skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> Lookout’s forensic analysis of two Pinduoduo APK app samples released prior to March 5 ... has determined that both contain malicious code that exploits CVE-2023-20963, the Android privilege-escalation vulnerability that wouldn’t become public until March 6 and wouldn’t be patched in user devices for up to two weeks later.
I dunno - academia has almost priced itself out of practicality, drunk on "cheap" government loans without having to provide any concrete benefits for their services. The veneer is starting to crack.
Iceland is in Schengen, so foreigners living in a country which is also a member have the ability to move to Iceland and settle here. So foreigners are welcome here. So much so that 14% of all residents are foreign and that does obviously not count those who have received citizenship.
It's very surprising there's no iPad or Apple TV version of this. iPhone only is a bit of a shock.
Thanks, that was an interesting read!

I wonder if the author's perspective has changed with regards to freedom to compute.

Social Media is often used as an example of privacy invasion though I've failed to see why concerns over Facebook handling your private data is worrying when they don't have a product you need to have.

Email on the other hand, is pretty much a necessity today so privacy concerns are vital there imo. Of course you can host your own server whereas you can't host your own Facebook.
I genuinely feel a little bad for the Reddit mobile web team.

Imagine working on a product that announced at every opportunity that it’s total dogshit and you should use something else.
This is what has driven me away from Amazon, except for purchases of name-brand specific things. I go to brick and mortar to browse, because they simply won't carry rubbish to begin with. It's not a function of buyer beware. Amazon outsources its returns entirely, so they are not incentivized to reduce it. Best Buy has to pay people to deal with it, so they strive for it not to be a problem in the first place. They do the curation, and it turns out, yes, there is actual value in that service, and our incentives are aligned.
This is already the case. People are generally buying those games for the licenses and then using mods. For example, you can buy Falcon 4.0 on Steam, but the only reason to do so is to legally play "Falcon BMS", an otherwise standalone free game using Falcon 4.0 assets and code.
Except the grid can cope with peak usage into peoples housing when the ovens are on etc.

Sure you may need some more power stations, but the actual capacity for the wires, substations etc can cope with the kettle at half time of the fa cup final situation, and thus can cope with charging 30 million vehicles.
The problem isn’t in a lack of testing, but in the metrics used when testing. If the A/B testing prioritizes “time on site”, then a design that shows you the user discussions you want to see and clearly indicates when nothing further has been posted will score lower than a site that intersperses ads into user content and fills a feed with “suggested for you” garbage.

I certainly believe the new interfaces have been A/B tested, and don’t think the changes are arbitrary. But I also don’t think the changes are beneficial for users, nor do I think that was the goal.
But 3D printing and self-driving did change things
I still miss it
Twitter is already a private company post the Musk buyout. The benefit is that you can avoid releasing public quarterly and yearly reports detailing your business and also avoid Wall Street expectations.
It’s a complex issue. The size and purity of the training data is a big factor in the quality, and may always be. As popularity explodes, preventing pollution of large global data sets like we have now may be impossible. The problem is theoretical in the sense that separating organic and AI data is already difficult and will necessarily become harder or impossible.
Definitely not. I'd much rather scale Postgres manually through layers of sharding and proxies than handle Cassandra.

There is ScyllaDB for a much better reimplementation of Cassandra/Dynamo, but wide-column databases are still best for niche scenarios, especially as RDBMS are rapidly evolving into natively distributed architectures.
Having a solution is not a prerequisite for providing criticism. It is okay to see a flaw but not yet have an answer.
The Banality of Science
Has anyone used Apple Music on Windows? Probably the worst experience of my life.
>mock [...] a grieving parent

And you're doing, what, exactly?
I am one of us 2.4mGards.

Actually just breathed a sigh of relief, as this will allow me to finally dispossess myself of my long-owned Core2Duo GTA-IV rig that I hadn't been able to let go of, just hours ago.

You have been a great machine, but it's time for us to move along.
I closed my Apple card account when Apple refused to stop deadnaming me on it without court documents.

AmEx et al never disrespected me thus.
My new hero, please update the documentation on the workers, bindings, and examples.

I can't cite examples while I'm being ushered by a distracted Uber driver but this explanation goes beyond the documents.

Also, please extend Cloud Workers to be written as NanoVMs.
You don't seem to understand what literally nothing means.

When there is deflation you do nothing. You don't even go to work. You don't even look at your bank account or the money. You don't think about it. You just wait and do nothing. It is the equivalent of taking a drug that makes you feel good. You won't find the need to actually accomplish anything.

If there is inflation, then banks actually have to do their bank related tasks to earn the money, people actually have to sit at their desks.
I think OP mischaracterized the issue with the license, its more that the weights don’t fall under the same scope. They’re research use only, no commercial use allowed.
> And you're doing, what, exactly?

Criticizing a journalist for what they published in The Atlantic. Surely you're capable of seeing the difference.

Edit: In case it's not obvious, I'm referring to things like Sandy Hook and the belligerent internet trolls who accosted the grieving parents, leading to Billion-dollar lawsuits. How can any journalist specializing in this space be unaware of that? Nothing to do with medicine/vaccines. I practically live under a rock myself and even I know about it.
I was banned half a dozen times. :D
It's a TeX distro that only supports the XeTeX engine. A far cry from "modern", as XeTeX is an abandoned engine that always had quirky compatibility problems.

And it's not "self-contained" either if it downloads packages from the Internet.
> The security argument for the App Store has never been stronger.

Perhaps, for many users this is true. But I don't need or want a nanny-company telling me what I can and can't install on my devices.

(And yes, I do sideload apps -- including one I've written myself -- on my Android phone. So this isn't a theoretical "don't take my freedom" type concern.)

>> But what if, say, Tik Tok announces they will from now on leave the App Store and available only via direct download?

> ... and nothing of value was lost.

Couldn't agree more with that sentiment. The problem is, though, that many people will still download it from TikTok's own website or app store. Security is a collective problem: even if I manage to avoid malware, a friend or colleague -- who may have email or chat or whatever history with me -- could get hacked, and that would still leak some of my data.
Incentives which are misaligned from the customer's point of viewpoint.
A little bit off-topic perhaps but.. does the domain applemusic.apple look funny to anyone else? Like, why not just music.apple or applemusic.com or apple.com/music or music.apple.com lol
Just how big should the House be? Let’s do the math
lol - the moaning about the elite loosing control of their favorite platform continues! I'm sure when we come back five years from now not only will Twitter still exist, but it will be bigger and the same people complaining about it's death will also still be on there and not Mastadon!
> we'd probably just hard-code the needs on a per-service basis.

For 99% of situations this is a better decision. For, idk, at least 20% of the remaining 1%, PDBs won't handle it anyway.
Current macOS light mode isn’t technically white, but it’s a lot closer than platinum was. iOS is even brighter, as is Win10/11.
Please no, too much emotional whiplash from covid lockdowns to go to hypothetical Diet™ martial law, inside of a year and a half.
I published an article based on a 4 hour-long conversation with ChatGPT.
They do indeed. But none of that means that they care even a little bit about me, personally. Why would they? I can neither help nor hinder their efforts.

Understand what I'm saying here -- I'm specifically talking about whether I'd prefer to be spied on by China or by corporations. If that's my choice, I'd prefer to be spied on by China because they don't care much about me, individually.

But really, I'd prefer not to be spied on at all -- and that's my underlying point. When it comes to issues like TikTok, I'm not saying TikTok isn't a problem. I'm saying that the problem TikTok presents is not unique to them. If we are to address the problems -- and I think we should -- we should address it across the board, not just with a single company.
Definitely true. But I've read a lot of personal stories on the Internet, and maybe OP is willing to share. As for the blame-game, yes, it could happen. But it's a bit shame if we shut down potentially interesting discussion by preemptively deciding the outcome.
Well this is a shame to hear I guess time to switch registars.
Work (change in energy) is F*d, so the force you're applying to go from 10->20m/s happens over a larger distance if it's the same force.
Switched myself and every project I’m involved with to Cloudflare registrar a while ago because of their front-running.

Namecheap completely burnt all the goodwill and positive word-of-mouth they had built up.

It would be nice to have an independent and reputable registrar outside of the big co’s but it’s apparent that the shadiness and incentives in the industry don’t allow this to happen.
As an actual crypto enthusiast, I fucking hope not. Can you imagine if the entire planet switched to using proof of work cryptocurrency? The energy usage of the network would dwarf that of the largest country.
No one knows how xorg.conf Videoadaptors work
PyCharm without a doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, you would be hard pressed to find a better IDE (e.g. You write flask apps, the IDE can take you from the template to the functions and vice versa, and similar for many other libraries and frameworks).
That’s all yet another instance of “not my problem.” Can’t prevent fraud on your e-commerce site? Maybe you should not be running one.
Base model performance is what's most important and also impacts fine-tuning quality. Practically, a model that's good out of the box with minimal fine-tuning is also useful to more people. Since they focused on being training compute optimal for some budget, expect their models to lag behind Llama overall. Their 6.7B version should lag behind GPT-J, assuming 20 tokens per parameter.

The Pythia models are also worth checking out, they might be better than or matched to CerebrasGPTs at each size (although they warn it is not intended for deployment).

Conclusion: the landscape of top open models remains unchanged.
Techcrunch is garbage now a days because of articles like these
No but it makes it an empty criticism. It's like the activists who say "abolish the police!" but either have no insight into or are deliberately ignoring why the police exist, and have no ideas regarding who would perform the equivalent function instead.
I find myself doubting that "we all" would have been able to have such discussions or ever make these decisions ourselves. Silicon Valley and big tech spent the last few decades hijacking human psychology and employing dark patterns in technology that was supposed to be "democratizing" and "empowering" in order to maximize profit. Now we stand at this precipice, coupled with the RESTRICT Act, which I have no doubt will pass.

All's well that ends well, though. We simply don't have the resources to continue this "breakneck pace".
> even more than facebook?

Well, consider the capabilities of the two platforms, as well as the demographics of users, and so forth and so on.

> any studies/links about that?

Not that I know of, but I have a feeling these discussions have been held at very high levels of the government and various 3 letter agencies, resulting in the mass theatrical spectacle we saw in Congress the other day.....did you watch any of that? Is it not blatantly obvious that in this case, "democracy" is an illusion?
For the curious, here was the conversation I had:

ME: What's another saying similar to: "The cat is out of the bag" or "The genie is out of the bottle"?

chatgpt: Another similar saying is "the toothpaste is out of the tube." Like the other two expressions, this phrase conveys the idea that something has been revealed or unleashed, and it cannot be undone or put back into its original state.

ME: Can you invent a new phrase that has the same meaning, which is completely new?

chatgpt: Certainly! Here's a new phrase with a similar meaning: "The confetti has left the cannon." This phrase suggests that once something is out in the open or has happened, it's impossible to reverse or contain it, much like confetti that has been shot out of a cannon during a celebration.

ME: What's the name for this kind of expression? Aphorism? Fable?

chatgpt: This kind of expression is known as an idiom. Idioms are phrases or expressions with a figurative meaning that is different from their literal meaning. They are commonly used in everyday language to convey a specific message or sentiment in a more colorful or memorable way.
your response contains some very valid points around the dynamics of groups with bad reputations. You point out real negative consequences.

But you misidentify the group being criticized. it's not euro bureaucrats.

it's literal morons who take ownership and responsibility over things they don't understand well enough to even surround themselves with advisors who know what they're talking about.

I've seen this attitude from many very wealthy people, a willingness, a bravado even, to be ignorant about what they do for a living, e.g. I met a dude who told me had a software business, but he didn't even know what programing language his own property was written in.

what really sets me off is their unwillingness to find out. (oh, and that this are the kind of people at the top of our society)
Don't they already do this with some games and services in Windows 10? Is this just a supercharged version of what happens in Windows 10?

Definitely guarantees that the fTPM stays off on all of my machines so they can't be force upgraded.
Same was true for "deep learning" 4-5 years ago. There's a demand for consulting companies to come out with "future of work" reports about how technology will impact jobs. Everyone knows it's flying-car style futurism and not serious, but the media picks it up as reality. Last cycle, there were all kinds of reports on jobs that deep learning would make obsolete, truck drivers and radiologitst being the flagship cases. This time it's something else. It almost feels comforting to know your job is one of the predicted obsolete ones, because of how wrong these things are.
I empathize with your frustration, but it sounds like an issue with your operating system and/or hardware vendor. I suppose it's fair to expect Chrome/Firefox to allow you to configure your input device to act like this, too. But the problem is not with the Web platform or any standard - it's some combination of your operating system and browser that's deciding how to translate "tap and hold" into Web API events like onClick or onTouch (which are notoriously annoying to implement cross-platform).
You would be surprised, a lot of people have bad opsec when it comes to doing stuff online. When it comes to booting it usually also usually involves kids and teens doing stuff like trying to take down minecraft servers, and a lot of them don't consider such details.
Not sure, but I think the point was that if you have something in GPL license (like the code in this case) it's open source, but that doesn't mean you can use that for your business application. That's because GPL requires you open sourcing all derivative work and most businesses don't want to/can't do that.
So sad that so many people do not despise autocratic governments for their countries.
The problem is fraud. Locking out Chinese fraudsters at the expense of legitimate Chinese sellers solves the problem.
I changed banks back in 07 over this.
>That said, on the weekend I did listen to a podcast where at one point taxes were (indirectly) described as behaviour modification.

Just wait until you hear about this thing called the law and the police force...

For example, when the government introduces laws that prevent underage children from working, they do behaviour modification and they will even outright admit it and they won't even think they are wrong. Really insidious stuff, if you ask me.
I am afraid I will get downvoted for this heavily. But in my experience Iceland (just like its name) is a desert with no vegetation and consequently has minimum biodiversity.

No matter what is the carrot being hung, I would not wish to be in this land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_f90pXw5sQ
Disney scraps metaverse unit in cost-cutting move
GPL is a copyleft license which requires you to share anything that you build using the original software. This makes it difficult for commercial use.
Oh, the VirtualHere website does a really good job of hiding the fact that it's paid - I did all the research and was really excited about a convenient solution until I found out that it's $50. Whoops.

Though I guess I should've expected that on a comment thread about businesses, heh~
Not only not in the world of transformers but I find it unlikely it's in modern ML at all. Deepmind has been putting out shocking work in Deep RL which is as impressive if not as hyped as anything from OpenAI.
great, more stuff to blackhole in piHole.
Man that is rubbish sorry to hear that. I don't use coworker spaces as much now as I used to, will bare in mind.
Consultants all the way down
Apple was one of the last streaming providers to adopt lossless audio. Even then, the "high res" part is optional. You can disable it and stream normal 44.1/16
Since serverless is basically just the PHP model with more languages (so: also basically just CGI) I'm waiting for them to balance clients onto as few machines as possible in each DC and add a (revolutionary! State-of-the-art!) connection-pooling agent to each one.

I reckon the current hype-cycle will be just about at its peak, when that happens.

(FWIW I like serverless—but then, I liked CGI, so of course I do)
I think some businesses and people are worried about using GPL code in their code bases because that's incompatible with their own licenses.
The LLaMa paper says 1 trillion for the smaller models (7B, 13B) and 1.4 trillion for the larger models (30B, 65B)
> A deployment is a declarative way to run a (group of) container(s). There is no extra abstraction required of the developers

You have skipped over the Pod and ReplicaSet abstractions, and the Pod part is definitely not ignorable even in the most trivial case. The container part is probably more ignorable than the pod part, since pods are what actually gets exposed for most operations.
If it's not an illusion then you should be able to tell me what it is.

Since you can't. I can easily tell you that it's probably just some classification word with no exact meaning. The concept itself doesn't exist. It's only given existence because of the word.

Take for example the colors black and white. Do those colors truly exist on a gradient? On a gradient we have levels of brightness and darkness at what level of brightness should a color be called white and at what level should we call it black?

I can choose a arbitrary boundary for this threshold, or I can make it more complex and give a third concept: Grey. I can make up more concepts like Light Grey or Dark Grey. These concepts don't actually exist. They are just vocabulary for classification. They are arbitrary zones of demarcation on a gradient classified with a vocabulary word.

My claim is consciousness could be largely the same thing. When does something cross the line from unconscious to conscious? Perhaps this line of demarcation is simply arbitrary. It may be that the concept practically isn't real and any debate about it is just like arguing about where on a gradient does black become white.

Is a logic gate conscious? If I create a network of logic gates when does the amount of logic gates plus how they are interconnected cross the line into sentience? Perhaps the question is meaningless. When does black become white?
As long as you're standing behind the train, you're safe from the debris.
Bring in guns? From where
> I'm explaining why it is that I view the cryptocurrency space as having a lot of sketchy things in it.

I asked you for a source of the 'why' and you couldn't give me anything concrete. Therefore, my only other recourse is to assume you're spreading a myth. Burden of proof.
Yup. Hate to give yet more business to the behemoths, but I know Amazon will not play these games.

Still bitter about a domain that Godaddy stole from me when I wanted to quickly query one. Even at the time, I knew better, but was in a rush.
...long term visa for high earning remote workers...
Just think about all the meaningful local mom and pop jobs that gave back to the community that Amazon destroyed in the name of putting bezos in the top two richest men alive. Maybe the judge should consider that and just demolish them.
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I say you're lucky because I'm jealous. I wish FF worked as well for me. It used to, but something changed a couple of years back that broke it.

It's true that I don't use SSDs. It's also true that no other app (including other browsers) takes such an absurdly long time to start up, so I don't think the lack of an SSD is the issue.

Or, if it is, that means there's a larger problem with Firefox. You shouldn't have to run special hardware to run a browser.
This is very cool, impressive work in 2 weeks!
Each action seems to have some delay after it, is there any reason for that? Is it because you are streaming the OpenAI response and performing the actions as they come? If not, I imagine streaming the query response and executing each action as they emit would speed it up quite a bit?
Google should block all of their app signing keys, and only allow new ones when PDD can explain how malicious software was signed with the previous ones.
it looks like the fidelity card cashback even exceeds 2% if you have a large brokerage account with them, which is cool. but it looks like you do need an active brokerage account with them to use the card at all. a good deal if you'd like to have a fidelity brokerage account anyway, but imo citi doublecash is the better general recommendation since it doesn't have the same cross-product dependency.
>But you don't do that if you're on GitHub, right?

How do you push to github without a repo you own and control? Are people pushing patches through the web interface or something?
No, re-read the quote.
Regardless of how great they might make an interface for it, passwords are the last thing I haven't given to Apple. If I lost control of my Apple ID, it would be a disaster, but at least it wouldn't expose everything else as well. I have a hard time getting over this mental hurdle, so it's 1Password for the foreseeable future for me, no matter what they do here.