skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users expecting everything to be free is part of the story as well.

Online newspapers having to rely on ads is a good example of it.
It's not safety, it's censorship. It's the process of shaping the response of the model to give a specific world view, and it's the path to a literal 1980-inspired future.

As LLMs completely to replace google and standalone websites for how people find information on the internet, and they absolutely will, they will become the source of truth. They will become a tool more effective at controlling information and thus life than any before them.

It's literally a shortcut to technological dystopia.
True but we rarely see a new productivity raising tool that works for such varied tasks
And now look at how politically divided most western countries are, how everything is some kind of ad delivery mechanism, how brains get fried by constant attention traps... yeah I'm not sure these people were 100% wrong
And that’s why we’re talking about “authoritarianism”
Database stored procedures / user-defined functions written in arbitrary languages is a live use case on several platforms today.
Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth (2008)
>Pathologists as a specialty has been grousing about this for several years, at least since 2021 when the College of American Pathologists established the AI Committee.

This sounds like Moral Coating for what is otherwise protection of the Status Quo.

High paid doctors do not want to be replaced by AI. They will use every excuse to keep their high paying job.
I'm torn.

On one hand, someone should tell whoever is in charge of this edict that it is probably not a good idea. It is likely to backfire, and the harder you double down, the worse it will get. Public opinion will probably turn negative quickly, as you will wind up coming off as petty and insecure.

On the other hand, the last time we saw a large scale misunderstanding of how to deal with the Internet like this was probably the COVID-19 snitching hotlines, so realistically we're just about due for another one.

Not saying it'll all be fun and games but it might be popcorn time.
You're 19 and choosing a college major. Should you study languages in the hope of working as a translator?

> slaves to Sam Altman

Um, what would Sam Altman need slaves for, when the AI does everything better, potentially for less than the cost of feeding them? And, in that scenario, Sam Altman had better have a pretty good Robot Army(TM) to protect him from the torches and pitchforks.

It's also a pretty significant assumption to think that a giant network of truly intelligent machines, robotically running an entire world economy, keeps listening to what Sam Altman wants. Maybe for a while.
All these optimists want to say it will just "enhance" our abilities, not replace us. Well AI did "enhance" our chess playing skills, but it completely replaced the top skill level. That's ok for a game without economic value by being the best. But with these same people advocating that we can't stop because the potential economic value is so great and economics improves peoples' lives... We will use the replacement AI for economic value, not the inferior "enhanced" chess players.
Thanks for sharing, it would have taken me some time to find this. It should really be included in the article.
Heinlein, _Space Cadet_. Published in 1948, so likely on your school library shelves in 1960 -- I'm sure I didn't read it until 1980, at earliest.
Doesn't sound much like free speech either.

Neither does banning the AP for refusing to use "Gulf of America" sound much like free press.
> Who the hell wants to handle that?

Those flying the Jolly Rodger. Filter out the binary newsgroups (leaving only the text discussion groups) and the resulting load is a tiny fraction of that.
It was invented by the courts entirely from whole cloth.
> But my impression right now is that a large percentage of LLM use is for spamming, scamming, and cheating on homework.

LLMs as we have them now are the application which makes a computer be able to understand a non-programmer and to communicate to a non-programmer, it is the new eyes, ears and mouth of computers.

This works so well, that it can already pretend to be a human. This is like realizing: Yes, in fact, this mouse allows me to move a cursor in the computer with which I can click on an application, as if it were my finger in the computer.

But I guess it will ultimately be agents what will show the true power of this new interface. Agents which assist you with your memory by properly reminding you of things, by allowing you to ask it things while you are leaving the house and so on, it even contacting other agents or even persons in order to answer your questions or execute what you asked it to.

How can this not be world-changing?
Soo-seh. Like the women‘s name.
This is dang cool. Admittedly I skimmed the post due to the technical nature of radar I don't understand, but I gather the radar imaging near the bottom was not real-time? I would assume processing on-device to create images wouldn't be feasible.

Is AESA possible or are the components restricted to the defense industry? While FCC didn't play into the op's post, are there any FCC concerns with SAR?
It was created out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court in 1967's Pierson v. Ray.
That case was a grim reminder of just how terrible the Supreme Court has always been: 15 Episcopal Priests were taking part in the Freedom Rides in 1961 (racially integrated groups taking public transportation across the South to defacto desegregate what had been defacto segregated, the group was 12 white priests and 3 African-American ones). Two police officers arrested all 15 priests while they were sitting in a restaurant for "breach of the peace." A judge convicted them and sentenced them each to four months in prison. They sued the police officers and the judge for false imprisonment. An all-white Jury found the police officers not liable. The Mississippi state supreme court ruled that the judge couldn't even be sued. A Federal Appeals court found the original law (the breach of the peace law) completely unconstitutional, but that the Judge couldn't be sued for upholding the law as it exists: "Mississippi law does not require police officers to predict at their peril which state laws are constitutional and which are not." The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of the Judge and against the Priests, creating the concept of Qualified Immunity.

Starting with the mid-aughts conservative turn of the Supreme Court (basically the time that O'Connor is replaced by Alito) it has grown to cover pretty much every act that law enforcement takes, with the modern standard being, basically, "your circuit needs to have found this particular violation to be unconstitutional already for it to count." The recent Supreme Court case finding that President's are immune to prosecution for "Official Acts" has a similar philosophical (though not legal) basis.
They also pushed the update outside Trumpland,

>The name would remain unchanged in Mexico and the rest of the world would see "Gulf of America" added next to its current name in brackets, Google added.

Can confirm. Just tried it from Albania.
I...do agree that it sounds ridiculous, and my point was that that was not what the original commenter was saying.

Your interpretation of their comment is far-fetched, and not a useful entry into a conversation about their point.
Honestly, each year it seems like the value that the internet offers goes down while the harm that it causes goes up.

The enshittification of search and Quora means that outside of Wikipedia and sometimes Reddit, the Internet's offer of "access to all of the world's information" is mostly dead.

With social media becoming a hellscape, people have mostly retreated to semi-private Discord servers; which severely damages the Internet's offer of "participate in a global commons".

There are a few bright spots like easy video sharing. However, I'm not sure I trust them not to get enshittified next.
It's incredibly hard to imagine anybody cheering this on to be thoughtful or intelligent. I see no critical thinking, intellectual rigour, or even any interest in real evidence or data. In what way is any of this intelligent or thoughtful? It's the complete opposite of both.
I’m waiting too because people around me are ecstatic (without them knowing the technical details and limitations) but I don’t see the point.

The internet, email, Gmail, smartphones were some kind of revolution because it would help me. AI is only here to prevents me from thinking instead of improving my life one way or another.

All is see is preventing me from doing what I do, potential hallucinations that can harm work and relationships, and decreasing the quality of that work (especially SWE which is lowering every decade). That’s a bad kind of revolution.
Sure, but the "redefinition" you talk of isn't consumers suddenly being unreasonable, it's the fact they've experienced so much gaslighting and unclear dark patterns they are (reasonably) assuming everything is suspect and rejecting it all.
Are you denying that YouTube implemented censorship for Covid-related videos?

They were very open about it:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13813322
There is a difference between being told to use AI and telling others you use AI.

"Our app leverages AI to make you better!"

versus

"Our app written by AI makes you better!"

The first one catches eyes, the second one is just a turn off.
This is cool! But, the language list contains “Chinese,” which is not an accurate name for a spoken language. I assume this is Mandarin. I would like Cantonese.
Deregulation is happening, whether you like it or not, so the question is now whether you'd like to be rich in a deregulated state or poor in a deregulated state.
Eiger Dreams (2024)
Nobody voted for President Musk.
Why did basically all life evolve to breathe/use Oxygen?
I've used them for syntax too, and gotten genuine benefit from that. I just don't think it was all that hard before, and the risk that people feel they no longer need to actually understand their tools looms large in my mind.
This is American agency, there is no free speech in America... :)
Even if you know how much it costs, how can you be sure they won't increase the price later on?
I guess it makes sense to differentiate technological areas where we want progress at "any possible pace" vs "wait and see pace". I don't know if pathologists or other medical professionals feel the same about their field.

On a related note, are there any techniques for facilitating tech adoption and bringing all users up to speed?
did ICE ever account for the missing children?

does this get me on the list?
You end up driving up the share price in the short term and destroying the company in the long term but by then you’re gone as CEO with your golden parachute. Not unlike presidents who will be gone in 4 years time (if second term) and let someone else deal with the consequences of their actions.
Wow, ICE is gonna be super bummed if and when the general public returns the favor.
Ahh, I see - it looks like in the newer version it is being replaced by just edit_predictions_disabled_in.

Thanks!
Yes, that is a very strong point. And we all have differing levels of expertise in different areas. We are all pulled up to some extent.

The article, though, speaks about the context of work, research, and industry - the professional context. In strictly that context, if you are "the best" at your day job, perhaps you won't benefit much there. By saying that "the best" benefit more than "the rest", The Economist is completely at odds with reality.
More and more I feel like online spaces are far more insidiously dangerous than anticipated. We have bots or malicious actors among the userbase explicitly to sow dissent and spin the quality of discussion downwards. We have algorithms that push content based on engagement, which isn't actually connection or anything resembling engaging with community. We then have online cultures that encourage lowering empathy for others and reveling when bad things happen to people who "deserve it", like "leopards eating faces" communities or punching women or whatever. I'm not being a centrist or anything like that but I feel online spaces actually socialize people to be lonelier by encouraging engagement via positions and activities that actively isolate us from each other, as opposed to genuine connections that come with say community service IRL.
> Based on your description, you're using NAT as a means to bypass network restrictions.

The threat model on this big enterprise WAN isn't "an authorized user creates a VM on an existing machine", but rather "some rando plugs something in with an Ethernet cable and goes to town on the intranet services". It has a whole web portal where you can log in and register your devices. So it's not like anything's really being bypassed here.

Anyway, I still prefer NAT for VMs over most passthrough schemes, which I've found unreliable even on IPv4 networks. What the outside network doesn't know about can't hurt it.
> The Federal Cartel Office claims that Apple's ATTF defines "tracking" in a way that only covers data processing for advertising purposes across companies – but that these "strict ... rules do not cover Apple's own practice of combining user data across its ecosystem – from its App Store, Apple ID and connected devices – and using them for advertising purposes."

...yes. Apple defines "tracking" here as sharing your data with other companies, and then doesn't do that itself. Because that's the opaque and objectionable thing.

If you launch an Apple app then you probably expect Apple to know what you're doing. If you launch a Meta app, similarly you expect Meta to know what you're doing. But you might not expect Meta to immediately go and tell, say, some random company called Cambridge Analytica everything you're doing.

Meta absolutely could do exactly what Apple's doing without needing to warn users -- collect user data across its various apps, and use it to advertise its own products.

I do agree that Apple has carefully chosen a thing to object to that aligns well with their own business model. But I also think the thing they're objecting to is worth disclosing to users, so: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Prosecutors and police should simply not have qualified immunity. ANY type of immunity is going to be expanded and abused over time. If more police and prosecutors faced real legal jeopardy for violating the rights of people the problem would solve itself. Until then there is really zero consequences for stealing from a person pulled over on the side of the road, withholding evidence, fabricating witnesses, overcharging, or just outright murdering people.
There's a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
Cme runs their matching engine out of a datacenter in aurora il
That is not the standard? Google changes names of places based on where you live and they even change borders!
This was the civil lawsuit, resolved without ever going any further, thanks to the court created doctrine of Qualified Immunity. This is the end of all legal consequences anyone involved will ever face.

The Sheriff did lose his job when he lost the election in 2020, and presumably this played a role in that election? But that's not a legal consequence, that's a political one.
You're not wrong. But the door-holding example isn't really a good one because there's no such thing as a license for door-holding.

For FOSS, on the other hand, licenses are a well-established thing. And developers have free reign to pick a license for their code and they very commonly pick MIT...totally on their own volition. Which strips them of all privileges. It's like writing a book and explicitly setting it into the public domain. If that's what you want to do, that's great, but very commonly I don't think it's what developers actually want to do.

In the world of copyright, the long-standing legal default is for the author to own their work for a certain amount of time, whether or not the copyright is explicitly claimed. Because making public domain the legal default would be utterly insane.

I guess what I'm saying here is my beef isn't with entities that choose to be jerks—that's annoying and always gonna happen to some extent—it's more with the all-too-common decision to use the MIT License. And when I see people complain about it...I understand the sentiment but I also can't help but think that the folks complaining had it coming and it was totally avoidable.
>The "C CONU" comes from the first O of COCONUT being somewhat obscured by a drawing of ... I don't know what the hell that is.

It's clearly the stem from the bell pepper in front of the can. You're complaining that the software is lesser than a human, yet it appears your human needs better training in understanding context too.
Whatever do you mean? We are all 100% free to say anything on the approved phrase list.
Yes, that'd be it. I may not actually have read it until the early 1970s.
That's an interesting tidbit, but how is this related to the discussion? Maybe I'm missing something?
The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan (Orthogonal, Book 3) deals with something analogous to this: Our characters must break themselves out of a cycle which is impeding innovation. If you like your scifi hard, the Orthogonal series is a lot of fun.
What Center Is That, Exactly? (2024)
I believe it protects the individuals but not the departments or agencies they work for? Hence "officials".
See the script I created that does something similar with a few improvements for large projects:

https://paste.mozilla.org/9rD95yAy

I would like to be able to create sets of files that I can easily send to the clipboard in this kind of format. The files could correspond to the ones relevant to a particular feature, etc. They don't always fall under the same subtree of the source code, and the entire source code is too big for the context.
Did you mean to reply somewhere else? This doesn't seem like a coherent reply and still doesn't have anything about regular expressions.
Sure, but one could easily say plenty of threatening, illegal, manipulative things to a child without throwing an f-bomb. In fact getting a child to let down their guard probably works better that way. My only point is that curse words hardly ever hurt a kid, and you don't need curse words to hurt a kid the worst.
That same Sheriff was involved with the Malheur Wildlife refuge 'takeover' ... he openly supported the militia and the Feds and State Police considered him such a security liability that they ended up cutting him out of all planning. He repeatedly met for hours at a time with the militia while on duty. He's one of the 'constitutional sheriffs' that have convinced themselves they're the only lawful police in the country and that the FBI et al are illegal.

That was years before this illegal seizure and actually might be related as there were numerous complaints about his activities during the takeover from other people in the department and Haley Olsen, whose pics were stolen and shared was dating an officer that was on the Sheriff's 'shit list'.

Dude was all around corrupt: https://www.opb.org/news/article/eastern-oregon-grant-county...
Show HN: Llms.txt directory with automated submission and rough draft generator
I have been noticing AI websites adding support for llms.txt standard, which inspired me to read more about it. llms.txt is similar to robots.txt but for LLMs so they can better understand a website with less tokens. I have seen a few directories, but submission is typically through a pull request to a Github repo so I went ahead and created one with automated submission and a rough draft llms.txt generator.

I plan to keep improving it as more websites get added.

Take a look, and let me know what you think!
Yes, and now there are unfixed security issues in OpenOffice over a year old, so the ASF really, really should put it in the Attic ASAP. If more people in the FOSS world raise awareness about this, perhaps it will finally happen, so users become aware of maintained, fixed successor projects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security
Because you want outreach programs to promote science and scientific careers.

Marie Curry, arguably one of the greatest scientist of the last century, the only one who got two nobel prize in two different categories, only got into science because of an underground outreach science program in Warsaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University).

She then immigrated in france, probably because French "Academie des Sciences" forgot to make a rule about not allowing women to make science, and was only hired to her first scientist job because... Of a science outreach program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_d%27encourag...).
What value do you think comes from trying to finely parse whether the “I was racist before it was cool” guy calling for a “eugenic immigration policy”, who “would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth” has a slightly different self-identity than his boss who threw the Nazi salutes? “Anti-Semitic bigot who at the very least doesn’t mind being around people who throw Nazi salutes” is longer but doesn’t seem very different in terms of how decent people would view them.
So you claim, but I recall you saying terrible things about ICE so now you have something to worry about.
The point still stands that evolving an eye is going up a long gentle slope not climbing a tall cliff.
Luckily there are plenty of websites that host AI for free, and models that are increasingly becoming able to be able to run on personal compute.
I'm having trouble figuring out what your objection is.

If we're going to study an evolutionary process, we have to pick a starting point. "How an eye evolves from a single sheet of light sensitive cells" is particularly relevant because creationists like to claim that "half an eye isn't useful, so it couldn't have evolved".

"How does a single cell evolve light sensitivity" is not a particularly hot button topic. Creationists don't drone on about plants.
What metrics are you using to come to this conclusion?
100% Orwellian doublespeak and doublethink from here on out.
CodeWeaver is compiled, so it might be faster. Also, you can grab a compatible executable from the releases section, and you're good to go, instead of using `go install` so, no dependencies. Personally, I considered following the `.gitignore` route but found that manually specifying what to exclude via a comma-separated list of regular expressions provided me with the flexibility I needed (initial setup might be a bit tedious, though, but, then again, you can use an LLM for that).
You have a childs-like view of how the world works if you are boiling "international development" down to "interfering in foreign countries elections"
AI coding tool implementers seem to be fans of novel editor fonts.
Because Zuckerberg runs his own app stores with a 30% cut and similar arbitraty and capricious rules. Virtual Desktop's PCVR streaming feature was blocked for a year until Meta released their own clone.
That's an interesting metric. Do you have a citation?
It has been interesting to see the excuses from doctors, why we need error prone humans instead of higher quality robots.

>Empathy (lol... from doctors?)

>New undetectable cases (lol... AI doesnt have to wait 1 year for an optional continuing education class. I had doctors a few years ago recommending a dangerous expensive surgery over a safer cheaper laser procedure)

>corruptible (lmaooo)

We humans are empathetic to the thought our 'friendly' doctor might be unemployed. However, we shouldn't let that cause negative health outcomes because we were being 'nice'.