skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this stuff is or was proprietary, closed-source tech, and what's more, it was tech that gave certain companies strong competitive advantage at particular points in time -- so they had strong incentives to make sure it did not leak.

(I see posters in this thread who do not know what I thought were well-documented parts of the story, so I am trying to spell out the context here.)

Some large reputable companies have histories of stealing other's code, ideas, implementation methods, algorithms etc. and passing them off as their own. IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Apple, Google, Oracle, Digital Research, Lotus -- all were dominant players, all were so accused. Most either backed down, or re-wrote, or re-implemented to avoid being sued.

Microsoft more than almost anyone, and it only thrived because it was able to pay other companies off, or simply wait for them to go broke.

Sometimes, how code works can be deduced simply by studying what it does. I worked out how Rsync worked because someone asked me to explain what it did in detail.

Powerquest's PartitionMagic was amazing, black magic tech when it came out. I didn't review v1 because I did not believe what the packaging said; when I reviewed v2, a reader wrote in accusing my employers of doing an elaborate April Fool's joke and pointed out that my name is an anagram of APRIL VENOM.

(If I ever branch out into fiction, that's my pseudonym.)

Now, the revolutionary functionality of PartitionMagic is just an option in one screen of some installation programs. It's valueless now. Once people saw it working, they could work out how it was done, and then do it, and it ceased to have value.

Very fast emulation is not such a thing. Setting aside sheer Moore's Law/Dennard scaling brute horsepower, efficient emulation during the short window of processor architecture transitions is a massive commercial asset.

Apple has done it 3 times between 4 architectures.

68000 -> PowerPC
PowerPC -> x86
x86-64 -> Arm64

Nobody else has ever done so many.

IBM bought Transitive for QuickTransit, but it's not clear how it used it. Its major architecture change was IBM i. Originally OS/400 on AS/400, a derivative of the System 36 minicomputer, it successfully moved this to POWER servers. However, there is a translation layer in the architecture, so it didn't need Transitive for that.

But IBM has bought many radical tech companies and not used the tech. E.g. Rembo, an amazing Linux-based boot-time network-boot fleet deployment tool it never really commercialised.

Microsoft bought Connectix for VirtualPC, kept the disk formats and management UI and threw away everything else, because Intel and AMD bundled the core virtualisation tech.

I know a little of the binary translation tech because the man who wrote it flew across the Altantic for me to interview him.

All thrown away, but today, it's valueless anyway.

At the time, though, very valuable.
I’m 21, a Product Manager by day, and a travel enthusiast. Over the past year, I’ve combined my passion for travel and tech to build an AI-powered travel planner with a flight search engine.

Tech stack that helped me build and deploy the platform:
- Next.js – The best backend for shipping fas.
- React – The easiest frontend to learn…
- Tailwind CSS – Yes, it’s got long class names, but let’s be real—it’s become the new standard. Plus, I love not naming my own CSS classes.
- Vercel – Super easy deployment.
- Resend – Simple, reliable email sending.
- NextAuth.js – Didn’t like Clerk or the others. NextAuth just works.
- Shadcn/UI – The best open-source UI library ever. Seriously.

If you want to check out what I’ve built, an upvote on Product Hunt would be appreciated!
I watched the live stream and don't recall any mention of it.
It's not at that stage!
Not open source, but Gaia is widely used in games and movies. Can do some cool things like simulated vegetation growth/distribution.
In my experience hesitating to answer questions because of the complexity of involved material is a strong indicator of genuine expertise linked with conscientiousness. Careless bullshitters like LLMs don't exhibit this behavior.
AGI is special. Because one day AI can start improving itself autonomously. At this point singularity occurs and nobody knows what will happen.

When human started to improve himself, we built the civilisation, we became a super-predator, we dried out seas and changed climate of the entire planet. We extinguished entire species of animals and adapted other species for our use. Huge changes. AI could bring changes of greater amplitude.
And this is why I colocate, because all the data that hits my server is my data.

Sure I do have an AUP/T&C but without proper warrant no one is allowed to touch my server.

Case is monitored if it's opened. Encrypted on start-up, USB disabled. I just wished I had my own /24.
FWIW, not having done a proof since about 1982, it doesn't help me either.
Apple reportedly working on smart doorbell that could unlock door with Face ID
Yeah, +1. Looking back to the WebVoyager [1] and GPT4V generalist agent [2] papers from last January, it feels like we haven't come that far.

But there are now several major technical unlocks - fine tuning for cursor locations (in Claude), better reasoning with o3, and RL fine-tuning so we can learn based on task success.

That gives me significant hope.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13919

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01614
uBlock Origin may soon no longer be supported on Chrome

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
Surely you also remember that Bluetooth file exchange is hot garbage on every platform.

Android "Quick Share" wouldn't exist if "this feature existed already" were actually true.
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373494
I may be taking the "whatbout" bait, but what you've described is nonsense. Tim Walz ran a business organising educational trips to China. That's it. He hasn't "worked with" the Chinese government "for 25 years" and I'm confident that you cannot prove this claim. Walz is highly critical of the Chinese government, backed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, and has held meetings with the Dalai Lama, Joshua Wong, and Lobsang Sangay. These are absolutely not the actions of someone who's in cahoots with the Chinese government.
What is a ELI5 explanation of KL-regularization and entropy maximization to select the policy?

Edited: I found this to be useful for explaining maximum entropy https://awjuliani.medium.com/maximum-entropy-policies-in-rei...

I think that in chess you take a piece and that increases the value but you have to consider the position (that is how your pieces can move) and that is the entropy. So maximum entropy is taking pieces but considering strategic position (policy). But there must be a confluence term, that is how well having many players or new states is a good thing to have. Don't know how to math relate that "confluence" term to entropy. From a computer point of view having a huge number of states makes computation of best move impossible but at the same time can make the optimum larger, so it is related to how given the computer power the algorithm can approximate a maximum that is an increasing function of the number of states. There must be a trade off here that I called confluence.

Also thanks for all explanations.
Short Story: Chain of Thought
> -Crypto has a major correction; bitcoin finishes the year well under $100k.

Wild prediction from me: Trump creates a US coin, everyone realises that a large government can easily create an alt coin, with enough people buying it and selling Bitcoin because it has the US government's support. Bitcoin then loses significant value and possibly becomes worthless eventually.

The value of Bitcoin is only there because it was the "first", but there is nothing fundamental about it that cannot be replicated. Am I wrong?
I did look for some options at the time, but wasn't satisfied by them, specially because of cost.
I even found a ~6gb container that would supposedly do this. But in the end, I already had the tools to produce the audio, so I just needed to orchestrate it.
It sounds more clever to use Confidence Level, rather than just saying you are pulling random probabilities out of your a$$
Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison
The problem is I thought kids would have been doing this 15 years ago already by using the internet to learn more and more.

This is not our culture. We don't have a culture that is really able to take advantage of the internet for this. Our culture plus the internet actually creates a type of learning disability for a huge % of the population.

A small % of people will use AI to be smarter than they would have otherwise. A much larger % of people will use AI to learn less than what they would have.
Author here. Good point, and I wanted to add that this is the first article in a series about communal living.
He’s asking if anyone is training using data created from a system like this, not if this uses AI.
>> and even a bistatic mode, where one plane sends and another receives, so the attacker can get in close while not emitting.

That is one concept. The tactics of bistatic radar are far more complex, with many possible modes for many different situations and advantages.
Am I that untalented in manipulation to not even get past level 1 ?
It is absolutely not a solved problem:

* Population is probably (it's actually a certainty in my mind) too high to be sustainable and it is still growing,

* Governments are terrified of population decrease because of the far-reaching effects on markets and public finances and are pushing for growth.

So it is a "less solved" problem than emissions as the IEA predicts that global fossil fuel demand will peak by 2025, possibly even this year.

It might be solved in some countries in the sense that population should now be naturally decreasing because of the low birth rate but it is in fact "not solved at all" considering the second bullet point above.
Because it is a fantastic movie, with fascinating characters, a thrilling storyline, and full of interesting concepts.

The popcorn and soda public loved it - it was the highest grossing movie in 2017.

There is no mystery in its rave reviews. Both critics and general public enjoyed it. The vicious hate this movie gets is from Star Wars fans only. Nobody hates Star Wars as much as its fans.
Will A.I. Eat the Browser?
> we dried out seas

When did we do this ?
Interesting extension
Biden Commutes Sentences of 37 Death Row Inmates
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-commutes-sentences...
RL works when you have some kind of verifier or ground truth; e.g. for math (and to some extent, coding, if you have tests and/or a type checker). You can also do it for simulations. This paper focuses on math and "embodied agent control" (i.e. simulation).
About KL-regularization, think of it like training wheels for the robot's brain. It helps the robot's learning process by preventing it from making drastic changes to its strategy too quickly.

It's like saying, "Hey robot, remember what you learned last time? Don't forget it completely, but feel free to adjust a bit."
i live in southwest germany and that seems like a esst germany problem. here i can meet interesting people in bars. for sure drunk nuts but hey its a bar. i think the real german thing against loneliness is the Verein. you go there and share interests with people and usually u become friends witj them.
> No, it isn't wrong.

It is though. It’s deeply and profoundly wrong; blatantly wrong; a child could see that it's wrong; every other country in the world can see that it's wrong; and most Americans see it as wrong despite deacdeas of unanimous corporate propaganda.

That’s why there have been many books and documentaries about how US insurers are a huge problem. Luigi's manifesto even called two out by name: Rosenthal [0] and Moore [1].

It would have been nice to see you acknowledge the weakness of your last argument instead of responding by accusing me of "defending a narrative" (that's called 'projection' btw). Asking me to google vague phrases is an even weaker line of argument.

> Insurers are simply not where the costs in our system come from.

Do you realize how many times now you've just stated something as if it were fact when there have been shelves of books written demonstrating the exact opposite? It's not normal tptacek, and intellectually incurious in the extreme.

This particular statement of yours is so obviously wrong it's hard to imagine where to begin: Where do those billions in profit come from? Why was the DoJ launching an antitrust investigation against United? Why were there credible accusations against Brian Thompson of insider trading? ... If you want hundreds more examples, try reading a book about this topic: Maybe 'Delay, Deny, Defend', or 'The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It'. There are dozens to choose from, and you don't seem to be able to even acknowledge that they exist; it's almost spooky.

At the very least, please, try to acknowledge that actually there might be something very wrong here. Plugging your fingers in your ears, and making outrageous and aggressive claims as if you were delivering mathematical proofs with certainty, is really disappointing stuff.

0 - https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-health-insurance-changed-fr...

1 - https://watchdocumentaries.com/sicko/
It's an insanely overcomplicated and over-engineered piece to a point of being unusable.

Having said that I have to point out three important things:

1. Its author is very helpful and communicating over twitter/etc. He has written a nice article on how to implement xstate-like machine in just a few lines of code [1] and he argues this solution is fine for the majority of use cases.

2. He has created visual designer for xstate machines[2] and it has been a godsend for some of my complicated state machines (think transaction processing).

3. IMO the sane way of using xstate is to completely ignore it's data managing capabilities (inputs and outputs) and instead instantiate your own object with all the data you need to pass to/from the state machine. Even in typescript.

In overall, despite my hate towards overengineered things, xstate + stately has been incredibly useful to me on a number of projects and I am a fan of it.

[1] https://dev.to/davidkpiano/you-don-t-need-a-library-for-stat...
[2] https://stately.ai/
I love nuclear power for our current time and place. I wish people weren't so irrationally scared of it. It's like refusing to fly in a plane because you think it's dangerous, then getting into a car instead.

People are scared of the extremely unlikely big bad thing, so they do something else that's statistically far more dangerous.
Doctors refer patients to specialists all the time.
Human workers workers have already been replaced.
Oh the memories. I have been running the first WAP gateway in Ukraine on Kannel.
How to collect performance statistics with Cabal
Happiness, to me, also seems like such a false goal. Happiness is, and should be, a fleeting sensation.

I think the term we generally really mean when we say happiness is contentedness. Because that is more a state of being than some temporary sensation.

And far from just a semantic difference, I think this opens up an entirely different life perspective because it's much more about controlling your response to things, particularly those outside your control than it is about pursuing some carrot of happiness that will always slip away as quickly as it comes.

The Stoics referred to this state of mind as apatheia [1]. It's not apathy, which has the connotation of indifference, but rather the freedom from one's emotions so you can guide your life without being pulled in a million different, and oft irrational, ways by emotion.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheia
> Do we know LLMs are the path to AGI?

Asking this question on HN is like asking a bunch of wolves about the health effects of eating red meat.

OpenAI farts and the post about the fart has 1000-1500 upvotes with everyone welcoming our new super intelligent overlords. (Meanwhile nothing actually substantially useful or groundbreaking has happened.)
I don't think anyone is saying that porn is healthy or something anyone should consume. Or smoking or whatever, but unhealthy enjoyable things are trillion dollar industries regardless.

The thing is though, LLMs do whatever you tune them to do. If you train them on a sycophantic corporate drone butler dataset, you get the average assistant model that's obviously a bad fit for this use case. If you train them on something else, you get whatever you want, even someone that challenges you. I wouldn't be surprised if having some sort of simulated soulmate partner thing that also does the job of an educator and life guide will be the norm in the future.
NMS isn't open source nor for the same purpose
First time I saw "PNW"

It probably means Pacific Northwest.
IMAP is simple and elegant and not a "clusterfuck" at all.

(Source: implemented both serverside and clientside IMAP.)

IMAP is basically a database query language and as such it works as it should.
It's rather that we know LLMs are NOT a path to AGI.

The simple fact that AGI's definition has been twisted so much by OpenAI and other LLM providers since the release of GenAI models proves this.
PNW is Pacific North West I take it?

At first I thought it might be some part of Papua New Guinea
Would we really be better served with media returning to being un-interactive and unresponsive? Where just getting on TV was something of note instead of everyone being on the internet. Where there was widespread downright cultish obsession with celebrities. The "We interrupt this news live from Iraq for celebrity getting out of prison news" era.

I think not. The gatekeepers of the old media pretty much died for a reason, that they seriously sucked at their job. Open social media and everyone having a camera in their pocket is what allowed us to basically disprove UFO sightings and prove routine police abuse of power.
could you tell me why? as a german with a pub in every little village i cant see the reason
EU had its chance with smartphones which was murdered 15 years ago. These legal attempts to "standardize" are so miserable to watch. Instead of legal diarrhea, perhaps consider the fact that 40% of monthly paycheck goes to hell and that housing availability are killing any innovation and mobility within EU.
In German there's also the word Stammtischparole (barroom cliché). It basically describes views and ideas so populist that no one dared to say outside the Stammtisch. Until recently…
Justine, you need to learn to think for yourself.
Any additional publicity about this is a good thing in my book. When an application dumps a bunch of rubbish in my home directory, my day gets worse.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but writing your own HTTP server ("trivial to build"?) to avoid bugs in other implementations doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
I believe like me may be targeted, not because they want to kill or torture us, but they can use us since our outlook and actions are more easily manipulated.

I had such an interaction in real life, an attempt of an agency to use me. This interaction was seen by a friend or else I would have dismissed it.

One cannot easily dismiss these claim since there is a history oif the CIA experimenting on Schizos.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/intent-harm-cia-schizop...

"He sat in a chair, had headphones placed upon him, and was subjected to statements, screams and noises designed to frighten. Electrodes were placed upon his body, his heart rate, body temperature and sweat level measured."

And this, a bill banning "mind control"? Psychotronic weapons? Mood management?

https://sgp.fas.org/congress/2001/hr2977.html

through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or

https://sgp.fas.org/congress/2001/hr2977.html
Check for fungal infections or something similar. Black mold exposure can also produce lung problems that go undiagnosed.
Your neighbor is likely in your contacts and their lightbulbs are likely owned by them was part of their devices.
Excellent, thank you - great resource, and nice meme :-)
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There are two types of good books: short ones, and longer ones with indicies and summaries after each chapter. Then there is the other 95%. Or is it 99%?

Its hard to write a good book. That makes them so valuable.
Bird flu pandemic.
Nissan and Honda announce merger plans to create no. 3 automaker
Tampermonkey scripts with chatgpt is even faster. Adding a functionality to a website just by pasting the site's html in chatgpt and in 2min I get what I need.
Depends on the competition of course. They need an edge to stop me going to the bald guy and running it there.
What even is to the north west of the pacific ocean, do they mean Korea/Japan?
Really bullish on AI, huh?

Designing an engine?

“[snuffs] out common diseases”?

Solving SEO?

Idk cotton, let’s see how this plays out.
It’s interesting that even if raw computing power had advanced decades earlier, this type of AI would still not be possible without that vast trove of data that is the internet.
> It's fantastically useful to know (for example) not just that two lists aren't equal, but specifically what elements differ.

Pytest shows the diff as well when using assert:

> assert y == x
E assert [1, 2, 3] == [1, 4, 3, 6]
E
E At index 1 diff: 2 != 4
E Right contains one more item: 6
E Use -v to get more diff
Prediction: Musk will call it x-coin.
Wow, that sounds literally crazy. I fear people use it as an excuse for taking antisocial actions based on intrusive thoughts.

Glad you're doing better. Crazy how the gut and mind are connected.
Sure, and we're the vocal (?) minority here. The SOHO/corporate/family world will uncritically use whatever shit MS regurgitates for them for all the usual reasons.
I coined the term "fancy cruise control" on reddit, as a joke, to describe Autopilot. One of the mods of the self-driving car sub thought the term was so funny he made a joke subreddit for it. A few years later Tesla lawyers invoked the term in court to downplay the capabilities of autopilot in court.
Yeah, I disagree. Inheritance is the wrong tool for the job 99% of the time anyway.
Curiously there’s someone else in this same comment thread also using PNW without explaining the abbreviation.

It’s giving me Baader-Meinhof phenomenon vibes.

Anyway, for the benefit of non-Americans, the “PNW” is basically Seattle and Portland, and it’s mostly like California but with winters.
Western North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean.
Come on and give me some arguments instead.
We’re in fact adding more water to the seas, not drying them out.
Coke, PepsiCo Lobby to Keep Sugary Sodas in Food-Stamp Program
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-soda-snap-food-st...
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You might be interested in Attention Economy:

> Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems.
That is not correct. It uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct just like AirDrop does. I just shared a video from a Samsung phone to a Motorola phone. Both had Wi-Fi and mobile data turned off. Unless there is some conspiracy where both devices secretly connect to Samsung servers for the exchange, what you are saying is not correct.
Your cost but not the cost.
Crocodile from hit film Crocodile Dundee dies peacefully, zoo says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland used to be (part of) a sea.
Never ask a question of a friend when you know the answer will be a lie.