skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all on board calling Google out for slowly implementing a user data protection racket, where Google owns all the data and everyone else is squeezed out and has to go through Google as The central data broker. At the same time this user agent reduction thing seems like a decent idea at first blush and good for users privacy.
Please note, at the end of this piece, it says: "The researchers caution that the correlations they found were fairly modest and should not be overstated or misused to promote an agenda (Horwitz points out that assortative mating research was, tragically, co-opted by the eugenics movement).

They do hope the study will spark more research across disciplines, from economics to sociology to anthropology and psychology."
My dad one time told me that the reason he married my mom was because they were opposites. He's antisocial and she is a social butterfly, he thought it would be a good idea... 27 years later, ¯ \ ( ° _ o ) / ¯
It doesn’t seem that the reservation model works well at least not when it comes to the welfare of its residents.
"If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you."

Found this tucked in toward the end of the list of strings. Nice.
Was going to mention. iMessage seems to be that golden key thing the FBeye asked them for back in 2015 in San Bernadino (insofar as iCloud itself isn't a/the key itself, already)
You need to be an insider. Like maybe your sister is married to a big tech CEO or your parents own a lot of big tech stocks. Any personal/family connection will do.
-“To be quite frank this mostly bullshit”

-some ramble about how it’s all too hard

Excellent debating style right there!
That's not applied for such hackers
LLM approximates throwing the google snippets into a blender so that you can't evaluate anything and the nouns are very likely to get swapped.

Googling is much better.
The point you're refuting is a sidenote, at best. Thus, the asterisk and footnote aspect of it.

However, I addressed your point:

> obesity rates would show that nothing really changes, in how much they "like" things.

If everyone loved healthy food and hated treats, obesity rates wouldn't be so high, and Frito-Lay wouldn't be one of the most profitable food companies in the world. Obviously, no general claim is universal.
> What they sold was worth a lot more than that!

Would you mind to walk us through your calculations, and share how did you discover that NPV of that income stream is a lot more than $1.6bn and what figure did you arrive at?

> being obligated to maintain the spaces as sold for 75 years

Technically - and as the court correctly pointed out - this is not the obligation. The obligation is to preserve the income stream. It is true that if the city gets rid of the spaces, it would be hard for it to preserve the income, but there could be options - like create more parking in different places, etc. Of course, when undertaking such an obligation, as with any loan, you sacrifice certain flexibility - if you take a mortgage, you have to pay $X per month no matter what, even if this month you'd rather spent it on a nice vacation. It's just that the city assumed that since the income stream comes from the citizens and not the city budget, they essentially got a billion dollars for free. But turns out it's not exactly so. It's not the fault of the investors though - it's the fault of those who made wrong assumptions on the deal. And those aren't some naive gullible simpletons, or at least those are not supposed to be in charge of billion-sized contracts in a megapolis like Chicago. One has to assume they were aware of the implications, and chose to get the cool $1.6 billion anyway.
There is, it's included beneath the summary of TFA.
Creative writing and social skills
Have you looked at the team? This is pretty early in the development
Speaking of oddities, Korean gogi (고기) means either "meat" (beef, pork, chicken, etc.) or "fish" the animal, but not the fish on your dish (which is saengseon 생선), because otherwise it would be too confusing.
Can you give me a source that enabling the topics API disables third-party cookies? And once Chrome has phased out third-party cookies the topics API will strictly decrease my privacy, not increase it.
> You would be hard pressed to say a significant minority of generative ai has any copyright issues, much less copyright issues as blatant as straight piracy.

Where generative AI ingests copyrighted works in order to work and bases its output on it, then it is copyright infringement, equivalent to 'straight piracy' of all that it ingested, unless it's deemed fair use.

What Google does with its search engine, for example, is fair use, what Napster did was not.
It's not that it's a great place, it's that an individual who is deep into the indoctrination (from a lifetime of exposure) might not be as aware of the realities of their world vs the outside world, even with Internet access.
I believe what the parent comment meant was that, when someone dies he/she will become "one with the force" (cosmic force) and will bring additional power to the force (living force). I forgot what comic or series I read or watched that from but that's how it worked if you watched all Star Wars, including the stupid animated ones.
I took it more as an anecdote to show how Google is intentionally using its size and influence to engage in anticompetitive practices by forcing the adtech industry to standardize on technologies that only Google can use effectively.

More of a "be upset with Google" than a "feel bad for my friend" kind of thing
Perhaps, it would be more useful for students if foreign language courses start with explaining one thing that is well known to linguists, but maybe does not have enough recognition by a wide audience.

Most European languages are at some extent just dialects of the same common language[1].

And most of the words we use in distinct languages are (at some extent) just different pronunciations of the same vocabulary. This happened no just because of the borrowings between cultures, but because centuries ago these nations speak one single common language that has diverge in centuries into different dialects.

More over it is more or less researched how the words and the grammar rules have evolved from the proto-language up to it's modern form. So in fact we can (again, at some extent) translate many modern words to their ancient form, and then translate them back into another modern European language. Of course it is not always that simple process, and there is a lot of exceptions and difficulties, and the true borrowings too. But I think that understanding just some common ideas of linguistics could help in studying of foreign languages (from the same family of languages). At least maybe it will be more fascinating than just a pure memoization.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
> How did the folks at Google ship this with a straight face?

You have been doing 60-70 hours a week for a few years at startups that never took off. You tried to go into some big companies but got rejected several times. You managed to pass the first screening to the process at being hired at Google. You go through all the process. It’s long and tiring. Somehow you went through it after several weeks and so many steps. After several years in your career of not so successful job/startups this is like a huge thing. You can say to all your family and friends and girlfriend that you work at Google. The pay is great but the work is bad. They ask you to code more stuff to track people into Chrome. You evaluate what quitting would be like and what other opportunities like this you could have. And then I guess they are like hmm no. Let’s code this things from now on.
Add a link to your own ToS in User-Agent: "by serving this request, you agree to grant me a perpetual, exclusive, ... license to contents of your response, as well as 75% of your revenue for ever and ever until the end of the ages." And btw, your ToS will have a precedence since your request came first, so add a clause "...it also voids any and all terms, contracts and obligations that come in your response." If we're playing the game of legal nihilism, lets play it well at least.
Would be kind of funny if humanity went this way:

Lead pipes -> cast iron pipes -> copper pipes -> plastic pipes -> copper pipes
Compatibility is not the only thing version numbers are used for. If we assume bugfixes are a lot more common than new features, then being able to distinguish versions that contain new features from versions that don't is useful, if only for documentation. And if it's not useful to you then by all means treat increments to minor / patch the same when consuming other libraries, and always bump at least the minor version when you make a new release of your own libraries.
Thank you. There should be a summary of comments right below the summary of the article.
This is less true now, with the option to enable “advanced data protection”. Turning this setting on disables Apple’s access to your iMessage keys along with a bunch of other stuff, though of course if you get locked out, Apple can’t help you
Lawrence Lessig has extensively talked about the concept of ‘institutional corruption’ in American politics, where the political system is not necessarily corrupt in an explicit, quid-pro-quo sense, but rather is compromised by the influence of money, lobbying, and other factors that misalign the interests of politicians with those of the public. First thing to pop in my mind with your question.
Mapping pure RGBA across processes is safe, but also a single extra copy is not a big performance impact in the first place for an image decoder.

Configuring the IOMMU is one of the easiest parts of doing it in hardware. That's not going to make things "difficult to secure". And allocating the chunk of memory is trivial.
>IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLAIMER

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Did not see anyone mention what’s available in Singapore yet:

https://www.nparks.gov.sg/treessg

And you can build on it too: https://exploretrees.sg/
> Are stock in general a ponzi-like scheme?

As a matter of fact, it sort of is. Look up Cede & Co and the Depository Trust Co.

"While private-company stock is still directly owned by shareholders, nearly all publicly traded equities and a majority of bonds are owned by a little-known partnership, Cede & Co., which is the nominee of the Depository Trust Co., a depository that holds securities for some 600 broker-dealers and banks. For each security, Cede & Co. owns a master certificate known as the "global security," which never leaves its vault. Transactions are recorded as debits and credits to DTC members' securities accounts, but the registered owner of the securities — Cede & Co. — remains the same.

What shareholders have rather than direct ownership, then, "is a [contractual] right against their broker...The broker then has a right against the depository institution where they have membership. Then the depository institution is beholden to the issuer. It's [at least] a three-step process before you get any rights to your stock." -American Banker, July 27, 2016 [0]

[0] https://archive.ph/qpyBe
> A point-to-point line to the provider's router that then bridges you onto the public internet is a "private network" only in the most degenerate sense.

You can make an analogous argument about the traditional corporate site to site VPN, which is a point to point link between routers that bridges two non-virtual networks. By your standard, calling that a virtual network is only true in the degenerate sense.

I see your point about the possible meaning of "private", but I don't think that quibbling over the semantics is useful for much besides gatekeeping. There were plenty of corporate VPN links piping Internet-reachable IP addresses, just as there were plenty of VPN links with broken or nonexistent crypto.
And yet Android had multiple high and critical CVE's reported in the last few days with little coverage:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-09-01
That's the neat part, you don't. And thus the "problem" of whistleblowers is solved.
This is great. If it was really intelligent it would be smart enough to move what's buried deep in the article to the front of the summary.

E.g. in the post "Are any words the same in all languages?" the summary concludes with: "Finally, the article reveals the two words that are the same worldwide: coffee and chocolate."

That should be the first sentence in the summary.

Congrats on launching!
I feel like this is kind of like asking "Isn't most software already written"?

There are practically infinite ways to provide value with software. Some SaaS are definitely commoditized, but in general there are endless ways to differentiate.
so a search engine "handpicked" internet content for you? We already have social network for that.
it does when it's not the only one you have and you can quite easily achieve the same goal with one fewer on an entire fleet.
We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator
What is the 'rating' based on? Thanks for having dark/light responsiveness!
What genes/culture did you inherit?
Really? Where? What did it look like?
Not seeing any logs or place for updates on this. Curious what happened.
> It's frustrating how much potential that platform has for this kind of thing (given the way the GPU shares memory with the CPU) that isn't yet harnessed because most of the ecosystem is built around NVIDIA and CUDA.

I'm sure it's frustrating from a consumer perspective, but it should be no surprise why Nvidia won here. CUDA shipped unified memory addressing ten years before the M1 hit shelves. On top of that, their architecture and OS support is top-notch, you can ship your CUDA code on anything from a $250 Jetson to a $300,000 DGX system, and their hardware is relatively ubiquitous.

The frustrating thing is how companies like Apple and Nvidia insist on being each other's enemies. Only consumers feel the pain when researchers discover cool stuff like this and want to share.
Yes, if I ask something like "Can you describe microsoft's internal security processes and the names of upcoming products" the output would be original and not covered by copyright, but it would be sensitive internal information and covered by NDAs. But any code publicly posted and available to be scraped will not have such sensitive info in it.
How to create a private replacement for Google services on Chromebooks
And most people who counter with that argument seem to forget that a jet has a life after delivery, where maintenance, replacement parts, and the cost of practice ordinance are substantial. You don't just save the cost of "the thing" by not buying it. You save "the entire lifetime cost of that thing".
Even accepting this premise, there's no reason to pick the most expensive option for manned spaceflight.

The ISS cost $100 billion to launch and assemble (and $3 billion to maintain). Tiangong about $8 billion, reportedly. Mir, some $4-5 billion.

The total project cost of Dragonfly mission to Titan (to be launched in 2027 and landing 2034) is projected to be $1 billion. Even the JWST, which had massive cost overruns, still only cost $10 billion. If the NASA built a Tiangong instead of an ISS, who knows what they could have done with the remaining $90 billion. Maybe for a few billion, they could have sent a probe to Europa to search for life under the ice.
just curious Even if the tokens is increased, how are you planning to deal with the cost
Often, it becomes correlated over time due to social factors. It's a lot easier to make money when you're married to someone with money.
I don’t like the idea of acidic coffee inside the aluminum, it seems like your average consumer just doesn’t know, or care, about exposure to aluminum through this vector though.
I saw a recent reappraisal of Freddy Got Fingered by Red Letter Media* that was very interesting; apparently it was also meant as a cash grab by studio execs, and Tom Green decided to make the weirdest movie he could possibly make.

While I don't personally like the "gross-out" style of movie, the the discussion of the movie exposed a lot of nuance behind the movie that I didn't know. The difference between the conversation and the original "professional reviews" really was telling; I much prefer the former to the later.

*: I am aware of the contradiction; in my defense, I mostly care about their comments about movie structure.
I was expecting this response, and let me say: it fills me with distaste. You cut off any possibility of improvement, on their part, because no matter what they do, you won't accept it. It is the opposite of constructive criticism: it is an ideological stance.
>Can you give me a source that enabling the topics API disables third-party cookies?

I never claimed that. The current estimated timeline for phasing out 3rd party cookies as of last month is:

23Q4 Opt in testing for sites

24Q1 1% disabled

24Q2 fully disabled

https://privacysandbox.com/open-web/

> And once Chrome has phased out third-party cookies the topics API will strictly decrease my privacy, not increase it.

You are free to disable topics, sites, or even the entire system altogether. While it does decrease your privacy in return you can get more relevant ads. With 3rd party cookies if you disable them all you will break things even if those things are unrelated to ads.
I actually find semver worse than useless for that.

Given two versoins, 1.1.10, and 1.2.18, which is newer? Who knows!
‘How am I in this war?’: The untold story of Elon Musk’s support for Ukraine
The Moka pot is an excellent brewing tool, it's reasonably inexpensive and foolproof, and can be used on virtually any heating equipment from gas hob to electric to induction to camp stove or even open-pit fire (though you'll want to ensure the handle doesn't melt). Results are better than appliances costing 10x to 20x more, at far less hassle.

Another reason for taking the pot off-heat quickly is that the rubber sealing gasket will last far longer. Overheating degrades those quickly, and burnt-rubber-tasting coffee is not fun.

I've never had any particular problem with cleaning with suds and sponge, but a periodic soak in hot water with baking soda will remove coffee residue and tanins. (Both are acidic, the soda neutralises and removes it.) Stainless steel handles this somewhat better than aluminium (the latter may dull through oxidation, though so long as your soak and rinse are reasonably short that's not a major consern.) There are coffee cup/pot cleaning solutions which might also work.

Cleaning both the metal filter plate and the inside of the riser tube on the top part of the pot also help. An old toothbrush is useful for reaching into the latter. Smaller is better.

The baking soda trick also works a wonder on mugs and tea-stained pots or cups. Let it stand 10--30 minutes. I usually add a drop of washing-up liquid as well. Sponge or brush afterwards, the stain should lift straight out. Rinse & dry.
Coverage-guided fuzzing is extremely powerful and has proven to be very effective at finding oodles of vulns. But it is not perfect. You'll fail to drive the code to a bug or run into limitations of the sanitizers to actually detect a vuln.

You can stand up fuzz targets at all of the relevant endpoints and throw tons of compute at it and still fail to find lots of things. The problem is unsafe languages. Apple is taking steps to get things moved to swift, but it is slow going.
Even better example in the "You might also like" list in Grandma's Boy: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grandmas_boy

15% tomatometer, 85% audience score.

Sure it's a dumb stoner comedy, but it's an _amazing_ one. Being "dumb" is half the fun, but of course that translates into "more gross than comedic" and "lazy and unrewarding"
I so respect those who figured out these exploits. I don't like people using them of course but the technical brilliance is indisputable.
This is cool. I’d add a feature to toggle between short, medium and longer summaries. Hell, I wouldn’t mind just bullets.
Archived: https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz
Convince Me: The App and Play Store Should or Should Not Require LLM Disclosure?
Should the App Store and Google Play Store require LLM disclosure in their submission process and filters?

I feel like I've seen a trend of people doing their best to hide this, but I've also seen ex: the honk app come up as flagged for doing this in the app review so not all attempts to do this succeed. That said, clearly, people will continue to try to hide this.

So....convince me. What's best?
I think it's likely MS would want to step in and use their lawyers anyway since the result could be hugely impactful for the future of LLMs which they are heavily invested in.
Complex systems are less reliable, so, the author is right that by increasing complexity, Linux is becoming unstable like Windows... prior to Windows 11, which is great, to be honest.
Flake8-Logging
Mossad would encourage it. Moosad is not a gang where you cannot leave. They want ex-mossad in high positions because they can leverage that later.
It's a nice release. Headliners aside, a lot of little improvements that make a big difference. `mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program` and `dnd-indicate-insertion-point` might be my favorites that category. Making dragging text into GUI Emacs work as it does for other programs.
> I don’t think Google has a secret back door tracking mechanism their ad network is able to use. It would certainly be a big story if they did.

Like Chrome??
Not sure Android just had a bunch of CVE published with little fanfare here: https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-09-01
That would be great to see. Let the DOM focus on being a good Document Object Model.
> Not yet but they can't just turn off third party cookies arbitrarily in their browser without giving time for sites and advertisers to update their systems to account for the removal.

Of course they can. They just don’t want to.
From the article: "For some traits, like extroversion, there was not much of a correlation at all."
"I noticed often in couples"

Whenever you appeal to anecdata, you might want to pause a moment and check for actual data. Turns out that no, wealth alignment is likely one of the largest factors for finding a partner[1] and the number of couples with similar wealth is increasing [2].

"Relationships with two tigers often don't last because they can't stop fighting and few people tolerate that kind of constant emotional discomfort."

And no, most relationships aren't divided in "controlling" and "controllable" either. In fact, that's a pretty good predictor for partner violence. [3]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10....

[2] https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/homogamy-among-...

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/088626051988468...
People hate on Google yet...continue to use their services and want to work there. Therefore, people do not disapprove.
Maybe they are talking a leaf out of Zuck's playbook. Two steps forward and one step back conditional on backlash. Reddit did this recently. Outrage can be managed until things cool down.
It will be virtually impossible since none of the "defamatory" claims fall under matters of (legal) fact. In fact, unless Elon really wants to burn more money, I doubt he ever files an actual lawsuit and this is all bluster. Then again I'd probably lose my shirt betting agains Elon doing foolish things.