skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strong point about Pi in my opinion is the software being simple and solid. It just works and any general software you can imagine has been compiled and installs without a ton of effort compared to general Debian or Ubuntu Linux which a lot of the clones use.

Otherwise at this point and prices if you're looking for a low power Linux computer I'd urge anyone over to the big three 1L families like the M7x Lenovo has or HP Elitedesk used machines since they are sub 60w and run circles around basically any single board pc
"Here, we found that overall identification performance was indeed very robust.
Removing large parts of the data, either by omitting body parts or reducing spatial and temporal resolution, did have little effect on
the recognition performance."

"One possible interpretation of the findings is that gait is idiosyncratic and very redundant. Moreover, gait can be considered an individual trait that shows little variability over time and even lifespan. Studies reported that major adult gait emerges already at the age of five years, although age-related effects such as slower gait or shorter steps as well as age-related body proportion changes have been found as well."

"Our results suggest that gait will be very hard to anonymize effectively."
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ paragraph 1:

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
How is this different than perplexity.ai?
Regus is still worth billions.
You're missing the point. You're in good company though. I watched Christopher Hitchens make the same mistake in a similar discussion with Dennis Prager. A number of others in this thread are also doing it. The video link [1] below lays it out pretty well (also points out that A. C. Grayling had the same misunderstanding). Anyway ...

It's not that you need God to be moral. It's that you need an objective "higher power" as the source of that morality.

So I totally agree with what you wrote there, but you can't make a sound argument for a moral position without God or some objective higher power.

> "Belief in a higher power isn't required to give someone food."

So it's a moral duty to give a hungry person food. OK. I agree. Now we could have an exchange where you try to make a strong rational case for that, during which I will ask "why?" an annoying number of times until we get to the part where it's clear there is no basis for the moral duty absent a higher, non-human, source.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9Nl6OUEJ0
It is kinda interesting, that these rants about corporate life that are filled with little substance but with lots of swearing are so popular here. Is there one interesting takeaway here? Big organizations tend to grow in weird ways, opaque to the folks on the ground. They sometimes make big mistakes and spend money where they shouldn’t. But because of their size, that doesn’t mean the end for them.
> Can someone explain again how an ML system scanning and training on a copyrighted work is different from a highly skilled artist doing the same?

Because (fortunately) human thoughts can't be subject to copyright law yet. So when we talk about copying and making derivative works, if you have this

artistic works -> neural network weights

The end result may or may not be copyrightable (that's for the courts to decide), but this

artistic works -> human brain

Definitively can't be
Single day is likely unenforceable.
Correct. This is a flawed hashing implementation as it allows for re-identification.

Having that IP and user timezone you can generate the same hash and trace back the user. This is hardly anonymous hashing.

Wide Angle Analytics adds daily, transient salt to each IP hash which is never logged thus generating a truly anonymous hash that prevents reidentification.
You can do that with standard aggregates by comparing min() and max().
Interesting, his pinkiest pink still looks to be quite raspberry (red), he should try a pantone 2037 as it's a purer pink that isn't as darkened by red tone.
So, serious question: how do you maintain your health and sanity when you find yourself in such a situation?

If the main reason to stay is a steady paycheck then you're only doing harm to yourself by being aware of and caring about the bigger picture.
The :hover pseudo-class could be applied and unapplied multiple times for a single page load. This can certainly be mitigated using cache related http headers but then if the same page is visited by the same person a second time coming from the same referrer, the analytics endpoint won't be loaded.

But maybe I'm not aware that browsers guarantee that "images" loaded using url() in CSS will be (re)loaded exactly once per page?
I agree it's a bit sloppy but understandable (for me) since legislation/directives is where we (Norway) is most aligned with the EU. As adapting EU directives is a part of the EEA/EØS deal (with some exceptions).

As for other central EU features like open market, currency, sovereignty (particularly naval), freedom of movement, we are on the outside of the union and I wouldn't sloppily consider or phrase us an EU country.
Finding good reading material in someone else's bathroom
Relevant: https://maz.one/insanely-large-machines.html
I've hacked together a basic Emacs ollama api integration that does simplistic code completion against a local LLM from someone else's copilot example. It's slower than I want (about 7 seconds per inference on my M1 mac, typically) and very stupid about what context it sends, but nevertheless: it's just, and only just, enough to be useful. Hadn't considered publishing it because it relies on a python façade to convert copilot-style requests and responses back and forth to ollama, but if there's interest I'll spruce it up and get it out.
You don't know how to run the infra for this then. For batch workloads, I can get slightly higher throughput with a 13b llama2 fine tune on my local workstation and 2x 3090s than I can get by saturating my OpenAI api key token limits for 3.5-turbo.
maybe 2-3x? faster-whisper says it's 2x faster than whisper.
Makes me reminiscent of uMatrix which could block the loading of CSS too.
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Yes I enjoyed the author's plain speaking and his use of irreverant humour to make serious points.
It is not just that. Having user IP and such a hashing approach you can re-identify past sessions.
Meat consumption per capita has almost doubled since 1960: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...

Meat consumption is associated with higher BMI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32443920/
(summarized in: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200615/Vegetarians-have-...)
NUCs also have weird radio noise issues sometimes blocking wireless mice and keyboards in some ports.
And there is a GNOME extension to change your wallpaper to the APOD : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1202/nasa-apod/
That's true if the environment where the machine work doesn't change. However with business environment changing the machine need to change as well.

Big corporations have "moats" (as per Buffet's definition) and a big bank vendor locked into your solution will drag a badly working machine for years.
Anger can lead to better results when tackling tricky tasks – study says
> What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry?

Management and agile happened. Instead of engineering, people chase tickets to achieve mediocre goals set by clueless non technical people. They thought something as creative as software development can easily be converted into assembly line manufacturing. Well, these are the results.
Solar maximum will arrive sooner and last longer than previously expected
Probably should be "salted hashes might be considered PII". It has not be tried by the EU court and the law is not 100% clear. It might be. It might not be.
Maybe. But Dhall falls into the "weird and aggressively functional" category. The syntax is obstinately weird. `let in`? Why. Just use `let`. `\(` for functions? Is `fn` too much?

It also isn't a "full" programming language - it's not Turing complete, which has no real benefit as far as I can tell.

Tbh it's probably one of the better options, but I can predict how my co-workers would react if I tried to get them to use it. I think they would be more accepting of Starlark.
The Telegram app has been a key platform for Hamas. Now it's being restricted
That was what I meant, yes! Cheers
Preach! I'm holding onto it for dear life, perfect form factor, no BS.
Yeah GTA2 was one of the most fun games I've ever played. Sadly it isn't even available on GOG, let alone open source...
From downthread, just use ellama. They're further ahead than me by the looks of things.
Snappy Answer: After $Thing went $Wrong, does the AI have enough money to pay the resulting fines, penalties, damages, and lawsuit settlements?
Wish I could double upvote this over all the political commentary.
If the data gets stored in this way (hash of IP[0]) for a long time I'm with you. But if you only store the data for 24 hours it might still count as temporary storage and should be "anonymized" enough.

IMO (and I'm not a lawyer): if you store ip+site for 24 hours and after that only store "region" (maybe country or state) and site this should be GDPR compliant.

[0] it should use sha256 or similar and not md5
> with more device incompatibilities, manual fiddling

Did you read what I wrote above? "if you buy preinstalled"

If you install Linux on an ordinary "Windows-certified" computer, you will have problems. If you install an alternative OS on a Macbook, you will have exactly the same problems.
> Was it all but dead because people thought h264 was good enough, until 2.5 and 4k became more prominent in media consumption?

(Lack of) a compelling use case certainly played a role. Sure, reducing bandwidth is in itself a noble (and potentially profitable) goal but why fix it if it ain't broken? Ie.: the h264 infrastructure for HD was already there, working fine.

Another factor was that HEVC was full of new patents and the patent pool licensing costs hadn't yet settled.
Wow, I didn't know you could trigger a URL endpoint with CSS!
Uriel Utopian Philosopher, 1982-2012
Sombody posted suckless.org recently and this is how I found this guy. Probably not interesting for most users here but I found him interesting.

http://uriel.cat-v.org/

PS: "Harmful software is usually referenced to as software that is bloated or too complex in design. Such software has been known to cause suffering to lots of people, including the death of Uriel. Examples of harmful software are the things listed in picture.

Harmful software has remained a controversial topic on /g/, where people usually care about powerful and advanced software more than simplicity. The fact that GPL is listed as harmful has made many freedomfags butthurt."

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Harmful_software

LOL
ShowHN: CopilotKit is an open-source library for embedding an AI-Copilot into any react app within ~1hr.

How it works:
Wrap your app in CopilotProvider. Use useMakeCopilotReadable(...) to share nuanced app state with Copilot.

Leverage useMakeCopilotActionable(...) to let Copilot perform tasks like form submissions. Get a live Copilot within an hour, and embedded deeply.
Call centers are dominated by thin clients typically. you can replace them with a pi but after you get software, an SD card, a case, a power supply...the pricing is moot and you don't have vendor support.
A ton of oil they sell, but don't spend the money from. The oil money is simply invested. They're one of the largest funds in the world. The government of Norway can spend 3% per budget year under certain rules, but rarely do. The first time it ever happened was in 2016.

When the oil runs out or demand for oil disappears, Norway won't plummet into poverty unlike a lot of other oil rich countries. The oil certainly made them rich initially, but their reluctance to spend money derived from oil will keep them rich.
Reading the paper the table is showing performance on out-of-ditribution test sets.
Why not just get this info from the HTTP server?
Wondering the same. Will it bypass YouTube latest efforts
It takes a lot of confidence to say that Python is a low quality project. I'm not sure if many people could ever say that, but I'm sure the people that could would never.
I didn't write any reply to the original, but enjoyed reading it, and this one too - but as someone who's been on both sides of the IC/Senior Management divide, mixed with and worked with plenty of C-level types and has a pretty good understanding of how companies "really" work - none of this is shocking. It's not even surprising. It's just really, really hard to organise a large group of people towards any common purpose, let alone profitably, let alone efficiently, especially in something so relatively new and little-understood as tech.

You think it's hard trying to find good programmers? Try finding good managers.
Any money going in now would subsidize landlords. They basically have to renegotiate leases, otherwise investors will just go down and take landlords down with them.
Can ELO tournaments be used to evaluate LLMs and RAG?
LLMs and RAG have made it so much easier to prototype and incorporate AI in production systems, but evaluation has really become a whole lot harder.

Comparing different outputs from multiple prompt and pipeline variations to a "gold standard" is mostly out of the question.

Can we ask a powerful LLM to judge between pairs of answers and a set of questions?

We just open sourced a simple tool for tournament-style ELO ranking of LLM outputs. By comparing answers from different RAG pipelines and prompts over multiple questions, RAGElo computes a ranking of the different settings, providing a good overview of what works (and what doesn't).

What are your thoughts? Do you think this is a good direction to go in for LLM evaluation?
Reaction: Do NOT let the bottom ~80% of managers see this result.
So basically myelins are, besides being each neurons' personal caretaker, also the neurons' personal fridge.
I thought the RP1 was made because broadcom took out gpio functions of the doc so they were forced to move it to another chip?
If anything, SQLite deserves _more_ PR. It's a fantastic piece of software, and at my company we use it _a lot_; mostly for testing, but also for some micro-services where data amount is small-ish, and almost never change (postal codes, country data etc.)

I hate it when I see .NET Core tutorials (as an example) where they fire up MSSQL in EF just for tiny amounts of data, and then using a bloated DB-viewer GUI to show what's in the database, instead of just going to the CLI asking SQLite "directly."
> RW the first big 3rd party engine

RW is RenderWare, it's not a game engine.

> really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era

No? RW have/had the immense success as an engine used in more than a dozen commercial games (compared to idTech1/2/3), but it's usage explodes in 2001, with 18 titles, compared with 4 in 2000.

> PSX generation

Too early.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_RenderWare_games
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> it's really a crime that people like Nāgārjuna aren't covered in standard courses.

I think I'd find a "standard course" (e.g. 1 term) on Nagarjuna deeply unsatisfying. He's often presented as the inventor of Buddhist logic, but I don't think prajnaparamita makes a lot of sense as a philosophical system. Nagarjuna was a meditator's meditator, and his system of "logic" was supposed to rid the mind of conceptual thought.

Also, one course wouldn't really cut it; people spend lifetimes studying prajnaparamita, and barely scratch the surface.
I feel like there is a balance here between connotation and denotation.

Personally, I would not use ether unnatural or abnormal because they have negative connotations even though, by definition, they might be correct.

If I had to chose a word for this purpose today, I would chose the word atypical.

To my knowledge, there is not a negative connotation to the word atypical, but if we start using any word to refer to any specific group of people then the word we chose could, in time, develop its own connotations.
The whole anonymization of IP addresses by just hashing the date and IP is just security theater.

Cryptographic hashes are designed to be fast. You can do 6 billion md5 hashes in a second on an MacBook (m1 pro) via hashcat and there’s only 4 billion ipv4 addresses. So you can brute force the entire range and find the IP address. Basically reverse the hash.

And that’s true even if they used something secure like SHA-256 instead of broken MD5
As someone with experience in Turbo Vision and Clipper, I don't miss them, beyond some nostalgia from simpler times.
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This does not reference hashing, which can be an irreversible and destructive operation. As such, it can remove the “relating” part - i.e. you’ll no longer be able to use the information to relate it to an identifiable natural person.

In this context, if I define a hashing function that e.g. sums all ip address octets, what then?
ublock works perfectly for me on Youtube. I never see ads there. Plenty of sponsored videos but no ads. I use Firefox; that might be the difference.
They will become the farmers and need new sheep.
I'm glad they tried even though it didn't work out.
Hard if you run serverless
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I think there’s a spectrum here, I doubt many people are deliberately hoarding huge, easy, and /certain/ cost or resource savings just to use later, but it is easy to end up with a long list of possible things that you haven’t had time to try, and won’t get prioritised until somebody else cares.

Also, be careful what you wish for regarding cost savings. You may think you’re doing well saving 500k, but in a medium sized company there are likely a lot of easy ways to save a chunk more than that which you really aren’t going to like.
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What Is Life in an Immoral Maze? – By Zvi Mowshowitz
Not taking a stance on the actual substance, but this just underlines that the gatekeepers indeed are gatekeepers:

"Being in violation of Apple and Google's app store rules could result in an app being removed from the mobile app stores both companies control."
The alternative is to have your kid waste time in a classroom where classes are optimized to target either the stupidest or least interested in learning kid, whichever performs lowest.

They call it "No child left behind", i.e. every child left behind.

I doubt even John Taylor Gatto expected mass education to get this bad.
That's the problem with retirement, I have no idea what a weekend is anymore.
> You seemed to miss the part where the judge said that the only things that can be claimed as copyrighted are those things that were submitted to the USPTO for specific narrow coptright

The judge didn't say that (for one thing, copyrights aren't handled by the Patent and Trademark Office.)

What he did say is a bit bizarre. because copyrightable works are cooyrighted automatically when set in fixed (including digital) form. So, if it existed to be trained on and was cooyrightable, it was cooyrighted.

The judge may have been using sloppy language to refer to registration, which legally must be done before pursuing most copyright claims in court. (This isn't about being cooyrighted, and registration can happen after alleged infringement without invalidating the claim, but it doesn have to happen before filing a lawsuit; it is a procedural reauirement that is black and white in the law.)
I ususally go with alwaysdata, a tiny, reliable, french hosting solution.
There's still a server somewhere and it can log URLs and IPs.
The CIO of Canada is part of the Treasury Board which is the body that oversees government spending, including government employees.

Real Time Rail is payments infrastructure. The national implementation of that would be overseen by The Bank of Canada which is responsible for monetary policy and part of the Ministry of Finance.

Not clear to me what OP is trying to say, and whether or not you agree with the decision, I'd argue it's pretty important to ensure the cybersecurity of some 300k public sector employees, many of whom have access to sensitive information
The trailer looks super cool. Kind of like a cross between the actual GTA2 and Crimsonland which sounds an awesome mixture. But their website appears dead indeed while all the download links Google can find lead right there :-(
What's wrong with used gear? Especially fanless hardware that's all solid state it should last 10 to 20 years without problems unless someone abused it and even then the wear part is the solid state drive at a reasonable price.

For some situations yes new and warrantied hardware is a non debatable topic but who is using a pi for mission critical stuff and expects it to be robust enough to not fail?
Yes, Windows doesn't have overcommit. (Also not with swap, since overcommit is unbacked virtual memory, which Windows still doesn't allow. The only thing it allows is disk-backed virtual memory).

But as a user, I don't care (except that I don't have to worry about an OOM killer because an allocation will just fail). The only real difference is that application developers need to be careful with allocating memory without using it, unlike on Unix-likes.

Because software on Linux runs on the assumption of overcommit, you shouldn't disable it, even though the lack of overcommit on Windows is not problematic.
What if my hashing function has high likelihood of collisions?
Representative quote from the article:

> “by my calculations, [not using adderall] decreased Kelsey’s effectiveness by 20%, thus costing approximately 54 billion lives.” Yeah, rationalists really do say that sort of thing as if it’s normal.

If I remember their reasoning correctly, the billions of lives here are potential future humans that would have been born some milennia from now, had Kelsey just gotten over herself and taken Adderall. But in longermist logic, a future human that never was born is equivalent to the violent death of an actual real-life human. However as of course there are infinitely many more potential future humans than actual living humans, preventing future humans from being born is in practice a much greater offense for longtermists than letting real-life humans die.

That being said, I think the article conflates a bit "rationalists", "effective altruists" and "longtermists". I'm pretty sure the boundaries between the groups are very blurry, but I guess for reasons of fairness one should still make an attempt to distinguish them.
"You promised me Moonbases, and instead, I got Facebook"

Now fading in the misty passages of the brain, but I think this show was maybe the first scifi saga that had a distinct feel of being real. Loved the Eagles in particular, for some reason that I still don't understand.
The problem with tiny startups is often that people are really inexperienced with people problems. Large corps somewhat fix that by having HR departments and all. But ultimately I'm starting to think today's business often relies on some sort of hype train.
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Maybe they use a secret salt or rotating salt? The example code doesn't, so I'm afraid you are right. But one addition and it can be made reasonable secure.

I am afraid, however, that this security theater is enough to pass many laws, regulations and such on PII.