skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically no.

You would have to be forced to install an extra root certificate that allows the ISP to MITM your traffic, or have a CA turn rogue and start issuing certificates for other people (e.g. DigiNotar). Both of these attacks would be detected by the Certificate Transparency system, so everyone would know. And for very big domains (google/facebook) browsers pre-bundle the certs they expect to see and refuse to honour any other cert, this is known as static key pinning.

Nation states would be more likely to just tap up Cloudflare to spy on the traffic since a huge % of the internet goes directly to them and is unencrypted at that point.
If my current mastodon instance blocks Meta, I will move to a different instance which federates with them. The entire point of federation in my eyes is that it lets me talk to as many people as possible.
When comparing compression ratios in serious publications, it is customary to include the size of the decompression utility and any dictionaries required for decompression in one's numbers, especially where these are of comparable size to the corpus used for testing or larger. It is otherwise trivial to come up with compression schemes that show amazing performance on some corpus, simply by smuggling arbitrarily large parts of the corpus inside the decompression utility.

In this case, the entire, exact large language model dataset used to compress the data is required for decompression. Since this is not accounted for, the paper is meaningless.

Note that there are prizes available for genuine AI based improvements to English text compression, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
It really shouldn't be and (AFAIK) isn't trivial for people to get root certs any more unless they can get end-users to install them on their systems.

It used to be relatively straightforward (you could buy security appliances that had them) but that was quite a long time ago, things have tightened up considerably since then.

So if an ISP wants to do this, the only other option is a mandatory proxy.
Not sure which typical workplaces require smartphone use (I'm sure there are many), but indeed, in my case, I work either at the computer or in front of people or walking up and down while thinking :)
oh finally, we see linux gaming rising.
Kagi ultimate seems to be multiple times the price that poster mentioned they thought reasonable for unlimited search
This is a wrong approach.

What users want from these metrics is the feedback about their hardware performance. It should absolutely reflect on issues related to memory latency. This is not about going faster, this is about making good use of the resource you have.

My typical use of similar metrics is from iostat: a tool that shows various statistics about how the system is doing I/O to block devices. Beside other things, it shows CPU utilization (which, in the context of this tool means the amount of CPU work dedicated to I/O). In the context of looking at the output of this tool, I don't use CPU utilization to directly judge the speed (it has read / write requests per second for that), this aspect tells me if I'm utilizing the capacity of the system to do I/O to its full extent (and I don't care if I may be writing in improperly aligned blocks causing write amplification, or not merging smaller blocks -- I will use different tools for that).

The problem is with CPU utilization as displayed by eg. top and our intuitive understanding of what it means to do work on CPU -- they are different. But, tools that display that utilization go for the metric that are easy to obtain rather than trying to match our intuition / be better sources of actionable information.

We want utilization to count progress along the code instructions, because that's where intuitively we'd draw the line between hardware utilization and software issues. Instead, we get a metric that never over-estimates utilization, but is usually wrong.
This is very, very dangerous, especially if an emergency happens and the teacher is out of the room or slow to respond.

Yes, emergencies happened before cell phones. People died of them more often back then.
For what it’s worth, the Gates Foundation spent many tens of millions attempting to quantify ‘teacher effectiveness’ and basically concluded that it’s not measurable. Instead, they produced a holistic set of observable behaviors that are generally correlated with ‘great teaching’ - which may be useful, but isn’t the same thing. This is not to say I really disagree with you about the quality of education schools, but knocking them for failing to produce a measurable impact on teacher effectiveness doesn’t resonate with me when we don’t have robust tools for measuring teacher effectiveness in the first place.
Not understanding what you're saying here. If anything HN has less able to separate good from bad at least on this topic imo, and I wasn't claiming the direct parent posted said exactly it has no use case, but still even that they had to couch any slight mention of utility with being a "sad, sad state" implies they don't like it and know it isn't liked here.
Apple's Final Cut Pro used to hold 60% market share.

Movies are not just rendered on rendering farms. There's a ton of other stuff that gets done. Rendering the final movies is the smallest, most boring and trivial part of the whole process.
Free cash flow is positive though
I would love everyone to just examine the specific situations as they arise instead of immediately jumping to Platonic discussions of merit and race and gender. Otherwise you're falling into a culture war trap that's completely unproductive.

The first problem is there's actually no injury here as far as I can tell. This person did not even submit the paperwork, and thus did not get scored, and thus did not get rejected. The entire thing is based around the assumption that he would get rejected.

But why would he assume that? Maybe it has less to do with his paperwork and more to do with his public activity.

For example, in this case, you have an individual who either tweets or retweets dozens of times daily (DAILY), frequently getting into online arguments. He's active in the conservative online outrage machine, retweeting and interacting with conservative personalities. He has a paid Substack where he opines about the cultural revolution ("Marxist" left unsaid, but obviously present), whether COVID was real, how "the Left" destabilizes society, and other conservative culture war issues. By any stretch of the imagination, this isn't a normal person. This is someone who is loud, addicted to Online Discourse, and who seems like they're looking to make trouble. If someone like this was a colleague, regardless of their political persuasion, I would steer clear of them. This type of person is often not pleasant to be around, and often fails to properly do their job.
Try to get a French car in Poland, most shops are used to deal with VW, Audi.

It is not impossible but if you try to go to a random shop you found on Google and fix your Citroen or Renault you might be surprised.
> Children will soon be prevented from bringing mobile phones into Dutch classrooms.

"Prevent"? Forbidding is easy. Actually preventing is another thing altogether.

> Due to persistent signals from teachers that they are unable to keep smartphones out of the classroom on their own, ...

So teachers already had the authority to forbid carrying of phones. Article offers no evidence that national authorities can do any better.
As a parent working a full time job - I can finally play games again. As weird as it sounds, there was always a pychological hurdle to go and sit at my desk, boot my pc, select a game and play it.

With the deck, I just sit on the couch and play games - the sleep/standby function is amazing.
Mostly games! Porting any FOSS web game that has a score mechanic or can be made asynchronous to WebXDC is straightforward and fun.

There are a few utility apps like TODO and Calendar that we use too.
cheer up, we will be the last to die
This is an older article. Today, the coalition decided on a measure with 'urgent advice' to not be allowed smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in the classroom [1]. Starting Jan 1st 2024, and so far only for secondary education, though they're deciding on primary education today.Schools are free in how they implement it, could be in the entire building or just classrooms. I don't expect any hard rules any time soon, with the coalition being so divided on the topic.

There's been interesting debates in parlement preceding this measure, with several interesting position papers on the topic from researchers, and even student associations [2].
The researchers emphasize that adolescents are much more susceptible to the bad effects of smartphones, due to inexperience with dopamine and its effects on dopamine production, being easier to condition, FOMO.
The main adverse effect they name is what they call a 'crumbling brain', with a short attention span unable to focus on one thing for a longer time. An often-repeated soundbyte is that students using smartphones often score in average 1-1.5 points less on tests, on a scale of 1 to 10.

I dunno what to think about it. As noted by the student association, it seems like children won't get the chance to learn how to handle the traps smartphones pose. Then again, I was free to use mine in high school and I'm still addicted to the thing :/

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2481424-kabinet-geeft-dringend-advies...

[2] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_vergadering/commissiever...
I bought one about a month ago. It's portable around home which is handy. It's quite big so it's less portable outside of home - but I've got books to entertain me there!

I agree with the standby / sleep modes. Super useful if you need to stop gaming and run for whatever reason.

I think there's a big sale on them right now (I do wish I'd waited a month!).
A venture capital news aggregator seems an odd place to vaguely preach your anti-capitalist views.

Nonetheless, what exactly does capitalism do to make "digital stuff" worse?
Really glad this article is so high up because we should be talking *primarily* about regulating Data and not "Algorithms" or "Compute" when it comes to governing "AI."

If commoncrawl didn't exist, there would be no ChatGPT

If ImageNet didn't exist there would be no Tensorflow

etc...

Go look at it, all of the value, the actual information, the vectors, matrices, and weights and hyperparameters...all are derived from a single source: Large scale concatenated tables of data. This isn't your daddy's GOFAI - this is only possible because of internet scale data that is relatively trivial to access and simple to transform.

I've read calls for regulating (or bombing (wtf?!)) GPU clusters to prevent skynet from happening and it's all very misguided and shows how little is understood about how AI systems are actually built.

We should be regulating and managing DATA collection, DATA processing, DATA privacy etc... all of the other parts including the hardware and math will be obsolete or replaced totally over the next decade, but you still need observation of human behavior in some form. Norbert Wiener told us all this in 1950.

That process of computationally observing humans - aka metrics, monitoring etc... that comprises the global surveillance economy, should be the thing regulated. All the other problems stem from that.

The fact that surveillance capitalism underpins literally TRILLIONS of dollars and the entirety of modern society tells me that data collection/processing regulation at the scale required is going to be difficult at best.
This is the best feature by far and it didn't really occur to me in advance what a game changer it is.

You can instantly jump into a game that usually takes 5 minutes to start up while waiting for the kettle to boil or during an ad break.

I wouldn't ever buy a handheld that didn't have this.
Last: Self-hosting stuff and accessing it from remote. Reduces the burden to harden locally hosted and publicly accessible services. This is what I use VPNs the most.
> I have no idea why this has to be a government-based rule

You clearly have not met today's parents. Enough of them revolt at the idea of a teacher taking - even temporarily - the $1000 device they bought for their child and which they need to monitor/contact/supervise their child 24/7.

A rule like that might help teachers and schools to get overbearing parents off their backs.
The whole idea of a school system is that the country government mandates a common denominator of education (including propaganda) to be delivered to all of its children (usually for free).

Of course it may be more granular than the whole country, but schools organizing themselves as they see fit is an exception.
> can't be a coincidence, can it?

Boy do I have a cosmic bridge to sell you!
The boss is always whoever controls the capital, hence why it's called capitalism.
6. At least in the USA, ISPs can sell your browsing habits(DNS lookups, connection end-points) to third parties. A VPN that doesn't sell this data protects you from that level of snooping from the ISP.
I tried it, it's not even bad. Lovely what ChatGPT is able to do without all the rules
I'm a parent. We're moving to the Netherlands next month. I just sent emails to the local taalschool in Hilversum (and two basisschools) to ensure that my daughters learn Dutch as fast as possible upon our arrival because learning the local language is critical for living a full life. Any parent who doesn't do this, except _perhaps_ for those who know they're on a short-term stint for work or similar, is being negligent.
Maybe Toyota does not want to compete in the luxury EV business because they do not see a profit for them. Toyota's success was not built on their luxury models.
I would have thought any using 2FA for anything would essentially require it.
If you don't have the right to hold up a sign saying whatever you want on land that you own, it's a serious limitation on your free speech. So while I think it's reasonable to place safety and aesthetic restrictions on advertising, it's worth balancing those restrictions against free speech ideals.
It's a (kind of) portable PC. A much clunkier version of the Switch, which for some that might be a good thing as the Switch is mostly a toy.

It's not for everyone for sure, but it's an excellent way to have every PC game, including emulators, on the go... Which is basically 90% of all games ever created.

Personally I wouldn't take it outside my house, but I could see myself bringing it with me if I were to travel a lot.
> Apple has customers who will buy multiple $15,000 configuration Mac Pros without batting an eye. That’s the price of the tool and for what they’re working on (perhaps a $250,000,000 movie) it’s justified.

Exactly. And Apple showed exactly zero use cases for "vision pro" that would be useful to these people.
Whoa, first time I'm reading about Llama Index... How does it work? Where can I learn more?
karpathy's nanoGPT is a good one
> As for "almost the whole article" -- it is short! It took about 90sec to read the whole page, top to bottom.

Cool. The article has 2348 words, so that's around 26 words per second, or ~1560 words per minute.

According to some speed reading pages I randomly found via Google the consensus seems to be that 1000+ words per minute is quite exceptional. https://irisreading.com/what-is-the-average-reading-speed/ puts average adult reading speed at around 300 WPM, which you casually exceed by 400%.

Far be it from me to suggest that your estimate is inaccurate, but at least know that not everybody reads at that speed :-)
Still waiting to get wider availability in other countries. Probably should just wait till Steam Deck 2 at this point
It sounds like you are doing something different than what I am suggesting. I am not quizzing the AI looking to determine how well the AI knows the subject. I am using the AI as if it doesn't know the subject at all.

I try to explain a subject to the AI as if I am trying to teach a friend who has no knowledge on the subject. Then I am judging how well I can communicate the idea. In many cases as soon as I try to explain the idea I realize that my own knowledge isn't deep. So I am judging myself, not the quality of the AI.

An analogy is the Rubber Duck method of program debugging. Most programers have been in the situation where when they try to explain an answer to another programmer the answer will suddenly pop into their head. The value isn't the knowledge in the other programmers head, it is in the act of trying to explain. LLMs are patient and unopinionated and make for a good recipient.
Is it possible to get the transcript in English without watching a 13 minute video?
a 10% sale on the cheaper model, and 20% on the more expensive one
Not particularly interested in immortality, but I sure could do with some restoration of my memory.. which used to be nearly photographic but is now more like now here, now gone with the wind.
I would pick ooRexx: https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/
Personally, I consider its free-form and case-insensitive syntax to be amazing.
I really love it. Though I barely play outside, it's still fantastic as a portable console. Amazing compatibility backed by (almost) butter smooth UI. Some people pick SteamOS as the number one reason to buy Steam Deck.
There's a cynical comment like this on every battery story, ignoring the fact that battery breakthroughs do exist, and that lithium ion energy density has ~tripled in the past decade.
Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming an hour or two a week on the couch, and its hit that sweet spot.

Purchased the base model; overall impressed with the quality of the device too. So much more comfortable than I was expecting, I just rest it on my lap. Its great.
TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within a decade
Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Do you want ferret Doctor Manhattan? Because that’s how you get ferret Doctor Manhattan.
This reads like pure hysteria. Do you have any evidence or statistics about rates of “Classroom Emergencies” to base this panic on?

Specifically those outside of the US, we know that is an outlier.
Assuming all the sites you care about (From a security perspective) run over TLS, the wi-fi risk is less now than it used to be (when HTTPS uptake was lower).
Part of the justification I’ve heard for wasting the scammers time is to limit the number of people they can interact with in a day. If wasting a scammer’s time prevents another innocent person from scammed then there’s a net benefit.

It’s unfortunate that some people need to do bad things to make a living but it’s an explanation of bad behavior, not a justification for it.

Mind you, I’m also sympathetic to the ways in which this practice could be abused.
But not as their OS. The little Minix computer is owned and controlled by Intel ;-)
I haven't yet encountered situations with mandatory 2FA, but indeed, this is the kind of thing I expect to become widespread, making it more and more difficult to those without a smartphone.
Remember when we used to call that filtering and it was a feature and not a con?

Not for actual censuring in cases where it’s demonstrably harmful - but I’m not required to give attention to someone’s opinion just cause they feel like blasting it into the void. Twitters gone too far the other way.
1. I would love to know why people are using VPNs. I suspect it's for evading region blocks but if it is for privacy reasons it would be a strong counter-argument to the idea that people don't care about privacy.

2. Is this whole article a marketing piece? My understanding is that NordVPN has a somewhat checkered reputation including a data breach in 2018. The linked list[1] of best VPNs also effectively lists NordVPN twice since Nord now owns Surfshark.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/vpn/best-vpn
A content-free article complaining that the people annotating datasets for AI companies are not paid enough.
Absolutely love it. Between work travel, doctor's appointments, and just not being locked to the desk or couch, the portable nature has completely changed how I play and think about playing videogames.
Reaction: If of age, you have the right to have "sex" in private with whatever vegetable, mineral, or mechanical gadget you own or have honestly rented for that purpose. So long as you don't expect society to pick up the tab for any consequences of your exercising that right.
The ferret was used to run a string through the tube, which was then used to pull a cleaning swab.
Remember this is the Netherlands, not the US. Happily, "emergencies" are not a regular occurrence.
Man, am I glad that the UK has the Advertising Standards Authority ensuring I don't have to deal with an unlimited stream of fraud. Oh and there's essentially zero political advertising on TV, it's all submarined into "news" programmes.

(I would possibly make an exception for cases where people want to put their speech on their land, but the moment it's a corporation paying someone to put up an advert? That's not individual speech any more, is it?)
This might be true :)

My parents would intentionally delay picking up the phone as a punishment, but back then, it was a monochrome display three line phone, and I was in highschool when I first got it :) But it had both clock and alarm, which some of my classmates didn't have on their older-model phones :) (ericsson a1018 vs ga628)
Lots of respect for this - I’d guess your kids have it too. I often felt frustrated as a kid that adults took power and control over you and didn’t adhere to the same demands themselves.
The Future of AI Interview with Jerry Liu
My friend poured the concrete base for his heat pump by himself because apparently that's not part of the service when installing one and finding a guy to do it was nigh impossible.

At the moment I dread doing any house maintenance - especially the sort for which you need certification.
> Some people pick SteamOS as the number one reason to buy Steam Deck.

much better than Windows on the ROG Ally for sure
I use ProtonVPN mainly for reading & browsing on my iPad at the gym or McDonald's or airport. It adds a layer of protection, particularly in a public place where they explicitly say your connection is not private.

Probably it's not totally secure either, since nothing in this world is totally so, but Proton is reputable and reliable, along with Nord and a handful of others, so all I can do is hope for the best and probably avoid connecting to my bank and other sensitive uses.

As for teens using free VPN's, this just sounds very sketchy and I wonder if there should be a required course in approximately 9th grade high school teaching people safe internet use, kind of like driver's ed or home economics... necessary basic knowledge in this day and age.
Maybe we can apply the anthropic principle to feel a bit better about it. I.E. we observe the universe to be the way it is because if it were any different, we wouldn't be here to observe it.

We could be alive now because it's the statistically most likely time for most humans to be alive, right between the time it took us to slowly explode in population and the time we implode and make ourselves extinct. Otherwise we'd more likely live further in the future since if we continue growing then there's vastly more humans that will live then. We could very well be living in the best time ever, full stop. Food for thought.
There has been a good gradual progress, and all the incremental improvements added up to much better batteries.

However, there regularly are press releases promising breakthroughs, but they either never reach production, or end up being one of the small incremental improvements, not a revolution.