skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are all very subjective. Not everyone is affected the same way by latency. I hear people complaining about it all the time on thw internet, but in practice I never notice it and I don't know anyone that does either. Ergonomics is the same, I think discord is really nice to use and all the alternatives I've used have been worse.

To be clear, your opinion is absolutely valid I just don't think they apply equally to everyone.
I think he _hopes_, but doesn't believe. The actual papers around this project don't mention aliens (but they're ever-so-slightly hinted at, if you read between the lines). They treat it like an interesting metallic meteorite.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09905.pdf

I think it's cool enough without needing to talk about ET technology, but it helps with the funding and exposure, so I don't really mind at as long as it remains fundamentally scientific.
Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet
I recently discontinued a Prime membership we'd had for years and it was eye-opening how annoying and persistent the attempts to get us to sign up for it again are. Every time I buy something, I have to find the tiny link instead of the big button. One time the tiny link was broken and I literally could not complete my purchase until I tried a few hours later.

On the other hand, it was not difficult to cancel.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to ask them leetcode hard questions during due diligence.

Based on my experiences interviewing at Google, I wouldn't be surprised if they did that too.
That means you are near the top of the company and are a strategic value...do you think every Apple employee, or more specifically the ones targeted by this union, are the same value?
Interestingly, ChatGPT was meant to be closer to a tech demo than a flagship product. It's success caught OpenAI off-guard.

> Jan Leike: I would love to understand better what’s driving all of this—what’s driving the virality. Like, honestly, we don’t understand. We don’t know.

> Part of the team’s puzzlement comes from the fact that most of the technology inside ChatGPT isn’t new. ChatGPT is a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5, a family of large language models that OpenAI released months before the chatbot.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/03/1069311/inside-s...
Video games, like cinema, footballs, the olympic games or music, are a huge market, and have strong influence on culture.

In fact, given they now employ people from all the other entertainment industries, and make recurring payments, product placements, and build communities, I'd say they are pretty huge.
I feel like you've turned friendship into a conspiracy theory. It seems more likley that a rich conservative might admire and want to be friends with a conservative supreme court justice (and have the means to arrange a meeting).
$1.5B in legal fees, and $2.31 for each user affected.
SiriusXM needs to be reported mercilessly. Their cancellation process requires chatting with someone who tries to offer you better deals to stay, which of course only last for a few months, then the original price kicks back in. It takes 15 minutes to go through the process. The sad thing is that I'd love to activate their service for a month here or month there, but their cancellation process is too painful to do so, so they just lose out on my business, and piss me off at the same time. A real lose-lose scenario!
This headline reads backwards to me. While it would be true either way, it seems more intuitive to say "Rocky Enterprise Linux secures contract with NASA"
There definitely has been research into such concepts. Paro, for example, while not a "human replacement", was meant for emotional support:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_(robot)

I imagine that with the advent of ChatGPT, there will be more serious exploration into human-like emotional companionship.
We have always needed to navigate bullshit. We have the tools, we need to formalize them in code. This is an opportunity to improve our identification of bullshit of all types, human and machine generated.
Summary of Short Term & Long Term and Positive & Negative Impacts of Laxatives on Gut Microbiome
Have you tried Firefox's resistFingerprinting abou:config flag? I don't know if they've implemented those but technically speaking I don't think a vm is necessary.
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Start giving fines as percentages of worldwide revenue like the EU does. Suddenly union busting won't seem to attractive if it costs 1% of worldwide revenue.
> It just seems odd that such an unimportant merger is being so strongly resisted. At the end of the day, videogames are completely unimportant to society.

That's a $350 billion/year industry. It is a huge part of our society whether you think it is or not.

Regardless, such a large acquisition or merger should always be under scrutiny like this. The government should be protecting its citizens from monopolistic and anti-consumer behavior wherever it may pop up. This acquisition clearly has potential for such behavior.
> If you think this merger will "eliminate" Playstation, you're seriously fooling yourself.

If you think this is impossible, you're seriously fooling yourself. Most people look at two things when buying a video game console: which games does it provide, and what consoles do my friends have? If most of the popular and recurring franchises are only available for one platform (and will stay as such in the future), why could PlayStation fundamentally not go under?
Very much unlike pre-AI political arguments with real people on the internet.
I feel like I am the only person not using ChatGPT due to privacy concerns. My conversations becoming public is half my concern. The other half is the information being used against me by companies/government.
This is very true. When I first heard The Darkness's I Believe In a Thing Called Love, I figured it was some track from the 80s I'd missed the first time around. There were a lot of those, after all. When I discovered how relatively recent it actually was I was quite surprised. Then I went back and listened to it again, and realized that since I'd first heard it I'd learned a ton about recording techniques. There's no way a recording from the 80s would have drums sound like that. They just didn't record or mix them that way back then.
Discovery, Development, Dependence
I didn't see any that were that obvious, but it sounds like the redactions are at Amazon's request, so they probably went for anything that could conceivably be construed as private information.
Microsoft AI copilots for quantum and chemistry
It's one thing to strategize your opponent demise by creating better products, it's another to use patents, monopolies and market manipulations.
Already done: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
Behringer attracts more attention. Arturia used MI code in the MicroFreak and falsely claimed they had Gillet's blessing, nobody cared. Arturia make VST clones of every popular synth out and charge $500, nobody cares. Behringer makes an affortable version of the Model D because Moog never bothered to and people complain.
The email is also from 2019. It might still be worthwhile evidence, but it wouldn't really pertain to the Activision deal in particular.

If someone at Microsoft had sent an email a month before the Activision deal saying, "we want to crush the next-gen Playstation," that could be evidence that the Activision deal is part of a plan to monopolize the market, but it could also simply be somewhat random nonsense puffery talk like when someone says "our graphics blow away the competition!" Given that it was sent back in 2019, the distance in time from the Activision deal makes it potentially less relevant.

The allegation is that the email is "uncontroverted evidence that Microsoft had the intention to put its main competition, the Sony PlayStation, out of the market." What I want to know is whether the email is a somewhat innocuous, "we want to relegate the PlayStation to the status of an also-ran while we become the premier gaming console" or something more serious like "our strategy to drive Sony out of the market is by buying up independent publishers and then making their games platform-exclusives to the Xbox." For the first one, I'm sure I could dredge up communications at any company that are similar. For the second, it shows a clear danger to competition and the market.
> the quote use the word "truth", not "hypotheses"

All truth starts as a hypothesis, but not all hypotheses turn into truth.

They're using the quote to say, "Hey, maybe they're ridiculing us, but look at Einstein!"
Is there any proof?
Hey Akash. You highlighted the security risks very well in the blog and I feel whenever the security aspect comes on a plate, it gets the bare minimum attention unless some major attack impacts the system. Since you have mentioned sensitive URLs in the Direct Insecure Object References part, I was relating to one of the concerns which is preventing the users from posting phishing/vulnerable links. Unless you get a notification that this is a vulnerable link, it gets clicks. This is very common when products allow communication among the user's Eg. forums, communities, chatting applications etc.

Generating Link Previews can be one of the possible solutions, especially when the preview shows a vulnerable alert, that would eventually prevent a user from clicking the link. Our approach (within my team) has been to help in this direction by creating an API that extracts metadata from URLs and therefore ensures secure link sharing. Here’s a blog ( https://apyhub.com/blog/secure-link-preview ) where we discussed the issue in some more detail. Would be super curious to hear your thoughts.

Cheers,

Sohail
There was a time (the late 1990's) when Apple had relatively little access to the market outside of specialized stores and nearly zero control over how their product was presented to consumers. It wasn't so bad for maintaining the status quo since many of those stores were fiercely loyal to Apple.

I suspect that Apple looked back at what brought them to that point when they started growing again. I don't know what their thoughts regarding the specialized stores were, but I wouldn't be surprised if they blamed the larger retailers for the acceleration of their earlier downfall. Having your product first shoved to the back corner, while being shunned by salespeople who knew nothing of the product, then removed from the shelves altogether does not inspire confidence in consumers. Sure, those retailers may have been picking up Apple products when Apple turned around ... but what is to prevent a replay of the late 1990's if things cooled down again?

What I am going to suggest is that the Apple's popularity in your country is built upon Apple's popularity in other countries. While that popularity may not be the product of the Apple Store, Apple's ability to sustain that popularity likely is.
I want to hate Google, but they still seem to be less evil.

Free Excel/Word/PPT(sorry libre office for forgetting about you), Android/Chrome is still FOSS and I use their degoogled versions, they contributed hugely to AI.

But yeah, the FAAMG is not something to be worshiped. Heck, its a red flag if you are a genuine fan of one of these companies.
But you can't do that when you're the market underdog; e.g. when Lotus 1-2-3 has most of the market share, you can't take that away with a vendor-locking product.

It's what you do when you're dominant; to protect against the up-and-comers from taking away the users.

So, one thing we can learn from this article is that the reasoning can be applied by the dominant player to understand what barriers keep users from switching, and protect those barriers.

E.g. the dominant spreadsheet player understands that when the up-and-comer spreadsheet can write the dominant document format, users will have a reason to switch since they can go back. So, vendor-lock countermeasures: distinguish documents written by up-and-comer and break their loading.
Copilot is so much more than code completion. Have you used it?
>why not try asking your own law clerks?

Because people like John Eastman are your law clerks and they likely agree with you? It's a pretty insular bubble they're all in.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is in that film and is great.
I am not sure this is a good inference.

first, what does it mean lots? is it majority? because the AI and AI minded products are targeting everybody.

second, imagine the argument being about Facebook: some life interactions are sometimes not good, but connecting with people online will make it better. fast forward 10 years and we have studies how social media is making most of the people using it depressed and badly influencing our democratic choices. not sure we really solve anything here.
> I'm sure that is the modus operandi for any business.

Probably depends on the scope / kind of business. And maybe the kind of people running it?

E.g., my wife has no desire to grow her photography business (a sole proprietorship). She's content for it to be a source of income for however long she wants to keep doing it.
I suspect their database is very small and doesn't include many normal people. I also think they aren't taking into account the dimension of time: they say that the latest version of chrome is unusual.
There's also this exhaustive post from one and only Chip Huyen: https://huyenchip.com/2023/05/02/rlhf.html
For anyone else who hadn’t heard of Spyder: https://www.spyder-ide.org/
The two flavors of US political parties were both right wing, neoliberal globalists. Clinton allying with Republicans to pass NAFTA is clear evidence of this. Only recently have they also both postured away from this stance, largely in response to the new Cold War with China.
>Wild the FTC isn't suing the NYTimes, WSJ, or every other paid news outlet for far more egregious cancellation process practices. Almost as if the FTC is a political weapon.

I'd posit that suing news organizations would be perceived as more political than a retailer.

Or am I missing something important here?
Simply using Firefox is a problem in that regard. I think most recent number I saw for Firefox usage was 1%.
For now at least. They'll probably move production to China.
Bend the knee or perish.
Very cool!
The top answer has a 12,731 character regular expression that matches base 10 numbers that are divisible by 7. (There is an answer with only 105 characters, but that uses .NET "regular expressions" which have some pretty gnarly extensions and are definitely not regular languages).

The regex itself is generated from a relatively simple DFA based on mod 7 arithmetic on digits using a program (JFLAP apparently, not familiar).

Just from looking at the start of the regex you can see some cool things. For instance, TIL that all numbers of the form 1555....55554 and 85555....5554 are multiples of 7. Fun exercise to prove it.
Yes, as long as the science is good, having fun in the process is not horrible.
Precisely because it has 89 employees instead of 19,000, it can be MUCH faster.

Have you ever tried to get support from Red Hat? Honestly? The first couple of tiers are often people who are barely computer literate. I've talked with several people who - I'm not kidding - had no idea what the Power architecture is and had no clue that there are architectures aside from x86.
Devil's advocate: they liked the little bits of math they were exposed to.

I don't know if there's a field i like. But there's something intoxicating in math. Sometimes it's very strong.
I listened to a CS lecture now and normally I find CS a bit boring but as he kept describing aspects of the problem he was facing (finding points in intersecting disks) and as the problem got more complicated I got the itch lol.
Sitting in a logic class is more exciting than a roller coaster. It's a bit scary because I don't understand why.
That hasn't been the case for a over a year.
This is a meaningless hypothetical because in no world is a highly successful company ever going to let go of all their workers. On the other hand, one can imagine in a less capital friendly world, nobody would partake in Apples 1996 junk bond offering that rescued them from bankruptcy. It's counterintuitive that a stupid investor who yolo'd their money could have a bigger impact than intelligent and hardworking workers, but that's exactly what happened. Without investment, these workers wouldn't be able to realize the potential that they had at Apple.
Stuffing 25 RTX4090 into every anthropomorphic sex bot is the real growth potential that hasn't been priced in yet /s
This is not some fancy new phone...this is an almost permanent obligation you are placing on the company, the employees and future employees. The decision to join a union should be placed on facts and only facts.
A cursor change on the beginning of the chord would be the most obvious feedback. Maybe something like [1-] over the cursor, showing up the pressed key?
Nobody who is starving decides to just go through the drive through.

Fast food is convenient, that's it.
> That's also where we have the paramilitary force, Pinkertons.

Which is still around, though now a child company of Securitas.
My most unique settings were:

list of fonts, list of plugins, media devices (the combo of webcams and microphones my work computer uses)

Great site for understanding what your browser tells about who you are.
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It’s yet another good reason to make sure you are using an ad-blocker. Don’t waste your limited bandwidth on ads!
Vibes are not evidence.
Not really. It's an interesting sidebar how companies use the phrase "employee-owned" to confuse people about who is in charge. Moog had an ESOP which just means the employees held 49% of the shares of stock in the company, as far as I understand without any right to influence operations, which remained fully with the CEO. That's "employee-owned" in the same sense that you "own" my house if you hold securities that are invested in my mortgage, i.e. not at all.
Ed-tech can easily make smart kids smarter but that is a difficult sell to the virtuous.
> If most of the popular and recurring franchises are only available for one platform

Funny how noone asked that over last decade when Sony paid mountains of gold to various developers for exclusivity.
Yes they must abide by the terms of the licenses of the software they redistribute. But they could start licensing the parts they write more restrictively, like RPM spec files. I don't think this will happen given how much back and forth there is between RHEL and Fedora, but IBM is in charge now.
Starburst's hackathon: Into the great wide open(AI)
Are you sure? Post-acquisition, Bethesda is making at least some of their upcoming games Xbox-exclusive. Unclear why Microsoft wouldn't do the same with Activision.
You may not ever be able to persuade a bot, but you can identify if it is capable of repudiating your points or not. You can ascertain if it is arguing in good faith and chose to end an argument if it isn’t.

When you say “find an argument that works” isn’t this just saying that they’ve said something you find persuasive?

What’s wrong with this? How is this different to any other argument in good faith?
If they do, then two things will happen: 1. The majority of ordinary-usage folks will be subsidizing the small number of high-usage folks, leading to higher prices for the majority over the medium-long term. 2. Connection speeds will stop going up.
He's gone further than hope alone in public statements. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/harvards-top-...

> And while he’s not saying it’s definitely aliens, he is saying he can’t think of anything other than aliens that fits the data. And he’s saying that all over international news.

> “Many people expected once there would be this publicity, I would back down,” Loeb says. “If someone shows me evidence to the contrary, I will immediately back down.”
> Therefore, a password like "EstablishedCousins" is significantly less secure than "bR^4outc0m3" despite containing more characters.

And "awn-handsome-dolce-esophagi-radix-lawgiver" is more secure than "Hunter2"…

My point is that their methodology doesn't cover what do they mean by strong passwords. A sufficiently long (and sufficiently random - but how do you check for that?) pass phrase is strong in my view.
Main thing that bothers me with electron is RAM usage (300mb I think?). And when I tested a WebView/tauri demo, RAM usage ended up being about the same since it had to load webkit.
Unfortunately you overestimate Apple's board compensation by at least 5 orders of magnitude...
Tangential: Does anyone have a good alternative to privacy.com? I really don't want to use Plaid to integrate but I basically need disposable/controllable cards for online purchases because so many places have poor security and dark patterns.
Good point, that could be used to the searchers advantage.
China has raised more people out of poverty faster than any other civilization in history.
> But why would I pay anywhere from $29-232 per month for what is basically a glorified web UI wrapping open source models?

Why would you? No idea. But there's obviously a huge market for slapping an easy-to-use interface + hosting onto something available for free.
How? Rocky Linux is a RHEL clone, and RHEL isn't a direct copy from CentOS stream
This ignores that the person is only starving because of the horrible things we have allowed capital to do to enrich themselves.
This sounds like a great use for the laser transparencies I bought at Goodwill having no particular use in mind. Thanks for the idea!
I asked for passkeys and got silence back. It’s two check boxes in the Auth0 tenant config (I manage an Auth0 tenant).
>Monopolistic behavior will harm consumers.

Why is buying 1 studio monopolistic?

I have been gaming for decades and I've never felt the need to play games from every studio.

Heck, large studios are mostly a negative in the modern era. They have the resources to use microtransactions and DRM. Meanwhile indie games have to try their best to get any attention.

Even if M$ bought every studio in existence, PlayStation and Nintendo, there would still be indie games in a few years. Not to mention uncountable number of games from the last few decades that is enough entertainment to last you a few lifetimes.
OpenAI wasn't breached, it seems. Many people with malware on their computers logged into ChatGPT.
So Rocky needs to assign a single engineer to NASA support then. How does 19,000 people help with that?
> I assume some universality among civil liberty unions

This seems like an extremely naive outline which I would read as basically saying "I assume everyone in the world should align with my personal cultural perspective".

> can not legislate hate

This is in my experience an Americanism that isn't particularly widely shared outside of the US.
It is not business, it is being self-employed.
He definitely mentioned (a) in his write up. I wasn't aware of (b), and I thought he made it sound more like a choice. He talked about fiscal obligations requiring him to tell the board. But if he was contractually obligated to disclose the offer to FB that makes it a lot clearer.
With that obnoxious behavior, why bother buying from Amazon if you don't have Prime? Amazon is a flea market trafficking in commingled imports from numerous unvetted third parties. The advantage of Prime is that it brings this flea market to your door.

Without Prime I don't see much of a value proposition in the flea market. Actually, even with Prime the value is questionable. If my wife didn't like Prime I would shut it off, and then I doubt I'd buy much from Amazon at all. For US customers, Walmart and Target do a decent job these days, without the commingled flea market (Walmart does have third party sellers, but they also tend to keep staples in their own inventory better than Amazon does, and they don't commingle.)
My personal fave is “Torch.manual_seed(3407) is all you need”