skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much of the conversation is about profit and economic viability of landing raw materials on Earth under current market conditions... While I don't begrudge that, I think the true game changer for orbital mining is how greater material availability can open brand new frontiers, in other words, make the pie larger, not just compete and change the balance of the existing pie.
I long for arcologies, orbital elevators, orbital habitats. Things that only become truly possible with automated manufacturing and a plunging of energy and material costs by orders of magnitude.
Ok, so Klarna, a company with an already varied reputation, becomes a guinea pig for OpenAI to implement vaporware.

Results are: Siemiatkowski gets an AI avatar that looks far better than him and makes a lot noise about how AI is going to replace everyone.
Those aren't questions that have fixed answers. The data available is pretty far beyond what I'm personally comfortable with though.

One OEM I'm familiar with had such a policy. My org determined that we needed a statistical reference to compare against within a certain area. Some calls were made to the right people and shortly after we had a (mildly) anonymized map of high precision tracks for every vehicle of that brand within the area over some period.
Reminder that to open a jwz.org link from HN you have to bypass the browser sending a Referer header, most easily by right-clicking link -> Copy link and then pasting it into the address box.
Checkout mathacademy.com

Not affiliated but 3 months in and I feel my math foundations are finally solidifying into something that will allow me to build into areas previously out of reach
This video goes through a bunch of examples of the streamer and YouTuber Hasan Piker doing a bunch of propaganda for terrorist groups.

Around the last third of the video, it also goes into examples of Twitch seemingly favoring him and other propaganda spreaders on the Twitch platform while denying access to Israelis for some reason.
Right. It used to be that if you were an influential person you still had to think carefully about what you said in order to convince a journalist to cover it - and to ensure you got positive coverage.

Today's social media environment means there's no need to consider that at all. Just say stuff. The more attention-grabbing it is, the more likely it will be amplified - and if it gets buzz online the media will cover it too.

> Why Is This CEO Bragging About Replacing Humans with A.I.?

Because they want to get attention, ideally that leads to coverage in publications like the NY Times.

... and they have an IPO coming up, so getting the markets excited about betting on an "AI-first" company is a smart strategy. Lots of money out there looking to get in on the current bubble.

Update: yeah, from later in that story:

> A former Klarna manager, who left in 2022, said the rhetorical emphasis on A.I. was no accident. According to the manager, there was a sense within the company that Klarna had lost its sheen in the media and among investors, and that Mr. Siemiatkowski was desperate to get it back.

> The former manager said the A.I. story provided a lifeline at a time when Klarna was hoping to offer shares on the public markets. It demonstrated that the company was still on the cutting edge, and that it was shrinking not because it had faltered but because it had figured out how to replace humans with machines.
Raspberry Pi's "Making a More Resilient File System" document https://pip.raspberrypi.com/categories/685-app-notes-guides-... has instructions on how to configure the eMMC on the CM4 and CM5 to run in pSLC mode. Halving the storage capacity.
Because in the CEO's mind, it creates value for shareholders and is thus a net good for society.

And since we rarely do anything of consequence to dissuade people from thinking like this, it shall continue regardless of the consequences of this delusional thinking.
If you're keen on the ideas of PaperWM, but don't want to lug GNOME around for the ride, niri is great: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

(Though I personally drive niri with a lot of touchpad gestures. Three-finger swipes up/down/left/right etc are great.)
The site's a great rabbit hole to go down for a few days. Woz is the father of digital spaced repetition.

Be aware that it's not peer reviewed, and some of the findings take a lot of experimentation if you want to dive deep and reproduce them.

My understanding is that his thoughts on sleep are pretty controversial within the sleep optimization community.
Theming Gitlab
It would be good for society if the benefits of increased productivity enriched the whole society, but of late that isn't happening very efficiently.
True, while Google sees roughly 85% of all American cardholder swipes and doesn't need to sell it since they're making the ad market...
Why are you concerned? They're adults and know this is blatantly illegal and are serving their lord anyway. They don't even have the pleasure of deniability since the government officials literally stepped in, physically blocked them, and told them they weren't allowed.

Personally, I hope they get what's coming to them.
This is just a link to the following article

https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...

It is not written by jwz.
And I here was sure that the name was French, like the dude who had sadism named after him.
This is a wonderful write up. The part that isn't clear to me is how they're getting the geolocation data if location services are turned off. Are they just going off geo-ip lookups? If you grant access to Bluetooth or finding devices on your local network, they can get more information to track your location. Absent that, how would they get better than geo-ip?
I haven't worked through it, but Michael Nielsen has a great article about this: https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics.
Or just go here:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...
It’s entirely a link to this article, so head right there: https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...
Show HN: Pactory – AI Agents Marketplace integrated with Flowise and Langflow
We've got to our open beta with Pactory - marketplace for AI agents, that allows to connect an agent from any supported building solution or custom API, distribute and monetize it.

What we've seen for current AI Agent Marketplaces is that they only allow you to monetize an agent built on their solution. This results in most of them being drastically worse than those built on open-source LangChain-based frameworks.

Because of that we don't do any agent building / no-code creation or deployment inside. We allow the users to choose any framework they like, and we integrate with a lot of them to make the process streamlined. Currently we support Flowise, Langflow, Chatbotkit, and have a few new ones coming with official integrations.
We also support Custom API that accepts our payload.
All covered in our docs: https://docs.pactory.ai/introduction

Our way is that we focus on distribution - availability in search results, social apps (slack, discord etc.), API usage, direct sales from us, and monetization - billing, statistics, payments based on usage with Stripe Connect, we get a 10% cut and that's it.

Would be really happy to hear your thoughts!

Discord for feedback:
https://discord.com/invite/MBV2T4avFG

Contacts:
km@pactory.ai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/makosst/
The Zizians are the ones whose beliefs said that shooting people was justified, not the "rationalists".
SuperMemo 19 (2024 - Desktop/Windows) has incremental reading support

https://super-memory.com/help/read.htm

Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer
What's missing is discoverability -- something Apple used to claim to care about.
Measuring China's Policy Stringency on Climate Change for 1954–2022
Maybe, but that revolutionary-for-its-time language is now a language that uses "long dead" stack based conventions. We don't balk at it as an alternative to awk, we balk at it when it's used instead of a modern scripting language like Python, JS, or even "in betweeners" like Lua or Go.
> The current trade agreements were negotiated by Trump in his last term, and are well balanced.

I'd contend that they were already unbalanced in favour of the US. Canada gets some supply management, while the US gets to maintain softwood lumber tariffs and greatly extends copyright protection.
I'm giving the first talk of the session and while I'll be talking about ideas we've actually built and tested in Convex, the point I want to get across is that I think the industry has gone in the wrong direction with exposing databases to clients and using an inexpressive declarative language to query them. Will be trying to avoid any shilling because I feel like this is a pretty important discussion to have.
Related. Others?

Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41137694 - Aug 2024 (100 comments)
> Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians ...

> That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

Amen! are there any beneficent billionaires willing to fight dirty? I don't know much about George Soros but if he's demonized by the GOP maybe he should step up and do some of the things he's been accused of.
dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867349
Musk could not get US Security Clearance

He cannot enter certain facilities or meetings at SpaceX because of that.

Yet now he is bypassing that requirement.

None of these people are elected or confirmed by the Senate and they are doing extremely sensitive things to the government

That's not how any of this is supposed to work by law.
I don't see Tao claiming ChatGPT proved a theorem. Moreover most questions seemed to be about something already talked about online, so it seems plausible that it was included in the training data. This is IMO a big issue with evaluating LLMs, you can't keep asking the same questions because you can't be sure they will eventually answer by memory or actually reason.
Separate question, what are your ethics around the surveillance of Americans' economic activities by private actors? What "rights" are relevant in this space and which do you subscribe to?

I'm not going to debate you about anything, I just don't get the chance to ask insiders any of these questions.
> free yourself from these preconceptions

I have, but patriarchal societies have a tendency to accommodate--even encourage--violence against those who don't exhibit "conformity to their preconceptions". It is those categories subject to violence from which we exclude ourselves when we abandon gender labels. We are not "men" and "women" just as we are not "n***," or "k*."

It has absolutely nothing to do with biological fact, which we fully support. True, we "don't owe anyone conformity," but this is a practical matter of evading violence, and words are cheaper than bodies*. So we abandon words to preserve our bodies.
Means to…what end is the big question. Unfortunately, this touches on life’s biggest mystery - what is our purpose? Why are we alive? More close to the situation - what is the purpose of a company? Wealth creation for who?

I’ve been joking with friends and family that when there are no jobs and the rich elite are even richer, the only way to make more than universal income would be to invest in stocks and become another “shareholder”.
Low level details like that aren’t relevant to this discussion. Most human processing power is at the cellular level. The amount of processing power in a single finger literally dwarfs a modern data center, but we can’t leverage that to think only live.

So it’s not a question of ‘a lot’ it’s a question of orders of magnitude vs “the quantities used to train AI”

Library of congress has what 39 million books, tokenize every single one and you’re talking terabytes of training data for an LLM. We can toss blog posts etc to that pile but every word ever written by a person isn’t 20 orders of magnitude larger or anything.
I believe that's opt-in. At least it seemed to be when my landlord switched to Bilt.

There's a section of your Bilt profile that shows your other credit cards and whether you want them linked. It's pretty freaky to see them listed in the first place.

I definitely keep them off.

Bilt is ultimately a big points/reward program though, so you might get points for having them connected.

I still haven't figured out exactly what Bilt's business plan is, but the main part seems to be trying to get as much financial data on people as possible, and partnering with landlords to do so, and since it's how to pay your rent you can't unenroll completely. (Unless you maybe mail your landlord a paper check?)
Well there goes a front for covert ops.

Bush & Obama used it to fund anti-Castro media.
You know what is more effective than spaced repitition? Reading, listening, and doing to the thing you are interested in. Anki gives you fact that are disjointed from what you need. using the skill forces a study of what is important not facts that are of no use.

i'm not saying spaced repititon is useless - it is a great beginners tool. However you need to move on as soon as possible. once you can use the skill that is better in gereral. Doctors use spaced repition more than most because there are a lot of rare things they will never encounter but mixed in is one rare thing they need to know instantly and they cannot know in advance what that thing is. Almost nothing else is both like that and doesn't allow time to look it up.

note that reading/doing something is itself spaced repititon. It isn't algorithemic but it is still randon spacing of things you need to know and the more you need it the more often it repeats
If the goal is for you to be understood in a foreign language, this will become possible in the near future with real time translation with something as simple as an AirPod. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUnEfiIqP4
GeoDeep: AI object detection and semantic segmentation in geospatial rasters
I do use GitHub releases already https://github.com/DepsHubHQ/depshub/releases

You can subscribe by clicking on Watch -> Custom -> Releases.
You're not an American, so maybe you aren't aware how widespread conspiracy theories are in the US and how much they influence the public discourse. As a trivial example, the American Senate is currently interviewing the nominee for the head of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, CDC, and FDA, among other agencies.

The nominee, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has been very outspoken in his opinions, some of which are:

Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain"
Chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender
Antidepressants are to blame for school shootings
AIDS is not be caused by HIV
the Covid is designed to target white and black people but not Ashkenazi Jews

This nominee will likely be approved. These opinions are shared by a significant body of people who voted for the president who nominated him.
I find it a shame that routers don’t have this information in their UIs already. They should be able to show all the IPs visited by each device on the network
I sometimes use Docker for this, assuming you are talking about running Linux on x86-64.
First Compliance Deadline of EU's AI Act Has Arrived
Honestly the path to "UBI" is probably just socialized/subsidized basic needs.

Build masses of government housing, make a healthcare public option with sliding-scale costs, and you're 90% of the way there - food and decent low-end broadband are frankly already cheap enough for the government to cover with maybe some "Don't gouge Uncle Sam or else" clauses and that's about everything.
> The company said that using A.I. tools had cut back on the time that its in-house lawyers spend generating standard contracts — to about 10 minutes from an hour

No-one got replaced. Just more efficient.

> its communications staff uses the technology to classify press coverage as positive or negative.

Classify more press coverage! Great! Humans get more effective. You need less people classifying press coverage, you'll hire fewer of those people and more people doing the higher-level work that is now possible.

This is about job-role compression: people do more things once the specialty parts of a role are done by others & AI.

Three present day examples:

1. small-company office managers now also manage the SaaS tools and staff email accounts. That used to be a whole IT department but it shrank and shrank to now be one aspect of the office manager's daily work. Notion, Slack, etc subscriptions cover the costs of those companies operating the systems, keeping them secure, adding features, making their admin UIs usable etc. But: the amount of work to maintain your company's installation will never go to zero.

2. illustration skills: to illustrate a fictional storybook for my niece's birthday, I am using Stable Diffusion (Automatic1111 and img2img - eg. [1]) Giving photos of her and her family a cartoony, "Pixar" look lets me write a fun narrative. It is exciting and powerful because pre-AI I would have to go back and forth with a trained illustrator. That would take months and be wildly expensive. Learning to draw myself is several years with huge opportunity cost. So I can make something solo that previously needed more humans and a ton of communication overhead. That said - we don't have AI (yet) that can "make me a storybook about my niece, here's a bunch of photos". So I am guiding the process.

3. software engineering with LLMs. You skip a ton of typing - but once you reduce the typing, suddenly the proportion of time thinking, architecting, reading code, and deciding what to ask for next goes way up.

Job-role compression makes humans more valuable: for example coding with LLMs frees you to think higher-level.

Any leader saying otherwise has either an ulterior motive (press?) or can't see the truth. If it's the latter, plan your escape.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac_WQSy2ek8
I have a colleague that uses AI to comment on RFCs. It is so clearly machine generated, that I wonder if I am the only one to see it.
He is a good colleague though, but as he is a bit junior, it is still not clear to me if AI is helping him to improve faster or if it is hindering his deep learning of stuff.
This is a fantastic analogy!
It's not as if we're holding them to a higher standard than the one we use for ourselves. If you bit off and ate someone's leg you'd be a criminal too.
Yes, this is the reason why it's sort of illegal, but done anyways.

Honestly, beyond paying fewer fees on the bus as a kid, I'm pretty sure I'm being scammed everytime I experience price discrimination.

I feel it's easier to make it illegal and give away reasonable credits to all consumers. I wouldn't discriminate in credits either, I'd rather have public transportation being free for all than claim to save money that society needs to spend anyway.

It doesn't help that lying about the price at any point just makes accounting harder, and creates space for wrong, uncompetitive pricing, or awful deals that would hurt business and society in the longer term anyway.
Preparation H, they should practice some level of sensitivity with such information.
ed is the standard editor
Well mine can, with some tactics and strategy layered on top. If I do something I don’t like, I only do it because the payoff later makes it worth it (or at least I think it will from my current knowledge).
I am trained as a trial attorney. I believe I do not fall for conspiracy theories, false flags, etc.

But I am shaking. Scared. Shocked.

This video was created on Nov 13th. Predicting exactly what is happening right now at the White House. I don't know what to do. I can't relax. I am stunned. Please watch.
Pihole will show you devices and the domains they access, it's not particularly designed towards that end, but it can.

You can sit down with them and have a look at their history?

I use Pihole to block nefarious sites (malware etc.) but also I use the OpenDNS (now Cisco) family friendly DNS addresses as nameservers. I can add domains if needed through the Pihole interface, or through the OpenDNS interface (former is easier).

It's not watertight, but I figure if they can work out how to workaround it then they're at a level where I should give more generic guidance. They get exposed to porn and what not on social media (which I don't block) and through friends at school and through their friends devices, or connecting to other networks I don't have control over. Easiest workaround imo is to fire up a browser that uses TOR.

Mind you we're a computer/consoles only in family rooms household and they don't get phones until they go to highschool (11yo).
Love or hate RFK, but we now realize healthcare cost comes from chronic disease. Could Novo, Hims and Costco join forces to fix food and health.
That’s pretty interesting. What was the purpose of the statistical sample? What did your company want to know precisely?
I don't know for certain, but it does seem to fit the trend of some extremely high-volume, low-margin chip that starts out in one use-case and gets put everywhere else where it meets or exceeds the needed specs.

As a hobbyist, it makes me wonder how I can make use of this for my own needs - without having to make a custom PCB, which I know other hobbyists have succeeded in, but I'd like to keep my initial attempts simple.
I agree but small stick to beat them is better than none.

I guess best solution would be usage of some proxy which intercepts these calls or provide fake data to them. As op in the article did.
Probably referring to Jobs' initial stance that HTML5 is more than sufficient for "apps". Of course, he acquiesced and eventually added the App Store.
Water-powered, electronics-free dressings that electrically stimulate wounds
I’d check out multipass from canonical. IIRC you can specify the image it uses.
> No one in neuroscience, psychology or any related field can point to reasoning or 'consciousness' or whatever you wish to call it and say it appeared from X.

This is not a good argument. Natural systems, the subject of neuroscience/psychology, are much harder to analyze than artificial systems. For example, it's really difficult to study atmospheric gases and figure out Boyle's/Charles law. But put a gas in a closed chamber and change pressure or temperature and these laws are trivially apparent.

LLMs are much more legible systems than animal brains, and they are amenable to experiment. So, it is much more likely that we will be able to identify what "reasoning" is by studying these systems than animal brains.

P.S. Don't think we are there yet, as much as internet commentators might assert.
The risk of casualties from the uncontrolled re-entry of spacecraft
> My understanding is an electoral majority of Americans believe that this soft power is in better hands if it is ceded to other nations such as Russia and China and/or others.

A plurality of voters believing something does not make it true.
True.

Also this:

"Because Animal is a Protocol, any class that defines feed() becomes an Animal"

is slightly incorrect.

By default, protocols are only relevant for static type analysis, but you _can_ enable runtime instance checking using the @runtime_checkable decorator.

(So you can do "if isinstance(foo, Animal):...", but AFAIK this decorator comes with a performance penalty)
Food is pretty cheap. Or at least stables are. Same goes for clothing, it might be somewhat worse than it used to be, but it is incredibly cheap.

Lot of stuff is very cheap to buy, so I would say that some efficiency gains do go to consumers.
> Even most intelligent people can hallucinate, we still haven't fixed this problem.

No we have not, neurodiverse people like me need accommodations not fixing.
Pihole is at domain level though, you'd have to MitM to get URIs.
Before even!
Yes, once you sign on a dotted line your ability to take it back may be limited. "Didn't mean to offer..." or "had a change of mind about the offer's validity period" may it may not cut it.