skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone who understands this work explain why using a range (de)coder to uncompress your ciphertext into the GPT2 generated distribution (in other words the most obvious construction for the case when the sender and receiver have the model) is insufficient to achieve perfect security by their definition?
relatedly https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2105.00990
BYD makes a lot of batteries, at different price and quality points.

Their own car might not be using the same grade of battery they are selling to Tesla, depending on the price point they are hitting. (Samsung sells their best stuff to Apple, but doesn't use the same high grade materials in their popular A-series phones.)

...or they might be, we need better battery-specific reviews.

We don't care much about the fuel in our cars because they are mostly the same the world over.

Sure we can talk about leaded-unleaded or which RoN we use for petrol, but tbh, the difference far less relevant in the long term. One Pump didn't work out, next time go somewhere else.

Batteries on the other hand...since we lug the damn things around and whatever flavour they came with, will stick with the car of the lifespan of it... that matters a lot.
Why do you assume that setting a high price or raising prices is "abusing customers"? If customers are paying that price, what's the problem? Are the customers idiots who can't be trusted how to allocate their money?

High prices is only "abuse" if there is a monopoly on that good and there is no substitute. Which, yes that is bad, we should stop it. BUT even a true monopoly doesn't explain a generalized increase in prices where consumers do not react to higher prices on A by reducing spending on B.

Edit: Of course there is variance in the degree to which owners will pursue profit maximization, up to and including "I am already rich and I will operate this at a loss for the good of the public", but the median (or even 75th percentile) firm I don't think is at "pass all cost savings onto customers even if I'm leaving money on the table."
Vendor was informed in person at an event in Toronto, where MikroTik was not present in any capacity.

Except for a black hat with a MikroTik name badge and handing out merch. Cunning, no?
> Yes, the fines are small enough that they are normalized by the violating corporate as just as small additional cost of doing business. A dramatic negative externality gets trivialized. The signal to other corporates is: go ahead feasting on the corpse of user privacy, just do a proper cost-benefit analysis.

Non-compliance just causes another fine. So they could be up to 8% of turnover (not income) a year
The issue with governments is that they don't see the risk it creates for themselves.

Even if everybody _inside_ your country plays by the rules... Everyone _outside_ of it does not.

And let's face it, foreign intelligence services will have a feast over this.
Canadian government as well. Consolidation has only increased over the last 30 years.
Curiously after upgrading there's a separate 'upgrade firmware' to be done (no idea if necessary for this though) in System > RouterBOARD. Mine was still on its stock 6.something though I was on 7.7 software. Just found it by accident looking for where to upgrade to 7.9.1.

(Even more curiously, I seem to get a duplicate menu item every time I reboot - three of each now (6.something / 7.7 -> 7.7 / 7.91 -> 7.9.1 reboots) ..almost in order - some of them seem to be somehow grouped for ordering purposes (and so are repeated as a group, not individually) despite not being nested or even obviously related.)
We all live by what our screens tell us. We don't know anything outside of our own direct experience without depending on others. And for the most part we choose to trust others and it usually works out ok. That's not religion - that's an efficient way to intake information about the world, because an individual doesn't have the resources to learn about everything or go every place. If someone abuses our trust, then it's not a problem with the delivery method, it's a problem with them. So the fact that we get a lot of information via a screen is irrelevant.

Though I'm not sure what that has to do with the notion that bad ideas only die when the people who hold them die.
Wikipedia is an amazing resource that I use all the time, and currently the best (or least worst) model for curating such a massive knowledge base. For these reasons I have $100/mo recurring donation set up. $240M is less than two years of expenses but I do think they could do a much better job explaining their budget/expense growth.

I tend to view math/science pages most of the time and it's rare to see any non-neutroal POV issues on most of those kinds of pages.

Even for topics that are contentious today, the system should converge towards neutrality over long time frames. It's just unrealistic to expect that hot/political topics would be perfectly NPOV in the short run.
It does if US government can take that data. Which they do.
Ask HN: Has Spotify Discover Weekly changed/fallen off a cliff?
I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing something similar.

I've had a (family) paid account for many, many years primarily because of Discover Weekly.

For a typical playlist, I'd downvote/remove < 10% of the songs but during the last month or so the % has grown and grown.

This week it has gotten to the point I'm removing nearly every song and only keeping a handful.

I'm strongly considering exporting all 3 of our family account's playlists and moving to Tidal/something else.
Could you also do an udp based server? It’d be interesting
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

― Desmond Tutu
Historically this was a great funding agency, but in recent years, it funds only graduate students. The experience of senior scientists lacks from the majority or programs.
my IDE gives me help as I type, allowing me to quickly refer to method lists, near-match methods, docs of such methods

what I envisioned is a similar experience for the CLI tools we've come to know and love

not sure anyone neeeeeeds that, but no-one neeeeded an IDE at first too
The problem isn't when you have a software dev, say, doing focused work, and their manager, say, being interrupt-driven. That's fine (though the majority of us here on HN are "focused work" types, so their viewpoint tends to predominate).

The problem comes when the manager (or IT or someone else) decides that everyone else has to be available for instant response to the alerts. That violates your "adult professionals" rule, too.
In the same article:

"Wages affect prices and prices affect wages," Powell said, associating current earnings growth to the current ultra-low unemployment rate of 3.4%, and suggesting the labor market may need to weaken at least somewhat for inflation to fall.

meaning that in his opinion inflation is driven by high employment, aka people spending money like crazy because they have more money that they know what to do with, and the solution is to make sure more people are out of work and with less funds to spend. Perfectly logical solution to producer-driven inflation I guess.
Yeah, a lot of the releases from researcg groups are woefully poorly documented.

Usually, some hero releases a friendly install system within a few days, though.
The sane version is one-party that is actually participating in the conversation needs to consent, 3rd parties to the conversation have to ask.
Its in relation to turnover, not revenue. Up to 4% and another 4% for noncompliance
Dare I ask what's a Microsoft MVP?
Since the start of the pandemic I've been self-hosting a Jitsi instance on Linode for my hypnotherapy business -- partly to transmit high-bitrate audio, partly for privacy and partly for compatibility, since it works in most web browsers. It works well even internationally (over a broadband connection), to the point where I won't even consider commercial software for this use case.
It's interesting, that even in a community like HN, almost nobody seems to ask for the scientific reference here.
Might have something to do with confirmation bias? Or is there such a thing like sounds-interesting-AF-bias?
This line of thinking may be confusing “sufficient” with “necessary”. I don’t believe Chomsky’s thesis and Kapatsinki’s statement are mutually exclusive.
They could both be true. Chomsky didn’t appear to have made a general statement about language acquisition in all and every mechanism. And the existence of language acquisition via other mechanisms does not say anything definitive about humans. The use of the word “neuron” is not enough to define how an actual neuron might work aside from its first order activation behavior.
And Chomsky’s thesis implies a genetic ability of language acquisition that is outside the scope of wiring up hardware and software neurons.
Note that transfer learning is very loosely analogous to inheritance of language capability and the expected widespread use of such models in future may actually validate not disprove Chomsky.
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I have "Do Not Disturb" enabled 100% of the time, except when I'm waiting for a delivery. Incoming calls from unknown numbers are also automatically silenced.
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"then press the three-lines" makes me feel debased as a human being, like I'm reduced to pictograms because language has been taken from me.

That this isn't a standard part of every software, is part of what's gone wrong with UI/UX in the last decade or so.
Mid-sized commercial repo of scientific software, C/Python/Ruby

bin/ # repo-level scripts
config/ # repo-level configuration
pkg/<pkg1> # a standalone autoconf package
pkg/<pkg2> # :
:
common/ # shared code, packages symlink here

bottom level scripts install packages locally "in the right order", others create standalone .tar.gz packages (resolving symlinks) for installation elsewhere. All works rather smoothly I think, but it is medium sized, I could well see problems arising if it were 5-10 times the size (but we don't expect it to do that)
You "spend hours messing around" with everything you don't know or understand at first. One could say the same about writing the software itself. At its core Dockerfiles are just shell scripts with worse syntax, so it's not really that much more to learn. Once you get it done once, you don't have to screw around with it anymore, and you have it on any box you want in seconds.

In either case you have to spend hours screwing around with your environment. If those hours result in a Dockerfile, then it's the last time. If they don't, then it's each time you want it on a new host (which as was correctly pointed out a pain in the ass).

Storing data in a database vs in files on disk is like application development 101 and is pretty much a required skill period. It's required that you learn how to do this because almost all applications revolve around storing some kind of state and, as was noted, you can't reasonably expect it to persist on the app server without additional ops headaches.

Many people will host dbs for you without you having to think about it. Schema is only required if you use a structured db (which is advisable) but it doesn't take that long.
The laws you want to learn about are called "water rights". Western water rights laws (which are the predominate legal framework in the US West) basically say "first in time, first in right". The people who used that water first have the ownership rights of that water flow.

So it would be illegal in Colorado to build such a dam because you would be blocking the water that belongs to someone else.

In Colorado, it is illegal to collect the rainwater that lands on your roof because that water would normally flow into a river and that river water belongs to someone else. I used to live in Colorado and about 10-15 years ago, there was a change in the state law that the media proclaimed made it legal for you to collect the rainfall that landed on your roof. They left out the conditions that the statute required: you had to have an existing well permit, you could only use the rainwater for the same purposes that your well permit allowed (so if the permit only allowed watering livestock, you could not use the water for your garden), then there was another stickler - there could not be a water utility adjacent to your property (even if you were not connected to that water company). There were 3 other requirements, but those 3 were so narrowly focused that the law basically upheld the illegality of collecting rainfall.
Blogs? I am listening to experts instead of watching CNN and cheering for yet another war the US have pushed forward for.

Here is an example for your education:

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

When you say No one again who are you speaking on behalf of? People of Donbas?
I don't consider it "being monitored" when the person you're talking to is the one doing the recording. Contrast "I'm legally allowed to keep emails sent to me after I first read them" with "other people are legally allowed to read emails sent to me". Wouldn't almost everyone agree that the former is a good thing but the latter would be a bad thing?
FWIW, the primary way to configure a Mikrotik device is via WinBox (desktop app). The web UI is definitely not as polished, even if it looks similar.

If you're not using Windows, WinBox will run just fine under Wine on Mac/Linux. That's how I run it.
Record-breaking Tonga undersea volcano disrupted satellite signals in space
In short, the author seems to be saying that knowledge of how humans work should be restricted because it can be used for harm.

I don't think I like that take. Attempts to restrict the spread of knowledge usually don't work long-term, and often result in bad actors working in secret. Some proposals relating to AI recently have had similar traits.
I've played a lot with Stable Diffusion using AWS spot instances, mostly because it is the platform with which I'm more familiar. The Terraform script[0] should be easy to adapt to any other project of this kind.

Let me know if you are interested, and maybe we can find time to work on it together :).

[0] https://github.com/ciberado/stable-diffusion-webui-terraform...
> Some fraction may not go through the normal cycle, but it can't be many.

Maybe it is because I just saw an animated video on cancer (I’ll find the link when I get home) on YouTube but then so are we thinking of a bee hive as one individual? Like in the video, they talk about how cancer cells refuse to die when something bad happens like they are supposed to…

So this is going to sound cheesy but now I have to wonder, could you zoom out on humans as well? On earth? Are what we call “living beings” what we would call “malignant cells” or at best mutations?

Now that’s a scary thought.

Edit: I think it is this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0
The way you said it, I guess not. Quick Google says that Bush though they had weapons of mass destructions, but they were never found. What are you implying is the real reason behind Iraqi war? Did US benefit anyhow from Iraqi war?
Here's why that doesn't work as an explanation.

Suppose ham costs $50 and eggs cost $50. You have $100.

Now Porky Pig gets greedy and raises the price of ham to $60. Now you have only $40 to spend on eggs, and (due to the Law of Supply & Demand) the price of eggs declines.

I.e. this greediness does not put more money in peoples' pockets to pay for it. A general price increase is not possibly caused by greed. Inflation is a general increase, and requires an increase in the supply of money relative to the value of goods and services in the economy.

And that way that happens is the government prints the extra money with no collateral. History is full of examples, including our current inflation.
> No, some interventions leave things worse off than it would have been without. When it comes to the public's money, and truly stupendous amounts of it at 25% of GDP, the bar has to be a lot higher than "eh, probably better". I suppose it's a job for economists and historians in the future to study this, but one wonders if there is some relationship between the amount of Covid stimulus response and the recent inflation, and how persistent it would be in the years to come.

Yes, some interventions leave things worse off than without. But with sudden massive unemployment and low savings, why do you think the default hypothesis is "nothing would be better"? You can have both "persistent lingering inflation for several years" AND "still better than the alternative."
Many times. Recommendations exist because they're more valuable than "cold-hiring". It can (and normally is) as easy as seeing someone in your network (that you know, or that knows you) is hiring, and knowing of a different person that's looking. Generally you don't "get" them a job, per se, in that they usually still have to interview and get hired, but IME the recommendation shifts the interview from assuming negatives to assuming positives. Meaning, rather than an interviewer thinking you didn't do well on a question because you're incompetent, they think you're just nervous or misunderstood. Again IME, that change in perception goes a long way.

I have also made it a priority to be aware of my network. Who's where, what they're working with, if they like it, but also keeping track of people that are good at their jobs that may drift out of my immediate working-sphere.
There is still Soda Player, which works as well but without the torrent catalogue built in.
Yes, and as I recall he was firmly in the camp that disruptive counter establishment voices get in the way of scalable Six Sigma type business and don't belong at the table. I must defer to his seniority but think it's getting progressively harder to tell a rabbit hole to nowhere from a portal to the next dimension.
If you could precisely and reliably describe and predict individual behavior for any individual, then population behavior would follow directly from those laws.
Speaking as someone who has solved these difficulties hundreds of times, "draw the rest of the owl" doesn't tell you the specific things to google to get detailed examples and tutorials on how millions of others have sidestepped these repeated issues.
I don't think ARM could realistically prevent India from manufacturing the CPU, so the architecture probably isn't a barrier to independence. However the 5nm finfet node probably is. The article didn't make it clear but I'm not sure any fab in India can manufacture that kind of thing.
It illegal to grow alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. This was pointed out in all the Arizona newspapers when they found out about the Saudi connection.
Are children not imprisoned in the suburbs because they can't drive?
> ZIRP wasn’t without inflation, it was just limited to financial assets

By that definition, the 1990s were a period of great inflation. Which is... not what that word means.

> “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

> ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

> ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

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When financial assets go up in value, that's normally called a "bull market" by the way. Not "inflation". Changing the definition of "inflation" to match your preconceived theories of how the economy works is... pretty much what Humpty Dumpty does in the Alice-in-Wonderland series.
There's another 100 joke PRs where this comes from https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%...
Thank you! It means a lot!

You can also try another product of my former team: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/ - it's similar to RI, but cheaper because it doesn't provide an ironclad guarantee that the instance will be available at all times. It's still a bit more expensive than spot, but not by much.
I'm starting to try to switch my phone to greyscale during the day.
I'd guess Robert Bork had more to do with it than the popular vote. Nixon might have promised him a Supreme Court seat for his other famous historical service, but his nomination was famously shot down on a somewhat bipartisan basis (Biden was the Judiciary Chairman at the time).
> which seems to me to grossly overstate the relevance of the belief systems.

It is hardly possible to overstate the relevance of those archetypes and beliefs. Nothing else has been more widespread on earth for as long to have anywhere close to the same influence on humanity.
Ask HN: How do tools like SEMRush and AppFigures get traffic data?
I am building browseraso.com and curious if anyone knows how other tools get traffic data.

I am currently using the SEMRush API to get traffic data but it is missing a lot
Was running it for company but for some reason the code quality on share wasn't good (not sure if due to our installation). Switched to BBB (Big Blue Button) which has more options. I can highly recommend both.
> Except the largest QE was 2008, 2010, and 2012, which caused... nothing?

Bank Of England - 'Quarterly Bulletin' 2012 Q3

" Conclusion

[...]
The benefits of loose monetary policy have not been shared equally across all individuals, however. Some individuals are likely to have been adversely affected by the direct effects of QE. Many households have received lower interest income on their deposits.

But changes in Bank Rate — not asset purchases — have been the dominant influence on the interest households receive on bank deposits and pay on bank loans. By pushing up a range of asset prices, asset purchases have boosted the value of households’ financial wealth held outside pension funds, although holdings are heavily skewed with the _top_5%_of_households_holding_40%_of_these_assets." [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150316142619/https://www.banko...
Very interesting analogy. I'm a beekeeper and this is the first time I'm hearing about rogue bees. Can you please point me to a source so that I can learn about this bee behavior (or "beehavior" in short)?
James, while John had had "had," had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...
The max fine is 4% of a firm's annual revenue from the preceding year so this is around ~1% of revenue
Google’s photo app still can’t find gorillas. Neither can Apple’s
Two good reasons to downvote this would be 1) that it's a conspiracy theory and 2) that reading about pedophilia every time one turns on the internet is exhausting.
Cars got more efficient, so everyone went and bought larger cars.

Carbon offsets are largely a scam which could have a worse than useless effect when people believe they are actually real.
I suppose. Equivalent results about natural images and edge detection have been reported in the image processing (classical, not deep) ML literature 20 years ago...
You can do it with whatever is claimed as "scientifically approved" and works every time... because the only time one has to invoke such nonsense is if it doesn't really work... so then it has to involve your placebo and biases.
The gap between open source and corporate LLM sizes is increasingly widening
That's the core idea behind the EU's supply chain laws. No matter what, anyone on the upper levels can get busted - it's a massive incentive for everyone to make sure their supply chain is not skirting around or openly sharting on laws. And it's also an incentive to not look the other way when you know that a vendor's bid is very very low.
Utah has a similar problem. The governor has an alfalfa farm yet has gotten on TV to demand that Utahns pray for rain. 80% of Utah's water consumption is agricultural. If the governor wanted to reduce Utah's water problem, he should start by putting his money where his mouth is, and stop growing such an abusive crop.

Unlike Arizona, it appears that much of Utah's alfalfa crop gets exported to China.