skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The conclusion I came to is that a lot of people complain about the impending end of E2EE but very few people are actually willing to do anything about it except whine.

The connection between E2EE and privacy is to ephemeral to make that kind of judgment. If you live in the united states or similar country with a strong rule of law, the idea of paying for or using a specific E2EE app is functionally like asking somone to pay for free speech.

And even if it was more clear, privacy is like free speech in that you cant really measure enthusiasm for it in that way. Free speech and privacy are fundimental values that people dont want to pay for (for good reason!). But that does not mean they dont care.

People really do care about these things. And many many people will change how they vote and how they engage in civic action based on these principals. But asking someone to change how they live/communicate with others requires more then an intelectual "which party / candidate should I vote for?" kind of thing. For most people you need emotional investment for someone to overcome switching costs based on nothing but ethical / political principal.

As long as the harm to losing these core rights remains abstract you wont be to measure how much they care with metrics like that. Its a value that is too ephemeral and disconnected from day-to-day life to measure with a stick like "who will use this app".

But people can and do donate to groups like the EFF, and vote with their actual votes on this stuff. People really do care. Just like how people really do care about honesty, free speech, candor, trust, and other values of that sort. its just, you know, hard to measure.
> They often state very clearly that costs for publications (submission or publication fees, open access fees etc) cannot be paid from grant money.

I think you've been misinformed. At least in the US, EU, Canada, and Australia, that's just not true. Public or private funders are telling grant writers to put open access publication costs in their budget or have other funds to pay for them. I only speak English, I'm so unsure of other non-EU countries. But this took just a few minutes of searching to find each agency's official policy or advice to grantwriters on this:

US NSF: "The proposal budget may request funds for the costs of documenting, preparing, publishing or otherwise making available to others the findings and products of the work conducted under the grant. This generally includes the following types of activities: reports, reprints, page charges or other journal costs" [1]

US NIH: "NIH continues its practice of allowing publication costs, including author fees, to be reimbursed from NIH awards." [2]

EU ERC: "publishing costs (including open access fees) and costs associated to research data management may be eligible costs that can be charged against ERC grants, provided they are incurred during the duration of the project and the specific eligibility conditions of the applicable Model Grant Agreement are fulfilled" [3]

All Canadian government research funding: "Some journals may require researchers to pay article processing charges (APCs) to make articles freely available. Costs associated with open access publishing are considered by the Agencies to be eligible grant expenses" [4]

Australia National Health and Medical Research Council "over the grant lifetime, funds can be used to support costs associated with publications and open access such as article processing charges, which are the result of the research activity and which are in accordance with the DRC Principles." [5]

Gates Foundation: "The Foundation Will Pay Necessary Fees. The foundation shall pay reasonable fees required by a publisher or repository to effect immediate, open access to the accepted article. This includes article processing charges and other publisher fees. " [6]

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "May use their HHMI budget to pay publication fees charged by open access journals" [7]

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg18_1/pappg_2.jsp#II...

[2] https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm

[3] https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/ERC_...

[4] https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-f...

[5] https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/file/18478/download?token=xCagap4H

[6] https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/open-access-policy/

[7] https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Open-Access-T...
Why does an AI need memory to cause harm?

A self driving car obviously can.

An LLM can talk a teenager into depression, or start new conspiracy theories by talking to humans. All without memory.
No problem. Just release your code under the GPL.
Salesforce's Algorithm for Converting IDs from 15 to 18 Characters
There are no libraries that solve that in a generic easy-usable way. Because animations shift layout
> backdooring

Name one attempt besides Dual_EC_DRBG. Also could you explain why that one took NIST 8 years to say "don't use it".
I’ve got to assume that mosques here use the calculated date; with Irish weather you might not see the moon properly for weeks.
That's fair enough. What's fresh in my memory is a few weeks back, I was at Quantico for the graduation of a family member from the FBI academy, where the convocation speech was delivered by Christopher Wray. I cannot imagine a more patriotic group of people - genuinely people who dedicate their whole lives to the betterment of the nation. It was really inspiring.
Yes, even those who overshare on social media still are operating (and benefitting) from privacy as a default.
https://archive.is/g4Dtp
All I see is a text input asking for my email address. Can you please share link to a demo?
Look into Zoroastrianism, the grand-daddy of monotheistic religions. About 1800 years before Islam. They didn't fast more than one day a year, if that.

"In Zoroastrianism or Mazdaism, however, fasting has been implicitly rejected throughout the faith’s history. Zoroastrian doctrine perceives no disjunction between spirit and matter along lines of good and evil; rather, it regards both as essential for achieving piety and both as susceptible to unrighteousness. Hence, Zoroastrians believe that the body should function as a means by which the soul can fight evil and regard any action that physically weakens the body as sinful. Moreover, sex is viewed as essential for procreation which brings more believers into the world. Standard or Young Avestan texts such as the Vidēvdād (Avesta, ed. Geldner, 3.33, 4.48, 7.70) emphasized that eating was essential for life, claimed consumption of meat enhanced spiritual perception, and suggested hunger and thirst caused much suffering. Pahlavi commentaries continued this anti-ascetic theme, stressing the notion of moderation or paymān between gluttony and privation in partaking of food, drink, and sex. Piety was said to result from not fretting about moderate consumption, and deviation from this mean was equated with concupiscence (Dēnkard, ed. Madan, pp. 267, 295)."
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fasting

Then Mani came along, introduced fasting. It was the main rival to Christianity before Islam came along. Both Islam and Christianity are heavily influenced by Mani and vice versa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
Estimates from February had around 300,000 users or about $28m of revenue per year [0]. The acquisition costs alone added $1bn to Twitter's expenses. Maybe those numbers have improved a little since February, but they'll have to improve a lot to bring Twitter into the black. And asking people for $96/yr (or $132 on iOS) isn't going to be easy when usage is going down and the content producers are leaving. For a comparison, in 2021 Twitter made net revenue of $1.57bn, mostly from advertising.

[0] https://en.as.com/latest_news/how-many-people-have-subscribe...
The cultural component is that the female body is deemed as pornographic while the male body is not.
You seem to imply this is a sign of a failing of the west. I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion based on your data point, they produce everything for everyone and they have 1.5 billion inhabitants. It doesn't exactly come as a surprise that they require a lot of energy. China already has the largest coal, solar, wind, hydro energy production in the world.
Twitter doesn't care, and ultimately you would not have control over someone else buying you bluetick. Nor would that person be eligible for a refund should you deactivate your account.
It looks like he keeps writing the same article over and over again.
Does that involve a ban of stackoverflow use as well?

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

I don't think I've heard anyone warn people not to copy code snippets from stackoverflow due to licensing issues, although "real" businesses should be rightfully concerned.
would anyone pay for a product trained on the Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint codebases?
It would be, it not for the realities of dealing with human politicking.
Would it? My understanding was that the Gulf Stream shutting down would make European climate a lot more extreme, more similar to norther US and Canada.

And “not burning to ashes” is something Canada has been failing.
I don't think this theory holds up. Singularity concerns long predate LLMs and are mostly expressed by people who want OpenAI to stop what they're doing right now. Sam Altman has publically disagreed with AI doomers. If you're willing to believe that OpenAI is pretending not to be concerned but is quietly hyping the concerns up, I have to wonder what standard of evidence is letting you simultaneously write off the concerns as bullshit.
No, because PP completely mischaracterized what USPTO said.
The recent announcement (also from CATL!) of sodium ion batteries that are competitive with typical vehicle grade Lithium cells (LFP chemistry) means Lithium is unlikely to be the blocker people argue either. Lithium Ion is already potentially no longer the only viable battery chemistry at scale.

> https://www.electrive.com/2023/04/21/catl-and-byd-to-use-sod...
The destruction is quite evidently materializing all over the world with new heat and drought records being broken constantly. A this point some people are actively refusing to see it.
The panic to integrate LLMs.

Now the only thing left or even if that already happened are Pizza with cloud powered AI and condoms backed by large language models.

I'd prefer a "Bio" version of company wiki which is really written by a human and same goes for the meeting notes even if that means it might have some human bias, acceptable tradeoff.
Renewables are cheap and far less risk-prone. Not going all in on renewables is a footgun for industrial societies.
It's occasionally explained—but still not widely understood, I'd wager—that this is the reason why so much GNU code is hard to follow.

In the US legal system the merger doctrine is a concept whereby a given expression cannot be granted protection if it's not sufficiently creative—and there only so many ways to express something when stripped down to its fundamentals. In response to this, RMS and Moglen encouraged contributors from very early on to try to express the inner workings of GNU utilities in creative and non-obvious ways out of caution against the possibility that the copyleft obligations of the GPL wrt a given package could be nullified by a finding in court that it did not pass the threshold for creativity.
Your point being? Care to educate me?
You are allowed to read others code to learn from it, regardless of any license being accepted offered or rejected. You must do so witin fair use, which is for a court to decide, based on individual case factors.

Saying an LLM violates an atrribution requirement is a bad legal argument.
"I prompted and edited the AI code"
Hardware isn't scaling exponentially anymore (Moore's law is dead). Parameter count isn't really scaling exponentially anymore either. GPT3 had 175b parameters 3 years ago. There are some attempts at training 1 trillion parameter models, but they are not better than GPT3.
Uber did revolutionize transportation in a lot of cities. Cabs in my city were unreliable, untrustworthy, and expensive. Now I can reliably get a ride within a few minutes.
"art" is a valid translation in certain contexts, but a more accurate general one might be "skill" or "craft". And noun-adjective is a typical word order in Latin, so you can just translate into English using a grammatical word order ("technical craft", not "craft technical"*).
The response to this is "What you mean is that I'm fired, and I will be contacting the unemployment office immediately."
What do you mean?

F5 refreshes the browser page. This has been the way to develop pages since the first browsers.

And the original question was "Import a plain js file without any node tooling and see what you get for free." You don't get hot reloading but you get all I wrote in my original comment and much more for free.
I know I’m kind of late to the post, but maybe you or someone else will still see this.

Would a scheme like this only work for well known providers (GitHub is done, others could be in the pipeline according to the article)? Does a new hosting provider need to approach PyPi/PyPa to integrate with the hosting provider, or is it possible for any hosting provider to implement a set of APIs and more or less transparently be able to support becoming a Trusted Publisher.

I think it’s the former, since it seems strange that anyone can be a trusted publisher, but that does make it much harder for smaller CI providers to onboard. A self hosted CI platform doesn’t seem like it could be “trusted”. Is that accurate?

In case it’s not obvious - I’m not super well versed in the details of OIDC/OAuth.
Faster than expected, Venus by Thursday.

>Humanity needs to act now.

And do what exactly? The kill count from shutting down all emission-producing parts of society would be enormous, and it still wouldn't be enough to keep global warming at a level that is habitable for a good chunk of people on the planet.

Net zero carbon by 2030 is a joke, literally nobody is on track to meet those targets and BOE will happen before then at the rate we're going anyway.
I agree with a lot of this, but the fact that the author can lead into the article by repeatedly block-quoting from their own prior articles about how awful Mark is kind of suggests to me that maybe they have already written enough on this topic and can move on to fresh material?
We need to to both, at least until we develop economical energy storage at appropriate scale. That may not ever happen.
I don’t bother much with prompt engineering. I just treat ChatGPT as a pair programmer who can’t see my editor. I tell it where files are, what I’m using, copy and paste relevant code in, and it just works.

The big “breakthrough” for me was unlearning all of my search engine habits of thinking I need to be precise and talk to it like a machine. I use compliments like “that’s great” and it seems to reinforce good answers well enough.

Just treat it like a human on the other side of the screen and adjust as necessary.

Also pay the $20 - GPT-3.5 is not good, GPT-4 is junior engineer good. Most of my time is now spent describing problems to it and code reviewing what it does.

Edit: I do use prompt engineering when I’m building AI enabled products to help keep things on the rails. But for my personal use of ChatGPT I just let ‘er rip.
Did the accept the license terms or are they using it under fair use?
Mark controlled nearly 60% of the votes for meta when ur IPOd. He’s be a fool to let go of that level of control, and if that is still true the board works for him. Not the other way around.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/zuckerberg-motivates-s...

At best the only leverage on him from the market is in reducing the stocks price, but it is not obvious to me how much that actually matters to him.
Hangul is phonetic, but doesn't have the capability to represent all phonetic sounds of a language. For example, Hindi has 4 distinct letters and consequently sounds for the each of D and T (D: ड ढ द ध, T: ट ठ त थ), which all correspond to the single Hangul letter diot (ㄷ). I have Korean friends who write their names in the Chinese script because they don't have the necessary letters to represent the sounds.
I meant breaking your fast with dates is kinda arbitrary not the fasting itself. Fasting is very much not arbitrary and has a very special meaning since it's one of the few things we do solely for God and God alone. Also you can fast outside of Ramadan as well and get additional blessings from it. The prophet would routinely fast on Mondays for example. I think the only days you are not allowed to fast on is Eid because it's a time for celebration.

There's no rule that says you _have_ to break your fast with dates. We just do because that's how the prophet usually did it. Dates have no inherit religious significance. I eat them throughout the year because they are delicious and have nutritional benefits and there's some baraqah (wisdom) in things turning out this way. Also when it comes to farming dates are often harvested in late fall/early winter that's when they are juiciest so we just missed the window but also Ramadan rotates around the seasons due to being on the Lunar calendar. But there are different kinds of dates and you can dry them and they last on long time without spoiling. A very useful property when you live in a desert hence why it's such a common fruit there.

Even when the prophet didn't have access to dates, he would break it with water or yogurt, or even just salt instead. Whatever he has access to at the time.
What other open source browsers have been left without maintainence? Ones with no market share? As mentioned, Servo was never really finished and yet it has recently been scooped up by the Servo Foundation. Mozilla still very much maintains Firefox.

We have plenty of examples of open source databases, operating systems, libraries and languages leaving the major companies they were created at and being scooped up by a foundation or consortium to maintain.

WebOS is a great example. Created by Palm as a mobile OS before they sold it to HP, who open sourced it. Now the primary contributor is LG, who uses it in smart tvs.

But there's plenty of other examples in the open source world. Chromium is far too important, and there's already thousands of eyeballs on that code base. There would be a Chromium Foundation established very quickly if Google abandoned.
Nuclear power is the way. If you have something to refute from the article, please do so. Otherwise I'll just lump you in with the rest of the green-party fanatics who think solar and wind will solve our energy needs.
It seems a lot of people posting here don't realize that Mark Zuckerberg owns a majority of the voting power of FB's board through his shares.

Nobody can fire him unless he votes with them to do it.
>> I feel like Prolog is sold by many as being able to solve predicates in both/many directions, with all the grandfather/ancestor/append examples, and my apparent frustration is in trying to use it that way in general and finding that doesn't work and that trying to produce working predicates that do work that way is seemingly impossible (without clpfd or cuts).

You're not wrong about that and it's not your fault, or any misunderstanding. Certainly Prolog has been "sold" this way, by some. I can't name those "some" because I'm not sure who they are exactly (although I have a few specific people in mind). I don't think it's something that's made a big issue of in the usually recommended textbooks (Clocksin and Mellish, Sterling and Shapiro, O'Keefe, Bratko) but I can't be sure.

Obviously, you can run some programs in multiple modes, in Prolog. You can't always write every program to be all-modes. Pretending that it's possible to do so is overselling the language. What's more it's trying to sell a nice feature, as a defining feature. The idea I think is that First-Order Logic predicates are relations and so should not have "inputs" and "outputs". But Prolog predicates are not FOL predicates. If they were, they'd be simultaneously capable of being run in all modes, and less expressive than they are now (because Prolog is higher-order, as I say in other comments, trying not to sound like a dangerous loon).

I think this is the age-old debate about purity and formal rigour in Prolog, that has never done the language any good. There has always been a part of the Prolog community who wanted Prolog to be some kind of pure and perfect jewel, that should remain untouched from the real world. There's always been another part, who wanted to treat Prolog as a programming language to do real work with. I get the feeling that the latter, more practically-minded, folks have slowly weeded themselves out and now the majority of those who remain are of the "purist" camp. Entirely coincidentally, the number of people picking up Prolog has also constantly dwindled.

Entirely coincidentally.

You can probably tell which camp I'm on. Actually, I'm not. I got a foot in each. I serve two masters and all that. I just want to know that things work, that's my schtick. Sometimes you need formal rigor, sometimes you just need to bodge some codes together. And use the cut :P

>> I'd be happy to engage in offline conversation about it, but I'd likely just be yelling at clouds. I am interested in discovering which logic languages can trivially provide an any-mode rle and in working up from there to larger problems. Clearly, from this thread, prolog+clpfd is one.

You're welcome to get in touch:

eIA!patsantzis17CTHULHUimperialIA!acIA!uk

But first open vim and praise Cthulhu:

s/IA!/./g
s/CTHULHU/@/g
I want to see a solution where Github, OpenAI, Stability, etc. get to keep and keep scraping copyrighted works, but the models and training data must be provided free and open.

That way, we get to keep the models since they are genuinely useful, but also there’s no issue with copyright and less of an issue with consent to distribute (which can be hopefully be managed by the “humans also learn from data” and “it’s not actually producing your content verbatim unless it follows a basic pattern that anyone could discover). And furthermore, no issue with AI privatized which IMO is my biggest concern with these new tools.
I don't believe the transition from "set up a commission to recommend best practices" to "mandate regular scans of everyone's phones and report the results to law enforcement" would be viewed as a small extension.
Just wait a dozen years, it won't be.
A central part of the GPL is forcing people to publish their modifications in source form. Without copyright law those requirements would be unenforceable and you would be stuck de-compiling encrypted/obfuscated binary blobs of your vendors customized copy of gcc.