skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a great solution to the problem of username theft (which, as shown by the OGUsers forum, can rise to the level of swatting and extortion). There's little incentive to try and hack Discord accounts for their usernames, which is extremely common on Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, etc.

If you want to hinder the username black market, you can either:

- Make globally unique names somewhat sharable (via the discriminator, which you can lengthen as needed)

- Do away with global names entirely and just use a UID (which Discord already has but doesn't directly expose to users since it's a long number that is rather unwieldy to memorize and type out)

Globally unique names with a single namespace are a terrible idea once you have more than a handful of users, and the discriminator effectively creates 10000 namespaces for each name. And because the pressure is so greatly reduced by having 10k namespaces, even if you can't be "JaneDoe", you can probably be "JaneD0e", "Jane Doe", etc. Even if you want a very basic/common name, you usually only have to make one or two variants before you find an available one on Discord, vs trying 20 times to come up with a fun Twitter handle before giving up and resorting to "janedoe9484389652857".

It may be slightly more inconvenient to type "JaneDoe#8485" vs "JaneDoe", but realistically, you wouldn't get "JaneDoe", you'd get "JaneDoe9484389652857". Discord decided to make their username system objectively worse, and already it's causing the value for hacked Discord accounts that were registered early on to skyrocket since those will be able to pick their new usernames first.

This change is also infuriating to my Jewish friends who loved that Discord was one of the few places that didn't force them to use Latin characters in usernames, only for that rug to have been pulled right out from under them. And I'm sure that the rest of the non-Latin world is feeling the same right about now.
Libgen is mostly stored on ipfs.
...and adds no value even when it works, just adds one more step
Exactly this. It's like our websites and some other tools for our particular needs. We have, on rare occasion, gotten PRs from earnest supporters but they have no idea what our product needs are and we can't just merge in stuff that nobody asked for and hasn't been tested.
Rather than "like the flu" maybe more "like HCoV-OC43". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43

(Summary is that there was a "Russian Flu" epidemic in the 1890s that raged around the world for a couple of years and then faded. This was probably not really a type of influenza but instead OC43 which people still catch but it's just one of many varieties of a "cold".)
It seems odd to me that short of the nuclear option (removing the app from stores), no one has suggested revocation of the device permissions that TikTok is shown to abuse. Following something like this, it feels entirely reasonable for Apple/Google to reply "Submit an update to your app that removes all use of location permissions within 30 days."
If this can plug in, then as long as your garage has an outlet you should be fine.

If this can't plug in, then I question the sanity of the designer of this thing.
between the options of:

A. [re-]architect in in GDPR compliance;

B. deal with incoming legal documents, likely can't just discard;

C. block country representing tiny share of viewership,

option C seems to present the least hassle
Since when is left == religious fundamentalism?
>I'm surprised they don't do this already.

Maybe some true professionals but I'm doubtful most serious journalists really put much effort into it.

Here we have an example of a journalist who thankfully learned ... but didn't really know.
Is this age range the ones most commonly sending photos, or the one most commonly caught (as a photo sent by a 16 year old is more likely to pass as 18 and not be caught by any detection software or manual detection)?

At face value, the idea that this specific age group is sending more such photos than the older cohort is surprising enough I would reject it as bad data without further research into why it is happening. Selection bias seems a much more likely explanation.
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deepMind was only recently overtaken by OpenAI. And I'd chalk that up as a maybe.

Europe does have a lot of midtier industrial companies that do world-tier work. This includes Defense, Air transport (Airbus), Automotive, Pharmaceutical (BioNTech RNA vaccine coming from EU work) and I'm sure many other sectors.
YouTube would not exist. Not everyone is willing to pay for Premium, but everyone is fine trading their time watching ads for watching everything for free. And a small group of people, probably under 25%, will actually act on ads and sponsor spots in videos by buying said product. Maybe you don't think YouTube needs to exist if it can't survive off of direct payment, but there are quite literally billions of people who use it and would not be able to pay, which would destroys the reason most creators even choose to use YouTube.
At this point, she can't even be used as a puppet. She has shingles and has been out for weeks. Meanwhile, there are only a precious few months left in the judiciary committee that she sits on for Biden to get his judiciary picks confirmed. They cannot do anything without her presence. These federal judiciary picks are exceedingly important. Regardless of what you think of the Democrat's politics at the moment, one thing they are still doing that the GOP is not is nominating competent judges.

Right wing nominated partisan hack judges are one of the biggest issues facing our country right now. It's one thing to have a partisan judge that always leans one way when making decisions. It is another to just totally disregard the law and make things up to fit your agenda. (see Judge Aileen Cannon or Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk).
Elon brought that on himself. Fortunately SpaceX will be fine even without him at this point.
while technically true in the sense that any turing machine can simulate another turing machine, it probably wouldn't be efficient enough to be worth it.
As I was reading TFA, I tried not to let my cynicism dictate my theory on why these looser child labor restrictions are being pushed so hard lately. But then we get this gem:

Supporters, meanwhile, have cheered the legislation as a potential solution to workforce shortages and rising labor costs.

Yup, all that talk about "work ethic" is just bullshit. Plus their little hands make it easier to get the coal out.
What does being a non-profit have to do with management compensation? People don't work there for free.
> Other FOSS browsers like Brave are independently funded

Which relies on Chromium, which means they aren't doing 100% of the development (and a large part of development is driven by Google, which in turn means, Brave relies on Google).
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It wouldn't be empty, it would look like F-Droid, which has thousands of user-respecting apps.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/
After skimming both the GitHub and the protocol specification for rosenpass, I still have no idea what benefit it provides on top of wireguard and therefore why I should use it.
I think this goes a long way towards making an argument that RF-EMF is a plausible risk factor for hypertension. I'd ideally like to see some follow up studies. Some rat model studies. Some humans with other increased RF-EMF exposure also having higher risks. There is a long distance between providing "any" evidence and "found a casual relationship", so I feel a bit like the goalpost is moving.

Even if RF-EMF isn't the cause, the effect is large enough that it begs the question "Why", which is where the other possible factors suggested come in.
I'd argue you just ban apps from countries who wouldn't allow such an app in their region. US social media apps are not allowed in China... seems fair to do the same just on that basis.
If the original writer or peer reviewers who DO THE JOB of the paper itself were paid from the collections, the argument would be "well with your purchases, the author and reviewers earn enough to fund more research or pay bills but no. Its only the publishers who get paid.
I'm explaining my reason for not running ad blockers in general. Every month I see interesting content that people have spend hours or days or weeks to produce, and the main way I have of supporting them is to let the ads on their site or youtube channel be displayed. I get that there are lots of reasons to run ad blockers, and my point is that there are also reasons to not run ad blockers.
Laws that were intended to prevent children from working in dangerous factories should not apply to jobs in air conditioned offices.
Because the only way to make it profitable for anyone is to get the economies of scale of everyone behind the same development. Intel, Samsung and TSMC all invested a lot of money in ASML to get EUV over the finish line.
It has been demonstrated repeatedly that the source of funding does implicitly bias research results.

But the bigger effect is the appearance of working on the solution is often used to prevent real mitigation efforts that are here and now, such as higher costs for CO2 emissions, reforming the carbon trading scheme, and investing in moving to more use of green electricity.

We spend on the order of $900B a year on the military. Imagine if $100B a year, every year, was spent instead on beefing up the power grid, investing in efficient long-haul power distribution, investing even more in solar/wind/nukes. With less need to strong arm the world to ensure access to oil, it could pay for itself in less military intervention. Obviously, there are many political reasons why even $1 reduction in the military budget is difficult to accomplish, but that is only an indication of how much the government is beholden to the military/industrial complex.
All rockets in the US have been built by private companies. All of them have had some degree of public funding, even Falcon9 and Starship.
That would almost certainly work to improve reliability but you would probably need something like this anyway, wouldn't you?

In general, it seems like building a production-ready LLM-based application requires _a lot_ of these little tricks and methods to hammer results into shape before sending them downstream.
I don't usually wear much clothing because I rarely go out. Like maybe once or twice a month maximum do I need to leave the apartment complex. When it gets chilly (which half the time is the AC) sometimes I put socks on though.

Its probably been about a week since I washed my socks. I have mainly been putting on the same (usually dirty) pair for the last three months. Often dirty for three weeks or more. But only for a little while usually because then my feet get too warm. So they don't get particularly dirty.

My foot was itching quite a lot yesterday though, so this may not be ideal.
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Depends what protection you are after.

I need to really clean my shows as it was very muddy and I was not expecting to go that way so not wering my fully waterproff hiking boots.

Yes sandals are easier to clean but won't fell as comforatble
Even accounting for exploded rockets (which make up a minority of SpaceX's 234 launches), I'd argue it's still a better deal for the taxpayer than cathedral-style rocket programs which will cost taxpayers even more despite launching a fraction as often and producing data of minimal usefulness due to the lack of new ground being tread.
WHOIS is largely useless now because of Privacy Protection Services, Proxy Registrants and GDPR. The WHOIS protocol itself is more or less entirely shut down in favour of RDAP [1].

1. https://www.icann.org/rdap
I literally just don't feel like running them tbh, and see no reason to publish them either way. Mostly prefer to let the outputs speak for themselves.

For a while I was using an FID variant for evaluation during training, but didn't find it very helpful vs just looking at output images.
"OpenAI gets paid by MS"

Actually, MS gets paid by OpenAI at 70% of profits until they make back their investment (according to articles on the terms)
It's important to note that NSLs are an exception rather than a rule, and one over which a freely elected body (Congress) has oversight.

I'm not sure the same claim can be made about China.
In the US, Tesla sells 2x more EVs than all the other manufacturers combined.[1] In Europe, Tesla is the most popular EV manufacturer, though Volkswagen is very close behind. Until April of 2022, Tesla was paying a 10% tariff on their Model 3/Ys in the EU. Now that they have a factory in Berlin, they're reducing prices and sales are growing faster than any other manufacturer.[2]

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/gm-overtakes-ford-in-us-ev-s...

2. https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-price-cuts-stock-euro...
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> I do miss when every scrap of everything wasn't an opportunity to make a buck.

I'm not so old that I would refer to myself as an 'old fart' in anything but jest, but I remember those times as well. I think it speaks to a broader issue that you almost _need_ to try to make a buck off everything to enjoy some comforts and luxuries.
Here's my answer for best English anagram:

11 + 2 = 12 + 1

Eleven plus two = twelve plus one.
SpaceX costs might be an order of magnitude cheaper, but their prices are not, yet.
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> Not necessarily, especially in the long term.

Last I checked, YouTube is going strong on 17 years with ads.
Indeed. I never understood the point of it. It made sense in Inbox because Inbox would only show you the Promotions bundle once per day (or at your preferred frequency) but after they shoved the feature into Gmail it stopped making any sense.
You can't just give people "stuff" to do without a clear direction.

You need strong leaders with vision and commitment. And if the leaders can't stomach the risk of failing hard, well, that's how you end up with Google of the past ~15 years.
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but Hasbro is notoriously litigious and might well do the civil equivalent. They are huge fans of the-process-is-the-punishment too.
Check the margins. Tesla actually makes money on EV.

Tesla could lower prices to undercut most of their competition and still make money.
Cymer (an American company that ASML bought out) makes the EUV source. Trumpf makes the CO2 laser that feeds the EUV source.
Most small local newspapers are owned by huge megacorps. GDPR EU laws and some others explicitly say that they can be enforced to entities outside the EU. I don't know if it has ever been enforced, except for large multinationals.

The US does do that kind of thing though. As a dev, break some law, step foot in the US for a conference, get arrested (ex: Sklyarov 2001 case, for breaking PDF encryption).

Although for most financial things, it's common in US/CA to block non-local IPs. Heck, I was in Mexico and I couldn't login to my provincial government tax portal. There are constant security issues with those sites.
We also used krisi to run this Energy Forecasting walkthrough: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CVhxOmbHO9PvsdHfGvR...
There is more to human history than Western European history. Feudalism has emerged and failed in many places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reforms_by_country
Heavyset_go wrote a good answer from one point of view, I would like to add another. Namely that "hallucination" the word means quite different things for a human and an llm. For a human a hallucination roughly refers to a sensory experience where you experience something that isn't there.

For an LLM it refers to making something up when answering a question. A closer phenomenon to that would be a false memory, but even that isn't quite the same thing.

The thing is that we want LLM's to learn patterns, we want them to generalize from its training data to a certain extent. Hallucinations are basically undesirable instances of this. The user expects to hear about somethign that does exist, but the answer they get is rather about somethign that the LLM has extrapolated might exist.
So the article mentions:
"... suggested that long-term exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by mobile phones was related to oxidative stress, increased inflammation, and DNA damage, all of which could lead to the development of hypertension."

I'd assume that talking through DECT or WiFi has similar effects, which would mean that there is no safe way to phone wirelessly longer then 30 minutes a day. Should I put my aging mother on a wired phone and internet connection just to be on the safe side? Or is that tinfoil hat territory?
What a bummer - those guys are going to be around forever.
I further love how they demand an "industry standard for compliance" when complying with "please don't track me" is literally as simple as "okay then I won't track you".

Such nonsense is why I don't trust anyone with "marketing" in one's title.
The article explicitly mentions this: "PiVPN, luckily, runs on any other Pi-like device, though, as long as it's running a Debian or Pi-OS-like distro. Something like a Libre Computer Le Potato should work in a pinch, without breaking the bank—though if you want faster networking, you'll have to pony up a little more cash, at least until the Pi shortage abates."
> The measure would permit children as young as 14 to work in roofing, construction and demolition,

Those are comfy air conditioned office jobs.
Option D: ask a local lawyer once (100 USD or so) and they will confirm that the business can trash such foreign requests and be done.

Not sure whether C or D would be more complicated long term (you need to manage the geoloc somehow, or outsource and pay for the service)
I'm wondering how many mission to Uranus were cancelled/never created to avoid bad PR, with all the jokes and stuff.
An RNN with infinite-precision rational weights can implement a counter with a bounded number of neurons. With finite precision the number of neurons scales linearly in your desired depth of matching brackets: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.07515.pdf

For a Transformer you need to add a new layer of self-attention to increase bracket matching depth by 1. https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00306...

Transformers are formally a lot weaker than RNNs/LSTMs.
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> the government wants element/threema/telegram/whatsapp/signal to have a rep who will give them backdoor access and dance to their tune

EVERY government does this (well OK, except for the really small ones).

Why do you think the US wants to ban TikTok?

Why do you think Al-Jazeera America exists?

And let's not even talk about regimes like Russia and China.

> if whatsapp is using signal protocol then by effect isn't it as secure as signal?

You are incredibly naive.
I'm sure this won't fuel any conspiracy theory.

Jokes aside, the last time I saw good content on VICE it was probably during the Russian invasion of Crimea. No wonder they went bankrupt.
Elon is a great salesman, but I think SpaceX is far enough along that it would be fine without him. Maybe better than fine, given how reckless he can be.
I think the top element with the LLM response is a bit distracting, since it takes so much longer to load than everything else. I think it'd be nicer if it was on a side panel or, at least, that the block allocated to it was fixed and the results didn't keep jumping around as the output for that is generated. Also, it seems odd that sometimes the citation numbers don't start at 1 (as you can see if you search for "vscodium marketplace")

Finally, just brutally honest feedback. I found the concept interesting and I would actually take it for a spin. However, you can only make a few queries before it asks you to sign up. I didn't find it that interesting to actually sign up just yet. So, I'll probably never truly try it out.
Swift is different niche, though.
Rust, Go, Nim, D etc can be used for writing Mac, Linux, Windows apps.

Swift is practically limited on MacOs & iOS.
My thought as well. Anecdotes but there's a very high correlation in my environment of people working 12+ hours a day, having high blood pressure and spending most of that time on the phone putting out fires or keeping up-to-date. With that said, I'm sure some of them would benefit personally from less phone use and just isolate themselves a bit from what's going on in the business.
The real kernel is that the FT at least has someone on their cyber security team who was able to recommend and implement the change.

Journalists shouldn't have to be cyberopsec experts.

Journalists absolutely should have access to such expertise.
If they collaborated today that would mean a lot of active coordination required.
And only municipalities in the collaboration can benefit. If they just open sourced what they have this collaboration could grow more organically.

Of course large scale software collaboration isn't impossible without open source. But my impression is that it greatly simplifies it.

Besides, if the software is open source, other non public actors can also benefit from it.
"not feudalism, because these lords are men of God", etc.
If, as we are saying, the client code is public and one can theoretically analyze the code and prove that messages that go out are indeed only going out encrypted, then that must change something here? At that point at least, you can only be suspicious of the cryptography itself, but I believe that is public too.
Yeah, I agree that it's highly subjective. And I don't mean that people shouldn't chose something just based on one variable, it obviously depends. No language is perfect for every use case. Personally I use Rust for a lot of things, even though I'm more productive in other languages, but sometimes it's just a really good fit for the problem.

Pseudo-code, but this is how I see the difference in expressiveness and syntax:

3.times {
println('Foobar')
}

for i in 0..3 {
println!("Foobar")
}

Both of them makes sense though, so not a huge difference, but it's the same way in lots of ways in Rust in general.

> because it's a huge hindrance to trying a large number of languages out there with lots of nice things

I know exactly what you're talking about, as most of the time I work in Clojure, and trying to show Clojure to other programmers who are used to C-like languages and never heard of any lisp-like language is a constant struggle, as their first reaction is always "eww, parenthesizes everywhere!" even though their favorite language usually has the same amount or even more.