-input basis like Oasis.

Anyone in this thread want to fund that? I would love to work on it.
2.21 trillion dollars per year of provider costs, against 279 billion dollars net cost of health insurance.

But yeah, the one player in this market that has its profits capped statutorily, they're they're the whole problem, no matter what the numbers say. Sure.

I'm not telling you there's no problem. I'm saying that you've been conned into believing the problem is something it isn't.
Peak enshittification.
Blue Origin's New Glenn achieves successful booster recovery and payload to orbit delivery. Initially this is seen as huge win and they emerge as potential challengers to SpaceX, however manufacturing issues with BE-4 engines and questions about the design choice of New Glenn's massive 7m fairing (when satellites are converging towards smaller, more compact designs) will cause speculation for their product market fit.
This is me. If things never improve and Sonnet 3.6 is the best we have…I’m fine. Its good enough to drastically improve productivity
The premise of “trust me; I’ll find you the best coupon codes for that product; don’t look yourself” always rubbed me the wrong way. Sad to hear what they’ve done to the people who trusted them.
Please let me know what you think here! :) And if it does make you richer too, what would you do with the extra money my tool helps you save ...? I’m very curious to hear from you!
It actually would have performed faster, but the false positive rate drastically increased.
* Bitcoin is on a trajectory to reach 200k and it will if we get a strong bull season. However the elephant in the room is the House of Cards that is the US financial system. It appears primed to go poof!

* Solar and LLM's will bloom.
Npm packages solicit for donations in the terminal.
I live in PNW right now, and man, oh man, I dearly miss even a watered down version of a "3rd place bar culture" of the east coast. Would be so awesome to have a designated place to just have a drink and chat with your neighbours. There are bunch of coffee shops, but most people are free in the evening. And getting just a tiny bit loose and shooting the shit is definitely more of a bar thing.

I know financially it would never make sense, but having a local pub with extremely cheap membership ($5/month) with discounts to the neighbourhood residents (maybe based on postal code on your ID?) would do wonders to me. Use that tiny bit of cash to host small events, advertise it as the meeting place for anyone who wants to come, be a bit strict against unruly people who makes others uncomfortable... I can only dream!
> It's provable; if just chaining LLMs are a particular size into agentic systems could scale indefinitely, then you could use a 1-param LLM and get AGI. You can't. QED.

Perhaps I missunderstand your reply, but that has not been my experience at all.

There are 3 types of "agentic" behaviour that has worked for a while for me, and I don't know how else it would work without "agents":

1. Task decomposition - this was my manual flow since pre-chatgpt models: a) provide an overview of topic x with chapter names; b) expand on chapter 1 ... n ; c) make a summary of each chapter; d) make an introduction based on the summaries. I now have an "agent" that does that w/ minimal scripting and no "libraries". Just pure python control loop.

This gets me pretty reasonable documents for my daily needs.

2. tool use (search, db queries, API hits). I don't know how you'd use an LLM without this functionality. And chaining them into flows absolutely works.

3. coding. I use the following "flow" -> input a paragraph or 2 about what I want, send that + some embedding-based context from the codebase to an LLM (3.5 or 4o, recently o1 or gemini) -> get code -> run code -> /terminal if error -> paste results -> re-iterate if needed. This flow really works today, especially with 3.5. In my testing it needs somewhere under 3 "iterations" to "get" what's needed in more than 80% of the cases. I intervene in the rest of 20%.
You do not need too much good programmers.
Someone is getting 400k/year to make that padding
In the end, it boils down to trusting only what you can verify. Unlike any comparable system today, every cog in TideCloak's architecture is entirely verifiable to its administrators, operators and end-users – so there's no requirement to blindly trust any single component. There is no "us" to trust due to the decentralized nature of the fabric. I can explain how decentralizing each aspect works in TideCloak, but unfortunately, it’ll take more than half a page...
Well if more than 3 shakes is a wank then the 4th threesome is a poly relationship.
400k base salary. 800k - 2m USD with stock.
Inflation will begin to rise again

The Federal Reserve will eventually be forced to raise rates again

The market will have a severe correction

Trump will blame everything on the Federal Reserve and will move to limit its power to control monetary policy or disassemble it all together.
Regrettably, neither this particular post nor the github content has any chatgpt-inflated content. This is entirely all human-manure.
I mean, some rando's hobby project on github would pre pretty trustworthy in this space because the incentives are aligned. The dev and the contributors have no financial stake except as users who want to pay less for stuff. The moment it becomes a business that needs to make money it (predictably) falls apart. uBO vs ABP.
All StackOverflow sites have is a GDPR cookie banner. It's annoying, but not the same.
> When you say that they work really well for you, does that mean that you're able to use the Ouija board to correctly answer questions that people ask, even if you don't know the answer ahead of time?

I have a family member who I'm now suspecting might be schizophrenic. They will interrogate an ersatz Oujia board and have genuine conversations with...something that appears, to them, as a separate entity from themselves.

The advantage of communicating through a Oujia board (or spirit manifestation) seems to be you control when and where the other...consciousness?...manifests. Versus untamed schizophrenia where the hallucinations are occuring constantly and unprompted.