skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> currently Facebook is actively promoting and pushing the video of hamas beheading a baby

Do you have source of that? I'm having a hard time believing Facebook promotes such a video.
Dupe from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846821
It's nothing more than a shakedown, selling us the solution to a problem you caused yourself. The mafia has become such a shadow of itself we've forgotten what a protection racket looks like.

If AI is so dangerous, OpenAI should be dissolved and anybody else practicing the dark arts should meet a similar fate. When you create threats to public order, you should be jailed, not rewarded with security consulting contracts.

Only in this goddamn clown world do we consider trusting disciples of Voldemort to police their own behavior. We trusted Hitler to do exactly that and it ended predictably. He, too, claimed to espouse progressive morality and attempted to codify it.

AI is either dangerous or it's not. For every "how do i build a pipe bomb" question asked, authorities are equally empowered to counter it with "...now how do we protect the public against that?" The double-edged sword cuts both ways.
i think it's fine if universities grade on whatever scale they want, or none, and it's not clear who is hurt by this.

I guess if you have to hire Harvard new grads, want to base your decision on their academic performance, and would prefer more fine-grained rankings of performance, this is not in your interest.

The very top students may also wish they had more chance to distinguish themselves. However the way it seems to work in many schools with grade inflation is that it's easy to get an A, but still pretty hard to get an A+, so there's still some opportunity here.

I'd also add that at Princeton, attempts to combat grade inflation were very unsuccessful and resulted in strange unintended consequences, like students carefully strategizing which sections of courses to take to avoid those believed to have heavy competition.
Another fun anecdote about those times and MIT specifically. My brother was arguably the top student to come out of the Atlanta Public School System in 1996. This was a kid used to being the best in everything he did. He starts at MIT and takes the Calc 2 placement exam (he got a 5 of course on the AP BC test) and scores an 11 out of 100. He said the teaching assistant sat him down and told him “we are not in Kansas any more, forget everything you think you know, you are not prepared to be in this class and we will not accept your AP test results.”

Unfortunately, I recall in 1996 4 or 5 students committed suicide at MIT due to the academic rigor (which is why the first year was pass fail).

I’m not advocating for this system just sharing stories told to me.
Thank you for this wonderful and accessible library. So Graphically, the creative space appears to be limited to 256 individual custom characters in the sprite sheet and only one sprite sheet at a time. Spent some of the week considering xterm.js to create a game but after reviewing the api this looks to be a better fit for my dreams. Would really like to use this library to create an experience similar to “caves of qud”. Do you believe that is reasonable?
https://blankcalendarpages.com/monday-calendar

Around two years ago I was looking for a nice calendar on Amazon, but then I decided to just try to print one out. Since then I've been printing my monthly calendar and use it as a sort of logbook. It doesn't contain future things I need to be reminded of, I use Google Calendar for that.
In principle you don't need to disable GPS. A GPS receiver doesn't transmit anything.

What you would need to disable would be Bluetooth, cellular (e.g. OnStar), and potentially TPMS.
I think it very much depends what bits of the OS you are working with. I had an application I had a part in maintaining get nailed repeatedly by each generation of Apple Silicon and OS updates. It was working quite close to hardware though
Loving your UIs for these projects, they have a nice minimal aesthetic. What's your tech stack if you don't mind me asking, seems Svelte for frontend?
Not sure why you are specifically calling out EVs. I think all new cars (gas or electric) have internet connectivity and send all sorts of data home.
You're assuming the truth of your conclusion without testing it. It's equally possible that encountering AI-CSAM is going to incentivize collectors to pay a premium for 'the real stuff', just as many CSAM collectors end up getting caught when they try to make the leap into engaging in abusive activities for real. Your mental model of how CSAM enthusiasts think isn't anchored in reality.
We're a talking private company in the Bahamas that has no oversight. There are no shareholders, board of directors, or audits. Sam can just go to the databases of pooled funds addresses from his admin panel and move some of those funds from A to B. Assuming anyone notices, he can pretend to be clueless. That is the scary thing about exchanges and why so many people in crypto say to self-custody. Your money is in the hands of people who can do whatever they want with it.
There is no need to unleash creativity of 100% of population. Change always comes from the few of us.
You don’t need to quit your job to start a company.
You quoted Smith Chapter X Part II, whose argument in context is that the pressure of competition quickly kills attempts at collusion, while surviving conspiracies are enabled by regulation.

The paper contrasts commodities from all other concentrated markets; whereas the former is expected to have an impulse transient response whose price discovery quickly settles by way of competitive forces consistent with Smith, the latter has a salient capacity as price maker to play games.

Megacorps and multi-nationals weren't exactly meta in the 18th century. Exponential tech complexity, sector consolidation, global economies of scale, regulatory capture, the speed of information and capacity of market participants to meaningfully act are just a few modern barriers to entry in concentrated markets suppressing the notional competition that Smith leans heavily into.
Firstly, I want to say I agree with you. If what you're saying is correct, it seems insane to me they'd allow that given I don't believe nudity is even allowed on Facebook?

However, I'm not sure this is actually what the EU has a problem with? Showing the factually accurate and horrific things Hamas is doing is obviously not pro-Hamas or hateful. Major media orgs here in Europe are doing very similar things with the exception that they're blurring the content.

So I don't believe this content is illegal or hate speech? The first thing that comes to mind, is that back when the UK was in the EU a lot of media orgs here were publishing uncensored images of a dead child who drowned while seek refuge in Europe.

NSFW but if you want to see the image, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/shocking-image...

I think what the EU has a problem with is the anti-Israeli content (some of which is fake news, and would be illegal under hate speech laws).
It hasn't been anywhere near long enough to ask what Microsoft is doing or has done with that IP, they JUST got their hands on it.
> Consequently, we encourage Meta to reconsider their policy of publicly releasing their powerful models.

Fuck off.
In Firefox, I also add the following to userChrome.css to make the scroll thumb high-contrast versus the scroll bar itself. The default Firefox colors are, in my opinion, too low-contrast.

:root {
scrollbar-color: rgb(35,75,240) rgb(220,222,224) !important;
}

The first color is for the thumb (the part you pick up and drag) and the second color is for the remainder of the scrollbar.

Resulting appearance: https://imgur.com/a/A1LTS4M
Riot Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Capcom, Sega, Bandai Namco, EA, Valve, Square Enix, Nexon, Ubisoft, Konami, Embracer, and some others. Not including all the Chinese publishers.
My 2014 GLK is like this. Mostly, somewhat.
Not getting anything newer until they figure it out!
The 'results' here isn't about confirming or rejecting a hypothesis, it's about analyzing data for a strength of effect, which seems fair enough.

> The researchers gave scientist-participants one of two data sets and an accompanying research question: either “To what extent is the growth of nestling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) influenced by competition with siblings?” or “How does grass cover influence Eucalyptus spp. seedling recruitment?”

What follows is that the variations in choices of how the data is analyzed gives a wide range of 'strengths' that when averaged is not significant, or extreme and opposing individual strength results. What this is highlighting is that the data analysis (even for identically reproduced data) is a source of irreproducibility meaning that it itself needs to be explicit and validated.
I know it's not for everyone but my mostly keyboard workflow is actually grateful that not much real estate is sacrificed for places to drag.
I had an aux input on the back of my car stereo wired to a Toshiba laptop shoved into the glovebox of my Chevy Lumina. The laptop ran WinAmp with all my bootleg mp3s. There was no power connection, and laptop batteries were terrible back then, so yeah, I could listen to music for about 20 minutes. Oh, and there was no interaction with the music unless I was at a long stoplight. Anyway, I thought I was Hackerman. LOL
Reminds me of one of my first webpages I created that had links to online radio stations by genres circa 2005. I even searched godaddy to see if i could buy pandora.com for a name for it and then reached out to them saying i wanted that name and got a response back; very early for them.

My online radio webpage (button links for different genres aligned left to right to easily click when driving with the microsoft player above the links) worked great through my Microsoft Treo phone which I too connected my Treo phone to stereo via a cassette tape adapter. Used a cassette tape adapter from 2005 to 2016 in different cars until that 2016 car stereo had built in bluetooth.
ChatGPT: Skills, use cases, limitations and comparison to Bard and Claude
> Even just the electricity needed to power a gaming PC is expensive.

The average electrical energy rate is 10.3 cents per kwh. A gaming PC might consume 750 watts. So it cost an average of 7.7cents/hr to power a gaming PC. Hardly expensive.

Of course, both cloud and PC gaming requires things like router, monitor, etc that consume electricity. I think it's fair to assume those things are equal between the two setups.

Edit: Average cost is for US. 750 watts is a good power budget for a gaming PC, but of course machines can be made that consume much more power or gaming capable machines can be made that consume less.
What should the average be? A 'C'? I doubt it. Let's assume most of the people at Harvard wanted to be there. Wouldn't they work hard to get there and thus once there do their best to succeed?
> If serving 95% achieved vastly better outcomes and 5% received no education

Good luck convincing the families of the 5%! I'm not arguing this approach wouldn't improve outcomes - just that it's not considered an acceptable solution to "the problem of education." So it doesn't seem like a good faith contribution to the conversation the article is addressing because I believe it's already been rejected as an option.
everything that doesn't count is very large. Things that count are small.
I always have to scale Windows to 150% or 125 % because of that.
Mind expanding on this a little bit?
Yes, look at the "harmful" things they get the model to do. Is anyone seriously worried about this stuff??
Yup.

Even at the language VM level, it doesn't seem to be tenable.

Microsoft tried to go all out on this back in the day with Code Access Security. I remember three things about it:

1. Engineers/sysadmins would easily get frustrated, and just let the app run under full trust

2. Perf issues, since security demands would result in checking the call stack up

3. When they changed things in .NET 4 a lot of web code would break unless you added a magical attribute.

Needless to say, microsoft more or less gave up on it in .NET core
SHA1 password hashes --- which are often iterated and much harder to crack than a simple hash --- are bread and butter for password crackers.
I think people also way overestimate the founder takes from even successful exits.

One of my classmates was a co-founder of a company that had a near-$100M exit (acquired) ~10 years ago (back when that was real money). That sounds like a lot, right?

By the time the VCs took their cut, the equity grants were deducted, and the founders split the proceeds.. it wasn't life changing money.

The money wasn't much different than a typical equity grant at a FAANG for a 30-something dev. Especially after 5-10 years of effort. And then you might be stuck working for the acquirer for some contractual period before you can exit.

It was also one of the many ZIRP businesses that would never be bootstrapped. That is - gain a bunch of customers by giving away services for free in hope that you somehow get so many that you can ... do something, later.
Then why bother giving grades at all?

EDIT: The parent comment makes it sound like admittance to Harvard is prima facia proof that students are already excellent. If that is the case, then why grade students in Harvard? Students at Harvard should be trusted to learn everything they need to learn.

EDIT2: Given that 80% of grades at Harvard are 'A', it seems like Harvard administration agrees that grading is not needed.
It's actually in the US national interest to maintain the capability - both in terms of tooling/production lines as well as know how - to produce our currently used main battle tanks. In addition, performing upgrades on older tanks, which is a large part of what the Ohio plant does, makes it possible to continue using existing tanks.
While I'm not excited about this, it's hard to really bring up Sony in this context. They have been horrible about exclusives and only recently started putting anything on PC, not to mention they were the reason cross-play was held off on for so long
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/W2VO...
It is not a whole file being mistranslated but only a few trailing lines starting from "Висираня" word.
Great work, lots of useful information here.

The only thing I wish you did different was explored alpha > 2 * r.

In this blog post, the author found that alpha of 4 * r (where r=64) outperformed all smaller alphas in terms of loss when finetuning Llama-7b on databricks-dolly-15k.

https://medium.com/@drishtisharma96505/comparative-analysis-...

Additionally you identify (alpha = 2*r) r=16 as inferior to r=256, however aside from arithmetic, r=16 actually outperforms all others. And the base model outperforms any finetuning for both arithmetic metrics.
The first two moved past the hype and became commonplace, if not mundane. I guess in a decade or two there will be things using web3 principles in a boring way.
> I understand why they do it, they want their students to not have problems due to low grades, but that also means that a Harvard degree isn't as useful as a sorting mechanism because I can't tell the difference between top students and the rest.

They got into Harvard and were subsequently successful there.

Do you really benefit from knowing which of two Harvard grads got a few extra questions right in a handful of exams?
Noob question, sorry.

> also run it on any x86 machine

With the stock wifi chip and antenna? Or would I need to upgrade?

Asked another way: my old PC can be the "server"? Just like any wifi base station?
>From my understanding, you can't draw any real conclusions from the data unless you predicted that it would look that way beforehand.

Oh my sweet summer child, a lot of lab work and data collection is expensive and in the game of research, you spend a lot of time gaming the system and meeting expectations relative to doing actual fundamental research. So much work wants to take the hard low return work like doing tests and collecting data and releveraging it with increasingly complex statistical approaches.

I've worked in so many research environments that you find more often the case is that there's a selection towards research that could be pursued and falsified with existing data vs the other way around. Here's this set of data and how it was collected, what arbitrarily new novel thing can we say about it? It may not be something interesting but it may be statistically or theoretically valid. The result is you get a paper/publication out of it without doing the footwork.

This is part of the reason researchers often hold their data tightly. You'd think scientists would want to share data but it's a highly competitive environment and if you took the risk to invest time and money in some costly data collection process, you want to do everything you can to say everything you can about it before someone else does it without any of the underlying cost. Sure, you may get a reference or footnote for your data but that's not going to help that much in the big scheme of things, not as much as a fresh publication. Also, if you're only being referenced for the data collection portion of your work... it doesn't speak alot about the work you did around that data collection.
Not quite that extreme but yea. I've had those conversations.

> Working on X but Y is a blocker

> Okay, I can do some work with Y to help get unblocked

> No we'll let A (on a different team, maybe a different contracted studio) deal with it, here's tiny widget Z to work on in the meantime

Sometimes it means well, sometimes it feels like they don't value your expertise nor care about fostering growth. And sometimes it's just politics (especially when working with multiple different companies and contractors and all that).
EUV has quite the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...

> "Congress denied Japanese companies the necessary permission as they were perceived as strong technical competitors at the time"
Music have no registry. It is much worse than land property
As an aside, this is how ChatGPT’s plugin support works, and I always find it slightly mind blowing. You give it some OpenAPI docs, and a some brief instructions on what the API is good for, and then off it goes and uses it.
> 4,000 beta participants
> 7,500 secrets created

That would suggest less than two secrets created by an average participant. Sounds about right, I personally created exactly one before realizing that I get absolutely nothing on top of what I already get from AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store.

> overwhelmingly positive feedback

TBH everyone I spoke to just echoed the above sentiment, and the numbers mentioned above are hardly indicative of enthusiastic adoption.
> I can make up any set of axioms

Yeah, but that wouldn't be mathematics.
Write things down! All the weird things and ideas, put them into categories and write them down. This categories can also have a to do list.

Use some kind of calendar.

Try to not read the news on the internet too much. Use a RSS reader.

Notes:

Simplenote https://simplenote.com/

I use it with nvpy on Linux https://pypi.org/project/nvpy/

Calendar: https://www.rainlendar.net/

Tiny Tiny RSS Reader for selfhosting: https://tt-rss.org/

This is not bad either, 30 USD per year but I decided to go with tiny tiny

https://bazqux.com/

PS, strangely, this app makes me also more productive.
Enpass: https://www.enpass.io/

I did not pay, it was available for free in the past. But I may have to buy it in the future. Organizes everything. Passwords. Information. Credit Cards. Certificates. Passportcopies, whatever. But this may be a personal thing.

Most important: Your apps must be snappy. Especially nvpy is nice.

Things like https://obsidian.md/ are on my watch list. But maybe the overhead is too complex. Is somebody here that uses Obsidian?
> Great point about feeding the Swagger files straight into the LLM.

That doesn't scale though. Notion OpenAPI doc is more than 6k lines. You will have to resort to some splitting techniques or using vector stores
Yes, the “digital version” that mimics the analog one. It was cute in the mid 90’s.

I want actual physical knobs.not sure what that would be called. Potentiometers?
The obvious solution in that case seems to be to make the test more difficult . If everyone is getting 90% right you can definitely spice things up a bit
I really don't get the complaints about Starfield being mid. What did people expect? Skyrim, Fallout 3/4, Starfield are all basically the same things with visual retouches along the way. This is not a slam in the slightest mind you: I'm currently in the midst of my fourth playthrough of Fallout 4. I'm looking forward to picking up Starfield in a year or so once the modders have made it more awesome and Bethesda's fixed the more egregious issues. But apart from that, it's the Bethesda formula: big ass world, a lot of stuff to do in it, none of it particularly mindblowing but all of it generally sitting atop a standard of quality you expect. You go to the places, you shoot the bandits, you collect shit, you sell most of the shit and then get a new point on the map to check out. This is The Loop.

Like I just don't understand what people expected. It's Fallout/Skyrim in space. It has a ton of the exact same mechanics, the exact same weak points, the exact same strong points. I'm sure I'll enjoy it, I'm just not chomping at the bit to have it right now and so will pick up the Game of the Year edition with all DLCs included for like $20 in a year or two.

If you like Bethesda games, you'll probably like Starfield. If you don't, you won't. I personally enjoy them, they're excellent "brain off" entertainment for me and at the same time I understand why some people don't like that, and that's also completely fine but I just don't get why people are flipping their lids in either direction. By all accounts (bearing in mind I haven't played it) it is exactly, 100% to the letter what I expected it to be.
It is a nice business you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it...
Blizzard used to me my absolute favourite game company;
its so sad how they have fallen off since they got bought by Activision.
> TPMS

Curious about this. What else does this do besides measure the pressure of your tires? Or could the system transmit some other info?
It's not a monopoly but I think it's fair to express frustration towards the lack of legislation preventing what's clearly anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't seem very helpful for people to continually state what the current laws are as if that makes this better somehow.
a few dollars to help me at least pay for the domain
One idea would be for the government of Hungary to create a list of its citizens that share this inciting, dangerous or whatever you you wanna call it material. If they keep on finding the same persons distributing multiple times, they may pay them a visit, get them fired from their government job, block their bank accounts, put them on the no-fly list or whatever.

And that’s just one idea, probably there’s others.
Not just particles, many things are (stars, animals, etc.)
Hey Dang, isn’t this post breaking the guidelines? The post is not using the original title:

> 148624 - (tooltip-ghost) Tooltips persist in foreground when Firefox is in background

My point here is a meta point: it’s great that we can change the titles to something more descriptive.
> On the other hand the rich person has a strong incentive to succeed - avoiding ridicule and getting more recognition.

I would argue that Zuckerberg couldn't care less what the world thinks of him. Otherwise he would have been rather embarrassed by the Meta project. I would put Elon Musk and X up as another example of a very rich person who seems unperturbed by ridicule.

>The public employee on the other hand gets no recognition, or ridicule,

So politicians don't have a need for recognition and to avoid ridicule?
That's been the running joke an University of Chicago forever. If I wanted an A I would've gone to Harvard.