skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Automation has “tells” - little things they do differently from what humans would do

This tends to stand out like a sore thumb once you start looking at things from the perspective of the frequency domain. Even if you use an RNG to delay activity, the properties of the RNG itself can be leveraged against it. You may think taping a pencil to a desk fan and having that click the mouse button is being clever wrt undetectable RNG, but you must realize that the power grid runs at 50/60hz and induction motors are ~fixed to this frequency.

There is also the entire space of correlation. A bot running on random pixel events with perfectly human response times, while appearing "random", is not correlated with anything meaningful outside that one pixel being monitored. You could check for what are effectively [near] causality violations to determine the probability that the player is actually human.
I also assumed those were going to be links, but after a second of confusion I really liked the side pane with animations. It adds a lot to the article and it's more pleasant than the usual alternatives (lightbox on top of the text, or opening a bunch of tabs).

Off the top of my head, I'm not sure how else you'd visually communicate "this bit is interactive on click/hover but isn't a link." Maybe a different text color (without underline), background color, outline (replaced by the colored highlight bar on hover), or a slightly larger and more distinct icon to replace the generic 'image' icon?
Grab closed an office full of engineers on $300k+ and nobody noticed
To reply to the parenthetical, copyright has nothing to do with credit. Taking credit for someone else's work is banned in some places in some contexts (they call this a moral rights regime) but not the same thing as what is being talked about when people say copyright (which is about copying and performing)
If we are going to have a general discussion about copyright reform at a national level, I'm all for it. If we are going to let billion dollar corporations break the law to make even more money and invent legal fictions after the fact to protect them, I'm completely against it.

Training a model is not equivalent to training a human. Freedom of information for a mountain of graphics cards in a privately owned data center is not the same as freedom of information for flesh and blood human beings.
If I pay for ChatGPT and ask for copyrighted images, is that selling the generated IP?
Correct, we're a lean team that moves very quickly, so availability for synchronous communication is important to us.

That said, the expectation is not that you're sitting idly at your computer for an extra 15 minutes at the end of the day if you've knocked out your work and are at a good stopping point. We hire adults and treat them as such :)

Also, many folks on the team have familial and other responsibilities that they need to tackle during this window, and the team is very flexible about scheduling around these (especially given advance notice when possible).
All else equal, I wouldn't find it cause for concern. In a discussion where being able to keep the distinction clear in mind at all times absolutely is table stakes, though? I could be fairly blamed for a sprinkle of hyperbole perhaps, but surely you see how an error that is trivial in many contexts would prove so uncommonly severe a flaw in this one, alongside which I reiterate the unusually obtuse nature of the error in this example.

(For those no longer able to follow complex English grammar: Yeah, I exaggerate, but there is no point trying to participate in this kind of discussion if that's the sort of basic error one has to start from, and the especially weird nature of this example of the mistake also points to LLMs synthesizing the result of consciousness rather than experiencing it.)
Or simply we just like things that have some noise.
I'm not convinced either of your examples is generalization. Consider Go. I don't consider a procedural chess engine to be "generalized" in any sense yet a decent one can easily beat any human. Why then should Go be different?
There were too many cheap accusations of hypocrisy "you say X is bad so why do you use it yourself". So everyone is now preempting it.
Bare, a small and modular JavaScript runtime
I can echo your sentiment. Art is the manifestation of creativity, and to create any good art you need to train in whatever medium you choose. For the decade I've been a professional programmer, I've always argued that writing code was a creative job.

It's been depressing to listen to people pretend that LLM generated code is "the same thing". To trivialize the thoughtful lessons one has learned honing their craft. It's the same reason the Studio Ghilbi AI image trend gives me the ick.
Some people would. But that doesn’t mean we should exploit them. I really admire what you’ve made and I think any attempt to cash in would sour and diminish your accomplishment.

Not that art shouldn’t be salable. But not all art is appropriate for monetization.
> The LLM's tell me

Actual sources of information give you 1.39% [1]

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/tm.tax.mrch.wm.ar.zs
It’s a good time to enroll in grad school and get an economics phd.
This is why I love making bread
I turned this into a greasemonkey script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/531780-universal-video-fix...

That can be configured to run automatically on every site, and it uses the MutationObserver API to automatically fix any newly added/modified <video> elements on the page. Seems to work on Snapchat and Instagram so far, but breaks some functionality. Op's chrome extension, with bespoke support for Instagram, likely offers a much better experience. This is just more universal.
>Base evolutionary instincts to survive don't translate to humans living in complex modern societies acting in their self-interest.

What are you talking about?

Base evolutionary pressures and instincts have translated in exactly that.

Complex modern societies, and emergent behaviors and strategies arise from agents acting in their own self-interest (organizing in groups or otherwise to further their goals).

The idea that not only people don't act in their self-interest, but you - in fact - know better what's in their best interest is truly some mid-tier thinking. Or that you have some unique ability to know what's in their best self-interest, but they... for some reason... don't.

Now it doesn't mean that acting in self-interest doesn't sometimes result in ruin, because it surely can!
That however doesn't mean that all these choices weren't made with self-interest in mind, front and center, despite people claiming otherwise.

The groups and societies that enact the winning, most sensible strategy, economic and industrial policy will win out.
Those individually or in groups that don't, will go to shitter and or be selected out. It's that simple.
Agree. The base claims about LLMs getting bigger, more popular, and capturing people's imagination are right. Those claims are as easy as it gets, though.

Look into the specific claims and it's not as amazing. Like the claim that models will require an entire year to train, when in reality it's on the order of weeks.

The societal claims also fall apart quickly:

> Censorship is widespread and increasing, as it has for the last decade or two. Big neural nets read posts and view memes, scanning for toxicity and hate speech and a few other things. (More things keep getting added to the list.) Someone had the bright idea of making the newsfeed recommendation algorithm gently ‘nudge’ people towards spewing less hate speech; now a component of its reward function is minimizing the probability that the user will say something worthy of censorship in the next 48 hours.

This is a common trend in rationalist and "X-risk" writers: Write a big article with mostly safe claims (LLMs will get bigger and perform better!) and a lot of hedging, then people will always see the article as primarily correct. When you extract out the easy claims and look at the specifics, it's not as impressive.

This article also shows some major signs that the author is deeply embedded in specific online bubbles, like this:

> Most of America gets their news from Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Sites like Reddit and Twitter feel like the entire universe when you're embedded in them, but when you step back and look at the numbers only a fraction of the US population are active users.
There's a fork of this that has some great improvements over to the top of the original and it is also actively maintained: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate

There's also Python bindings for the fork for anyone who uses Python: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi
which turns it into passion. the side project that I'm only interested in because it could maybe make some money? eh.

a project in a niche where I live and breath the fumes off the work and I can help the whole ecosystem with their workflow? sign me up!
It's not just about what Trump wants. Most Republicans in Congress would like to get reelected.

In the comment above you suggested there's nothing congressional Democrats can do. That is incorrect. Any time the Republicans don't have unanimity, and any time they need sixty votes in the Senate, the Democrats have leverage. They need the guts, and/or the understanding of basic game theory, to use it.

Calling me an "armchair expert" and waving your hands about how things are complicated is not a counterargument.
Read the Twitter files. The government was actively involved in censorship. Zuckerberg has also stated the FBI was demanding certain posts be removed / demoted, users shadow banned, etc. The CIA also infiltrates and subverts many organizations and platforms. Wouldn't be surprised if they operate here, they've definitely been manipulating Reddit for at least the past decade.
> So there's a pretty good argument that installing a PWA actually require much, much MORE intent than a native app from the app store

As it should because native apps go through an approval process to vet them.
This is an incredibly reductive dismissal of a very diverse group of people who don't find Cage's art in particular to be meaningful.
> He has a point that in a society with strong legal protections on freedom of expression, copyright is one of the main tools the state has to stop expression that is deleterious to the ruling class.

If the State wishes to prevent expression that is deleterious to the ruling class, it will simply not strongly protect freedom of expression. "Legal protection" isn't an exogenous factor that the State responds to, it is a description of the actions of the State.
it won’t sell if you can’t put a set of golf clubs in it
Election is a bad way to choose almost anything. The enthusiasm of Americans for adding yet more elected roles rather than, say, having anything done by anybody competent is part of how they got here. The only place elections are even a plausible choice is political office - with an election and as close as you can to universal suffrage now the idiots running things are everybody's fault, although Americans even managed to screw that up pretty good. Sortition would probably be cheaper, but elections are fine for this purpose.
To be fair, I wouldn't really expect working software if someone described it that way either.
Houdini died on Halloween right after performing at the Garick theatre in Detroit. As a result he is remembered on each Halloween. When I was a kid there would be magic shows on that day.
what are you going to do when something suddenly doesn't work and cursor endlessly spins without progress no matter how many "please don't make mistakes" you add? delete the whole thing and try to one-shot it again?
That missing Playdate phone accessory.
I've only read the marketing materials of closed models. So they could be lying, too. But I don't think CoT is something you can do with pre-CoT models via prompting and context manipulation. You can do something that looks a little like CoT, but the model won't have been trained specifically on how to make good use of it and will treat it like Q&A context.
Norfolk Island is part of Australia. Logically it would be swept up in the 10% tariff on Australia. It has no exports to the US, that being the US government's justification for tariffs over 10%, let alone an individual 29% tariff.

A comparison would be another country putting a 10% tariff on the US, but singling out Rhode Island for its own 29% tariff.
I like it stretched. The 800% slower version is amazing.
Your position cannot distinguish stealing somebody's likeness and looking at them.
The American Universities college admission practices of writing "personal essays" without a clear metrics sure is very peculiar.
I will read into it thank you.

Yes current crops of billionaires aren’t particularly different, but the methods they have access to are increasingly detached from any real world value. And due to the overall wealth of the US and money in the world in general, their ability to create capital out of nothing is on the very extreme end of the spectrum.

They are driven by tunnel vision and are distorting the very concept of money and the purpose it has to serve in society
> present the players with a bot who's purpose is to be un-hitt-able unless the player is cheating

Escape from Tarkov had/has something vaguely similar to this. They'll put a very valuable piece of loot in an inaccessible room under the map or inside a locked car and monitor which accounts pick it up. I think Call of Duty warzone did it as well with the fake enemies that only accounts suspected of cheating will see
Well if it continues to be a mess, something like WASM-based flutter-web might just eat the frontend
I can't speak to Japan, but the construction sites I've seen where someone is directing traffic also make use of traffic lights. They serve different purposes.
For me the frustrations with NT 4.0 are all the reboots associated with changing settings, and the lack of plug 'n play (for USB devices). Those things aside it runs well.

Windows 2000 gets you a lot of quality-of-life improvements w/ a tremendous amount of bloat.

re: uptime - I've seen NT 4.0 machines w/ multi-year uptimes. I actually saw one running Microsoft Exchange w/ a >2 year uptime. I was shocked.
Ironically, my local barber shop also wouldn't explain to me what OSINT stands for.
> It seems most people have fully assimilated the idea that information itself must be entirely subsumed into an oppressive, proprietary, commercial apparatus.

No, the idea is that rules needed to be changed in a way that can are valid for everyone, not just for mega corporations who are trying to exploit other's works and gatekeep the it behind "AI".
There's a pretty good summary of how well it has held up here, by the significance of each claim:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u9Kr97di29CkMvjaj/evaluating...
"are the most important human beings on the planet"

While I don't disagree with what you are trying to say, saying it this way is hyperbolic. There are so many people doing important things. Think about parents.
Probably because Cal AI is effectively a scam? There’s no way to get a useful approximation of calories from pointing vision models at finished meals…
In my travels I find writing code to be natural and relaxing--a time to reflect on what I'm doing and why. LLMs haven't helped me out too much yet.

Coding by prompt is the next lowering of the bar and vibe coding even more so. Totally great in some scenarios and adds noise in others.
Oumi Takes Aim at LLM Hallucinations, One Sentence at a Time
Does anyone know if a tokenization attempt has been made at this type of research?
Keep in mind that wikimedia takes a rather strict view. In real life the edge cases of copyright tend to be a bit risk-based - what is the chance someone sues you? What is the chance the judge agrees with them?

Not to mention that wikimedia commons, which tries to be a globally reusable repository ignores fair use (which is context dependent), which covers a lot of the cases where copyright law is just being reduculous.
fairly certain I dethroned all content tools.

What started as a meme has unexpectedly turned into a project worth sharing. After showing it around to a few people, I’ve gained some users, and I’m beginning to believe I might be on to something here.

I’m a marketer with 20 years of experience, highly tech-enabled but not a coder by any stretch of the imagination. While I can’t write a single line of code, I deeply understand how applications work and the challenges involved in building them. Likely thanks to my ADHD and some advanced pattern recognition skills.

One thing I’ve always hated is trying to create good content or blog copy using traditional big LLMs. Yes, they’ve come a long way, but the output always feels too "annunciated" and "exaggerated.” Even when you use brand voice documents to guide them, the result is rarely closer than 65% to something actually shippable. That still leaves a ton of manual editing on my end.

So naturally, I started asking myself: "What if I built my own solution?"
The shop I worked for, back in the day, got some of the technicians parallel ZIP drives. It was a godsend to copy the Windows 95 CAB files to the hard disk drive from the ZIP drive and run the upgrade from there, versus feeding the machine floppies.

If you were really luck you were working in a site w/ Novell Netware and you could just copy the CAB files down from the Netware server. >smile<
There is a pretty good amount of operation-critical stuff like power plants (especially nuclear), radars, traffic management and various finance/insurance/airline services that operate on VMS afaik. Something about very reliable cluster-native operations, or so it would seem. 90's cloud-native.
I think this post isn't limited to OSINT. It's widely applicable, probably where AI is being adopted as a new set of tools.
OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn't waiting
He has a cool museum in Appleton too
Exactly, as one of their target audience I'm not searching for them, I know who they are. I go to their website regularly and articles like these are how I find out about new stuff and how to use it.
I think the outcomes achieved for domestic vs foreign is another interesting angle. The degradation of purchasing power of working and middle class is have been consistently getting worse.
> As for pianos, they would have to get a dedicated piano mover.

You said to never give up your power unnecessarily. Pianos aren't necessary.
Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers
Also somewhat strangely, I've found Python output has remained bad, especially for me with dataframe tasks/data analysis. For remembering matplotlib syntax I still find most of them pretty good, but for handling datagframes, very bad and extremely counter productive.

Saying that, for typed languages like TypeScript and C#, they have gotten very good. I suspect this might be related to the semantic information can be found in typed languages, and hard to follow unstructured blobs like dataframes, and there for, not well repeated by LLMs.
An factual anecdote isn't worth much. A fictional anecdote regardless of how popular it is, is even less valuable.
The point is that Japanese has some word for kabuki, while English would have to borrow the word, or coin a new one, or indeed repurpose a word. Without a word, an English speaker would have to resort to a short essay every time the concept was needed, though in practice of course would coin a word quickly.

Hence jargon and formal logic, or something. And surfer slang and txtspk.
You're just describing tribalism.
Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu
It also seems similar to mastodon communities. Get too toxic and your server is so isolated you can’t bother people. Get too sensitive, and you block so many servers you can’t interact with anyone. Of course you could just have a server that’s for your little group(intentionally isolated) and that’s fine too.
We know this complete fiction because of parts where "the White House considers x,y,z...", etc. - As if the White House in 2027 will be some rational actor reacting sanely to events in the real world.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535953
I did a Google search because a wife not being allowed to have her husband present during childbirth sounded too egregious to be true. I found a single Today article about one specific hospital in New York enacting that policiy (NewYork-Presbyterian). That's not nearly widespread enough to apply to any story of a COVID-era childbirth you hear about, FYI.
I worry more about the human behavior predictions than the artificial intelligence predictions:

"OpenBrain’s alignment team26 is careful enough to wonder whether these victories are deep or shallow. Does the fully-trained model have some kind of robust commitment to always being honest?"

This is a capitalist arms race. No one will move carefully.
I love Oxide's podcast. I checked its career page a few times but they are only hiring for field sales.
This may not be a particularly popular opinion, but current copyright laws in the US are pretty clearly in favor of training an AI as a transformative act, and covered by fair use. (I did confirm this belief in conversation with an IP attorney earlier this week, by the way, though I myself am not a lawyer.)

The best-positioned lawsuits to win, like NYTimes vs. OpenAI/MS, is actually based on violating terms of use, rather than infringing at training time.

Emitting works that violate copyright is certainly possible, but you could argue that the additional entropy required to pass into the model (the text prompt, or the random seed in a diffusion model) is necessary for the infringement. Regardless, the current law would suggest that the infringing action happens at inference time, not training.

I'm not making a claim that the copyright should work that way, merely that it does today.
So I'm fascinated with military culture and how systems work on this scale (ie millions of employees). And one interesting aspect is the E4 Mafia [1].

For those that don't know, you're generally either a commissioned officer (with ranks from 0-1 and up) or enlisted (E-1 to E-9). Some branches have warrant officers too but let's ignore that.

So if you join as an enlisted you start off as a private in the Army (it's called something else in different branches). By the time you finish bootcamp you're an E-2 private, possibly an E-3 (Private First Class). If you're not an E-3 it's automatic promotion after ~6 months assumpting you don't have any red flags AFAIK.

By the time you make it to E-4 (Corporal in the Army) you kinda know how things work BUT you're also in the last rank before you're in a leadership position. The next position (E-5, Sergeant in the Army) is a noncomissioned officer ("NCO"). Some people want to avoid that so they kinda hang around E-4 far longer than they should and they build up a body of knowledge on how to get things done. Or they may have been a higher rank and get busted down from an Article 15 (or NJP or whatever the specific branch calls it).

Requisitions can be a huge issue in the military, evne for simple things like office supplies. So you may find that E-4s can "acquire" needed supplies from other units. NCOs, Staff NCOs and command tend to be aware of it but will ignore it because it kinda needs to happen. And those E-4s are called the "E4 Mafia".

This, I believe, is the kind of "rule breaker" this post is referring to.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEgh-w4FIFc
A subset of HN contributors continuously object to (and flag) any post suggesting that current US federal policy is destroying our scientific and technological infrastucture.

NOAA, USAID, USDA, CDC, NASA, NIH, etc. all represents hundred of millions of dollars and millions of person years of scientific effort.

The DOGE-ies and their ilk are flushing that all down the toilet. The notion that they're saving the US any money would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.