skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to tell from the weights that a model was trained on copyrighted material?
I didn't use it. From the comments it seems that most people are happy to give up their personal information. I assume that the poster now has a reasonably noiseless database of IPs and hn/reddit profiles. This is obviously highly valuable for marketing as it can be fused with existing profiles and then datamined across a large number of posts.
Btw, your suggestions make me think of another interesting approach that local governments could take.

Instead of devices reporting themselves, we could have hotspots observing mobile phone signals (eg. integrate them into traffic lights): we'd need at least 3 nearby for triangulation, and they'd have to be everywhere, so it would require government support and desire to provide traffic info for the public.
Their terminology would indeed seem wrong, but the WIV has apparently used a similar assembly strategy (leaving the sites in the final assembly) before:

https://twitter.com/jbkinney/status/1583267221047869441

I'd worry about their false discovery rate, for the same reason I worry about the large number of parameters in Pekar's epi model. It's still an interesting result, though.
At least it's not SHA-2, which is probably more widely used. Or am I mixing them up?
Maybe I’m naive, but isn’t AI generated CSAM a good outcome, actually - because it doesn’t require actual children to be hurt?
Funny how during the cold war everyone was criticical of russia for spying on all citizens. This was a symbol of how little freedom they had, that it was a proof that communism was leading to terrible dictatorships.

But our politicians seem to think that if we do it, it's to help people.

Unlike the ussr politicians of course, because they were evil.
Those restrictions made sense in a world without Stable Diffusion because CGI images were thought to stimulate interest in photorealistic CSAM and photorealistic CSAM couldn't be acquired without outright acquiring actual CSAM.

Now that we can readily generate photorealistic CSAM, there's little to no risk of inadvertently creating an customer base for actual CSAM.
The comparative recency of the proximal ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
I've used this photo to show friends the size comparison at star-parties! It's a great educational photo but also just beautiful.
The child porn problem is a double edged sword.

Detection becomes easier - is it pornography with a child in it?

Generation starts to become trivial - this video, but this person has the features of an X year old.

At least in the latter case no-one's actually getting raped.
Heh, thanks, it was earlier this month. I've been telling people I'm two years younger than I am, after adjusting for pandemic
Yep, this is exactly my point. But any time I talk to American liberals, they just hand-wave it away because that group of people is less than 50%. "They're not a majority of the population, so they're nothing to worry about!!" Talk about the 2016 and 2020 elections and American liberals will claim that Trump voters were a tiny, tiny minority (rather than less than 2% difference as it was in reality).

Hitler was elected by a minority of the population, but American liberals seem to have forgotten that. It's becoming easy to see how leaders like Hitler come into power. If Trump had been much more competent and destructive than he really was, the US would be really screwed right now, while American liberals would still be sitting around whining about how "gerrymandering" got him elected by a tiny, tiny, tiny minority. (Yes, I know gerrymandering only affects elections for the House members. American liberals don't: they routinely blame gerrymandering for governor's elections and Senatorial elections.)
Not to fault the article but I thought the posting tendency was not to editorialise in the header? The BBC site says:

Patients in England at risk as NHS and care 'gridlocked'
It's incredible that the only sensible comments on this thread are this far down. The HN audience really has a massive Dunning-Kruger problem when it comes to science topics (especially true for COVID conspiracy theories).
I wonder if they've tried putting up cameras everywhere? It made a huge difference in downtown Detroit. First the billionaire Dan Gilbert bought up most of the empty buildings downtown and put cameras everywhere. Course he hired his own quick response security force to arrest and hold criminals until the DPD could arrive. I've personally walked the streets near Campus Martius at 2 am and felt personally safe.

It worked so well that the city and the DPD started the Green Light program. They worked with gas stations putting up cameras and put together teams of dedicated officers for a quick response. The result was that it drastically reduced car jackings and gas station robberies. Now they've done the same thing at liquor stores and are talking about expanding it to other cooperating merchants. Cameras only work if they are being monitored and the police respond quickly.
But that'll probably run in chunks. Not gonna load 4GB into memory.

Edit: Turns out there was another comment like this, and a response was that the file could be mmap'd.
As a person who rides motorcycles, I find it interesting that it took a doctoral dissertation to conclude more lights = better.

I guess it's another example of why practical experience > academic knowledge.
At a glance this seems quite a bit different: much larger than a super block, and with almost no ground level retail, which means being in the center places you quite a ways from stores/restaurants.
Indeed! Those scales are balanced. Maybe the symbol is correct even though none of the traits are a good match. They each accepted the other's characteristics that they liked and ignored those they didn't care for figuring that it all balanced out in the end. I can dig it.
> I just don't understand

It's an order of magnitude less effort and risk to defer auth to third parties via SAML/OAuth/etc. versus owning it yourself with email-based (or whatever) logins. That's it. Nothing more.
It's not just the low-skill warehouse workers and delivery drivers; everything I've read about their IT/tech jobs sounds like an absolute horror show, along with an enormous amount of churn.
Jira and GitHub work.

GMail and GitHub at home.
That's what this article is discussing: A means of writing code in an FP style that is easy for others less or unfamiliar with FP to maintain, debug, and refactor.
> Nobody on earth can tell me they care about a single line of text advertising

Why do you think this is unlikely? People care about a lot of different things. Have you asked people what about it bothers them, rather than dismissing them immediately?
They are never going to accept that argument.

I mean, some SD applications like the interior designer market this as a great tool for potential buyers to try out ideas before they buy.
I started reading this with the bias “they’re like cats who want your attention less”, and I’m modifying that bias to “objectively need less of your direct interaction”.
Yep, and that last number is the 2-adic representation of -4/3.

It turns out a lot of ideas from calculus and real analysis carry over to the 2-adics, and this can lead to some interesting computational shortcuts since two’s complement is essentially native 2-adic arithmetic. I’ve blogged a bit about this here: https://kevinventullo.com/
Because you’re butchering the line.

It’s “I want to get off <x>”
"Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon"

Ah good, they're finally cutting down on Chinese vendors with random company names and fifty unrelated products, soon I'll be able to trust a company's reputation again

"employee accounts on LinkedIn"

Aw.
H.265 was held back by the insane licensing costs, hence why everyone uses H.264.

Sad cost the file sizes of H.265 are legit as.

I wonder why ffmepg can encode as H.265 if there's licensing fees?
The lab leak hypothesis is the “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” of our day.
Those are commercially available from gog.com: https://www.gog.com/en/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_2

And the data files from the demo version do the trick too.
I got a resin printer link, and was also kind of wondering why or how the AI knows about these products. What data associates me with this resin printer and you with the sodastream?
Okay but that has nothing to do with super blocks, that's just the preexisting block design.
> I don't know how major corps on the scale of Boeing ever achieve compliance.

Boring, repetitive software development processes that prioritizes closing potential holes vs. speed of development. When you stop to think about it, explains quite a bit of why big companies are so slow to release?
I've been using Wayland happily for the last few years. I'm missing colour management but I know it's (slowly) being worked on and I can wait, as everything else I need works better than it did for me under X11. Can't say the same for Snap. Wayland has become progressively better over the years. Snap just seems to get progressively more intrusive as they force it more and more. Longstanding complaints go unaddressed. Flatpak has been more or less pleasant. Feels very similar to the Mir/Wayland days to me.
This honestly sounds like a great idea. Even if not a side project, maybe learning a new language might help not only as a resume-filler but also to expand the pool of jobs you can apply for.
The HESSLA is the closest I know of to that kind of thing, although it's not widely used or well regarded.
Hmm, was hoping for something more like a Big-5 or Meyers-Briggs analysis, not as rah-rah horoscopy.
I don’t know. I sorta like my browser to be able to use my system fonts. Snap and friends appear to struggle with that.
Many of these have nothing to do with Git or GitHub in particular (dependabot, storing live credentials in the codebase...).

It'd be nicer if you managed to focus on the part of the Git/GitHub story: though, as a rant, it's perfectly fine :)
> first purposeful extinction

Smallpox? And extinction of Guinea worm is in process.
Yes. It’s basically pixel perfect, except that you can enable various improvements.

For instance: RCT2 used a single byte to store many values.

Some of these were reasonable (like the number of cars on a ride).

Others weren’t… like the number of guests in a queue. When it hit 255 additional guests would refuse to enter the line.
So if someone buys the rights to an artists work and that artist is dead can they start using Stable Diffusion to create new works of art they can claim as "by the artist"?
Get OSD on your environment then optimize for workflow with the least amount of distractions and immediate feedback. Unit/integration tests help to keep me in one place as well. Auto testing on file changes as well as autohotkey automations. Text to speech for reading emails and docs
You said that several times but why is that? What programs should be isolated and why are those not a static binary installed and updated with apt?
I believe Android doesn't allow gambling apps but there are a lot of gambling companies with gambling apps that need to be sideloaded.

From what I've heard, the Android apps don't have anywhere near as many users as the iPhone versions, and it's a struggle to get Android users to successfully install the app, but ultimately if it's a product that people want to use then they figure it out.

Also from what I've heard, they would much rather be in the Play Store than have to deal with getting people to sideload the app.
yes, yes, absolutely. Sorry for not being explicit.
I read a lot of personality test books, including some of Jung's work, when I was a teenager. The tests don't work. You can get almost as good results by randomly picking a type and seeing if your personality matches -- if the technique is sold to you well enough, it will seem to match, simply due to your own imagination.

Or, these days, the imaginations of marketing people and product designers and their algorithms that recommend us the dumbest, most irrelevant, grossest junk.

How many times did each of you see YouTube recommendations for that Johnny Depp trial? It was 50% of my recommendations one day, like 16/30 videos, and I never clicked on one or anything like it.

So much for profiling
It’s a tough place to be when the bar is perfection
Well, it's hard to game the system over the long term especially on a platform like HN, where not every positive comment is rewarded. If the model uses any temporal aspect, then gaming it is gonna be pretty hard.
TL;DR turn on signed commits and 2FA, don't commit secrets, and be careful with dependency vulnerabilities.

Doesn't really seem like "a ton of work".
You can use it for GitHub too.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/...
> I don't know how major corps on the scale of Boeing ever achieve compliance.

It's not that hard. They just remove all of your agency as a user. You can push commits, open branches & pull requests, and merge if 2 people approve it. And that's it.

Want to merge? Restricted. Make a new repo? Restricted. Use a GitHub Action? Restricted. CODEOWNERS? Restricted. Branch filters? Restricted. Forks? Restricted. Releases, packages, artifacts, security, insights, settings, webhooks, environments, pages, wiki, issues? Restricted. Access a repo you aren't a member of? Restricted. Protected tags, dependency graph, dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, deploy keys, secrets, github apps, oauth, notifications? Restricted. Stars? Restricted. And your SSO token expires every hour.

Can't get hacked if you can't do any work!
I found out it's actually Chief Intelligence Officer.
In 1970, the pioneers of Cancun (Mexico) designed the initial city landscape using the supermanzana pattern. This design pattern is similar to the superblock design in Barcelona. But it is better in reducing noise of traffic thanks to “bended” blocks.

You can find them in the old areas of Cancun (downtown) on Google Maps.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3VKzkBwz4GwX2p976?g_st=ic
Allegedly, SHA-256 can often be faster than MD5 https://security.stackexchange.com/a/95697 Not to say the algo is faster, it's not, but the CPU has specialized hardware for SHA-256.
> To your point however, could someone comment on the suitability of BsaI/BsmBI for the in vitro assembly of synthetic coronaviruses?

These are very commmon enzymes. Perhaps the most common today.

The GP comment is sort of misleading...you wouldn't just pick enzymes at random to do this analysis. You'd pick the enzymes in common use. These count.

> Is it all just about finding sites in the genome at the right locations which can be turned into restriction sites without disrupting any existing functional genetic elements? or is there more to it than that.

You can add or remove sites using different techniques, such as PCR mutagenesis.

> If a research team were to come along and decide they wanted to engineer their own coronavirus, how likely would it be that they would choose these restriction enzymes?

Highly likely.
They are called Microdistricts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/lxgdEpM
> as comparing the size of two objects is usually comparing two objects at the same scale.

It is actually quite common to hear that something in the night sky is xFullMoons distant/apart. Of course, that is a relative measurement of area of sky covered from a human's viewpoint while standing on terra firma. It's just a size/distance that is understandable by most people. Telling someone that one object is 3° from another object means nothing. Knowing that the width of the moon is roughly 0.5° means that it is the distance of 6 full moons is more relatable. So in this case, the width of the full moon is the scale

Slight tangent, there are other measurements that make things easier to navigate[0]. The width of your index finger ~1°, the width of 3 fingers ~5°, the full fist ~10°, the width of thumb/pinky fully extended ~25°. Knowing these helps find other objects.

[0]https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/measuring-the-sky-by-h...
This should have been expected.

Open source or not they are funded. And that funding needs to generate profit one way or the other.

This first release gave them the popular attention which they needed. It was successful.
Having gone through a similar but maybe less stressful experience during first COVID wave my suggestion is to take a break and act on the feedback. I applied to remote only positions and found companies would generally send me some feedback after the interview or some hints as-to what they didn't like. I probably rewrote my CV up-to 5, 6 times over the interviewing period. I also spend way too long digging into standard interview questions and leetcode madness which I'm still not particularly good at.

Also don't stress too much over failing interviews. Especially for full remote positions companies are trigger-happy. One, two mistakes and you're out. Request a wage that's too high and you're out without any feedback. Not to mention all the companies that are just doing the interviews but not really hiring and those special cases where they simply ignore take-home assignments.
I have a theory that there are a bunch of great products out there, waiting for a great marketer or salesperson to take them to the masses. Rather than the side project marketplace, it's a marketplace to have sales people join you on standardized terms (eg rev share 50/50 of the sales they make). I know there are a bunch of bright SDRs and AEs that would love a side project but can't build.

Would anyone bite on this?
Come, now. Surely you are aware that collectors collect things, and that collector things that are unopened are more valuable than things that are opened. This is no different than an untouched Proof coin, unopened Funko Pop, etc. the iPhone box will remain unopened.

As for the price, plenty of tech folk get paid more than they know what to do with, and some bitcoin bros made stupid money on their bet. Whoever bought the phone could have bought a watch or boat or helped a village in a third-world country, but decided they wanted a collectable iPhone. Personally, I think they should have helped the village, but I guess they have other priorities.
I've found StepSecurity's tooling helpful in getting my repos locked down.

* https://app.stepsecurity.io/securerepo
* https://app.stepsecurity.io/

It also helps to go through the GitHub options to lock things down. Also, configure Dependabot to update "github-actions"

No affiliation. Just a happy user.
The low level rendering is handled through Skia and it's hosted in windows handled by Winit. But all the high level model is in Smalltalk.
This lines up with my observation of the sudden and complete absence of celebrity deep fakes (the adult rated or otherwise) from the internet.

There is a legal machinery that works behind the scenes which we aren't always aware of.
The proper way is to down vote everything that isn't about Ubuntu.

We are all wrong.
It seems like these sorts of statements have to be self-fulfilling to some degree (but not completely). Big companies battening down the hatches slows down other companies and humans, which in turn leads to more battening. I hope companies aren't too short sighted (though obviously in some ways they are prone or even obligated to be).
Most cameras can plug directly into the iPad.
One of the nontechnical advantages of FP focused languages is that writing FP style code won't frighten or confuse anyone by itself. (But of course team maintained FP code should still be held to standards about clarity, maintainability, excess cleverness etc)
Also highly illegal in the EU. So if the author does this and reads this comment: Better stay where you are or you might get fined into oblivion.
The apparent size of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is 3.167 square degrees [1], and the angular diameter of Moon ranges from 29.3 to 34.1 arcminutes [2]. Using area = πr², the apparent size of Moon ranges from 0.1873 to 0.2537 square degrees. Hence M31 should appear to be roughly 12.5 to 16.9 times the size of Moon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
Having an opinion is a human right. So, in the sense that you should be free to believe that things shouldn't happen near you, yes, NIMBYism is a human right.

Having people act on your opinion instead of their own isn't a right though. You also don't have a right not to be challenged, questioned, or laughed at for what you believe. You're free to believe anything you want, and other people are free to think you're an idiot for holding that belief. So while the freedom to believe in "NIMBYism" is a right, it has no actual value. Stating your opinion will always have consequences.
Well I guess you’ll remain mystified, because I’m not about to waste my time linking to all the extremely well-publicized stupid shit he’s said that you will obviously continue to play dumb about.
I’ve lived in a much larger city with a unique, and much longer, history of two millennia. Somehow it’s not crime ridden. Indeed, it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how SF managed to fail so spectacularly.
Study: Cancer-causing gas leaking from CA stoves, pipes
I really strongly believe that city centers should ban cars completely with the exception of taxis, service vehicles, and special permits. In some cities, it might mean investing more in public transportation infrastructure, and parking on the outskirts of town at public transportation terminals. But it many cities it's very rare that you would actually need a car while in the city.
The product placements with (I assume) Amazon affiliate links are hilarious.
My sister is a professional violist, so I can't be too complimentary to the instrument. It has a very nice sound even though it doesn't resonate as well as the other string instruments.
:: Generated on my Hacker News handle ::

"You work with tech or maybe have considered it. You probably have a knack for coding."

While accurate, I don't think this took too much thought from the model, considering the site!
>A new house costs a million

This is what you get for having a car-based society with no walkability and so much wasted space. The chickens are coming home to roost and it's time for you to pay the piper.
> This is obviously highly valuable for marketing

Yes, all that from data from tens of people is going to rake in the big $$
Twelve years of Tory cuts, austerity, and mismanagement will do that to a public service. I suspect things will change at the next general election.
I hacked together up a Python script to crawl the internet and see how many Shopify stores are violating one of the basic rules of SEO
And so it starts...
Not really. Just another substack think piece.

Complete with the living modal upsell popup ala Medium. Will people ever learn? (No, no they won't)
I think it's complete bullshit and I fell for it. sigh

As a matter of fact, both Hackernews and reddit accounts have wildly different results. Also, the response is way to quick to fetch all comments from either platform (and you're not telling me you scraped reddit completely, don't you?).

Seems to be hugged to death now. So I cannot try with a nonexistent account id.
Which part of it is a wysiwyg editor?
This area is already well explored just with fake CSAM generated by artists using photoshop, cartoons, etc. The modern thinking is that it supports and encourages a behavior that can lead to actual violence.

If you constantly watch videos of people eating cheeseburgers, you might want to eat a cheeseburger yourself.
yeah, india's national integrity is threatened if that journalist takes the award as in, india would disintegrate and crumble on a single journalist's award taking. nice
I'd be willing to bet that the air pollution from a 9 month construction job is outweighed by the air pollution from steady car traffic for years. And as someone who has been robbed in traffic multiple times, I don't think traffic witnesses stop crime. Pedestrian witnesses and good lighting might though. Yeah, property values and rent might go up, but that's hardly an argument against environmental improvements.