skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One take might be that it is indeed rambling and not targeted. I say that because the statements, while appearing political, display a profound ignorance on the topic. It is entirely possible this was a disturbed individual who wished to do harm and saw this as a 'acceptable to some' way of perpetrating those crimes.

It's like someone claiming to be vegan to help them veil their eating disorder. Just because they say they are vegan, and do things a vegan might, does not mean that they share the behavioral traits or values of a vegan.
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If true, I assume there is a quantum of magnetic... "charge"? E.g. something like h_bar*e? (Sorry, I could go away and figure out the correct units here, but I haven't bothered...)
Yep, there is a big reason why Europe has so few successful big tech companies, it is a regulatory hellscape. They have so many pointless privacy regulations that only the “big” companies can even hope to compete in many markets like ad tech.
It's difficult because digital ToS are so tightly tailored to your business, and digital businesses are so malleable and formless.

If you went through the effort to standardize your ToS, it would only be "useful" to a tiny handful of businesses at specific points in their growth trajectory.

Regulations like GDPR are a top-down approach to the privacy component of a Terms of Service (i.e. there are only so many variations to the privacy sections within a ToS that comply with GDPR), but there are so many more components than just customer data locality.

That being said, as a privacy-respecting entrepreneur, coming up with a "user-respecting" (i.e. win/win, legible, minimally-demanding/withholding) ToS is a sizable challenge. It'd be nice to have templates. I basically resort to reading the ToS of companies I respect in similar verticals.
Under Japanese law, only the Supreme Court can rule on the constitutionality of laws. Therefore, a lower court cannot declare a law unconstitutional.
Perhaps it could be compared to _just_ FedWire. But even then, FedWire handles about $4t of transfers per day. That's a couple orders of magnitude more than BitCoin.

And that's literally one service, from one bank.
European Parliament sidelined in adoption of new travel surveillance agreement
"In practice, however, an interim solution for member states has been to transfer data directly to the Canadian authorities despite the Council of the EU calling it a “legal vulnerability.” It appears to be common practice for national law enforcement to go rogue (and unsanctioned) on European standards concerning PNR. In December 2022, following a court judgement on the law that governs the use of PNR data within the EU, the European Data Protection Board said it is “likely” that most member states were not complying with the judgment, operating systems that “continue to interfere disproportionately with the fundamental rights of data subjects every day.”

Calling it a house of cards may be unwarranted, but a couple of back references nevertheless:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551854
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There are reasons that humans can't report how many books they've read: they simply don't know and didn't measure. There is no such limitation for an LLM to understand where its knowledge came from, and to sum it. Unless you're telling me a computer can't count references.

Also, why are we comparing humans and LLMs when the latter doesn't come anywhere close to how we think, and is working with different limitations?

The 'knowledge' of an LLM is in a filesystem and can be queried, studied, exported, etc. The knowledge of a human being is encoded in neurons and other wetware that lacks simple binary chips to do dedicated work. Decidedly less accessible than coreutils.
>Your mistake is imagining that piracy gets legally persecuted for more than one in a million cases.

that 1 in a million tends to be the one person serving the million, though. That's why they don't waste time chasing the customers like the war on drugs. Go right after the dealer and throw the book at them.

>Turns out, if you ask people to pay and can't even withhold a fair bargain from your side -- as in, don't delete stuff from people's libraries -- they stop caring about the legality of it all.

Good thing most people still pay in that case. The other part of that metaphor is that 999,999 people may pirate, but 5m or so are still making that product profitable. anti-piracy isnt just about making pirates relent, but to shut down future pirates in later products.

>They coasted on the public's indifference for a long time but it's visible that the public's perception is changing.

could have fooled me. If we're being realistic, I doubt this will affect more than 10k people. How many people really used a play station store to buy a digital movie? And remember that PS shut down their movies side 2.5 years ago.
I guess you have to assume that any message in transit over a public network is public. Of course, you can use something like PGP to encrypt messages before sending them, provided that the recipient has your key. I know of a few people who do that.

Outside of that kind of thing, we're probably yelling everything out loud to anyone who wants to listen.
There's no law against being a dirtbag but I am definitely still going to blame you for being a dirtbag. You could always choose... not to be a dirtbag.

I would rephrase your point, "don't be surprised when a company capitalizes on lack of laws" -- this I agree with. It's virtually a force of nature.
I have some skin in this game. I'd say that painting is not difficult at all. Depending on your preferred style it can be as easy as literally throwing random pigments on whatever surface you prefer to target.

Painting (or drawing) to some degree of visual similarity requires practice, so some effort is needed. You have to "rewire" some muscle-vision-brain coordination. It will be perceived as hard only because a) you will know how easy it is to snap a photo and apply filters/photoshop (or, propmt an AI), and b) because you will be your own worst critic. Others will see you progress quite fast if only you do the training part.

What is hard about it, really hard, is making a living from it. Or, even getting small change out of it. Most often, if you've not been to the right schools and intermingled with the right people in the right way at the right times (with an added very big portion of sheer luck) you are not going to make it, ever. Even then, it is unlikely. Regardless of your talent.

Talent does not bubble up like you would imagine. You can not just build a better mousetrap and they will come. This is a very controlled market, and also one where the different niches are working in very different ways. Even in very different ways from other markets you would know about.

It's not sour grapes, it's just a fact that for every art market niche there are only a very small amount of people able to gain a foothold while there are thousands or tens of thousands that may have an equal amount of skill/talent but these people just does not make it.
I’d be shocked if this whole thing wasn’t carefully coordinated and pulled off by the NSA. It’s the perfect attack— ubiquitous, low-level, and with plenty of plausible deniability and “aww shucks, memory usage C strikes again, waddya gonna do?” People should start trying to extract those images and comparing the SHA-256 hashes of the images. If you were going to exploit this you’d make it look the same visually and just put a low—level back door into the system to avoid raising any suspicions.
I don't think the paper cares, since it's about how the fields on the surface behave locally while the other pole needing to exist (and of course it could be split into multiple weaker ones, or smeared out, or whatever) is an invariant that applies to the object as a whole.
What? It's a true statement, but it has little to do with computer science, but does to do with software engineering. Did the word "imperialist" trigger reflexive typing?

In my opinion this project is about 20 layers too abstract to actually produce working and useful software. But it's not virtue signaling if they're actually trying to do the thing, is it? Virtue signaling is when you act like you're doing something virtuous and then don't.

If they're trying to create a programming syntax that maps to every known human language, good on them. They'll probably fail, but it's not really a stupid concept, especially when your organization's purpose is to spread knowledge to the whole world.
Microsoft also has an AI feature called Copilot. I think at this point the name has become a generic term for AI assistance.
Hey I see you are interested in spotlight and 78 other things and your ip belongs to fortune 1k. May be you should buy the sentry enterprise license. Just my ads. I work on martech.
I hope you're right. But do you have an alternative explanation for why there's seemingly far fewer companies coming from the EU?
Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts
I like this idea, but I think it's not flexible enough. Instead my over complicated dream is to allow companies to propose new TOS in a similar way to new top level domains. They can put in a lot of money and add TOS language to the approved list, but then anyone can use that language. Ideally the pricing would be such that only 10 to 50 unique TOS would exist at any point in time
The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy
downloading a car is easy. Getting it registered at the DMV is the hard part. Very easy attack vector unless this is just going to be a street racing car.
There is perhaps one upside.

As it turns out, when binding arbitrarion is forced, those very same companies can't handle the caseloads that come with thousands of cases being filed individually so it can be a bit of a footgun

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-over...
Hey now, how can you guarantee p(Picasso) or p(Hendrix) is 0 for all readers of your comment?*

In any case, I think your response and multiple similar responses make the essential point(s). One of the useful 'results' from decades of R&D at trying to build machines (&/ "software" - may be considered another type of machine) has been 'seeing' the difficulty in practice at achieving capabilities we (and many other animals ... even, say, nematodes**) absolutely take for granted.

One of the old jokes I always associate with Groucho Marx is something like:

"Can you play the piano?" ... "I don't know, I've never tried"

It reminds me of how people often say "foreign languages are difficult" ... As though any "native language" is somehow different / easy / easier ... Entirely neglecting the tens of thousands of hours of experience and practice most people have with some "native language" by the time they're a mere 10 years old. AND, we all continue to "practice" whatever language we speak and think (to some degree) in every hour of every day.

It's all in what you put your time into, as you get at, as well. And, one particularly crucial aspect is what you believe about how skill "arises" which you reference as well. One of the greatest disservices to (young, especially) people is inculcating them with the idea of "talent." While most people are not likely capable of becoming, say, the top tennis player (male / female) in the world - there are all sorts of variables - too often people are artificially limited by nonsense that passes as "common wisdom" and permeates "culture" (ideas that just propagate from some people to others - here, especially, parents to children).

It's interesting, to me, that while my mom, for example, was an incredible "believer" in education, and had defied her own parents and exceeded the role(s) they envisioned for her by many orders of magnitude, she also would often reference "talent" in various contexts when I was growing up.

We are riddled with nonsense - in our heads. I know for sure that I'll always be full of internal inconsistencies and false beliefs and the like. But, it is very helpful to escape as many of them as possible. Particularly those that artificially constrain us - a species limited enough as-is.***

* Where symbols "Picasso" & "Hendrix" are understood / defined 'in the usual / obvious way' - in terms of equivalence in impact / fame / etc.

** See recent articles on mapping of "neural network" / nervous system structure of C. elegans, for example

*** I write this not to disparage our species but simply to highlight the fact that we are constrained just like all other species by our form(s) and what is optimized by the process of natural selection and such ...
See https://archive.is/89jLA
> Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.

When it intrudes upon the bodily autonomy of others (e.g. second hand smoke, which I am constantly facing and suffering from in the Bay Area).
If you scroll far enough down the page, Shipped was solo-developed by Luca Restagno. As was hivoe, userdesk, wuf (all submitted by ikoichi2112 who also says he's Luca on his HN profile)
This is on top of the water used for power generation.

Electric power generators are the largest source of U.S. water withdrawals and account for about 40% of total water withdrawals in the United States. Water withdrawals by U.S. thermoelectric power plants reached 52.8 trillion gallons in 2017: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37453

I guess its not sufficient that we waste trillions of gallons of water on fossil fuels, we must find new ways to waste water.
Is that true? Often ToS seem to mostly consist of boilerplate that's copied from business to business
Clicked in to it to see, it’s monthly. States that the next bill is 30 days after it goes live.
Steven Black DNS blocklist blocked gstatic.com
While it is now unblocked, the Steven Black list has been blocking a lot of innocent CDNs.

jQuery: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2520

(twice): https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2516

cookielaw: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2519

jsdelivr.net: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2518

gstatic (again): https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2329

And other innocent sites:

freecodecamp: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2517

Parts of the Internet Archive: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2476
For many, the fear of being harmed by someone on public transportation has a much greater effect on the mind than the risk of getting in a car accident, even if the latter is more likely.
https://archive.is/EKOQ1
Thats a false dichotomy, a false equivalence- it's just a lot of false stuff
Postgres and wsl2 and podman vs. Postgres and windows
TLDR: Postgres on Windows is 2.75X faster

Windows

$ ./pgbench -U postgres -c 10 -j 2 -T 60 pgbench

Password:

pgbench (14.2)

starting vacuum...end.

transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>

scaling factor: 10

query mode: simple

number of clients: 10

number of threads: 2

duration: 60 s

number of transactions actually processed: 303691

latency average = 1.966 ms

initial connection time = 302.140 ms

tps = 5087.274385 (without initial connection time)

podman/wsl2

$ ./pgbench -U postgres -c 10 -j 2 -T 60 -p 5433 pgbench

Password:

pgbench (14.2, server 14.10 (Debian 14.10-1.pgdg120+1))

starting vacuum...end.

transaction type: <builtin: TPC-B (sort of)>

scaling factor: 10

query mode: simple

number of clients: 10

number of threads: 2

duration: 60 s

number of transactions actually processed: 110853

latency average = 5.408 ms

initial connection time = 62.968 ms

tps = 1849.121013 (without initial connection time)
> Your sense of smell is subjective, and not a good reason for legislation.

Wish it stopped at just the smell.

Second hand weed is harmful.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/secondhand-marijuana-smoke-w...
This is far less interesting for two reasons:

1. No new particles for starters.

2. This is not first time magnetic monopoly quasiparticles have been discovered in materials. Mangetic monopoles have been discovered in materials in the past https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10..., https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.881
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Yeah I think a lot of experienced developers are so immersed in software development that they forget how complex the process is, and how much knowledge they have to even know how to ask the right questions.

I mean, I thought that website frontend development would have long since been swallowed up by off-the-shelf WYSIWYG tools, that's how it seemed to be going in the late 90s. But the opposite has happened, there have never been more developers working on weird custom stuff.
With a Model S getting 3 miles per kWh, and the average of the US grid getting 0.857 pounds of CO2 per kWh, the Model S would’ve produced 343k pounds of CO2. That’s a 78% emissions reduction from the 1.543 million lbs emissions from a 07 Tundra. And that’s with the current lackluster US grid currently only using 60% fossil fuels. In a decade, when coal has been phased out and solar ramp up has caused renewables to be a majority of the grid, I expect that 343k pounds to achieve another 75% reduction.

That’s an average though, you can use your own solar panels to charge your Tesla and achieve practically zero emissions.
I feel like the most natural implementation would be something like vert.x for the jvm. They already have the mechanisms to handle async execution (via reactive extensions and futures and coroutines on top of the event bus) and serialization and distribution of data across a cluster. There are eventbus clients for many popular languages as well, so you'd be able to build your application in a mix of languages.
I don't know, but the fact that the model can suggest the most relevant sentence is intriguing to me. I don't know. I realize it's just looking at the probability. Would it be possible to sort of craft adversarial inputs to learn the model's weights? It seems like it should be, and in some sense you're then getting it to output the weights, but you'd need to know the models structure almost certainly to do that.
If you are willing to install a lua interpreter,
https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua is quite nice and has more features, e.g. fzf integration and an interactive mode.
Well as a senior engineer I spend most of my time building or refining user interfaces and passing data around, not trying to solve algorithmic puzzles under a clock.
Imagine for just a second that the ability for computers to count “references” has no bearing on this, there is a limitation and that LLMs suffer from the same issue as you do.
I agree that these may break a lot of functionality, but I am pretty sure that these are not "innocent" in the sense that they wouldn't do tracking.
Whoring on the internet is easier and safer for mental health and wellbeing than finding a real job that pays the bills.
> > Well it’s kind of misleading, because GitHub has kind of a following for their product named Copilot.

> Microsoft also has an AI feature called Copilot. I think at this point the name has become a generic term for AI assistance.

Github is Microsoft, and, yes, Microsoft has expanded their Copilot branding for end-user-facing AI assistance beyond just the Github coding tool, but that doesn't make it generic.
As of today, Bard is now powered by the Gemini Pro model mentioned in the article. Bard Advanced is set for release early next year and will be powered by Gemini Ultra.
I don't sympathize. But I don't damn them either.

I especially don't sympathize for those who feel they need to profess loud and proud and act like Robin Hood for pirating. No you're not. Limousine liberalism at its finest. Acting like their actions are going to topple the empire instead of being seen as an ant grabbing some tiny crumb off the kitchen floor.

You can't even claim some technical boasting. You downloaded a file off the internet based on the work someone else did to upload said file, on a website that did the work of hosting. La dee da. It's not the 90's anymore; I'm not going to praise someone for doing a basic internet function in 2023.
Have terms of service ever successfully been challenged for failing to meet the requirements of a contract? Like if I make an Uber account for my mom, and she uses it, at what point is she bound by the ToS?
You say that, but there’s literally a line on my policy that states a coverage amount for mold remediation…
> Some of the new ones even have the USB part integrated on chip.

Worth noting that this includes JTAG over USB.
I did my M.SC in one of the High energy physics experiments looking for "natural" magnetic monopole but now moved for supersymmetry then flavor physics.

The title is basically clickbait and personally it triggers a collective truma of hundreds who worked on that during the last 7 decades. Well we might actually have discovered a magnetic monopole in the 80s on the famous valentine's day experiment/incident. [1]

As many people here mentioned, these are not the groundbreaking and fundamental particles that we call magnetic monopole that was predicted by Dirac or GUT monopole (predicted by many grand unification theories). This manifestation of spin effects is consistent with the unsymmetric Maxwell's equations we have and wouldn't prompt a modification like if we discovered the "fundamental" magnetic monopole. Well thanks to inflation, we probably never going to be able to see it even it exists. [2]

Probably titles like these are part of the reason why HEP physicists have their own APS conference (april) and don't participate in the more generic march conference /S.

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/429010a

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Magnetic_monopoles
Facebook Messenger E2E encryption "beginning global rollout now”
Pixels are a unit of area like an acre or square meter (see [1] if skeptical). So a line of pixels is still 2D, in the same way a 1x5 unit rectangle is a 2D object with an area of 5 units squared. I'm not sure there's an accepted name for a 1 dimensional picture element. Maybe lenxel, working backwards from length like voxels works backwards from volume?

I like the sibling's suggestion about audio; if we were to adopt it, it would make a 1D element a "sample".

[1] People are often confused on this point, because in the course of everyday conversation we don't distinguish between the number of pixels on the side of a rectangle (which is a 1D quantity) and the number of pixels inside that rectangle (a 2D quantity). So if I say I have a 10 pixel by 10 pixel image, what I mean is that I have a grid with an area of 100 pixels, with sides measuring 10 pixel-widths by 10 pixel-heights (each a 1D quantity of length). If that looks awkward and tiresomely pedantic to you, well, that's why we just say pixels and let the details be implied.

If you're still skeptical, consider for instance that voxels are more clearly a unit of volume (think Minecraft blocks), and that pixels are obtained by subdividing a rectangle. Another useful way to think about it might be by replacing "pixels" with "dominos" and imagining making grids out of dominos, pixels can be tricky since you can't see their area yourself.
What Ever Happened to Neoreaction?
But then if empty string are part of a string at what index do you find an empty string within a string you cannot dereference the space between letters
Chrome Extension to Hide Microtransactions in Steam's Website (Open-Source)
Cool, I'll apply!
First A.I. Designer
Corrupt and / or exceedingly inefficient government bureaucracies are going to be a problem, regardless of whether they have a socialist bent or not.

Everyone here loves to trot out north European countries as prime examples of the glories of socialism, neglecting to point out what makes them work better than, for example, various South American countries.

Small business organizations might be perfectly happy organizing themselves into political action, while rejecting the notion that society as a whole would benefit from being organized by the government itself.