skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once got asked how many first-grade pupils is there in a country I'm not from. I challenged the question and said that I have no way to know that since I'm not from the country and I doubt it's relevant to the position I'm being interviewed for. When pushed to answer I said "about 1% of population", the interviewer was not satisfied with my answer because I refused to elaborate why 1% and not more or less. On my way out I googled the fact to find out it in fact is 1% of the country's population.
It's mandatory in the private sector:

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/entreprises/mutuelle-entreprise...
Fantastic story! Did the results get used in a claim?
> if pornhub and a million other porn sites can operate

All owned by one company, and when the government (or worse, some random quango) says jump, they say how high. Content on the no-no list disappears overnight (e.g. ever wondered why you never see breathplay in online porn?).
I don't understand the advantage of this system. If you have to look up the "seed" of the route, why not just look it up on DB and get the platform number for every stop?
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/01/the-end...
This makes me glad to have chosen an nvidia gpu on linux. You get a whole lot of hidden benefits / QoL improvements that just aren't there with amd and nobody really mentions.
Great idea!

I created a human-based service to do something similar.

[1] https://dreamdaddy.io

The key problem with using AI to do this is that AI might not be able to deliver the feeling of being held accountable to some people. A huge part of having a an accountability partner is having somebody there that you don't want to disappoint.

However, I can say that services like woebot are pretty dang convincing. I would encourage you to play around with their app to see how they engineered their conversation flows to seem friendly and unobtrusive.

[2] https://woebothealth.com/try-woebot/
Some people prefer language agnostic graphical designers, like Glade.

Or better said, used to prefer, when the tooling actually was supported.
Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel has been hacked
A simple proof-of-work would use a hash function (sha or something like blake2, in javascript or webassembly, can be multiple rounds), plus a server-provided random seed. Append random data to the seed until the hash function matches a certain condition. Submit the data to the server for checking.
Something like that pseudo-C code:

for(i=0; i<INT_MAX; i++) {
output = hash(concat(server_provided_data, i));
if(check_output(output))
break;

With check_output checkig that the leading n bits are all zero, for instance, with n the difficulty.
On the server-side, no loop is needed: only one check with the server-provided data and client-provided "i" is enough.
In practice, i is probably going to be much larger than 32 bits, and any cheap way of changing it shold be enough, it doesn't have to be linearly increasing.
I imagine countless proof-of-work libraries exist.

The issue with that approach is that slower clients will take longer to solve the challenge, but it just needs to be prohibitely expensive (and slow) for the attacker to spam this, even if they have powerful machines.
Botnets can sidestep the issue a bit by distributing computing, but this should still slow them down.

You could also ask for the client's best find after x seconds if it's low-powered, and check that it is reasonable (though that can be gamed). The difficulty can also be increased temporarily if there is a surge of requests.

Maybe we need some kind of "Internet weather forecast" to adjust captca difficulty across websites according to detected botnet activity?
I'm sorry but _holy shit what a bad take_.

>whatever care-free non-STEM academics have brewed up as "current thing".

Ah nevermind you're one of these people that think that not being in STEM is a crime, my bad, I thought we could have a rational discussion.

>Or the new Wolfenstein series with Castle Wolfenstein.

So, better in every possible way, with more brutal and satisfying fighting than Castle Wolfenstein ever had, still killing nazis (something that everyone ought to be happy with) ? I sure hope you're not angry about the fact that your crew is made up of a polish man, a jew, a mentally ill man and other kinds of people the nazis called undesirables making it a fun clap back at them. Right ? That's definitely not what your problem is, _right_ ?

I'm sure that you have no problems with games now including deeper themes like death and being a father (God of War), vengeance (The Last of Us Part 2), atonement (The Last of Us), paranormal activities (Control), or just being straight up absolutely great games with good stories like Prey, RDR2, Divinity, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Octopath Traveler being varied and relaxing like Stardew, Terraria, being better metroidvanias than anything that came out before like Hollow Knight, Ori, amazing roguelikes like Hades, Dead Cells, Returnal, or just an infinite variety if I just go even in the last ten years.
There are some samples but they are a bit burried: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/run-your-...

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-lan...
Exactly! I'm excited for NPC to act like AI, and have full fledged conversations. Now, if they're allowed to have previous memories of their interactions of not could be interesting, since that is currently banned by ClosedAI
Exactly.

Screw cool. I’m an adult.

Working on “cool stuff” is for people in their 20s or the perpetually naive…

The perpetually naive usually come to their senses when they’re old and recognize they don’t have any savings, don’t have a home to live in and can’t retire.

I’ll take a fair wage, health insurance, and balanced work hours every time. I can find cool things to do on my own time when not putting in 16 hours a day.
Isn't it the same thing with plagiarism detection tools? Don't they also have false positives, too high to act on them?

I don't know how that works in practice (I don't teach, though I've TA'd and noticed how there were clusters of assignments that were similar not only to each other, but also to the previous years' ones). So I'm curious what's the done thing.

Does a tutor just confront a student with the "evidence" in the form of the plagiarism detector's score, say, and wait for the student to confess? How, exactly, can you prove not only whom, but how, wrote an assignment? I mean in the general case?
I hope they kept a copy of all their videos somewhere. Maybe on that big media server.
Yes, the courts don’t support the SEC interpretation of the Howey test, and the SEC has repeatedly lost in court. Your point is?
Internet Archive's Copyright Battle with Book Publishers Nears Climax
Thanks for posting this. When I looked at the linked page, my immediate complaint was, "Just show me a small example!" I don't really have the time or inclination to dig into all those links to see the syntax for code-blocks, comments (for gods' sake!) or expressions, none of which will give me a feel for the language anyway. (My interest is very casual, prompted only by my interest in improving software tooling (languages particularly) and it's a fairly low priority for me in the first place.)

So mcbrit's quick snippet to the rescue! :D

eta: I do wish programming language pages would all just put a small code sample right there on their landing page, at least as a supplement to whatever else they want to say. Mostly it's going to be experienced developers who look, and we don't want/need a lot of fluff; we're reasonably likely to fairly quickly grok most of what's interesting about a language from a well-crafted example, and that's more likely than anything else to prompt us to dig deeper if it tickles something inside us.
Render, fly.io and Railway will all give you great options to explore and not too expensive either (indeed, Fly has quite a generous free provision).
> it is based on Web stack instead of Gtk

Why would they do that? Is that implying web technologies are superior to the tools they are making?
Hi,

Thanks. I made a video and blog post on why I stopped recording it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/taking-an-indefinite-break-fr...

The state of the show hasn't changed since then, it's RIP'd for now. I still have the urge to do the recording bits tho, it's a cruel world!
Related to both: how would you tell the difference? More importantly, how would you prove that in a court.

When it comes to copyright infringements, the burden of proof is on the copyright holder. I might claim the work of an AI as my own without informing anyone. And then when somebody copies my work I might sue them. How would they prove my work is not my own but created by an AI? If you fail to do that, a judge is going to rule in my favor. They'd have to.

Or when an AI supposedly infringes on a copyrighted work, who do you drag into court for that (the AI, it's developers, or the user?) and what's your argumentation going to be? You have to prove that the work is clearly yours and not fair use (e.g. a snippet, fragment, or a loose resemblance). And then you have to prove illegal distribution of that work that goes beyond fair use.

This is where the whole thing will fall apart IMHO. I'm sure the legal debates will drag out a long time but you can kind of see where this is going. The cat is out of the bag, and the volume of cases will soon be such that it will be hard to stay on top of them. While there are going to be a multitude of people who feel vaguely cheated, they might not have much of a solid basis for starting legal cases. A few might try but that might just nudge judges to put a stop to those cases with some tactical rulings. Enough people have attempted to abuse copyright for all sorts of reasons ever since the whole notion was formalized that any drastic changes in the way copyright works are both impractical and unlikely to survive a lot of scrutiny if/when that gets escalated to the supreme court.

A lot of amateur lawyers with very fuzzy notions about copyright, the whole notion of property, ownership, intellectual property etc. are not going to really going to be able to change that. And of course copyright law is not just a US thing. Other countries have copyright laws too and there are treaties and trade agreements between countries. All kind of hint at a likely outcome: unless an AI is producing verbatim copies of something copyrighted, it likely is simply fair use, whether people like that or not. And when people copy work produced by an AI, it's up to them to ensure that the work is not copyrighted. And up to the copyright holder to go after them. The AI itself cannot be sued. And a neural network bears no resemblance to any copyrighted work whatsoever; so it's hard to argue that the creators of those can be a party in any such cases. I'm sure people will try. But I'm skeptical of those people getting very far.

Creating some kind of exception for AIs in copyright law is going to be very hard and impractical. Getting international agreement on that even harder. At best it will take very long for anything to happen. By which time there will be so many AIs that outlawing them is not going to be practical or popular.
I think payment services really come under 'utilities' or 'essential services', if not quite 'human rights'.

And thus processors should be required by law to provide service to everyone unless they are clearly doing something illegal, and even then, it's a matter for the police and courts, not private corporations or individuals.
They changed their versioning scheme so 40 followed 3.38

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Releases
Asian cities are new.

An example from the Netherlands: you have Amsterdam which is 500 years old. It's an infrastructure nightmare.
And there is Rotterdam which was conveniently carpet bombed by the Germans in WW2.

Guess which city got a subway first?
>Consider games like Octopath Traveller which aim for and sell to a specific audience (fans of jRPGs from the 90s), they succeed where the likes of CoD don't. Successful products begin by knowing who you want to sell to and why.

2.5 million sales for Octopath Traveler (and OT2 doing awful).

Do I really need to pull out the sales numbers of Call of Duty, or do you admit right now that you made a horrible bad faith argument?

And please, do not use the "but sales don't mean it's good" argument either. You can _easily_ find 2.5 million people that truly enjoy Call of Duty.
Sorry I meant the Apple Weather app*
Not really. I lived in three different european countries (France, Germany and Poland) and the switch to private was never worth the price : way more expensive for a barely better service. With public healthcare, you have the power of the numbers. Way more people are on the public side, which drives the prices down. If people are not willing to pay an astronomical price for their health, then health companies follow as long as they make decent profit.
Didn’t Jobs say a word is worth a thousand pictures?
Book publishers won't stop until libraries are dead
And if "no", what can you do to make sure your model isn't using C
hatGPT output by accident.
Read the credits at the end of any CGI heavy movie from Disney, or AAA game like GoW and notice how many Indian names show up. It is a highly outsourced biz model, and most of the grunt work is humans doing repetitive tasks over and over for $1 to return $1.01
(n²-n)/2 is O(n²) as GP claimed (not that it's exactly n², unless edited before I saw it), you're both right.
If you paint yourself as the "good" guy it's ok for you to be biased, prejudice, use double standards, discriminate.

"The end justifies the means!" as Machiavelli put it.
I fall to see the connection. The product is directed to an international market. Besides, is coffee cup subscriptions common to merit the comparison?
Thanks for elaborating. It seems now I don't understand your definition of efficiency. People choosing free ice cream over costly beer doesn't strike me as a loss of efficiency.
No, but I don't think that's relevant. Rust or Java access is doesn't require much typing ceremony, and doesn't require you to rename a var to change the access.
> No I don't buy either

Do you steal them?
Thank you, I definitely want to check it out when it's progressed more. Keep it up!
You can make a few lines of toy script that 'compose' a MIDI track like your example or other chiptunes, and play it with a digital instrument

I think that's one of the big issues with relative lack of emphasis AI generated music. Not only is the hard stuff relatively hard, the easy stuff that's generated to conform to regular Western melody/harmony norms played on a regular digital instrument is so easy it doesn't need NNs.

Musicians' copyright lawyers have also been extremely successful at demanding writing credits for 'inspiration' compared with other creative industries.
> We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes with UEFI support. We suggest getting Boxes from Flathub. os.gnome.org

What if I’m on Windows and want to try out the latest GNOME before making a decision to migrate to Linux? What makes Boxes so special? Is it really so hard to make your images usable with other common virtualization tools?
You sound rational. Do you not agree with the possibility of AI doom soon?
a battle i started 5 years ago when i launched https://golang.cafe hopefully it will become the norm and not the exception, salary ranges should be public
I guess this doesn't really make sense to me becuase if they are trying to take it seriously/be careful, and are not necessarily profit-driven, why release the models at all? Like if they are acknowledging there is any "risk" at all, why is it rational to go ahead and release it anyway and aggressively market it?

Do you really think this theory is compatible with what we have observed as OpenAI's behavior? Can you really think of no other reason why they hold back a newer better model for a few months, while there was an ongoing hype cycle around 3.5?
How much users/traffic does Tadalist have?
Note that there's also:

Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features

where you can disable OpenGL and such (i haven't tested yet.)
Privacy is not the only use-case. Some users need to monitor data usage to avoid bills they cannot afford.
It might just be on my side.
Ask HN: Would a global catastrophe unite or divide nations?
If a globally coordinated project of an unprecedented scale were required for our survival, could we pull it off?
Wow what a cliffhanger, it sounds like they have to deal with the courts now. I hope we get an update

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opposition-files-petiti...
Linux doesn't use github. They use git, not github. The question was if a competitor buys the self hosted github, not whether they use some other git solution.
> Making prostitution illegal is what drives a huge part of that human trafficking.

There is absolutely no empirical evidence for this - as it happens, a live social experiment is taking place in Europe. The trafficking networks in the East kicked into overdrive to supply the needs of the German and Belgian legal or gray brothels.

There is only one policy that works, demand minimization by outlawing payment for sex. This is what Sweden has done and, far from empowering pimps, it has largely solved the issue of trafficking, while the "Legalize it" group of countries saw it explode. The data speaks for itself.
If there is any impact on crypto prices from coinbase shutting down, it would be a positive one as US crypto holders would no longer be able to cash out, forcing them to purchase goods and services directly with crypto.

ETH and BTC are corollated because most liquidity is in BTC for legacy reasons. Most likely this corellation will break down over time.
Incredible story.

Some more background: https://ng.usembassy.gov/nigerias-2023-elections/
> but that it always points to the data closed over by the latest render

It's my understanding that this was to be the behavior of the canceled useEvent hooks but that the new useEffectEvent hook does not return a stable reference.

Do you have sources for the behavior of the new hook?
K8s on bare metal is not easy to maintain.
Tackling counterfeit seeds with “unclonable” labels
So is the average fiat user as well?
The web says you need to specify a YouTube live stream offset in seconds: https://www.youtube.com/live/teTroOAGZjM?t=22500
Why would anyone want to use Ubuntu 4ee7bb27a0ff1cbc203a0df93919980ccbcfd4f1 over Ubuntu 22.04?
Then you have "Hello superspammysite.com, welcome to our website." Not enough space for some kind of scam-text like in TFA. And considering that this has not happened in the last 27 years, it does not actually seem that worthwhile for spammers.
Haven't I heard this one before? Multiple times? Over the past 20+ years?

What's different this time?
Unions are the best way known to man that allows the re-distribution of profits from a small upper class (largely anointed by luck and/or heritage) to a broad segment of society. This in turn enables broad segments of society to give their children a decent education, which is the pre-requisite for society-scale innovation and (technological and social) progress.

The U.S. has long profited from being able to leverage plentiful natural resources and a dominating international position into being attractive to well-educated people from around the world and thus never having to fully rely on its own broadly abysmal but narrowly elite education system and other social services.

That is probably something you see as a victory, but it is also the definition of unsustainability: at some point the stresses introduced by this approach will start to crack the social fabric. Arguably, it already has.
> In my experience when a smaller company starts to writes tools that solve the imaginary problems of the CTO they are not focusing on solving customer problems and this usually ends badly.

Like writing their own web framework in obscure programming language?
What a bunch of BS. The only reason they are keeping it private is for commercial gain .
Understanding the Attribute Assignment API in Rails
> "Crypto payment processor SpankPay announced on Monday that it would shut down because of financial discrimination"

That's hard to convert from real money -> random crypto -> real money. There are lots of legal and trust issues.

I wonder why they didn't use a more established crypto like bitcoin or ethereum and invented their own instead.
These two things are related the other way round as well: to become a reserve currency, the using country must have a trade deficit. Else the rest of the world would not have enough liquidity to actually use the currency, and the market would grind to a halt. If no liquidity were available, any transaction would have to be secured with other assets. That asset would be the actual reserve currency then.
Damn they took down so many videos, especially that toy fire truck one
you change the laws in banking so the risk is much lower to financial companies. Sex work intertwined with trafficking and no company wants to take financial risk. Chase is in the headlines for getting sued for facilitating trafficking.
Looks like the hackers have caused some pretty significant damage. I'm curious to find out what the attack vector was.
And not all things in a TV ad are non fiction. Is the basis that a real orange tiger is supposed to be licking mystery red dust off his finger
Better try out your distro of choice in a VM like VirtualBox or VMware, but even then, most distros perform way differently in VMs than they will on the bare metal your system happens to be using due to the different HW (emulated or not) and drivers.
They have everything, even on offsite servers, but losing the YT channel itself would be catastrophic
This ignores all of the decades of government and university research and funding that went into these technological advances. The US also had the great advantage of being one of the only countries to not be completely devastated by two World Wars.
and with the recent firing of all the ai ethics teams from Google and Microsoft...
One of the most common uses of unreal engine for film is to use it to render in huge screens around the actors (instead of chroma), so you can record with the right light hitting the actors, or maybe even with the background already there.

I am curious how expensive these screens are, and the computers to drive it, but I imagine they are not cheap.
Someone report him right now
This was thrilling.

Sometimes, one person's bug is another person's feature :)
Not really. I like the fact my kid doesn’t do active shooter drills in school.
"research on language model" lol OpenAI is where the research happens. It's like saying SpaceX not giving away rockets hinders research on rockets. Anybody is free to develop their own AI model.
Only if you know nothing about coding nor AI.
I think there's definitely a difference between working in some capacity and working full time. The research they've done on unemployed people says that 1 day per week of work is enough for them to gain all the mental health benfits of work.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20190619/how-much-w...
Remember when this happened to Wikileaks?
I thought WW-style was mostly hot desks or hot offices? I was thinking something semi-permanent with additional privacy. Maybe that exists and I’m out of the loop.
> 2000s was the golden era of gaming.

Things weren't better, you were just younger.

I was a teen in the 2000s and I had free time and every game felt new and exciting. There is 0 chance the landscape for media isn't a trillion times better now though.
Rather, the point of caricature is to make something recognizable by exaggerating the distinguishing features.