skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app you built was a hedge against the scenario where the deal with the other company fell through. It may have not been used in the end, but it might have been used as a bargaining chip in the deal, and it definitely provided security to the business in the case that the purchase had fallen through.

I've worked on several projects that were experimental and built to validate business theories that turned out not to be true, and the projects were scrapped. Does that mean they were bullshit? No, it means the business learned something about the market with the experimental project that was never certain to begin with.

People think they have bullshit jobs because they can't see the forest for the trees, and because of that viral book & thinkpieces surrounding it -- "Bullshit Jobs" -- that went around a few years ago (and that crops up again from time to time) and has convinced them that all labor without an immediate tangible effect is pointless.

That's a dangerous thing to believe in a highly developed economy, frankly. And it's just wrong.
I'm on the fence about whether AI CSAM should be illegal or not. There is no scientific consensus either way on whether it increases or decreases a person's thoughts about actual physical abuse.

The issue is that the people (and the legislators) in each jurisdiction have made a choice that AI CSAM is not illegal, and therefore this runs the risk of falsely accusing someone of a crime.

[if you disagree that AI CSAM should be legal in your jurisdiction the solution isn't to arrest everyone, but to petition your lawmakers to change the law]
Usually when people just write "lora" or "lora", it's hard to know the difference indeed.

But if someone writes "lora fine-tuning", isn't it already pretty clear what they are talking about?
I have been looking for exactly this sort of thing for ages, I'm so glad to have found your comment!
1. Because they are? There are whole industries that are more or less total BS. Whatever you do for these companies you are pretty much not contributing anything worthwhile to the society.

2. Because even if they contribute something to the society, they don't see the connection between what they are doing and a worthy cause. Seeing connection between what you do and the goals of the company and then understanding those goals is not very common, according to my experience.
I'm not finding highly relevant terms such as "government", "public sector", "bureaucrat", and "union" in the article.

I don't see how this situation can be discussed without considering the roles of government and unions.

Both government and unions introduce significant distortions when it comes to people doing work.

Most government "jobs" are a net loss to society as a whole. These government "jobs" typically involve decreasing the productivity of the private sector in some way, without providing any real (in the economic sense) value on their own.

Thanks to these pointless government "jobs" and the burden they impose on society, the private sector gets stuck involuntarily creating more pointless "jobs" to try to deal with, or otherwise defend themselves from, the government "workers" and their interference.

There's a multiplier effect going on, where one pointless government bureaucrat "job" can necessitate the creation of many other pointless private sector "jobs" just to deal with the pointless bureaucracy that that one bureaucrat creates. None of these "jobs" provide real value, and all are a burden on society because of how they destroy real wealth.

Unions, especially public sector unions, just exacerbate the problem by interfering with the reduction of pointless government "jobs", and worse, by encouraging the creation of new pointless government "jobs" to increase their membership numbers.

As government and public sector unions have gotten larger and more invasive over time, of course we should expect to see more and more people stuck doing jobs that are inherently valueless, or even outright harmful to society at large.
Doesn't a thumb then obscure the label of the month you're identifying?
He won’t continue working after this year, like you said. Microsoft can’t magically make his equity disappear.
FWIW:

1. (at least some of) the links from the FAQ entries to license texts appear to be broken due (presumably) to a change/transformation from `<filename>.md` to directory path.

2. It might be helpful to more clearly identify the text differences between the multiple licenses and/or at least the FAQs to enable skipping duplicated commentary when reading.
The ruble peaked in 2008 at 0.043USD, and this week it was at 0.009, and you're trying to tell me this is a good thing? lol, quit huffing Putin's farts.
If you have access to the apple ID that paid for a device, sure, why not.
I read Guns, Germs, and Steel right before reading Sapiens. While I've heard that some of the ideas of GGS were not well received, I really enjoyed it. Sapiens felt more like a tech bro hand waving and jumping to conclusions that he thought was obvious and I thought was suspect.

Edit:
Two takeaways I did enjoy (can't recall from which book):

Humans were pray animals that quickly became dominant predators, not allowing us to develop the confidence of "real" predators, so we are still scared of the dark and everything else.

Humans were able to stay in practically the same state for 40k years in Australia. After killing some megafauna of course. In the last 1k years, we've upset the apple cart and may destroy the world as we know and need it. We _can_ coexist in our environment without utterly destroying it in 40k years - but we are not.
> I think our disagreement here is over the level of innocence of someone possessing AI generated CSAM.

> If you believe, as I do, that such a person is guilty of a crime,

You just explicitly said upthread that ethically they are not, but argued that it is useful for them to be treated as criminals because it denies an excuse to those who are ethically guilty because they are possessors of genuine CSAM.

You seem to be moving your fundamental ethical premises around in response to it being pointed out that the argument you previously made conflicts with a different widely proclaimed ethical premise.
It's not healthy to a democracy to have power concentrated, because invariably it leads to a less diverse set of opinions on consequential decisions.

Even if (and big if!) we say that wealth/power-alone doesn't make people think differently, you're sampling from a much smaller population.

And I'd need some convincing on "I don't know how much a gallon of milk costs" not changing a person's perspective.
> you're demonstrating exactly the thing described in the blog post.

exactly. Who wants to backup anything in their house just to be able to do things that work perfectly well with 50's technology?
weiwenhao: The example in https://nature-lang.org/docs/the-basics/function#multiple-re... has `balance` and `product` swapped.
A 100% no. Cookie banners are only required if you do unnecessary tracking of and spying on your visitors. A cookie banner is a sure sign of the incompetence of the organization behind any website.
I’m convinced we’ve always had corruption, it’s just seeing more of the light today.

I mention this to my Eastern European friends and they laugh at the level of corruption the US complains about (compared to what they’ve had for decades+)
You will most likely fail but there are examples of companies, like Groupon, that created negative value for their customers.
TLDR: it uses a desiccant to dry the air before it passes through an evaporative cooler, thus pre-cooling the air. At night when power is cheap it uses a heat pump to dry the desiccant. You can get 4 hours use out of the desiccant. They also use alternative refrigerants "such as propane" but I do not see how that would improve efficiency, there are plenty of A/Cs using that today.

I don't quite get how this reduces the energy consumption - I must be missing something here, or they've PR-ified it and it doesn't actually reduce total energy consumption, just reduces peak load.

Adding water to salt and then removing it is at best an energy neutral process and in practice obviously involves losses and heat you cannot harvest (warm water vapor coming off of warm drying salt!) These A/C systems exist - search "desiccant enhanced evaporative cooling" - and have gotten more or less nowhere in the real world as far as I know.

Am I missing something here or is there any actual total energy savings?
I suppose literally anything is legally actionable in the sense you can write anything on a lawsuit and pay the filing fee - but you’d be highly unlikely to come even close to winning on these grounds in the US.
Didn’t the UK just blink when chat apps said hell no we will leave instead? Does the EU expect to get better results? Apple has very publicly come out and said that their proposal like this was a bad idea and I’d expect Signal to also not comply, the only remaining question is whether WhatsApp would threaten to leave again.
There are so few actual studies of this, and AI images being only a year or so old, that I would not put any weight behind them at this point.

My point isn't that AI CSAM should be legal or not, but whether these tools can differentiate what the lawmakers have decided is a crime or not.
Infosys campus pullback signals hard jobs reboot
This looks cool! Some feedback: the marketplace page seems pretty busted, none of the filter checkboxes work and the back pagination button doesn't seem to work either.
They'll start making nostalgia bait cash grabs soon enough when they think gamers are ripe for it.
Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard
Facebook.com already has decades-worth of natural language text and audio/video from uploads and "live" sessions. That is a deep pool, and wide too because Facebook probably has content in all currently-spoken natural languages, with the exception of those exclusively used by uncontacted peoples. That is a data moat.
> I haven't yet heard a rational explanation for just how badly ECDSA mangles the Schnorr protocol in exactly the way that means a lot of implementations end up with horrible security holes.

I thought schnorr was under patent for a bit, so an open alternative was needed? Also ECDSA does allow for recovery of the public key from the signature, which can be useful.
Truly great software
You made me actually LOL on such a depressing thread, happy Friday to you :D
My first car was too new to have a tape player, but too old to have aux/usb/bluetooth input. I had to resort plugging in my creative nomad mp3 player to an FM radio transmitter plugged into my cigarette lighter port. :)
A language is invented; mathematics is discovered.
Odd, the exact same model number (FPA-1200NZ2C) was also launched in 2017:

https://global.canon/en/news/2017/20170720.html

It was then marketed as 10 nm.
Life just happens.

If you are looking for something to organize knowledge for your projects and activities, that is an entirely different question.
There are no legal GPS jammers in the USA. In fact, the one of two things that will get the FCC on you really bad is to mess with GPS or Cell Phone signals.

For Example, US Prisons want to jam Cell Phones but the FCC says no way.
Eh, even that isn't a great metric at scale. Some managers just grow teams to have a large team size. Saying nothing about the job that needs done.
It's official – the world's first open trade exchange in crypto, the OTX Airdrop, is now underway! With a grand value of $50 million,
This is pretty funny. Anytime you throw a theoretically infinite payoff into the calculation it blows up immediately. It's like a religious argument. If this god is real than everyone must worship them and achieve ultimate paradise.

Another comparison actually is the GameStop stocks phenomenon. At least some of them expected such high returns (in some cases nearly infinite), that it would be fiscally insane to invest in anything but GME.
I didn’t say I was mentoring anyone, merely pointing out that if you think a hugely successful product is garbage, and that you state you can’t understand why it’s successful you might want to reflect on that a bit, especially in a forum such as this where many people are trying to build successful products.
The same technology they used allows for reintroducing the concepts into the model. Which I guess is as “bad” as removing safety, making the entire security theatre pointless.

Plus any combination of harmless concepts on their own could be harmful, so really - no.

Now maybe they are making the argument that generative models are too dangerous to be given to anyone at all except a few government blessed gatekeepers but such an argument probably would need proof.
No. Most workers are alienated for the 4 aforementioned reasons.

The alienation *makes you think* the job is bullshit, because you are kept from the whole view of what you do and how you work within the organization. The whole view (read: the non-alienating view) is from the managerial and ownership positions.

The reason management class wants to further alienation of the workers is so that the workers can be exploited by management class, and the workers won't know any better.
Those government jobs are there to protect the vultures of capitalism from destroying the world around us or leaving us a subservient rubes to corporate overlords.

Damned straight the government should be yanking the corporate choke chain -- HARD.
Government almost never passes useful/wise legislation with regard to technology, because it thinks “tech” is a problem that the government can “fix”. There are systemic reasons for the legislation almost always being bad/unhelpful/foolish and those reasons are not going to change.
The only programs I have that are putting things in the titlebar are putting tabs there, and those programs do not cause me notable problems. For me the positives are much stronger than the negatives.
Ironically, the reason some of the ideas of Guns, Germs, and Steel were poorly received is that it, too, is perceived by experts in the relevant fields as rather egregiously engaging in handwaving and jumping to conclusions.
A recent one: Unity CEO sold a huge amount of shares a week before they announced the pricing change on Unity.

Pfizer top-people bought a huge amount of shares before their vaccine was publicly approved and they sold it the moment the public was made aware that there was a vaccine for COVID-19 approved by the FDA

Microsoft bought a lot of Activision Blizzard shares a few days before they announced they would buy the company.

Having this thin line separating what's allowed and what isn't is not ideal. If you have privileged information, for example, that your product will be approved, something that isn't public knowledge, it should be considered insider trading.
USA, and folded 15 years ago. Before then there was lots less scrutiny of "non-profit" than there is now, here.
IANAL (though I do read Matt Levine, and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night) but my understanding is that yeah it's securities fraud if you are a public company because you are reporting sales numbers that are essentially fake, thereby defrauding the investing public.

Is it just regular fraud if you're not a public company? Or if you are a public company and do juke your sales stats this way, but are open about it in your public filings? Not sure.
The perception matters for the worker, economy be damned, and sure, this may have had some value as you suggest—or it may have been an accident of poor coordination or internal politics and power games in the company. Tons of these things companies do aren’t for some good, rational reason. They’re just mistakes, or results of games run amok.

> Bullshit Jobs" -- that went around a few years ago (and that crops up again from time to time) and has convinced them that all labor without an immediate tangible effect is pointless.

The book version, at least, isn’t so simplistic or stupid.
Did you look at the logo? It's very obviously a reference.
People always think we're jamming GPS near the border, but all those yellow and red hexes are in the Laughlin and Randolph military operating areas (MOAs). It's much more likely to either be military testing/training involving systems that cause GPS interference, or jet fighter training where aircraft maneuver so hard their GPS antennas are masked from satellites by the body of the aircraft.

Map showing the possible interference overlaid on an FAA sectional chart showing the MOAs: https://i.imgur.com/vieGhgN.png
Hetzner’s Nextcloud instance.

Since Nextcloud supports all *DAV protocols I care, it’s easy to sync it with my iPhone without being tied to Apple’s ecosystem. Todos, calendars, contacts, notes. I hate Nextcloud’s web interface, but it’s bearable.
Firefox Android 120 (release date November 21) will remove the limited list of extensions, allowing extension developers to mark any of their extensions on addons.mozilla.org as Android compatible. Then someone can test whether Firefox desktop's cookie banner extension work on Firefox Android.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-fire...
I tried to google this but it's pretty difficult, can you explain the difference between LoRa and LoRA?
Buyers buy what's available and automakers comply with regulations. It's the regulations that need changing.

Apparently in the US, it's easier for automakers to meet the efficiency requirements by increasing the weight of their vehicles instead of actually making them more efficient.

Moreover, crash testing does not include crashes with pedestrians.

The results are predictable - the rise of big, heavy, wall-like-bumper, limited visibility pedestrian killing machines.
Love and remember this project -- as someone who has also been jamming customized PC computers into cars since the mid 90's, I really believe that there is still a lot of unrecognized potential in having the ability to carry your own personal data and applications with you. I used to have the top viewed install on the MP3Car forums back in the early 2000's when that site was kind of the central hub for these projects. Unfortunately at some point those archives went offline and and an overwhelming amount of information on hundreds of these projects were lost.

At that time you have to realize that some cars were shipping with tape decks and others were shipping with big screen nav systems that sucked. The objective was to replace that junk with a touchscreen PC, make it look like it was built that way, make it integrate with the car as much as possible, then make it do everything you could ever want to do in a car. My install had: automatic backup camera, in-dash dvd, timeshift recording for am/fm, xm satellite, and uhf/vhf tv, gps navigation, 4.1 audio, music/movie playback from hdd or usb, wifi hotspot, cell modem, integration with the car's accessory bus (steering wheel buttons/react to events), basically the works. I even eventually got my system fully working with LinuxBios (Via EPIA-M) which was fun, but not something I ever want to have to repeat.

I did eventually come to learn that trying to build and maintain a full telematics suite for a userbase of one was a foolish endeavor. Today I have a small Raspberry Pi running 24/7 as a headless NAS in my car though if I had the time I would probably like to upgrade it to a small proxmox hyperconverged cluster instead. My car goes mostly everywhere I go, and when it doesn't, I can fall back to VPN. If this sounds interesting to anyone else, I'd highly recommend giving it a try, though it's a lot easier to deal with the constant power requirement in an EV.
do you know how/when you got the injury? What prompted you to get the scan?
With Telegram on Android you should still get notifications, even for encrypted messages. They just won't show the message's content.
That's a bad test. Sometimes the consequences are so nebulous and spread over thinly over large population or far in the future, etc. that it is hard to argue this test can be useful.

For example, if you decide to stop doing research (say into genetics) then there are no immediate consequences to anybody. But we still think that genetics research is important and worthwhile cause. Even if not every researcher is able to provide ground breaking results, collectively they help us resolve important problems like improving our longetivity, drug research, etc.
Sounds perfect for AC subscription service.
This is a really bad article. There is a nugget of truth, but it's never properly articulated because the author himself doesn't actually understand the distinction.

If you've already decided you want to build a unicorn and are willing to make take that <1% chance of success, YC will help you. If you want a lifestyle business, you could probably skip YC (though you probably wouldn't get accepted even if you applied with that idea anyways).
Had some experiences like this at big companies, and that's a main reason I now work at small startups.

They may not always survive the year, but everything I do matters to the company.
The one thing has nothing to do with the other so.
> As someone who lives in the Gulf Coast area

Same. I made a similar comment but deleted when I saw yours.

I've got a half-ton central dehumidifier that has to run 24/7 basically all year.

If I could just flow my HVAC over some desiccant instead... I am all ears on this one.
We are talking about why you are comparing an acquisition for 975M to a license purchase of $19?
Big fan of Nebula, especially Defined, which makes it real easy to setup/maintain
Have had some satnav apps when set in French translate “dr” in an Anglo street name as “docteur” instead of reading it as “drive”.

Just because I set the language to something foreign, it doesn’t mean I’m in that country with its street naming conventions.
Maybe the concern is that Firebase still learns that user A and user B receive notifications back and forth at around the same time, interspersed with periods of no notifications for both

If A and B talk regularly, there might not be many other C who by coincidence exchange notifications at the same time

So you might be vulnerable to a sort of traffic analysis
Oof, I’ve complained about practical problems in my developer life above, but that’s even worse than I thought. I was able to reproduce dh1024 and no-sct on my work laptop with zScaler. Interestingly it blocks the revoked one by turning it into a self-signed one.

Also failing:

- pinning-test

- all dh*, except for dh480 and dh512
There are plenty of "victimless" crimes that society deems unsavory and punishes. e.g. smoking pot in your home, alone is a crime in a lot of jurisdictions, even though clearly no-one is harmed.

In a lot of jurisdictions the decision has been made, whether it is right or wrong, to criminalize AI CSAM. The people have spoken and the lawmakers have made the laws. If you or I think that is wrong then the options are to lobby for a change.
If I had $470 million in stolen crypto, I would target to keep around 10% of that, and with the other 90%, just send them to random crypto wallets around the world. I would do that for years and years and lead the cops on expensive wild goose chases and get hundreds of thousands of people entangled, and then transfer some to me every now and then through different identities.

I don't see how this can be stopped, unless somehow they traced the execution of crypto transactions to a particular IP address and time.
Microsoft will likely just let them keep operating as they do now, providing money and reaping any profits.

They'll only step in directly if the studios are having problems they can't handle themselves, or performing very poorly.

They want the profit, not as much to direct everything on a micro-level.

EDIT: They will of course make more titles Windows/XBox exclusive too, which makes sense considering the investment.