skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
could we have a CRISPR based penis elongation medicine in future? I would like to invest to that startup
Fredrik recently started vtubing under Merryweather Media / Astraline, might have something to do with the removal of pictures?

..and yeah, that is indeed just the way he talks.
I don't think it's ready yet, from what I read in statements they found a compromise but it still needs to go through some processes to turn the agreed points into legalese (and then the translations)

I don't think it'll be voted on this month
I don’t know a lot about how it works, so forgive me if this is a silly idea. I wonder if attestation could be done using real Apple devices, while leaving the private key on the user’s android. So similar to the old beeper to get the signed attestation, and send the result to the phone. Still could be secure since you can keep the private key used to encrypt messages local on the users device. I guess the issue might be a cat and mouse game if detecting beepers flock of Apple hardware to try and disable them all… (given many people would be using the same Apple devices)
Ask HN: Do you believe there will be an AI winter?
I've seen people on this site declare confidently there will be an AI winter in the next 1-4 years, implying current AI investment is just a hype cycle and bubble that will burst in due time.

I personally do not believe this, but I want to know the thought process behind people who do. What makes you confident there will be an "AI winter" (as in, a reduction in year-on-year investment in AI companies, initiatives within companies, and adoption along with a loss of evaluation of AI companies en-masse)
Years ago when I was tight on disk space I converted my photos all to jpeg2000 to save space. I've regretted it ever since, as I've permanently lost resolution of my personal photos of friends and family, and some turn out to be completely lost.

For web pages, you can just turn up the jpeg compression on photos, and use pngs for constructed images with hard edges.
> making it impossible for even hacked software on the USB device to write to memory?

Signed firmware to prevent BadUSB-style attacks, price starts at $40 for 16GB, https://www.kanguru.com/products/kanguru-flashtrust-secure-f...

They have other models with signed firmware + FIPS 140 certified encryption + tamper resistance + physical write-protect switch.

They also sell an SSD enclosure with write-protect switch.
I don't think copyright has much meaning left in it anymore. Any work can be "extracted" into its elements, ideas and style, and recombined in million ways.

You could generate a billion images with SD and train the next model on them. Make sure they don't look close to copyrighted works. Being AI generated, they have no copyright. You can still use real data as well if it is in the public domain.

If you do this enough the initial copyrighted dataset is going to be further removed from the model. The model can't reproduce a copyrighted work because it hasn't seen any of them during training.

But more importantly, this process strictly separates ideas from expression and trains only on ideas without copyrighted expression. If authors complain it means they want to own ideas and styles.

You can also use copyrighted works to train a classifier to rank the quality of training examples, and apply it to filter your synthetic data to be higher quality.

You can even train a RLHF model to say when two works are "close enough" to constitute an infringement, and double down on safety by ensuring you don't generate or use risky works.

That's why I was saying that I don't think copyright has much meaning left in it anymore. Knowledge wants to be free, it travels, shape-shifts and evolves. It does not belong to any one of us except if we keep it to ourselves.
Well, from what I've read, the EPA has been gutted intentionally for quite a while, so that is by design.
Starve the beast is a strategy that is currently still in use in the US.
They’re just asking for actual evidence that iOS users think down on Android users. There are multiple articles that talk about this in the social circle of teens, and likely exist in various adult circles as well. What I can say is that it is extremely frustrating that texts don’t just work between users of different platforms. Some Android users don’t want to use WhatsApp, Signal, etc. and that’s totally fine. This feels like a closed wall two party system debate, it shouldn’t just be one or the other they should just work together.

As an iOS user I do not look down on Android users, I have separate reasons for not using Android. That said I think it’s dumb that we need to use a different app to communicate effectively in a group setting, and I’m willing to use other apps, but not everyone is. So we end up with the current state where sometimes new groups are created when someone responds from a different device, or a different experience occurs when someone reacts to a message in a group thread.
Green ash is currently under attack and will be gone within the decade.
Ask HN: I lost my phone. I want to degoogle. What should I do?
I think I forgot to take my phone out of my pocket before a bike ride. I can't contact the phone with Find My Device.

Fortunately, I am in good shape.

* I saved my 2FA secrets in KeePassXC and have backup codes.

* My KeePassXC database key derivation is at least 3 seconds long on my desktop, and I've still rotated all of the passwords I can.

* I lost about a week's worth of pictures. Sad, but okay.

* I use Matrix/Element and signed out of the session that existed on my phone.

* I previously backed up my task list.

* I don't really store anything else on my phone.

* I locked my phone out using Find My Device, and I am prepared to remotely wipe it.

So this Ask HN is not about trying to recover my life after a devastating loss. Thank goodness.

Instead, I want to take this opportunity to degoogle. [1]

These are my requirements:

* I need a phone that can make phone calls and text, preferably on one or more of the major cell networks. Preferably on Verizon and friends.

* I need a data connection. And Wi-Fi.

* I need a browser.

* I need Matrix/Element.

There are some additional things I want that I am willing to sacrifice if necessary to degoogle:

* A map and navigation app.

* Signal.

* My task list app. [2]

* An app to learn Japanese.

* A few other various Android apps.

What will fulfill those requirements? Can I go so far as to get a Linux phone? Is GrapheneOS the best bet? What phone do you think I should get?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38411194

[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.tasks/
Musk's showdown with Nordic labor deepens as a pension fund dumps Tesla shares
How did these guys raise $16M? Do the VCs have no understanding of things? The round was apparently led by the CEO of Y Combinator. Makes no sense.
> and the overall quality (in terms of content value, not production value) would also probably be higher

This is pretty questionable. Quality takes time. If you need an income to pay your rent, 40 hours or more of your work week are taken up. That leaves a few hours before dinner and sleep to work on your videos (since in this hypothetical, it is "literally impossible" to make money on your videos).

Of course you could work on the weekend, and many do. But let's not forget that making videos is work, and it's important to do the things, you know, we invented weekends for. Like spending time with your family, reading a book, or playing a video game. How entitled this content creator must be to have a weekend. This is of course assuming that the creator's day job is a traditional one-- more than likely they work partial days 7 days a week at varying hours as is the norm for crappier jobs.

That 40 hours gives you enough income to pay your expenses, but unfortunately, for most people, doesn't give you the income you need to get a real camera, so you're just using the webcam that you already had on your computer.

The audio is terrible and the video looks like it came out of the early days of YouTube, but somehow that qualifies as "high production values".

Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of reality when working in a highly paid specialized field like engineering.

> In many ways it'd probably be far better for the world if making videos was not perceived as being profitable. The number of children who now want to be 'streamers' or 'youtubers' instead of astronauts, engineers, and scientists is not a good direction for society.

Well you are watching that content, presumably. Do you feel it provides value to you?

There are an awful lot of small science educators on YouTube. They are doing the work to inspire people to get into the sciences. Is that not valuable? Those people have an outsized dependency on the ad revenue and patreon income they receive so they can keep making videos that are accurate and engaging. For them, another hundred people blocking ads could mean the difference between doing what they love and releasing quality videos or having to go back to a day job that occupies all their time.

If there was no YouTube, how do our kids get inspired to become scientists-- by watching the latest MCU movie? By watching cable programming?

YouTube isn't all just MrBeast and dramatube videos but I get the impression that this is what you think of. It reminds me of the "algorithm slip" where users make broad assumptions about a platform because of what it serves to them, but really it says more about you than properly evaluating what content is on the platform.

When I sum up your take, it sounds like only those people with passive income should have the privilege to make videos, and that's actually not a world I want.
Beeper Mini's implementation was built on top of this repo. I'm sure it was cleaned up and modified for the production release, but the gist is largely still the same.
> Cigarettes are harmful and are legal.

> I worked at a small company in a emote team, there was proposed that we all need to install spying software on our computers so we can be better monitored. Everyone in the team refused and the bad stuff did not happen, we were not replaced with a new team.

Isn't that different to what you asked for? The harmful stuff in this story was harmful to the workers. Unions protect workers.

You're asking that employees must form a union to protect consumers. Have you ever seen that happen? Unions are not primarily consumer-protection groups.

Once again, I reiterate that you are going to have trouble getting a union (or a bunch of them) all agreeing that their workers would strike if any worker is ever employed producing cigarettes (the example you gave).

The reason this is not going to happen, is because you aren't going to get enough developers to agree with your opinion on what is harmful and what is not.

> You might be right, maybe developers should instead work on proposing legislation for banning harmful stuff and keep unions focused on work conditions.

Give me just one single example that you think should be enshrined in law and currently isn't, and I'll show you how unworkable your proposal is.

Just one.
I appreciate the submission, but why not just do a regular comment system and use “magic links” which are authentication links sent by email. No password needed.

That requires a login technically but with less friction than needing username, password, email confirmation.
EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence
"Helmets are made with an inner EPS (expanded polystyrene foam) shell and an outer shell to protect the EPS. The density and the thickness of the EPS is designed to cushion or crush on impact to help prevent head injuries. Some manufacturers even offer different densities to offer better protection. The outer shell can be made of plastics or fiber materials. Some of the plastics offer very good protection from penetration as in Lexan (bullet-resistant glass) but will not crush on impact, so the outer shell will look undamaged but the inner EPS will be crushed."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_helmet

But I'm not gonna stop you from wearing a Stahlhelm for riding. Whatever floats your boat mate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Beeper's true purpose was to show people that it's possible without an iPhone. What you don't know how many other clients like this worked and for how long...
Perhaps it is good to have something that signals we are approaching or past carrying capacity, as a species without a natural predator.
"They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it.

If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?”

And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers.

And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of the gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’

Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15
I am very pessimistic about that. How should it be trained?
We need an embarrassing data leak on Congress before they will be motivated. They covered their asses quick when Bork's video rentals were publicized.
The exact same discourse was being said by blockchain (so, no NFTs) people around 8-10 years ago. We were also just 5 years away from getting autonomous vehicles around 2016-2017, we haven’t.
No. Rising wages are often the cause of high inflation, but wages do not increase as a result of high inflation. The harm from high inflation can be measured as increases in alternative (non-earning) methods of accessing money -- low savings rates, high credit card balances (and delinquencies), high levels of borrowing from 401k's (or low contribution rates), tapping into home equity -- which is exactly what we are witnessing now, not coincidentally, right after the biggest inflation spike in decades.
I have heard of footage showing rape , but that it was left out, due to respect for the victims.

In any case there are other evidence for that to happen.
We were talking about rendering - not training. Have I misunderstood your point?
/? "networkx" "igraph" "cugraph" site:github.com inurl:awesome
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22networkx%22+%22igraph%22+... :

- https://github.com/johnhany/awesome-list#graph lists a few Tensorflow and Pytorch + graphs applications

CuGraph docs > List of Supported and Planned Algorithms: https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cugraph/stable/graph_support/algo...

https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph#news :

> NEW! nx-cugraph, a NetworkX backend that provides GPU acceleration to NetworkX with zero code change. :

pip install nx-cugraph-cu11 --extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com
export NETWORKX_AUTOMATIC_BACKENDS=cugraph
Plant-based is not vegan. Vegetarian is not vegan. I say they were never vegan in the first place. You can't be a vegan and be okay with animal exploitation. That's an oxymoron or a paradox or something.

To blow things way out of proportion, this is like if you started a charity, and when you discovered it wouldn't be profitable you turn it into a human trafficking operation. I just can't be convinced that someone who truly cares would suddenly turn evil.
> Of course you can. It's sitting there on your Mac where you can use it as much as you like.

For what?

I own a Mac an iPhone and an iPad but iMessage and FaceTime are entirely useless to me because no one I communicate with on a regular basis uses Apple devices. Same thing with various iCloud sharing features. Not using the family sharing offers is entirely uneconomical as well.

So what happens is that I gravitate to other ecosystems. I use WhatsApp. I upload all my photos to Google Photos. I mirror my iCloud Drive to Google Drive to share and collaborate with people on various things.

I have enabled Apple’s advanced data protection for end to end encryption but it’s entirely farcical as my stuff is all over the place anyway.

Almost everything Apple does in terms of software and services is useless to me. They are not locking me in. They are locking me out.

I’m paying for their excellent hardware, the m-series CPUs in particular, but I’m using my “spare” Pixel phone more often because the software suits me better.

I appreciate a lot of things that Apple does but it’s only a question of time until some other ARM based hardware catches up enough for me to stop overpaying Apple for software I can’t use anyway.
Certainly, that's a fair assumption. However, advocates of nuclear weapons or, for instance, ordinary gun owners, can also cite statistics in their favor. In the US, there are significantly more fatalities due to car accidents compared to deaths from nuclear weapons or gun-related incidents. Thus, based on this data, one could argue that both nuclear weapons and firearms are safer than automobiles. Measuring potential risks is challenging because it often depends on projections rather than past statistical events.

It's difficult to claim objective truth in matters like these. For instance, try to explain to a mother who lost her child on Chernobyl's roof why nuclear energy is safe. Similarly, telling a mother who lost her child in a school shooting that guns are safe, because statistically cars pose a greater danger to human life in the US.

What I'm trying to say is you can have convincing arguments for many things, even those things that can and do actually kill people.
The scourge of Electron, the nostalgia of Pidgin
I haven't personally tried that one, but on the HuggingFace LLM Leaderboard:

Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-SlimOrca - AVG: 60.37, ARC: 62.54, HellaSwag: 83.86, MMLU: 62.77, TruthfulQA: 54.23, Winogrande: 77.43, GSM8k: 21.38

Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-2 - AVG: 68.29, ARC: 67.49, HellaSwag: 83.92, MMLU: 63.55, TruthfulQA: 59.68, Winogrande: 79.95, GSM8k: 55.12
This looks pretty neat and I’m sure Shaun and the team have learned a lot…

But man, I remember the No Man’s Sky announcement trailer and then the initial state of the game afterward.

It took a lonnnnnng time to restore trust.

I am cautiously optimistic but definitely won’t be preordering anything like this until I see more definitive reviews.
SpaceX, la rinomata azienda di tecnologia aerospaziale fondata da Elon Musk, ha recentemente portato a termine un notevole lancio con il Falcon Heavy. Questa missione è stata caratterizzata dal trasporto dell'X-37B Spaceplane, un veicolo spaziale segreto, in orbita terrestre.

Il lancio è stato eseguito dal Kennedy Space Center LC-39A in Florida, Stati Uniti, attirando l'attenzione di appassionati di spazio e appartenenti alla comunità scientifica. L'X-37B, conosciuto anche come Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), è stato descritto come un misterioso veicolo spaziale gestito dalla United States Space Force (USSF) per scopi sperimentali e missioni segrete.

La missione attuale dell'X-37B coinvolge esperimenti per la NASA, in particolare uno chiamato Seeds-2. Questo progetto prevede l'esposizione di semi vegetali a radiazioni spaziali estreme, al fine di studiare gli effetti della radiazione sulla crescita delle piante. Questa ricerca potrebbe avere implicazioni cruciali per le future missioni spaziali con equipaggio.

Il lancio dell'X-37B Spaceplane si è inserito in una serie di missioni spaziali recenti condotte da SpaceX, tra cui il lancio di satelliti Starlink e altri carichi utili per varie agenzie spaziali e società private.

Questa missione segreta e gli esperimenti condotti sottolineano l'importanza dell'esplorazione spaziale per lo sviluppo scientifico e tecnologico. SpaceX continua a dimostrare la sua leadership nel settore con innovazioni e lanci di successo, aprendo la strada a nuove frontiere nell'esplorazione dello spazio.

Questo evento si aggiunge alla serie di successi di SpaceX e testimonia il suo ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo dell'industria spaziale.
It's also incorrect to compare this bike path, which seems to be more expensive than most, to the average road cost. I quoted several road projects which were much more expensive than average.

Is the average comparison price comparison more like 30x? If so, that's what you would expect for 3% of the population, yes?

> Cost per actual trip is what matters.

Then work out and present the numbers, rather than feelings.

Every person biking is a car off the road, and the car on the road requires a LOT more space than a bike. Bikes also take far less space to store, so you don't need a much space dedicated to parking instead of housing or businesses.

Your secondary effects should include reduced pollution (EVs don't have exhaust, but still release tire/brake particulates) and improved general health (by people biking instead of driving).

Try digging up the planning study which justified this work, and see what it reports. That should include the "rationally acknowledged" details you seek.

> You are trying to imply that the difference between $750 and $317 is free money not paid for by Christchurch tax payers.

No, I was pointing out that your math - "that is $750 per person" - is wrong. If that simple calculation is wrong, how well can you/I trust your analysis?
This has been a fairly common rhetorical move for defenders of disproportionate Israeli violence, inflicted primarily upon civilians, in recent months. I've seen it done with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the firebombing of Dresden.

On TV in English, which atrocity is used to justify the current and growing civilian death toll in Gaza seems to depend on who the audiences. US audiences are appealed to with comparison to Hiroshima and UK audiences, to Dresden.

It's easy to read it cynically when it's an Israeli official excusing one war crime with another on television. It's stranger and sadder to see it done by an ordinary stranger online.
Given how the project is going, not even sure if there will be a V3 at some point.
Modern problems require modern solutions: https://ctif.org/news/see-swedish-lithium-ion-battery-expert...
All this would not be neccessary if they just deleted the data afterwards, but I didn't see this advertised.

As vatys explains in his longer comment: You are just as anonymous as the least anonymous person related to you.
The magic smoke is in Part 3. Click "Next Post" twice.