skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a difference between propaganda and false information?

Yes, not all propaganda is false. Propaganda uses both truth and lies freely, choosing whichever is most convenient for the narrative being promoted. Often propaganda tells you things which are true, while simply omitting other truths. Propaganda also uses statements which are neither true nor false, e.g. subjective value claims.

From the other angle, not all false information is propaganda. This statement is false: My hair is red. That's false, but it's not propaganda. Propaganda and false information are overlapping sets, but neither is a strict subset of the other.
Pursuing a dream, I started re-building a prototype of a machine-learning-powered RSS readers with powerful filtering capabilities.

The strength of it is in a single button which tells the system whether you like or dislike an article. Then let the AI model to learn why that is on its own.

If you'd like to support the project, you're welcome to do so at the Patreon page this post links to.

The old prototype also works well in many cases and is still freely available for testing. Prototype currently lives at http://52.36.177.138 (it's a demo, so no domain and no SSL there, but also no real personal data required, apart from any e-mail for login and registration purposes).

2 minutes illustration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4l0ltXHicg
I'm not sure you need a utilitarian justification at all. For example: My 4 year old daughter makes playdoh & modeling clay into spheres for fun. She also makes cubes and snakes.
Danny Calegari posted a very interesting mathematical analysis of a similar question (but only considering curved pieces) to his blog in 2011:

https://lamington.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/laying-train-trac...
Some will argue that "bigotry" has suffered from concept creep though. People will readily call me one for saying I believe gender is immutable or that I believe intercourse with the same gender is a sin, but I'm not wishing any harm to those who disagree.
Half-joking, but not really, at that size I'd ask how much kW(H) would you need to run this model?
I am very curious why Microsoft is insisting that the key itself was „acquired“ without having anything to show for it. The wording seems a little odd to me, the constant repetition even more so.
The more elaborate books of the Bible, like Isaiah/Yeshayahu and Psalms/Tehillim, make use of this kind of structure a lot in the original. You can easily find "triple chiasms" with structure ABCCBA. I don't know why this isn't emphasised usually.

Catullus of course is one of the masters. There is also the "da mi basia mille deinde centum..." that has the structure of an abacus
Yes[0]. Assume 2000 bytes (I believe chrome or safari only supports 2k bytes). RFC states 8000 bytes. Firefox supports 65k bytes.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...
A drowned future for coastal ecosystems
I used to bike to work for many years. This is a question for my coworkers ;)

Seriously, perhaps bike slow enough not to get too sweaty and smelly? Of course this depends on where you're located...
Remove TypeScript
The real question is why did they want this? Is the UK suffering some giant crime wave or are the powers that be just really intent on making sure people are using Bad Think in their private chats?
> black holes that do not gain mass through other means are expected to shrink and ultimately vanish

I agree with the first half but not the last. We know that the methods used to predict Hawking radiation are no longer valid in the regime of tiny black holes (curvature becomes extremely high near the event horizon but Hawking's computation assumes near-zero curvature), so the claim of black holes vanishing is a guess at best (and one that leads right to the black hole information paradox). Another option would be that we'll be left with a black hole remnant. Or maybe something else happens. Without a quantum theory of gravity we can't possibly know.
It’s moving forward to get back to where you started
how does it react to a zip bomb?
And to add: the kernel autotunes better than you can, so leave that enabled unless you're Vint Cert, Jim Gettys, or Vern Paxton.
And yet the richest person in the world is the exact person to pay double the value for a shitty social media company by making an inane comment on their platform AFTER the SEC already warned him that, after the first time he made an inane comment on that platform that was substantially relevant to public markets, he would be forced to follow through.

Yeah I'm not convinced there is any connection between intelligence and business acumen.
I'm pretty sure only one side of the communication system is "battery free". The other side is a standard phased array.
Reminds me of 2SLGBTQ+
> "The earliest FPS games are frankly far too basic to be of much use for military training."

That didn't stop them from trying to use Doom to train "military thinking" and "exercise and develop their decision making abilities": https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019...

Related: Human silhouette targets at firing ranges, low fidelity as they are, were developed to reduce inhibitions against shooting people. They are used by police and military for this purpose and probably work.
Related:

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725150 - Jan 2021 (44 comments)

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183001 - June 2019 (169 comments)

I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946217 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13248993 - Dec 2016 (2 comments)

I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948575 - July 2015 (9 comments)
It's fairly striking how okay it is to simply paint someone with power in any corner you please. You can basically make any claim you want, and be just fine with it, societally.

I also notice, how the effortlessness with which it is done increasingly provides a solid estimate for how lame the painters are.
I have a working hypothesis that a very large number of people don't personally know anyone who has died of Covid, except maybe for an elderly relative and "they were getting on a bit anyway". It's true of me and anyone else I've had this conversation with.
Was expecting this to be about AWS's Recovery Time Objectives!
I am talking about absolute costs not affordability. MRI costs might be mostly salaries, but it's not the same for drugs, labs, etc. Given the much bigger purchasing power in the US, prices should be lower, not higher. Why the economics of consumer electronics don't apply to health care? TVs and laptops are much more expensive in Bulgaria, but drugs are way, way cheaper and not subsidized - and these are commodities. Levothyroxine is a commodity available around the globe. Why it's so expensive in the States?! Why are American pharmacies buying generics from India, which so often have recalls due to contamination, and don't buy European drugs (such as from BERLIN-CHEMIE [0])? Because they want much bigger margins - I have no other explanation.

[0]: https://www.berlin-chemie.de/en-us/about-us/our-history
There's a few holes in that. First, you've got sexual orientation as an immutable characteristic. From some queer people I know saying that they had experiences which changed their mind or that there was some choice (that "lived experience" people go on about, as well as some of my own) to the quite obvious political stratagem of saying someone was "born that way" as a way to deflect blame (which never really held much water; a group willing to accept Original Sin as a concept would find Born That Way to be little more than a speedbump).

And then you bring in tabula rasa, which itself contradicts "born that way." But sure, let's just ignore that paradox. Can we think of other born characteristics we might not find appealing? Quite a lot of personality disorders appear to arise from genetics, and yet you might find someone with Borderline Personality Disorder less than optimal company. Must you tolerate that?

Consistency, if anything, is a poor metric when it comes to anything as complex as people. "Destroy anyone not of my ethnic group" is consistent and simple. Do not fall in love with either.

If anything, the concept of tolerance itself is a trap, creating dividing lines everywhere. Worse yet, it allows someone to feel "just." This is perhaps one of the more dangerous emotions one can experience and consider as moral. A person who thinks of themselves as just is "justfied." Examine the words associated with "justified," even the television show. Consider the history of those who thought of themselves as justified. I feel just, I may then relent on my self-examination. It's a way to sidestep the endless labor of wondering, "Am I doing something right?" Observing, thinking, considering: these are all weights that humans quite naturally want to put down.

How easy, how self-satisfying it is to say "Punch that Nazi!" And of course you first must judge that person to be a Nazi, but even before that you're twiddling your definitions, making them expansive enough to pin that label on someone, all for the simple joy of feeling like it is okay to hit someone, that they are evil and deserving. The ecstasy of self-righteousness ought to be Schedule I.

Give me uncertainty and doubt. Dispel that self-assurance. Going around deciding whom to tolerate invites judgment, as if one were all-knowing and infallible. We are not.
My point was that you gain no merit for tolerating them even if you did have something against them. Tolerance is not a virtue. There is virtue in having nothing against as many people as you can.
I am not worried about crooks disabling my car. I’m worried about the government doing it.

We need to stop being fearful of each other and start becoming fearful of our overlords.
Back in the day polarization was still within the confines of loyalty to the Republic, these days George Washington has been once again proven correct:

“…the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
Or if there's some other ulterior motive like promises to local government
That's why I said "starting to" not "close to".
after enough times of trying to read something that came up on google or somewhere similar, being forced to create an account to read it, handing over my personal information, going back to try and read the article with an account, being told that i now have to download an app or pay a monthly subscription to read the article, then having to figure out how to delete the account that i didn't want to make, yeah, i'm not registering for shit anymore unless it's something i already use or have some kind of relationship with, or it's something special and i can tell it's going to provide more value to me than i provide to it.

the mainstream web is unfortunately a cesspit mostly made up of predatory sites that provide a barely useful service which is easy to live without, which only exist as a way to hoard peoples data or lock them into subscriptions in the hope that they'll forget they're paying it. if your site is different and you want people to actually care, you'll need to show them.
Yes. I don't think anyone is disputing that Google does significant userspace networking things. But the premise of this thread is that "ordinary" (ie: non-network-infrastructure --- SDN, load balancer, routing) applications, things that would normally just get BSD sockets, are based on userspace networking. That seems not to be the case.
Or those 'simple' arguments might only make sense in a vacuum when no real word implications are considered.

Of course it depends on the discussion and the topic but actual problems (which are worth discussion) almost never have simple or straightforward answer.
It was really amazing how good America's Army was. When I got it, I was expecting a cheesy propaganda piece cobbled together to barely work, but it was actually a great and very fun shooter.
Do you by chance have comparisons of what the terrain actually looks like without the AI upscale? would be interesting to see how much it gets right.
> good hibernation settings were released years ago already.

As long as you don't mind not receiving notifications (unless originated from an IRQ from the modem, assuming it didn't crash itself during hibernation), and if you don't mind not using tethering with turned off screen.

"Good" is very, very relative, especially when it comes to the PinePhone software.
> if the files/logs that are taking up space are written by the root user then it's a moot point

Yeah. Sorry if my comment was a bit unclear but what I meant to say is that because of this reserved amount I could see it being the case that one machine is still able to finish booting even though the hard drive is “full”, because it is using the reserve capacity to allow processes to write to disk.

Whereas the other person that was unable to boot may have either been using a different file system without reserved amounts, or have settings that made it so reserve was set to 0, or their machine could have been actually physically out of space.
That's terrifying. I'm going to spot check our N-able backups more closely
Linux has better network performance than FreeBSD over nearly every use case I've seen.
Says not before middle of Sept. Would love to go. Anyone else trying to time a trip?
Setting up and deploying models in production or on edge devices is much much more complex if you have to deal with Python and Conda and whatnot.
I wouldn't expect the gatekeeper to track these issues but rather to sign the credentials that developers have. Then the individual developers (ostensibly) have a base level of training that set them up to more likely avoid these issues.
The difference between those is just one of scale and storage.

You still have to reliably move a chunk of out-of-band information in a way such that it gets to (and only gets to) the person you want to have it.
> but presumably the attacker here had to know about the crash, and the layout of the crash dump

If I were an advanced persistent threat attacker working for China who had compromised Microsoft's internal network via employee credentials (and I'm not), the first thing I'd do is figure out where they keep the crash logs and quietly exfil them, alongside the debugging symbols.

Often, these are not stored securely enough relative to their actual value. Having spent some time at a FAANG, every single new hire, with the exception of those who have worked in finance or corporate regulation, assumes you can just glue crash data onto the bugtracker (that's what bugtrackers are for, tracking bugs, which includes reproducing them, right?). You have to detrain them of that and you have to have a vault for things like crashdumps that is so easy to use that people don't get lazy and start circumventing your protections because their job is to fix bugs and you've made their job harder.

With a compromised engineer's account, we can assume the attacker at least has access to the bugtracker and probably the ability to acquire or generate debug symbols for a binary. All that's left then is to wait for one engineer to get sloppy and paste a crashdump as an attachment on a bug, then slurp it before someone notices and deletes it (assuming they do; even at my big scary "We really care about user privacy" corp, individual engineers were loathe to make a bug harder to understand by stripping crashlogs off of it unless someone in security came in and whipped them. Proper internal opsec can really slow down development here).
Awesome! Huge improvement. Well done.
How do volumes compare to say the Unihertz[1] phones, which are also niche phones, yet all list for under $400?

1: https://www.unihertz.com/collections/smartphones
I worked for an AI startup for 5 years until recently. Nice try though.
They all have crazy CVs. If you're really talented in the US you can get very far on talent alone.
If he was in Germany he's be a Ph.d or Postdoc toiling in some outdated research field that nobody cares about.

The CTO has an even crazier CV. Born in the poorest European country, BSc at Dartmond (is that considered a good uni? idk), internship at GS, a stint at Tesla, couple of startups and hits gold with OpenAi. A BSc in mechanical engineering wouldn't even get you a job in Germany.
"Tolerance of intolerance" just kicks the can down the road.

A Conservative might argue that Muslims are intolerant and thus should not be allowed in the country or that trans people are intolerant of people using the correct pronouns for them.

You can phrase pretty much any side of a political question as being either tolerant or intolerant with a bit of work.
Dubai isn't exactly in the EU...
When bombs kill the wrong people now it’s never called a human error, it’s an “errant” bomb.

I’d sumbit AI bombs will be less errant than their humans who are not accountable.
The creator economy goes global
I think we could more comfortably vote for a third option if failing to elect the least bad of two did not result in using women as medical equipment and insurrection against the federal government.
It was explained to me by local non-profit folks in the know that Amazon's RTO decisions need to be understood in the context of downtown Seattle real estate politics. Amazon brings a lot of people downtown -- fueling local businesses -- and as a consequence the city council provides Amazon a huge amount of leeway and power -- even siding with Amazon against the community. Consequently, if Amazon doesn't continue to publicly advocate for RTO, then the city council will have no reason to continue with the red carpet treatment which, concretely, means increased taxation and compliance requirements.

So, there is a significant game theory component to Amazon's RTO position that can't be discussed publicly.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37403566
I wouldn't trust any MS cloud product to not lose my data.

A year or two ago I lost data backing up my OneDrive files to my local HDD. I was told my backup had succeeded, and so I deleted the files on OneDrive. Later, when I tried to extract some large files from the backup, I saw that they had been replaced with some text files, containing a message that the download of those files failed.

What the heck... Was I expected to extract the archive and go through all the files one-by-one (there are thousands of them) to check if every file was properly backed up?
example? everything he says seems to be well sourced or cited from other experts in their fields, or if its only few studies and not well researched enough yet he explicitly says so. I keep hearing this claim from ppl but nobody can come up with any examples.
I agree. Personally I had success using randomness on an energy-based system. You start off with energy and compete to earn more. Once you hit 0 then you're out. Then you can generate new ones, with some being completely random, and then others being the combination of random choices from the Top N. Probably not the most theoretically-sound approach, but it worked well enough in the real world.
People aren't scared into not taking 3rd parties seriously, our system is just fundamentally designed to only have two realistic parties. It's just inherent in a first past the post system.
A fun side effect of this is that if you aren't a security researcher by trade and you report an actual security issue to a bug tracker, the first dozen responses will be arguing that it isn't a security issue rather than engaging with whether it is a bug, since this is the default response to reports that claim to be about security issues
I would actually like to see a transnational effort to build the next two orders of magnitude in model sizes, something along the lines of the human genome efforts and space programs. The efforts at those scales are nation state level efforts, and if we continue to see the linear improvement in model performance, I think we might have something transformative. But even if we discover a plateau, we at least will have ensure large mega models are in public hands not a few megacorps.
> I believe this is a reasonable measure to increase the cost of new spam accounts.

You seem to be overlooking the bald-faced lie told by Meta/IG that someone's new account is violating "Community Guidelines" before they can even use it.

Moreover, it makes no sense that a phone number would be a "get out of jail free" card for violating Community Guidelines.
2000 bytes limit
It's not the two months that was promised, but 6 mo is still astonishing. I keep wondering to myself, where is this money coming from?, but then I remember just how much cash we straight up torch in traditional mil-spec aerospace. Without anything to show for it, natch.
That was my first thought as well. Ah, to be young again!
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Right, but my question was about how you'd get them on a runway. Presumably he uses the road, which is pretty amazing.
I agree with your premise, but disagree with your conclusion.

Yes, of course data that goes to the corporations gets scooped up by the government.

But we need to stay laser focused on the main goal of maintaining privacy from our government, which may include efforts at privacy from corporations.
When Microsoft Threatened to Sue E.piphany Over the Letter E (2012)
> Note that 52% of California voters also worked to help eliminate rights for gay people in the state, by voting for Proposition 8.

Yes, and those that publicly and proudly done so and were unrepentant about it would have been problematic for the role for the same reason as Eich (and, in most cases, for lots of other reasons, some more significant, as well.) “The rule you propose would also rule out lots of people who would never have been under consideration for the role” is, here, a valid observation, but not any kind of counterargument.