skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I'm being served tampered content every single time I access HTTP, so the last time that happened coincides with the last time I used a HTTP URL.

Here are two hurdles:

1. Can you prove me wrong?

2. Next, given 1, can you rationally justify not rolling out HTTPS everywhere.

In other words, is it actually a valid argument that "often, nothing bad happens when you use HTTP, so it is okay".

Tampering of content has nothing to do with your privacy; it's a security matter. A nefarious man-in-the-middle could insert content which attacks your browser or redirects it to a malicious site, etc.

That attacker could be on a network close to you, or a network close to the site. It's not a matter of trusting or not trusting the original site that serves the HTTP.

Therefore it doesn't matter that you're just accessing the site as an anonymous visitor without an authenticated account, just viewing public content.
AI is a great example of this.
Search engines as well.

Legally and morally they should ask the permission for each content they crawl / ingest, but they do not.
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Is blame going to help fix the problem?
Bot authors are lazy and won't until they have to.. once you do, you can then pretend they aren't bots and include them in the engagement numbers you feed prospective shareholders.
> Who is saying demand is so high?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/cars/musk-tesla-cars-value-ev...
It does and yet this seems to highly simplifying things.

Consider the US scoped studies studies showing that the population doesn't get what it wants. They showed that policy follows the whims of the wealthy even in the cases where the population overwhelmingly agrees on a contrary direction. So the data says "no", control has been removed from us.

Part of the complication is that the determined action of a few actors can efficiently spoil the efforts of communities.
> Just that sharing the code is way better

And I disagree with that and think that you are overestimating the gain brought by sharing the code and are underestimating the possible problems that sharing the code bring.

At CERN, there are 2 generalistic experiments, CMS and ATLAS. The policy is that people from one experiment are not allowed to talk of undergoing work with people from the other. You notice that they are officially forbidden, not "if some want to discuss, go ahead, others may choose to not discuss". Why? Because sharing these details is ruining the fact that the 2 experiments are independent. If you hear from your CMS friend that they have observed a peak at 125GeV, you are biased. Even if you are a nice guy and try to forget about it, it is too late, you are unconsciously biased: you will be drawn to check the 125GeV region and possibly notice a fluctuation as a peak while you would have not noticed otherwise.

So, no, saying "I give the code but if you want you may not look at it" is not enough, you will still de-blind the community. As soon as some people will look at the code, they will be biased: if they will try to reproduce from scratch, they will come up with an implementation that is different from the one they would have come up with without having looked at the code.

Nothing too catastrophic either. Don't get me wrong, I think that sharing the code is great, in some cases. But this picture of saying that sharing the code is very important is just misunderstanding of how science is done.

As for the other "specific data", yes, some data is better not to share too if it is not needed to reproduce the experiment and can be source of bias. The same could be said about everything else in the scientist process: why sharing the code is so important, and not sharing all the notes of each and every meetings? I think that often the person who don't understand that is a software developer, and they don't understand that the code that the scientist creates is not the science, it's not the publication, it's just the tool, the same way a pen and a piece of paper was. Software developers are paid to produce code, so code is for them the end goal. Scientists are paid to do research, and code is not the end goal.

But, as I've said, sharing the code can be useful. It can help other teams working on the same subject to reach the same level faster or to notice errors in the code. But in both case, the consequence is that these others teams are not producing independent work, and this is the price to pay. (and of course, they are layers of dependence: some publications tend to share too much, other not, but it does not mean some are very bad and others very good. Not being independent is not the end of the world. The problem is when someone considers that sharing the code is "the good thing to do" without understanding that)
Since their bots are desperate for new content create as many SEO (spam) pages as you can on new domains that include millions of variations promoting your product as the authority.

Then once the bots figure out everyone is doing this they will implement some algo based on backlinks to assign "Authority".
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You're right, but history has shown that increasing the productivity also leads to increased demand, which is good news as long as humans remain involved for some percentage of the work
They also describe a new benchmark / evaluation, but tbh is there any evidence that this even works? (telling GPT-4 to check the output as if it were checking student essays) We know it cannot really do this, and the model used will not even stay consistent if there are updates.
Oh, that's interesting. So in the TPM case, I could not have a password to have an encrypted volume? And if I removed that hard drive from the computer, there would be no way to recover it? But from the user's perspective, it would be transparent and they might not even know it's encrypted?
exactly ... Gemini 2.0 Flash ranks better on quality, is faster, and cheaper if you assume same pricing as 1.5 (might go down).

these models are being commoditized.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3
It's more just that your day to day *should* change over the course of 15-20 years. What I'm referring to are situations like people who have current day to days that read exactly the same as it did in the early aughts. For instance poking at pre-generics Java to parse XML files, populating some enterprise beans, and pushing to a web page using whatever the heck framework was in vogue back then.

There's nothing wrong with someone turning their brain off and working in that role for 20 years. But they shouldn't be surprised if their experience is completely irrelevant in the modern job market. If one wants to develop new experiences and their job won't provide that over a long period of time (say 5-10 years of employment, not every 6 months!) then it's time to consider the tradeoffs you're making.
Juries are far less incompetent than they're made out to be, not least because both sides get to describe what's happening.

And you can't even get evidence of intent from this anyway because DRM circumvention tools don't actually come with a ski mask and a set of lockpicks. You install a tool called "video downloader" which supports a hundred sites and 10% of them have some kind of DRM which it automatically strips in the background, you may not even be aware that it's happening when you use it.
It turns out 9,300+ word articles are NOT popular on Hacker News! :)
If it is triggered by the customizations you did in Firefox, then running a fresh Firefox in a container might help:

docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY --net=host -v $XAUTHORITY:/root/.Xauthority -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix debian:12-slim

Then inside the container, run:

apt update
apt install firefox-esr
firefox
It looks more like Brave (the original idea), an adblocker that actually replaces ads and pays you rewards.
The sad part is that it's trivial to get around CF's bot protection if you're writing a bot (just use curl-impersonate and buy residential IPs), but it's pretty much impossible to bypass as a human if their magical black box doesn't like your browser and/or IP address.
Probably have to sweep across the frequency bands, so it's physically the only way to do it. Still stupid to do it more than once every 15 minutes
read the thread, people also found that it also stole code from uBO
I'm convinced that's mostly incompetence on the side of the companies that implement that protection.

"We have a problem with bots" - "Just create a firewall rule, whatever"
TFA is HN parlance to refer to the article. It’s not really profane, some people expand it to “the fine article”, but in my usage it has meaning independent of its expansion, akin to how lol does not actually refer to laughing out loud.
"The models particularly struggle with open-ended diagnostic reasoning.”

The models struggle with reasoning ... period.

Any apparent reasoning ability is really a statistical simulation thereof drawing on similarity with training data.
The formulations in attention as rnn have similar issues as rwkv. Fundamentally it's a question of what we call an RNN.

Personally I think it's important not to call some of these recent architectures RNNs because they have theoretical properties that do not match (read: they're worse) what we've "classically" called RNNs.

Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08819

As a rule of thumb: you generally don't get parallelism for free, you pay for it with poorer expressivity.
> - The "unsubscribe" button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge.

Maybe indeed could be held liable here? From the can spam act (if you're from the US):

> You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...
Finally something that future historians can actually dig up from the ground to learn about us!
A problem usually must be accurately identified to be fixed.
"...for decency" [...given the current ambient incentive structure]
> it's those who own vs those who rent

Or those with pensions vs. those without
I don't know how recent, recent is, but Moana had great music too.
Still allow for the multimillion dollar industrial dozen-megamachine makers.
won't you hippies shut up and think about the shareholders?
I have experience bypassing these.

The primary cause of this is most likely any kind of 'optimizations' you have in your browser (or missing fingerprints).

If you want to 'bypass' these I recommend removing any use of Proxy[1] (via extensions). You should also look into disabling any kind of forced backgrounding. Make sure service workers are working.

1: They catch Proxy usage by using exceptions and analyzing the stacktrace. I assume you know what a javascript proxy is, but incase you don't: It's something that allows you to override any kind of object function such as navigator.hardwareConcurrecy.
Your comment seems a bit weird as it implies a whole generation owns corporations.
The web design's relatively minimalistic and clean. Saw the ruby annotation thing a bit ago in the HTML spec. Seems like there's lots of applications for them that don't get used.

Anybody happen to know of a Latin OCR software that could grab the text parts from Latin documents? Have an interest in translating the Etymologiae of bishop Isidore of Seville, since its one of the main reference texts for education in the middle ages. Just 280 pages of Latin's a bit much for hand copying to text files.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymologiae

[2] Archive.org https://archive.org/details/etymologiaeaddde00isid
The problem with Nitro is that a TEE doesn't really work if the adversary makes your CPUs.

SGX works, conceptually, because of the division of labor between Intel and the people running the machines:

1. Intel can't break into your enclave even by subverting SGX, because it doesn't have access to the computers (isn't your cloud operator or network admin).

2. The people with access to the computer can't break into your enclave, because SGX blocks everyone except the enclave owner and Intel.

With Nitro, Apple's approach and a few others the logic becomes:

1. Amazon can't break into your enclave even if Nitro has a back door because Amazon don't have acces.... oh, wait.

SGX is conceptually sound because subverting it at the design level requires the CPU maker and the cloud operator to team up against you. This could happen, especially if you use a US cloud and the US government gets involved, but the bar is much higher. And of course you can always choose to run the hardware somewhere the USG can't get at it, requiring a coalition of those two governments or providers
Just because you’re out of touch with the community, and your wishes don’t align with the rest of us, doesn’t mean a major event is “spam”.
There was also an interesting article on assistive technology called "How Disabled People Use the Web", or something similar, which looked very silly with the "How" stripped.
It's hard to make profits when you're underwater.
which involves everyone being on discord. Of all the social network platforms I've used/use, discord is the most stratified in terms of people/groups just not using it at all and having no interest in it.

Facebook initially had a wide appeal, discord never did.
> Really should just be building a lot more nuclear plants to drive energy costs to 0

Nuclear costs more than many other alternatives.
Yes, it's almost always justified in any situation where I've heard 'under fired' used.
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This is basically it.

Are the liars of our society shunned and condemned to penury? Nope.

Jeff Skilling (Mr Enron) got out of jail and raised money for a new company. Pull off the fraud synonymous with corporate fraud and get investors.

Former convicted Enron corporate officers enjoy fat speaking fees and cushy consulting gigs.

You can pull off the fraud everyone knows and pay no social price for it.

You can defraud investors by the billions and get a movie about you (Wolf of Wall Street).

You can cook up the disaster that was WeWork and raise hundreds of millions from the most powerful VCs right after.
Over here would be "What happens when real estate is the only investment vehicle without capital gains tax?"
It's gotten pretty bleak.

Even white collar wages are largely stagnant, yet the costs to get those white collar jobs are insane.

In 2006, an MBA from HBS had a total tuition of around $75,000 [0] and net you a $140,000 TC job [1].

In 2024, an MBA from HBS has a total tuition of $170,000 [2] and net you a $200,000 TC job [3].

If this is the situation at Harvard Business School, imagine at other programs or universities who don't have as many doors open. Hell, I haven't even factored housing in the tuition numbers above.

We've entered the same trap Germany and France was in during the 2010s and Japan in the 2000s. For a lot of young people, there's no point even trying if you are still stuck.

Either you spend inordinate amounts of money to tread water and attempt to start a career, or you don't and just remain a NEET. Either way you're unable to hit traditional milestones until you late 30s if you're able to somehow get back on track.

[0] - https://www.hbs.edu/about/annualreport/Documents/2006/HBS-An...

[1] - https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx...

[2] - https://www.hbs.edu/mba/financial-aid/tuition-assistance/Pag...

[3] - https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/employment-data/Pages/default...
The correctly predicted ones would be much more impressive if the average age of the list wasn't over 95. Did they predict that singer's death who fell of the hotel window why he was out of his mind a few months ago? That would have been something.

It looks more like a list of very old people...
I ran into this, or something similar recently when our main connection went down (solar powered) and we switched to Starlink. Due to Starlink NAT issues I had tunneled our traffic to to a box colocated in a data center. This broke a number of web sites in weird ways. Became so annoying that I ended up bringing up a tunnel to our office in town to get back to the regular IP we used. Weird problems went away.
Instead of "left", you can call them liberals or radical centrists, but that would include part of the Republicans as well, and people on the democrat party who really believe in what they say/think.

My preferred is "extreme centre" but that's a bit more niche, and i think pretty much unknown for the anglo world, although Tariq Ali wrote a book on it[0] which is too political for me (i like the politics inside, but the issue is that the only english book that talk about this term is pretty much marked politically when it should be universal[1])

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39705210-the-extreme-cen...

[1] But that's not surprising, it kinda confirm my theory about politics and propension to read outside/academic sources
why would you use an LLM for that? Seems like there are much better options available.
Build and create what? More cheap plastic junk for consumers? Big SUV cars for middle class that could very well drive a Corolla? Cloud services delivering social media that negatively impacts people's mental health, but makes billionaires a lot of money?

Most energy out there already goes to causes that do nothing whatsoever to advance humanity's future or to improve people's lives. Burning fossil fuels to produce that waste of energy is absolute madness.

If we are to waste energy, it should at least be produced in a manner that doesn't doom future generations.
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That's what happens when the neolibs design the economy and no one under 40 can afford to start a family.
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Good luck getting elected on such a platform. Totalitarian states can do that kind of thing, democracies not so much.
No! Just no! :)
I also had a reservation for one - at the $40K price. The product as released is specced lower, costs more than double, and has no shortage of major design flaws resulting in bricked vehicles.

I obviously cancelled my order.

I'm just amazed Tesla can continue to pull off this con.
I often "feel" like I have all the details in my heads and LLMs effectively makes me type faster. But that's never the case. It's only when I start writing the code myself line by line that I discover blindspots.

For example, in freshman year, I remember reading previous exams solutions (rather than drilling practice problems) to prep for a calculus midterm. It felt good. It felt easy. It felt like I can easily get the answers myself. I barely passed.

My point is LLMs are probably doing more inference/thinking than we give it credit for. If it's making my life easier, it has to be atrophy-ing something right?
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Where Are the Intelligent Robots?
I recently watched a YouTube video where someone reacted to Sam Altman's
statements. One comment he made left me wondering if I've missed something in
the current "AI summer." Altman suggested that "robots will do all current jobs
on our behalf, and we humans must therefore find new things to do."

If I understood correctly, it seems like OpenAI's leader is implying that large
language models (LLMs) have something significant to contribute to robotics.
This strikes me as curious because, as far as I know, these are two very
different problem domains. Only one (LLMs) has experienced rapid advancements
recently, while the other (robotics) hasn’t.

Robotics in the physical world demands fast and precise responses. A robot
walking to a grocery store and picking up items, for example, needs quick
and accurate decision-making to avoid falling, breaking things, or picking up
the wrong items. LLMs, on the other hand, provide slow, approximate answers
that often resemble truth but can include hallucinations. This works well
for paraphrasing non-exact information but seems ill-suited to the precision
robotics requires.

So, my questions are:

1. Have LLMs contributed to advancements in robotics?
2. Is there any reason to believe they will?

From my understanding, the current paradigm of LLMs relies on scaling compute
power for diminishing returns, which is the opposite of what useful robotics
needs: efficient and accurate computation.
Unfortunately the "first past the post" system used in the USA and UK are effectively a form of prisoner's dilemma. The best thing to do is for everyone to not vote for one of the two oligarchy parties, but if only a small number do that it's meaningless.
Agreed. From my past experiences though, a very good chunk of them will give up once there is a resistance. Basically, you want your bot protection to just be a little better than your competitor. Then the bot author will target them instead, because of the path of least resistance.