skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that video. The thing is, when you get to this point, it should've been pretty clear for any honest scientists that you shouldn't trust the narrative / story, you should do the full calculation, and be honest about how trustworthy the calculation is.

The picture presented is as if the story is already enough (it definitely isn't), and the shortcomings of the calculations are not important, while the truth is that the story was heavily biased, and the calculations are very important. And the calculations really are dumpster fire.
Wouldn't it make sense for large, privacy-conscious holders of Monero to outbid the IRS and offer a higher bounty for the same info? (Assuming they haven't already.)
I worked as a lecturer at a private university for a semester.

It was a nice experience, but payed really badly.
I think you had a little slip of the fingers, you mean anti-phishing, phishing in itself is already automated enough ;).

I don't want to seem (more than what I actually am) an old, grumpy, bastard and I actually like your idea, it seems to me a very good one in the context of its original development (your dissertation), only that attempting to actually implement it (even once the automation of the analysis will be possible) in the real world is impossible/cost prohibitive for any organization and the few (government?) high risk ones (with unlimited budgets) probably already have something similar.

When/if the human analyst will be replaced by some more sophisticated automatic method (maybe the Artificial Intelligence that everyone is babbling about lately) it might become affordable to have this kind of added protection, but until then (as said assuming that my calculations are roughly correct) noone can possibly use this approach as it simply would cost way too much.
While I didn't specifically call it out, I also selected for exploration of Jupiter and Saturn specifically.
> I would like to see things as natural as possible. And feral pigs don’t have a place on this continent.

That's a strange -- and dangerous -- thing to say for an American of European origin.
Sure he makes some nice videos but he isn't doing any of the real onchain detective work
If this abomination of a war will continue for a few more years, they (I cannot say “we” anymore, even though I’m Russian), they will have to resort to bona fide gulags to maintain their workforce. This is how it has happened before.
There is no end-state for formats where one "won" and others "lost". XML "won" in terms of it being used everywhere in the past, JSON "won" in terms of it being used everywhere right now and some other format will have "won" in terms of it being used everywhere in the future.

Formats come and go over time, surely JSON will as well.
> Let me repeat: some people cannot learn faster than this,

You missed the whole point: people do not learn with this approach, regardless of speed.

The only benefit is keeping people engaged in a skinner box while watching ads, and selling them ways around keeping their track record engaged with said skinner box unbroken.
> as US military personnel are good at following orders

History begs to differ.
While Russia's reputation is in shatters in the west, I'm not sure if this is true for India, China, Pakistan and other countries. Also Russia's Wagner troupes are currently kicking out European ones in Africa, so I wouldn't be surprised if the reputation of Russia will be good enough for immigration in Africa either. This might very well be a solvable problem for Russia if they really want to.
My instance laughed (^_^)
Those bright shirts were definitely that era. Which store is this? Incredible Universe, The Wiz, Fry’s?
A factoid that was once uncited in Wikipedia claims that the main buildings in Manresa are all built from rubble, the reason being that Napoleon and his troops demolished and burned the city as they retreated, and so it was literally rebuilt in place from the remnants. I could definitely see that was a plausible story, too.

In the Southwestern United States, we don't have any buildings that were built, let alone demolished, in the early 19th century.
The very fact that you say so basically proves the parent's point: you believe that you bought a game (or a Kindle ebook or whatever), whereas in fact you have zero control over it and if the vendor decides you can't use it, you can't. It's not a theory, it's practical reality, already tested by Adobe.
Personal accountability? Ew, no thank you. How else would I continue to think I’m the single greatest person ever? /s
>a Brand on Twitter acting like a real human

>send all messages through them as a representative

Not sure what you're getting at. Everyone knows that some social media person/intern manages the corporate Twitter account. How would them sending mails or text messages signed with their name be any different eventually?
But maybe it doesn't really matter for much longer anywAI.
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> You have a choice, if you don’t like it buy an Android phone. Or a Sailfish phone, or a KDE phone our one of the other open source phones where the only “apps” are low quality PWA crap. Look how successful they are.

Do you think that's because of PWA UX being inherently crappy and not, say, the fact that those projects don't have billion (or trillion) USD companies behind them? I think you're mistaking the effect for the cause.

PWAs are a way of lowering the barrier of entry for new devs and that's important if you want to achieve any scale.

> You have a choice

It's kind of a like a thug saying that I have a choice between being slapped in the face, kicked in the butt or subscribing to his Twilight fanfic podcast. Yes, I do have a choice, but neither of the choices is really something I'm looking forward to. Betamax vs. VHS comes to mind too.

I think the line of thinking in the parent comment is a bit naive. There's nothing inherently wrong with PWAs from the UX pov if we take monopolies and FUD into account. That's the reason it is harder to build a PWA with really good UX now (harder but not impossible).
So because they don’t have fine grained permissions around network connections (which sounds like a usability nightmare) they don’t protect you?

What about:

- Apple’s limiting of advertising identifiers and requiring permission to track users across apps

- increasingly fine grained location access including ‘Only allow once’ and warnings when an app is tracking you in background

- sandboxed photo access so apps don’t get access to all your photos

- requiring developers submit privacy questionnaires with their app updates and showing how data is collected in each app

- supporting creating private email aliases for signing up for services

Just to name a few in the last few years.
Actually the iphone was planned to use PWAs in the start, but Steve Jobs switched to native apps after realizing that performance and usability was going to be poor.

He was right and still is. Not that it's impossible to implement a good PWA, all you have to do is manage your state and interface in a way that no interaction takes longer than 50ms to compute. But most developers are not able to deliver than, most don't even think about UIs in this sort of way.

And V8 GC behaviour is still terrible and an unbelievable battery hog.
You can vote yourself into authoritarianism, but you cannot vote yourself out. And when that authoritarian you love so much makes a major blunder, invading Europe for example, he takes everyone with him, and that's by design.
JSON is human readable but mostly not human consumed. Something like parquet or protobuf is neither human readable nor human consumed.

Xml excels when the content must be human consumed and machine readable.
Offices are a thing of the past. Good luck getting any talented developers to ever chain themselves to an office again.
Yes. But I need to inspect the script to know to do it (or hope that if it didn't fail then it truly didn't fail). I am not saying it's an insurmountable challenge, just that there is some friction when using fish.
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This is a dream of mine. I'd love to do it and help teach people. How does someone with a normal BS + industry experience get into this?
Can you somehow use Gapps functionality to host random files, like ICS or html files?
>Because these restrictions on iOS are legitimately valuable security controls.

Excellent. Let me, the owner of the device, choose how to use it. If I want it to be "less secure" that is my choice.

>If Apple created a methodology for circumventing this process, all of a sudden it is something that I have to worry about

Then do not use side-loaded app stores if you do not want to. Your device, your choice.
Those aren't mutually exclusive. France isn't known for having neutered nonviolent protests like those in the US and UK.
I taught Celullar Networks and Android Internals at my alma mater just this past semester and can relate with TFA.

It took 4 to 6 hours of prep to deliver a one hour class. Preparing from existing course materials available online or from YouTube and Wikipedia was the fastest as opposed to going through the text books.

I found it very hard to know when to go fast and when to go slow, what to skip and what to include. The feedback coming through wasn't real-time. I kept surprise open-notes tests to gauge where the class was lacking.

Students have a very short attention span. It is hard to keep them engaged throughout the period. I always start by summarising topics from the previous class. I also spoke to them multiple times and at length about concentration, but I guess the length was also a problem.

I believe some students are vehemently visual learners and prefer PPTs and videos. I shared links I thought were high quality with them via a Google doc and updated them every week.

Everyone used ChatGPT for assignments and some used it for preparing for exams.

It was jarring to see some students be in a perennial state of distraction (and be slave to their smartphones).

After the semester ended, with the money I earned taking the class (it wasn't much at all), I bought every student one among Pragmatic Programmer, Algorithms to Live By, Deep Work, Outliers, How Google Works, Why We Sleep. In the hope that it inculcates in them the habit reading books to progress in their careers.
Interesting. Do you have any sources on Google Translate using rule-based reasoning?
I tried to get ChatGPT do sparql, to query wikidata and I can never get my head around queries in that language. It did not go well at least beyond basics.
their treatment of their existing ethnic minorities will make that fairly difficult. the obvious immigrants for them to take would be refugees from the middle east, but I doubt many of them will want to go to Russia.
First principles don't work in the space of systems geared towards extreme generalization such as LLMs. You need to be ready to compare anything with anything and build bridges between many principles. In fact there is a deep link between the progress of structuralism in mathematics culminating with homotopy type theory and its parallel (r)evolution in the humanities with the discovery of manuscripts by the founder of structural linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure.

Identity is what provides the irreducible basis, in the sense that we cannot enter into the consideration of specific facts that are placed under this identity, and it is this identity that becomes for us the true concrete fact, beyond which there is nothing more.

...

For example, for a musical composition, compared to a painting. Where does a musical composition exist? It is the same question as to know where 'aka' exists. In reality, this composition only exists when it is performed; but to consider this performance as its existence is false. Its existence is the identity of the performances.

...

For each of the things we have considered as a truth, we have arrived through so many different paths that we confess we do not know which one should be preferred. To properly present the entirety of our propositions, it would be necessary to adopt a fixed and defined starting point. But what we are trying to establish is that it is false to admit in linguistics a single fact as defined in itself. There is, therefore, a necessary absence of any starting point, and if some reader is willing to follow our thoughts carefully from one end to the other of this volume, they will recognize, we are convinced, that it was, so to speak, impossible to follow a very rigorous order. We will allow ourselves to present, up to three or four times in different forms, the same idea to the reader because there really is no starting point more appropriate than another on which to base the demonstration.

...

As language offers no substance under any of its manifestations, but only combined or isolated actions of physiological, physical, and mental forces, and as nevertheless all our distinctions, our terminology, and all our ways of speaking are based on this involuntary assumption of a substance, we cannot refuse, first and foremost, to recognize that the most essential task of the theory of language will be to untangle what our primary distinctions are all about.

...

There are different types of identity. This is what creates different orders of linguistic facts. Outside of any identity relationship, a linguistic fact does not exist. However, the identity relationship depends on a variable point of view that one decides to adopt; therefore, there is no rudiment of a linguistic fact outside the defined point of view that presides over distinctions.

Source: http://www.revue-texto.net/docannexe/file/116/saussure255_6....

TL;DR: identity is equivalent to equivalence
>criticizing language instead of ideas.

I have no idea how you came to this conclusion. It's obvious that I'm criticising the idea of "sideloading" not the word. You can call it some other arrangement of letters and the concept is still very dangerous.

And in this case it is also definitely true that apple does not let you install applications without someone paying them $100+ and their continued approval. The "let" is the key here.
when the gifted users visit the “twitter blue” section of the app it still prompts them to subscribe. if they actually paid it wouldn’t be there any more.
The fact that they're successful doesn't mean that they're right about every single decision they make. This kind of reasoning is inane.
Why? Eg in the latter half of the 20th century the US integrated women into the workforce (almost doubling the population eligible for participation in the labourforce), without violence or uproar.

There was also remarkably little uproar nor violence when the Czech Republic escaped the Iron Curtain and embraced capitalism.
While I haven't worked on LUKS, if you put aside using several millions of dollars in raw compute, the options are in order of likelihood:

- recovering the key from a deleted file, ram, or other caches.

- obtained key or bytes thereof by prior surveillance. (so many ways)

- a forensics company could be sitting on a LUKS zero-day the way certain companies sit on Signal and iPhone vulns and use them on behalf of state actors.

- exploited a deprecated version themselves with an implementation error.

- prisoner had a short key because he used it so often

- brute force using generated wordlists from surveillance and data transcripts.

- trained a GPT model on all the books, music and online forum posts the prisoner had ever bought and used and produced a weighted wordlist. (I just made that one up.)

- Happen to have "millions of dollars in gpu time" because they already had racks of seized mining rigs from other investigations so the main cost was electricity.

Being an anarchist or secret police in France just seems like participation in their national traditions of riot sports, intrigue, and feats of mysterious intellectual prowess. There are so many unanswered questions in the story, I will wait for the Wes Anderson adaptation before thinking about it again.
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Yes. I initially thought that the post makes a subtle point along the lines of
"if you can show that a system can solve all problems in a domain for a parameter choice, that doesn't mean it can solve all problems in the domain for the same parameter choice".

However, this is clearly trivially true, and it and doesn't mean that it may not be advantageous to map a problem from problem space to system parameter space. Hence, I fail to see how this would be a scam in general.
I am using fish full time for about 2 years. I have to switch to zsh very occasionally, my main frustration was with py venv activate but apparently there's a fish activate script now. I am enjoying it otherwise. I use Starship though, not OMF. I didn't have too many custom functions to migrate too.
i was teaching robotics years ago for schools (elementary and intermediate). A big tech company gave to me the materials and the place to do that. Then schools choose a date to come and we have the classes. The schedule was completed almost a year in advance. For the schools was free.

Was one of my best experiences, and yes, the payment was very low, but i was teaching.., maybe 10 hours a week.
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It's true, but if a murderer that donated to charity was imprisoned I would probably go with "a murderer imprisoned in France" rather than "a philanthropist imprisoned in France".
This was so annoying when you wanted to copy some text and the page kept refreshing at the wrong time
There's sometimes a stigma, which we should get rid of.

First, I had great instructors at Portland Community College.

Also, in addition to what I learned there, an area company (Tektronix spinoff) happened to put a job post there for a co-op student, and it turned out to be a great company, doing big things, which launched my career.

After later working and then going to fancy-pants schools, one day a professor dissed community colleges to me. I thought the professor was wrong and out of line, so I talked constructively with them about that. But I still felt bad, and didn't need the stigma in those particular circles, so I removed community college from my Web CV.

When I was finally making a LinkedIn, I found one of my instructors from community college on there, and wrote them a note, thanking them, and telling them how helpful and important their teaching had been to me.

Maybe the next day, I realized I'd left community college off my LinkedIn, and the instructor might've seen that. So I added it back on, and have kept it on.

Community college is for people who want to better themselves, and, for whatever reason (I suspect usually involving socioeconomic circumstances) they aren't (yet?) at a more expensive college or university.

When I'm hiring, I see a lot of MIT/Stanford/Ivy on resumes, but I also pay as much attention to resumes from people who went to other schools, or who took some other path through their circumstances.
Sorry if I was unclear. I know that the model is incentivised to accurately predict the probability distribution of the next token. I mean that the model is not being incentivised to literally produce the output tokens corresponding to "I don't know" when asked a question where it is uncertain.
Interesting point. One word seems to bias us toward sympathetic assumptions, and the other away from them.

I'm struggling to think of a good neutral term for this case.
Being on the student side of this, it seems like half of the class was there because of their employer.

Some people were "learning new skills", and attended as a requirement. They just sat on their phones the whole time. Zero intention of learning or being employed in this capacity.

Then there were the people with zero computer skills that shouldn't have been in the class, and took up the entire two first days with how to sign into their student account, use and RDP session...

Hopefully after the first couple weeks all of those have dropped out.
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"these assholes", with statements like that I'm discouraged to take the post in good faith.

I've used Amazon for 10 years and I'm beyond a 1000 orders with them and everything in OPs post runs counter to my experiences.
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I honestly don’t understand why “tainting” is such a big deal. Can someone explain it to me?

I see two possible reasons, but neither seems to be worth the purity concern. The first is that AI can be wrong, make stuff up, be confidently incorrect. Anyone who has been on the internet knows this isn’t exactly a game changer.

Second is that we won’t be training AI to be like humans, but like humans + AI. Also doesn’t seem like a big deal. We’re already humans + writing + computers + internet and so on. This cutoff matters for anthropology, but I don’t see how it matters for trying to make a bot that can do my taxes.
Aren't they just "accused of arson" at this point?
The moment I saw foreign language I thought: better off in business sector

Management can be abysmal. I've been lucky.

Hope Mrs gbuk Senior is doing OK now.
That's exactly the point, though: side loading is not something to worry about, since normal users won't and shouldn't care about it at all. It is not a threat to the Apple App Store.

But it does allow for niche applications such as NewPipe and F-Droid, for technical users who know the risks.
It's nice that pure mathematics is funded, but it should not be funded by the army.

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/12/the_lie_of_its_...

My pet theory: the MIC buys goodwill and scares academics to criticize the MIC.
Romania voted out their authoritarian ruler with a firing squad back in the mid to late 80s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu
I'd hate to see PWAs take hold - browser based apps are never as good on any platform. Give me native apps any day.
This was reported months ago.
Why are they called 'feral hogs' in America? This is the original wild species of pigs, if I'm not mistaken. I think wild boar would be better. We also don't call wolves 'feral dogs,' no matter how little we like them.
> god forbid you from buying something of historical significance in Europe -- then you can't change anything inside or outside and you are responsible for it.

What an exaggeration. Do you think such hyperbole strengthens your point? At best it makes you sound ignorant.
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From your earlier comment:
> because there was never evidence these vaccinations prevented infection/transmission

You are refusing to admit you were factually incorrect, it's very disappointing.

Everyone knew that the trials did not specifically study transmission rates, I never disagreed with that. The fact is, as soon as the vaccinations went live we had massive data supporting it, and studies were done that completed in the next years that confirmed it. Societally, we knew the vaccines were effective at both preventing transmission (though not as effective as we'd like) and preventing infection (though for not as long as we'd like).

I'm done engaging because you refuse to admit you were wrong regarding the efficacy of the vaccine and are now changing your argument to be about a specific timeline, which is asinine - the studies to confirm what we were seeing in realtime with the vaccine rollout would _of course_ take longer than the trials that started the rollout.
Does anyone have information or experience with this?