skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needs better teardown and RE video. 3/10. Not really worth watching. Cool, but doesnt tell you a thing
> and a collection of selfies of children kept by the porn sites

I hope this journalist never has to do any actual critical thinking. It goes without saying that obviously children wouldn't upload selfies if they're under 18 and that's the purpose of KYC.
>Partial information provides choice of action, therefore free will.

So how would an agent based system connected to a multi-modal LLM/AI fall into this?
Please spell this out for me.

I'm a very tech savvy individual, and as a parent who has spent hours and hours navigating the murk of disparate parental control systems, it is clear to me that what you say is only true if you commit to preventing your child from having access to anything at all.

Worst of all, children have friends!

In other words, you must lock them in a closet and deprive them of access to sunlight itself to accomplish what you say.
> Linux is not accessible to the average non-technical user at all. The moment one thing goes wrong, they’re done.

How is this different from Windows, macOS or any other operating system these days exactly? It's not like things don't go wrong there...
Absolutely, but only to an extent.
Eccentricities also contribute to long duration cycles of tides. Instead of all the Petri dishes following a single cycle, there is also another dimension of longer cycle dishes.
I always turned it off so it looked more like Windows 2000.
I can imagine a researcher thinking "I should cite this in my paper. I'll cut-and-paste the text into my notes." But then later they don't recognize in their notes which text is theirs and which was cut-and-pasted. That's still "plagiarism" -- but there are cases where it can be 100% unintentional.

This is all kind of beside the point, though. How you feel about this pretty much comes down to whether you support or don't support Ackman's crusade against university presidents over things that are entirely unrelated to plagiarism.
Last time I checked, you cannot purchase it as an individual, has to be as a business. And you cannot just purchase one license.
I didn't say there should be no restrictions for guns, bombs, drugs or even porn, even though they can't be fully rooted out.

The problem is the thinking that they can be rooted out. War-on-Porn would have just as horrible effects as War-on-Drugs has.

As for porn, I think the potential effects of it to kids are way overblown. Children should be educated (age appropriately of course) about sexuality so they can handle the stuff and situations they will see at some point anyway.
I haven’t gone looking yet but is there a tool to make sure you have all tracking, bing, IE, and anything else like that turned off, uninstalled, or disabled? I usually just go through it as I see things that annoy me but I’m probably missing some privacy and default overrides.
yes, it is a typo from the independent.

> Its driving my insane.

Off topic, but you made another typo here lol
You need to dice your scene in many well formed elements (it's tricky, lots of edge cases), and you are simulating diffuse light only. Point sampling achieve the same results without a complex preprocessing step.
It depends on what you need to hide. I’m an introvert and not a neurotypical and struggle wearing a mask at work for extended periods of time. I’ve adapted to display what is expected of me in those settings but it’s tiring to not be able to be onself…
No, it really is as it says on the tin. More vaccination = more long covid.

The study recognizes a bias though. The study is done in a hospital, with a lot of severe covid. If the vaccine is more effective at preventing severe covid than it is at preventing long covid, as it is likely the case, then such an effect is to be expected. In the most simple case, if you survived thanks to the vaccine, you can get long covid later, the dead can't.
All of your UI suggestions are bad UI and shockingly similar to all the BS Windows 10-11 force-feed us.

Hierarchy (organization) is better than search. We all know this because whenever hierarchy is replaced with search, search had to reimplement hierarchy to be usable! E.g., grouping and nesting of pinned Win10+ start menu items.

Control Panel did have groups in Win XP. They suck. I always disable it.

Windows 10 removed a ton of context menus. Windows 11 removed more. They both suck. Stop hiding things from me.
The blends the UI aesthetic of XP with the worst UX of W11, why would anyone want this?
Every tech/stack is a lock-in, you just pay with different currencies and get different challanges at different stages
I had to chuckle when the OP said "and 151 instructions." The VAX was the poster-child of CISC. Thats like, what, 20% of the instructions ARM has for SIMD alone?

Recently, I had to learn C++17 through 20. At the same time I was learning x86 assembly, and x86 assembly was far, far easier. Downright simple and straightforward in comparison.

Aren't high-level languages supposed to make our lives easier? Isn't RISC supposed to make CPU's simpler? What happened to our world?
My Year of Exploration
He has VA health coverage; he commented on Reddit that he wasn't on the edge, and that his biggest problem was that they took down all his stories and created a public record of him being a bigot.
Sounds like the perfect way for federal agencies to workaround the dirty work they can't legally do.
So what this tells me is that if you make a carefully constructed prompt and change the temperature to zero (not an option normally available), and know the exact article title and perhaps the beginning of the first paragraph (which is pretty difficult to do unless you already basically have access to the full article), you can potentially get verbatim articles back out.

Great, so all those paywalls that use verbatim subjects and early texts as a teaser are now broken! Well, for all old articles that the LLM was trained on, at least, I guess. Very simple countermeasure is to simply use AI to paraphrase the subject and article (paradoxically) until the person pays for the privilege of reading human-authored text.

I'm sorry but this is a very weak argument. For example, I don't even believe normal users have access to the GPT4 system prompt unless they use the API directly (and possibly not even then, I'd have to check).
> when it comes to everything “just working”, it’s hard to beat.

You've never had updates bork your Windows machine, its drivers etc a few hours before an important meeting, I see!
Maybe it’s for you even if you don’t get it just now
Mentioned in arstechnica to my surprise, but do note the paper wasn't peer reviewed and they mention flaws in the methodology.

I cannot believe anyone passingly familiar with ELIZA would be fooled by it.
> The issue with burning things is the pollution it can cause if not filtered properly before emissions released into the air. CO2 feeds plants to grow, which in turn provides more food and habitat for more life.

You're right, provided you're willing to wait a few million years for everybody to adjust to the new norms. That might be quite an uncomfortable transition though, it's not clear what would survive.
I like the idea, but after using it, the query apis aren't expressive enough. I wish I could write SQL instead of making 2+ api calls to get the data I want.
> He was in exceptionally good health.

Yes, but he was nevertheless more fragile than the majority of the overall population (all ages), which was the original concern you raised.

> The cost of a plane ticket is typically less than, say, a quarter of the total spending on a holiday (including hotel, food, attractions, souvenirs).

Agreed for LEO flights, but (1) I don't see why that difference matters much and (2) the cost breakdown of Mars tourism will similar to international travel now, i.e., 5-30% spent on transportation, and the rest spent on location.

> The only way space tourism might catch a break is if a space plane is ever actually successfully designed.

I don't really see why a space plane would be make a big difference here. Are you thinking of cost or the physical rigors? Space planes still require ~3 gees on launch (unless you're talking about something really exotic like JP Aerospace's Airship to Orbit").
Is Visa sponsorship available for this position?
I did not limit internet access for my children, past certain age. Instead, my children asked me to protect them from disturbing content sometimes. (So I did, setting up an age filter on YouTube.)

Most of the time, unless you yourself don't eat snickers bars non-stop while chain-smoking, your children won't, too. Children do what their parents do, not what their parents tell them to do.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element
Exactly what I was thinking. Someone somewhere along the line someone accidentally just used Satoshi's address copied from some docs.

May even just be a low-information buyer.
Imagine you could have both money and satisfaction. You can.

Pick some smaller companies whose mission really sings to you. Start applying.
Just make sure that POLY makes good use of greater-than-register-precision FMAC; that'll show those smug RISC weenies!
For porn production you need KYC. For porn consumption you need a bouncer. That the regulators miss this is either incompetence or malice and maybe both but that doesn’t make this a good idea. Real harms will come from this when the databases are breached. The kids will still be able to find porn and alcohol. To make matters worse when they grow up they will live in a surveillance state.
The wealth and the technology, perhaps. The political will and unity? I doubt it. EU is still in a pre-Federation stage, similar to the USA during the Articles of Confederation. (Also, NATO does include the US.)
It's always interesting to see people complain about linux installation without mentioning the distro chosen and what they did.
> But getting everything right is still an hour or better process, post-install, in 2024…

… for someone who knows what they’re doing. Anyone non-technical would be terrified of the steps needed to get a Linux install into a good state for their machine. It could easily take them days to get a setup that's sound (depending on the level of driver support for their hardware).

To be fair, one of the installs I did was Raspberry PI OS (funnily enough for a Raspberry PI!) - and that was the smoothest Linux install I’ve ever had.

So having a distro tuned to the hardware really does go a long way!
I think the term "machine learning" is often applicable, it's not always better or clearer. The first sentence from the wikipedia article on ML (presently) is:

> Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

I think this is entirely reasonable, and it recognizes that ML is part of the broader field of AI. ML is the portion of AI systems which have learned from data. In some systems, ML is the only component. But for systems where there's some planning/selection/optimization step which is an important component but which has _not_ learned from data, I think the AI term is potentially appropriate. I would claim that game-playing systems which (a) do a search procedure in which an ML model is only a part and (b) where self-play (which generates "data" interleaved in the learning process) are "AI" systems, for example.
If they use a scanner absolutely. That’s the only safe assumption. But at least that’s engineering incompetence instead of government overreach. Most of the times my ID gets checked the only tool used is the human eyeball.
you won't beat us in that regard. The article is a bit biased but the examples are real(uk).
https://care.org.uk/news/2023/08/the-new-thought-police
>Having different gauges provides no real benefit

Unless you live in the Europe of Napoleon or Hitler, when they were built. Then the benefit is huge and obvious. Imagine how much easier the life would had been for Ukranians if the Russian trains that transport heavy army stuff would operate by default in a different rail width
>great schools

So, letting any veteran be a high school teacher without any further qualification makes it great schools? The governor purging state universities makes it great schools?
The HR person that got him fired was a dude.
So, we are going to become China then. Under the pretence of caring for children. Thanks, but no. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And I'm not even sure if those intentions were really good in this case or this all is just an evil pretence.
I'm using Win10 Pro, and I have no ads, no problems with unwanted apps, a sane start menu, and I run almost all non-ms software on top so microsoft's incompetence there is a nonissue. I can also replicate this on win11 but I don't see a reason to upgrade.

The way there is fairly simple, actually:

OOSU Shutup10: this removes pretty much all the annoyances. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Classicshell: Microsoft is never going to make a start menu that doesn't suck again, but others will. http://www.classicshell.net/

Everything search: classicshell comes with a pretty decent windows search replacement, but you should use this instead. It is so, so fast. https://www.voidtools.com/
I suppose I need to add a disclaimer every time I participate in those debates:

"I am neither left, nor right, nor US and don't have any horse in this race."

But most of this just smells like classical strawman debates to me:

"They think X and this is stupid" "no we don't think this, we think Y and you think Z" "no we don't we .."

So my point with my question actually was: I don't think there is a coherent group calling themself "leftist" (nor "rightists"). So I don't think those debates lumping them all together are that productive, except for letting go off some personal steam.

There are of course people who call themself "left" and want their ideology to rule the world. And there are of course people who call themself right, who wants to do the same.

But to my knowledge, there are also lots of people left and right, who do not want this.
the meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg

the other meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKo1JPNf4s
Ahh got it, thanks!
I think I'm okay with that.

Anyone looking to become a cofounder, with the first order of business being to go in on a pack of LTSC licenses?
> then arguably more oil will be formed

No, modern decomposes are more effective than ancient ones. Rare events like landslides might bury carbon effectively, but for the most part it will be returned to the biosphere long before it ends up resembling oil.
That just isn’t important. The point is that the average non-techy person would be overwhelmed by the average Linux install. Regardless of distro.

That’s Linux’s biggest cross to bear
This is great to know. I'm forced to do some development that's Windows specific but I just need core OS and none of the apps/bloat.

In some ways MS still impresses me (WSL, VSCode) but in so many other ways I'm in awe of how bad the Windows experience is. Case in point: try to do some sort of OS config change and get an opaque hex error code. That's it. Google it and pray.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/979/
I'm sorry I usually am ready to hate on Musk as much as the next person, but after spending a few minutes reading this board event was in 2017? That needs to be in the title and/or first sentence or this is just intentionally misleading.
regrettably no arm64 compat for classicshell :(
> As someone familiar with the USG data management tech landscape — it’s probably because it’s by far the best product with no remotely close second.

That is sweetly naive, unless you are talking about their marketing department
Vermont has a major advantage in craft beer.
> “…homes for a married couple with no kids that have a gym, a pool, a garden…”

And our personal lives are similarly rife isolating differences. Consumer culture makes us into people who like movies and buy projector screens, and sports and exercise so we buy fancy bicycles, and sometimes we are busy so we buy Peloton and we like travel so we buy RVs or touring motorcycles and we like music so we get a guitar and we like hacking so we have a home server and IOT devices.

What living space we do have is filled with the clutter of our free-time consumer/internet passions. I don’t expect these multitudes of distractions make us good housemates (not unlike our mobile phones making us poor dinner dates).

The people who I’ve enjoyed sharing space with shared my interests, but that is impossible selection to make from general public. You have to be in a community, and then select from there. I’m not a college student anymore.
Also putting anyone watching non-straight porn as a huge risk in the current political climate.
This would only work assuming the IRS knows who Satoshi is, if they live in the States at all. One would also have to proof to the IRS that you own the addresses, do they understand public key cryptography?
Investors value lack of volatility. This is a kind of impedance mismatch between investor decisions, how management is evaluated, and the health of enterprises over longer (but not much longer) time periods. Especially in publicly traded companies.

This happens because of how US rules apply to profit, dividends, reporting periods, etc. The rules and incentives could be changed.
More surprised at how much I'd forgotten and how it can be pretty fussy to use. I had in my mind a nostalgic feeling of it being so much easier and faster.
http://archive.today/lGJ3y
I’m on Fedora 39 and nvidia drivers work great on Wayland (gnome)
Why are people so obsessed with gaming? It's unbelievable how this industry has gotten so many people hooked, to the point of accepting kernel level monitoring
I’d suggest making a demo video for your landing page. The concepts make sense, but to grok how they can be used, some demos (perhaps with SEO landing pages like “Nino for project management” or “Nino for documentation”) would be helpful.
He wasn't doing comedy "on company time". He was working from home during the workday with a note from a doctor (because the stress of the office caused him some medical hardship, as someone with multiple sclerosis), and also on some evenings doing stand-up comedy.

Here's a note sent to him by his immediate manager (who was supportive but cut out of the firing decision):

> Hey Jad, I just want to give you a heads up that somebody within WHYY is agitating about your stand-up comedy stuff. I have gotten questions from HR – in terms of “How come Jad can do stand up but he can’t work in the office?” And somebody even reached out to Bill [Marrazzo, CEO] [...] I have no idea who that person is – or why they are doing this. So far, I have been able to deflect any inquiries, and I said that your doctor is most worried about stress. I said that being in the office causes you stress, whereas stand-up comedy does not. [...]
Oh I see. Yes, I remember that.

FYI, notepad can cover this use case now, as it can handle more character encodings and line-endings.
At last, IoT is good for something.
> Musk is intrinsic to the value of his companies, potentially putting at risk around $1 trillion in assets held by investors, tens of thousands of jobs and big parts of the U.S. space program.

Yeah, right.
Do I need to walk around with a yellow star or pink triangle?
Push ups are hard for some people. You can start training against the wall or on the floor using your knees.
> They were legally unable to intervene, without risking prosecution.

They should have done so anyway, obviously. There's no chance they would have been prosecuted for it. Not with all the uproar. I walked in the candlelight demonstrations too.

> And that case was a major reason that the constitution was changed to prevent this ever happening again.

Only after a referendum which the church opposed, and it's still one of the most restrictive countries in terms of abortion.
You'll notice I didn't recommend search, or actually anything, as a solution to the problems I mentioned. I think these issues need more research and experimentation before we can arrive at better long term solutions. Also I didn't advocate for hiding things. Instead I think we agree with the idea that less things should be hidden, and the majority of the issues I have with Windows (and macOS/iOS) user interface elements is that they don't do a good enough job of surfacing the things I'm trying to find.
Seems like an excuse to hide what you did and claim your problems to be universal
Why, it would be useful as a general register of people, matched with their online activity here and there. You speak as if you never ran a state surveillance agency, or at least a major search engine! /s
You can't make difficult choices you want unless you understand and trained to manipulate your own mind.

A society can't become healthier, even if they are willing, unless they understood the steps they need to take to become healthier.

Choice are meaningless if you can't do them, which is why they are traps.
Very well said on all points. Re:”children don’t care”, I was mostly referencing adolescents when I said children —- during and after puberty is a totally different matter. At that point, I agree they need to be protected just like everyone else is protected - against general harmful patterns, and with very little direct government intervention. There’s no way the government can realistically stop teenagers from accessing porn, unless this guy gets his Porn Selfie initiative passed, I guess…

Scary times in Europe! Of course American conservatives could easily pick up this issue at random any midterm cycle now, assuming we continue having midterm elections.
Remember when Google was cool and not evil and released their book scanner project for free? https://code.google.com/archive/p/linear-book-scanner/

"Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate this design..."
If life on Mars is not a recent thing, it will probably have contaminated Earth already (and probably vice versa) as there are meteorites found on Earth that almost definitely came from Mars.
Yes.

Microsoft has already reached the user peak of their market, there cannot be anymore growth just from the OS alone, so the point of the OS isn't to be a good OS anymore, but to be a platform to sell you other things: AI (copilot integration), cloud services (onedrive integration, xbox game pass etc), advertisement (bundled crapware like candy crush that Windows 10 used to automatically install) and so on.

Of course this approach can be the one a company starts with depending on their incentives. That's what Google did with Android, they didn't start with a monopoly and won't have one in the mobile market but their entire purpose in making an OS is to lead people into depending on their services. Android's entire life purpose is for you to have Maps, Gmail, Drive and Chrome preinstalled.
Why do you keep saying they weren’t defective, because they said so?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/11/01/apple-...

“ Apple Must Face Lawsuit Alleging It 'Throttled' IPhones To Cover Up Defective Batteries, U.K. Tribunal Rules”

Fine settlement potato potatoe