skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was having screen problems with my first MacBook Pro I bought with my Pell grant (zebra pattern with the backlight) they gave me the newer model of my MacBook Pro. This is where they earned my loyalty.

I had a MacBook with screen and display issues. Multiple times they denied any issue. Even when I showed them that if we did a fresh install of macOS I could reliably and repeatedly cause a kernel panic in (IIRC) Safari, when doing something with the GPU.

While there was an active recall for the same issue.

Similarly, they insisted nothing was wrong with the logic board on another Mac. There was.

And then when the charging circuit died on my step-daughter's MBA (healthy battery, laptop worked fine on AC, just couldn't charge), I thought $2-300. Nope "The repair estimate is $890. Maybe you should look at a new Mac instead?"
Very insightful comment. Most customers just want the problem solving. If you can’t find anyone to discuss and possibly pay for it being solved in a clunky way then software isn’t suddenly going to change that.
I don't particularly care but this thread started as a discussion of how to eliminate as many radiated identifiers as possible.
>Even the words "intellectual property" sound ridiculous together when you think about it.

For this reason, many would suggest not using it. It's a vague way of combining the separate issues of copyright, patents, and trademarks. It also illegitimately tries to equate those things to property, which changes how many feel about it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Intellect...
I'm the only one still listening mp3s? I have a sandisk mp3 player (size similar to the classic ipod shuffle) and I use yandex to get the mp3s. And I transferred all my old CDs to mp3 format as well.

I don't use my smartphone to listen to music because it's too big/heavy (running with it is so uncomfortable).
There's some very useful context on the recent history of military strategic doctrine (and its accompanying blind spots) in this article: https://bafriedman.substack.com/p/the-idfs-decisive-victory-...

tl;dr an overly-firm belief in the main strategic threat coming from Hezbollah in the north-east, and an over-reliance on technology at the expense of infantry defense left the door open for Hamas, who themselves overestiamted the resistance they would face.
I don't know. I can think of persuasive arguments that financial security helps and ones that financial security hurts a given individual's chances of being a successful CEO. My intuition is that there would be a correlation but that it's not causal.
"find the best ideas wherever they come from" seems to communicate the same concept

I don't hate that as a way to describe a similar sentiment without invoking comparisons to DEI, which is a separate thing entirely.
Based on the past photos I don't think they are as close as the crop on the CNN article suggests.
Quake, Wolfenstein, elite force*

*may have paramount cbs locking that up but Raven comes back to the family with id now
So like an autoencoder for text?
Can I take it off and attach it to a drone I can fly on auto-improbable paths for fun in my spare time?
Smartphones Have Turbocharged the Danger of Porn
Is grading on a curve desirable? Why not, if everyone is really good, everyone gets an A? If they all fail, they get F's. I had a friend who was a professional musician auditioning for orchestras. At that level, EVERY applicant to these positions had won every music award they were eligible for since they were a kid. He never paid a dime for his music degree because he had a full scholarship. Zero debt to worry about. Still the audition outcomes were basically random because everyone trying out was perfect. So what's wrong with that?
This reminds me of megaCar from the same era:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001019032036/http://www.megaca...

Browsing that site again now in 2023 is hilarious! Make sure to turn your audio on.
Agreed. Embeddings are pretty big > 1024 * 4 bits. And language is really small: ~1 bits per character. So it's not at all crazy that embeddings can be lossless. The paper shows a practical method to recover the text and shows how it applies generally. Here's a demo of how it works https://twitter.com/srush_nlp/status/1712559472491811221

(paper author)
US style free speech is a huge driving force for innovation. We'll see the opposite soon when the EU tries to regulate AI.
>Ok, but why not go for routine home searches then?
Is it because on the phone, it is "invisible" and cheap?

Underrated comparison. That is apt and the whole “for the children” part is smokescreen.
Apple proposed the exact same thing themselves though.
ChatGPT follows instructions in picture over prompt
What would be the equivalent in software engineering?
Loosing your domain name?
I don't think that "flickers between tasks very rapidly to simulate concurrency" is a good mental model for event loops. It's more like "runs one task at a time until it hits a suspension point," where a suspension point is something like an I/O operation. If you had an event loop that switched tasks between suspension points, then you'd still need locks for shared data.
Good point, diamond-pattern dependencies can get hellish. In the past, rather than deal with shadowing etc, I've resorted to choosing versions of my major dependencies that use the same version of their underlying dependency (for example, sync my GRPC lib with other HTTP client libs so they all use the same version of Netty - this is in the Java world).
UK regulators were objecting the deal because they were concerned that the takeover would reduce competition in cloud gaming.

Microsoft gave game streaming rights to Ubisoft, which made the Activision deal possible: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/13/why-microsoft-had-to-relin...

"For Ubisoft, this deal means it has full and exclusive cloud-streaming rights to all current commercially available Activision games, as well as those released in the next 15 years." !!!

Ubisoft is the real winner here.
Roughly. It's about learning a decoder for a blackbox decoder. It's much harder in an environment that is not end-to-end trainable.
> I'm starting to get the feeling this is a bad idea

It sure sounds like a bad idea for you or I to do, but would be it be a bad idea for $HOSTILE_NATION's intelligence agency? What about domestic intelligence agencies?
I know in the mobile phone world, the GPS hardware is sometimes on the exact same chip as the cellular hardware, so you can't really disable them independently. In that case, they could theoretically talk to each other without software involvement, which is a little scary.
EA has been screwing up imo one of their biggest ups - command and conquer since they purchased it. Thankfully they've let fans run the show for the most part. I did enjoy cnc3 however 4 is a mistake and their subsequent attempts to do generals 2 have been flops
>By that yardstick, all jobs whose only purpose is moving or charging rent on money , e.g. the entire banking/finance sector, is pure bullshit waste. I tend to agree.

If you think "the entire banking/finance sector" is just shuffling money around, then the problem is that you have a simplified view of what they do, and therefore think their 10% (or whatever) contribution to the GDP is oversized. Banking/finance is far more than what you encounter day to day (ie. retail banking). They also assess risk, make forecasts, and make decisions on how capital is allocated. All of that requires staff and costs money.

>(Not that there wouldn't need to be some efficient algorithmic distribution of resources to maximise human wellbeing, of course; To each according to their need etc.)

Given how DAOs turned out in the past few years, I'm skeptical that'll ever work out.
> They’ve also started hiding the scrollbar entirely by default until you hover over where it’s supposed to be, what is that????

What it is is a UI improvement for me, and I think for most other people.

I agree that you should be able to override scrollbar behavior and styling. That should be a supported accessibility option.
>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.

Certainly, if you're going to major in some quantitative field, you can only avoid so many of the courses in that major. But, if you're really interested in optimizing for GPA, you can often still major in some variant of the major that provides more flexibility and--where you have electives--take classes that are easy (for you).
So Microsoft failing for a decade to bring titles to their console means that it’s okay to remove titles from Sony gamers?

The consoles today don’t have identical catalogs. That’s where your argument falls apart. One company made a decade of bad decisions which caused them to fall behind.

In a fair market where Microsoft didn’t have trillions in resources to just steal the market, Phil Spencer would be fired and Xbox gaming would be looking for better direction.

Also, Microsoft was granted moving forward on the basis that their claim “the games would be more accessible to everyone” was true. Yet you are here arguing that this will not be the case. Which is it? We all know what Microsoft plans are.

Personally, I am now hoping for Sony and Nintendo to pick up major publishers and make the content exclusive just so I can see the Xbox fanboys lose their shit over how its anti-competitive when they lose games, but not anti-competitive when they rob experiences from others.
Is there anything wrong with that?

When you’ve ticked off the money requirement then you can move onto higher level things and trying to change the world.

Maslow hierarchy of needs, and it’s probably better for everyone that it exists.
>""How to morally think about the war in Israel"

Google search for this exact phrase returns single link. Guess where it points to ...
Pgvector vs. Pinecone: Cost and Performance
In the UK there is no property value tax - you pay a local "council tax" per property that pays for things like rubbish collection and so on. You get a discount on that if your property is empty since you're not putting any strain on those services if no one lives there.

Other costs are essentially zero. Insurance is like £0.50/day. Utilities similar amounts for standing charges and minimal usage since it is empty. You might cost the same as like a Starbucks coffee a day when everything is taken into consideration.

If course if you have a mortgage, yes, there is a cost there. But that is not so much about the empty property itself and more about your debts.
It's really about preventing images from circulating.

Yes, the database maintainers would notice, but it could take them a while to get around to it. And they're not going to be eager to remove a collision, because that would effectively "legalize" the child porn member of the image pair. There are lots of images that could be useful to suppress temporarily.

And if you actually succeed in suppressing the false-positive image, it may not get passed around very fast, and it won't get vastly more hits than real target images, so it will take longer for anybody to notice or care.

There's also a possible end game where the child porn traders start perturbing their images to collide with really common images like flags, corporate logos, iconic movie stills, and whatever else. So now you either have to ban the US flag, or let this or that actual child porn image go.

I don't actually think that the false hits would ruin very many lives in most places. But it's worth noticing that the original article was talking about authoritarian regimes repurposing the system without the consent of the database maintainers. In the Orbán example, it's possible that the system might flag you for child porn, but you might actually get arrested for sedition. And that continues to happen to people until the database maintainers pull the hash.
>None of the American assessments offered any tactical details or indications of the overwhelming scope, scale and sheer brutality of the operation that Hamas carried out on October 7

Knowing somebody might attack you in someway, somewhere, and on some day seems kind of useless to stop it. Am I missing something?
What about the value that the actual developers created for investors? Oh, that's right, many of them got fired for their efforts.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out how reality diverges from how science is often taught to be practiced as this innocent discovery process.

The structure behind research and funding in research, which leads towards all sorts of system gaming, is definitely a core contributor to reproducibility but it's not the the only issue. A lot of issues are in sheer variability of things being studied and how context sensitive some things can be. Combine that with limited time, funding, and expectation to produce positive results in some weird form and you yet a lot of the reproducibility issues out there. Another huge factor beyond just analytic approach is analytic follow through. There's a lot of highly questionable computational code out there that researchers earnestly believe is doing something that it's actually not.
You're not alone. I have a cheapo mp3 player from a Chinese no-name brand -- I'm pretty sure I've seen the exact same thing sold under multiple brands, for some reason -- and it's tiny, light, and good at playing music. Way better experience than having a smartphone clunking around in my pocket.
Not sure if it's changed that much since I can't really remember a lot from Bryce but it seems to look about the same (?) https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-pro
Sounds similar. Charging circuit on an MBA. Laptop worked perfectly on AC power. Battery health via various tests and Apple diagnostics, healthy, just 0% charge.

"That will be $890 to repair. Maybe you should wander around and have a look at the new MBAs."
Every pro photographer crops for impact and composition, it's part of the job. The lack of texture is probably a function of distance, time of day, and atmospheric conditions. I think if it was fake people could quickly point out that no such mosque exists in Gaza, or that it's an altered pic of some mosque in a different region.
Documentation is like lines of code. A useful tool but if you have too much of it, I start wondering why we need so much. Make your abstractions less leaky of you can, make your API higher level, and you don't have as much to document.
Without knowing all the details, I think it's fair to assume this is a fair approach. I'm sure there are all sorts of legal details to work through that make axing him immediately untenable. 3 months seems like a reasonable timeline.
Prod database on a single server with a single drive
This is just semantics. When tests are written to where the expected grade is an A then less than that is coming in under expectation. Also I don't know any school that lets you move to the next course if you got a D. It's enough to say you passed but not continue.
I’m curious how few people have followed this topic of client side scanning through.

The logical conclusion is that someone is going to get a knock on their door and a warrant for search because of an unknown signature match on a file some where at some point?

And people seriously think this will stop at being “for the children”?
Hamas actually did make israel keep Gazans in a blockaded prison city through repeated terrorist attacks.
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a caveat on the accuracy measurements in this blog post:

There is no available information on Pinecone's proprietary ANN index, they don't provide information about query accuracy, nor does it support exact nearest neighbors search (KNN). So to measure Pinecone's accuracy, we had to compare its results with pgvector's exact search (KNN without indexes) for the same queries. This seems to be the only way to measure Pinecone's index accuracy.

Overall we found that Postgres runs at ~5x better performance for the same or less $$ (at least using supabase pricing)
UI: the design of interface between software and users, with a significant body of research behind it.

UX: the design of interface between software and users as defined by self-proclaimed experts with no significant body of research behind it.

We most definitely did not mean UX when we talked about UI.
I thought it was Egypt who warned about it? (From UK media)

Also, this was Hamas not Gaza. It wasn't the innocent civilians who are being killed who did this.
Now imagine what it is like when they have someone that they dislike.
What are the legal consequences of having an image with the matching fingerprint on your device? Is there some kind of threshold to mitigate false positives? What organization is responsible for processing the matches? Is it enough for a search warrant? (for various countries/jurisdictions)
But that is how it works at other prestigious universities, basically every professor thinks that students doesn't learn stuff well enough and would want to test even more thorough understanding than they already do. It isn't about grading on a curve, it is about giving a good test for the students.

It isn't like students at any institution understands the material as well as the professor even when they get the highest grade in that class, but that is the goal. The better the students the closer you can get, Harvard just refuses to test that properly, or if they do test it they don't record that grade.

Edit: What I meant is that they typically don't grade on a curve, so it works as the poster I replied to wanted it to work. Realized "that is how it works at X" could be taken as I mean they should grade on a curve.
well, assuming there's actually a cloud gaming market. A fact that's still up for debate I think.
In fact, you might even argue that possessing real CSAM has no victim. After all, the person possessing the image isn't the one who committed the abuse and took a picture of it, right? But we've collectively decided that it's worth punishing that crime, because every viewer is an enabler of the abuser. The same logic should extend to AI-generated content.

To put it another way, consider a thought experiment where a police officer generates CSAM with AI and then sells it to someone who thinks it's a real picture of a real victim. We should arrest the buyer, right? They thought they were committing a crime.
I understand, but people who want that property in a car need to be restrained preemptively.
I’m starting to think that a government large enough to get all the things it could want might be a bad idea.
> In AP classes, most high school students earn As from their teachers (I estimate around ~60%). Yet, when you look at the AP scores, few get 5s on exams (the equivalent of an A).

There's absolutely no problem with this.

Your grade in your AP class is a measurement of your achievement at the high school level. An A indicates you did what's expected of you as a junior/senior in high school.

The AP exam is measuring whether you achieve at a first year college level enough to skip that first year in the subject.

More people should get As in AP Physics than get 5s. If they measured the same thing you wouldn't need the AP exam.
No, compared to the alternatives back then as well, like a cd, a tape, the radio, etc. These things have simple controls that you don't need to take your eyes off the road to operate, if you needed to.
It is used in the PR sense
If there's a gold mine, and everyone is scrambling to claim a share of it, how can I predict who will achieve the greatest success? The reality is that I can't.
Since the outcome is uncertain, the strategy is to invest in anyone actively engaged at the gold mine.

This approach is obviously simplistic and loosely-speaking. In practice the network effect would be precedent where I would favor investing in individuals I'm acquainted with, who possess a track record of experiences and competence in generating wealth.

So the point is, there is nothing wrong with actively engaging at the goldmine and be rewarded for it by investors. These are motivated by clear rationales.
That's some next level shit. I dig it.
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Smart move? He was not offered a plea bargain, so going to trial was the only option.
I'm not sure why it doesn't work. It's like there's no back button but it says to. Then I can't get back to where it said it. Trying to figure out if it knows who I am and then if they want to know who I am.
The UI usually maps linear motion quite naturally. In real use the control is mapped to a physical knob via MIDI, if you'll be tweaking it on the fly.
And yet.. they still leave you with the ability to completely remove it from the vehicle in under 5 minutes and then drive on the roads anyways.

The idea that I have to allow myself to be compromised or ignore that compromise because there's some other _partially_ equivalent identifier is not justified.
Exactly - there can be no argument allowed, because the issue is so “severe”.
> A 'C' grade is supposed to be 'average'.

I've never heard that before, and it certainly hasn't been in any class I've ever been in. And Wikipedia says nothing of the sort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_United...

To the contrary, C is generally the lowest grade that is considered to be a satisfactory passing grade.
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> Are they guilty of a crime?

Unless there is a very specific "attempt to acquire CSAM" law then no they're not fucking guilty of any crime. If you live in a state where marijuana is illegal and you smoke some oregano because you thought it was marijuana you're not guilty of actually possessing marijuana.

A criminal law is composed of a number of individual statutes. When a state is trying to prosecute someone for a crime they need to prove three elements for each statute: the criminal act (actus reus), intent (mens rea), and the concurrence of both of those.

If a cop sells you oregano and you think it's marijuana you might have the intent to buy marijuana but there's no actual criminal act because oregano isn't illegal. If you make a law that only requires intent then congratulations, you've created thought crimes.

If you want to make entirely fake CSAM possession illegal, that's essentially the same as an intent-only law and creates thought crimes. It's a slippery slope.
If they've decided to classify body cams as "surveillance" --- and, fair enough, I guess --- then really all they're going to need long term is an atlas of every law enforcement agency in the country.
Everyone famous in the 90s in the eastern US was an associate of Epstein. He was a rich famous guy, it’s sort of expected.
But that junk mail provides a lot of the revenue for the USPS, doesn't it?
His employees that made the actual games?
Egypt did. This is new news that US intelligence also seemed to know about it as well.
Aborigines didn't just hunt megafauna to extinction they managed their environment to make it what it is to day. This is true of Native Americans too.

Any thing we do in sufficient numbers has an effect on the environment regardless of our tech level.