skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My country's net neutrality law seems to be a great blueprint, and something that can be easily understood. No need for all the "bytes" and "throttling" terminology:

"ARTICLE 56. - Network Neutrality. Each user shall be guaranteed the right to access, use, send, receive or offer any content, application, service or protocol through the Internet without any type of restriction, discrimination, distinction, blocking, interference, hindrance or degradation.

ARTICLE 57. - Network neutrality. Prohibitions. ICT Service Providers shall not:

a) Block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, degrade or restrict the use, sending, reception, offering or access to any content, application, service or protocol except by court order or explicit request of the user.

b) Fix the price of Internet access by virtue of the contents, services, protocols or applications to be used or offered through the respective contracts.

c) Arbitrarily limit the right of a user to use any hardware or software to access the Internet, as long as they do not damage or harm the network."
Just want to make another suggestion. Ink tank printers are also good, can print coloured prints for cheap. We have one and just need to buy the inks and pour the ink into the tanks of printer.
That’ll work for maybe a week, unless the US government has a significant lead in deepfake technology, which seems unlikely.

Once deepfakes become that widely feasible, people will post them on the internet for general amusement or other frivolous motivations all the time, and no one will take video at face value anymore.
He didn't comment on (just) his views being "well outside the liberal mainstream"; he claimed that "anyone smart and independent-minded will [ ... ]
No, the municipality agreed to terms with internet provider which included no tax financed competition. Then some politician needs to get elected and sells the public on a not possible idea of muni internet.

Sort of like Biden canceling student debt by executive order when the constitution says congress has the power of the purse. You can assign the blame to Biden, Republican AGs, the Supreme Court, or the authors of the constitution. Doesn’t make much difference, so long as the issue is correctly understood. A day in court makes sense.
Reserve requirement is 0% in the US. Money supply is actively managed, so irrelevant. Hard assets are definitely hoarded compared to the past.
People just want to adjust the system so they don’t have to work when very old. It doesn’t mean the government has to print money.

You can change more than the retirement age in the equation, or change the equation.
What was non-inclusive about Ronald Dahl?
> anti-generative-art camp

They have a business model problem. A century ago, recorded music obsoleted low-level musicians. Over the last two decades, the World Wide Web obsoleted most journalists and printers. Artists now face a similar problem.

An insight from ChatGPT is that "creative" is easy, but "accurate" is hard.
And it has much lower overall population density, so diversity and affordability clearly aren't automatically driven by density.

Houston has space to expand so it can easily keep building outwards without bulldozing shit (which requires people wanting to sell their land, etc, etc). Development is easy if there's nothing to displace. NY? LA? SF? Not so much. No coincidence that Chicago is much cheaper than those geography-bound places too.

Compare Houston to other cities in Texas *that have plenty of zoning of the sort that would be immediately recognizable in the Bay Area) and it no longer looks like any YIMBY miracle of affordability. Just... basically the same...
Sure.

The device definitions come as GDTF files, see the spec and other projects that utilize GDTF here [1]

Juce framework [2]

OrganicUI [3]

[1] https://gdtf.eu/docs/list-of-projects/

[2] https://juce.com/

[3] https://github.com/benkuper/juce_organicui/
I agree that a separate secure chip is a superior option to TrustZone. However, if TrustZone is good enough for authorising bank transfers, it's also good enough for me.

Security chips have also had their vulnerabilities over the years, through power injection attacks or similar, that allow cloning just like bypassing the security of TrustZone would. The attack may be harder to pull off, but nothing is unhackable.
Rolf Pfeifer
I noticed that you pay for an RSS reader. RSS is supposed to be for easy crawling by simple machines.. so instead of using a cloud based server why not use a browser addin/app?
If there are boring number, then your assertion holds. But if there are no boring numbers, then it doesn't and therefore there are boring numbers.
Oh, sweet summer child, do you think you can escape the NSA? :)

More seriously, private ISPs in a (local) government owned open access network does not mean the (local) government controls and observes everything.

If you are afraid of the local government, run for office.
But why are the young people blaming old people and not the government? And trying to fix it?

Oh wait, the whole article is about protests in France, where they are asking for change, instead of just blaming old people -- which is easy.
I'm a fan of Canon lasers, as they put the drums on the cartridge. Mine accepts anything that fits, unsure if newer ones are the same.
The world has never been closer to being glassed by the supernuclear powers, 2 out of 3. China claims to be rational. Video of the pretorian guards escorting the qua Anon Shaman Jacob Chansley through the Government building reinforces learning on the weighted graphs or artificial neural nets.
> It's literally activists making busy work for themselves

ftfy. they need something to protest as well, as an occupation
These were actually a thing in the 90s. As well as shops where you could take your empty cartridges, and they'd refill them for you.
It had land, free[1] for the taking.

And in pre-industrial times, when 70% of the population were farmers, land was a direct, and immediate proxy for wealth. Wealth that stayed with you and your family. You were the owner, instead of some shitty sharecropper for a landlord.

[1] I mean, aside from the natives.
My HL-2140 still runs, but I can’t use it from my work laptop. Their macOS 13 drivers dropped some models.
Muahahaha, well said.
> Consider git – it only ships the diffs, yet it produces whole and consistent repositories.

IIRC git does _not_ ship diffs. It copies whole files even for the tiniest change. The compression layer handles the de-duping, which is a different layer.
>Yet these people have burned all bridges with those who are generally concerned about corporate behavior.

Well, because there's the obvious risk that EA/rationalists just become another blue tribe identity group if the focus on actual effective altruism is replaced with unquestionable dogmas, which is really the only way you get stuff like people believing that climate change is going to lead to civilizational collapse by the end of the century or that donating to BLM is a good use of charity dollars or whatever. I don't know where the margin of optimal pandering is here, but I'm pretty sure that bending the knee to whatever the blue tribe's moral panic du jour is is going too far.
What's amazing about all it is that HP being hostile to its own customers is nothing new:

- In 2005, they had one printer that refused to print if the cartridge was past a certain date, even if full. Several also underestimated the volume of ink in cartridges and told you it was empty when not.

- In 2007, HP refused to honor hardware warranty if you install any other OS on their laptop.

- in 2010, HP refused to provide drivers for the new windows Vista for its old ScanJet scanners (linux worked fine though).

- in 2020 they hardcoded the path to the EFI of their laptop to be windows only.

That's just the examples I could easily google, I remember that HP was having one scandal every 6 months in 2000, and we didn't have twitter back then.

So if a brand has been very publicly misbehaving for 2 decades, how does it still have customers?

Well, Facebook has still a billion users. Microsoft is now considered the father of unicorns and rainbows. Oracle is still making banks, one of my biggest client just migrated to it.

So the so-called cancel culture seems very superficial to me: lots of noise, but very actual consumer behavioral change. The brands can get away with anything and thrive. Maybe they'll get a little bit of heat for a few months on social media, so what?

But the bottom line is: if you are a big company, just do whatever makes you money. You don't need reputation.
I quite agree. I take it a step further: I think devs should be taught how to handle complexity better. It's a skill that some programmers have and that others sorely lack, but AFAIK, it's not a skill taught at all in CS programs.
That doesn't mean it makes sense to enforce ridiculous regulation on all houses to catch that one friend in ten million.
Ask HN: Open-source water cooler locations
Hi HN, It seems like every open source community is managed in a different location or channel (e.g. slack, discord & subreddit). Are you able to share where you visit & which community it relates to?

I’d be happy to collate that list into a document for everyone: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14bNirWxNAU83VOSYedcXf_uuHD9D8TvUJJn2iLsOnyg/edit?usp=sharing

This is a great way for open source maintainers to find places to promote their projects & packages.

Sorry in advance if this is a duplicate request, please also let me know if such a list already exists.
You can build a new compiler on RHEL7 and ship the runtime libstdc++ with your program. We did that in the days of RHEL5, it was a bit of a hassle but it worked.
Already read the first two. Heard about the third one.

Will give the last two a try.

Thanks.
Love this dude. Rock on.
White House backs bill that could give it power to ban TikTok nationwide
Depends on the payout. I’m decidedly middle class, as are practically all my friends, my large family would probably qualify as „rich“, but I and everyone I know are still weary of the financial burden of having kids. Although my personal theory is that it is not so much the cost, but the lost income potential and career opportunities for women that keeps people from having (more) kids.
I think you mean tax credit instead of tax deduction, and even then there is a substantial difference from a fiscal perspective.
I recently bought an old Brother laserjet for 100 bucks off Craigslist.

The guy thought he was scamming me, because the autofeed tray didn't work. I'll get that fixed in due time. But the manual feed tray which still takes a stack of 15-20 pages works fine.

The bigger issue is my wife tells me I can't drill another hole for an Ethernet jack for it and have to make it wireless...
The headline makes it sound like IA gets a special exemption, but they don't. They got a DMCA anti-circumvention exemption passed allowing anyone to bypass DRM on formats that use obsolete hardware.

I regularly see people say IA can avoid DMCA strikes through a special exemption, but that is not the case. The rights holder could demand anything they archive be taken down, even these floppy disc games they secured an exemption for.

It's great they got this passed, but it's not some major thing for them.
> It is definitely a net negative on participant's ability to move forward in the world

I rather like Vettius Valens (2rd century) take on the value of Astrology. It shares much with eastern thought and practices, just with a different tool:

"As a result, those ignorant of the prognostic art—or those not willing to engage in it at all—are led away and enslaved to these previously mentioned gods. They endure all blows and suffer punishment along with their pleasures. Some partially attain what they hoped for, their confidence begins to increase, and they await a permanently favorable outcome—not realizing how precarious and slippery are these accidents of Fortune. Others are disappointed in their expectations not just once, but always; they then surrender body and soul to their passions and live shamed and disgraced—or they simply wait, living as slaves to fickle Fortune and deceitful Hope, and they are entirely unable to achieve anything.

But those who have trained themselves in the prognostic art and in the truth keep their minds free and out of bondage; they despise Fortune, do not persist in Hope, do not fear death, and live undisturbed. They have trained their souls to be confident. They do not rejoice excessively at prosperity nor are they depressed by adversity, but they are satisfied with whatever happens. Since they do not have the habit of longing for the impossible, they bear steadfastly the decrees of Fate. They are alien to all pleasure or flattery and stand firm as soldiers of Fate."
I wouldn't say it is useless. But, there's an extent to which "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it to you." There's an interesting school of thought saying that in order to understand an idea, it requires creative act similar to that of the individual who originated an idea. (B/c verbal communication is very limited.) For instance, in order to comprehend the idea of Newton's Laws, one needs to have in some sense the capability to have come up with them, because teaching is really just prompting the pupil to reinvent the concept in their own mind.

IMO, this is why "natural language processing" with LLMs will not amount to "natural language understanding." Natural language explanations are targeted at intelligences capable of forming concepts based on IRL experience (naive physics, etc). The goal of teaching is to induce the formation of the concepts, not to directly transmit the concepts.
Harm the network means?

1. Dos/ddos ?

2. Hacking?

3. Some sort of device /software you can install to do stuff like you can do to an electrical network like overload and circuit breaker bypass? Can those things be done to a fiber network? Beyond congestion, what'd the worst you can do to a ISP?
Perhaps this is a result of the center-left stance held by most national media corporations and their affiliated commentators. Fox has a monopoly on “conservative msm news” at a national level so they don’t have to share the pie like “liberal msm news”.
I don't think there is anything safe about ChatGPT regurgitating and hallucinating false information about someone's business based on real legal proceedings that it had been trained on. [0]

As long as it cannot also explain its own decisions transparently [1], then there there will always be a need for AI safety.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35063005

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060285
This is not really a problem. You just send out a signal to shut solar off. Then people and businesses buy batteries to take advantage of the free power and sell it back at night.
(author here)

Firecracker is definitely very interesting. Would require more ops work for us to run bare metal EC2 (we currently use Fargate). IIUC reusing pre-existing environments would require us to share ext4 filesystems across the VMs. Not sure if antistrano helps here but will look into it.
Change happens, whether we like it or not. It’s the one certainty in life. Live in the present, brother. Attachment is the root of suffering.
Wow, thank you! Finally I can look through my subscriptions without needing to scan past all the Shorts junk.
> While I too love to see good cable layout, whenever you see a “thousand” Ethernet cables in one run, a foundational mistake has been made.

How about in large campus environments with extensive copper plants?

Bundles arriving into an IDF for Ethernet/POTS serving several hundreds of pairs of eyeballs get big fast. Trunking doesn't save you here.
I'd say 3.

> Beyond congestion, what'd the worst you can do to a ISP?

Nothing much, which is why that exception is not very strong.
Customer is king, when one needs them, it is the one trying to make money that needs to accommodate.

When not, others will.
And yet again, you reinforce the same point!

With more words and more eloquently, but still a perfect example of the same blind spot.
3-4 companies isn't a monopoly. Even if there's one company people are free to move. And broadband internet competes with mobile internet.

This may sound somewhat glib, but it's also glib to say that a person whose friends all primarily interact on say Facebook is not subject to comparable market power from Facebook.
Intersting papers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834 appears to have a typo in section 4.5

S(hg) = S(g)S(g)

looks like it should be S(hg) = S(h)S(g) or S(hg) = S(g)S(h)
Did something interesting happen?
Feels a bit like saying the compressor is a net drain on a jet engine. Sure, if you disconnected the compressor while running, the engine would make a lot of power for a very brief moment. But the compressor is needed to keep the engine running.
I expect now that some company will see this awesome work here and respond to your application. Excellent work
OpenBSD: Dynamic Host Configuration, Please
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)
Bitlocker is transparent drive encryption built into MS Windows.

Insert a microSD card into a USB port (using a card reader) and Windows will prompt for the decrypt key if encryption has been applied. Once the correct key is provided, the drive can be accessed just like any other.

As for the strap, the card holder is a 3-D printed extension inserted inline with it. I'll try to upload a photo someplace and post a link to it.
You can make it wireless by adding some router and link two wifi if you want :)
Diversity and representation in street names across Europe
cpython isn't particularly hard to compile. Pretty much just git clone, ./configure, and make in my experience.
As you can see by those tables, there are other compilers in the world, and those tables don't even include embedded platforms.
One can ask ChatGPT to make them. There's tons of public and private photo, video, and audio data for fine-tuning/customization. It is really that simple now. Yay...
Since Justin Trudeau did blackface, I guess Hollywood took that as a signal it was ok to do that with their characters shrug
>; he claimed that "anyone smart and independent-minded will [ ... ]

How does this kind of talk not set of fallacy alarm bells for everyone? Claiming someone is smart and therefore right is like sophistry 101.
A better metaphor would be to say it compresses the internet, creates a Markov chain based on that compression. Then to make it work it compresses your prompt so that it can find it in the markov chain, move to the next step, and make a lossy decompression into a text token and adds it. The lossy decompression here is the temperature, higher temperature more lossy and more random words, but since it is lossy in the "meaning" space the random words would still have very similar meaning to before.

That isn't a perfect metaphor, but it explains very well how it can do most of the things it can do. The lossy compression means that it can work with large prompts and just capture their essence instead of trying to look them up literally, and the lossy decompression lets it vary its output and the text will move in slightly different directions instead of just repeating text it has seen. The magical bit is that this compression and decompression is much smarter than before, it parses text to a format much closer to its meaning than before, and that lets us do the above much more intelligently.

Edit: Thinking a bit, maybe you could make these model way cheaper to run if we would make them work as a compression to meaning rather than the huge models they are now? They do have internal understanding/meaning of the tokens it gets, so it should be possible to create a compression/decompression function based on these models that transforms text into its world model state, and then once we start working with world model states things should be super cheap relative to what we have now.

Also maybe it doesn't have lossy decompression and get words with similar meaning, but that is another way I see the models could be smaller and cheaper while keeping their essence. The Markov chain step could be all it uses currently. But it definitely creates that space and Markov chain, because it parses the previous thousand or so tokens and uses those to guess the next token, that is a Markov chain. It just has a very sophisticated way of parsing those thousand tokens into a logical format.
They got rid of this pipe gambling thing last year. How old is this article?

Nowadays you just outright buy whatever character you need with rubies. Rubies can be earned by playing normally, or you can buy rubies for money. The prices for characters is a little bit steep but not so bad you can't earn enough rubies free each tour to buy what you need.

Another decent strategy is to pick a tour where you will just let things slide and you just grind coins and rubies.

I haven't spent a cent and I've been playing for almost 2 years.
Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU
Right thanks.
React hooks could have been very different with very minor touches. But at this point, a structure has emerged where you need to make extra efforts to work steadily. It wasn't like that at the core of React. Class components had their own problems. But you know how to solve them. I don't think this applies to react hooks.
yes, python is basically impossible to embed in a multithreaded app.
I don't think that "makes mistakes -> dumb" is a valid conclusion. People make mistakes based on limited time, limited information, and various other reasons.

As an example that isn't too far from third-party ink cartridges, as a user I'd like app store owners to apply quality control measures to the contents of the app store so it doesn't contain malware. Sure, you could argue that users aren't dumb and can decide which apps to install on their own, but in practice the amount of knowledge and time needed to decide whether an app is malware is incredibly high, up to disassembling and analyzing the code.

Just to avoid a misunderstanding: I wouldn't actually like third-party ink cartridges to be blocked. But the limited resources of the customer are a problem that should be recognized.
Probably a useless exercise but when I see these jailbreaks and challenges to GPT, I always wonder how I would answer them. I find, curiously, that my answers would be really close to the answers ChaTGPT gives, assuming I must adhere to arbitrary constraints.

Maybe this would be a fun party game. One card has a prompt and another has a random constraint. Now answer.
Surely you would be very comfortable to use this to 'code review' and send all your code, API keys, ENV files and secret urls to a random online service?

I don't think so.

There is a reason why large companies ban the use of unaudited third-party services like this, especially when they aren't compliant with security standards.
Rate limits are present in chat apps to prevent the service from being abused. Notification tools don't have that.
It's like "the ends justify the means" except the means have nothing to do with the ends at all. The supporters just keep repeating themselves about saving the world or something.
Elon Musk apologises to sacked Twitter worker over online row
Yes, well, I guess I just think that a rogue AI inadvertently destroying the world is a somewhat more worrisome form of tunnel vision than having a "blind spot".
Good point, weird constructed language can also be utilized as a filter to avoid hostile and/or paternalistic people. Weaponizing SJW language to fight bigots, I like it!
Show HN: Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT
Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT, the World’s First Generative AI for CRM
Not sure why this is being down-voted. Has it been disproven? Nope. Does the US have a history of instigating war? Yep. Even if it's unnecessary, and at the expense of the rest of the world? Yep (e.g., Japan + nuclear bomb).