skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This makes it impossible to use any components hosted by third parties without getting consent by the users. And for components hosted in a different country than the visitor, even consent might not make using those external components legal.

This is based on some very faulty knowledge of GDPR and the law.

You are allowed to process data without the consent of the user for various things. This would include their IP address. You're allowed to have third party data processors process data on your behalf without user consent for various things.

The Google Font ruling was partially due to who Google is. Google data mines, they're famous for it. So giving Google data they can use to map to your internet persona which may even be linked to your name directly is obviously something many people want to do only when they consent. The fact Google Fonts could be self hosted was another part of the reason for the ruling. That is, sharing the information wasn't required to be able to perform what the actions they wanted to perform, use a font.

Data processing done by US companies is not currently GDPR compliant. However, no one is enforcing that. It would be a complete mess and there are far too many. In reality, everyone is ignoring it waiting for the new laws to be created to make it legal. The reason the US companies are an issue is a US court can issue a judgement to a US company and they are forced to comply no matter where the data is.

> This is bad and not in line with reality. The IP can only be turned into personal information via cooperation of the users internet provider.

This is also not true. If you visit a website that sells B2B accounting software and your IP is identifiable to a company. You could phone up the company and ask to talk to the person who is responsible for finance. If there is only one person, boom easily identifed. There are also various other ways.

> So in Europe, the whole internet is made illegal based on a wrong assumption.

Really, your comment is wrong based on multiple wrong assumptions.
We aren't all average Americans.

Individual responsibility should apply here. I don't want my rights restricted because other people are fools.

If it's considered acceptable to tell people what they can and cannot put into their bodies because "average" people can't handle it, there's no limiting principle in place to stop our bodies from being controlled by others.
"no long term health effects from one dose" does not account for the possibility of persistent flashbacks, or for bad trips that can cause lasting psychological trauma.

LSD bonds with something in the brain, such that it causes persistent flashbacks more than any other hallucinogen, sometimes years later. Taking it just once to try it might not have any effect, or might cause flashbacks for the rest of your life. Depends on your personal neurochemistry, the dosage, form of dosing, and your mental state. A friend who had taken LSD described it to me once something like this: LSD sometimes takes any cracks (neurosis or psychosis) in your mind and expands them wide open, forcing you to look into them. If you're aware of them already and they're minor, it can be helpful, sometimes expanding your mind to new capabilities. If you've been unaware or worse, in denial, or they're major, then you get a bad trip that may come back to haunt you over and over again over the years.

Flashbacks that continue to occur after the original drug effects have worn off are a medically recognized phenomenon, which is documented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.

Flashbacks typically happen in the days or weeks following ingestion of the drug but can happen months or even years after the drug use has been discontinued.
The only one I listen to is 538, today it is relevant to my job but I was a fan before I was working on a web site about public opinion.

For the most part I prefer reading but I do follow quite a few YouTubers who I often listen to in the background. It seems to me this is the best way to follow the Ukraine war and it was Techmoan that rekindled my interest in A/V gear.
In what way are these situations comparable?

If you google GitHub you’re probably looking for source control. GitLab offers source control.

If you google “abortion providers” you’re looking to get an abortion. The ads you see are specifically for people who want to look like abortion providers but actually seek to stop you from getting one and don’t provide any abortion services at all.

It’s like googling GitHub and the top result being a religious group that considers source control to be an abomination, disguising themselves until you’ve paid for an account when they can inundate you with propaganda.
I’d also like to see some legislation around this sort of consumer shadow-banning. If Amazon has decided I’m a terrible customer and they don’t want to offer me certain goods and services, I think I should be able to be informed about this fact. To be clear, it’s perfectly ok for them not to offer me the services. I just want to know the situation.
Red Hat recently turned 30 years old as a company.

So yeah, 5 years is pretty recent, unless you started using linux last week.
I setup https://aicoding.club/ a lemmy instance for this.
Briefly speaking, it's because the mechanisms for dealing with complex state structures which are either global, or shared between multiple components which are not direct ancestors/ descendents of one another, are really complicated, due to how changes within that state need to be managed and propagated through the component dependency graph.

Spend an hour, a day, or a year (depending on how broad you want your "introduction" to this topic to be) reading the various blogs and docs on state management systems if you want to see how crazy this gets.
Salting your hash should work?

You could also use a 32 or 64 bit block cipher like skip32 if you want to prevent reversal. Or at least, it makes reversing non-trivial.
To be fair, a bunch of these happened because of wars, we didn't really control these ones.

The other bunch happened because they were precariously unstable governments.
I'm not sure that singing is really that separated from religious context. You'd have a hard time becoming a classically trained singer without singing a lot of classical Christian music. You wouldn't get far in Blues or Bluegrass without being exposed to traditional spirituals.
I really like Tick Tick but I wish the streak tracking feature was better it's kinda crap right now. Everything else is very good.
Often don't have it, my method this day is to copy the URL of the website to a feedreader.

The first few times it didn't pick up a feed, I would inspect the page source, and sure enough, no `link` tag in the head for the feed (nor references to "rss" or "atom" or "feed" anywhere in the page).

I don't know what stack they use, but I find this particularly common for company blogs.
Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era (2021)
> expanding or altering human consciousness

I'm quite averse to that because I believe that myself and significant portion of other people tread a very fine line on the edge of sanity and I wouldn't want to risk anything that might tip us over the edge.
Does the field of AI safety apply here?

Here is a legitimate case of people using artificial intelligence to facilitate murder... and people are mad it didn't comply?
Advertising Company CRITEO fined €40M
Management's job is be "the owner". They are ultimately responsible to make sure that there is no diffusion of responsibility.

In our weekly meetings, recurring problems were identified and fixes implemented. No call was considered completed and closed until all relevant documents had been updated as appropriate. At the yearly review the quality of your documentation was as important as your time to respond, time to fix. That is how mission critical on-call work should be handled.
I don't want to spam everyone so will just reply here in the chain - I setup https://aicoding.club/, a lemmy instance for this. Emails aren't working just now as I've only just setup the domain and need to sort spf/etc, but I'll keep an eye on things to approve people.
Get ‘em hooked young.
That's often true for citizenship too
GCC used to be the only good free compiler but I think LLVM compilers are better now. Still good to have the competition I guess.
> it seems to be an accepted fact of life

Isn't that the problem? Accept it. Don't ask questions, or else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
Just curious why you preferred SvelteKit to Nuxt? Literally every single thing you said of SvelteKit is also true of Nuxt.

I like them both, but tend to lean more toward Nuxt for the modules ecosystem and layers/extends. I also find composing reusable props with typescript to be nicer in Nuxt, but that's more of a Vue vs Svelte thing than Nuxt vs SvelteKit.
Microsoft faces off against US Government over Activision deal
In addition, open source projects are generally balancing on a knife-edge between irrelevance and obsolescence. Any bureaucratic tool that draws attention away from their core focus carries a risk of derailing them.

The CoC people are relatively transparent that they want to be able to push people like Torvalds and Stallman out of projects. Raising the question; do we have a limitless supply of Stallmans and Torvalds out there to draw on, or are these people actually quite rare? From what I can tell they are quite rare and need to be encouraged in the good they do rather than ostracised for the flaws that all humans have in some way or another.

Stallman is a great example. There is a long queue of people lining up to criticise him, but nobody has successfully cobbled together an alternative to the FSF. It wouldn't be hard. GPL 2.0 hit a better sweet spot than 3.0. Nobody has stepped up to the plate.
Like searching for how to commit suicide and the top results being about dissuading you from it?
Add 'come back in 2 weeks with completed items and repeat' and you basically have agile. Unless the items were things like 'build product', which I would argue is not a path to success.
Great tips, thank you! It feels like I'm right behind you in terms of where I'm at so your input is very much appreciated.

3. Train for only 1 epoch - interesting, any known rationale here?

5. I just read somewhere else that someone got good results from mixing their custom model with the original (60/40 in their case) - good to hear some more anecdotes that this is pretty effective. Especially the further training after merging, sounds promising!

I've also been using kohya_ss for training LoRAs so great to hear it works for you for models as well. On your point about the inference tricks, definitely noted but I did notice that you can feed some params (# of samples, negative embeddings, etc) to the sample images generated during training (check the textarea placeholder text). Still not going to have all usual the tricks but it'll get you a little closer.
France's Debt-to-GDP[0] went up about 17 points during the first year of covid, compared to Canada's 20 points. In the following years it's gone down about 3 points, which is about the same for Canada. I don't really know who else to compare France to, since Germany, UK, and USA all have their own weird complications and Italy was hit early by covid in a way that most countries were not.

No matter who was in charge of France there was going to be a giant spike in debt during at the very least covid, and now dealing with this Ukraine mess.

[0] I greatly prefer net Debt-to-GDP, which is a closer approximation to a country's actual balance sheet, as a measure, but it isn't frequently reported and most people tend not to care.
It doesn’t surprise me. It’s been known a long time that you can model arbitrary functions with a 3-layer network with logistic activation.
Show HN: 400 sites to submit your startup to, reviewed
I scraped more than 400 urls that were listed as supposed good places to launch a startup. I checked out each one, and found a lot of neglected sites, domains for sale, sites asking a lot of money to list your startup, etc. I made notes about my experience with each. I think this could be useful to other startups.
> 'So in Europe, the whole internet is made illegal based on a wrong assumption.'

Is based on a wrong assumption.
The other perspective is traceable cameras, such that you can have some guarantee that an image came from a particular device and wasn't AI-generated (e.g. your camera signs each image after capture).

There have been attempts to cryptographically sign images, which have largely been broken, but the principle is there: https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/9955873926/why-cryptographi...

See https://contentauthenticity.org/how-it-works
Re-reading all the posts.
I do come back to a basic question, or something I don't get. (and I haven't kept up with WASM, sorry).

If Q# is a language for quantum computing, and it is a niche language just for exploring quantum computing.

Then, how does that lead to a requirement to re-write to target WASM?

If you are a person that would be doing quantum computing, why do you care if you can run it in a web browser, or VS code for the web. You would just install tooling on your own machine. Or if you are editing code in a web browser, the code itself would get compiled and run on server, why does it have to compile and run right there in a browser.

So if we remove WebAssembly as a goal, Why can't you just use .NET, CLR and stick with current MS languages to build it in?

I don't understand why running in the web is a needed feature for this set of users.

I understand RUST is very speedy. Is that the real goal, and all of "Rust also works on WASM", is just a side benefit?

Seems like quantum computing needs speed. Performance is the real goal. To simulate a quantum computer a normal computer must run many more steps.

So we have performance of : .NET, Rust binary, or Rust to WASM.

Guess, maybe I answered my own question. If Rust is faster then .NET, then that is goal, and Rust can also run on WASM as option is a side benefit.

I'm afraid this seems to be more indictment of .NET in general, not just F#.
Unfortunately, a judge can always say that using an external resource was not necessary to fulfil a user request.

As they did in the judgement I linked to.

A judge can always claim you could have used a local version of whatever external resource you used.
My first thought would be to store the magic numbers in either a db or a config file.
>What part of having absolutely nothing to do with the company or its business do you not understand?

We were presumably talking about cases where people might be fired or excluded from a project for e.g. making transphobic comments in public outside of a work context. If you agree that this isn't a case where the actions have 'nothing to do with the company or its business' (because of reputational issues), then it seems that we're in agreement.

>If anything, it seems like nowadays people can be routinely fired when it's discovered that they are straight.

Utter nonsense – and you know it.
It is not loading for me :(
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now
Not only that, but they also kept saying that governments around the world need to be quick at regulating AI usage. Many people pointed out how that could have been just a way to have some free advertising, this is the proof.
Seeking testers for a practical protein production powder
From my point of view, as someone who is pro life, it’s fine; it’s like showing anti-suicide line when you look for “how to kill myself”

Sure the person wants to kill himself but should he.
Stand up for what you believe in, and don't give them devices. (I have young kids of my own, and am very much not looking forward to this aspect of parenting).
Still get blisters on the outside of feet/toes with one layer, though not between toes. The second layer gives an additional protection and then no blisters. It’s like the double layer method Wright Socks use.
If hardbin.com has whois protection enabled then Gandi is acting as the contact point because their address will be in the relevant fields.
I feel bad for autonomous participants, Java is almost a uniquely poor choice for the size of project FIRST teams would be creating.

Java has its domains, but small, algorithm driven code worked on by a small, inexperienced group isn't one.
Which is funny since the QAs would actually pay their wages in savings (to some number of QA devs) or increase speed while e.g. a Scrum master in my experience increases admin burden for the devs.
you make a join between the "user session" and the "user profile" tables
So Sam Altman gets in front of governments around the world, alarms everyone with science fiction about how he’s created the technology that might be the doom of the human race, asks for regulation, now doesn’t want regulation even though he’s stirred up a hornets nest of government panic. There’s leadership for you.

(Edit remove criticism of Altman too negative)

I suppose I should be careful saying stuff about zuckerberg like that. He might want to cage fight me.
Of course it's never going to happen. I was referring the attitude expressed. Which is (on its own terms) quite obnoxious.
Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
The analogy would work if suicide was legal and desirable and there were reputable suicide services a la Futurama.
The term "personally identifiable information" does not occur anywhere within the text of GDPR. GDPR regulates the use of personal data, which is conceptually much broader than PII. Any data that relates to a natural living person is potentially within the scope of GDPR, including data that is insufficient in isolation to identify a natural living person. For example, pseudonymised data from an employee database or medical records may still constitute personal data if it would be possible to reconstruct the identity of that individual by inference, even if all direct identifiers have been removed.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
I hear the argument being made, it just doesn't make any sense. We are using React to do things vanilla JS could do eyears ago. That doesn't mean React doesn't make doing those things easier. I like Svelte as well, but it likely wouldn't exist today without lessons learned from other frameworks like React.
If they want to escape their lives they'll just become an alcoholic.

I'm not denying that people will self-harm. But the argument that people will self-harm with LSD needs to ignore that there's plenty of better drugs legalised already
No Dollar at the End of History
Soviet Russia did abolish many borders, police forces and militaries... To enforce their own :)

So far I've met two types of far-left. Flat-out authoritarians. Or „non-authoritarians“ who stay silent on implementation of their ideas. Probably because their ideas can be implemented (and, more importantly, kept in place) either authoritarian methods. Or full support in society, which is unrealistic.
I'd like to mention one caveat about the "low taxation" in Romania: Employees are taxed roughly 40-45%. Only self-employed workers and company owners are taxed less, and this year even their taxes went up.
Do you think abortion clinics should be advertised when people search "churches near me"?
> The moral of the story is that data locality matters, and it can pop up in the most surprising of places. Using random is typically the worst thing you can do for locality, so if you want to use UUID’s, try to use a sequential variant. UUID v7 is a good option

The author isn't suggesting abandoning UUIDs, he is suggesting using something like UUIDv7 which preserves locality. For most use-cases, this seems like a very reasonable recommendation with no significant downsides I can think of.
The point was that the taxes are going to private schools, not schools in general.
I’m not saying you can’t treat your pet well, or even spoil them sometimes. They are friends, they may even be “family”. They are complete individuals in their own right. But they aren’t human. Lately I’ve been wondering if treating them as children is bordering on animal abuse.
>But it's not better than catching up on sleep, netflix and/or a great meal with a fantastic conversational partner.

There's not a lot of pleasure of doing those things if your mind is consumed by the fact you're behind in something else.
The real question is why would a service like recaptcha need the ip of the user to operate?
DuckDuckGo Browser for Windows Available
I tend to agree with you, as I have spent many years in lessons myself and taught for a couple. But a) real lessons are expensive and difficult to access for a lot of people, and b) even for someone who has a teacher, most practice time is self-directed. I think there's a real opportunity to make practice much more efficient, and also provide a better experience than currently exists for those who can't access a human teacher.

Also, multimodal LLMs are improving so quickly that I wouldn't be that surprised if they were able to do what you're describing in a couple of years. But they are definitely not there yet.
It should be mentioned that we don’t have case law the same way the US does. So one court deciding this does not mean that this is now law.
Meta and Mastodon – What’s on people’s minds?
These are all fantasies unmoored from reality. We already have algorithms that can perform reasoning better than humans, and faster than humans because they run on computers. That is the result of the work on the Good, Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence that, according to the legend recounted by the article, our lord Hinton killed off, like St. George killed the dragon, when he invented back-propagation (to clarify: Hinton did; not st. George, or the dragon).

For example we have algorithms for classical planning SAT-solving, constraint satisfaction and automated theorem proving, that far surpass any ability of human beings to perform the same tasks. Note that those are unquestionably and uncontroversially reasoning tasks and the systems that excel at them are also uncontroversially reasoning systems, much unlike LLMs for which the definition of "reasoning" has to be dilated so far that it loses all meaning.

And yet, we have not been taken over by superintelligent AGI. And we will not be. We have no idea how to realise the fantasy of self-improving super-machine gods that Hinton and Bengio wish their systems to be capable of producingg. No. Idea.
You may need to read more crappy fantasy books. To cite a completely representative example, consider 'High Valyrian' from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/High_Valyrian, a liturgical language that of course is contrasted with Low (or Bastard) Valyrian, a degenerate family of dialects.
I suspect that, rather than give us a language to discuss these features, OO hijacked the programmer jargon with its own terminology and heavily marketed it to become the default.

To the point where FILE is called an object, even though it's just an opaque pointer hiding the implementation. It can be phrased in OO terms but this irks me because it sounds as if OO invented it (I know you're not claiming this), and anything non-OO ("procedural, yuck") is bad. Which leads to the "everything must be an object" mindset that so many programmers exhibit today.

Which is why it bothers me to see "OOP with ANSI C". To me, those are just more or less normal patterns in C, why call it OOP when it's normal procedural code :) that's just me. Rant over.
In my experience internal auto-increment ids and external random UUID works well.
> ask people involved in the field, and risk conflicts of interests

True, but in this case you can greatly mitigate the risk of conflict of interest by asking researchers that aren't directly involved with companies making money with AI. There are many of those researchers working in universities, make sure to filter out those that also work for some AI company and you still have a long list of possible candidates for expert consultancy.