skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that dulls my interest in this debate is my doubt that it will ever get “resolved”. We dont have sequence samples at the time of covids origin. China is never going to cooperate on giving more circumstantial evidence. So we cant really do any phylogenetic or epidemiological analysis at the level of spatial precision that this would require. The data is extremely fuzzy where it needs to be sharp. In my opinion, this is the real thing stalling this debate, not politics.
> I detest

It was recorder. It was reported. Not sure why they put it like this but why are you so emotional about that?
> Your idea of "value of a single vote" is grotesquely misinformed.

Most of my positions on the relative efficacy of various voter behaviors in the US system of government are heavily informed by my having been a poli-sci major in the US, and spending a fair amount of time studying those directly and absorbing expert analyses of them.

Admittedly, some of those are unpopular—people love voting for the President (and then ignoring school board, city, and county elections, and not participating in any political parties).

shrug
Well, you gotta show you had it at the time of the claimed recording, so... time for Google to release a new product for high-res date-authenticated scans of our whole bodies? ;)
IPs aren't enough in a lot of cases

"If you want 100% undetectable, use real browser, with image recognition and auto clicker. "
Do you know an open source package that does this reliably?
AFAIK the JS ecosystem is moving onto Vite which uses esbuild and Rollup under the hood.
Sun was a combination hardware and software shop, which Bryan appreciated and has tried to replicate at Oxide. The only reason they have a chance today is because the hardware/firmware interface in most servers is terrible quality.
His easily-understandable yet mind-blowing ideas of hyperspheres of information (and a reliable communications channel having a definition!? What?) changed my brain permanently.

This is the paper I was going to cite as well.
I witnessed a situation when "surplus" physicists employed by the university were looking for some better justification of their employment and lobbied hard for extensive mandatory physics courses for maths and informatics majors. In the extent of, say, 20 % of the entire curriculum.

Their proposals were beaten back, but it took a lot of effort.

Czechia, 1998-1999. No tuition involved, study was still completely financed by the taxpayer.
RHEM I: The Mysterious Land absolutely blew my mind. I'd played puzzle games before, but they all shared a critical flaw: to appeal to wide audiences, they were pretty easy. More or less linear from a gameplay perspective, with hints that were relatively self contained.

RHEM throws that all out the window. Each game (there's 4 now) is a complex web of interconnected puzzles, with the feeling that you're finding 2 new puzzles for every hint. An absolute masterclass is "What if Myst was actually fun?".
Sometimes I feel they are just testing our limits. Same with iPhone price increases. I guess they are going to continue until the net profits decrease.
What if you look at it from a different perspective. The body and brain are two roommates with different needs and if you treat one poorly it acts it on the other.

If a child has a fast processing brain eager to learn and crunch problems and a body full of energy, then when one or both of those has nowhere to go, they will act out.

Families have an abundance of mental stimulation cheap right on their phones, TV, etc. That likely makes both parents and kids less likely to move their bodies as much as the body required to generate natural endorphins and balance the needs of the brain. AKA: staring at screens or people all day and not moving as much as your body needs to will make you miserable, regardless of how successful your mental tasks were.

Carbs create more energy for the body and proteins with fat make more food for the brain, if one consumes more of one than they need and less of the other, they will also suffer. If you eat a bunch of carbs you will want to move more and think less.

A child or adult who gets to vary physical and mental exertion will be more focused and able to work. Test that. ADHD symptoms may not show as much in tired bodies telling you if the issue is that or an actual pathology in each person.
Pakistan recorded 54°C several times over the past few years.
The only way any significant fractions will get off the earth is in the metaphoric sense: they died. The energy required to move any even a trivial population people off the planet is not attainable.
> potential for being more insidious and more passive. Im thinking of sound beacons

I have some bad news for you - what you describe as a dystopian future hellscape was up and running by 2015. If you want to so much as slow it down, stick to F-Droid or ditch your smartphone.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/11/block-ultrasonic-signals-didnt...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/there...
The killer feature here is efficient handling of very large groups. That's great but that isn't the main issue with this sort of thing.

Identity in end to end encrypted group messaging is hard to do. This seems to leave the difficult identity issue to future work. How do we know that we are due to have a breakthrough in the near future?

Even if they do come up with something usable in a technical sense, there is no way you are going to know who all the participants are in a large group. The problem is to some extent inherently unsolvable.

Interoperable 1 to 1 end to end encryption might be a better first try.
Back around 2000-2002, I too had dial-up internet and had set up an auto-dialer to make sure the connection stayed up, as it was being shared throughout the house via ethernet and wifi. My memory is that we started getting very large bills. When we asked about them, we were told that it was because we had several concurrent connections.

What was happening is that my script to detect the connection being down was finding that and reconnecting before their system could mark the disconnection. Then my computer would reconnect and they'd never see the original disconnection, and so they'd think we had concurrent sessions and charged us accordingly. I remember them being surprised when they figured out that bug in their stuff. I think it helped that all of the connections came from the same phone number.
So maybe the term scale is more correct than unit. But more importantly, is the advise useful or not?
Personally, I never accepted that a lab leak was out of the question. I simply didn't think it mattered during the early days of the pandemic response (to the everyday citizen) since it didn't influence safe hygiene and social distancing. It was used by conservative media as something for their base to get mad about and be mildly racist about (Wuhan flu).

What was more egregious was Dr. Fauci's assertion that masking wouldn't help slow the spread, which he likely knew to be false and had said so to prevent a run on N95s. I get it, but that is a huge undermining of public trust.
This was very predictable for the companies which have an established culture prior to Covid. If all your collaboration and management practices are set for an in-person environment, then you really have only 2 choices: force people to return to work or invest into resetting your culture.

A lot of decision makers at these big co's have been working for 15-20 years by now. So they are going to find it very hard to change their habits. It is much easier for them to go with the first option. And before someone raises the problem of attrition, these people are not dumb to not think of it (okay, some of them are, but only a few). Rather, they know how to cushion the impact, like: 1) allow WFH for 1-2 days, 2) impose RTO during a weak labor market when people cannot find a job easily, 3) identify top performers and give them generous retention grants, 4) allow exceptions for truly indispensable employees who do not budge after the first 3 majors (though these people are only a handful).

I am seeing this movie first hand in a lot of companies across SV.
Biden administration proposes new criteria on mergers
10% decline over the previous year, which was a boom year due to shortages after covid.

See this article back from distant Jan 23 for example

"Timeline: causes of the global semiconductor shortage" https://supplychaindigital.com/top10/timeline-causes-of-the-...
Sounds like

* Russia

* China

... yup
It's the difference between spending a lot of time at the slot machine vs becoming good at chess. It's s massive difference. You don't "grind" chess, you learn from your failures and get better at it. Sure, you can get lucky sometimes if your opponent blunders but the strategy to wait for that to happen is a failing one.
How about bencode? c-sexp? netstrings? The important features I would demand are: able to represent the types you need (e.g. integers instead of strings of digits or floats) and designed to have a canonical presentation from the beginning. There are so many bugs around ASN.1/XML/JSON parsing and "normalisation" that it's simply inexcusable to repeat this mistake. If the designers didn't come up with a really convincing explanation for selecting the wrong serialisation format for a cryptographic protocol how likely is it they read and understood the prior art in other fields like cryptography? Just because a canonical JSON (de-)serialiser is only a npm/pip/gem install is no excuse to burden a specification with the bloat and attack surface. Even fix sized, flat, packed structs are a better solution. K.I.S.S.!
yeah well that's also how you 'paperclip-maximizer' all of cinema into superhero movies.

there is more to the arts than financial success.
I think this is still doing it a disservice. You don't test a code with a model of the real environment. You execute the code, which was modeling something.

Consider, "F=ma" is a mathematical model relating force to mass and acceleration. You can test this by dropping several things each from the same height and seeing that the force linearly increases based on the mass of what you are dropping. Similarly, you could test the model by accelerating something to a halt at different speeds and seeing how much force is imparted into it.

Is that not a "model" because it is not necessarily graphical?

So, similarly, much CRUD software can be seen as modeling different agents in an overall system and what happens when they interact in certain ways.

Edit: I want to add that I think I see where you are coming from. Many treatments of graphical models like to hold them up as a special form of modeling.
Still better than 193 bit frames
Slackware was my second Linux distro, after SLS. I ran a heavily customized Slackware for about 4 years: custom kernel, aout->ELF upgrade, many packages built from source.
> Avoid emotional dumps, empathy traps, traumatizing stuff and info noise, and you'll be fine.

Indeed. Very easy thing to do, in fact everyone can do it! Don't let those luddites tell you majority of the population is regardless addicted. Just ignore all those shiny posts tailored exactly to your reward mechanisms by a trillion dollar sector. If I can avoid, so can you. Just Avoid It, bro! You must try it, so easy!
> Let's say your boss, or spouse, received fake photorealistic pornographic images of you with your boss's spouse...

If they're naive enough to actually believe that image, you can just reply with one showing them in bed with your spouse. That should settle the matter.
Am I remembering right that I got it from tsx-11.mit.edu?
I'll assume dwm is great and all, but I feel like that just proves my point.
Pretty sure the app iVue it is pretty similar. Used currently for landscaping and floor conditions.
There's a certain point where I just stop caring about further improvements honestly. My belly is full and I am satisfied.
I know what a static sure generator is and I've used one (briefly).

But the acronym is unfamiliar to me and it took me a moment or two. It's bad form and we should do it less often.
How much of the Accusation part was due to racism? Like, implicit bias based upon the race of the now dead man?
Is it though?

Of course, asserting that reading can fix the world's problems would be naive at best. But it could help make it a more empathetic place. And a growing body of research has found that people who read fiction tend to better understand and share in the feelings of others — even those who are different from themselves.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-reading-fiction-in...

Maybe I am weird but I feel reading puts me more "in the story" then for example movies (some story-driven video games do so as well) so I imagine what it would be like to be them, experience their trials and tribulations, etc.
The first two paragraphs of the home page say what it is:

MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language.

You can use MiniZinc to model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems in a high-level, solver-independent way, taking advantage of a large library of pre-defined constraints. Your model is then compiled into FlatZinc, a solver input language that is understood by a wide range of solvers.
IMAX has been digital for years but digital projectors haven't caught up to IMAX film resolution so they are keeping the film projectors around.
> A Washington Post piece recounts how a small-town school teacher lost her job after students’ parents learned about AI porn made in the teacher’s likeness without her consent. Just a few months ago, a 22-year-old was sentenced to six months in jail for taking underage womens’ photos from social media and using them to create sexually explicit deepfakes.

Following the link [0]:

> People viewing explicit images of you without your consent — whether those images are real or fake — is a form of sexual violence, said Kristen Zaleski, director of forensic mental health at Keck Human Rights Clinic at the University of Southern California. Victims are often met with judgment and confusion from their employers and communities, she said. For example, Zaleski said she’s already worked with a small-town schoolteacher who lost her job after parents learned about AI porn made in the teacher’s likeness without her consent.

> “The parents at the school didn’t understand how that could be possible,” Zaleski said. “They insisted they didn’t want their kids taught by her anymore.”

Holy shit that's fucked up. It wouldn't be right but I'd be hard pressed not to create deep-fakes of the people who fired me and/or the parents to show them how bullshit it is if I was fired for something I had no connection to and was actually the victim of.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/ai-porn...
> None of which require poverty

Quite the opposite they require a great deal of money
In the past, wasn't it normal for journalists to have a particular specialization (even if that's not the _only_ thing they did), like "science reporter" or something? It is obviously impossible for every reporter to become an expert on every single topic that they might ever cover, but it is not unreasonable at all to get enough of a background on a topic that you cover regularly to be able to ask intelligent questions.

If news organizations were serious about this, they might actively look for people who _do_ have greater amounts of training/experience in a given field.

It may be true that in the current journalism paradigm the kind of skepticism called for is impossible, but it is absolutely not true that this is a fundamental state of journalism and that reporters could never become capable of doing it.
In Diablo you click on things to increase your avatar power, eventually if you click on enough things your avatar power will have gone up enough you can complete the challenge of the day. There is skill in crafting a build, and some builds and abilities do require some thought to deploy well, but at the end of the day your personal skill level doesn’t matter, its not like you’ll need to hone your clicking ability.

In soulslike games there is typically some amount of avatar power and it is possible to grind up such that your avatar power trivializes the game but that isn’t actually necessary, its possible to beat the game with a naked level one avatar. The challenge is more about you the player getting better at the mechanics of the game, not your avatar.

Both styles of game design can be enjoyable, but many find the latter more fulfilling.
Thank you @lolinder!
Having friends improves my living standards. It's also not a capitalist or socialist concept, it's its own thing. Having parks also improves my living standards, but there are few private parks for whatever reasons. There are many government run parks, but our local parks are actually established through land trusts and maintained by neighbor volunteers. I am sure that over time society will have many different type of needs and each may have different practical systems to address them, or the best system may not yet be discovered, or efficiency may not always be important. If the point is that big central government is not a good solution, you are preaching to the preaching to the choir - I grew up in USSR and don't want a rerun. But remember that current stock markets and corporations are also products of big government that privileges certain arrangements over many others possible.
This countries middle class will turn into single issue voters if housing prices ever go down. Politicians are too scared of them to let it happen.
https://archive.ph/Ji7tB
Your comment reminds me of this line from the submission:

"There’s also a generational divide in journalism, with younger journalists tending to be more openly left/progressive than their older peers — and tending to be more Manichean in dividing the world between good and evil rather than proceeding from the notion that people and news stories are complicated and it’s not particularly their job to pass moral judgment."

This is probably true of the younger generations in general, not just journalists.

Sadly any attempt at communicating a nuanced view makes you subject to vicious attacks from binary thinkers, who often miss the point and derail the discussion.
Came to say this. I've never been as immersed in a game before or since. The only problem was the long loading that occurred at spots, especially on my hardware at the time. But their attention to where loading occurred was top notch.
I had the same book and Slackware 2.0 was also my first distro. I think the book is still in some box at my parent's house.

I remember trying to figure out how to compile the kernel for everything in my desktop.
True, there's a risk.

But if API Gateway or Cognito fails, I'll probably have a bigger problem than a tooltip that does not work. However, the tooltip will be cached, so if you loaded it once, it'll work even if API Gateway fails.

The AI part is used to generate tooltips, not to display them, so if it fails, I'll not be able to create new tooltips, or users will temporarily be unable to interact with them (ask sub-questions).
>> I've yet to see a LLM spit out even half-way decent Lisp (CL, scheme or even e-lisp). My suspicion is the corpus of available code is small and its language features tend to generate less "boilerplate."

Well, Lisp is noted for its terse and succinct notation [1], so it makes sense that, LOC-for-LOC there is less of it around than Python.

________________

[1] I am told. I wouldn't know. I'm a Prolog programmer.
Nifty. Thanks for the deep info - makes a lot of sense.
This is a great list. If you want to read about deploying HF models on triton inference server at scale for inference. Find this great read - https://www.inferless.com/learn/nvidia-triton-inference-infe...
https://archive.is/IES8x
That is why I redirect Reuters links to neuters.

https://neuters.de/technology/actors-decry-existential-crisi...

Neuters is a privacy respecting fronted for Reuters, like nitter (for twitter), libreddit (for reddit) or invidious (for YouTube).

According to the about page https://neuters.de/about it loads less than 10KiB compared to around 50 MiB that the original page loads.
Photoshop's output has been completely guided (until recent additions) by a human who can hold a copyright.

That being said, isn't a prompt guidance?
The friendly article describes a case where a small-town school teacher was, in fact, fired because of deepfaked images.
Absolutely amazing, it's lovely to be reminded of the effectiveness of satire once in a while.
Been saying this for years, the only reason these companies' execs aren't in prison is because they grease all the right palms, and provide enough "studies" those greased palms can use to plausibly justify their behavior.
I remember our parish priest actually addressing it at the time, he was like "look, this is a popular book and I'm not saying not to read it, just realise that it's pure fiction, especially the bit where he claims that Jesus was just considered a man until a committee got together centuries after the fact and decided that we would call him divine."

it wasn't particularly fulminating; he was quite good natured about it all, but in retrospect I have to wonder if he had even read the book himself, or if the church hierarchy had wanted priests to make sure that that particular point was spoken against.
Yep and the two big limitations are:

1) What content would be interesting to the mark

2) Generating the actual content for the mark to view

And AI can easily do both.
Is this any different than ChatGPT that’s been on iOS for awhile now?
> > for most people

If you're able to e.g. turn the news into money or other real advantages, or desirable (to you, at least) outcomes that wouldn't have been possible otherwise, you're one of ones who aren't covered by "most".
If people can make a deepfake of anybody in five minutes, nobody is going to get fired (without getting the shit sued out of them) for deepfakes of them showing up.

Exactly. At some point people will just stop caring, which is the best of all possible outcomes.
I do, and about 20 other projects since. In my experience far from a solved problem. I mean, I remember IE3 too, how many times are we going to recreate the web browser?
I can recommend this course and its sequels on Coursera to anyone interested in learning MiniZinc: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling

I enjoyed the courses and learning the techniques through the exercises but I still haven't really found a good application to a problem I need to solve for work or side projects.
"Overall, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States?"

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Record-level-of-US-s...
Respectively, plenty of companies can build a smartphone for far, FAR less than the sale price of an iPhone. E.g. a $50-$130 Samsung Galaxy A03.

It's Apples install base, app ecosystem, and social moat (iMessage) allows continued high gross margins on their hardware and locks competition away from their profit center. The sale price has very little to do with the marginal cost of production and a ton to do with a naturally occuring software monopoly.