skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people repeatedly misunderstand this aspect unfortunately, because it's hurting the adoption. It has no effect what instance you are on, you are all on Activity Pub. You can join any instance you want and it will be no different from joining any other instance. You can interact with anyone on any instance. This is just like how you only need to know my Email address to send me a message, you do not need to also use the same Email provider as me.
Here's how they define toxicity (only clearly described in their "Supplementary material"): https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/...

Honestly, that's probably the most "measurable" kind of toxicity, but Wikipedia has a much bigger problem with toxicity than that. The whole place is infused with passive-aggression (by policy) and toxic double-standards. IMHO, you have to be deeply weird to be a frequent contributor.
Good questions.
New AI Alliance with IBM, Meta, HuggingFace, LangChain, and Others
The servers are connected. That’s the federation.
Yup that is how I read it as well. Product decision.
So this is artificial general intelligence, right?
I lived there for a few years. Some of the happiest memories of my life.
Tell HN: 23andMe Terms of Service Update
I received the following email yesterday. Seems suspicious, considering the recent hack:

On November 30, 2023, we launched updates to our Terms of Service.

Important updates were made to the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section to include procedures that will encourage a prompt resolution of any disputes and to streamline arbitration proceedings where multiple similar claims are filed. These updates will go into effect for customers 30 days from the date this email is received.

We encourage you to read the new terms in full. Please notify us within 30 days of receiving this email if you do not agree to the terms, in which case you will remain subject to the current Terms of Service. If you do not notify us within 30 days, you will be deemed to have agreed to the new terms.

If you have any questions, please contact us at customercare@23andme.com.

The 23andMe Team
>Mass surveillance fundamentally changed the nature of surveillance.

Computers create and organize large amounts of information. This is useful for large organizations and unempowering to the average person. Any technology with these traits are harmful to individuals.
And if one of those computers failed, it wouldn't classify as a (proper) computer.

You can move your pointer anywhere you'd like, it is ultimately tautological. Infinite regress is a bitch lol

Say, have you taken into consideration the role consciousness and culture are playing here? Like this "reality" you are describing, do you know what the actual, biological/scientific source of it is? :) But now I'm kind of cheating, aren't I...I think we're not supposed to say that part out loud! ;)
it is probably not unless you are on some very extreme instances.
Hey Lexi,

Total side note, your other post (about cpu.land) is at exactly 1337 upvotes now :D https://share.cleanshot.com/ktVWL2pr

How fitting.
More people will be criminalised, and fines will be just another tax we must pay.
Using the author logic, we should also watch kramer with the image shrunk to a quarter of the screen (the size of the tv in the past was smaller) and also using garbage color accuracy (I don't actually know how color accurate were tv in the past but I suspect it was horrible).
I am still waiting for 4k/8k 100hz movies and youtube, but until then I will use motion interpolation on my TV as the next best thing.
Even if it were "not that high" for a CEO, what would justify a 7x increase while things have been looking downhill for years?

If anything, the board should have gotten rid of her at this point and hired someone else, even if at this higher salary it would make more sense than sticking with someone who obviously hasn't been leading the company to growth or sustainability (since they are trending downards).
I always wonder what would happen to most people if there was a house fire and all their phones and laptops burned at once.

It’s not clear what the best security plan for that is (safety deposit box or fireproof safe seem like the best options).
> I never really used math again after that, even after 20 years of programming. Maybe some arithmetic here and there for bills and to split a Venmo dinner. That's about it.

I don't believe this at all.
That was my first thought as well. Maybe it reads all text but will it know if I have a Hitler head drinking MD in the background? I can get pretty obscure with dictators such that the AI isn’t likely to be able to detect what I put out there.
The Hard Times is also great
Trucking does seem like an ideal fit for autonomous driving -- long, boring stretches of highway driving are a recipe for distracted driving and crashes.
> jail time for management

Funny! We all know it would be a lone rogue engineer that did it in the end and management would apologize on their behalf.
You don't understand how social bubbles THEMSELVES lead to kids normalizing the 'n' word?

You and OP are confusing "safe spaces" for "bubbles"
Not sure what the correct usage is regarding front vs behind.

Basically Outside World — ISP Device - internal restricted Router (using pi-hole as DNS) - home devices

So, yes, if looking from inside the restricted router would be in front.
This is a political problem, not a technological one. The USSR (alongside Germany and others) managed effective at scale spying with primitive technology: paperwork for everything and every movement, informants, audio surveillance, and so on. The reason such things did not come to places like the US in the same way is not because we were incapable of such, but because there was no political interest in it.

And when one looks back at the past we've banned things people would never have imagined bannable. Make it a crime to grow a plant in the privacy of your own home and then consume that plant? Sure, why not? Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong opinion when it comes to who they want to serve or hire? Sure, why not?

Going the nuclear route and making the collection of data on individuals, aggregated or otherwise, illegal would hardly be some major leap of reach of jurisprudence. The problem is not that the technology exists, but that there is 0 political interest in curtailing it, and we've a 'democracy' where the will of the people matters very little in terms of what legislation gets passed.
The bug depends on a few factors that aren't really packaging-specific.
A) the default socket buffer size B) the polling rate of your mouse C) whether there's anything on your system or in your firefox profile that can cause enough lag that the buffer overflows D) whether your compositor has any workarounds for that protocol limitation

Well, I suppose a packager could have disabled wayland in firefox...
> They can do research, get paid, make payments, and contribute to private communities in such a way that no existing surveillance infrastructure can positively link that identity to their government identity.

I can't help but wonder if we live in the same universe. If anything, in my part of the world, I am seeing powerful surveillance tech going from the digital sphere and into the physical sphere, often on the legal/moral basis that one has no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

Would love for OP to elaborate and prove me wrong!
Postscript is actually surprisingly approachable. It's quite easy to implement logo-like "turtle graphics" and draw fractals in it.
I am a doctor, and I encourage you to learn about how diagnostic test performance is modelled, and the consequences linked to overtesting and testing without contextual knowledge. It may change your perspective and lead you towards less extreme opinions.
does "West" give you some status or something? what's the context
Maybe this is sarcasm, but the chief captain of the Titanic (Edward Smith) was not responsible for the iceberg jumping at the boat but was responsible for steering the ship at high speed through water known to have icebergs. He even said in an interview that he could not "imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that".

I can imagine a similar analogy with M. Baker.
This was my experience. So I stopped.
At least in my part of the US, it's not hard to do without smartphones at all. Default assumptions are that you have one, but you can still do everything you want to do if you don't.
You're just describing TikTok/Youtube algorithm.
I would say rather than saying that a new prompt is not science, it’s certainly a new discovery that is worth sharing. Maybe there should be a higher bar for papers, but why we have to make a discovery a paper - and not publish it at all if it cannot be made one - when a simple blog post or a tweet would convey the discovery very well?
If I understand correctly apart from hardcoded `ifs` there was a backdoor as well.

Russian agencies could use it to slow down transit of military aid to Ukraine.

In my book you could argue a criminal case.
I can’t speak to the second point, but I’d look for OOM events in dmesg for the crashes.
I don't see how it isn't literal fraud if the behavior isn't documented in the purchasing contracts.
I hope mozilla the corporation dies faster so we could then focus on the browser. As someone said, the board is a joke.
translated. very interesting:

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona-pl.translate.goog/post/o-trzech...
It's a bit more complicated. All US citizens and lawful permanent residents ("LPRs" or green card holders) must file annual taxes with the IRS regardless of where you live.

Residency can be abandoned relatively easily, at which point you're not under the obligation anymore... mostly. If you stay out of the country too long, the US may decide you've abandoned your residency whether you intended to or not. An absence of 2+ years is effectively abandonment in almost all cases.

Citizens can renounce their citizenship through a formal process that costs thousands of dollars. As part of this, all their assets will be taxed at current market value so if you bought a house for $300k and it's now valued at $800k even though you still own it, you'll be taxed on a capital gain of $500k.

I said "mostly" because if you've been an LPR for 8+ years, you are subjected to the same mark-to-market tax that people renouncing citizenship have to pay.

That's why at a certain point you may as well naturalize because you have all the negatives of citizenship and none of the positives.
I, for one, won't trust a government to ensure my privacy.

The EU does better than the US for consumer-related privacy issues. But I don't think the same can be said when the government wants to slap a label of "national security" onto something. That puts us into a whole different world of "anything goes".
In general, yes, a user on any mastodon instance can access any other - they are not siloed.

Even further: a user on a mastodon instance can see & interact with posts on Lemmy (the Reddit alternative), pics on Pixelfed (=Instagram), videos on Peertube (=Youtube), and content from a long list of other services, all from their single mastodon instance.

(There are exceptions, e.g. you could run a siloed internal company mastodon, and notably server administrators are able to block other servers entirely - but as a user you can always choose a server that federates as widely as you'd like, and if you self-host you're unlikely to block or be blocked by anybody)
Bribery is not connected to capitalism any more than it is connected to any other economic system, that's the point that you seem to be missing. People seem to want to dunk on capitalism, but it doesn't make any sense here.
FYI anyone can revert any edit just by manually undoing changes; what's gated is the one-click button to do so ("rollback").
Is it smart business though? Once disclosed it provides future purchasers with a strong reason to avoid your products. Who wants to spend millions on trainsets that could become unserviceable in the event that the seller goes out of business or makes some mistake in authorizing service centres or gets into a dispute with us over another matter?
IIRC that support was still noticeably heavier than starting a thread. Much faster than the unix-y fork() emulation in cygwin/msys/similar, or in things more directly ported to Windows that use native fork equivalents directly, but still not closing the thread/process efficiency difference to that seen away from Windows. This performance difference was one of the reasons (though I think a minor one) that they switched to a managed VM instead of an emulation layer for WSL2.
Anything that has a human-decided number overruling all the others and no indefinite timespan when no rules apply.

Personally, I do like the Haskell standard a lot. People tend to not use the extra number a lot, but just because it exists the other ones are much cleaner.

Or you could use the one on the article.
Makes a lot of sense to not waste heavy copper carrying one bit on information
Whatever. I'm just glad I have the tools I need to clean up the mess y'all are making.
540 nautical miles
Can you suggest some free LLM model that I can use in it directly?

Also, does it support Bard APIs?
Especially now that rails is shipping with turbo, hotwire and stimulus. Using no (additional) javascript you can make awesome performant reactive webpages.
(Edit: nvm, I read TFA)
I did briefly look at JuliaInterpreter.jl and if something like that can be used for general purpose, the TTFX would be fixed, the complaints would stop and I'd wager Julia would gain a lot in popularity. I really hope it happens.

For now the interpreter seems to focus on debugging, and if I understand correctly, it can't be really used to e.g. speed up imports or to specify hot code to be AOT'd/JITed?
Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?
50 ug over 130 years is way too fast

> The reason for this drift has eluded physicists who have dedicated their careers to the SI unit of mass. No plausible mechanism has been proposed to explain either a steady decrease in the mass of the IPK, or an increase in that of its replicas dispersed throughout the world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Prototype_of_t...
The Moscovy stealing "Rus" identity. FTFY
So if you have low stomach acid that prevents nutrient absorption then you might get high blood pressure ?

All these years they've been telling us some BS about eating salt and such. No one knows anything about how exactly human body works and all the parts that interconnected to each other. Even today we have specialists that treat a specific condition, a cardiologist doesn't look at GI issues.
If you are going to a hospital to "treat" your chronic condition then you've already lost the battle. Once they've ruled out very obvious things like infection and such, you are pretty much on your own.
ChatGPT tops Wikipedia's most-viewed articles of 2023 list
If your instance on which the user is on or the other one blocks that instance you will not have access.

The user identity is an issue on the fediverse and it is know by the creators of ActivityPub. There are plans to create a way for global identities which will solve many of these issues.
The problem with the phrase "artificial general intelligence" is that everyone is arguing about the definition of all three words, and has a different threshold for the boolean pass/fail boundary.
Take the temporal relationship between Occupy Wall Street and the culture war battles (as can be seen on Google trends).

It is physically possible for a media campaign to be launched to increase the amount of discussion of such topics, which gets the public fired up and arguing with each other, leaving them less attention to pay attention to things like the issues surrounding Occupy Wall Street. Whether this actually happened is an epistemological matter, but it is not polling, and it is not mere marketing, though one could frame it as a kind of marketing: "here are some things to fight over, plebs....are you interested in doing so?".

And this is just one instance. And, defending a claim of nonexistence is essentially impossible, especially when the matter is largely subjective.
langchain XDD
Adblockers are highly configurable, you can simply disable them selectively in cases where you want to “support” those that sell your data to the highest bidder, if that’s your jam..

Your former comment indicates that you care about page load times, in which case an adblocker will typically reduce both UI yank and certainly network usage, in case you’re constrained.
Playstation Users Frustrated After Getting Permanently Suspended Without Warning
on the internet, ALWAYS
I was about to say something like "oh those smart devices, what if the power goes down?" then caught myself.
His point was that the Driver will put you at risk though.
A bunch of smart idiots fell into Google's convenient embrace, just like everybody falling into Microsoft's arms 15-20 years ago, because this industry learns absolutely nothing, perhaps because we age out most of our competent engineers after 10 years or less.

What's sad about this time around is that Firefox was fine this whole time. It has been my daily driver for 8+ hours per day since like 2001.

I have spent many thousands of hours with Chrome as well for various jobs. I literally never felt a perceivable overall performance gap. I've always had pretty well-specced machines; maybe there were points when Chrome was noticeably better on low-spec machines.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that we sold out.

But just sad that our price was so f'ing cheap.
Any good and thorough decompiler tutorials for non-expert users?
> organisation

Everything related to megacorps is totally encrypted from you, starting from Intel ME and ending with going to a great length to take off a root rights from you on your "smart" phone. Only megacorp's useds do not appreciate privacy.
Yeah, central downtown's restaurant scene got really hollowed out by Covid and hasn't recovered. Heading immediately north from the west end of downtown into the River North district will get you more options if you visit again :)

In terms of sheer beauty in cities, Boulder rivals San Diego for being striking.

Glad you enjoyed yourself!
Times are changing. Human researchers will dedicate more and more time towards getting language models to work in desired ways rather than doing the research themselves. Language models will largely be the ones making "research" discoveries. Both should be considered valid research IMO.
Yea this is a good point. If justice is executed by systems, rather than people (the end result from this scenario), we have lost the ability to challenge the process or the people involved in so many ways. It will make challenging how the law is executed almost impossible because there will be no person there to hold responsible.
When I see this war between petty editors and insolent demanding contributors, I can’t help but sorta cheer to both teams.

They are all so right and simultaneously so wrong, and you can see the exact same thing happening on all large online spaces where content is supposed to be curated, that I can’t help but wonder: how is it that the phenomenon hasn’t been researched with hundreds of non-shoddy papers and a dozen of books written? And how come we haven’t moved on from screaming at one another about what the cure should be — “more censorship” or “more empathy”? How far can you dial both before realizing it just plain doesn’t work?
Another victim of deletionism. You might like https://gwern.net/inclusionism#no-club-that-would-have-me
Schneier is wrong that "hey google" is always listening. Google does on-device processing with dedicated hardware for the wake-words and only then forwards audio upstream. Believe it or not, the privacy people at Google really do try to do the right things. They don't always succeed, but they did with our hardware and wake-word listening.

Am Google employee, not in hardware.
Suddenly things make more sense about Firefox...
The truth is the filmmakers want their movies to look dark (cinema projectors are kind of limited), to have no colors (use too much color grading) and to move like a slideshow (24fps) :)
> on what basis would they generate uncertainties that at least keeps some grounding in reality?

By having their forecasts continuously evaluated against outcomes. If someone can show me they have a track record of producing calibrated error bars on a wide variety of forecasts, I trust them to slap error bars on anything.

> even if a human is able to slap an uncertainty on a prediction [...] that doesn't mean it's representing the uncertainty of what the model based its decision on.

This sounds like it's approaching some sort of model mysticism. Models don't make forecasts, humans do. Humans can use models to inform their opinion, but in the end, the forecast is made by a human. The human only needs to put error bars on their own forecast, not on the internal workings of the model.
I don't understand whats novel? I already have Zigbee energy harvesting switches in my house from Jung [1]:

> JUNG wall-mounted transmitters for Philips Hue work according to the principle of “energy harvesting”. As only small amounts of energy are needed to transmit the wireless signals, the kinetic energy arising from the switching action is sufficient to operate the transmitter without batteries and thus virtually maintenance-free.

[1] https://www.jung.de/en/10245/products/technology/transmitter...
That's basically a recipe for rich people never payping tax again. They pretty much do this already. It's called "buy, borrow, die" [1]. Basically, you borrow money against assets and spend that instead of realizing a profit or gain and being taxed on it. You basically never pay off those loans.

Also, this claim is factually untrue. We tax property based on unrealized gains all the time. There's absolutely no reason why we couldn't do this with other assets.

[1]: https://smartasset.com/investing/buy-borrow-die-how-the-rich...
This reads like a true adventure story. I'd be curious to know how much is true and how much was added to the facts.
That would be a no from me. Considering the recent headlines from the EU wanting to scan every private message on the phones of it's citizens in order to "protect the children".
The point is that it's not "income" until you actually receive it. Money you've borrowed is not "income". It is a liability, whether or not you've used another asset as collateral. Property you own outright is not "income", either.
> At some point people have to realize that personal unease is not an argument.

that's not how it works though. if you find enough other people that have the same uneasiness, then you can form groups that get people elected to make rules that forces everyone else to comply with your uneasiness.
It's not a monopoly, so no. Would make just as much sense to ask for a DMCA takedown of the trains.
Yes, I meant to do that. I posted the link and wanted to give some context on what to expect on the site. (HN does that automatically when you add a description to a link)
Oh, yes. I agree that this sounds like actual fraud if it is undocumented. I disagree that disabling the machines would count as "hacking."

I am cynical about the latter because I personally would like this sort of malicious shit to qualify as hacking. I'd also like the telemetry and recording in all modern cars to be considered hacking.
Should this be a paper?

https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-...

There is supporting analysis and measurement, but the essence is a single type of prompt, and DeepMind is a heavyweight lab I think it’s fair to say.

Moreover there’s evidence people independently reported this result months beforehand on Reddit based on casual observation.
Love anything that can accomplish the same goal with less material. I originally thought he was going to store the mechanical energy from turning it on and off, similar to those cranked flashlight. Rf makes way more sense!