skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because there's a lot of power and being able to withhold your labor collectively, and joining together as the people that ultimately make these companies function or not, and say, "We're not going to do this." Without people doing it, it doesn't happen."

The most absurd "excuse" I have seen, many times now online, is, "Well, if I didn't do that work for Company X, somebody else would have done it."

Imagine trying to argue, "Unions are pointless. If you join a union and go on strike, the company will just find replacements."

Meanwhile so-called "tech" companies are going to extraordinary lengths to prevent unions not to mention to recruit workers from foreign countries who have lower expectations and higher desperation (for lack of a better word) than workers in their home countries.

The point that people commenting online always seem to omit is that not everyone wants to do this work. It's tempting to think everyone would want to do it because salaries might be high, "AI" people might be media darlings or whatever. It's not perceived as "blue collar". The truth is that the number of people who are willing to spend all their days fiddling around with computers, believing them to be "intelligent", is limited. For avoidance of doubt, by "fiddling around", I do not mean sending text messages, playing video games, using popular mobile apps and what not. I mean grunt work, programming.

This is before one even considers only a limited number of people may have actually the aptitude. Many might spend large periods of time trying and failing, writing one line of code per day or something. Companies could be bloated with thousands of "engineers" who can be laid off immediately without any noticeable effect on the company's bottom line. That does not mean they can replace the small number of people who really are essential.

Being willing does not necessary equate to being able. Still, I submit that even the number of willing persons is limited. It's a shame they cannot agree to do the right thing. Perhaps they lack the innate sense of ethics needed for such agreement. That they spend all their days fiddling with computers instead of interacting with people is not surprising.
It might have been great marketing for the same sort of counter signaling as the Mark Zuckerberg hoodie. “A man who can dress that poorly must be really good”.
Craigslist is an outlier in many ways. The most significant is that they did not raise huge venture rounds so they have never been existentially committed to fulfilling an investor’s opinion of what a top 25 website should be.
The journals aren't there to help spread their content they're there to give the content a seal of authenticity. As long as they can show researchers/universities are willing to pay high fees they can claim that their contents must be worth that much.

Having free copies of the papers available doesn't actually hurt them much, provided they're still the source for 'authentic' copies.

(sidenote: not sure what field you're talking about where the best writings of all time are public domain but I've had to pluck quite a few famous papers of scihub instead)
> How does nature remove parasites, say tapeworms? It doesn't, only extenral intervention like surgery can remove them.

Presumably there is an evolutionary arms race going on between host and parasite.
Rear drum brakes are still standarx for entry level cars in Europe. Dacia Sandero, Renault Clio, Peugeot 208 - the base models all have rear drums
The most alarming part of the article is that we are only really getting a revocation of these keys because they didn't pay a ransom and the ransomers were apparently too stupid to sell them secretly instead of releasing them to the public.

As far as we know, if MSI had paid no one would know that Intel shipped shared private keys to multiple vendors who could then lose them like drunken monkeys.

People ask why these weren't on HSMs.. The article seems to claim that they weren't even able to generate the most important ones in the correct locations, let alone on HSMs with non-extractable settings.
Well, if it means anything I think there may be legislation to "bring my own AI to work," so to speak, recognizing the importance of having a diversity of ideas--just because, it would disadvantage labor to be discriminated.

"I didn't understand what was signed" being the watchword of AI-generated content.

Someday, perhaps. Sooner than later.
Codebook on iOS/macOS with local sync, almost 20 years old, indie dev, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804714
> Just like you can only trust someone else that they are telling you the truth about their own experience.

I don't trust them. I think they have inner experience because they're the same kind of thing I am and I have inner experience.
I looked up a source since everyone loves to downvote controversial statements these days. https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/atlantic-hurricane-season#:....
Agreed.

The most important property of any-to-any publishing is not to (algorithmically or otherwise) turn any-to-any into some-to-many by creating celebrities and boosting the same content to everyone.

I think this is something TikTok (for all their issues) probably got more right than others.

There’s a lot further to go before we perfect this, but Nostr, Bluesky, et al. are doing at least something right.
https://keepassxc.org/

"no-nonsense, ad-free, tracker-free, and cloud-free manner. Free and open source."

Pair with Syncthing to go across devices.
I can't take people like you seriously. The anticheat isn't a backdoor. It doesn't ship with the operating system or come preinstalled in anyway. You opt into it when you play the game. Literally nothing is forcing you to use it or have it installed on your computer.

I understand this is the internet and being super dramatic is part of it but can we please be for real for one moment?
define best. most secure? most usable? most portable? most other?
Self-hosted Bitwarden via Vaultwarden
Thank you for sharing this!

I spent hours reading these yesterday. They're great!
Can't imagine trying to keep up as a dev. Any of these tools useful for you in practice yet?

I struggle to keep up and all I need to do is understand developments well enough to simplify them in to palatable morsels for my tech skeptic colleagues in politics and non profits.

Challenging because they have a form of technology PTSD. when they hear "new technology" nft's of monkeys with 6 digit prices and peter thiel's yacht flash before their eyes and they see red.

And I can't really blame them, the rhetoric around crypto was enough to sour most non techies (in my little corner of lefty politics anyway) against the idea that any tech advancement is noteworthy. One of the first more serious individuals in politics to hear me out did so because "i sounded like one of the early linux proselytizers" lol.

Completely agree how time has slowed. I rotate between absolute giddy anticipation at our future thanks to the tech and nihilistic doomerism. Even as a hobbyist though I knew to take this seriously since I saw robert miles talk about gpt 2 in 2017(?) and note there's zero sign of these things plateauing in ability simply by ramping up parameter count.

I've gone on long enough but that live stream felt like the intro to a sci fi movie at points. Can't wait to have multi modal and plugins rolled out.
Poorly calibrated hearing aids actually can damage your hearing (even worse than it was). It’s sending highly amplified noise directly into your ear drum.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The refrain of the left "what's the big deal, why do you care" is exactly the sort of lazy dismissal that makes people end up resting on their laurels and believing that "one small change" doesn't matter.

We need to get better at pushing back at the first small sign of nonsense, and not let things get really bad before people start to care. Ironically, this wikipedia edit is pretty much the most benign current example of a minority controlling a narrative because nobody cares enough to push back. See all the insane modern language policing.
Alien – Explore worlds of artificial life
While big corps spend money on consoles in an attempt to dominate the living room, I have noticed an increasing number of shopping malls offering pay-as-you-go console booths and VR arcades. Are business-oriented consoles becoming a thing?
Maybe that’s specific to big US cars? Drum brakes are still completely standard on entry level european and Asian models. Rear discs only come into play when you’re going above 100hp and/or 1300kg
If (as I claimed) it's just a token cost, I don't think it matters much who is paying it. In fact it is almost better if they get to claim universities find it worth an expensive subscription, it's not like they're trying to cover costs they're putting up a barrier to show it is worth the trouble.
To be fair to 1p, they’ve got a great track record with cloud security.
Most expected games inorder

1. TotK
2. Spiderman 2
3. Starfield

And each is exclusive and only Starfield comes on PC. What are you talking about?
+1 for secrets. Simple, works.
I recently used it (in combination with copilot) to help me implement weighted, blended, order-independent transparency for a network visualization project I'm working on... in just one long evening.

Only to realize in the process that all I really needed was to modify the shader program's depth checking behavior. Even just disabling it altogether looks fine and makes everything way faster. Never in my wildest imagination a year ago would I even dream of implementing WBOIT in one night and then just leaving it in a branch for a one line change.

In the process I realized a little trick on my own, using what I learned, that modifying the depth values in the fragment shader could allow selective alpha-blending/occlusion. Basically the idea was to put stuff I wanted to blend order-independently all at an equal z position and then set the depth function to "less than or equal" instead of "less than". I used the occluding geometry's depth buffer as a source to modify the translucent stuff's depth buffer in the fragment shader (with a slight offset to get it behind the occluding stuff).

There's absolutely no way I'd have had the guts to try all that in one night without the robot tools.
Snapshots in History, Oft Forgotten
1Password is E2E encrypted no with decryption/encryption happening only at the edge? If the cloud storage is compromised, that doesn't mean the attacker can read the passwords?
You're not really engaging with the problem. Sure, one can take your condemnation to heart, and reject working for most corporations, just like an individual back in Nazi Germany should have avoided helping the Nazis. But the fact is that most people won't.

Since assigning blame harder won't actually prevent this "nobody's fault" emergent behavior from happening, the interesting/productive thing to do is forgo focusing on collective blame and analyze the workings of these systems regardless.
Is that the difference between subtitles and closed captioning?

If I recall, one is made from original script, one is typed up from aftually spoken audio.
and what recourse do I have if my unique name is taken? This is the crux of the problem. You can't create a limited supply market when there wasn't one, after the fact.
Chat with and Compare Open Large Language Models
It is/was supposed to be a centralized store of your data, so that you can have more control over who has it. Instead of uploading a photo to facebook, you upload it to your pod, then allow facebook access to it to post to your timeline. Then you can see who has access to your stuff and revoke if wanted.
Character limits for one thing.

"text": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 3000,
"maxGraphemes": 300
}

https://atproto.com/lexicons/app-bsky-feed#appbskyfeedpost
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/REN:AMS

"Net profit margin: 19.04"
- Confusing naming conventions. Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X. Compare to Sony's Playstations 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Names matter enormously. There's a reason why FAANG and FAANG-tier tech firms all have very simple names. While that may be far from the only reason why these companies are so successful, it matters more than one thinks.

- Lack of AAA exclusives. Halo is the main one, but Sony has God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, all the Spider Men, The Last of Us, Gran Turismo, and others.

- Price. The PS4 was cheaper than the Xbox One by $100, and this mattered to parents who could afford to gift their children a $400-$500 console, but not a $1,500+ gaming PC. This matters less in the North American market, where people have more disposable income, but East Asian and European markets are safely in Sony's pocket.

- Controllers? There is a meme that Xbox controllers are designed for large, "American" hands. Regardless of the truth, memes and perceptions shape decisions.

- Sony has the Japanese market locked up. Xbox is the dominant console in the US, but its dominance is weak: 53.3% vs. 46.65% for the Playstation.[1] Which begs the question: why hasn't Microsoft crushed the competition in its prime domestic market, but Sony crushed theirs in Japan?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1044948/market-share-of-...
Pdf Outlines Reporter – ChatGPT (my bot solution without using API key)
Hello everyone,

I’m excited to share with you a new python bot script that I’ve been working on called “pdfOutlinesReporter-chatGPT”. This script reads a pdf file and then opens a navigator window, either Google or Firefox, to access the chatgpt OpenAI website. The script then asks chatgpt to make outlines of the given pdf by chapters or chunks, and the best part is that it does not require an API Key.

This project is built using Python and the pyautogui library. I’m constantly working on improving this project and in the next version, I plan on including a user interface to get input and an estimated time to wait for a response. Additionally, I will fix any quality issues that may arise.

I want to emphasize that every collaborator to this repository is welcomed. You can check out the code and contribute at https://github.com/Bilal-Belli/pdfOutlinesReporter-chatGPT. Thank you for your interest and I’m looking forward to your feedback and contributions.
Best regards,
Don’t forget to follow me on github for other projects and ideas like this
I've used KeePass for ages and every time another password manager comes up in the headlines it's only ever made me feel more confident about that decision. Zero games, no cloud/other party to be dependent on, and I have total freedom to implement whatever backup/sync methods work best for my situation.
You can sync a KeePassXC database using a provider like Google Drive/iCloud/Dropbox/etc but that's not a feature of KeePassXC, it's you doing semi-manual cloud synch.
To make them disappear you may remove their habitat and food : the lions. Or as the author propose : the publishers.
I guess that works if you feel Twitter is valued reasonably (or even has a positive value on a societal level with externalities). I don't work in tech so have a different view on the wild west of the tech industry than most on that here. Maybe a better comparison is cost of 30 ICE3 trains for 1 billion euros[1].

[1] https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/104428/deutsche-bah...
KeepassXC synced with Google Drive.
The PS4 outsold Xbox One so badly that Microsoft stopped sharing the numbers.

The best we can tell right now[1], PS5 has outsold One S/X by about the same 2:1 ratio, and the Xbox didn’t spend a year struggling to stay in stock.

From a fan’s perspective, I can certainly see why a “console war” might be measured by how many good titles they have. But these businesses are generally interested in making money.

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/best-selling-video-game-console...
> I think I prefer something more similar to how Twitter was than Mastodon currently is for my needs.

curious what those differences would be for running your bot?
This comes across as patronizing to me. "Who's a good little verifier. You are!"
Yes, peer reviewers tend to work for free. Can you give an example of an editor who works for free? I asked in the parent comment, but nobody has provided any examples (although they have downvoted it, oddly). I'm not aware of any editors who work for free for top tier journals.

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Elsevier-Editor-Salaries-E23...
How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see/interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can’t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?
Intel gave it to MSI, but I may have been incorrect before. Apparently the keys was shared across multiple OEMs (at least that is how I read this below)

>The leaked private keys affect Intel’s 11th, 12th, and 13th generation processors and were distributed to various OEMs, including Intel itself, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
All these views on AGI are so self-serving. Which group will have access and control it etc.

It will control itself. We're talking general intelligence. They won't be tools to be used however we see fit. They will be Rosa Parks.

The more I think about "AI alignment" and "the control problem" I feel like most of it is Ph.D math-nerd nonsense.
KeePass is not KeePassXC. The former is written in .NET, the latter in C++; numerous open source audits have shown that KeePassXC is far and away more secure than KeePass. Not to mention that cross-platform performance for KeePassXC is superior.
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

This is a pro-nuclear site. The original version of the article had nuclear coming out ahead but had no info on renewables:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200210102743/https://ourworldi...

They updated it with newer information, and now it is no longer winning.

That "new" information, is from 2014, from this paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596...

> Our study shows how these energy systems collectively involved 686 accidents resulting in 182,794 human fatalities and $265.1 billion in property damages. Across the entire sample, the mean amount of property damage was $388.8 million and 267.2 fatalities per accident, though when reflected as a median the numbers substantially improve to $820,000 in damages per accident and zero fatalities. Wind energy is the most frequent to incur an accident within our sample (48.8 percent of accidents), hydroelectric accidents tend to be the most fatal (97.2 percent of all deaths), and nuclear energy accidents tend to be the most expensive (accounting for 90.8 percent of damages). The article uses this data to present a set of unique risk profiles: nuclear, hydro, and wind energy are categorized as having a “high” risk of accidents; hydrogen, biofuels, and biomass “moderate” a accident risk; solar and geothermal a “low” risk.

Think about how much renewables have been deployed since 2014.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/modern-renewable-prod?tim...
Wow…I have some reading to do to cover the blackwater>>>constellis thing. That escaped me.
It's not just that. I had only two articles published in well known journals, but in both cases the reviewers main criticism was that I didn't cite the reviewer's own article. It's an utterly corrupt system, something you learn to live with it when you decide to choose academic life.
A quick google search quickly shows you are either uninformed or lying. Elsevier margin is at least 37% in 2018 and its profit has increased in 2022.

https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/pr...

Most journal reviewers and editors are academics who do the work as public service, i.e. free. Even top spots like editor in chief only get an honorarium of maybe 10k a year. Considering these people are the top of their field and can easily command 6-7 figures salary at minimum, that amount is nothing. Only very few journals have full time editors and even those end up relying on the volunteers to vet and review articles.

A full time professor is expected to be an editor for some journals. And these academics make up the bulk of "journal editors". But they would not list it as their jobs. I suspect that is why if you look for "editor jobs" you will get lobsided salary ranges that doesn't reflect reality.
Well, not his "child", I think it was a grand-nephew that he was the legal guardian of. Small point, but significant to disclosure requirements which focus on immediate family members.[1]

I tend to think this whole string of ethics attacks on Thomas by the legislature and amplified by select media outlets is a convenient distraction from the conversation about insider stock trading in House and Senate (for which, btw, AOC and Gaetz have cosponsored a bill to ban, and deserves far more visibility and support).[2]

Really anything those two can agree on is worth attention, imo.

Not saying the criticisms of all justices don't have merit, though I think it's a minority of the balloons being floated that have any real "there" there. Avoiding even the "appearance of conflict" is the right bar, and virtually none of the justices have done a stellar job at this. That said, in terms of ethics crises, I'm far more concerned about insider trading in the Legislative branch. After that, probably pay-to-play schemes in the Executive branch and the revolving door with lobbyists. Somewhere far below that - but not at bottom - book deals and vacations for SCOTUS justices. The cynical side of me suspects attempts to delegitimize the institution correlate with balance of Court ATM and the displeasure of the loudest voices on the matter, rather than objective concern.

Valid? Yes. Deserving the bandwidth of zero-sum press coverage compared to other high-profile ethics issues implicating the very people driving the criticism of Court ethics right now? Meh, not so much.

[1] https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/04/justice-thomas-long-ago...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3984143-ocasio-cortez-gae...
You think it's classism akin to advocating for bloodline nobility to want a community of people who follow the rules and make positive contributions?

Do you even know where you are right now?
I'm confused by what you are saying?

111..11111 = -1 (for Nbit)
100..00000 = -2147483648 (for 32bit)

Therefore 11...1 is smaller than 100...01? Maybe I am dumb and missing something? Can anyone help?
I thought you were referring to Australia’s hack.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/11/medical-data-h...
Thanks for weighing in

It's disappointing to hear that follower-only/circles (whitelisted viewers) posts are basically incompatible with the current protocol. I'd hoped something could be done where the post content was encrypted in such a way that only specific authenticated users could decrypt it, or something along those lines
>unless you replace all the manufacturer-signed firmware modules with your own

... of which there might not be any. Eg none of my half-dozen SB-using systems (desktops and laptops) have anything in the ESP other than the booloader and UKIs I put there, and boot with my own keys just fine.
There was a discussion on HN where the real blocker is everyone uses Microsoft Word, and all the related tools on it, and no one was going to change their workflow.

Any such legislative solution may involve meeting the users where they are, first. Understanding the whole lifecycle, so to speak.
Since there are some comments that seem to misunderstand it (clickbait title also btw), this is about "papers reporting publicly funded research".
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/par/Perfusion/

this gets less attraction, but I think it could be the next hit after LoRA.
the design of the protocol :)