skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk about AI having an Instagram problem, but I know Instagram has an AI problem.
So many fake accounts with AI as actors and they send you chat messages trying to pretend to be real people.
They even react to comments and can discern good from bad comments.

At first it was interesting. Now it's just annoying.

Then the Instagram algorithm, if you comment on coffee ads that you drink tea, you'll get tea ads.
It will show you progressively naked women, cameltoes and similar softcore erotica.
Sometimes even real porn. When you report that porn accounts your report will not even be reviewed and denied.
But God beware you post the word tits. Instant harassment automoderation.
All the women that follow you instantly message you saying hi, how are you, how old are you, what is your name, where are you from etc.
I think they're infobots trying to build profiles and sell your data.

Some play the old " I'm a hot girl but can't post my picture, please buy me an iTunes gift card ", like I was born yesterday. And how dumb their game is.
They see you commenting on a picture you liked, take that picture, claim to be that person, only on a private account, and they picked you, their loyal fan.
Many of them are cheap porn actresses or accounts of people having built profiles from the pictures those porn actresses post, only modified by AI.

I am so tired of that platform. And then they serve you small 1 minute clips of stand up comedy, cats or dogs, or some stupid 1 person having a chat with themself. Let's not forget those "how do I say it at my workplace" "expert" vids.
And lots of ads in between.

Instagram is so disgusting.
Poor assumption, that was the year I picked this particular username, far far older than that, and seemingly very agist on your part too.

If any problem involves "Everybody all of a sudden doing the right thing" the problem is not solvable if that is the only solution.

May we both live in interesting times.
FTA: “Francis previously stripped the Vatican’s secretariat of state of its 600 billion-euro ($635 billion) portfolio”

“Previously” implies that’s not what happened today. I read that as 600 billion-euro being part of “all assets and property owned by Vatican departments and affiliated institutions”, but not all of it.

If so, it is higher.
A nine-year-old home alone for hours was downright common in the 80s and 90s, let alone back in the "golden age of unsupervised kids" (so I hear, anyway) 70s. It was basically fine.
When I worked at a core i2 .edu site, we had all the "hd" mbone tv streams. It was pretty wild considering HD was a "new" thing! Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful time!
> How did the older games actually accomplish this?

Using Counter-Strike as an example: no matchmaking system - relied upon community hosted servers offering a wide range of game modes (official and community created). More competitive matches (pick-up games) were often found via IRC.
Personally I see real name policies as a 'simple, easy, and wrong' solution to a complex problem. It was relatively reasonable thing to try, it seemed like it is a straightforward way to get people to behave. But in practice people quadruple-down and toxicity becomes a part of their identity instead of blowing off steam or a side hobby, and openly changing their mind means losing face.
I agree ”only” isn’t the best descriptor. Still it’s clear it isn’t simply people eating a constant amount rather calorie consumption is significantly increasing with age.

Weight gain doesn’t seem to be a metabolic issue, rather on average people eat just a little more and gain just a little more weight every single year and metrics like obesity and morbid obesity smooth over this underlying trend as even the morbidly obese still tend to gain weight.
> 1 A/g for a 1 Ah/g

How does that compare to other batteries?
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https://www.loom.com/share/1809945a4853481c9384c75905ee1e87
> will they "install" it if there is no installer

Probably not. SysAdmins tend to use remote installation methods like this one to push a software installation to a workstation, so the installation software needs a command line with switches interface to setup for automated silent installs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

It works well and saves a lot of time going around to individual workstations spread across multiple floors.
Can Satellites Detect Whales from Space?
This article really brought out the Buck v Bell supporters.

https://education.blogs.archives.gov/2017/05/02/buck-v-bell/
What you've linked doesn't really contradict what the commenter said; he's arguing that folks don't generally hurt kids, poverty notwithstanding, and that tends to be my experience.
The rattlers around here could fuck you up, particularly if you can't get medical attention within a few hours because you're disabled on the ground alone at night. But fortunately, rattlers rattle (usually) so the snakes actually help people avoid this sort of accident.

Unfortunately, may people kill rattlesnakes when they become aware of them, which is usually after the snake started rattling. So there is now a selective pressure on rattlesnakes to stop rattling. Very misguided.
Top brands pull out of Russia, but their goods remain easy to find
This is a double-edged sword in my opinion. The Django ORM is among my favourite ORMs, but the abstraction (like any) can cause problems over time.

At scale, poorly understood ORM-generated queries can be a real pain, especially if your team's SQL skills have atrophied due to over-reliance on the ORM.

As an exercise, I'd possibly recommend reviewing your top 1-3 worst performing queries, tracking them back to the ORM, and evaluating how to improve them.
When asked how to keep up with all of this AI/ML stuff when starting your own AI business, Jeremy Howard (general genius and co-creator of fast.ai) replied that you don't need to know everything and keep up with everything. Pick a niche and focus just on that. And if that keeps changing too fast or is too much, pick a niche inside that niche.
https://archive.is/2pUbb
> But from the way it's built and trained, it's not like there's even any kind of factual confidence level you could threshold, or anything. The concept of factuality doesn't exist in the model at all.

I'm not super familiar with ChatGPT internals, but there are plenty of ways to tack on uncertainty estimates to predictions of typical "large scale ML models" without touching Bayesian stuff (which only work for small scale academics problems). You can do simple parametric posteriors estimation or if all you have is infinite compute and don't even want to bother with anything "mathy", bootstrapping is the "scalable / easy" solution.
I have not been close to it either. At my employer we have a "software center" that people use it install supported applications.

I know people who work at some big banks in NYC where all software has to be approved and they managed to get approval to use a Python library I wrote that I think they install with pip.
Why is that? There's plenty of computer opponents in fighting games (offline/campaign/etc), wouldn't bots be possible to cheat with?
They're doing stuff a different way. They're getting rid of messy, broken, obsolete .deb and switching to something that's nearly as advanced as what Haiku had five years ago, Mac OSX had nearly 20 years ago, and RiscOS had 35 years ago...
Would you volunteer your child for experimental gene therapy to make them HIV resistant, a therapy that has never been proven to work and has an unknown risk of permanent side effects?
Is there any evidence that that the Chinese State, which owns 1% and operates 1 board seat of ByteDance, has been using TikTok to surveil anyone?

The same concerns often not leveraged against US social networks who actually have a history of spying on their users. [0]

[0] - https://www.cbs17.com/news/investigators/facebook-settles-la...
I'm getting the wrong hash when I download the file (I tried a couple times).

I'm running

curl -O https://djngo.com/djngo.com
shasum -a 256 djngo.com

and I get

6133a4f5c76af6ca6a2b2eba115783a78fc1721cd384539076884f640b801a26 djngo.com

I'm on a M1 Mac. Am I missing something obvious?

I tried running it anyway (smart I know) and it failed with

zsh: exec format error: ./djngo.com
there's no "actual phone lookup platform" you can't get a person's location by knowing their phone number, that's a huge privacy violation. You can get the location of your own phone via icloud or google's system for android. You could also install an app on your phone to track your phone's location. You cannot find people based on knowing their phone number, that would be a serious safety issue for you know people trying to not, for example, get murdered by their ex-boyfriends.
Hospital Price Transparency: Progress and Commitment to Achieving Its Potential
its super duper easy, prob not perfect and I don't have any sort of proper "test":
1. I ask the model first if it seems like a question that benefits from an external answer
2. I talk to Wolfram alpha with some abstraction of the question
3. I wait for a response
4. I "incept" it into the final response, essentially a prompt that mixes in a context of sorts that contains the factual information.

you could cross check this stuff too with yet more models.
GitHub's new code search and code view enters public beta
If it's managed, isn't it their mail server? I mean, I can use my own domain and such, but as posters above said, "data independence" is important.
This would work if the elevator music was a never-repeating stream. With most elevator music, it's a few minutes of a "song" playing on repeat 24/7, so if you recorded a few repetitions of the "song", you'd probably see also repeated packets on the network.

If the music was repeating but the stream was different all the time, then steganography could be the reason :)
SAT is NP-complete even when the variable-clause graph is planar.

Vertex cover is NP-complete on planar graphs even if each vertex has at most three neighbors.

Travelling Salesman is NP-complete on planar graphs.

So is independent set, dominating set, 3-coloring...
> we are not currently in any major conflicts anyway

Disagree. The war with Russia has been slowly but steadily escalating and more directly involving NATO countries. It's not unthinkable it could turn into WW3.
That very incoherence is probably why it rarely works.
While I think this is a fantastic idea to help with the "housing shortage" (hint: not a shortage of housing, a shortage of reasonable rents), I'm wondering how repairs and restructuring would happen. Eventually you'll have to put a hole in a wall, or a very large chunk may need to be moved, etc. Is there a "hole patcher printer" in the works as well? What about when they want an addition, etc. Seems like a market waiting in the wings.
I hemmed and hawed on whether or not I'd consider this pedantry, and you're probably right - it probably is.
I think op means with you, rather than someone else.
Ed is my co-founder, he writes all our blog posts because I suck I writing. He also does more than half of our podcast episodes https://thegeomob.com/podcast (the guy on the left). Last I saw him (yesterday) he was real.
I don’t disagree. But “should” is different than “fundamental right”.
I still get ads for Slovenian brides on YouTube. Not only is it incredibly gross and objective to me, Google clearly knows nothing about my demographic.
> You could use them while traveling to not eat out as much

This is about the only reason I put up with travelling, eating food in different places

> You could use some for emergencies when you didn't have time to cook or ran out of groceries.

You need to plan better.

> You could use it at work if you have a hellish work env and an abusive boss that doesn't even grant you 30 minutes for a lunch break.

Fuck 'em. Take a lunch break. Your health is more important than their clock. What are they going to do, get their own hands dirty doing your job?
This is correct, but there's also some meta comment to be made that research has an "instragram problem". What he's talking about isn't really even AI so much as deep learning: there are lots of other branches that now get virtually no play relative to deep learning. And then there are all sorts of adjacent CS, image processing (when was the last time you saw someone talk about wavelets), language analysis, and other research avenues, probably often better suited to many problems, that get buried under the hype.

This is why academic research is so important. All the corporate money is flowing to deep learning, grant agencies should be sustaining the other more fundamental areas.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-childre...

The problem is very-much downstream, not wholly-determined. Obviously this issue criss-crosses with other issues, such as race, infrastructure, compulsory education, et cetera. But I would rank doctrine of sex as the brightest star in this constellation. It isn't a coincidence that the UK is second behind us. Its founding event was the invention of divorce.
Founder/CEO of DuckDuckGo here. This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms, which is not the case. (Edit: that last sentence is now moot since the title has been updated. Thank you.)

This is part of the onboarding for our optional DuckDuckGo Email Protection feature that comes with the extension. (Note if you just use our private search engine, you do not need our extension at all.) The feature generates email aliases for you on sign up forms (so you don't give out your real email address), which then forwards to your regular inbox with email trackers removed in the process: https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo.... It is mentioned in the add-on description as one of the extension's primary features, e.g., at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo....

(x-posting part of another comment here for context on this feature: Popping up a level, the goal of our product is to be the "easy button" for privacy, and email protection is a big part of it, since as we (and others) have gotten much better at web tracking protection (e.g., see https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we...), unscrupulous actors have done more and more email tracking, using your email address as a unique identifier to track you across sites and putting email trackers within emails to do similar.)

Update: I am listening to the feedback presented here, though please know there is a whole team of people working on this feature, trying to bring needed email protection to our mainstream user base. Email protection as a concept is hard for people to understand and the team felt that this in-context onboarding was the best way to explain it. However, we will now revisit this given the feedback.
No, the ideal outcome is not a 50% winrate. The ideal outcome is to enjoy the time I spend playing. That is entirely disconnected from how good or bad I do on a given day.

The way my friend plays Rainbow Six Siege gets him killed every single time without fail. But following "the meta" is really not fun for him. Instead of being able to find a community where we can play with people who might not be as bad at the game as us but are interested in everyone having fun, he gets thrown into the same generic "Casual" pool as everyone else, including kids who play 24/7 and streamers on smurf accounts building a highlight reel. There's no room for playing around, for trying different things, for just playing unoptimally. If you do anything not in "The meta", then you lose, repeatedly, and then the system forces you against literal children to ensure you win often enough to keep that 50% winrate.

Like I said: In the past I could choose when I wanted to have fun, be lighthearted, and screw around by joining more casual servers. Then if I wanted to be competitive, I could join a more serious server, with more strict rules and systems, and play against both people much better than me, and much worse than me at the same time.

Now you have no choice, because everyone is in the same pool, so if you don't play "the meta" or do something nonstandard to have fun, you will be crushed, and then placed against terrible kids, and then placed against really good kids, over and over again. There's no room for casual gameplay because the "casual" section of matchmaking isn't casual.

The most fun we ever had playing Siege was getting a group of 8 people together to play "custom" games. The variability of skill was a huge and important part of the experience. We knew we had to carefully balance the teams for things to not be absurd, and we knew that playing "the meta" wasn't the best strategy in this case because you couldn't assume your teammates to play like perfect robots, giving you the freedom to try different strategies. This is also why people get so damn angry when you don't follow the meta and play like a perfect robot who has memorized all the strats, because if you don't, your team will most certainly lose. You could enjoy games you were bad at in 2001, because game design wasn't so aggressive about "perfect matchmaking" and "perfect competitiveness". I don't want my fun afternoon game to be a damn esport.
Looks like there has been some progress on this front - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/b0f65ead84c1ecd5...
That's basically what the new Bing is. It's a large language model that can run searches, and then use what comes back from those searches to generate answers to questions.

Whether or not the information that comes back from those searches is reliable is a whole other question.

I would love to learn what the latest research is into "factual correctness" detection. Presumably there are teams out there trying to solve that one?
This is hilarious. ChatGPT even gave me a more bizarre example.

> does 2 pounds of bricks weigh more than 1 pound of bricks?

> No, 2 pounds of bricks do not weigh less or more than 1 pound of bricks. 2 pounds of bricks and 1 pound of bricks refer to the same unit of weight, which is a pound. Therefore, they weigh the same, which is one pound. The difference between them is only the quantity, not the weight.

> It's similar to saying that two one-dollar bills do not have more value than one five-dollar bill. Even though you have two bills in one case and one bill in the other case, the total value is the same.
Key word: criminal prosecutions
A few days ago I asked ChatGPT if “pannekake” and “kannepake” are anagrams of each other.

It correctly stated that they are, but when it went on to prove that this was the case, it generated a table of the frequencies of the individual letters in these two words, and the table looked like this.

Letter | Frequency in | Frequency in
| “pannekake” | “kannepake”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
a | 2 | 2
e | 2 | 2
k | 2 | 2
n | 2 | 2
p | 2 | 2

This reminded me that yes indeed, AI just isn’t quite there yet. It got it right, but then it didn’t. It hallucinated the frequency count of the letter “p”, which occurs only once, not twice in each of those words.
What the comment suggested is that the company deliberately created tools using their own API in a wrong way in order to write a blog post about it.

If that's not an accusation of being malicious I don't know what could be.
No history at all. Do you have any undisclosed relationship? Hmm. My post was getting traction then suddenly its downvoted to the bottom. Maybe it was a social media management platform. Do you know anyone who runs one of those?
> That's HN

As opposed to the miracle of selection elsewhere. /S
Its been a genuine problem. I have heard people actually say that if a kid is playing outside by themselves, then the parent should be charged with child neglect because the kid could get hurt. Any time a kid gets hurt on YouTube the comments are filled with people blaming the parent for not being outside with them. Thing is, playing outside by yourself gives you a strong sense of independence. The kid might get hurt, sure, but when the alternative is them never learning to be on their own and do things for themselves, the risk seems well worth it.
Whenever an institution makes the decision to start taking anonymous accusations seriously, you can bet the bureaucracy of that institution has already been captured by precisely the sort of people who are eager to abuse such a system. To anybody else without such a malicious intent, the hazards of anonymous accusations should be obvious.

Be very careful when seeking to reform such a system, because those you are trying to disarm will use those very same bureaucratic weapons to stop you.
I don't live in the Bay Area. But I certainly wouldn't consider doing so to if "removing cars" were a requirement for doing so.
> Instagram is so disgusting.

Why are you still using it? (Not trying to troll you, I'm legitimately curious -- it really doesn't sound like it's offering you anything positive at this point)
Why the hell do you need store when you have pacman/AUR
A lot. And it baffles me why hasn't anyone realized that Kenneth Reitz was right about django over a decade ago and all his points are equally valid today.

https://speakerdeck.com/kennethreitz/flasky-goodness
They're telling you that they can provide you with an email alias so you don't have to enter your legit email address. Using your legit email address on every site you register to helps them to track you. And you can turn off an email alias and spam to that address will stop.
Let's say I'm applying martingale on an index like SPY or QQQ, which I plan to hold otherwise in a tax free retirement account. If I run out of cash to double down, I'm in the same position as I would be otherwise, except I've averaged down my entry price. When the index eventually comes back up, you profit, and resume martingale. How could this be a losing strategy on an asset you plan to hold otherwise?
Sorry, I did not check the repo itself, I don't think I even have a cvs client anymore. On the linked page there's a section prominently placed, titled "Latest News". If you check there, the latest of such news is titled "A first Lush 2.0 beta is out!" with a date of 2009-10-19.
Why use it? Probably no reason if you’re happy on debian. It’s just a solid distro and as other have said the best out-of-the-box desktop experience out there IMO. Definitely not going to win over any KDE fans but their tuned GNOME DE is really slick, and it’s only gonna get better when they release their own DE “COSMIC”.

I’ve been dailying Pop on all my main machines for years now without any problems. Think of it as Uncononical’d Ubuntu in a way but they’re really committed to making a unique footprint
AFAIK, Bing AI is not itself an LLM, but rather a wrapper around ChatGPT, which itself is based on GPT-3, which is based on the GPT architecture, which is (roughly speaking) half of a transformer architecture, which is based on encoder/decoder neural nets which are based on ...
I don't know much about audio encoding, but do the speakers not have to buffer the incoming packets? Large enough buffer size would introduce drift between speakers even if everything is fine network-wise.