skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means they recognize there can be false positives. And that you can be the innocent recipient of it.
Does anyone else not just buy a new battery? Fresh install, NVMe SSD, a clean fan and fresh thermal paste, maybe a new WiFi card. Makes a laptop feel new again.
Is owning a home supposed to be an investment or is it supposed to be a place to sleep at night so you can go to a nearby job, school, etc? Maybe I'm naive, but to me, these are very different things.
If you take a test at the end of every class to demonstrate mastery of the subject how is that not cost effective?
It blocks sponsored content using SponsorBlock[0], which uses crowdsourced data to detect segments in video's and skips them (basically fast forwards over the content).

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Any language other than English at home is highly likely to end up with the kids bilingual anyway.

With the pervasiveness of English (yay hollywood) it comes almost naturally.
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I've seen some incredibly creative work from Midjourney, even for some of my shitty promots.

I strongly disagree with the basic assumptions of the article. Creativity and imagination are a process of being wrong: imagining that Barney the Dinosaur has a magic box is categorically false, yet it remains creative. In addition, all revolutionary ideas start as falsehoods. Einstein was "wrong" according to what humanity considered "right" when he came up with SR - it eventually became right.

Finally, the fear of being wrong - which is a learned fear - causes real harm. Being wrong (and eventually right) should be celebrated - and we have seen that ChatGPT is usually more than happy to be told that it's wrong.
Thanks - I've changed the URL to that article, since it gives more background.

The submitted URL was https://wholeearth.info/, and is obviously worth looking at.
I was the first person in my family to own a mobile. I talk to everyone I can on it, but I find my friends who grew up with a mobile or smartphone talk little, preferring to send an SMS, or through an app.
> Outgoing connectivity should be whitelisted.

The problem is, whitelists suck. Just browsing with NoScript is annoying. Unfortunately you cannot do anything to fix this at an individual level; you end up being your own 1-person full-time IT department.

We need some equivalent of class action; this is where companies like Apple could use their leverage, there's some precedent with things like blocking third-party cookies by default - this could've been the default in 1997, but we had to wait 20+ years and suffer all of the consequences in the process. Meanwhile the dominant platform (Chrome) won't change it, because conflict of interest.

Allowing everything to talk to everything was a mistake, but you can't fix it by cutting your own wire.

> [...] block outgoing plain text http.

I have a TiBook here (an insanely powerful machine, by most retrocomputing standards), that struggles to keep up with modern crypto - both TLS and SSH. I really appreciate it when websites offer plaintext http as an alternative, without forcing an https redirect. Setting the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header, followed by HSTS, does the right thing for modern browsers.

You can bootstrap a basic Linux userspace, starting at a C compiler and zero lines of code, into having a working shell and an HTTP client, in about one weekend; but the road from there to having modern TLS would be monumental. How much of the present world's knowledge is going to become permanently inaccessible, should we ever have to start bootstrapping?
Ask HN: Have you found a solution for sharing Docker cache between build agents?
Assuming we have to use their devices, what measures can we take?
I've been playing Starfield and it's been fine for me. Occasionally the quality degrades and you can see this very obvious vertical wipe as it syncs back up, but it happens rarely enough for me that I don't mind it.
Sounds like a terrible idea (in general).

1) Too many common words with differences in their pronunciation.

2) I imagine a heavily English-accented Spanish. "You must be from Spain." Yeah, right.
Is there a single major redundant aspect in a (single-rotor) helicopter's ability to stay airborne?

I thought helicopters were so expensive because every part had to work and last, or else.
Justifying the removal because of its limitations isn’t fair. It was an advertised feature of the system. If I bought a PS3 to use as a Linux desktop, online multiplayer game machine, and SACD player based on their advertisement and then found I had to get rid of the first two to keep online gaming, on a $600 console, I’d be pretty upset.
Hopefully WhatsApp, Signal and other chat providers cut off the EU rather than abandon end-to-end encryption.
Um, the whole thing definitely is unaudited.

> the attack in this article doesn't work because the attacker doesn't have access to all the hashing algorithms used

As far as I know, there are only two hashing algorithms used: ContentID and "the Facebook one", whose name I don't remember offhand at the moment. ContentID has leaked, been reverse engineered, been published, and been broken. A method to generate collisions in it has been published. The Facebook one has never been secret, and essentially the same method can generate collisions in it. And most users just use ContentID. [On edit: Oh, yeah, Apple has their "Neuralhash" thing.]

Are there others? If there are, I predict they're going to leak just like ContentID did, if they haven't already. You can't keep something like that secret. To actually use such an algorithm, you end up having to distribute code for it to too many places. [On the same edit: that applies to Neuralhash].

I assume you're right that the false positive rate is very low at the moment. Given the way they're done, I don't see how those hashes would match closely by accident. But the whole point of this discussion is that people have now figured out how to raise the false positive rate at will. It's a matter of when, not if, somebody finds a reason to drive the false positive rate way up. Even if that reason is pure lulz.

None of this "texts the police", but it does alert service providers who may delete files, lock accounts, or flag people for further surveillance and heightened suspicion. Much of that is entirely automated. And a lot of the other things you'd use as input, if you were writing a program to decide how suspicious you were, are even more prone to manipulation and false positives.

I believe the service providers also send many of the hits to varous "national clearinghouses", which are supposed to validate them. Those clearinghouses usually aren't the police, but they're close.

But the clearinghouses and the police aren't the main problem the false positives will cause. The main problem is the number of people and topics that disappear from the Internet because of risk scores that end up "too high".
He decided to give them too. Did you object to that when it happened?
I think MathJax has really caught up in speed in the past few (5) years with MathJax 3. I would pick MathJax today for compatibility reasons.
I am familiar with solutions like Depot, but the problem with them is that they are also building on a remote host. We already have many powerful VMs setup for building. The only inefficiency is that they are not sharing cache layers. I could probably hack something together with rsync and such, but would ideally have a more robust solution.
Nobody under the age of 50 can afford to own their own home, which means they are much more likely to be in a small or shared living situation and cannot justify having a desk separate from the table they cook and eat at.
Are you sure the model in the paper linked and LLMs function similarly or identically in this regard?
> There is an answer. It is a simple and direct and has my complete support. [...] YIMBY. Build housing. Get rid of barriers to building housing.

> It doesn't matter whether it is high end, low end, high density apartments, or weird condominiums.

LMAO. This "yes to everything" experiment was tried and failed-- it's called suburban Atlanta. Saying yes to everything is how you make an area completely uninhabitable.

You can't "just" build housing. You need railed public transit infrastructure first, because you cannot build that shit after the fact. Even if people don't want it, if you don't have support for public transit first, don't build housing-- because once you build those houses, then it's NIMBY/FYIGM/racism on the subject of trains.

The result is perpetually-clogged roads and mean commute speed of 4mph, with your "home" being nothing more than a cheaply-constructed, overpriced gilded cage you literally cannot leave at certain times of day if there happens to be a nearby accident. Solutions involve trying to run streetcars and buses over the same impassible roads.

The housing situation is a problem, I don't deny it. But saying "fuck it just build" ignores all of the actual urban planning work that needs to happen. It's great for lining the pockets of developers though! They will never live in the hellscape they're being paid to build.
To be precise, they support MathML Core, which is a subset of MathML 4. Your expressions that you wrote for MathML 3 and worked in Firefox may not (and probably will not) work in Chrome. I actually wrote a library a little while ago which doesn’t work in Chrome because of this.

That said, I think MathML Core is an excellent standard, and Chrome made the right choice to support it (or rather to allow Igalia to develop it for them). Going forward I’m certainly going to update my library to target MathML Core only.
Excluding prophet and ARIMA makes it hard to take this seriously... those are super widely used.
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OK, then why was it that for so long a new joint stock company's creation required a charter from the monarch or parliament, etc, and not just anybody could get it (as today)? It was obviously seen as a valuable and scarce privilege, not a right.

Choosing to bestow that privilege to anyone for any purpose they wish is a conscious tradeoff that our society makes, nothing natural about it. The upside as you keep mentioning is it's convenient to run the enterprise this way, allowing it to reach a larger scale. The downside to society is the risk that this greater power enables the creation of organizations that rival the state in power -- which is probably why originally, charters specified a limited purpose for the company.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company
The penalty for a *knowingly* false allegation should be the same as the penalty for the actual act.

(And, yes, I would apply that to the criminal justice world.)
You're repeating a meme about people around Musk
Why is this downvoted? It's true that Apple doesn't care about your privacy, sending your personal information unencrypted.
There's Widdershins plus Slate too. Widdershins turns the OpenAPI specs into markdown, then Slate into HTML. The results look really nice, and the use of templates means it's easy to customise. I'm just finishing my first project with them now, and I'd happily use them again.
If true, then beating it and looking good will be easy.

Having trained ARIMA models in my day, I will say that long training times and training cost -- compared to any deep learning model -- is not something that ever crossed my mind.
This is a weird assumption.
That is true, mathematics is different in the substance of the debate.

In archeology, to my cursory understanding as a non-archeologist, the debate has been about whether the evidence for pre-Clovis human habitation in the Americas can be accepted as valid. There is a wide gray area where acceptance comes down to subjective views, and if it is so, then authority affects what consensus is reached.

If enough evidence is amassed, then we presumably shift out of the grey area and authority becomes unimportant in the consensus.
And here I thought GeeForce Now was the de-facto leader in the cloud gaming market.

I use it regularly for single player games and it's quite nice! AFAIK they have the biggest supported library yet that is still my biggest issue with it: it doesn't support some of the games I'd like to play on it!
My wife is from Mexico, and Spanish is her native language. We had two kids, both of whom we put in bilingual pre-school, and she spoke to them mostly in Spanish when they were alone. Now that they're both grown, our son speaks far better Spanish than our daughter. Why? Well, it's pure speculation, but most of their Mexican cousins are boys (one girl who's much older than our daughter) while most of their American cousins are girls, so when we went to visit family our son went off and played with the Spanish speaking boys while our daughter found something neutral to do.
I made a top level comment before this with more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875311

I asked because I wanted to know the answer.
Not HHGttG. After a time, the rights reverted back to the author of the original work (Douglas Adams). Same for the Shogun adaptation.
Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study finds
>I really wish science journalism would pay more attention to stuff like this.

I think the journalist did answer your questions and the answer is "no one knows how viable this is in the real-world, not even this company":

Blue Frontier is still in the very early stages of proving its technology and breaking into the massive global AC industry. The company will need to show in field tests that its units work as well as it says they have in the lab—without requiring more space or maintenance than the AC units already on the market.
MathJax can be used on the server / wherever you generate HTML, too.
Please link to published papers that prove what you’re positing.
I would suggest that example is more likely evidence of semantic associations provided by underlying taxonomy based on input training data. There is so much contextual information in language hierarchy and associated characteristics and there is nothing stopping a LLM from using multiple recombinant factors for generation.

I don’t mean to discount your excellent comment. I mean obviously these models are so complex already that their black box nature makes it difficult to derive conclusive results, but Arkham’s razor would imply that the simplest explanation — that is it recombined training data creating a heirarchy with multiple factors that provides context for the “correct” answer — that is more likely correct.

In other words a LlM can confer multiple related associations to output based on training data, and that is the most likely explanation for that behavior.

Just look at the poor performance with GPT-3 and the underlying data quality issues the Alpaca dataset team has discussed.

I’m no expert, and don’t mean to counter you as much as contribute my own limited thinking for discussion here.

Cheers!
> Or to put it another way: why are you in the comment section of Hacker News, and not just asking ChatGPT to generate social media comments on the article?

Current models have fairly poor performance, compared to a human. If better art or better conversation could come from AI, then I suspect many might prefer it. Why wouldn't we? Why would we want simpler, less enjoyable, "real" conversations, or less symbolic art?
You could just jump on a train for 35 euros and be in France in a few hours, and a bit more to go to Germany/Spain.

Imagine being in Canada/US where you don't have any other language outside of a 6h plane ride.
Can't we just disconnect the transmitter physically inside the car? Assume we don't care if we void a warranty. This is my plan for when it is no longer practical to buy old/bricked cars.
My old car had no aux input, but it had the connection for proprietary CD changer unit. So I've bought a third party adapter which pretended to be a CD changer but provided AUX in instead.
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Most people learn languages for a reason. English is the global language now, so a lot of people learn it, native English speakers already speak the global language. The U.S. has a sizeable amount of native Spanish speakers, so it also has a fairly sizeable amount of native-English speakers that can speak Spanish with some degree of proficiency. Probably more than most European’s learn minority languages in their countries. I don’t think I’ve met any people from Madrid that study Catalan or Basque just to speak with the minority of people there who speak those languages.
It's not just about you.

With phones and fixed cameras, people have to make a deliberate choice to point them at something of interest. If your neighbor decided to mount a camera that always looked into your bedroom window or yard, you probably won't be very happy about it, but you also know they had to deliberately do it and likely know the area they're monitoring.

Now with phone cameras, it's more likely than not that it's not looking at anything interesting most of the time, since it'd be lying flat on a surface or in a pocket/bag.

Car cameras are specifically designed to be very good at detecting people, since their primary purpose tends to be pedestrian avoidance. They also tend to not be obfuscated and have great vantage points. That makes them very likely to see something interesting, with very strong signal for how interesting it is. And the intention of the vehicle owner doesn't have to be aligned with the manufacturer.

Let's say you're a complete luddite with no power, phone, car, or internet of any kind. If I were, say Tesla and you were in a major metro areas, I could probably still construct a pretty through understanding of you or your home just from various Teslas driving or parked in your area. We can even go full facial or body recognition and figure out where you are from your appearances on their vehicles. How distinguishable are you from video+sonar+radar identification? How feasible is it to hide from sight from every car?

It's like how Facebook or Google can create a profile and understanding of what you do, without you ever touching any of its services, because it's practically impossible to use the internet without touching a service that'll feed information to them, or stopping everyone who knows something about you from disclosing that information to them.
i'm always a bit wary of parents treating childhood language acquisition as a project - language fluency requires practice and interest to keep up, and pushing a kid to learn a language when they don't care can be counterproductive. many of my second-generation immigrant friends are now effectively monolingual because of that.

personally, i was raised bilingual, switched to full english in grade school because my parents were concerned about my english skills, and now i'm in a weird limbo where i'm technically still fluent in two languages, but i have bad first language attrition in one and i'll always feel like a non-native in the other. that being said, i'm glad that i still have access to two languages, and i hope that his daughter can find continued success as she grows older.
linus pauling took a lot of heat in his post-nobel day for his vitamin c advocacy: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7547741/vitamin-c-myth-pauling

i would love if years later it turned out he didn't just have "nobelitis" and was right in some respects. but this is one small pilot study and the larger body of literature around it shows mixed results. not saying it should be disregarded, but there are several reasons why it's not exciting and it shouldn't be mistaken for a anything more than a pilot trial to evaluate safety.

i'm sure there's a lot more to criticize than i can see, but:

1) study's primary outcome of increased urine output is not necessarily clinically meaningful---urine output (UOP) is selected because in septic shock (sepsis + low blood pressure), organs slowly shut down with the kidneys typically being the first to go. thus, UOP can be informative as a measure of renal perfusion and ultimately end-organ damage. however, the control arm received D5 fluids [water? saline?] alone, whereas intervention group received D5 fluids + NaAscorbate, thus ultimately receiving more solute. you would expect when given a more osmolar solution, you would see increased diuresis (solute will draw in water in the kidney's tubules, thus more urine output). additionally, vitamin c itself is renally excreted, thus if the kidneys are working to excrete high doses of NaAscorbate, the tubular cells could alter their usual reabsorption and secretion patterns, potentially affecting overall fluid balance.

2) as above this is a small pilot study; however, the authors (laudably) include their power calculations in which they used an effect size of 900cc UOP. the difference in mean UOP between the groups was 891cc's, so it's dubiously powered (even if we ignore consideration (1)). accordingly, their 95% confidence interval itself crosses 0 meaning no difference in effect was detected in urine output (thus their p values was >0.05). you have to wonder what statistical games might have been played to p-hack when results come so close.

ultimately why this isn't news is that the 'next phase of human trials' have already been conducted on vitamin c in sepsis.

there's a few other things: mean baseline CRP was notably much higher in the intervention group, and it makes me wonder if this affects the effect size considering that anyone in sepsis might benefit from fluids (though they received so little overall).
Counterpoint: You don’t actually want to own a home.

The adage is that the happiest days of homeownership are the day the you buy and the day you sell.

Homes are depreciating assets that fall apart while you’re standing in them, soaking up tons of your money, often in large chunks and at unexpected times.

What most people actually want is a sense of security around having a place to sleep and rest and be with family. You can achieve that through individual home ownership, but it’s not the only way, and with home purchases being such a struggle for many people right now, it might just be one to let out of mind.
The claim in the paper was the ARIMA has high training times.
Do you have any more details than that? The only purported preclovis sequencing I'm aware of are the paisley caves coprolites, for which the genetics didn't indicate that, had a much more complicated story, and aren't even this old.