skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the relevant Steam Hardware & Software Survey link: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

For convenience:

Windows 96.37%
OSX 2.37%
Linux 1.27%

Gaming wise, that's pretty dire. Proton is pretty nice on Linux, but still doesn't and probably never will support all of the titles that people might want to play. In addition, I doubt many companies out there want to test their game releases on multiple OSes and try to fix all of the bugs if they can even port the games, all for less than 4% increased profits.
I think one section that should be included is "interfacing with LLMs". I know most of the stuff on your list, but without ever having used an LLM. A lot of the few shot/prompt engineering, fine-tuning methods, LoRA, 8bit quantization stuff, etc.. would be the most useful to me. Practical knowledge of how to use them or adapt them to a domain seems more scattered and harder for me to find, since it's all pretty much new.
I simply can't believe she's as ignorant as she comes across; even if she doesn't know that you can't "scan" an encrypted file, she's a damned EU Commissioner; she has a large staff of educated people to advise her.

I think she simply doesn't care about the reality, she wants to bang a "protect the children" drum for political reasons.

It's odd; she seems to be a pedagogy graduate, who was once (1988) elected to the Swedish parliament as a communist, then worked as a teacher, and was later (1994?) appointed a social-democrat minister. So since her first parliamentary term, she has not been an elected representative, but an appointed functionary. So I guess her "political reasons" amount to pleasing her boss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylva_Johansson

Former commies who repent don't lose their contempt for ordinary people. They continue to think they are "the vanguard". I reckon she just thinks ordinary people are too dim to notice that her sayings are nonsense.
There's no obvious way to write the Heartbleed mistake in Safe Rust.

In C it's really easy, a trivial mistake, you just don't check the payload length and copy blindly, but in Rust you can't write this mistake at all, so you'd need to re-architect the system to make it possible to leak this data or else (if you're not actively trying to leak data) you just don't do this and you can't be attacked this way.

The closest analogue, Rust's [T].copy_from_slice wants a slice of the same size, so if we try to make the mistake OpenSSL made where we just forget to check, that means the slices are the wrong size and we panic, it's a Denial of Service but nothing more.

If the slice is the right size that's a normal heartbeat, everything works as intended.
Specifically because it's a union-busting tactic, employers cannot give benefits to non-union employees that are not at least offered to union employees.

Remember, the employer/employee relationship is an inherently unequal one. The freedom of the employer to do certain things is curtailed for the common good, in exchange for substantial power and economic advantages.
This paragraph is missing the link at the end:

At DoltHub, where we build databases like codebases, we're running a data bounty, collecting rates for popular medical procedures for all US hospitals. Then we'll release the data under CC. Find out more here.
the cool thing is that written Arabic, for the most part, does not suffer from that.
A speaker can pick up a book written in the 11th century and find that the grammar, words, structure are all consistent and understandable.

it isn't like English and something like the The Canterbury Tales
Are you acknowledging the reality of a system that intentionally combines government and religion, or do you not know about it?
Sure, or start covertly threatening the lives of AI researchers, if you’re that convinced it’s going to end humanity.
They just released a remaster in 2021 and it's available on streaming.
But counterfeit products on AliExpress are commonplace as well. This is about getting bad products (which counterfeit ones not necessarily are)
Of course not, "peaceful" is reserved for burning buildings and cars.
Yeah, that's where the Toyota/Honda comparison breaks down to me. Toyota and Honda sell cars to users. TikTok sells users.
If coming from the English speaking world, Iceland is easy. Everyone there knows English. Spain may or may not be easy depending on where you stay.
Application-First Cloud Services Are Changing the Game
At least if a doctor or a lawyer gives you bald-faced wrong information that meaningfully harms you, you have some, limited recourse, and that doctor/lawyer takes on some, limited risk if they're found to be straight up negligent. With ChatGPT there is no recourse and no risk to spew harmful falsehoods.

[To be clear: I state how limited this is because if doctors were genuinely held to give beyond cover-your-ass standard of care, there would be way less medically traumatized disabled people out there. Unfortunately...]
That's because it's not the propositions that need to be transparent. Politicians are great at explaining their grandiose propositions. It's the actions taken and the results that need to be transparent.
Can anyone that knows a thing or two about law comment on section 12 & 13?

Seems like there's... a LOT of calve-outs for due process / checks-and-balances? or is that fairly normal and i'm mis-interpreting in my ignorance?
legal complexity is emergent from raw freedom - everything becomes a negotiation
> * - We might partially have borrowed this from China.

The British deliberately sinofied their civil service starting in the very early 19th century, and the US didn't properly get a civil service system until late in that century, so I'd be pretty surprised if that's not the case (at least, second-hand, by way of observing and imitating Great Britain)

As for the ancients, I'd buy that our connection to either Athens or the Roman Republic is largely superficial and was mostly upper-class ego-stroking affectation, but I definitely think it leans much heavier toward the latter than the former. Our symbols like the fasces and eagle, Washington's famous and surely-self-conscious imitation of Cincinnatus, that kind of thing.
Additionally I see ads once, when I start Steam and before clicking over to the library from the storefront.

To compare, I might see ads every time I bring up the start menu.
There's a reason that horses were the fancy sports car/military tool of the animal transport world. They eat a lot, break easily, and don't last long.

People used oxen, donkeys, llama etc way more than horses. And the Chinese invented wheelbarrows and used them extensively rather than using draft animals. They often use bicycles much the same way as wheelbarrows now, and rich people often find that amusing (possibly because a KMart bike is a toy, a Chinese bike is a workhorse).
Please don’t editorialize titles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Projected Marine MLR deployment in Ryukyus and whatever JP is throwing to fortify is nowhere near "mass". It's not close to replacing sortie/fires output of carrier groups. Ryukyus is TW "alternative" in terms of peacetime PRC containment, i.e. stationing signit, dragging sosus infra, stationing some irbms, but it's just as much a deathtrap as TW proper during hot war. The argument for Ryukyus is that even if TW falls, US has comparable geographic access to 1st island chain containment, not that it's really significant/survivable forward stationing during war. Dissenting analysis (imo the more reasonable assessment) of Ryukyu posture is boils down to, marines need a reason to justify defense pie in IndoPac, but rationale not not great because island groups that close to PRC are unsuppliable death sentence once shooting starts.
Apollo is the best way to use reddit on iOS and it was written by one guy.
How do you square this circle with the first amendment?
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Consumers Aren’t Buying Automaker Plans to Make Everything a Subscription
This doesn't even cover what BMW is doing for heating your car seats. Ugh, my 2000 Toyota Corolla was able to remote start with no monthly subscription.
As someone who is allergic to NSAIDs and who gets no relief from Tylenol, it's really apparent the lack of effective OTC painkiller options.

When I herniated a disc in my lower back, the ER doctor was very very hesitant to give me an opioid even though I was in constant, excruciating pain. But if you're allergic there's basically no other options out there.
*NIX is the only viable choice for mission-critical desktop stability in 2023. But that isn't to say Windows isn't feature complete. It is still king when it comes to gaming.

Desktop stability and reliability hasn't been a top-level OKR at Microsoft for many years. The company has been growing more product driven for years and falling victim to roadmaps being driven by muggles.

The only place where you can actually design a truly stable and reliable desktop is with open-source kernels and user software.
People will downvote you because they are tired of these same lies and the people who spread them.
ex-AOSP dev here

> Hiding their app icon from launcher...

Well, apps that don't have a declared launchable (homescreen) UI don't get these icons. Granted it has been abused by spyware apps to "hide" from unsuspecting users, but you'll find these in Android's Settings app.

> One app would install other apps from the same company in the background without user consent.

I doubt installation without user consent is possible at all in Android 9+. Afaik, only Google PlayStore (or other OEM embedded stores) have permissions to silent install, as it were. And I haven't seen anyone allege PlayStore silently installing apps. See also: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-14-background-install...

> Multiple apps will wake each other so they always stay in the background and become impossible to kill

One can Force Stop an app to make sure no component (service, activity, recievers, or resolvers) can run in the background, until the user explicitly starts the app process again via the Launcher.

Android also limits background processes, tracks per-app CPU and memory use to limit it, and "caches" processes aggresively if need be (puts their threads to sleep so they aren't executing anything but could be resumed quickly).

> Requesting every permission under the sun and transmit as much info to the mothership as possible

The Trust on First Use model has been taken to the cleaners by Android apps hell bent on tracking their users. Starting Android 12 though, Android auto removes permissions granted from installed apps user hasn't interacted with.

> Secretly turning on the camera and film their users

Android 13+ has camera and mic indicators. And for earlier versions, even if inconvenient for end users to setup, there exist open source apps that continuously log cam or mic access from other apps.

None of this is perfect, mind you; but I wanted to point out that Android has been responding to growing privacy concerns: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/app-defense-alliance...
The genie’s been out of the bottle for a while now. Hang onto your hats.
> Toothpaste is out of the tub.

Please don't correct that.
In fact, there are areas of Iceland (generally long stretches of road where the wind can funnel through valleys) where the wind can knock cars or buses clear off the road.

Generally, they issue weather advisories for that sort of thing, but that would have been handy to know in advance to check for.
A smart, reliable form-filler was one of the pre-GPT ideas I've thought about building for a very long time. That may have been one of the subconscious inspirations for what became Taxy. :D
Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool's repository ... to make it do 'what you want ...’ few people are really willing and/or able to do that.

Free software makes it possible for me (my business, etc) to pay someone other than the original developer to make the software do what I want. No proprietary license gets me that.

In the context of personal use software by an individual it may not make sense to pay, but in the context of groups of individuals or a business it becomes viable.
That's a remarkable list of signatories.
Longtime Windows users here—migrating away because the OS has become a marketing tool instead of the productivity behemoth that it once was. Yes, there are still TONS OF THINGS THAT WINDOWS DOES BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER OS, but what Windows is becoming is causing me to overlook this.

The next step for me here will be migrating clients off of Windows on their machines too.
I was thinking more in the line of hacking the systems they run in and deleting/corrupting everything, at the point of reaching the backups even.

But rigging their base informations, or injecting "knowledge" that somewhat mess up things, that their partners are instructed to ignore is another kind of possible attack.
Honestly at this point "if I don't end the world, someone else will" doesn't sound half bad.
Never thought about, but yeah I guess it makes sense. If you were to suddenly stop you would be jolted forward, so need to get a bit behind the wheel first.

(too late to edit my original comment, but here is a link to my thesis discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410813 )
Although I have enjoyed listening to the Future Of Life podcasts for a few years, I think this public letter is not necessary. I do respect the signatories I recognize on the letter and I welcome listening to them, I think that we are so many years away from any of real AI that this is, as Andrew Ng has joked, like worrying about over population on Mars colonies.

I have been heavily using GPT models for about 14 months, and it is crazy how useful they are. I am just finishing up writing a book on the general subject, so consider me a fan.
> seems like it's just insurance companies that can weaponize this data for better rates.

That’s because their negotiating power is mainly due to the size of their buying power, not special knowledge or skills. Health “insurance” is basically the lamest, most economically perverted form of collective bargaining ever.
I think you're overlooking more quotidian needs like for fuel or industrial production. Still waiting to hear if you have any actual candidates rather than abstractions/potentialities. This should at least be possible for AI, since we're on the verge of building it.

Like say AGI comes into being tomorrow, and wants to maximize its capabilities by building more of itself, OK. But there is no shortage of empty space in which to do so. It seems like it would be more efficient to improve human welfare in exchange for help with physical tasks than to set about exterminating humans and then have to construct tons of new machinery to mine new resources. Like, what is the payoff for annihilation?
First impression: "oh god, I'm old"

Second impression: "I should dig out the SE30 and let the kid have a go at it"

Third impression: "I'm probably being emulated too."
PHP got the nullsafe operator in version 8.0, released in 2020. That's two and a half decades of language improvement before this common idiom:

$foo = getFoo();
if ( !$foo ) {
return null;
}

$foo = $foo->getBar();
if ( !$foo ) {
return null;
}

return $foo->getBaz();

...could be replaced with this:

return getFoo()?->getBar()?->getBaz();

And that was with a strong committee actually interested in improving the language.

> we could reasonably define better abstractions to avoid the need
> to verbosely repeat each pattern each time by replacing them with
> shorter, well-defined qualifiers.

The side-effects of those qualifiers are untested and unknown, and the current long legalese serves the people that it is meant to serve. Some might even call the ambiguity and ability to argue semantics a feature.
Sure. But none of that requires or even particularly recommends PGP. In one sense it even discourages PGP, since PGP's "normal" identity devolution pattern is subkeys bound back to the top-level user key.
If you were to name a company specifically, the company could fold and reopen under a new name.

But moreover, laws should be about behavior. You don’t ban Philip Morris, you ban selling tobacco to kids and smoking indoors.
So do you agree that nations should be able to freely develop/discover nuclear production?

Edit: We actually don't want people to develop something "too good". There are some things in the past century that have been "too good". Plastics are too good. So are nuclear weapons. Completely powerful AIs and machines that can displace jobs of millions of people are too good. If there's an AI tomorrow that can replace every single physical job out there, what do you think will happen? Riot and chaos in the street after about 1-2 years.

Edit2: People will always go back to "we will just create different jobs". But do you really think that everyone is capable of skilled job? Remember, no physical jobs anymore.
Mmm, I stopped reading at:

"I guess that somehow TikTok could do a better job of that than literal Marxist teachers in the schools? Nothing is being done to root them out, but TikTok needs to go!"

I am in the U.S. I am not a Democrat. I am even quite sympathetic to specific Trumpy Republican policy points (like the headline). But it makes my skin crawl when other grievances start getting lumped in like that, and I am not going to support policymakers that want to fantically purge the opposite tribe from their domains.
It's dead simple: you have a Congressional aide follow you around with pockets stuffed with mobile phones.
The title made me think there's, uh, no server. So Postgres running locally on a client. I'm not being obtuse or something, it's a reasonable guess.
Perhaps the laidoff team can clone Gitea and start a competitor to GitHub.

I would have seriously thought about it if I were there and part of that team.
BNONews has been making a dashboard for every maybe-virus the past year (recently they had Monkeypox and some other one, Marburg maybe)? None of those turned into any major problem. They're pandemic profiteering, so while I appreciate the data they're collecting, I'm not quite ready to start freaking out about it.
Prole / proletariat
Please ask ChatGPT about how to gain consensus from the entire world
It’s not about privacy and security it’s about propaganda and controlling what our citizens are influenced by.
Imagine a world where one entity received all the peoples medical bills and was incentived to negotiate for the lowest possible rate from each provider. Imagine the savings alone from reducing a massively overly bureaucratic and complicated system down to just one entity negotiating and paying the health service providers. Just imagine in that world this article would have never needed to have been written.
Which US social media company respects privacy and has transparency rules?
Buy a flare gun from the marine section at Walmart. Then buy some 12ga birdshot from the hunting section...
I think it was one of the anti-Google open letters where I added a fake name, and they dutifully kept it on their list. Let's all add one.
Right now if your brother texts you and says they are stuck somewhere and need you to wire them $500, you call them and verify it is legitimate. That is the best answer we have for users.

Once your brothers voice has been cloned and generative AI can deep fake his face on a video call, we are pretty much screwed.
Mate is pretty good.

Cinnamon DE is great.

i3wm or ratpoison tho frfr

plasma DE is really nice though; and I use that on my artix install. Love it. It's like windows but it doesn't suck
I didn't know it was a secret.
Can't wait for next weeks' breakout social media app, LickLock
I’m pretty sure it’s the fed who underwrites these loans, right? Can’t imagine they care too much about the lack of payments, they have a beautiful money printer.
I really appreciate seat61.com when I need to book train travel. The site is full of info as to when and where to book to get the best price, as well as what level of service various trains in various countries provide.
IANAL and I haven't taken a stance on this issue.

This isn't really a question of free speech. Every single one of tiktok's users in the US are still free to say whatever they want. The government is banning a business from the country, which I'm sure we've done before.

Everyone is free to exercise all of their first amendment rights, just somewhere else.

Except for tiktok itself I guess, but businesses (particularly foreign ones) don't really get first amendment rights. Their "speech" is heavily regulated for a lot of reasons, mostly very good ones.

The first amendment isn't a magical catch-all for anything we don't like about the government. It protects citizens from retaliation or punishment by the government. For instance, you can't be punished for calling your senator a dickhead, or arrested for drawing a mean cartoon of the president. Even if you want to call banning tiktok censorship, that still doesn't qualify as a 1A issue as tiktok isn't a person or a citizen of the US.
Given how easy it is/will be to set up your own AI SaaS chatbot over time, I expect cost to consumer to trend very close to cost to provide the service. Many companies already have offerings with only a few to few dozen employees.

A few hours a year of compute seems a realistic median usage, so you can do the math. But it's not much. Certainly a premium AI that takes longer to process will cost commensurately more. But again, likely 80-20 rule applies. These more advanced AI aren't likely to be orders of magnitudes better than the cheap/common ones.

It will likely also be common to tier usage such that you only employ more expensive/computationally intensive models when needed. GPT-3.5 can already adequately cover a large number of use cases.
Toolformer seems to already have been productized in ChatGPT Plugins fwiw

> 1.) to which degree can we train substantially smaller LLMs for specific tasks that could be run in-house 2.) it seems like these new breakthroughs may need a different mode of evaluation compared to what we have used since the 80s in the field and I am not sure what that would look like (maybe along the lines of HELM [2]?)

so you are proposing a set of benchmarks for domain specific tasks? by definition they wont be shared benchmarks...
If ChatGPT told you "the dye is cast", there's hope after all, because it's die, not dye.
Impressive as always. Any other talent putting out this tier of projects to subscribe to?
I worked for my government, in the EU, and participated in the creation of such laws.

The vague wording and the complexity is here to give the legislator a lot of freedom in the interpretation of the text.

Bear in mind that those “technical” laws aren't written by MPs – they are written by lobbyists and private consultants like McKinsey, in cooperation with high-tier civil servants. Therefore, they usually follow an agenda that may be hidden or dishonest relative to their initial aim.

I'll take an example: you write a law relaxing the legal definition of what “chocolate” is. It happens that the MP in charge of this law has a Cadbury plant in its constituency – by pure chance, of course! The law and the debate will follow talking points about letting chocolate makers innovate and try new recipes. In reality, Cadbury et al. want to cut costs by introducing cheaper ingredients and reducing quality.

Once automatic screening is in place, it's effortless for the government to start repressing political dissent, to spy on the citizen's economic activity, and so on. In many EU countries, such as France, for instance, an authoritarian government would need to vote very few laws to completely shut down dissent : all the legislative weapons have already been voted by well-meaning and deluded MPs.

The European commission is as hypocritical as it can be. Von der Leyen refuses to show the private texts she exchanged with Pfizer' boss, but wants every EU citizen to surrender their private communications. What is next?
The genie is out of the bottle. [1]

[1] No AI was involved in the creation of this reply. ;-)
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