skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a huge amount of experience with Krita's Wayland performance because the situation on Wayland is still sub-optimal for art in general. Tablet support has gotten much better, but configuration per-app or tied to the desktop environment still seems to be a big issue. The idea that my tablet configuration might stop working if I switch off of a desktop environment is kind of a non-starter to me. It stinks because I really want to use Wayland, but even as recently as a month ago I tried to see if I could make the switch and couldn't.

Truthfully, if someone has a lot of money to dump around, devoting a few full-time developers or dropping cash on https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver would probably go a long way towards encouraging Wayland adoption from artists.

As far as I can tell the issue is not that Wayland can't do tablet control on the same level as X11, it's that the tools built around those capabilities still seem immature. OpenTabletDriver looks very promising but seems to have limited device support, limited in no small part by what tablets the devs have access to (my Cintiq 32 is unlikely to get added any time soon because it is no longer being sold and was expensive and uncommon when it was on the market -- which probably means I should try to do it, but it's been tough to find the time).

The NVIDIA situation is also a problem, but there's nothing anyone can do about that other than yell at NVIDIA more.

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> The text tool is a joke.

The text tool should see considerable improvement soon; the entire text engine got rewritten in the last release, the devs just only had time to get it to feature parity with the existing tools.
>Surely google.com is as 'surprising' to the user as any other page.

The metric isn't how surprising it is, but how potentially malicious it is. The entire point of the redirect is so the user can make a conscious decision not to visit a potentially-malicious page.

Google.com and Youtube.com, operated by the same people who made the docs tool, make the entirely-fair assumption that neither contain malware.

That being said, I also think it's the wrong argument to make. It makes very little sense that an exported document needs these interstitials. It would make more sense if it applied them to hosted Google Docs, but not things that are self-hosted by an end-user.
What InfluxDB Got Wrong
With Chain-of-Thought and Mixture of Experts, it may be that, in the long-term, most LLM output is primarily consumed by other LLMs [1]

[1] (meme, the future of communication) https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/123tyge/the_future...
Nope. Just a single pair of keys for one country. Make signing the message the responsibility of the country’s government. If city x needs to generate an alert, it sends the message over secure channels to state Y with the keys internal to them. State Y sends it up to the federal level. Federal signs it. Can even do it with a wrapped chain of trust. Then all you need is to validate 1 key per country with the rest acting like a chain of trust. Think domain names but for governments.

It’s a legitimate issue if the different levels of government are disfunctional / fighting with each other, but it’s better at that point to leave it as a political problem for them to solve.
Yes but there is transformative work involved in the process, which is what the model does. It's not a non-transformative simple display of the work (say when I show a movie), but deeply transformative.
Tim Cook one of tech’s top rated CEOs, X’s Linda Yaccarino among lowes
User Joak lived there and has posted here - it’s an interesting take.

The oppressive state behaviour has repercussions in their view.
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Since no one is requiring it at scale, and since there is no commonly accepted way of doing it - pretty hard to add it to an equation no?
Created scoutahead.work to simplify job listings. Feedback?
Hi! I created this app with a vision to simplify and automate job apps.

Looking for beta testers
> All we have is our current best explanations/understanding.

And if our forefather/mothers ran away every time they encountered a "swamp", we wouldn't have that. If you ask me the philosophical accomplishments of this era are minimal, if not negative...let's hope there's no penalty for that, for us or our children (say, the effects of climate change on a species who is unable to act).
A government foolish enough to abuse emergency powers that way would be voted out in the next election.
Division of labor in ants, wasps, bees – and us
So we have a copyrighted work. A program reads it and somehow processes it, and does its AI thing . But in the very first step, the work is copied verbatim into the program, right? Even if it is not reproduced, is it allowed to process a copyrighted work for arbitrary purposes, as long as it is not further reproduced? Let's say I could mine coins from hashes of a copyrighted text. Would that infringe on the copyright? I don't know what copyright _really_ means, I realize
The point isn't to make the email unreadable - after all, LLMs or not a sufficiently-determined spammer could just pay humans to read the emails - but to make it more complicated and expensive to extract.
> biggest takeaway from this article is the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) security framework

See also GUAC from Kusari, Google, Citi, and others:

“GUAC (Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition) aims to fill in the gaps by ingesting software metadata, like SBOMs, and mapping out relationships between software. When you know how one piece of software affects another, you’ll be able to fully understand your software security position and act as needed.”

https://guac.sh

https://www.kusari.dev
Another WaPo propaganda piece to reinforce the narrative that workers are worthless and should be paid pennies for their time.
Copying entire works is fine under fair use in certain circumstances, too. (See, e.g., time-shifting.)
These people took DNA tests. The results changed their lives
Shimano recalls cranksets for bicycles due to crash hazards
Depends on how you do the accounting. "Well, you don't use padLeft, but 15 packages you depend on do, and 68 packages tjat those packages depend on do... Altogether you're looking at 348 instances of padLeft."
> You can thank Hedy Lamar for that.

eh... maybe. Don't forget the microwave isn't CW so there's plenty of transmission slots available on the off cycle.
Thank you! It is really important to emphasize that heat and humidity have both to be taken into account. To quote a relevant passage from the article you linked:

> Concern often centres on the “threshold” or “critical” WBT for humans, the point at which a healthy person could survive for only six hours. This is usually considered to be 35C, approximately equivalent to an air temperature of 40C with a relative humidity of 75%. (At the UK’s 19 July peak temperature, relative humidity was approximately 25% and the wet-bulb temperature about 25C.)

(WBT is Wet Bulb Temperature)
It's still sitting in his shop. RP is not going to sell it.
That's if you're imagining a single node to discover the whole DHT. What if you want to fire off a map-reduce of limited-run DHT explorations starting from different DHT ring positions, where each agent just crawls and emits what it finds on stdout as it finds it?

(In a sense, I suppose this would still be a "daemon", but that daemon would be the map-reduce infrastructure.)
Copying verbatim passages can be fair use if it is transformative.
Speaking clocks are pretty common. Here we dial *133.
I don't understand the issue?

The first screenshot (CSS Theming) shows an app that doesn't use standard background color (?offwhite?), but uses standard font color. Normally this works, as standard font color is something dark (?black?).

And the problem becomes when user opens the app in dark mode, the background color stays non standard (?offwhite?), but the font color stays standard, which in dark mode makes fonts bright (?white?).

The question is:

If developer is ignoring theming, why don't they hard code both background and foreground colors?

There is one solution : stop using off theme coloring

This is squarely for developer to fix.

But since they want Gnome/GTK to fix this, here are potential options:

- Gnome / GTK should implement that if someone wants to use non standard, off theme colors, then developer has to always define foreground and background color. --- not sure how feasible it this with nested frames

- Gnome / GTK should disable allowing changing colors to specific values, and only allow changing by rotating Hue (aka 5% rotation of Hue 'clockwise') and by changing saturating (aka 5% more grayscale) and by changing brightness/contrast in relation to paired color (aka: background 5% closer shade to font)

- Gnome / GTK should define more color pairs , kind of like bootstrap has primary/secondary/success/danger/warning/info/light/dark coloring for all components in a single theme
If you liked reading this, you might also like reading through the Authors Guild class action lawsuit against OpenAI, filed a couple weeks ago: https://authorsguild.org/app/uploads/2023/09/Authors-Guild-O...

(Notably, John Grisham and George R.R. Martin are plaintiffs.)

It cites OpenAI's justification (which is how I found it) and tries to refute it. Whether the court will agree remains to be seen.

Other lawsuits: Silverman vs OpenAI https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67569254/silverman-v-op... (complaint PDF: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41...)
Speaking of epistemological flaws, stating one's opinions as facts is the easiest way to commit one.
Abuse emergency powers sufficiently, and there is no next election, at least not on terms where it is possible for you to lose.
Makes my browser eat my cpu, both brave and palemoon unfortunately.
You understand they were talking about people having fewer children than they used to. Right?

Just on that basis, some people alive right now will live to see the global population shrink.
LICENSE

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

https://github.com/f3d-app/f3d/blob/master/LICENSE.md

(I had trouble finding the git repository.)
I wonder if it would be enough to just recursively pay out to each dependency.

You pick a % to keep and a % to pass along to each of your your dependencies, and then they split up that % that you passed along to them, so on and so forth.

Of course people could choose to pass 0% along to their dependencies. But that seems fine; people can adjust and just not send greedy projects a very big split.

Trying to enforce some fairness on the outside will probably just result in silly behavior from greedy people (ie, if every project gets an equal split out and somebody doesn’t want to hand any money down to their dependencies, then they can just create a bunch of tiny projects to dilute their out-split).
I encourage you to consider changing it anyway. Changing now is going to be way easier than doing it a year down the line when momentum is lost.
I see no downside.
Here we go:

"Here's the revised text without "Grug" references while retaining the core meaning:

Summary
The author discusses recent news about diet soda and autism, highlighting issues in the reporting and research.

Facts
The author expresses frustration about repetitive negative reactions to science news.
The author notes that there haven't been any new discoveries, just a rehash of existing knowledge.
The author's family wishes to engage in conversations about different topics.
The author believes it's useful to consolidate old knowledge in one place.
Initially, the author tried to write in English but switched to a unique style out of boredom.
The topic of recent news about diet soda and autism from various sources is discussed.
The discussion is divided into four subtopics: unmentioned facts, the importance of correlation, claim cascades, and hidden issues in science reporting.
There's an emphasis on the need to be cautious about trusting news reports on scientific studies.

Unmentioned Facts
Important facts not mentioned in the news are pointed out, such as the presence of phenylalanine and aspartic acid in common foods, which far exceeds what's found in diet sodas.

Big Statistics Learn
The key findings of a research paper on diet soda and autism are summarized, highlighting the use of regression analysis and the challenges of interpreting correlations.

Claim Cascades
The way research findings are presented differently in scientific papers, press releases, and news articles is discussed, leading to sensational headlines and public misconceptions.

Secret Bads
Speculation on why certain studies become news is provided, highlighting the role of journalists and the reluctance of scientists to criticize their peers publicly. It's suggested to seek quotes from multiple experts to gauge the reliability of news reports.

Bonus Yell
It's acknowledged that everyone shares some blame for the prevalence of misleading science news and there's hope expressed for improvement through community efforts to highlight and correct bad reporting.

Note: The author's language and perspective are unique and may not align with conventional scientific discourse."
You can also get “the whole work” by asking another human to recite the lyrics to a song or draw the Finder logo from memory.

What’s really happening is that AI models have much better memory than humans and are more precise in their output. It would be stupid to try and “dumb down” AI models because they’re better at remembering some licensed content.

In spirit, it’s still fair use.
Summary of their arguments for why training on copyrighted datasets is OK:

(1) Training AI systems on large copyrighted datasets constitutes fair use under current copyright law. They believe it is highly transformative, does not harm the market for the original works, and serves a different purpose than the original works.

(2) If it were an infringement, it would severely hinder AI progress, which has many societal benefits. Copyright law should promote creativity and innovation.

(3) Other legal tools like infringement suits on AI outputs, anti-scraping laws, etc can address valid concerns instead of rigid copyright laws.

Expanding on (1), they say:

(1.a) The corpora used for training are not made publicly accessible - they are only consumed by machines during training. So authors do not lose any potential audience.

(1.b) The outputs of AI systems do not regenerate significant portions of the original works verbatim. The systems learn general patterns, not the specific expression of any particular work.

(1.c) Well-constructed AI systems do not overfit on any particular work. Each work contributes very minimally to the overall model.

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I think we should not be stopping progress, but this document 100% minimizes the impact/harm.

Soon AI writers and programmers will be so good, that even if they do not reproduce copyright content verbatim, they will be able to replace large % of the future work of the people that produced the copyrighted content the AI was trained on. This seems like a clear harm.

Given that the datasets are the product of the whole population, the whole population should be able to reap the benefits. As things are heading, only the largest corporations will be able to squeeze profit from the most powerful models.

This goes against (1.a), if one company can use the data for training, it should be made easily accessible to everyone.

Side note for (1.b), many companies implement this as a dumb filter on top of the LLM output, making sure that no N character substring appears in some copyrighted text.
But your complaint is about QUIC, not generic UDP. QUIC implements TCP-like flow control on top of UDP, designed to play well with TCP congestion control.

QUIC does play well with others. It's just implemented in the userspace QUIC library instead of the network stack.
Some tips:

- talk about things where you took initiative

- how did you identify the problem?

- how did you get support from your team/management?

- how did the project go?

- what was the outcome?

- what went well, and what would you do differently knowing what you know now?
Knowing how to do that is quite a high barrier to entry.
We've been deploying this for over a year on Fedora/Debian - everyone loves it!

The only challenge has been with thumbnails, and it looks like we should explore this: https://github.com/f3d-app/f3d/issues/969#issuecomment-17032...

Because we generate so many assets, our preferred solution would be a "3DAM/3DCMS", which there seem to be a few of now. However, a 3D file manager where we can open multiple viewers / objects from a higher level directory ("open folder as project") would help with our open source collaborations :)
For written text? Not aware of any examples, can you share any?

(To be clear by copying I mean repeating the text in your derived work, perhaps I should have been more explicit. The crux of this case is whether “copying into training set” counts as copying the whole work. )
> no, if you include anybody in the World, you are back at 7B

you should update your numbers
Where are you getting 2.5? 2450 +/- 50 is what I have seen.
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This is just the beginning, folks. AI is going to destroy civilization, not in the form of evil robots, but in the form of unnecessary application.

You thought everybody having an app was bad? Wait until your dentist is using AI to drill your teeth.
How to receive Webhooks for new RSS items
MitM can absolutely stop threats if done correctly. A properly configured Palo Alto firewall running SSL Decryption can stop a random user downloading a known zero-day package with Wildfire. Not saying MitM is an end all be all, but IMHO the more security layers you have the better.

At the end of the day, it's not your network/computer. There's always going to be some unsavvy user duped into something. If you don't like corporate IT, you're free to become a contractor and work at home.
Selling shoes on ebay, new ones I'd bought online that didn't fit.
This is exactly the type of confusion at issue here.

A "fresh install" doesn't necessarily remove default themes applied by the distribution.
I was going to write something along the lines how happy I am that someone solved the problem of the time to first byte when at least two javascript frameworks and three telemetry packages, each including a dozen of resources, are required for just about any page. But you put it so much more eloquently.
Back through the 90s and 00s, I think that ~3 years was the norm, at least for the part of the population that even owned computers.

But since then, there are fewer major improvements coming that fast. GPUs improve, but most people aren't hardcore gamers for whome that matters, and these can mostly be upgraded independent of the computer itself instead.

Other than that, if you're mostly just using your web browser, and maybe doing some spreadsheets and desktop-based email, what's the point? Even if you're doing more demanding stuff like Photoshop, we're at a point where the app's demands aren't growing fast either.
Using Farcaster protocol for Carmack-style .plan daily notes
I know there’s a chain of custody for hardware parts on commercial airplanes. What I don’t know is if anyone/everyone has a fully digital version or if it’s still a literal paper trail.

So if they knew how the counterfeits got into the system they could answer you if a particular part might be one of the suspect parts, but I don’t know if they can spit out a list of things to check in five seconds or if that’s two people working for a month.

But I will speculate that for recalls they would have to be able to answer that relatively quickly. Where are all of the Batch ABC-123 bolts that we bought, because they were all heat treated incorrectly and embrittled. Not answering is the sort of thing that should make the FAA’s sphincters pucker at the speed of sound.

I worked on CoC for software, and we knew we were trying to emulate the hardware chain but not exactly, so a lot of the finer details were out of my purview. With software the manifest can travel with the “part” at all times.
Overload to Overhaul: How We Upgraded Drive Stats Data
"I'm... gonna park a little further back."
I always figured that if more liberal politicians enact all at once the grueling regime required for current climate deadlines that it might work for a while but then the citizenry will then just revolt and vote right wing and it will set back all progress that has been made the past couple of decades. I already see it in American politics.
While I agree that its an overstatement to say beam search is a minor/worthless detail, its not as cut and dry as "beam search > top-p". You will get wildly variant results with both sampling strategies depending on the objective function that any given model was trained on, in addition to the type of task domain you're expecting the model to perform.

Just to cherry pick one domain: if you're doing any creative work (storytelling, roleplaying, etc), top-p may be a better sampling strategy because you will almost always get more diverse output. But since it's much less predictable, you probably don't want that sort of strategy for summarization or sentiment analysis.
Supervised fine-tuning of text embedding model is now available on Google Cloud
Ahhh, that's a good point. I guess I'm used to theming applications individually.
My high school in Iowa had a shooting range (not sure what type) that had long been coordoned off. In 2007 it was unthinkable that people used to be able to come to school and practice shooting.
What kind of bandwidth usage should be expected from a DHT crawler like this?
Still half cocked. It's a big part of why Glock triggers feel so crappy.

But imo the relevant part here is more that Sig decided to have the firing pin block... not block the firing pin itself, but a lug attached to the firing pin. A lug that can, extremely rarely, shear off.
This would make stealing corporate data more user friendly to those who break in. Or MS would monitor the prompt requests and do what linux does,

"Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported"
How Close Are We to AGI?
Generate Better Synthetic Image Datasets with Prompt Engineering and Evaluation
Yeah, I remember in a freshman lab that I was TAing for I spotted an assignment that was clearly a bad photocopy of an email (complete with email address at the bottom), which wasn't the student's email. So I went and found a name that matched up with that email, which was another student, and at that point I felt the need to look through all the assignments looking for this particular copy's calling card, a strange rounding error on one of the tables. Ended up finding about a dozen cases of cheating on that prelab, alone. A prelab worth, generously, half of a percent of their overall grade. Let the professor know, finished grading the rest.

Next week I had a dozen more missing assignments than usual, went to the professor asking "hey, why did a quarter of the class not turn in their assignments this week?", and they replied that the students had been served an ultimatum: Drop engineering, go transfer somewhere else in shame, or get hit with an academic dishonesty inquiry, which could carry much stiffer sentences.

They all took the former. The theory was that students cheat because they're either unwilling or unable to engage with the material, which means they're not cut out for engineering.
Fireworks fast LLM inference is now available on Poe
Holy color schemes, Batman!
Artists and writers complaining about IP theft are not reactionaries standing in the way of progress. They are the fonts of culture; the pinnacle of civilization. So paying them is a very good thing. It creates the right incentive structure without intervention. It will enable the democratization of art without starving the geese that lay the golden eggs.
I read it as "`where` skipped at code time because the table is never going to be too large".
like a Jedi building their lightsaber, but more addictive.