skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, I would go buy a smartphone at a shop, and then buy an OS to run on it at another shop?

Good point, by default you would. Perhaps allowing some third party to bundle the two could be a nice convenience, but then we must make absolutely sure that they never sell the bundle for less than the separate parts, that would be anti-competitive.

Also, I'm sick of paying for a Windows copy I never use. I'd very much like to see the OEM deals Microsoft make with laptop vendors just die.

> Also, would “any software that can be changed remotely or by the user is off limits” mean Intel/Samsung/… couldn’t sell CPUs with microcode installed, or even write microcode?

Depends whether that microcode can be changed by the user or remotely, or if doing so basically means returning the CPU to the factory. If it can conveniently be changed, that's software, and the actual interface to the CPU is not the final ISA, but how to encode that micro-code to make the final ISA. If however the microcode is etched or locked, then it's part of the hardware.

Another example would be an FPGA implementation of a RISC-V core: if the bitstream is locked into the NVCM it can no longer be modified, and thus counts as hardware. But if it's in the easily rewritable SPI flash, then it's software, and it can't be bundled with the FPGA itself.

While I'm not absolutely certain my border is the right one, I believe it's at least one that can be fairly easily delimited.

> Software company C could pay hardware company H to build hardware according to specs they give, with the specs under NDA, possibly even forbidding H to sell that hardware design to others than C.

Correct, some trade secrets need to be banned. Even further, I would void all ISA related patents and copyright. Specifically, cloning the functionality of any piece of hardware should be allowed, similar to how the IBM PC was cloned.

Note thought that splitting the activities is still worth it: when software is bundled with the hardware, we still need exploitable specs. Banning trade secrets doesn't force vendors to disclose them, and even if they do disclose them, nothing forces them to make especially readable beyond regulatory mandate, and nothing forces them to simplify their hardware interfaces. Exposing hardware interfaces to the competition however may provide very strong incentive to improve not only the hardware, but it's programming interfaces as well.
Many employers during the pandemic engaged in all sorts of electronic monitoring on employees with seemingly no legal repercussions. The corporate law firms of America lawyers have almost certainly devoted much time to dreaming up extensive legal arguments and language to slip into employee contracts, agreements, and 'handbooks'

When you're fired for saying something derogatory about your employer that is picked up by your company-issued computer sitting in your home office, do you have the resources to fight them in court, especially given your employer's law firm almost certainly has a cozy relationship with the judiciary in your area?
Section 230 protects them from being held liable for content published by users. I don't think it would apply to advertisements that they are publishing on the site in exchange for money, but I'm not a lawyer.
There are different classes of land owners. Plenty of land owners want to build more housing and are faced with an uphill battle.
The point being made here is about a possible philosophical difference between LLMs and human beings, not one about application security best practices. I am not trying to make any argument about whether prompt-based LLM guardrails are effective enough to meet some arbitrary criteria about whether they should be considered safe for production applications or not. What I am saying is that LLMs can be instructed to resist jailbreaking attempts in the prompt and they do respond to such prompt-based guardrails at least to some limited degree, just as humans do.

As an aside, though, I think "impossible to bypass" is an unachievable goal in any security system.
Unified Storage. https://github.com/datalens-tech/datalens-us
Have you ever visited 4chan?

There is literally dedicated anti-Russian thread (/uhg/) on /pol/ and also plenty of anti-Chinese sentiment all over the board, I don't think day can pass without someone making fun of Changs and Zhangs.
What would the liability even be in this case? We don't expect anyone that shows ads to comprehensively screen those ads for non-obvious lies (such as in this case, "I have the rights to use the likeness of Tom Hanks for this ad").
That's possible. I think it will take another year to truly know.
I would say that {grand}children are not responsible for what their {grand}[parents have done. They physically cannot be complicit.
Yes, there are papers attempting that, such as this recent one, which looked at whether shelter in place policies reduced overall excess mortality: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737 .

"Using an event study approach and data from 43 countries and all U.S. states, we measure changes in excess deaths following the implementation of COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. We do not find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier had lower excess deaths. We do not observe differences in excess deaths before and after the implementation of SIP policies, even when accounting for pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates."
what you call "users" are actually the product. The "users" of google's services are the advertisers.
Here's to another year of the word Göbeklitepe playing on repeat in my head.
The bits delivered to those 5000 subscribers on St. Helena will have to be some of the most expensive bits in the world.
Me too. The software was so good that 25 years later there are still animators using the Macromedia version of Flash.
If anyone wants to play around with tweening online: https://bestsnip.com/animation
While I largely agree and I think it's pretty heavily sun related: there are plenty of other plausible mechanisms, I don't think it's quite that obvious or clear-cut.

E.g. it snows more as you go towards the poles. There are a lot of pale creatures in climates with snow, for the even more obvious natural selection pressure of "can hide better".
> Other people being able to verify that an email really was sent by me does serve my interests, because such verification establishes trust. That's like claiming signing a contract isn't in your interest, because others will be able to prove that you agreed to its terms.

Are you saying that you do want people who are not your intended recipient(s) to be able to check copies of your emails to be able to verify that you actually wrote/sent those emails? Do you have an example of when this comes up in practice?

If you mean that you do want your recipient(s) to be able to verify your emails, the article is in agreement with you. The article states:

> When you send an email, that’s between you and the recipient. Normally you don’t intend for anyone, anywhere, who happens to get a copy, to be able to verify that it was really you that sent it.

where "anyone, anywhere, who happens to get a copy" is to say "an arbitrary person other than your intended recipient(s).
Overall death rates shouldn’t be affected by this. Were they?
> There is a real question here about whether Facebook's algorithms created the zeitgeist or just reflected it.

That is a false dichotomy. It is possible for Facebook's role to have been to exacerbate existing religious tensions for profit. They are an actor in this story. Not either a "creator" of zeitgeist or an object with no agency.
I can't read the words 'dental plan' without hearing it in the voice of Lenny from the Simpsons.
Where do you get the UV data from?
From the perspective of the child, it's much worse. You are basically arrested until you are 16-18. No independence whatsoever. Want to meet a friend? Ask your parents to drive. They're busy? Too bad.
I don’t think that’s an apt comparison. The smartphones of today allow us to do things unimaginable to people in the 80s.

This startup doesn’t seem to be creating any new use for the technology in your phone, just changing the way you interact with it from a glass screen to a projected screen on your hand or countertop.
One can only "dream" what would happen in a few decades, if instead of having kids memorizing multiplication tables, we would have them memorize such facts about the history of science.

Fascinating.
Maybe if they're publicly painted as supporting Russians who want to censor news about Ukraine.
You mean? Yes.
Yes, you'll need to have a crew and you'll need to need to ship the necessities, which eats into the efficiency of this mode of transport. However, a plane will create 40 times more CO2 for the same amount of cargo transported than a ship. I'd say we can figure out how to fit a larger crew and more supplies in that margin.
If a particualr mechanic part is good enough for a _space ship_, it's probably good enough for just about everything.

But its price may be prohibitive.
I actually agree with your argument, but what does any of this have to do with who owns the means of production? Because that's everything socialism is about.
Small search engine for interesting blogs
I’m curious, in the US - k-12 educators are not known to be paid well. In many cases they simply can not afford market rate housing in 2023. Assuredly this contributes to the high cost of childcare in the US.

Is the situation similar in Germany? It strikes me that if a teacher can’t afford a reasonable life with their own family, then it’s unlikely the education system is sustainable.
I’m having a hard time following what you’re saying. The person you replied to said HR is your enemy, which I interpret to mean - as an employee, HR is not on your side. They are on the company’s side. They may also coincidentally be on your side if it so happens to align with the company’s best interests, but not because they care for you.

How does this relate to your situation? And why have you been unemployed for a decade? Most of the time, interaction with HR is super minimal, so I don’t see how this would prevent you from being employed anywhere.
That leaves Facebook.
It's basically social engineering for AI !
I wouldn't even go that far: by all means, don't publish your interfaces, but if someone reverse engineers them: legalize that. And don't offer tax cuts to companies that don't publish their schematics and interfaces.
Shoot me an email (in bio), I'm part of a green energy AI project and we're looking for academic collab (mostly in DACH region)
Sure, but that's irrelevant to the matter being discussed.
I knew someone that drove their car to work every day… 100m away.
2 Gamers, 1 CPU, NO Virtualization (2022)
No.

Enshittification is just a internet based capitalistic enterprise.

Anywhere society focuses it's attention becomes filled with snake oil.
Palantir has courted N.H.S. England with pandemic help and assertive lobbying
https://archive.ph/d6eI5
Outside of cases where you are trying to keep your AGI below a certain number, it is always better to have the cash than an equivalent loss, since nobody's marginal tax rate is 100%.
What's the difference between the watermark and a time column? Not the person you were replying to but I'm curious since I also thought that TimeseriesDB had a similar "timestamp" to influx.
I can go out and buy a Bahn Mi for $10AUD which includes fresh bread baked that morning, fresh vegetables and grilled chicken. It's basically impossible to match this without doing it all from scratch and baking your own bread/grilling your own chicken. At which point you have to produce like 20 in a single go to match the value of the one I can buy pre made.
I think it's reasonable for platforms to be held to a basic standard of due diligence, especially with repeat offenders.

YouTube has been promoting the exact same financial scam (Tessler AI investor created by Elon Musk) for years. The fraudsters haven't even bothered to change the video — there is ignorance, and then there is negligence. If platforms aren't liable for their advertisements in some respect, there's a direct financial incentive for them to look the other way.
Don't really need it, while the sun is low in the sky you're relatively safe to get a bunch of sun.
As someone who worked on a project called SpatialOS within a unicorn, I agree.
"Why is 1/8 exact in base 60 but 1/4 not exact in base 10?"

A question to keep us all up at night.
we probably should given that Facebook, unlike with user content, takes a direct cut of a transaction. Seems to me like the incentives are completely out of whack if Facebook can profit from illegal content on their platform. Is it too much to ask that Facebook vets the content of advertisers they enter into direct business with?

Facebook should take a loss on this, how else are they encouraged to keep this off the site?
Does this attack involve actual hacking, or is this yet another example of abuse of Youtube's poorly copyright protection system? For years now we've observed time and time again that it's trivial to abuse to censor content from real content producers.

Big Content loves to paint copyright violations as theft, but this abuse of copyright protection systems is the actual theft: the owner actually loses their content, and directly and provably loses the money they would have made on this content.
Thats the company’s choice to make. A workplace isn’t exactly meant to be a town square.

Luckily my workplace was mature enough to decide to leave those topics for the pub and social media so we didn’t have to be told that.
As they say, any sufficiently complex system always operates in a partly degraded state. This applies to complex software as well.

Microservices are not even about structuring your app; they are about the particular kind of deployment structure for your app. You can make a highly modular app along the lines of DDD and separation of concerns, and deploy it as a monolith for simplicity, or cut it into 2-3 large deployables. (Sadly, there are cases when a monolith remains tightly coupled, but the coupling is implemented as RPC, and the whole thing is purported to be "micropservice architecture".)
These numbers vindicate the GBD - the change here isn't big enough to justify the society-level responses, coercion or mass human rights violations. We're seeing that the vaccine didn't even bring COVID down to sub-exponential growth. If a 3% risk of death in West Virginia justifies parking up society then a 1% risk of death in Vermont would. Neither does.

If the outcome lands on people who choose to take risks, there is no need for the police to step in.
I guess I'd rather have that than ossifying on a completely flawed architecture. Apparently flux was kind of a dead end, and while it's super risky and illustrates issues in decision making, it's still better than just doubling down on something that their own team consider to be futureless or too flawed.
I could hear the difference between 320 Kbps MP3 and lossless WAV in blind tests in my early 20s - though I needed headphones to do it, and it had to be a track I knew well, and I couldn't tell which was which. They were just different, and neither felt worse. This quickly converted me to using CBR 320 Kbps MP3 for everything, on the basis that it would be just as good as the original.

A couple of years later I found an ambient track that sounded messy at 320 Kbps, and that converted me to using flac instead. Disk space had got cheaper enough over that period that it made no meaningful difference.

THis was all years ago now (I'm in my 40s...), and I don't worry about it too much any more. Firstly, I still use flac, so it's identical to the original anyway. And secondly, even if I did use mp3, my aged ears probably couldn't tell the difference even if I turned the volume up to unreasonable levels.
In Canada (and likely elsewhere), there were a number of restrictions which were tied to hospital capacity. As the number of available ICU beds dropped: more restrictions were put in place, and vice versa.

A lot of emphasis was placed on preventable deaths. That is; situations where we’re turning away a patient that we could’ve saved, because we don’t have a bed available for them.

I thought this was a solid, intuitive approach. Preventable deaths are really, really unfortunate.
Off-topic, but I can't help but wonder when x.com will start serving web pages instead of just redirecting to twitter.com. If ever.
Here's the full results from 2013 by the original blogger:

https://archimago.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-02-24...

Starts about halfway down the webpage.
And blacklists. And predatory blacklists. And blacklists that amount to organized extortion.
They have a responsibility to police issues once they’ve been raised though. What if your likeness was used in an Instagram add that significantly harmed your image or ability to earn income?

Edit: but just because you’re big and have automated most of your business, doesn’t mean you should be able to claim ignorance. If I build a robot that shoots enemy combatants and it walks around shooting civilians, I can’t just go ‘oh well auditing these things automatically is hard so I guess it’ll just have to work that way’.
how do i know that's not a deep fake of Tom Hanks saying it wasn't him so real Tom Hanks can sell more dental insurance?
> leverage all available signals instead of requiring that you explicitly share all necessary background info

I don't know. I see a prompt like "this website wants your location" as more of a feature than a bug. Explicit permissions are a good thing
I remember the first day I got an Apple Watch: I got a buzz, which was a notification for NewEgg. It was a sale notification and I realized (in horror) that this was the real-life version of a pop up ad. I disabled all notifications (save messages and calls) right then and there. It’s crazy.
Alarming treatment of security researchers made me think threats. Not communicating is bad. But is it more alarming than how Google handled the libwebp vulnerability for instance?
For what it's worth, Connect does have a Bluetooth backend that supposedly works: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/tree/master/...

It doesn't seem to be enabled by default though. I'm not totally familiar with the situation, but I'd assume it's a problem with multi-device handling and switching to the best backend. For most people/situations, the Wifi Direct option will be faster and lower-latency.
Don't you think police would be jumping at the chance to show hard stats that your claims are true if they measured them? Why would it be so hard to find those things if police could use it to justify their policies and crackdowns?
If I'm wrong, I'd love to learn something. Does the fact that you haven't seen anyone else succeed at that goes along with you seeing them trying? I'd love some links and seeing how it failed.

And btw not sure if simple censorship qualifies as chaining (in the form you described). If you chain it seems to possibly increase attack surface, while if you just censor, security seems to be adding up.

I have zero idea what's happening behind the scenes in these companies. My comment is based just on my experiments with GPT-4, which seems pretty expensive to run, but whatever happens behind the curtain gets pretty decent results. I'm surprised that you think OpenAI would be prepared to double the cost and highly increase latency if that would mean stopping jailbreaking.

Since replies below may not be possible (thread depth), I understand I may be completely wrong, I'd like to just learn more about how.
Congrats on the fireblocks team opening up their work.

The reliance on the well compromised sgx origins are concerning and I’m looking forward to how this project handles trusted computation.
You're the unfortunate but inevitable result of our total failure to keep critical institutions honest and trustworthy. When scientists can accept money to produce fake results, or to bury any results unfavorable to corporations without consequences, and doctors can lie or take kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies without severe consequences for both the pharmaceutical company or the doctors, and politicians and news organizations can tell outright lies with impunity, this is what we get. People like you who can't see the truth even when it's staring them in the face.

Your stance that covid numbers are all lies and vaccines are a conspiracy is wrong, but it's not entirely your fault. Politicians, scientists, doctors, and media have a responsibility to continuously prove that they can and should be trusted, but they haven't been willing to do that and until they do we'll see more and more people like you who feel like they just can't trust anything anymore. At a certain point it's just self-defense to be distrustful.
AI in Civil Engineering
Hey, who is looking into using AI to solve problems in civil engineering. Overall, I see an opportunity to make approvals and designs faster, so projects can be turned around quicker. Anyone else have an interest in this field?
Thanks for helping power the Internet
Yeah that approach really resonated with me as well. A very straightforward concept: how much capacity do we have for higher risk behaviour? And in this case the cut-off for higher risk may be “yeah we’re not going to hockey games for a while.”
Also because typing "glow-in-the-dark CIA [neighbors]" all the time takes too long. I mean, /pol/ doesn't really shy away from using the odd slur. Just occasionally. Only in between the casual misogyny, gigachad fetishism, and soyface posting.
The death counts from Canada from that era are very questionable.

As early as June of 2020, the "public health" authority in Canada's most-populous city (4th highest population in North America) revealed that the counting of deaths was being done using a methodology that sounds quite dubious:

"Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...

By mid-2021, there were news reports like the following ("LTC" stands for "long-term care"):

"Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-mili...

After stuff like that and everything else that went on from 2020 through 2022, I can't trust "public health" officials at all at this point.
Since the commercial is for a product you have to pay, I think there is no way you they can say the training data (movies) are used under fair use.
Cars are terrible for land usage. Car infrastructure takes up much more space than alternative transit infrastructure options.
Why just there be something like what we had? What did like-minded kids do before the 1980s? Phreaking? Electronics? Ham radio? Miniature railroads? It will find them, whatever it is. The hacking spirit is not limited to the domain of computers.
IFR- "Instrument Flight Rules"

VFR- "Visual Flight Rules"

Source- https://atpflightschool.com/become-a-pilot/flight-training/v...
You could literally just ask this in the author version on /r/AskReddit and thousands of people would happily suggest real answers.
I actually used this during my trip to India two weeks ago and it was a lifesaver. Made life so much more convenient. The app is simple to use and works well. Two pain-pints for the though:
* you can scan a QR code and pay, but you cannot pay to a phone number unless you add the number to your contacts (and give access to the app to your full contact list). This is obviously very cumbersome when you are trying to make a one-time payment after making a purchase. I contacted Cheq support and they had no solution.
* there is no good way to withdraw remaining funds in your wallet at the end of your trip by sending it to a bank account. You can only send it to another UPI address which is pointless as NRIs don't have one to send to in the first place.
Overall a good venture once you iron out the kinks.