skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think flatpaks are awesome. Especially for commercial software. I do think they are missing an important feature that snap has what snap referes to as classic confinement. For example vscode as a flatpak can't really interact with your normal system libraries/exectuables/etc. That being said I do hope that Flatpaks succeed and becomes the easy go-to option for commercial software to support linux distributions.
If there had been an adopted standard for embedding icons in ELF, and if common Linux launchers had just been a menuized view of a folder structure, this would never have been a problem.

But Linux Desktop has a nasty habit of adopting over engineered solutions instead of simple ones, especially if any other desktop OS is doing it that way.
The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)
Plus, it relies on system libraries like glibc. You can’t even use it on distros like Void and Alpine.
There's the story that when Abe Lincoln was challenged to a duel, he responded with his choice of weapons: cow dung at 10 paces. Needless to say, the duel never took place.
Could also do multiple parallel e-beams to a chip (within reason). This might amortize some of the cost.
OTOH I'm really happy I've finally got some grey hairs and can pull off a little bit of gravitas.
WFH would have sucked when I was living in Beijing (I'm not sure how my friends have managed for the past 2 years). It is much better in Seattle, even though the space is more expensive here. I've got my own office, so does my wife (for now, our kid wants to sleep in our room anyways).
Police too busy chasing other problems than hunting down pedos.
Atherton rips up some multifamily housing plans
So the encoder takes one image as input and outputs a bunch of words describing it? Or there is some kind of word embedding that's separate from the image embedding?
I've come to the conclusion that reducing beliefs like that is not a matter of education. I mean the message is out there loud and clear, it's not that if only people heard it louder and more often that they would change their minds.

No, I think at this point, the best way to reduce the number of people who believe the government lies to them is to reduce the amount of lies that the government tells them.
A culture that is not able to sustainably replace itself will eventually die out or be replaced by another culture, regardless of their merit.
At Random: The business of books and the merger that wasn’t
I’ve tried to identify parts of the prompt in the output, hopefully recognizing someone trying to dump the prompt, but that’s pretty tough to do. I’m sure even fine tuned models are susceptible to spilling proprietary training data
I do the same, but because I think it’s important to see what the average use will when using the web. Especially if you’re working professionally with the web in anyway.
Figma will be fine but I'd rather have the deal go through if I worked at Figma.
I am a bit neurodivergent which caused me no end of problems in grade school. I did something right out of Ender’s Game in the sixth grade and was immediately kicked out of school. When I got back, I found high school was really not so bad, I was worried about getting shut out of dating but I got very little crap from other kids that I didn’t deserve. In college and adult life I’ve had a limited number of incidents where my neurodivergence intersected with bullying.

On one level I grew up and the people around me grew up and it’s been better, on another level though it is still a wound that will never completely heal.
Amazon and Meta used to send me weekly emails. But oddly enough they haven't done that in the last couple of months.
Exercising has nothing to do with weight loss, although it’s still good for you with obvious benefits. Just losing weight is in my experience purely diet if you’re living any sort of standard American lifestyle where you’re really sedentary, or even moderately active. Maybe if you were like thru hiking you’d lose weight from exercise?
Why would someone who is willing to plan a surprise attack on an enemy instead agree to a formal duel?
any hints on level 28?
If it’s a minor tweak it’s not patentable. And only the authors can patent it (assuming they do so before presenting it publicly which can set a clock). The authors of course can sell.
Absolutely. Pseudo-science, snake oil, and sales pitches all with the promise of a pretty dashboard for an engineering manager who hasn’t written code in a decade to judge me by. Honestly, if there’s one thing that will get me to leave this career I love, it’ll be developer productivity metrics.
At risk of sounding like a Scientologist (I am not) I’d say if people didn’t have problems they’d make some for themselves. For instance whatever you have or don’t have you can want something more, less or different.
The good news is that there's a really easy solution to 500C being dangerous near people: don't put it near people. You don't want one of these in your car or your basement, but you can just put a ton of them in a big gray building that isn't next to anything and it's pretty much completely safe.
I am cautiously pro-id but I disagree with you. The ACLU opposes voter IDs because they have been used to restrict access:

https://www.aclu.org/fact-sheet/oppose-voter-id-legislation-...
Sun Rays were indeed very cool. A bit like the thin client VDIs of today, but easier to use IMO. The smartcard was really handy. As always Sun was way ahead of their time.

I still have some SunRays I was hoping to use for something but I never found a good use for them :(
Mapping Michigan's Startup Exits
Finite resources + human nature
You can already still duel. It's hard for anything to happen if neither presses damages due to respecting the duel.
Embeddings are often used as features for these LLMs so before they were paying to generate embeddings and doing inference with these large models. Now they pay to generate embeddings, fine-tune them and do semantic search (probably approximate k-nearest neighbors). The hardware requirements for most LLMs make them much more expensive than approximate KNN with a vector database.
As others have said, .mobileconfig or official app work great.

I geek out a bit and use Surge for iOS (pricey and not for non-techie users) and run a few proxies. It'll also allow for DNS override, which I use NextDNS's DNS over HTTPS.

https://www.nssurge.com/
The sequence of events that is wrong here, is that if a person calls 911 claiming that there is child abuse going on, and the "child abuse" is a child playing outside or walking to the park alone, the person should be fined. There is a difference between "I saw little Johnny outside for hours in the cold, I think there is child abuse." or "I saw bruises all over little johnny, I think there is child abuse." and "A child was walking outside alone, there is child abuse".
Yes! I’m glad that they have at least gotten rid of their old map, based on census areas. That is progress at least.
I listen to NPR’s podcasts a lot and would love to pay a monthly subscription just to pay them back. I just wish there was an NPR+ subscription rather than a per-show subscription through the Podcast app. I have no problem paying $10/month for commercial-less shows but I don’t want to pay that much just to hear Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me without ads.
The other wrinkle is that vendors don't want the broker to control the relationship. They want to have it themselves. So a big part of why companies like Lending Tree can exist is because they sell the leads and don't have to do the work of being a CRM.
in research, typically the behavioral tasks are randomized to avoid this sort of thing.

for practical purposes and legal decision-making, i have always envisioned a protocol where the patient is required to repeat back a random string in order to authenticate the system's output.

that is, the patient is shown or played a recording of the authentication sequence (by a separate device) and then they must express it through the bci before any device output from that session can be used as communication of intent for legal purposes.
Perfect name if you want to develop electric rockets or somethin'.
> The paper is not the final word on anything anyway. If you read a paper expecting to learn something about the world, you are doing something wrong.

Can you expand on this? As a layperson, I'm wondering what would you read a paper for at all if not to learn something about the world? What's the point otherwise?
> No ones career was destroyed unless you know something I don't. Can you cite what you are referring to here?

My point is that even if he's the "owner" (actually not true, he just retains voting control through super-voting shares, which is a whole other rant) he wouldn't (under most developed economies' laws) generally have free rein to arbitrarily do what he wants with the company when that negatively affects the employees. He can probably retire and sell it to the highest bidder, that seems eminently reasonable, but he'd be unlikely to be allowed to arbitrarily downscale or wind up a business that was operating profitably. So the idea that he's somehow doing the employees a favour by keeping the business running at all is pretty lopsided.
I don't think I ever overcame and recovered from bullying. I'm not even sure what that looks like. Bullying had a profound negative affect on my growth and development. I guess if there's a way to overcomes that, it was to develop a thicker skin, and to control my emotions.
I would prefer AppImage or nix than Flatpak. It just seems to be yet another package manager but more difficult to use and much slower.
A lot of designers are already abandoning Adobe because they are tired of their garbage. Many of my peers have turned to Serif Affinity apps as Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign replacements and they do an incredible job. Nobody cares about Adobe on iPads, most artists are reaching for Procreate. Most of the issues involve sharing of files since Adobe has such a large share and their file types are proprietary.

There are alternatives out there and Figma has a huge grip on web design among other things. Adobe has nothing good for web design. Nobody wants to use XD.

So you can see that there is already strong push away from Adobe. I don't know if Figma is going to eat Adobe's lunch in the next couple years, but they will be poised to be competitive.
I am very certain that most gang violence is far more complicated than a couple of conflicting egos and cowardice is irrelevant.
Instead of going by price alone, take a look at how easy or difficult the claims process is… for any kind of insurance. You don’t want a carrier who drags its heels or refuses to pay on some technicality when you make a claim. I have a good source for this data, but am hesitant to share since i don’t want you thinking I’m biased.
He has this theory that we basically destroy everything with war and then rebuild. This happens when inequality and debt burdens get too high. The conflicts can be internal to a country and external between countries.
Depends on how money is at stake or if you’re just crazy…

People put their lives at risk for very little.
Ah good catch. The 60 day deadline was paused during Covid but I guess it’s coming back starting this May.
> This is not what the grandparent is saying. The typical situation is not that people are forced to do the work. We're not talking about slavery* here.

> They are doing it because they see it as their "best option". By stopping it, the result is their "best option" is taken away from them, and they have to go do the next "best option".

Exactly. I know what the gp said. It was the same with those in China. The West didn’t force anybody in China using slavery to take that plastic. They were happily buying it. It was the “best option under given circumstances” for those who were doing it. Whole families built businesses on it.
What’s the difference between this app and AdGuard?
Edit: I said “attempt”. Linux doesn’t have those extreme stupidities you mentioned, and probably never will.
Crypto whales.
Me too but fortunately I found there was a different etymology 140 years ago, so now I get to be outraged for fun and profit.
It’s funny because I signed up to get Wegovy shots and still haven’t gotten approval, but I started dieting in preparation and I’ve lost 15 pounds this month. I’m eating red meat and the authentic, bubbly living kimchi from the Asian market that they keep in a stinky fridge separate from everything else.

But people act like I have three heads when they ask me how I lost weight and I answer honestly. They just feel like it has to be a net negative somehow, that it’s not allowed that I eat prime ribeyes (just one, I’m not that hungry m) every night and lose weight.

A month ago I was throwing up every day and eating 5000+ calories per day. I hope I don’t go back this time.
Why would they choose to duel?

They can still commit crimes like usual.

They could even duel now, but don’t.
Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
How do you set that up on iPhone?
I’m trying to find the downside here.

The author clearly thinks that business can only exist if you annoy the prospect until they buy to make you go away. There are other, more customer friendly business models.
That's not quite a tautology. A tautology would be: the reason people are rich, is because they are wealthy.

What he's essentially saying is: people are fat, because they eat too much. "Eating too much" does not necessarily or literally mean "fat". Likewise, "making more money than you spend" is not another way of saying "rich", as it's possible you can "make more money than you spend" and still not be rich.
Russia has put China in a very awkward situation, not least of which so much of Chinese military hardware is based on Soviet design.
I think they're in different leagues, and of different kinds.

There are stock scams and scammers for sure, but half of the crypto projects seem to be actual scams.

But in many ways, all of 'financialization' is a scam, certainly to ordinary workers etc.
Salmonella gives you bacterial gastroenteritis, aka food poisoning. Vulnerable people may be hospitalized, very few die. Most people just shit/vomit and are soon better. It's not fun, but it's also not something to freak out about, for healthy people.

Wash your hands with soap and water after handling eggs, poultry, pork, birds, reptiles, or really, just... any time it's convenient. Eat fresh foods. Cook pork and chicken.... enough... and if you don't, just make sure it's fairly fresh and was handled by a reputable source.
> Google and Meta seem to have no idea what's going on within their own advertising networks.

Which is the problem.

Distributors of ads need a solid Know Your Customer program, so you can find the crooks. Otherwise, they have to accept liability for scams they help promote.
Of course, the solution is criminal and/or civil penalties for people making false police reports. If you call to complain about your neighbor and it turns out there was nothing wrong going on, the neighbor should be able to 1. discover who made the complaint and 2. sue for damages. People need to mind their own business unless they are 100% sure there's abuse/crime happening.
Yeah only the government can do that.
> Despite what many think egg shells are permeable, stuff gets through them, and eggs when laid generally have a fair amount of blood and shit on them which do have salmonella in them.

In Europe eggs are sold unwashed and I can assure you there is nothing on them except for a white or brownish shell. Occasionally a down gets lost in the packaging - that's it. The shell gets permeable when the protective layers are removed by washing it and that's why eggs are sold refrigerated in the US. In Europe eggs are neither washed nor refrigerated.
From the blurb:

"Meta is planning another round of layoffs, I can unfortunately confirm. Leadership has been coy both internally and externally about what is coming, but I’m told that the current plan is to announce more cuts in March after last year’s performance bonuses are paid out. Given what I’ve heard about plans to cut certain orgs by double-digit percentages, I wouldn’t be surprised if the total number is somewhere in the ballpark of the last layoff, which was about 11,000 people or 13 percent of the company."
Thank you, LetGrow, for all the good you do in this world.
There are no guarantees in life. You could allow hyper-local zoning and still have some terrible neighbors that don't pick up dog shit and have loud parties all night. People trying to "keep property values up" has also led to some terribly discriminatory behavior in the past - we should be glad that such kinds of exclusion are no longer legal.

If "quality of neighborhood" is so important then said neighborhood should, as I stated above, put their money where their mouth is. Maintain a common fund, and commit to match any offer for any house going up for sale in the community. Stop using everyone else's taxpayer dollars to have cities pass and enforce laws to do it.
Those telco's have some balls.

This is transparently them trying to be paid twice for upgrading their networks.

After all, that's literally what their customers monthly bills are for. Access, delivery, and network maintenance + upgrade.

If the Tech companies do pay for the network upgrades, then perhaps the telco customers are going to lower the monthly bills for their customers?

Yeah, I didn't think so. ;)
Reminds me when Saddam Hussain challenged George Bush to a Duel as an alternative to war. Was turned down.
A couple months ago I loaded compiz on my Debian box. I messed with a lot of the eye candy, then settled into a few fun gee-gaws, like switching virtual desktops via rotating cube, windows that desaturate when not focused, etc and still am using it today. Puts a little whimsy back into my work day.
Don't worry, nobody would want the massive extra complexity to make them self-sustaining. They'll all lead back to the same implanted surface and if anything starts to go wrong you can unplug it. And it would be the opposite of contagious.
Out of curiosity, what were the videos? The algorithm (advertisers?) is certainly picky...
I don't see what you are talking about here? The article is discussing passing laws to prevent CPS from charging people with child abuse for not helicopter parenting their children. As other people have mentioned, children aren't in much danger and so this increases their independence. I assume by children-out-of-wedlock problem you mean that there are more single parents now? (I have not checked if this is true) I don't understand how more parents being single is related to the CPS/busybody neighbors/police overreaching more though.
“ Don't the spammers spoof innocent people's numbers? ”

Oh, they do? I wasn’t aware this was a thing. I’ll only sign up the business from now on.
Considering the effort is de minimis, and the net time saved is nil, this isn’t a thing that will ever happen. If you want to take the time to make a website to advertise the FCC’s website, and to convince people to go check the data, don’t let me stop you. I just don’t see it as needing a technical solution. It needs a people solution instead. Or a budget solution.
Microsoft supports it as long as your manager approves it :)
Susan Wojcicki steps down as head of YouTube
Man, some people are just crazy. You’re so hell bent on using android you limit the functionality of your phone to it essentially just being a brick.

Buy an iPhone, install an ad blocker, disable all the tracking, and be done with it while still being able to use the features of the phone you bought.
Assuming a mechanistic worldview, how could our world not have many grievous problems? We clawed our way from the mud and for all our cleverness, we are still the product of a messy and imprecise evolutionary process. ‘Good enough’ is what results, not perfection.

Genes have errors, leading to cancer and mental illness. We war over resources and ideologies because we are running software that derives from vicious apes.
Pig Data and Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities
So they would now have to step up and act as a broker. – What, no, I just wanted to sell this lead, I'm innocent! /s
Not surprising. If you can work remotely and are fed up with local/state/both parts of California government, why not move to the Tahoe/Reno area and enjoy zero income tax, lower sales tax, and potentially cheaper housing prices and the corresponding lower property taxes? I last lived in Northern Nevada in 2016 and the stream of California "refugees" was always a constant topic.
I think this is one of those cases where if the "lead generation" industry died in a fire I would be okay with that.

At Google there was a poster that read, "For every search there is the perfect Ad" and someone had written on it, "most times that is no ad at all." which lasted for maybe a week and a half before it was taken down.

So often there is no "value" to the person doing the action, the "value" is between the web site and the people who want to get information about you.
Survive. Escape. Relax.

That’s what it ultimately comes down to, in that order, and in what can take a very very long time.

You’ll have to share more if you want advice for whatever phase you’re in right now, but people all around you can help. Classic language around bullying evokes schoolyards and workplaces, but family members, friends, and spouses can just as often be doing the same thing. Almost everybody’s faced it.

Even if some of the people around you wouldn’t say they’ve been bullied because of the way the word is used, many can relate to what you’re going through and offer support.
"aggressively anti-poweruser", you are talking to a mac user.
I'm not in the US, so not really all that interested personally.

If it was something that affected me directly, then sure... I'd already be doing it. ;)
CARBONATED BEVERAGES AFFECT LEVELS OF TESTOSTERONE SECRETION IN MICE
This was written in 1847, well after dueling had fallen out of fashion, and well after the USA had begun to develop its own distinctly American cultural identity. So it sounds like this was meant to be a "fun lighthearted history" book, rather than a documentation of how people actually behaved in the 1840s. Not unlike my favorite bathroom reader of all time, The Strange Laws Of Old England.
Bao Fan, China’s Tech Rainmaker Vanishes, and So Does Business Confidence
As I do this for a living, let me point out, the index is not set in stone, new companies and technologies all replace the old and it will continue forward…
Given he is referring to a mental illness issue happening in teen girls, I don't think your tough guy advice is really useful here.
Our paper argues that this might have significant security implications beyond spilling the original prompt or training data when models are integrated with other applications (like search).
We showcase completely new methods to:

- deliver/inject adversarial prompts

- remotely control LLMs

- deliver hidden multi-stage payloads

- spreading payloads/injections to other application-integrated LLMs

- manipulating data

- exfiltrating arbitrary user data with only search capabilities

- target code completion engines

- target automated systems

So, recognizing parts of the prompt or fine tuning may not be sufficient mitigations.
Where is the video of this happening? Otherwise it's only a tease.
One thing I'm surprised at from this article is the amount of trade from Turkey to Russia. Really they should make up their minds, are they a NATO ally or a Russian one?
Careers and Ambition
I had the MST3K "creeping error" program that put the guys on screen like when they were watching a movie. They'd randomly make a comment or move. It was pretty fun,and totally useless.
If an AI is just a large language model without any ethical reasoning, what is a lawyer but the same thing with a smaller language model?