skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I self host Gitea both on my home NAS and a DO droplet. I set up repos sync between the instances, it works flawlessly. I've moved the most of my projects off Github/Gitlab and overall I'm very happy with it.
Right, that's a very loose definition of private.
Sorry, they are pretty specific to Turkey so they probably won’t be much help to you. I use this price aggregator/comparor website called Akakce (tl. White coin) that links to tens of different independent/corporate ecommerce websites.
Right. And all the GPL, MIT, and CC Sharealike-with-attribution material I've been stashing on Github is going into the vast code anonymizer called Copilot.

The good news for me the open-source developer: it looks like the closed-source code people write with the help of Copilot and all the open-source code in its learning set will also feed into that learning set.

I guess code just wants to be free -- free as in speech, expensive as in yachts and fine wine for VCs and private equity pirates. Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose. Sigh.
Same. 70% of SSH scanners we see is from some (red-)Chinese network. Distant seconds are Russia, Belarus, India. Sometimes, rarely, one sees some Western cloud provider or hoster, but there the activity is typically short-lived due to working abuse-handling.

Sibling comment mentions proxying, which would be an explanation. But still, there is absolutely no working abuse handling on Chinese or Russian networks. Either they do not care or are complicit.
Looks like it's not end-to-end-encrypted.

Which should be default for anything that offers dms.

I wanted it for Discord so I created an E2EE client on top of it: https://www.discryptor.io
it would probably be a good idea to teach regular users to activate their brain and think a bit about whether the stuff they use and rely on is really a smart decision.

how many people would knowingly buy a house if it came with an expectation that only one specific megacompany with pretty much nonexistant support could ever do repairs/rework/updates/changes to their house?

people are being pushed in this direction with cars, but atleast a large amount of people understand that being locked to only have repairs carried out by the manufacturers own shops is not a good thing.

Why do they just turn off their brain when it comes to software?
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From the author's table here:

https://tedunderwood.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/screen-shot...

I wonder how sbert would do here given that it's a middle ground between words and full context.
Interesting, I'll file a feature request with our PMs. As far as I know we only have light/dark mode support. If you have an idea of how you'd like themeing to look shoot me an email to bgruenbaum@microsoft.com and I'll get it in front of a PM.
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The other major safety advantage of the SUV is in the single-car crash (hitting a tree, pole, etc). SUV weight provides a significant safety margin here. The single car crash is nearly 1/2 of all crashes and responsible for the majority of auto crash deaths!

So your statement about SUVs making the roads less safe is demonstrably false. SUVs are the safest class of vehicles on the road, and if everyone drove an SUV, there would be fewer auto crash deaths overall.

Also, the newest SUVs have lower rollover death rates than the newest cars.

In terms of pedestrians, we should implement policy changes like more sidewalks and elevated crossings, lower speed limits and traffic calming features in pedestrian areas, tougher distracted driving laws and enforcement, and pedestrian air bags on all vehicles.
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Inflection debuts new LLM, Outperforms GPT-3.5, Palm-540B on academic benchmarks
Is it on by default? Couldn't they just silently re-enable it with an "oops that's how site updates go sometimes!" later?
I wonder how many of the classic Shakespeare lines were actually popular idioms of the time rather than novel creations.

I imagine if the works of only one contemporary cliche ridden author survived in 500 years time, they would appear to be a literary genius without the context that shows them to be mediocre.
Good one! Not always reliable, but pretty good (this video it does not seem to work with, says no subs). Not sure if Whisper.cpp (yes I did mean OpenAI Whisper) is better though, or has similar issues on the edge cases I encountered with YouTube subs.

Here's the output by Whisper.cpp

> $ whisper --verbose False --language English --output_format txt transcribe_me.wav

> [...] (removed, comment too long)

> $ cat transcribe_me.txt | mods -f "summarize this in Simple English"

> The speaker discusses how Amazon accused a customer of racism due to something a robotic doorbell said. They also talk about the concept of companies limiting how fixable devices are, and how this limits the freedom and sovereignty of consumers. They mention that Amazon canceled their seven-year affiliate program account, claiming that they violated terms of service by having employees and friends use the links to buy items. The speaker argues that Amazon overreacted and that this demonstrates the problem of companies becoming less accountable as they gain more power. They call for more scrutiny of such behavior.

> $ cat transcribe_me.txt | mods -f "summarize this in English"

> The creator discusses how Amazon accused a customer of racism because a delivery driver claimed that he heard something racist from a robotic doorbell. The creator explains they often discuss the concept of "right to repair" and how companies are making devices less fixable over time, requiring customers to buy new ones or rely on the manufacturer for service. The creator talks about how having a system in your house that can be turned off by Amazon if an employee claims that your device said something racist to them is concerning. They also receive an email canceling their Amazon Affiliate account that has been open since 2016, claiming that the purchases resulting from special links are in violation of the operating agreement. The creator disputes these claims and argues that such actions demonstrate the problem of companies becoming less accountable as they become more powerful.

Note, mods requires OPENAI_API_KEY to be set.
> What units do you think you know the scale of the solar system in?

AU
There kinda is though, this is true for almost all military gear: it's quite hard to hide the existance of a new tank once you're actually making it in large quantities, for example, but the detailed drawings of it, and the test results showing the strengths and weaknesses of it will be varying levels of secret. In the case of a listening system, it's the kind of thing which is pretty obvious to do, but the exact nature and means of it being secret makes sense (cageyness about the name of the system is odder: but it may be a concern about revealing exactly which system this came from, assuming there's multiple, for correlation with other information which may be less public).

(The same thing happened with the snowden leaks, BTW: it was suspected for a long time that the NSA or FBI had a survellance system similar to PRISM, because it's the kind of thing that they would want to do and have the means to do, even absent any concrete evidence of its existance. The leaks just confirmed the existance undeniably and also showed how extensive it was)
Not only is it slower compared to pages, but we've found that upgrading Next dramatically slows down our app even if we don't have an app folder at all.
See also: the way freenode went under. Some asshole seized power, and then nothing happened for a bit. Then staffers got replaced as they got too uppity. Then a bit later anyone mentioning libera.chat in official freenode channels got kicked. Then the mods of any channel mentioning libera.chat in the topic got replaced. And then there was no one left as everyone had moved over to libera.
> Why is it so rare to hear about Western cyber-attacks?

Because they claim stuxnet was made by Israel. Deny, or pass the buck. We didn't do nothing, move along citizen.
See also: https://github.com/vladmihalcea/hypersistence-tsid (shorter than UUID)
CentosOS stream feeds into the next release - isn't that where you want the fix to land ?
If you ask for sauna, nudity seems expected to me, not "unsolicited"
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What aspects of bare git repos over ssh are uncomfortable or subpar?
> Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood.

The very pervasiveness argues against PFAS being that bad for humans in real life. Despite pretty much everyone having PFAS in their blood, at a global level, health is probably better than ever and most health problems are from refined sugars and sedentary lifestyle than anything that can be attributed to PFAS.
I took that more to mean that most LLMs won't spontaneously produce new insights given a general topic ("a paper about Middlemarch" being the example given). Their default mode is just to barf out somewhat patronizing summaries or answer questions with dry facts (and occasional factual-sounding nonsense).

It takes coaxing (and some cherry-picking) to get anything creative out of LLMs -- and some people suspect newer versions are so locked-down to avoid sounding "scary" that they actively avoid saying anything too interesting or philosophical.

The line between "creative output" and "hallucinated madness" is also somewhat blurry (for humans and LLMs alike...)
Please don't read the article and instead just guess what they did. You are in fact entirely wrong: they use that the same muon passing trough two detectors, something that happens by chance, and you can identify by knowing the geometrical distance between the two detectors and convert to a very narrow time window during which you accept signals.
> Humanity seems to have learned the lesson with fascism, but it somehow missed the same exact lesson with communism.

Because the vast majority of people on this planet, when they learn about what communism is, learn about the ideas of it. The US is pretty much the only place where it's taught as "Whatever China is doing" and "whatever Russia did".

Imagine someone talking about North Korea and constantly talking about how democracy is the reason for everything bad that's going on there. What they're doing must be democratic... it says so right in the name. Or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Remake goodthink fullwise.
How bad is the new freemium model making things, i kind of fizzled out on playing EVE about a decade ago(life happened) and is wondering if the game is worth getting back into?
To be honest I think Next with the pages router is still the best option you have today.

I'm not convinced the server components experiment is going to work in the end. They might even end up abandoning it.
You simply cannot equate an attempted murder of an activist to full blown war or natural disasters. Do you remember Anders Breivik ? Can you claim that Swedish people moving abroad are refugees ?
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Has anyone recently connected their domain with Substack? I want to pay $50 and tried 7 different cards, but the page won't move.
Stripe throw 500 for everything. On this page: https://your.substack.com/publish/domain/pay
That’s gonna pack a fair whallop, especially given the coadministration with ethanol results in the whole cocaethylene thing happening resulting in a longer lasting buzz.
> I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipeline

I use Gitea with Drone CI and it works pretty well: https://www.drone.io/

Some might also prefer the Woodpecker CI fork due to the license: https://woodpecker-ci.org/

I setup Drone as a part of my migration away from GitLab Omnibus and have no complaints so far: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-...

Here's the Drone example in particular: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-d...
An ARM framework main board, either using a cheap MediaTek/similar smartphone grade processor, making the main board a Pi Compute Module breakout, or maybe one of the Windows capable ARM processors would be a nice way to sell a low cost/high power efficiency framework.
In the intelligence business, they talk about capabilities, not intents.
I would consider it a form of harassment and such petty language policies would certainly impact my desire to participate in a community. I would feel unwelcome.
I don't think you can separate out the higher order effects of financialization and the downgrading in social status this has had for anyone not involved in some kind of finance.

In 1972 there was all kinds of social status that could not be bought and now social status can almost only be bought.

Imagine if the collective brain power of the hedge fund industry right now was working on science instead? It is a night and day difference.
WAI-ARIA Usage Has Quadrupled Since 2019
It's crazy to me that their docs aren't versioned. Almost forces you to be constantly upgrading to the bleeding edge.
> They owe us nothing.

Are you referring to the actual "government" ? because in that case, it definitely seems like they owe their own citizens something?
> You must admit that is a bit ironic

It's a sad situation that if you desire exposure and community building you must maintain a fork on Github, but that's how it is for smaller projects. I am in a similar situation, with some of my projects with main repos hosted on sourcehut, but most of external engagement comes from clones on github. It is what it is, and we do what we must. :)
A "large portion" is an exaggeration, and I don't know that any have been "refuted". Some of the studies around "priming" (Chapter 4 of the book) have been called into question for failure of being replicated, and Kahnemann himself has since said that the published studies on priming may not be replicable. Since the publication of the book we've had a "replication crisis" in the relevant literature, so the book may not be on as solid ground as Kahnemann believed when he wrote it, but it's still a very good book with important insights.
I guess it hinges on the definition of “looking”.

Receiving files, copying them within a file system, and transmitting the contents? Clearly not looking.

Computing a hash for each file? Doesn’t seem like looking either.

Parsing the contents, or tokenizing them for a ML model? That’s looking IMO.

I think the defining factor is the size and nature of the derived state update on the server. Copying and transmitting retains only metadata about the file. Computing a hash produces only a handful of bytes of state about the file, and there’s nothing that can be inferred about the file’s contents from the hash. But if you start storing something like word frequencies, that’s not neutral anymore, it’s a “look” into the contents.
Because attribution of cyber-attacks is a guessing game. One that is easily manipulated.

Together with wide-open networks, shitty endpoint security and missing abuse handling in Eastern countries, they could be originators or proxies for an attack. It isn't really possible to distinguish those, there can be hints, but those hints might as well be planted.

So all the "China is attacking us" panic might still be "Western criminals are attacking us, China is just helping through their gross negligence".
Isn't it just retaliation for sake of retaliation? The company won't be financially affected either way. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some fragile ego called this in.
This means very little beyond those hosts being potentially compromised as well.
That's because you have a server in a western country. Would be surprised if the stats were the same for a server in China.
So? most people would buy expensive bmw’s, Porsches or ferarri’s if they could, but they can’t afford them, so they settle for opel, Renault, Hyundai , Toyota or other more affordable cars. Nothing wrong with that. What is surprising is that are not more brands focussing on the market targeted by Dacia.
> Alternative to VM is Linux namespaces.

They're really not. Containers (and by that I mean their underlying technology) are not alternatives to VMs, in the same way that unikernels are not alternatives to containers (yet, anyway). They're technologies that can be used for similar purposes, but in practice, they all have their tradeoffs that should be considered before use.

For one, containers share the same kernel of the host machine. The isolation provided by VMs is on a deeper level, which also makes them more secure. Unikernels are more like VMs in this sense.

My point is that the only drawback of unikernels in theory is the immature tooling and support around it. So I'm wondering if there is another reason that they haven't been as widely adopted as containers.

> As to why VM is supposed to be lighter than container, I don’t really understand.

You misunderstood. I said that unikernels, not VMs, have less overhead than containers. Containers require a minimal, but fully functioning, OS to work, while unikernels only require a cut-down version of a kernel. Whether unikernels are more lightweight is debatable, since containers are merely another process running on the same host OS with improved isolation, while unikernels depend on a hypervisor to work, but if we define "lightweight" to include boot time and performance, unikernels have certainly surpassed containers in this sense as well[1]. So the main benefit containers had over VMs is also an attribute of unikernels.

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/95/slides/slides-95-nfvrg-2...
I hope that he takes the time to change those affiliate links for any other store.
Also the doorbell hates you and will sometimes report you to the police for innocuous things.

Your chirrupy breakfast companion.
Its not a checkbox, it’s an action.

…and “automatically disable for all new private repos” is not set unless you explicitly opt in.
A innovative case of using the LLMs.

> The total cost to my OpenAI account was $22. Of that amount, about $8 was testing the prompts and running on the (cheaper) Turbo API. The final run on GPT-4 cost $14; if I had completely replicated our work from 2017 on GPT-4 it would have cost $140.

Seems like coming up with good prompt itself is quite costly at around 1/3rd of the total cost. I wonder if there are any ways to iterate on the prompts cheaply?
> Racism off course is never ok

I think racism is bad, but I don’t think that racists should have their devices bricked.

Should cameras brick themselves if they film a crime? I think it’s a bad situation where consumer devices are making ethical, moral, or legal decisions.

Especially by some kafkaesque corporate no due process system of adjudication where a single accusation with no evidence results in permanent action. And I suspect there’s some stupid KPI about how many racists banned that encourages more dumb actions rather than careful determinations.
I highly recommend the interview with the author on The Gradient podcast. A wonderful conversation on language, culture, and LLMs: https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/ted-underwood-machine-...
> firing at least two people involved in the debacle

The idea that after a mistake companies should fire people leads to company cultures that are overall worse for everyone, including customers/users. Demand that they apologize, even that they give compensation, but not firing.
Is it actually so rare? The stories seem to appear semi-regularly. Consider the last year's attacks on Russian ministries etc., or what Snowden revealed about the NSA, or things like this: https://arnt.gulbrandsen.priv.no/tmp/nsa.png

Last time I read about banking/phishing swindles, Florida was named as a main source.
Exactly.

I think the best way to avoid falling into that kind of trap is to learn to dissociate between a value one believe in, and a discourse/action done in the name of that value.

It's perfectly possible to agree to one without agreeing to the other.

People who haven't yet learned this[1] tend to think that disagreeing with the latter also means disagreeing with the former. Worse, they might believe that not personally sharing/believing a value constitutes an attack on this value. And since one's identity tends to be tied with one's deeply held values, it constitue an attack on them or on their peers as well.

The important point is that good people might do it in good faith, out of naivety. In the Opal thread, however, I believe most of the 'Twitter army' that came to +1 the CoC uses it as a rethorical trick, out of self-righteousness.

[1] And I honestly believe that most early twenty-something tends to fall into that category, especially the most politicaly or religiously active ones.
>Dear Louis Rossmann,
our affiliate program is designed to direct positive attention to Amazon. The way you have represented the company in your opinions in how we do business are antithetical to the way we believe we represent ourselves in the world. As a result of this disagreement we will no longer have you as our affiliate.
Signed Amazon.

Well, it took some underpaid service worker (doing this repetitive work probably 1000x/day) just 1 sec to click a button to choose from a bunch of generic texts reviewed by a legal team to cancel your affiliate relationship with them and you even "got" it. Very effective. Win/Win.

Maybe in the future Amazon will refine this with their own customized LLMs: legally watertight, some "honesty" fine-tuning and who knows from time to time sprinkled with some limericks just for the creepy giggles ...

And owning to the previous experience with Amazon the way more important point: >Don't try to compete with Amazon [...] they will literally destroy you.
The corollary to that: if you decide to do even some penny business with them, you are wholly at their whim.

The machine at work seems to be very trigger happy atm.
Of course. Attributing attacks properly is extremely hard, if not impossible. It is far too easy to fool the used attribution methods.
Both of them don’t support Iraq, unfortunately.
The ad spend is around the customer's LTV? Then why even bother acquiring them?
That's why my thumbnails are different on my devices sometimes! But it just does not work to click preference of mine, all Youtube I consume is several-hours long lectures and my choice never depends on thumbnail.
... in salmons ...
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What Pol Pot and Mao did are natural consequences of these ideas. The communist ideas themselves are a promise that if you jump off a roof and start waving your hands really hard, you'll fly. Intelligent people drive their conclusions on empirical data instead of theories, but you're absolutely right about the majority.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-musl...

Millions of people... millions. They're not all extremist Muslims that China is doing this to.
The timing is suspect.
Given his opinions on package managers like npm, I guess anything vaguely adjacent doesn't feel welcome.
Generate ChatGPT prompts from only keywords
We've been doing that for years in our org. This works perfectly.we do push open source repos to GitHub though.
Yeah, I had intended to link to that repo, which also links to the one I provided - unsure what happened there.
This is probably the most interesting thing I’ve read all day. Now where did I leave the UV torch…
You see some American pickups, but I wouldn’t call it very popular. They’re also very impractical, hard to park, very uneconomical. Not a very rational purchase.

The only brand popular in both the us and the Netherlands is probably Tesla.
My grandfather was a dissident in Soviet union, so I have a pretty good idea.
I don't understand, who's "yourself" here? If I'm paying $0.01 per click and I make $0.1, why wouldn't I want that?
It's not that easy in many parts of the world.
Whatsapp became the standard communication not only with your friends, but also businesses.
You talk to your bank manager via whatsapp and your doctor etc.

No Whatsapp, no talk.