skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of medieval warfare, what Facebook is doing here looks like filling the moat with rocks and dirt. OpenAI is worth billions, Microsoft is spending billions to retrofit most of their big offerings with AI, Google is doubtless also spending billions to integrate AI in their products. Their moat in all cases is “a blob of X billion weights trained on Y trillion tokens”. Facebook here is spending mere _millions_ to make and release competitive models, effectively filling in the moat by giving it to everyone.
It can explain things, but it gets a ton of things wrong, very wrong.

Using this is college would be a recipe for disaster, you'd ask chatgpt to explain a thing to you and you, being a student, don't know if it's getting the explanation correct or wrong. You don't know if it's reasoning is correct.

ChatGPT isn't telling you the truth or how the world is, it's just spitting out the statistically more likely next word.

It's far enough on this side of the uncanny valley so you think it's a conscious human unless you know enough about the subject to realize that it's not.
I don't understand the existence of two markets here.

I may be simple-minded but I would have thought that people either want to read a book or they don't. But now is there really a market for people who want to read a book but only if that book's content is made different from what it actually is? (I'm worried if that's the case).
In lots of places in the USA zoning laws prohibit agriculture in urban areas where an office building is likely to be located. Growing plants in an office building may not be permitted.
Well, not really. I follow a few channels that tell interesting true stories over some photos of and around the event. Over the past year or so a few of them have started supplementing with AI, but others have just gone all in. Posts are much more frequent, but the music is AI generated, the pictures are all AI, and the script in an AI expansion of a Wikipedia article. Someone still has to edit it together (for now), but all the content is AI-based. I’ve been unsubscribing since the quality just isn’t there anymore.

Now, this isn’t a problem for the majority of my YouTube consumption, but I’m still seeing it creep in.
A Message from Sam Sagan
European Commission bans TikTok from corporate devices
If you don't want to link your 'public' wallet with your cold wallets. General privacy on a chain where everyone can see everything.
Yes definitely, it's probably both. Both are in a feedback cycle as well. Less people means less attention. Less attention means less people. It's a hard cycle to break.
Well, even if it’s hard… look at accident attorneys in the US. They might not technically be scammers, but man does it feel close to it.
Same, never made the connection to the emoji myself either.

Then again, I don’t use the “hugging face” emoji almost ever. But even if I did use it, I would probably think of it visually or just as the word “hug”. That’s how I think of and use other emojis — either visually or as a simple word.

Either way, I will intentionally continue to think of huggingface.co as being a reference to Alien facehuggers.
I imagine people (aka customers) were getting uncomfortable reading their kids children’s books that talked about how Willy Wonka enslaved the Oompa-Loompa tribe and shipped them over in packing crates. While people will portray this as censorship, what I see is a for-profit company relentlessly optimizing for book sales at any cost.

No: I am not defending it. I am just explaining it.
Namespaces seem to be in the minority. For example searching for sqlite shows 124 pages where the vast majority of packages have no namespace.

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=sqlite
Andy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
I haven't heard of this trend before, what you say seems very strange to me since I've always found first-person novels to be more than a bit odd and uncanny.
But separating YouTube and GCP into separate companies would presumably cause GCP to expose pricing / scheduling modes that would enable more compute to take advantage of regional downtimes. I'm sure there's plenty of ML training jobs that are just aching for regionally idle compute time.
How is a currency "backed" by borders? The country can make a currency as the sole method to pay taxes which is the norm, but they can always ditch the currency and force you to trade it in for a different one at a fixed exchange
Follow the Line: Redlining's effects are still felt today in New Orleans
> The non-experts are imagining full-on sentience where the experts correctly recognize mere word association shenanigans. Your feelings, in short, are ass backwards.

The current model (which is an early version; computers are new on earth and exist only for a statistical error length of time on humanity scale, on earth scale, let's not talk universe scale) is already vastly superior than many humans I know in almost every way (outside manual dexterity and some other fringe stuff you can easily fix with external systems, like we humans do). We have no good definition for what sentience is either; maybe our brain is word association shenanigans; connect up 2 chatgpts and call one 'inner voice' and the other 'external voice'. It will start claiming sentience in no time flat; the same as you. Why are you right? It's a feeling yeah?
Yes and next anti-trust should break up Microsoft for bundling office and break up the cable companies for bundling cable channels. We should also get rid of BigFastFood because McDonalds bundles hamburgers, fries and a drink...
My take away is that article says Warner Brothers has a killer lineup this year of blockbusters.

Then when I look at the list in the article there are zero new movies in that list that aren't:

- Sequels

- Remakes

- Adaptation of Existing IP

I mean that's horrible, not one new original story film.

Wrecking LotR is just an example or symptom of the terminal disease the studios have right now.
I brew Kombucha. It's actually delicious, but you need to get a batch made by someone who knows what they're doing. Unfortunately, the latter is hard to come by because there's very little science in Kombucha circles.
It has namespaces, but for the most part, packages are in the global namespace, most people publish packages there and most programmers use packages there. Namespaces aren't unused or useless in the NPM, but the fact that most packages people use aren't in namespaces means they don't do much for security.
what do you mean adding checksum to the picture, do you add the checksum as a filename suffix eg IMG0001_<checksum>.jpg, something like that? Or do you tuck it into the exif data and have a tool that computes the checksum of the file minus the checksum part.
Slightly off topic, but it's so odd/annoying to me that they used a GIANT TikTok logo image as the header photo for this article. Then the only ref to TikTok after is:

> A large number of corrupted packages use names related to game cheats, free resources, and social media platforms, such as "free-tiktok-followers" and "free-xbox-codes," to entice users to click the links and direct them to multiple well-designed phishing webpages.

So just because the spammers are using the TikTok brand/name in their spam (also mentioned is "xbox" but they didn't use the Microsoft logo), they used THAT as the image? Not the NPM logo or something much more relevant? I know it's minor, but that rubs me the wrong way as very "sus" and clickbait for when the article is used on social sharing sites and they most likely pick that image as the article open graph image. You also know it's most likely for clickbait because the avg person is much more likely to click some link with the TikTok logo and "phishing" in the title, vs some NPM logo that they may not even know.
Google is already fairly strict this, at least for bigger company trademark keywords. It falls through the cracks with you are talking about SMBs.
If you compare number of wars Russia vs USA did post WW2, you know the aggressor. Why do NATO need to expand that too till borders of Russia n China. Is it just protection or suppression in plan? Where were we when there were so many wars againt people in Asia by US? And now we want to point against India or China not acting against Russia. Why should they do it? Even now countries like Yemen etc are suffering. But do we have sanctions against Saudis? No. Instead we still trade with them and US even sells weapons. So why should China or India care about what's happening in Ukraine.

USA doing well economically when Europe suffers not just in Ukraine. But we don't want to ack that. Why do people can't acknowledge that? We Europeans are doomed in couple of years. Took in lot of migrants and also dancing on tunes of USA.
> I bet that the “classic” editions will be quietly discontinued in a few years.

So buy them now, before they go out of copyright.

This feels like a way to drum up publicity and sell more books. Many grandparents will be reading this outrage in the express and buying the full original set for their children this christmas.

(it seems that copyright will last until 2060, which is crazy - 100 years after they were written)
Even in an immortal species the passing of time would exist. Epochs would move on. The song may be about time passing, but death doesn't have to factor in (yet).

Edit to add: You only ever have one first time for anything.
I personally liked MvM as a cooperative gamemode which added more depth to the classes in the form of upgrades. Easily accumulated a couple of thousand hours just playing that either on boot camp valve servers or community ones with custom maps and plugins (off the top of my head UberUpgrades and Potato come to mind).

Didn't particularly like mann up as a) it costs money for each tour and b) it heavily incentivized you to win by giving you the chance to win a expensive shiny golden gun, which in return made players just develop some meta which they religiously sticked to and vote kick you for deviating from it even a tiny bit, or god forbid making even the slightest mistake. From my experience most players were in it for those items which they could sell for a profit, actual fun be damned.
>That is why we're building this in the open. You can take a look at the code.

...You mean, in the same manner everyone should have been auditing code all along, but hasn't, thereby creating the problem you're trying to solve?

It's alright. You're trying, and there's nothing wrong with that answer, but the people you're trying to sell a shovel to don't want to dig. That's the chief problem.
Exactly this.

Greed has never been good, but the entire premise of the US form of capitalism is that greed is inevitable, so we should try our best to make it as close to a force for good as possible. Even if the greedy people don't care about that.
Came here to basically pose the same question: what is the fundamental difference from Garmin's InReach and similar?
Yeah, I'm afraid the political spam is free. I get tons of stuff, from the Republican party in particular which is frankly kinda odd given the downwards-trending-graph that is the overlap in our values.

Most of the spam makes me even less likely to vote for that person.

Many of them want me to click on Columbian links. For American politics. And, I presume, enter stuff about my political beliefs into the other end. … yeah, no thanks?
Fusion reactor R&D generally avoids actually starting a fusion reaction unless they're ready to trash the reactor: current reactor designs can only manage D+T fusion, which generates a shitload of neutrons and leaves the reactor interior structures highly radioactive, making modification for further experiments problematic. (No-one is anywhere near achieving the energies needed for aneutronic fusion.)

For example, the JET (Joint European Torus) Tokamak at Culham began operation in 1983 but experiments with tritium only started in 1991; maintenance and upgrades after 1998 relied on a remote handling system as it was no longer safe for human technicians to work inside the reactor containment in shutdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus
Oh, this is so terribly sad.
I mean, it’s not just a chat app, or at least that’s not normally how companies treat it. At any company that’s used slack for a few years you’ll have a bewildering variety of bots, auto responders, meaningful emoji etc that facilitate processes (I assume this is the case with Teams etc, too; basically any easily extensible thing that everyone in a big company uses will inevitably take on a life of its own through extension). Their whole job may have become borderline impossible because the tool they use broke without warning.

Perhaps you should apply your own advice about uncharitable interpretations, which seems to apply much better to this employee than to Twitter (there is no obvious charitable interpretation to killing a major productivity tool with no warning, and the reason's largely irrelevant).
"Blockchain", "web3", "NFT": These are just stalking horses to get people roped into cryptocurrency.

A lot of people looked at bitcoin from the beginning, and asked what the point was, or if it would ever go anywhere. And bitcoin bros responded by telling everyone that the real game-changer wasn't bitcoin, but The Blockchain.
“It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
I'm now double and triple checking when I add a package to the manifest. You have to check not only that it's the right package, you also check that it has the number of downloads that you're expecting.
Signal is not a crypto mixer. The argument here is about the frequency a certain service is used for crime.

For example, library records generally have a fair amount of privacy. Criminals sometimes consult libraries. Crime is not the dominant use of libraries.

Mixers have a fair amount of privacy. Mixers are used by criminal, and crime is overwhelmingly the dominant use of mixers.

To rebut this you’d need to show large and innocent use cases which use mixers. Not an unrelated app.
I asked "What actually makes your life worse"

I got:

My friend, it is true that pain and poverty do not necessarily make a person worse. It is instead how we respond to these circumstances that can make our lives worse. We can choose to be overwhelmed by fear and despair or we can learn to rise above the situation.
As I wrote in one of my letters (1), we must resist the temptation to crave more wealth, and instead seek out higher values within ourselves. We must also cast away our fears of both men and gods (2) and focus on achieving righteousness (3).
Additionally, by living as though we are constantly in the public eye (4), we can keep our conscience clear and ensure that we are living a life of virtue (5). In this way, we can avoid the storms of life, stand firm, and strive for the knowledge of things that are essential.

I was trying to coax Meditations 2.11 (paraphrase): "if it does not make your character worse, how can it make your life worse? ... Pain, poverty, ill health, ill repute are neither good nor evil"
> The only use-case for it now is for the criminal underworld

At least that added validity to the currency; but over time it's become increasingly less useful for any of the criminal underground other than middleweight tax dodgers, embezzlers, and people trying to beat embargoes or currency controls.

My suspicion is that these generally elite crimes (by volume, not by incident count) are tolerable to elite decisionmakers, and the network enables covert transfer of funds to "freedom fighter" groups, informants, and politicians - so the US covert community can hide their activities within the swarm. They surely have the tools and funds to track and unmask everything going on in the network in real time, and if they see something they're truly bothered by, they can use a parallel construction to go after it. Bitcoin becomes Tor.

edit: Back in the day you had to fill a plane with cash and fly it to the Contras. Hell, you had to fill a plane with drugs, fly the drugs to where you could sell them for cash, then fly the cash back. The CIA were very early victims of the cashless society.
When they say original, do they mean just without this round of bowdlerization or really original?

Are people looking for the Oompa Loompas as African Pygmies from the original version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before they were removed in the 1972 edition?
The answe is no but they can make a trade off using something like monero. BTC's only read advantage is the network effects. As far as the tech is concerned it is mediocre compared with other ledgers.
I've been playing around with beyond compare snapshot. I've done whole drive snapshots. I'm pretty close to running a diff to see how things have evolved on my drives and see where all the file system activity has shifted around. The files sizes are pretty small, in the MB range, maybe 6 or 10MB I forget.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/v4help/index.html?snapshots....
Think about it. Pushing a fake restaurant to number 1 is not that hard. No real people eat at it and so no real person writes a less-than-five-star review. Real restaurants have off nights. Or maybe they have a snooty patron that is overly picky. Real restaurants-- even the best of them-- get a few one star reviews.

So if you're looking at averages, there's no way that real can compete with fake.
A Pattern for Growth
I would
Not be caught dead doing VR in public
Any NFT being released now that isn't a blatant scam is a marketing effort cooked up a year ago that's only seeing the light of day now.
I just wrote a piece on this thread: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/teenage-kicks In an age of wishful mnemonics, be careful what you fish for.
or maybe some type open community work/art space? you'd have to do it in a way that doesn't distract the employees who do choose to work in office though.
The logic of this process in England was amazing. You would swear before God that your claim was true, and so would your opponent. And then God would favour the honest claim.

But then people realized you could have someone fight for you if they'd swear that your claim was true (IE, they'd be a witness). If you lost the duel, it would mean that you lied, making it perjury. So your equivalent of a lawyer would be some renowned fighter, undefeated in combat (since if you were defeated, you wouldn't be able to swear in as a witness).

It turned into situation where you'd use the person you hired as a negotiation tool (oh you hired "Bob the Barbarian" as your champion? Let's settle 60/40), so most challenges wouldn't even come down to a fight.
> As a privacy conscious user I typically don't mind the former, but despise the latter. Mozilla does not appear to distinguish between these two cases. One could argue that the former is still increasing the scope of data being hacked, or that companies might breach their contracts and use it anyway, but if you assume illegality then most of this breaks down anyway

You have to assume not necessarily blatant illegal behavior, but instead a slow stretching of the law. There is huge financial motivation for a company to switch a data pipeline from the former use case to the latter. Those incentives will push them towards changing the fine print or creative interpretations of that fine print, or will get them acquired by a more profitable, less scrupulous company willing to do so. Look at the incentives, and that will tell you what the outcomes will eventually be.

The only way to avoid this is either not sharing the data in the first place, or sharing the data only after it's encrypted so that the service provider cannot help but treat it as owned by the original service. Anything else is fighting a losing battle.
Which also includes Tony Parisi, a pioneer of the XR space going back to VRML. I am not sure if the article is as concrete as the headline suggests, but they did push back a conference date that was supposed to have been earlier this month and are still invitation sandboxed last I heard. There is a lot of the interop work going on for VRM avatar portability issues [1] loosely tied up with progress on glTF/USD extensions at standard setting orgs like the Metaverse Standards Forum [2] so something will happen in this area even if it's not Lamina1 who are at least well positioned.

[1] https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop

[2] https://metaverse-standards.org/
> In general, the article is a total case of "uncharitable interpreation".

Literally everything musk does has 100 news articles published with the most uncharitable interpretation possible. Hating on him has become a sport.
If only it were that easy! If offices could be easily converted to residential, then the current market conditions would be incentivizing owners of all these vacant office spaces to be pressuring for re-zoning and conversion right now. Unfortunately, many office spaces are ill-suited for residential conversion.

There's often not enough plumbing. Often very literally, as in the main sewer, and municipal infrastructure, are undersized for residential use. Also, once you add adequate walls and dividers to separate the units, plus furniture, packed into typical apartment sizes, the weight is usually much more than for an office, often more than the structure is rated for.
Bari Weiss Broke the Media
I use borgbackup to a server and once a month upload it to backblaze b2 with a 90 day retention policy on the bucket. The policy doesn't let you modify or delete the files for 90 days even if you have access to the account. Costs something like 5$ for the 3x500GB of backups I have.
Social coworking. A space where for a monthly subscription people can study, work, surf the internet with their computers and socialize. A place for meetups, hackatons, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, art, etc...

Like a library or a gym, but for your mind.

And if there's already a gym, bingo!

This is for a full building, but you can also do something social for many smaller places.
That's not actually true. The prosecutor and police can still come after you for most charges. For example, if you end up killing the other person, the prosecutor will still come after you for murder. The reason they tend to ignore lesser crimes if someone doesn't want to press charges is because they don't want to waste their time if nobody else is interested in taking it to court, and usually they need the witness testimony from the victim (although not always, and they could hold them as a material witness if they wanted to).
I run CRFYI, a site that basically operates like levels.fyi or glassdoor but tailored specifically to freelance/consulting rates.

I'd encourage you to check out some of the submissions on the site to see what people are doing when they earn x amount of money per hour. Don't want to spam the link everywhere but it's in my profile.

Like any service, price is a filter, on both sides. If you're hiring a consultant and they're way cheaper than everybody else, red flags start to go off. Why are they so cheap? Same on the other side - if the consultant is very expensive, you wonder why, and generally conclude that they must be high caliber at what they do. If you have the budget for it, you'll almost always prefer the person that seems to provide the "premium" service.

A funny part of it though, to appear as a "premium" consultant, you don't really need to do anything differently than a regular consultant. You just need to have way higher rates, clients make the assumption from there.
Can you provide a legitimate use case for mixers? (I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious)
Congrats on the launch, it looks great! I'm thinking of giving it a go.
Looks like the qcal link got double-pasted. Here it is if anyone else is interested: https://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/
Because a lot of parents are reading these to their younger kids and don’t want to have a conversation about the historical context of racism, or if they do: they want to do it in the context of different books.