skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will also add C2PA authentication metadata. C2PA is a combination of the efforts of the Content Authentication Initiative and the separate Project Origin initiative.

First I have heard of this. My initial thought is "gross" but I wonder if it may actually be beneficial for the average consumer, prosumer even.

The spec is absolutely vomit inducing, though -- more ASN.1!
Interesting. Instead of doing the click work manually, microworkers will just instruct and guide multiple GPTs.
I do a lot of cycling in the central Cascade mountains in Washington. If there's a line on a map, there may or may not be a road in reality. If there's a road, there may or may not be a corresponding line on the map. That applies to both paper maps and electronic maps.

New logging roads are built, and old logging roads are abandoned, so the forest reclaims them. If you're following a road or trail, sometimes it gradually becomes more overgrown, to the point where it's nearly impassable.

You always have to use your own judgement, and look for signs that other people have recently traveled on the same road or trail. You also have to use your own judgement when it's time to turn around.

It seems crazy to me to blindly trust Google Maps and follow it wherever it leads you. But I suppose some people haven't yet experienced the disconnect between maps and reality, and assume that the map is always right. It's better to learn that lesson in more harmless situations.
As it turns out, people are fallible.

Without rigorous systems in place to catch mistakes, mistakes will [more frequently] happen.
Actors Strike Ends with a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades
So they sue the platform that got them to meet, but not the one that allowed CSAM to be exchanged?
> predictive validity of IQ

I'm not disputing that. I just think it's dehumanising to reduce someone down to a single number, especially when so many other factors about a person need to be taken into consideration.

My moral-outrage here is my impression that the OP thinks IQ is all that matters, or that it's valid to make significant life-impacting and (business-impacting) decisions based solely on that number. To me, it's same bad-idea as the UK's "11+" exam system (fortunately now long abandoned) that practically determined someone's entire life based on a single exam taken at age 11.

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Also, I find it somewhat amusing that the more someone cares about high IQ scores, the lower their EQ scores tend to be.
It also doesn't really sound out of character, in a general sense. It's not like being an ancient philosopher also meant you didn't have a sense of humour (assuming the flexing was humour, if true).
maybe the free software community should stop subsidizing microsoft's operating systems and let them port things like scipy to it themselves

after all, if you want linux, you know where to find it; it's right there in wsl2

also microsoft could start shipping a fucking compiler with their sorry malware-ridden excuse for an operating system, like every single other operating system vendor has for sixty years
If it is, he wasn't credited.
There should be a rule keeping cockpit announcements to a minimum. On my last Low-cost 4-hour flight in Asia, about 30 minutes of it was announcements in 3 languages.

Thanks for the weather update at the destination, captain. Oh the duty free sales will start soon? The duty free sales have started? The paid drink service will start soon? The paid drink service has started?

Someone on the team is retiring? I don't need this information.
p2p?
> What feature do you have in mind that cannot be implemented by emitting C[2], but can be implemented by emitting assembler[3]?

If all features can be implemented in C, then why do all major C compilers have an asm extension?
Magic Editor's naughty list of forbidden edits revealed in GooglePhotos teardown
Not just the global shutter, but 120 FPS with full AF and AE is huge too. The A9III is going to be the best sports camera out there for a few years I think. Of course, you're going to pay through the nose if you want access to that tech.

I can't wait for them to gain back the dynamic range and for it to roll down to less expensive cameras in the future.
It's just a part of human psychology, once you've decided to do something it can result in tunnel vision where obvious indications that something is wrong get ignored. It can sometimes be hard to take a step back and re-evaluate.

We've long observed the same thing in airplane pilots. When they get takeoff clearance they can get so focused on getting the plane into the air that obvious signals of deteriorating conditions during takeoff get ignored. The Tenerife accident is just one example of this.
Yeah this seems easy to build but would rather work on making tools that improve accessibility 10x
Why couldn't these businesses move back to whatever they relied on pre-Facebook, pre-Instagram?
>it doesn’t mean we should dismiss outright the possibility that a passing era might just be taking something truly valuable with it.

Our youth is usually the part we're nostalgic for and nothing else. You ever hear the nostalgists crying out to go back to a "simpler time"? It's because they were children and the world is simpler for a child that lacks obligations. Fortunately, my childhood was crappy enough and my adulthood fun enough that I can more than let go of the 80s and 90s without any reservations.
This is the first time I've heard of C2PA authentication[0]. It looks like they are digitally signing images from the cameras now to create a chain of authenticity. There's even TruePic[1] that is an authentication service that will show people if an image came from one of these cameras, overlaid on the image (or video) with some Javascript. Interesting way to fight AI images and deep fakes. They are also letting people register their deep fakes[2], but I'm not sure why someone would do that.

0: https://c2pa.org/
1: https://truepic.com/
2: https://truepic.com/revel/
Two future US State Governors in that film!
Yushō Disease
It’s a Trojan horse for the CBDC, or Digital Euro.

That is a really privacy nightmare.
Legend of Zelda: Nintendo and Sony making live-action film
I'm excited for the new material. Thank you for releasing it!
Also recommend Etymotic. I've had a pair for like a decade. High quality audio and dead silent. Same design as actual in ear hearing protection equipment.
Hey Beej, do you have a guide on how you write a guide? I've been amazed by your output, both in quantity and quality.
Huh, that's fascinating and bizarre
How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?
Nope. He's a private citizen. You can't just slap a "journalism" sticker wherever you feel like it.
I like how Swift did it: instead of try/finally, they have `defer`, which (when encountered) pushes a new clean-up task to the guaranteed-execution list in the right order: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/new-syntax-swift-2-defer
I looked around and found an AMA [1].

> Python, using the Twisted framework for networking.

> Omegle runs on just one server: a Linode 2880. It used to be on a 720, which was very close to sufficient. No database at the moment, but if it never needs one, I'll most likely use PostgreSQL.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9vbd7/i_made_omegleco...
Awesome, looking forward to starting this! And thanks for all your work Beej
In the US, about 40'000 people die every year in a traffic accident, yet using public roads for free is still a thing, and only the people that actually caused the accident are to blame.

If you think that victims of a "catastrophic event" need compensation, why not propose to institute a mandatory insurance for people using the Internet, like many countries do for cars ? (I am assuming here that the website is not actively trying to help crime, but this doesn't look to be the case with Omegle)
Almost all comedians are fucked up emotionally, it's kind of a truism. Only the most desperate for approval go through as much work, practice and humiliation it takes to occasionally get laughs
The US President is in charge of the executive branch, isn’t he? So why doesn’t he order the justice department to arrest the criminals? There’s enough evidence to get a warrant surely.
what are you talking about. 20% is still standard, and of course you don't tip 20% if for some reason you order a 4,000 bottle of wine, except also, if you do that, tip whatever you want, what do you care, you have 4,000$ to burn.
FheFL: Homomorphic Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Agreed. It's the ultimate of example of "I know a guy". Haha.
Back in the aughts, a specific prediction of flooding in the NYC subway system in a decade was made. And then in 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the area, flooding the subway, completing that prediction. It's now 2023 and NYC is flooding again.

Or how about wildfires turning the sky orange. Fire existed before global climate change, but it's made the fire season longer and fires more frequent. Fires in Canada made the sky's orany for much of the North Eastern US. It's pretty hard to ignore the sky being the wrong color.

Objectively, yes, things have happened.

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/view-indicators
My first thought was, what is Harry Mack going to do now??
The Internet we grew up with is dying. I wish we could go back to dial-up days.
The stability is nice, agreed, but it's inevitable that monopoly/monopsony gets abused. Samsung/Hynix were part of a price fixing cabal, Qualcomm's IP has been a boot on the neck of innovation, Western Digital has suffered multiple disasters that caused global storage shortages, and ARM is currently flipping the table with its licensing changes. We can have stability with open standards, too.

That's cool to hear—I didn't consider we had that influence, though should've realized it after chatting with y'all, Ring/Doorbot, Particle/Spark, Pebble, etc.

Guess it took two generations to shake out the hardware startup mistakes. We were early and naïve, but we did ship, and the Twine servers remain up. You learned to focus the use case, and I still haven't. Go figure, I think there's still a space for a general-purpose physical computer, so we're doing it again: https://supermechanical.com/pickup

Funny that Kickstarter's history since is a hindrance, and we might go the Selfstarter route to produce the experience we want next time.
IIRC Panduite is the brand name version of something closest to that. Though you could also use Unistrut as a trough and protect the cables that way in a different enclosed space.

More generally I'd like modern houses to have more 'wet walls' like they had in the Matrix, where there's a space big enough for a worker to actually maneuver between rooms. Problem is that's also a space pests and fire can move.
I have a Telstra prepaid esim.
I don't know--we're talking about the personal, moral character of the leader of this huge company. A direct quote from the guy, infamous as it is, is at least on-topic.
It used webRTC, at least in the early days. Same as Chat Roulette. That was why it was able to scale the way it did.
Tell us more, how did you do it while living in an apartment? What is your YT channel? I’m interested in it but also live in an apartment with no garage space where I could do it or any car tools. So tell!
It's still there, the old internet. You just uave a hard time finding it with corporate tools like the modern google.
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know that bit of Bitcoin history. I see a big fundamental difference between that chain fork and the ethereum DAO fork. The bitcoin fork was to fix a bug in the bitcoin source code. Without doing that fork, bitcoin would have died. All bitcoin users would have suffered if the fork had not been done. No bitcoin users complained about it.

The ethereum fork was to fix a bug in a smart contract running on top of ethereum. That bug only affected those who were participating in that smart contract (which was code for an investment scheme that a private organization had dreamed up). Lots of ethereum users complained about it.

Can you see the difference?
I'd rather have 15 different open protocols that someone could create an universal app for than 7 different proprietary protocols that each require you to have a specific app.
to the founder of 2chan.
That certainly affects it, but the realtors are still part of the process, and they have no incentive to encourage the inspections aside from the people they can refer if you insist on them. Right now, the only thing you are effectively entitled to know about the house, on a practical level, is that the house exists.
Eternal September is an observable phenomenon whenever a new demographic in a community outstrips the old guard. This is fundamentally different than "kids these days", though you may find some overlap.
Hollywood actors reach tentative deal with studios to end strike
Agreed. Worth mentioning as well: flash sync speed. As you are not dealing with a shutter or progressive capture this will be a thing of the past.
Not sure if anyone has posted the Regina Elsea story yet.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-al...
What is the origin of phrase "for fun and profit"?
You should make a weekly newsletter with a few: new / featured / hot papers
How would you like to specify your constraints? We are working on this exact problem (not there yet).
I am old and don't get upset. Some of the best games over the last few years are Boomer Shooters. My favourite do far is Turbo Overkill - double jump and crazy air control right from the start. Plays better than Doom
That sounds like cffi https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Decline? IT runs on java 8 with trillions of code
I'd love it if ChatGPT could simply look at my LinkedIn profile, scrape and navigate the company's byzantine application web portal, filling out all the text fields, generate whatever prose that fit the company's expectations/vibe, and hit submit for me. Scale that across 1,000 companies, and I could spam a reasonably good application across the entire industry in a morning. I'd pay $200 a shot for this if it could be shown to be effective at producing job offers. Go make it happen, founders.
Added to my reading list! The world of quantizations is moving so fast even TheBloke might not be able to keep up!

So Atom base models would be compatible with Punica?

I also wonder, many people already train LoRAs in 8 or even 4 bit (for the base model), would it make sense to match the quantization algo used during training and inference?
When has that ever effectively stopped anything? Is it that it seems more careful?
And yet, it portrays a "would like to have" world that couldn't be more distant from what we actually have. It is literaly (science) fiction. Using a fictious 24th century chat between a womanizer and a fancy robot to explain to a 21st century real world human they should be more trusting is rather, shall I say odd?
In the U.S., the president isn't the boss of the justice department. This helps prevent the president from ordering the department to lock up a political opponent.

Congress should be scrutinizing the justice department for failing to do so, but I'm sure most of Congress is okay with it.
> It’s a miracle it works at all.

I agree. In fact with what seems to be an exponential growth in complexity of software ecosystems, what's keeping it all from eventually getting to a "tower of Babel" catastrophe? Of course, this does not only apply to software, but it is a good example.
>water electrolysis ... 80% efficient

It's only to get hydrogen, also there is cost to make it liquid, to store it (it's neither trivial nor cheap) and to extract energy from it in fuel cells.

>i don't know how efficient carbon dioxide reduction is

If we want to capture carbon from atmosphere and turn it back into hydrocarbon fuel like gas or diesel, thus achieving net zero emissions, that process is still "nightmarishly inefficient". There is a startup that I'm watching (Prometheus Fuels) that promises to do that cheaply, but there haven't been any positive news from them recently
"Since then, there have been various incidents involving Ethereum and Bitcoin and hacks or smart contract bugs that caused losses of millions or billions"

Sneaky of you to add "Bitcoin" to that sentence, implying that smart contract bugs on Bitcoin, or Bitcoin hacks have cost people millions or billions. That is completely false, but nice try.
It's also whatever is removed in time because people simply forgot about it.

It's a constant discourse in my country to think of today as "dangerous" and idealize some earlier decades where you'd "leave the door open" while by all metrics crime was actually higher.

We just collectively forgot about it.

That's one of the reasons every age and culture has a golden age/arcadia/Eden mythology.
They probably haven't and even if they have there's probably some other bogus data in there.

A lot of these maps will have a couple 'tells' added, things that don't really exist to say that if a set of things was copied it came from a different place.

Really sucks when you happen to need to go somewhere you haven't been before, that's actually where that place is next to. Yes, that does happen. E.G. when relatives and friends live on private roads in the middle of nowhere.
For one, Linux is OSS, so contributions made there are available for anyone, forever. I don’t think voluntary developers are very keen on dedicating contributions to a business entity who by the next major release would have stolen your code and hidden it behind ads or some not so smart assistant that requires online connectivity all the time.

Linux is also the common ground. If you have to choose ONE system, you would choose Linux. Otherwise you are going to need BOTH Mac and Windows, possibly even more. Just getting the hardware to test that would be a major setback for a small oss contributor.

I don’t think you can consider scipy desktop software anyway. The IDE can by all means be, but just let it communicate to some deamon running in WSL, docker or remotely over a standard interface.
In developing countries, living conditions improve and reduce the perceived value of work.
Most individuals doing a job have income as their primary incentive. Much of what they claim besides that is a socially necessary mask. Nobody wants to be "just greedy", so they appeal to emotion and claim they have a higher cause. But how do you propose to measure if that higher cause actually exists?
Omegle will be sorely missed. It was one of the last censorship-free (or perhaps more charitably, uncurated) places you could still go to. I remember the very early days of text-only mode and was using it up until very recently. Unfortunately bad actors will always try to muck up censorship-free zones, maliciously and deliberately.
i'm surprised to see you still haven't posted any numbers or cited any sources
maybe. A lot of modern clickwork is actually model training and there is a model-collapse phenomena (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493) which means that it should be banned for such work. I bet a number of clever people on the platforms are already trying to instrument AI to do the work regardless - it's pretty close to "free money" if you can pull it off and not get caught and at a spigot size where there's no real serious consequences if you do.
Check out this research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34901571

It’s claiming exactly that: certain social media as a cause of mental health deterioration among teens especially girls
2021:

> Techniques/technologies used:

R, Rstudio, QGIS and Tippecanoe for data compiling and data analysis. D3.js and Javascript for data visualization. Mapbox for mapping buildings footprint. HTML, Javascript and Scrollama for scroll webpage

https://sigmaawards.org/spain-lives-in-flats-why-we-have-bui...
Though if TV shows are anything to go by, it seems US realtors actually do something which can be classed as work.

UK estate agents do the absolute bare minimum and often less. When it comes to viewings they really are just key holders and nothing else.

Still, 6% is huge
https://youtu.be/-4e3hi9AWVs
> To be clear, Signal now allows secure backups to the cloud.

No, it doesn’t, at least on iOS. There is no backup option on iOS. The only way to retain information when using a new device is to have the old device close by and transfer it by running Signal on both of them. Anyone who loses their device or does not have it with them when getting and setting up a new device will lose all the messages from the older/previous device.
How? WebRTC came out in 2011 and wasn't even widely supported in web browsers until years later. Omegle came out in 2009, and launched video in 2010.
It didn’t pay off?
This is correct. The post is from 2022. New default rules are a breaking change and version 9, the first major relates since it was added, is coming soon and will include it by default.
i suggest learning the basics of the field, so you can do a modicum of critical thinking, instead of parroting talking points from thought leaders, without any idea of what it would mean for them to be true or false
Well considering the danger an UB can represent in C/C++ code you always should run gcc/clang with at least -Wall
> So the global shutter will have no benefit today for most users.

It will have a benefit for anyone who is also recording video using their DSLR, likely the majority of users. It completely eliminates rolling shutter. Now, is it a benefit that is worth paying $6,000 for? That is a good question! For most users, probably not.
I feel sad cause I just now heard of this haha
Are you being racist? Is this an in-joke I don't get? What's up here?
Rule author here. Would love to see some examples! I think the closest I’ve (knowingly) done to this is to add an empty else clause that contains a comment.
Apps like Signal and Wire have shown that multi-device E2EE is possible with messages synced across. While I believe that Telegram is far ahead on a lot of features, the lack of multi-device sync for “secret chats” is mainly because Telegram hasn’t spent enough time or effort on it.
I’m not sure if I’d call the internet itself a net negative. Somewhere around the time it was incepted it was fine. Exchanging emails and whatnot.

But what it has become now… I dunno, I regularly have calls with my family on the other side of the world. That’s definitely a positive. Everything attendant to the internet I do not like. The way it’s become nearly a requirement of life.
> microsoft could start shipping a fucking compiler

Visual Studio is a free download. Most users are not developers. Waste of space to include it by default.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
Some clients do use Pull Request reviews.

And to a lesser extent some use Pair Programming.

Automated architecture tests helps to keep things tidy during those rushed moments.
The link to the proof is dead :(
Any evidence to support that other social network like Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter don't promote such behaviors, what about communication platforms like iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS etc. Do we have evidence that smartphone is not net harmful for tweens, teens and adults in general. Why isn't govt doing large enough meta studies on it? Is it Meta empire or social media or smartphones or Internet itself is responsible for mental health issues?

And why does buck stop with Zuckerberg, not parents, school, govt. Why do under 13 have a smartphone? Is the usage monitored? Should Govt bring legislations on how much phone can be used for social media/video games by a child? Should bullying be handled at local level instead of a Corp controlling all?
> > This makes it clear that they intent to ship under some alternative license, for a fee.

> It makes it clear they intend to ship under the AGPLv3

The blog post says literally:

"or by contacting Element for an alternative license."

So, that's what's on their mind. And that's for a fee [1].

(Not saying anyone is doing anything wrong — I'm using AGPL myself for some software I'm developing, + a CLA.)

[1] See this comment below: "The reason for the CLA is purely to allow us to sell AGPL exceptions", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181368