skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the next big problem we will run into with these line of reasoning models is "over-thinking" you can already start to see it. Thinking harder is not the universal pareto improvement everyone seems to think it is. (I understand the irony of using think 4 times here haha)
I'm sure they'll throw the book at them.
Martin has a habit of polarizing and aggregating discussions too much. It is not healthy at all. Linus is definitely correct, especially since he has the history of doing the same and he has tried to fix it.

Imagine if the discussion would have started with an article like this. Patch probably would be merged already:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1006805/f75d238e25728afe/
Having contributed a few times, I'd rate it as similar (sometimes much easier!) than contributing to Firefox and Chromium. That is to say that it is indeed extremely time-consuming and frustrating, but when compared to projects of the same scale it does not necessarily come out as more time-consuming or more frustrating - this will never be a small team collaborating on a random Github repo. A simple "swap out X workflow for Y" does not fix these annoyances, and false dichotomies and peer pressure towards is not a way to cooperate.

I cannot claim to have felt the effects on the maintainer-side of this workflow in large-scale projects though.
There already is precedent with cases like Aaron Swartz.
The UK is a poor country with London attached to it
What do you mean? Do you have the key to your iCloud backups? You do not, your phone does. You know who has root access to your phone? Apple.

It would take a minute to set up some code to fetch the key, if they were legally forced to.
Doesn't work for me at all on Firefox. Disabled all the privacy preserving extensions and still nada. Fuck off Cloudflare.
Really strange how much torrenting is demonized by all of these companies and ISPs when individuals want to use it but when a company like Meta uses it there is so little scrutiny.
Update: I have used co-pilot agent mode for a couple of hours today.

It's definitely catching up with Cursor but not there yet. In particular:
- Edits take quite a bit longer to apply, breaking flow
- Autocomplete predictions (equiv. of Cursor Tab) not as good

But in the past 6 months or so it's gone from being pretty hopeless to very useful. If I was forced to use it instead of Cursor it wouldn't be a huge deal any more.
Well, in the UK just planning a non-violent protest can get you 5 years in prison as many people have already discovered. Protesting has been pretty much made illegal by a very broad legislation that defines any protest that causes "disruption" as illegal - what "disruption" means is up to interpretation of course.
Are you sure it's "easy", rather than "varies by jurisdiction"?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/04/google-me...
This would mean that they would have access to everything stored in Keychain too if you have that synced with iCloud… Which I believe probably most people have. So they will essentially have access to millions of peoples email accounts then.
It's Královec in Czech.
I was just thinking IPFS or possibly even some blockchain solution for this. Bram Cohen (the creator of bittorrent) also has a new project I think in the DePin sector.

Sensitive information just can't be hosted on a centralized server anymore, it has to be distributed for the good of the project.
My interpretation is that it is an argument against trust in authority in privacy discussions.

A: Privacy matters!
B: Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?
A: If you have nothing to hide, then give me the password to your Facebook.
B: I don't trust you with that, but I trust my governments and relevant authorities.

The point is that B's faith in authority is flawed as the "powers that be" are an eternally shifting target. By agreeing to government surveillance, you place trust in every subsequent government, even the ones you would rather not.
>>"vastly smaller acts of data piracy—just .008 percent of the amount of copyrighted works Meta pirated—have resulted in Judges referring the conduct to the US Attorneys’ office for criminal investigation.".....While Meta may be confident in its legal strategy despite the new torrenting wrinkle...

Zuckerberg has paid the vig several times [0,1,2], which is evidently the best legal strategy under this administration. OFC, considering there are already multiple payments, there is no assurance the vig payments won't substantially increase as the Capo sees more opportunity for profit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/29/meta-settles-trump-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9e1x9z2xo
I like to not assume the worst, more so on HN, but I do run into a lot of situations elsewhere on the internet where "virtue signaling" just means "someone said something I don't like".

But generally I do like to wait to understand specifically what someone means before assuming.
PSA:

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse.

[…]

The political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[7]

unthinkable
radical
acceptable
sensible
popular
policy

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
This is an interesting way to frame the finding:

We suggest we found these similarities because humans and whales share a learning mechanism: culture

I feel like we often have such an anthropocentric view of intelligence, learning, and culture that it’s fascinating to consider what we’re not seeing from other species just because we aren’t looking for it, especially with a growing list of potentially sapient[0] species.

Cultural evolution inevitably leads to the emergence of properties that make learning easier.

I wonder if this idea about cultural evolution could apply in some tangential way to model distillation[1] and synthetic training data and active inheritance[2] and the gains in efficiency and efficacy we've seen lately:

While Zipf’s Law[3] might not perfectly apply to every language and also applies to some data that isn’t linguistic, it is an interesting indicator that something we don’t understand might be a language.

There was also similar research[1] into bottlenose dolphins years ago, and some researchers speculate that if we ever detected a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence[4] it would also follow Zipf’s Law.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#example...

[1]: https://www.datacamp.com/blog/distillation-llm

[2]: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/active-inheritance-a-s...

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

[4]: https://www.seti.org/animal-communications-information-theor...
…why? Will people buy less books because we have intuitive algorithms trained on old books?

Personally, I strongly believe that the aesthetic skills of humanity are one of our most advanced faculties — we are nowhere close to replacing them with fully-automated output, AGI or no.
I hope he becomes more influential. He is the tip of the spear in terms of combating the negative effects of social media and improving youth mental health.
The thing is, that’s not an explanation, or even an attempt at one. That’s just another example of what needs explanation.
Basically for anything/everything but README.md because we use Gogs and that's just MD. OK, I admit we sometimes use Word to craft a specific page, or a print-once sign.
Does it mean they already have such a backdoor on all Android phones?
> "using social pressure to influence decisions" is so general that it could apply to just any discussion

Not really. It's one thing to discuss these things directly in the proper channels, namely the mailing list, but it's another thing entirely to make childish, passive-aggressive posts on not-Twitter about how anyone who disagrees with your actions is trying to "sabotage the project" and trying to rally your followers to cancel them on the grounds of "Code of Conduct violations" (once again proving that "Codes of Conduct" are little more than tools to enable cancel culture).

He himself acknowledged the fact that what he did was childish and embarrassing by deleting his entire Mastodon account.
> The government in Germany which shut down local production and decided to outsource it all did not come out of thin air.

That is just plain wrong. https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix
AI dialogue analysis confirms movies have grown more violent over past 70 years
Because the advertising industry is somehow even more gross and pervasive than advertising itself.

Those on the inside see it as a right to impinge psychological manipulation on the rest of the world and any alternate opinion is some kind of restriction of free speech.

Like thinking they have a right to blow cigarette smoke into society's face.

The thing is, society has let them get away with it for so long that it appears that they're right.
In that case, it wouldn't still be funny and unexpected when I woke up.
They are trying their best to lose the current generation to no one. It's pretty funny when your own engineers can't get access to the cards you've supposedly launched.
You can try it out and see that I'm right.

I created a page like this:

<div><a href="#">foo </a> bar</div>

<script>
divElement = document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0]
console.log('"' + divElement.childNodes[0].firstChild.data + '"')
console.log('"' + divElement.childNodes[1].data + '"')
</script>

And you'll see in the console:

"foo "
" bar"

So yes, the DOM itself contains what I and the poster before mentioned. It's the presentation layer that decides how to do space collapse.

As a bonus, you can also see that the DOM of the page has four children of `body`: `<div>`, then a text node with the content "\n\n", `<script>`, and another text node containing "\n".

Tested all this with a simple HTML I saved on disk and opened in Firefox.
I did change from Mac to Windows shortly after the millennium, and it was fine. Window buttons were in different places, but that was trivial. Windows would minimize properly instead of the "windowshade" thing Mac had at the time (folding up into the titlebar), because Windows had a taskbar to minimize to, and that was better. I disliked the prevalence of installers (generally you could just drag an executable to another Mac and it would work) and I disliked the creepy labyrinth of user-hostile system files and system folders, which has only gotten worse. But that isn't really interface. I thought the start menu was stupid, but I could just ignore it, and I still ignore it today (Explorer all the way).

On the whole I didn't think there was much difference, apart from a general vibe of crassness on Windows, which had no clear cause. But that's switching from Classic Mac OS: you're probably talking about the new OSX BSD linuxy one. Besides, it would have been Win2K I switched to, which was one of the best iterations.

I used Linux for a while too, but that was XFCE, so again kind of samey. Mainly I remember constantly having to go through Sudo whenever I wanted it to do anything, that was the distinctive interface difference.

Color spaces, a closed book to me. I can't stand color spaces, they were always some sort of unwieldy mess of interest to other people. People who print things, maybe, I don't know. From my perspective, they caused a lot of pretentious confusion when people were trying to make images on computers for viewing on computers and for some reason didn't do the natural thing and think in three bytes of RGB.

Scripting, I hadn't even thought about, and I'll give you that one. Photoshop had a mechanism for recording actions and playing them back, and it produced a linear list of actions, with no control flow. I definitely wanted a better scripting mechanism.
There are tensions in the US.

Those who are charged with stopping cyber crime are very must against this. End to End encryption is one of the better protections they can give you against foreign hackers and they want you to use it.

Meanwhile down the hall are people who are charged with investigating crimes someone in the country commits and they are want this. It is a lot easier to prove someone is involved in some crime if a warrant can get their data, but end to end encryption means they can only get random bytes. (of course they don't want warrants either, but that is a different issue not relevant here so they will specify warrants in this debate)
>>currently been held up by migrants they don't like.

What does that even mean?
Before the launch, Spotify had a deal with the music rights holders association in Sweden (STIM) that they could use a merged collection of friends and families music libraries. All this was removed before Spotify went out of beta.

So while it was using pirated media, it was sanctioned by the rights holders for the experiment of building Spotify.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775
There are also two cables connecting Sweden to Lithuania and Finland to Estonia.

https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

As can be seen in the link, both Sweden and Finland currently exports power to Baltics.

Both Sweden and recently Finland are European power-houses when it comes to electricity.

Sweden always was (despite what everyone complains about here in Sweden). With a healthy mix of hydro, nuclear and recently wind power. And Finland just recently finished a large new nuclear reactor.

Also, in many places of the world (e.g. Scandinavia), electricity does not equal Oil.
They do, but they have a stated goal of maximizing contribution. Linux does not, right? I'm asking.
Right, but what I'm saying is that people aren't writing that new code because no one wants to.

Basically: If half the energy spent on righteous tut-tutting about Rust (or whatever) was given to writing memory-safe implementation of "boring" stuff like webcam drivers and not the sexy junk that ends up on HN, there'd be a lot less need for the irksome tut-tutting. Basically I think this says more about the psychology of the tut-tut set than it does development practice.
Thanks - having tried Co-Pilot again today after a 6-month Cursor hiatus, I think this is a good summary
And then in 90s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
The actor informs the principal
I was assuming they were talking about pre-1706 given the Spanish gold context.
Dupe with a clearer title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062
Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program
> Furthermore, there is a clear danger that Trump will make peace in Ukraine (without consulting either the EU or Ukraine) and have the EU pay for the reconstruction.

Yeah... Trump isn't dictator of the world. The only way he can make peace in Ukraine without consulting Ukraine is to persuade Russia to withdraw. (Which, if he did, that would be great... but I'm not holding my breath.) Other than that, the most he can do is stop supplying Ukraine with US weapons and intel, and let Ukraine decide what to do in the new situation.

And, having the EU pay for reconstruction? The EU is not under Trump's orders. They may chose to help pay for Ukrainian reconstruction, if they choose to do so, but it won't be because Trump "had" them do so.
I see one who has visited Carcosa!

For those who haven't read the King in Yellow:

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Carcosa
Sadly jurisdiction has nothing to do with it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/uk-spy-base-g...

This is not just a case of the British intelligence services secretly “tapping into” Irish telephonic and internet traffic via land and maritime cables. Rather in most cases they are being provided free (or commercial) access to the information by companies associated with the use, ownership or maintenance of these cables.

Post-Snowden the Irish government retroactively legalised it...
it's not perfect but it works.
Xorshift is really cool because of how simple it is to comprehend and implement despite how well it works as a PRNG. The initial paper describing it, "Xorshift RNGs"[1], is surprisingly short and approachable, and I encourage anyone with any interest to read through it.

[1]: https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/download/v008i14/916
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971761
> But how does this happen in the first place

Companies that are ironically filled with privileged people who "Gotta do something", since they, while sort-of well meaning, are sheltered and disconnected from actual social struggles in real life.
Yes it smells bad but facebook did the right thing (at least for facebook)

After OpenAI trained their models on the famed books2 dataset, and seeing the technological implications of ChatGPT, there was a good chance they would let them get away with it.

Would the USA really surrender its AI technological advantage for trivial matters like copyright? They would make some royalty arrangement and get it over with
That makes a lot of sense, i would also feel very insecure knowing i was in that situation with Russia
One of the ways it hangs on is by being a part of 5 eyes "mutual spying club" meaning that US intelligencies can bypass domestic legal protections.
Microsoft's fake 'How to uninstall Edge' guide throws shade at Chrome instead
Will you offer non-Google login for people who don't use Google products?
> Politics take the place of excellence

Our CEO has been very careful with hiring, and this aspect is one of the reasons. He's very aware we need people who all pull in the same direction to be successful.

A bad hire is much worse than no hire.
> Trump term 1 was significantly harder on Russia than Biden before the invasion of Ukraine. To suggest that he is pro-Russia is absurd, has always been, will always be.

How? Trump rather infamously stood up at a press conference and said, in effect, he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence agencies. The only real anti-Russia thing done during his administration that I can recall is the Magnitsky Act, but the clear impetus for that came from Congress and Trump only very reluctantly signed it.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972581
From now on I'll create class named 'Gender' in each project. Not to mention I'll call my branch 'master'.
There is something about this story, isn't there? Even among Lovecraftian lit, it stands apart. Not exactly a god-like monster, just a presence. Something malignant, whatever it is, wherever it is, that just gets mentioned from time to time. And it's yellow of all colors.
as we know: https://visitkralovec.cz/
The Government's Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
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Swiss banks didn't care - they didn't have a large Us presence anyway. Until the US started enforcing this by proxy, other banks couldn't do business with you and the US and overall the US is more important to the world than Swiss banks.
Apple could be the first modern corporation to declare war on a nation-state. They have the resources to set the internet hounds on them & make them absolutely miserable. Looks like the Heinlein/Snowcrash/Stross corporate futures are in play.
Does anyone remember 4GL languages[1] and CASE tools that were all the rage in the '90s and were supposed to make software developers obsolete?

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
The AI industry is concerned about the fact that the world will consider them to be basically endorsing everything their AIs say. Thus, they are very afraid of there being a situation where you write "gender: 'm<|>'" and hit autocomplete at the <|> and end up with something like "gender: 'male as is normal'" or "gender: 'male', 'female', 'wrong'" or any number of other bad situations.

They are not being randomly paranoid. Even if they did not have this fear, they would have rapidly developed it. We've all read the articles by muckraking journalists that take something an AI said and basically deliberately writes clickbait about how stupid or evil or worthless or whatever the AI is, even if the journalist had to filter through hundreds of replies (or, implicitly, by waiting for the dumbest stuff to rise to the top of social media, thousands or millions of replies) to get it. We've also read the articles where in someone uses the "fancy autocompleter", feeds it the moral equivalent of "Hey, how do you think you AIs will be taking over the world in five years?" and then is shocked, shocked at the "fancy autocompleter" filling in the yarn they are clearly asking for, and go running to either the media, or in particularly pathological cases, the academic literature making wild claims.

(I do not believe that "fancy autocompleter" is a complete description of LLMs, but in this particular case, it isn't a completely inaccurate mental model either. It shouldn't be a surprise that when you prompt it with X, you get more X.)

As a result the AIs are very heavily tuned to some combination of the political beliefs of the company writing them and the political beliefs dominant in the media coverage they are worried about, so they won't get very negative stories written about them. For this purpose, I'm taking the broadest possible definition of "political", not just "American politics in 202x", but the full range of "beliefs that not everyone agrees on and are things people are willing to exert some degree of power over". The AI companies have to take a stand, because taking a stand at least means someone can be on their side... if they just let the chips fall where they may they'll anger everyone because everyone can get the AI to say things that they in particular disagree with and they'll find themselves without friends. Unsurprisingly, the AI companies have been aligning their models with what they perceived to be the largest, most powerful political beliefs in their vicinity.

To be honest when I read them talking about "AI safety" I know they want me to be thinking "ensuring the AI doesn't take over the world or tell people to commit self harm" but what I see is them spending a lot of effort to politically align their AIs, with all that entails.
So, "Just please sign into your phone for us, will you, and install this software update that we push through the pipe."
This was before the current government.
AI should not be used for anything that requires accuracy.
Gleam v1.8.0 Released
Perhaps C is here to stay and that is the way Linux should live and naturally die. That's what's being proposed here by the guy who opposes multi-language projects.
As an Apple user for decades and a UK citizen I would honestly rather they withdrew from the UK market rather than engage with this idiocy.
C64 demo coders don't generally care about ROM contents, there's nothing useful in there. ROMs are usually switched off. Although there might be a few exceptions.
Not if you live in Texas...
I read it not that long ago. I agree with the comments that the setting is deeply unsettling.
Reason #726394946263 why AI that is only truly trainable by big tech is a horrible idea.
Oh, good to know. I get so many of these political spam messages that my default response has gone from just ignoring them to sending nasty replies in the hopes of demoralizing the jerks who think it's okay to send me nineteen messages a day on behalf of a political party I don't even support (not that it would be any better if I DID support the party in question). It's good to know that there's a chance that I can make someone feel just a little bit bad for being part of the mechanism that enables this sort of intrusion on my sleep and solitude.
This is the way that the UK has passed laws for a while now, make them so broad that they potentially criminalise everyone, then selectively prosecute. This is a very obvious setup for future totalitarianism. I’m surprised that the British public stands for it, but I guess they must not care.
Has Mira shown anything from her new startup so far? Genuine question. I am trying to keep up with the space, but never heard anything about her after leaving OpenAI except that she got some investors.