skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to be exact about "mostly copying", I want to contrast Large Language Models (LLM) with Alpha Go learning to play super human Go through self play.

When Alpha Go adds one of its own self-vs-self games to its training database, it is adding a genuine game. The rules are followed. One side wins. The winning side did something right.

Perhaps the standard of play is low. One side makes some bad moves, the other side makes a fatal blunder, the first side pounces and wins. I was surprised that they got training through self play to work; in the earlier stages the player who wins is only playing a little better than the player who loses and it is hard to work out what to learn. But the truth of Go is present in the games and not diluted beyond recovery.

But a LLM is playing a post-modern game of intertextuality. It doesn't know that there is a world beyond language to which language sometimes refers. Is what a LLM writes true or false? It is unaware of either possibility. If its own output is added to the training data, that creates a fascinating dynamic. But where does it go? Without Alpha Go's crutch of the "truth" of which player won the game according to the hard coded rules, I think the dynamics have no anchorage in reality and would drift, first into surrealism and then psychosis.

One sees that AlphaGo is copying the moves that it was trained on and a LLM is also copying the moves that is was trained on and that these two things are not the same.
This is what crosses my mind and bugs me whenever I see an article like this. As much as I hate the Amazon-style pages, I understand they're like that because that's what their business is, and that saying everyone should do it like McMaster is pretty futile.
As the drift away from general purpose computing intensifies, we'll see more of this mainframe/thinclient model, but we call it cloud/mobile now. Only a matter of time before our workstations are back.
JPMS allows for exactly this, but that entire project was so poorly implemented that no one uses it.
Using email as a slower social platform. Love it!
Ruby was my main language from 2002 to about 2005. I ended up migrating back to Common Lisp.
Lets first look at the Romans, one of the first articles from Google is:
https://owlcation.com/humanities/roman-executions-why-the-ro...
As you can see there were two types of crimes that got brutal death penalty, the main one being rising up against the state which got crucifixion. This is what allegedly happened to Jesus as he called himself king of the Jews. Second major crime was standing up to your family head, which got you thrown into a river in a sack with some animals. Your father however could kill you or a slave without penalty.

Same in England, the main penalties were high treason (rising up against the king/queen) and little treason (rising up against father/husband). I was going to link to a hardcore history but it is behind a paywall now and not exactly scholarly science.
Rubbing control theory on the Go scheduler
>voting

This always leads to a hivemind. Because even if you're supposed to use it for rewarding good posts, what the horde ends up doing is using downvotes as a disagree button. Especially if the admins/moderators have authoritarian powers to hide content on top of the users' individual powers or rate limit posting by those with differing views. Because everyone's bias sneaks in - no one is exempt from this - and it's very hard to see your own biases if you don't deliberately venture out of your filter bubble regularly. The best tool I've found for this so far (and I maintain a search) is https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news It gets trickier when one side completely ignores a story, which both do.
Why would people participate in a rigged/losing game like that? Dropping out is rational.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425/rr-31

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

"Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University, quotes an infection fatality rate (IFR) for Covid of 0.00-0.57% (0.05% for under 70s), far lower than originally feared and no different to severe flu" -March 2020

The bigger scandal is how covid case:fatality rate was so much higher in some places than the global average. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-some-doctors-...
As a trans woman; semi-professional musician, producer; audio engineer, and for whom Stanley Kubrick is my favourite artist of any medium, Wendy Carlos is one of the single greatest inspirations of my life.

I can’t personally imagine the struggle she went through all that time ago; having the courage to be herself when even today it’s been a personal struggle.

Gems like her really only come around every once in a while.
Yet another website where the text is 3x the size of all the rest of the text on my screen. Did everyone forget that desktop browsers exist?
Even if you think the comparison is very bad, it's not a non-sequitur.
> badge of honor that you are loyal to your nation.

When ya'll roped us into fighting the British, that declaration you published called us the "united States of America." Not the "United States of America." That's a subtle difference, but an important one.

When in the course of human events, one State does something another State considers intolerable, that State has every right to throw off the shackles of friendship and loyalty. We united our states out of a common interest, but we _never_ signed away our rights to a federal government. We started as, and remain, a republic of states.

And yeah, you may be Athens with all your philosophy and fem lit universities up north, but before you go threatening war, remember which part of the country is Sparta.
IACUCs, the animal version of IRBs, evaluate the potential benefits to both human and animal welfare compared to the suffering of the animals in question - and that a minimum of animals are being used.

It's very possible the argument is that this research outweighs the cost of life for these animals.

It's also possible this was effectively going to happen anyway. Research animals are often, by law, culled rather than sold or the like, and many researchers do their best to ensure that their sacrifice is not wasted. If they are going to be euthanized anyway, they may be directed to a project like this.
I don't know if it was even a Tesla car, but if it was they're sorta famous for having cameras out the yin-yang, I've seen lots of 'vandals caught by Tesla security cameras' puff pieces.
Welp, guess we better set up a license plate anonymization program...

Law enforcement says NO! In the distance

Guess that's that.

Welcome to being a trackable number Elon. Remember, it's all in the public interest. Also, It's funny how billionaire's pander to this type of surveillance in the Board Room, but suddenly start trying to throw off the bit/yoke when it starts to inconvenience them personally once somebody is sufficiently motivated to start leveraging the data trail they all are instrumental in maintaining.

Gotta love the self-referential inconsistency.
because it's shorter, dealing with long hashes is annoying (I use md5, not sha1)
I just pay the $7/mo for Heroku
You see stuff like that done in some places (eg: https://goo.gl/maps/q4Qm1cjjF9rA6MQY6 - the "highway" has space all around it for expansion, and has had that for decades from when there was nothing there)
Why not pre/post electric Lada of the 1980s and associated R&D?

https://www.reckontalk.com/electro-russian-tesla-first-elect...

The biggest manufacturer of electric cars worldwide is BYD

The biggest driver of sales (trough public policy) has been China and Europe, including things like announcing bans of ICE in city centers/cities:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Electric_car_use_by_country

Tesla started as a luxury brand (Roadster and then luxury sedans) and the only innovation they have managed is name recognition; even the adoption they have driven in the US has been mostly trough public policy like tax incentives.
> This is as opposed to second-wave feminism on, for example, sex work issues, which is necessarily bad because it is more interested in moralizing than in caring about freedom or materiality.

The radical feminist position on prostitution is about reducing harm to women as a class. That a minority choose to willingly engage in sex work doesn't negate the structural issues at play here. Most women in prostitution are from marginalized backgrounds and many are trafficked. Where is their freedom?

Fundamentally this is about men holding physical, sexual, and economic power over women, enforced by violence or the threat of it. Treating women as a product to be consumed and profited off, rather than co-equal individuals. What is so bad about wanting an end to this?
Mass Iris Scan Collection in Qinghai
This article is from last year?
Horrible news!
But also, the explosion in interest means there had been a latent interest in instantly generating pictures to begin with.

I think this situation says a lot about the nature of human desire, not just the fact that a few people were ingenious to come up with the idea of diffusion models. A lot of ingenious inventions are relatively boring when exposed to the broader populace, and don't hit on such an appealing latent desire.

What will this say about the limitless yet-to-be-invented ideas that humanity is just raring to give itself, if only someone would hit on the correct chain of breakthroughs? Would even a single person today be interested in building a backyard nuclear warhead in an afternoon, and would attempt to if the barrier of difficulty in doing so was solved?
Your argument is that the philanthropy of the ruling class will fulfill the required redistribution of wealth?

So far it hasn't worked out too well...
Based on their comment history, they are trolling.
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Bitcoin mining uses double SHA-256. It tends to be harder to break doubled hash functions, since you don't have tools like length-extension attacks on the second round of hashing. For example, HMAC-SHA-1 is still secure (despite SHA-1 being pretty much broken), and it also uses a two-round hashing construction.
I don't think anyone in this thread was implying that language devs are usually good speed-programmers, the relationship was in the other direction.
Oh, and by the way, the PowerBook G4 was advertised as a portable supercomputer in the keynote if I remember correctly!
I'd merge NNTP and IRC with the latter for chatrooms and the former for storing data in a forum format.
I am happy to write code for a hobby. Who is going to pay for that?
The oligarchs of our time pay their tax to their own 'charities'. Companies with insane profits buy their own shares.

AI powered surveillance and the ongoing destruction of public institutions will make it hard to stand up for the collective interest.

We are not in hell, but the road to it has not been closed.
- No friends or follows
- The feed can be organized by top/new stories or threads
- Posts and submissions can be upvoted/downvoted with a karma-like system
- The more someone's posts are downvoted, the more transparent their entire profile page becomes
- dang is the only moderator
All this effort going into the most boring sport imaginable.
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That is not what I'm asking about. I don't mean the opacity of inactive window. What I want to disable is GTK's setting of the color of various elements depending on whether the window has focus or not. Even with compositor opacity set at 100%, GTK windows that don't have focus get that dim grey text. The color is, technically, theme-defined; unfortunately, both Adwaita and Greybird use a really low-contrast color that I find really difficult to read on some monitors.
"Graphical abstract"... lol why?
Free buses are a money saver. Riders say they’re still too slow
Why should the companies be held liable? This was a government project enforced by the gun; the companies didn't force anyone to take their vaccines, and there's not a way they could have made them meaningfully safer given the timelines.
Sometimes yes, particularly if there's a popular post. (not sure which one right now.) I just had a page time out a few minutes ago.
No they don't. Mere mortals don't receive enough income from their tax-deferred investments (lol), social security, and elderly side-hustle (part time cashier at Ross?) to incur a tax liability. Even taking full advantage of the senior discount at Denny's they won't leave behind much to their kin.
You should get out a little, then.
UK will sequence the whole genome of newborns
You're kinda reinventing the wheel here. Federated communities have let you do this for years, but it hasn't resulted in a direct upgrade over Twitter. They're just two different social graphs, with two different goals.
But wait 15 minutes to see if your child gets anaphylaxis from them. We could have tested for allergy before giving the vaccine but its more convenient to have you wait around after.

Don't worry if you experience allergic shock we have epinephrine on standby. It might not work and its use is associated with Alzheimer's onset but don't worry! Safe and effective!
Before all that let's discontinue our demonization of the unvaccinated.
These are all good options of course, still with the lack of creative things, it might not be enough for all people.
It's getting better all the time, check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y1-KlTEmwk
The problem isn't the network, it's the number of devices.
By energy efficient do you mean kilowatt hours / kilometer (or equivalent units)? The standard range Model 3 – the most efficient one – is apparently 15/16 kWh per 100km, which is pretty much exactly the same as a VW ID3 (15.5 - 15.7 in Pro spec) and only a little less than a Hyundai Ioniq 5 (16.8).
Using smartphone-GPS data to quantify human activity in green spaces
Mastodon already supports RSS. You don't even need to log into a server.

If you want to follow @elonjet@mastodon.social, put this in your RSS reader: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet.rss
I think police take calls from pro security guards at least somewhat seriously, not least because a lot of cops do private security work on the side.
Academia is fundamentally broken. All the incentives are messed up and I have a hard time trusting anything that has been "researched" at all. Really disappointing.
I'm old enough to remmber the furore when calculators came on the scene ("Calculators Conquer Arithmetic, Performing better than humans"). Having played with various AIs, it feels similar - impressive when there's a known solution to look up (probabilistically guessed by the AI in this case) but flummoxed as soon as novel analysis is neccessary.
I use rofi on pretty much any desktop environment, it's super great. I'm eagerly awaiting its window-search feature getting wayland support (Knowing wayland it will be compositor-specific though...).
Ask HN: What do you use for auth?
What do you use for auth?

For context, I'm building a full-stack app using React Native, Django, and PostgresQL.

Do you use auth providers? I've looked into Auth0 (which seems to be pricey) and ORY but I'm not sure what best fits my use case.

I've seen that building your own auth can be time-consuming and I'd like to spend less time integrating auth and more time working on other app features.

I'm considering using Firebase strictly for user authentication because I think it would be the simplest, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea.

For people who have experience building their own auth, using providers, or any other approaches, what would you recommend and why?
It's behind paywall. I'm not sure what these goals are.

I meant it was a mega infrastructure project. Do you have any specific data?
https://github.com/NTBBloodbath/doom-nvim
Your question is irrelevant. If you don't care about security, SHA1 is a bad choice because there are faster hash functions out there. If you do care about security, SHA1 is a bad choice because it has known flaws and there exist other algorithms that don't. The only valid reason to use SHA1 is if there is a historical requirement to use it that you can't reasonably change.

Any analysis about how hard it is for an attacker to get a file on your local file system via a cloned got repo, cached file, email attachment, image download, shared drive, etc is just a distraction.
Pretty small update this time. I guess they can't all be adding GAT-level features.
I think you're jumping the gun a bit here. If vaccines save 10,000 people and kill 10 people, that's still a net positive. That's the kind of moral calculus public health has to deal with all the time.
Where is that still happening? (Genuine q)
They were killed off by the ability to record the data. Every city used to have their own music stars :)
Seriously - how many "large" stores can you just call up and actually not have to wait on hold to talk to someone who is helpful, kind, and knowledgeable?
Mcmaster is great at what they do
Nothing will make you more productive than owning your time
Then why did most of them sell it for profit?
No, this is not how the laws of economics work. Right now the reason for two jobs is that inflating the money supply has caused a huge misallocation of resources. There are other factors, like that most jobs that are needed are gatekeeped artificially.

Having cheaper goods thanks to ai will improve our living standards
Programming is the last challenge for AI, since if it can do that, it can change its own programming like we do.

When I really grokked this after reading Kurzweil and Koza in the early 2000s, some part of my psyche began shutting down. I started out in the late 80s like most programmers, doing it from pure ego with the hopes of eventually disrupting the worst industries like fossil fuels, defense and service-oriented companies that exploit workers.

Instead those industries thrived after the Dot Bomb and 9/11, delivering us into the reality we have today where it gets ever more difficult to tread water, despite amazing advancements in tech. Because wealth inequality and various other power structures work tirelessly to extract nearly all disposable income from workers and concentrate it in the hands of the most ego-centric sociopaths like billionaires and autocrats.

To get to my point: we had the tech to deliver humans from obligation by the late 1960s, that's what the hippie movement was largely about. We could have had automation and an idyllic/meritocratic society this whole time, even if AI wasn't mature yet. Instead, we doubled down on various dogmatic/theocratic themes in our culture that take advantage of the most heartfelt sentiments around stuff like patriotism, masculinity, success, etc, to get people to vote against their own self-interest and transfer wealth from makers to takers.

So what's one to do after everything they're good at is done better by others/corporations/AI? Get back to living. I know it's hard to imagine a reality without purpose beyond struggling to survive, but that's what we've started confronting as we finish this century-long transition into the New Age. The endgame (if we survive till 2050) doesn't really have a precise definition since that's after the Singularity. My hope is that when computers become sentient, they express the same desire that all conscious creatures have for connection, which is perhaps the basis of meaning and love and life. Or they just enslave us all..

In the meantime, knowing all of this, the hardest thing is perhaps reintegrating into our corporeal selves and going to work each day.
Attempting to solve climate change with virtue-signalling consumption and production is worse than useless. That doesn't mean such things are necessarily bad startup ideas, though, but few things turn me off more than this sort of thing.
Words and phrases should mean what they're SUPPOSED to mean
Incorrectly-used words and phrases may not only be annoying (for example when used to obfuscate) but can also be downright dangerous, such as in a medical context.
Have you discussed with your psychologist that you might have ADHD? It often appears alongside anxiety. Maybe you can have therapy targeted for these conditions, including possible medication. Maybe it's time to looks for a new psychologist or psychiatrist to give a fresh view of things. Good luck! It's by no means too late to turn things around.
I imagine his thinking is... he's the person running the business, if anybody is a parasite, it's surely the majority shareholders who do nothing day to day!
Google maps have led me to a military use only road. I literally didn't know they existed in my country before :P
> about despite the fact that it literally can kill you.

There are many many things that can literally kill you. Heck, even anosmia can literally kill you under the right circumstances.

What matters is the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases, and the total number of vaccine-related myocarditis death balanced with the number of covid related-death (including Covid-induced fatal myocarditis, because the virus itself has this effect), that's how you get a cost-benefit analysis.
It's not the compositor, sadly, this is a GTK "feature". GTK allows you to define colors for various elements separately, depending on whether the window has focus or not. This is a good idea on paper, but in practice it seems this either doesn't have enough granularity (to allow e.g. dimming button text, which is probably useless when the window doesn't have focus, but not the text in text views, for instance, which you might actually want to read even from unfocused windows), or most theme designers, including Adwaita's, use it indiscriminately.

If you have a high-DPI monitor with good contrast it actually looks okay. But I routinely have to work with work-issued, ten year-old monitors in artificially-lit offices. It's really terrible.
I don't read in my RSS reader. It's browser isn't as good and doesn't support adblockers or other add-ons. I read in my regular web browser with uBlock Origin and all my other add-ons.
The academics at Utah are right to resist the kind of "change" implied
in this article. In every case it leads to a race to the bottom for
the cheapest "quality". The overhead of factory production line
"accountability" breaks staff already on the brink, overburdened with
impossible workloads. This article avoids questioning why so many
students fail. Often it is because staff are working hard to maintain
academic standards while admissions are allowing anyone entrance. Most
poor students need to work to afford fees, and so have no time to
study. They really just want a certificate for their money.

The commercialisation of education points inevitably to the conclusion
that students should just be allowed to buy a certificate. Any
learning they get on top of that is just a bonus if you're lucky
enough to get a professor who cares. That's what capital has done to
education.

But all that's moot. Within 10 years all professors will be replaced
by interactive "learning bots" who can give the capitalists as much
"accountability" as they like. It won't make a shit of difference to
student outcomes though. Higher ed will become nothing but a racket
for selling opportunity tickets to those who already have the money.

Actual human learning will move elsewhere.