skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sub-issues are good, with more relationship types coming (dependencies, not just parent-child). The better search is welcome. However there are some questions for me in relation to the overall semantics of labels, issue types and project fields.

Labels are repo only and multi valued. Issue types are organisation wide and single valued, project fields are the richest, but no multi-valued option, and they end up in a disjointed place in the API (you can't get at them easily when what you have is the issue, you have to go in via the project).

An example of this disjointed feeling it that there are no "issue type"s for a PR. This means that if you want to share metadata between PR and Issues, you have to use labels anyway.

I do wonder if types could have been better implemented as namespaces for labels. This combined with being able to have organisation or repo context label namespaces would have allowed for far more flexibility.

The other thing that vanished from the public roadmap amongst all this was support for better workflows. Currently there's no easy way to create allowed state transitions between metadata state (e.g in a project stop issues being able to skip the QA status).

The attention this area is getting is welcome, and there are many good things in there, but it does feel a bit disjointed. A more unified metadata model would be welcome.
That is incorrect in this case. The "censoring" was done by the legislative branch, congress.

The "uncensoring" is done by the executive branch.
If only they made a process to change it…
>OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset

Their head mathematician says they have the full dataset, except a holdout set which they're currently developing (i.e. doesn't exist yet):

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1i4n0r5/commen...
“… we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training”

Ha ha ha. Even written agreements are routinely violated as long as the potential upside > downside, and all you have is verbal agreement? And you didn’t disclose this?

At the time o3 was released I wrote “this is so impressive that it brings out the pessimist in me”[0], thinking perhaps they were routing API calls to human workers.

Now we see in reality I should’ve been more cynical, as they had access to the benchmark data but verbally agreed (wink wink) not to train on it.

[0: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=agnosticmantis#42476... ]
Given how laws and American rights have been established to work. Yes, absolutely. They just need a legally acceptable reason to do so separate from the speech. Banning a platform because of speech they don't want isn't allowed, but banning a platform for other reasons is, even if that platform also happens to facilitate speech.

Like with tik tok, the ban itself isn't a speech issue because there's nothing bytedance can change about it's communication to not be banned, it's an ownership problem.
> If 999/1000 tiktoks you see are of one particular viewpoint, you don't think the audience is going to draw specific conclusions?

So what? If you watch InfoWars all day you'll also draw specific conclusions. If you watch PressTV all day you'll also draw specific conclusions. The point is that Americans can draw whatever conclusions they want, and that limiting info to only "approved" sources is authoritarian
It depends on who you are. If you're a straight white guy then completely zoning out might be the right answer. If you are an immigrant then knowing that ICE is raiding Chicago on Tuesday is very important information.
Phoenicia will rise again
This is misleading. Most of the places that might want to ban US social networks were already doing so.
Yes, I hate those too. But I have RSI, I'm very sensitive. Any trackpad gets me sore after a few minutes. But also bad mice. For example it's impossible for me to use the Apple "Magic" mouse. It's wayyyyy too flat and cramps my hand after a few minutes. Form over function. Though not as bad as the completely idiotic puck mouse which I've also used in "my time".

Also I hate the sharp metal edges at the front of macbooks that leave marks on my wrists. I don't use MacBooks anymore (or Mac in general as I found it too opinionated and locked down).
The Evolution of Copilots and AI Agents: Insights from Tech Giants
Sadly only for the people in very techinal field. Most of the common consumer products are impossible to use local-only.
> Every single house in the modern world has running water...reflects how thoroughly we've solved all the actually hard problems of water infrastructure.

It's worth pointing out that even in the US, the richest nation on Earth, millions of Americans don't have access to clean, safe. drinkable water. We still have a lot of hard problems in water infrastructure that need to be solved. It's not only problems in the engineering of those systems, but also in the management of those systems as much of our existing infrastructure is both inadequate in terms of meeting our current and projected needs and literally falling apart and at risk of failure.

We're way ahead of Rome in a ton of areas, but we're still nowhere near where should be. Look at our grades:

Dams: D

Drinking water: C-

Inland waterways: D+

Levees: D

Stormwater: D

Wastewater: D+

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/infrastructure-categori...
I don’t particularly care what is traditional.

There’s a significant base of users that prefer light mode and dark mode so provide both, it’s generally not difficult to do so.

I disagree that apps should tone down light mode. It’s better that all apps use the same brightness and contrast and then users can adjust their monitor to suit their individual preference.
> There's a few exceptions.

No, there's not “a few exceptions”. It's really rather common for aites not to display in Reader Mode at all; far too common to be called “exceptions”, and nowhere near “a few”.
The other option is to give a random website your Twitter username and password or install a browser extension.
So what? Recommendation engine is just the same thing as a newspaper editor who picks and chooses what is read by everyone in circulation and what's not. But we allow foreign adversary newspapers to circulate in the US (and did during the height of the Cold war too)
Feel free to crack on yourself but I imagine this would be met with great resistance.
> for those who have the means to choose

interesting qualification.

maybe conservation should start with the masters of the universe who fly private jets all over the world etc. and emit more than the rest of us do all year in a matter of hours.
Buy-in from the community is indeed the hard part but I have friends running irc and phpbb we hang out in, and matrix is more or less viable to self host for a group chat, it’s just that 100x more people are using Discord and Signal because of network effects, your one account can give you access to a million communities.

I guess activitypub and matrix are meant to be similar in that regard but for whatever reason the learning curve is just a little steeper, so you have to be motivated by ideology to put up with the gaps in usability
Hard disagree: your own government at least has the incentive to make the country better (or at least appear so) to seek reelection. A foreign adversarial government has the incentive to limit the growth and power of the other country, in so far as it affects their own country.

Should you care about what your own government does with your data? Absolutely, 100%, no doubt, big ticket issue, fly the banners as visibly as possible. But more than an adversary? Not even close.
This don’t really matter much because if the models suck when it comes out evals mean nothing next time
How does one depart something that does not exist
Don't forget to adjust for survivor bias. You don't see all the terrible houses that they built in the 1920's because, well, they didn't last. But you better believe that then just like now plenty of people were throwing together houses in the cheapest way possible.
When was the last time a fan went to a football game under a contract other than the one preprinted onto the ticket stock? If the answer is "never", then the terms are most definitely not negotiated.
People CAN see multiple viewpoints in minutes, and some do, problem is hundreds of millions more prefer to let TikTok select what views to see.

And TikTok has immense data available about what series of reels sway what subpopulation in what direction. Only question is of they make use of it.

My opinion is that if they wanted to sway an election anywhere in the world they definitely could.
No.

UK's pay is extremely low. And you know that it is VERY difficult to earn beyond £80k/yr as a SWE outside of top foreign employers in the UK like Google or Citadel. More likely, you'll stagnate at £50-60k.

And when factoring the UK's CoL being comparable to some of the more expensive American cities (SF, NYC, Boston) yet salaries being a fraction of those available there, it makes sense why engineering isn't well regarded, and plenty of people either switch to finance or immigrates to the States, Australia, or Canada.
No. But they could ban American companies from providing services directly to that French publisher (e.g., a US company couldn't print books for or sell paper to that French publisher). However, a US law could not stop me from legally reading a copy I owned, or from selling or giving that copy to someone else within the US...

The First Amendment case would be much clearer if this was actually about banning access to TikTok (it's not: TikTok self-blocked US users, Amazon/Oracle shut off servers, and app stores stopped distributing to US users). TikTok could choose to operate their service (like many other Chinese companies) using only non-US infra and without relying on American companies to distribute their app; indeed, the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, hosted entirely from Chinese servers, continued to work just fine.

This case is also a reminder of why the iOS App Store is so bad for rights: at least on Android, you could sideload a 'banned' app; Google can comply with the law and US users can still download TikTok. On iOS, you don't have that option.
Yes

The "true black" OLED displays have their part of the display off where there are black pixels, if I am not wrong. So, wouldn't dark mode suit well for those types of displays?
What's even more suspicious is that these tweets from Elliot Glazer indicate that they are still "developing" the hold-out set, even though elsewhere Epoch AI strongly implied this already existed: https://xcancel.com/ElliotGlazer/status/1880809468616950187

It seems to me that o3's 25% benchmark score is 100% data contamination.
> Actually, the alphabet invention was precisely that the same alphabet could be used for different languages.

No. Multiple languages were written with the same alphabet because of the borrowing of that technology by speakers of other languages, not because it was designed as such.

Actually the process of borrowing is fondamental to the emergence of alphabets: the three biggest (by corpus size) logographic scripts all gave birth to more phonetic scripts across language boundaries. That happened with hieroglyphics (the case we are discussing), but also with Sumerian cuneiform > Akkadian writing and Chinese characters > Japanese kanas.
Declaring your intent to create an executive order the next day is not a negotiation
No because some surfaces reflect more of the light than other sufaces.
I really want to love matrix but as it stands right now discord is a lot more usable

While im willing to out up with it, its a hard sell to get your friends to use something worse
I have been taking a course in AI policy and the O1 and the FrontierMath dataset has been an important mark for me to emphasize the world we are moving toward. It is incredibly sad to know about the conflict of interest here. However, those more knowledgeable, can you explain in plain words, does this revelation compromise OAI's claims regarding o3's performance on FrontierMath problems?
The official Python documentation actually comes with a Socket Programming HOWTO that goes over conceptual topics and intended socket API usage:

https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/sockets.html#socket-howto

It gets overlooked because most folks only check the Tutorial and the Standard Library sections.
Electrical noise (including RF noise) is really random, as in it is impossible to predict exact value.

It does have non-flat spectrum, meaning some values are more probable than others, but that only means you need to whiten it. (A rough analogy might be a 6-sided die labeled with 1,1,1,2,3,4 - yes, number 1 is much more likely to come out. No, this does not make it "not really random", and some trivial math can produce ideal random stream out of it)

The only problem with audio input is that you may end up with non-random value - like all-zero output. But properly implemented whitener should detect this and stop outputting any value at all.
Seconding this: you don't try and fix things after the damage has been done, you try and anticipate _where_ and _when_ the damage could be done. In this case, giving a foreign _adversarial_ (<- emphasis) government significant leverage over citizen sentiment is a massive security hole.
That depends entirely on ambient light levels.

All screens are brighter than white paper under moon light, almost none are brighter than white paper under midday sun.
If you look up Frank Karlitschek and "I forked my own project and my own company", he's given this talk many, many times.

As for it being the best of both worlds, it depends what best means.

A company that wants to make a lot of money won't do well with this model. It's a slow growth model requiring a lot of hands on work that requires customers who are paying for features and custom installations.

It's labor intensive work that's quite the opposite of the proprietary software model, which has traditionally had a lot in common with the publishing or entertainment industry. Write a book, get paid for it for years.
Apple actually pioneered the connected standby (though they called it powernap as they have a snazzy marketing name for everything)

I hated it when I had a macbook (from work) because it did sometimes heat up in my backpack. So I always turned it off with pmset.

I have to say though that this was firmly in the intel age, my last personal Macs were a 2010 MacBook and 2011 Mac Mini. I guess this feature works better now that they're on ARM and they can just keep one or two light cores active. But ARM macs are also more locked down so they're not an option for me. Also I really hate their hardware (too little travel on the keys, sharp edges etc). Even when they returned to the old scissor keys the key travel was too short for me.

I'm really happy with KDE these days, it gives me back choice and options on how I want my system to work. The only thing I miss from Apple is pixelmator.
Bambu Lab displays creative conception of security in latest firmware update
3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab has released an update for their X-family of printers. The change introduces the requirement to "authenticate" requests to their printers API, breaking third-party software integrations.
To control a printer remotely, users are now required to use the new "Bambu Connect" software, an electron app in beta state.

Shortly after the release, some people have already reverse engineered the software and extracted the "private" access key, which appears to be hardcoded within the app: https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Reverse_Engineering_Bamb...
The Eternal, Infernal Sound of David Lynch
Calling it right now: give it five years, and even Raspberry Pi will be relocating.

ARM is already somewhat relocating - some of their newest cores, like Cortex A78, were designed in Austin.
I wish there were a law to the effect of "if a copyright holder lies that doing something with their copyrighted work is prohibited, when it's actually allowed, then the work in question immediately and permanently enters the public domain".
Wow, I stand corrected. I thought I read it in their FAQs but the site changed or maybe I remembered it wrong.

That is great to hear though. This makes them way more interesting to me
https://archive.ph/g6q1o
I don't think they'd relocate, but that doesn't matter.

They most likely will pull an ARM and hire almost entirely in the US and India instead of in the UK, because competitive British engineers would immigrate to the States, and you can get top tier Indian chip design talent across the spectrum for $30-60k.
SWE comp will remain elevated as long as there are marginal returns to software development. The capital structure of turing machine programming allows most of revenue to be spent on salaries. The pay is higher because the marginal cost of a new software customer is essentially zero. It's not because programming is way higher skilled than hardware engineering.

You deserve the wages you can command in the market. If the labor pool is limited companies will have to pay more. Maybe AI will change the dynamics. But otherwise hardware will always struggle to compete on pay.
really? cos I feel old, but as far back as I remember usa's vaunted democratic institutions have been a sideshow while the wealthy favour global militarist domination over the needs of ordinary american people.

when did you decide that things went bad?
0proxy.io: The no need for a proxy movement
They have an oral agreement that OpenAI won't use the benchmark in training. Which means first and foremost you have to consider the possibility that they broke that oral agreement and actually included the problems in the training set. Even if they didn't, the fact that they had the problems means they could have selectively chosen the training set data to specialize in solving that class of problem, while still technically keeping the verbal agreement.

So, yeah, the benchmark needs to be treated as essentially worthless at this point.
> It was Microsoft Windows that changed the paradigm to default to a searing white display with black text in most apps

My early 90s Sun SPARCStation was black on white, right from the boot. The xterm default is black on white too, a default that far predates Windows AFAIK.

I don't really know the full history on all of this, but in my limited knowledge, this seems grossly simplified at best since there seem to have been several popular systems before Windows that used white background colours.

[1]: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72A9AHigeQ
Browsers shouldn't set a preferred colour scheme by default.

I think the prefers-color-scheme media query would be respected on more sites if by default it had the value "unset" or something, instead of defaulting to "light" or "dark".

I personally don't respect it on my sites for this reason. 99% of people visiting my sites won't actually have set this value themselves.
Congratulations to Trump to standing up for freedom and against all 9 Supreme Court justices that refused to enforce the First Amendment. People should be free to speak as much as they want on TikTok even though it's mostly useless chatter. In the Koramatsu decision of 1943, legalizing concentration camps for Japanese-Americans, there were 3 dissenting justices. I wish we had some this time.
As an AI developer who does do work with the Pentagon, I don't know anyone amongst my colleagues who doesn't roll their eyes at this ridiculous notion that somehow extracting infinite wealth for the world's richest men isn't just killing people with extra steps. Just because there is more distance between working at Facebook and bombs doesn't mean they aren't still inextricably linked. The idea that anyone can honestly believe "our AI doesn't kill people" is a fantasy. Even serious scientists are already using commercial AI to generate new fentanyl analogues:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12539-024-00623-0

All the AI was always going to be used to kill people all along. Some of us are just more honest about that reality.
What ever happened to GraphCore?
I love this!

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Jira is so abominably slow, that it should be laughed/shamed out of the room in any discussion of useful software.
OpenAI doesn't respect copyright so why would they let a verbal agreement get in the way of billion$
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brayton/

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/brayton.htm...

https://ethw.org/Robert_K._Brayton

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/robert-bray...
The commentary is quite obviously there. Don’t confuse your lack of understanding with a lack of content.
No one can possibly know. They just have all the power to do it very efficiently, without anyone noticing.
> when there was actually an ethos of morality, there were certain lines which weren't crossed

Uh, what? Could you perhaps tell this to the Catholic Church, who DEFINITELY used their capacity as religious leaders to spy on the Japanese on behalf of the Portuguese around, I dunno, the year 1600?

This is simply the easiest answer I could recall because I just watched Shogun.

This limit you’re describing only exists in your head.
never had any real issue using emacs indentation engine (not even sure lisp modes use smie..)
Similar in France / Paris where some American players can easily pay 100K+ euros for SWE. Rest of France salaries are half or even less.
The guy who sits next to you regularly...
Its increasingly odd to see HN activity that assumes the premise: if the latest benchmark results involved a benchmark that can be shown to have any data that OpenAI could have accessed, then, the benchmark results were intentionally faked.

Last time this confused a bunch of people who didn't understand what test vs. train data meant and it resulted in a particular luminary complaining on Twitter, to much guffaws, how troubling the situation was.

Literally every comment currently, modulo [1] assumes this and then goes several steps more, and a majority are wildly misusing terms with precise meanings, explaining at least part of their confusion.

[1] modulo the one saying this is irrelevant because we'll know if it's bad when it comes out, which to be fair, if evaluated rationally, we know that doesn't help us narrowly with our suspicion FrontierMath benchmarks are all invalid because it trained on (most of) the solutions
Channel 5 already did that, it's more like of if they did that and also got to inject each viewer with a little bit of cocaine multiple times a minute while being able to figure out exactly what to show them next and how much cocaine to give them.
I agree with this call to action. Sadly, I think there are more fundamental issues in the UK economy.

For all intents and purposes, Venture Capital is dead in the UK.

While companies do get funded in the UK and are technically "UK domiciled" - in action most of their Engineering and Product teams are located in Eastern Europe or India, or are startups from those markets (and China) who domiciled in the UK to raise from foreign investors.

There just isn't enough liquid capital to invest in the UK compared to other investment classes available.
That's a different argument than the one GP made.

One of the things that makes it more difficult to enforce those obligations is people's mistaken belief that those obligations do not exist.

So when people say those obligations don't exist, they should be told they are wrong.