skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make half of the tokens (the AI's "dictionary") slightly more likely.

This would not impact output quality much, but it would only work for longish outputs. And the token probability "key" could probsbly be reverse engineered with enough output.
There's an HN post that takes first place on my bookmarks bar, which is an Ask HN about the best paper people read in 2020 [^1]. Every once in a while I'll open it and browse through a ton of amazing papers and research and try to learn something new. Hasn't let me down yet.

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346456
The premise of advertising is attention theft for influence. If it improves their metrics, and is not illegal, it is not part of their consideration.
That's the point of this framing - it's pitching the device manufacturer as an attacker and Secure Enclave as their sinister fortress inside your device. This is an age-old argument against these systems, but to your point the conspiracy theory crumbles at the edges once you start trying to turn it into a threat model.
Chemical processes are not random, at least not in the way you're using the word. When you mix a base and an acid it's not subject to a roll of the dice whether they will neutralize or not. If you pour oil into water there's not a small chance that this one time they will dissolve into each other.

>We know that's what a cell is. But how do random chemical processes get there?

Work backwards. Think of the simplest cell you can. Now remove the membrane and the little molecular machines are free to wander in the medium arbitrarily far away from each other. The chemical processes are still happening, but they just take a long time to finish. All you need is for the abiotic medium to contain at least one of every of those molecules to have a sort of diffuse protolife.
Helped me get over the belief that people in tech must be super smart. Turns out they’re just as dumb as the rest of us.
That's usually how I go about things too. It's annoying that a lot of the new crop of youtube programming videos skip these steps. I've seen a few "How to write X using Y" videos that basically write the whole thing from top to bottom one line at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/@JustForFunc and https://www.youtube.com/@fasterthanlime are good exceptions to this. I want to see the process of building out something complicated one bit at a time, including all the mistakes and dead ends.
We already have a realworld example of this with cigarettes.

It doesn't work. Half of my neighbors sit outside and constantly smoke, regardless of the danger, regardless of the constant warnings, regardless of the tremendous expense via taxes.

And the tax never makes it back into healthcare, it's abused by politicians.

You want to end bad self-destructive behavior? Give people an education and motivation into giving a damn about their own bodies.
I gave a reference for where the 166 pounds came from. Search for 166 on that page.
In practice "trusted Android" means Android shipped with Google adware and spyware (and possibly much more vendor-specific bloatware) which you can't remove. One can clearly see that it might not really be about trust..
As an anarchist I accept that we have literally the worst branding and need to start over.

It’s not by accident of course, but yet it remains true that 99% of people see the word “anarchist” and think about the Anarchist cookbook or teenagers making prank calls and being angsty and throwing the odd Molotov cocktail.

No wonder then these comments are filled with people equivocating between “anti-government” Christi-fascists like the oath keepers and anarcho-communists like members of the DSA.

They couldn’t be further apart, but because both are “anti-government” then people assume it’s all the same cause it’s a binary system conceptually.

You’re either state capitalist or state communist there is no third option (or fourth! How absurd!).
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Of all the sin taxes, this is the one that directly disproportionally targets poor people the most.
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> A prime example of a "health tax" such as this is the Scottish Nationalist Party's tax on alcohol - in a bid to increase health by putting a minimum pricing on alcoholic beverages.

> The result? Nothing has changed, there is still the same amount of health problems in Scotland caused by alcohol.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/21/scotlands-mi...

"Scotland’s minimum pricing linked to 13% drop in alcohol-related deaths, study finds
Experts say research provides clear evidence minimum unit pricing has reduced harm caused by alcohol

Scotland’s pioneering policy of minimum pricing for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in the number of deaths from alcohol consumption, and hundreds fewer hospitalisations, according to a study.

The research was observational, so cannot prove conclusively that the significant fall in deaths was due to the minimum unit pricing policy.

However, experts said the study provided the clearest signal to date that the policy had reduced the harm caused by alcohol in Scotland, and added to a large and consistent evidence base on the effectiveness of alcohol pricing action."
So you're willing to spend thousands of dollars on hosting infrastructure, and much more than that on the engineering, but not the website design?
I am not so sure they all went FB/Discord, some I use(d) for example:

https://www.watchuseek.com/

https://www.rolexforums.com/

https://www.audioasylum.com/

https://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/

https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php (A simple machines forum, this guy has been here forever, and he wrote his entire online shop himself)

https://www.civicx.com

There are a LOT of niche forums out there that are not FB/Discord, and keeping track of them is a pain. I do wish newsgroups were still a thing for hobbies.
> The result? Nothing has changed, there is still the same amount of health problems in Scotland caused by alcohol.

Actually, no.

The price of alcoholic drinks that you and I would buy hasn't changed a bit. Pub prices haven't changed, because they weren't affected by this law. Retail prices in supermarkets haven't changed a bit. Well, that's not quite true, they've gone up but only at the same rate as everything else.

Pikey cider and various "vodka-style spirit drinks" made from food-grade industrial ethanol and synthetic flavourings have pretty much disappeared from sale. Before Minimum Unit Pricing - which sets the minimum price that retail outlets can sell alcoholic drinks at to 50p per unit of alcohol - it was possible to buy a 3 litre bottle of 8% "cider flavour alcoholic drink" for about three quid. That's essentially been priced out of the market, because no-one wants to pay nearly a tenner for a bottle of windscreen washer fluid without the detergent in.

MUP has not affected the price of "normal" drinks, because let's face it, £1 minimum for a can of beer or £5 for a bottle of wine is already on the cheap end of things.

Since MUP came in, deaths from alcohol-related illness has dropped by about 15%, and in the first year alone alcohol-related deaths (that's illness, accidents, fires, misadventure, etc) dropped by 10%.

More people with alcohol problems are seeking help. Fewer young people - the people who the pound-a-litre pikey cider is marketed to - are drinking underage, and those who are, are drinking less.

While there were fanciful tales in the newspapers that alcoholic drinks would be so expensive in Scotland that people would drive to England to load up with cheaper booze and drive back with it, it turns out that no-one really cares that much. Anyone who has the resources for the "booze cruises" that the trashy tabloids describe probably isn't buying anything affected by Minimum Unit Pricing anyway.

In general, MUP has been a resounding success. It's worked so well that Ireland are now doing it too.
But at what cost?

Taxation is equivalent to theft and corporate destruction.

Do you really want to be the person who destroys a corporation just so some kid doesn't get dental caries?

Are you going to be the person to put the gun to Coke's head and pull the trigger?

What about all of Coke's subsidiaries?

Where does it end?

Would you tax millionaires? Just because they make more money than average?

Is this post parody?
> The nationalized systems seen in the EU seem to be associated in dramatically higher cost for freight transportation, not lower

The EU also has a dramatically lower accident rate..
https://imgur.com/CrzErQx

From:
https://d-rail-project.eu/IMG/pdf/DR-D1-1-F1-Summary_Report_...
We could combine those, couldn't we?
I would agree with your numbers, but I would like to point out that different uses of the phone can use more energy than other uses.

This would tend to reduce the number of overall days of usable battery.

Think video recording, video editing, or heavy video playback apps. These are huge drains on the battery.
>Out of the various console SDKs, Desk is probably the easiest

Understatement of the year. For most "consoles" (switch, PS5, xbox) you practically need to have an incorporated legal entity to even begin to do anything. I looked briefly at the process for getting started on the Switch, and it seemed to me like they either wanted you to already have a relationship with them (an existing studio) or have an already-completed game that you can show them you want to port. THEN you can enter into contracts for development-capable Switch hardware and the SDKs and etc.

Meanwhile the "linux SDK" has been available for open download via http literally since I was born.
> Wow so the entire Rocky Mtn. west is just left out in the cold. What about Denver and SLC? Guess no one needs to go to AZ either?

Connecting the 19th and the 46th largest city over ~400mi of mountainous terrain with no intermediate cities of note to pick up along the way is not a recipe for success.

> Further I don't think you understand the cost, lot's of people out east think throwing a rail line together isn't more difficult than throw a couple of logs on the ground and some metal tracks. Let me tell you about what it is like trying to build a rail line through the west.

That's why I didn't suggest any routes like that. The closest you get is Portland-Vancouver, which is questionable in large part because of the mountainous region (and Portland, OR is quite frankly not a large city). CAHSR does have to cross two or three mountain regions (depending on how you count), but you're connecting 40 million people in several large metropolitan areas with it, so it's actually worth it. And outside of those, I'm not connecting anything else--you're the one complaining that I'm leaving out Denver-SLC after all--so how do you think I'm ignoring the expensive costs of what I'm not proposing to connect?
You know, people had a lot of complaints about Bloomberg's soda ban in NYC but for this reason, I understood where he was coming from.
When Apple is the only company allowed to ship browser features with such high and user visible impact as eliminating captchas, it will directly contribute to them increasing the market share of the devices people use to access the web.

Once the majority of users are on Apple's platforms, the open web doesn't matter. It is whatever Apple wants it to be, which is most likely "dead".

The rules have to be the same for everyone, and the discussions around the WEI on HN have made it clear they aren't. The other threads are filled with massive rants about how evil Google is and how amoral anyone working on this project must be.

But then this thread on how Apple has been doing exactly the same thing has people for the first time engaging with the technological parts, and suddenly the critiques have turned to full-on excuses. "Oh, it's just a little bit bad when Apple does it."
There's a popular opinion I've seen on HN that "long Covid" isn't a real phenomenon but it's pretty easy to reject that out of hand. There have been several studies, including a recent quadruple blinded one (where participants, care providers, investigators and outcomes assessors are all blinded to treatment/control groups) that show some interventions have statistically significant benefits to treating it;

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

It's obviously a real thing, post-viral syndrome/fatigue are well known illnesses and there's every reason to think some percentage of Covid cases would end up similarly.
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> the few readers who lived back then expected it to encode some form of legal or religious prose

The Latin literature was extremely rich, from Cicero to Tacitus, and was certainly not limited to legal information.

Here's part of your comment with white space and punctuation stripped:

scriptocontinuamayhaveworkedbecausethefewreaderswholivedbackthenexpectedittoencodesomeformoflegalorreligiousprosebuteventhentheycouldlearnthingsfromtheoverallshapeofthedocumentllmsareworkinginamuchricherdomainofdocumenttypesbuttheonlythingtheycanseeisastreamoftokenstheresnospatialorgeometricdataattachedtheresowhitespaceandpunctuationaretheonlythinganllmhastomakeinferencesaboutotherwisetextuallyidenticalinputs

It's a little hard to read, but not that hard. I think one would get used to it.

Also, for creative use of LLM, it may be a feature, as trying to find the words could be inspiring.

I think it would be worth a try.
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This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea.

Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine feedback that reflects what users actually want is invaluable.
There's a bunch of different "spaces", one is a "zero-width space" which isn't visible but still gets copied with the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
This Raymond Chen guy should probably look into what debuggers are available on his platform of choice, he could save time by avoiding all this printf() style debugging.
In the US, I think making soda expensive enough that bundling 32oz of it for an extra $0.75 with fast-food combo meals stopped happening, and free refills became uncommon again (they were rare as recently as the early 90s! You paid per cup, or you bought a pitcher, like beer!) would probably do some good.
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Interesting. I was under the impression this tool was effective because of some sort of hidden patterns generated in sentences. I guess my assumption was way complex than what it actually is
You can do this by injecting non visible unicode (LTR / RTL markers, zero width separators, the various "space" analogs, homographs of "normal" characters) but it can obviously be stripped out.
Where else has something compatible to WeChat?
I have the misfortune of my rescued VGA CRT displaying incorrect colors in the corners, unless I either leave magnets on the screen, or flip the magnets while degaussing and remove them before using the display.
>Leaving aside a debate over whether her work is a good match for “woke”, she very much cannot have been woke before woke was a thing

A game of being pedantic is always welcome:

She very well could have been "woke before woke was a thing", because "woke" as the parent means it in her case, refers to the modern usage (of like, 2 decades), not the original term of the 40s that might have preceeded her birth.

So take the parent's comment to mean:

"She was woke, in the modern, circa-2000s+ sense, before woke, in the modern circa-2000s+ sense was a thing, not in the 1950s namesake sense".

Similar to how somebody could have been a hipster (in the 2000s+ sense [1]) before a hipster was a thing (before 2000s), even if they have been born in the 70s. Sure, the term already existed before the 70s, but it referred to a different thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subcultu...
I've replied about protocol compatibility in the other thread. Here, I'd just say:

Yes, simplifying things is a laudable goal -- but so is keeping things compatible. You need to choose a right tradeoff here, if you want your system to take less than 30 years to deploy.

As a very concrete example: there is no reason that having 128-bit addresses should means your usual node now has half a dozen of them, per interface. It was someone's personal idea, which would normally be completely ignored, but this time it was merged into larger proposal that promised something people wanted.
I never cared much for the LINQ syntax myself either. But absolutely have enjoyed a lot of the extension methods for use with given data sets.
Recommendation seconded. I'm only to chapter three due to time constraints, but it is well written and approachable for someone lacking ML experience.
It's kind of sad how the NYT art content is now largely just a bunch of cheerleader puff pieces.
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Taking away tools don't seem to me like the best response same way taking away things tends never to be. If the problem is people not using it right, that seems to me like it would be designed wrong for what people need it for. Like if the issue is using it wrong with too little sentences, then put a minimum sentence or something to have that minimum likelihood.

Same goes for representing what it means. If people don't understand statistics or math and such, then show what it means with circles or coins or stuff like that. Point is don't seem ever a good thing for options to get removed, especially if it's for bein cynical and judgin people like they're beneath deservin it. Don't make no sense.
As far as I know, it's extremely common for banking apps to implement integrity attestation on android. My bank's app only shows a warning message and doesn't restrict anything otherwise, but I've heard plenty of stories of other banking apps that refuse to run.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is teeming with life
> Then, say, Telegram in non-secret message mode, is just as secure, in the sense that you have to trust a third party. Not clearly informing the user of this trust is dishonest.

The difference is that if Telegram was intercepting messages, there would never be any indication to users. If Signal did it there would be evidence on the client side, in the form of tampered safety numbers.

We can worry that a user is very unlikely to notice bad safety numbers, but "very unlikely" is much different from "impossible" when it comes to mass surveillance. All it takes is a single public scandal where Signal provably tampered with safety numbers for the whole service to be thrown into question. Not to mention the dramatic surge in user interest in "safety numbers" that would result from such attacks being detected in the wild.
update: tried to read it via wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230725141945/https://logankilp...

even here medium seems to have gone above and beyond to put in some kind of infinite reload bug. what an absolute cancer of a website.
For the same reasons that the author dislikes Tesla, I prefer it :D
You have over 16000 karma on this here orange site. You do realize it will follow the cat pics and tax prep programs to oblivion, right?
The problem I have with this web attestation concept generally is that I really want it _inside_ my shiny SSO-everywhere-Zero-Trust-at-the-edge-mTLS-everywhere business network.

I also kind of want it in the public-cloud-meets-private-use home environment (that is, my Cloudflare Access tunnels and MS365 business tenant I use for private stuff).

I don’t want it to touch my personal browsing experience or in any way involved in my personal-use browser environments.

These are effectively opposed desires at this point, and it’s a cat-out-of-the-bag technology.
> Allow Apple devices to browse the web with fewer captcha interruptions

In particular, while using a VPN or Tor. So in one sense it’s even a pro-privacy move, insofar as it allows to distinguish a human user on a legit device using a VPN from a bot using a VPN (upon which the server can present a captcha or denial to the latter, but not the former, making it less onerous for average users to use a VPN).
You could but is there any reason to believe these two noisy signals wouldn't result in more combined noise than signal?

Sure, it's theoretically possible to add two noisy signals that are uncorrelated and get noise reduction, but is it probable this would be such a case?
It should work on a Mac or iOS device right now - I just checked it on my iPhone
https://thebrowser.company/values/

I don't think I want to have anything to do with this company. Super cringe.

I get the impression that Arc will be a form over function product reflecting someone's understanding of good design and insisting on it. Not that I'd use a closed source browser anyway.
"Bringup" of a complicated build or deployment system can consume quite a lot of work to "do nothing". Not unusual with a new FPGA system to spend days trying to blink an LED, or a new 3D system to get a single triangle to display.
To clarify: it's the same reason that I like plug.
"I have a nagging feeling that we've dumbed things down terribly."

What was Google's end game in acquiring DejaNews. Make way for "Google Groups". It's baffling. The comp.unix.* groups became less accessible for so many years, and perhaps inaccessible in some cases. Fixing accessibility problems was obviously low priority. Whatever their motives, Google indeed dumbed things down terribly.
My understanding is you can't get unemployment for quitting, though? Is that not accurate?
The discussion has been what brings me back. I comment a lot on HN which is an exception for me online and I find the replies I get are very thoughtful, even when they disagree. Every now and then I comment on something and someone comes in with a reply that shifts my perspective. That's what excites me.
> I don't care if my Magic the Gathering fan site has an auto-rotated 3 month expiry TLS certificate to "protect" the users.

You don't based on your threat model. Other people have other threat models. I don't want potentially tampered/malicious content/JavaScript hitting my browser, I can also simply not visit your site. Such a simplification can not be made on the wide (and hostile) web. TLS is trivial enough to be the norm.

We can also draw parallels with food safety. Feel free to cook whatever you wish however you wish at your own home. If you want to offer it to people passing by on the street you have to follow food safety rules.
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> Humans aren't perfect automatons that will make perfect choices if given information.

And yet, somehow, they will rationally conclude the best financial course to take is to realign to making healthier choices instead of switching to dollar-store sodas or making their own sugary drinks.
Hi all, we just launched Mage Animate on Mage Space! We use a technique inspired by and based on AnimateDiff to bring Animations to 80+ Stable Diffusion models.

It plugs into the rest of our ecosystem, so you can use the rest of the tools: image-to-image, inpainting, textual inversions, and more. Additionally, as with all else on Mage, it is unlimited (no tokens!).

We're still working on LoRA support, but it will come soon. Additionally, some older models seem to have issues with generating coherent animations. This is brand-new tech, so any and all feedback is very much appreciated.
Long COVID pretty much obliterated the career of a mentor of mine. She went from being a competitive athlete in her late sixties to a home-bound invalid in her early seventies. You know a health condition is grievous when it makes a mathematician give up lecturing.