skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> putting out press releases about raids before they happen

This sounds like a Chris Morris sketch, got a link to share?

edit: I think it's referring to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
This is the correct definition of dp.
No clue why everyone is so exited about things like this. Makes no sense to me at all. 2 screens in a stupid position, both super small. I think anyone is better of with a basic laptop with big screen. Just because its something "fancy" that had never been done b4 does not mean its good, practical or makes any sense.

The screens are both forced into portrait mode for the only setup that would makes sense when stationery, its fucking stupid.
another reason to stop using SPA and use island base or NO JS web page for informational stuff like forum and discussion. At least displaying of information on the web should NOT depend on JS.
Maybe I don’t understand alignment fully.

But why is advice around “spreading neofeudalism” controversial? As it’s meant to be a knowledge agent, I don’t have any moral qualms around AI’s ability to provide creative framings of “controversial” concepts.

Are people not allowed to read/think/discuss things using AI? Various softwares can help you read/summarize/highlight everything, why is an LLM magical? Is it the anthropomorphic nature of chat?
> seems seriously threatened going forward in the AI and super-internet-company age

The real threat is ai companies stealing people’s products and reselling them.

It’s as if they stole the furniture luddites made, dismantled it, reassembled it and the sold it for a profit.

A real shame that ai has been taken over by Sociopaths. I suppose punishing one or two will send the message.
Honor to meet you!

[Anonymous] founder of a similarly high-profile initiative here.

> Creating a prompt to write JSON is possible but need quite an elaborate prompt and even then the LLM can make errors. We want to make sure that all JSON coming out of the model is directly actionable without having to ask the LLM what they might have meant for a specific value

The LLM cannot make errors. The LLM spits out probabilities for the next tokens. What you do with it is up to you. You can make errors in how you handle this.

Standard usages pick the most likely token, or a random token from the top many choices. You don't need to do that. You can pick ONLY words which are valid JSON, or even ONLY words which are JSON matching your favorite JSON format. This is a library which does this:

https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

The one piece of advice I will give: Do NOT neuter the AI like OpenAI did. There is a near-obsession to define "AI safety" as "not hurting my feelings" (as opposed to "not hacking my computer," "not launching nuclear missiles," or "not exterminating humanity."). For technical reasons, that makes them work much worse. For practical reasons, I like AIs with humanity and personality (much as the OP has). If it says something offensive, I won't break.

AI safety, in this context, means validating that it's not:

* setting my thermostat to 300 degrees centigrade

* power-cycling my devices 100 times per second to break them

* waking me in the middle of the night

... and similar.

Also:

* Big win if it fits on a single 16GB card, and especially not just NVidia. The cheapest way to run an LLM is an Intel Arc A770 16GB. The second-cheapest is an NVidia 4060 Ti 16GB

* Azure gives a safer (not safe) way of running cloud-based models for people without that. I'm pretty sure there's a business model running these models safely too.
Pictoprime: A program used to generate prime numbers from pictures
Rust is sort-of a skin for C++11 though in terms of semantics, while new languages have GC to increase productivity.
I use it and love it. YMMV.
What's wrong with great tits?

https://www.printables.com/model/506540-a-great-pair-of-flex...
The "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" thing is ironically an example of black-or-white thinking which psychologically works to prevent people from dealing with the complexity and nuance of emotion.

It's a positive dismissal.

It makes people weaker.
Notice Rust actually forbids you from doing this to types you don't own.

Rust's own standard library gets a pass. For example the [T] (a slice of T) generic type is a built-in, and the core library defines methods on that type, but in terms of sorting it only provides sort_unstable - an unstable sort, and the associated variants of that sort.

Then Rust's alloc crate, which is optional, has a new impl block for [T] and it defines sort, a stable sort on this same type which is much faster than it might be otherwise because it uses a temporary buffer, hence it needs an allocator and can't live in core.

You are not allowed to do this for other people's types. If I make a Goose in crate A, and then you try to write an impl block for A::Goose so that you can add a fly method to it, that won't work. Rust obviously could allow this, but it would invite chaos, so they don't.

What you can do is invent a trait Flying and impl Flying for A::Goose
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140k is less then what they made abusing I am sure, as usual companies just abuse and pay fines when they get caught.
NSFW AI
The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, and It's Even More Uncanny
I'm not entirely sure. Remember the frequent spinning ball of fail that you'd get from any apple software? Remember how bad iTunes was? And while Finder is still prone to spinning ball of fail - it used to be worse.
No. To use cookies you have to pass an argument with a file to store cookies in.
There is no default cookie file.
The quote isn't saying they flew business class to save money, it's saying they flew business class in order to carry more luggage.
We have that law in Maine. It's wonderful. I don't see why it would be ok at the state level but not the federal.
The problem is a matter of point of view. What constitutes the economy "doing well" is subjective. If you are looking at a measure like GDP it includes a number of things such as wages and profits. If wages fall but businesses increase profits by more the economy is "doing well" on that metric.

There has been a recent example of that in the UK, where a number of politicians and professionals (central bankers, economists) have said an important objective is to reduce wage inflation. If you are someone who is paid wages (especially if you real terms wages have been reduced by price inflation) you are quite likely not think this is a desirable objective.
ACCC (Australia) issues fines too. I think we've fined Kogan a few times.
Isn't this just the food equivalent of software whitelabeling?
That’s ridiculous. It should be 350 kilometers to account for headwinds.
Author here. This is actually a good point, we will add this in the near future. Thanks for your input.
Absolute risk vs relative risk. Both are useful in different contexts, but from the aspect of a single flight, arguably the absolute risk is more important.
Although everybody keeps going on about private prosections somehow being culpable for the scandal, it doesn't seem likely.

Consider that in Scotland, private prosecutions are much rarer and are only permitted in certain circumstances. The post office could not and did not do private prosecutions in Scotland. So, as a result, do we observe lower rates of prosecutions in Scotland than in the wider UK? Nope!

In fact, in Scotland there were 100 convictions, vs 700 in the UK as a whole. The conviction rate per capita, and hence injustice rate, was actually higher in the part of the UK doing public prosecutions, than in the part of the UK doing private prosecutions. Not exactly a vote of confidence.
That’s called going to college.

You can however earn certificates for courses through services such as EdX: https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

Although it appears as though you need the “Certified” premium status to achieve certification, which is almost $200USD.
Yet the canonical example of gig work is the Uber driver – a job that requires a tremendous amount of knowledge and skill.

The trouble, economically, is that most people have had a vested interest in acquiring that particular knowledge and skill, making it common, and thus, by the properties of supply and demand, not terribly valuable.
see also https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Direct+Preference+Optimization
I would like to see this integrated into Gnome and other desktop environments so I can have an assistant there. This would be a very complex integration, so as you develop ways to integrate more stuff keep this kind of thing in mind.
Presumably it takes on the context of the parent, unless you consider their's an empty phrase.
You can, you know, just sell bonds in the traditional way, which IIRC is how he did it and is why banks are in a hole.
I still don't get what prevents just pumping the seawater up the lake in sufficient quantities. Maybe using solar to power the pumps - intermittency won't be a problem. Lake will become brackish, but whatever.
Rad - Good luck.
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There are no such crises in the west as long as we take crisis to mean an acute problem that we haven’t always been in. Never has there been so much wealth, safety and security for anyone who is willing to do some light work for it.
Except perhaps migration and demographic crisis, especially in Europe..
I think it's because some emails might have already been sent and be sitting in the outbound mail queues of various mail servers. Some of those might retry for up to 14 days.

Hence, 14 days to be sure you won't get any more emails.
Simple file based solution. That's not abuse that's unix.

Well; thats Unix before Pottering and Microsoft.
This is very cool. I’ve started painting and drawing recently too and I think it’s fascinating.

One thing I’ve learned though that’s slightly different is that lighter and darker areas aren’t simply more/less white/black. There’s both a slight hue and saturation shift. Lighter areas are less saturated with shifts towards blue, and darker areas are more saturated with shifts towards orange. Both ways work, just the second creates more of a sense of depth.
from an article cited in another comment:
"The mere presence of objects this size is potentially disruptive to the body, because even if they are chemically inert, they are small enough to get into and disrupt cells, rather like sand in an engine."
Sounds promising. I'll wait till other people have been using them a while though ;-).
And maybe I'm becoming cynical in my old age but when I hear the inventor of an atomic battery say "it is absolutely safe", I ponder, "how well do you know your battery".
Did I do that?
> You really think banks will be lending to PE deals if the business model is to make the company bankrupt?

Sure, as long as they get their money back before bankruptcy occurs.
I think parent is saying the exceptionally low fine sets a bad precedent for this being a slap on the wrist offense - that it would be better if no action were taken to at least give an aura of potential accountability for other bad actors.
There are many options to configure it, the main reason to make it always visible and blocking is that the callbacks for managing the hidden/on-demand version are wonky and can break in unexpected ways leaving your site entirely unusable, with the only indication being some errors logged to console.
We’re all going to turn into mannequins and eventually die and when we’re cremated give off black toxic smoke.
job sites?
> I cannot afford to buy because I was born into a disenfranchised generation.

A bit off topic but..

You can probably afford to buy a house in almost every other part of the world though.

It's not like in the past everybody was able to buy a house in the "popular" places.
No, you can just create guest link for single use.
I presume you alluding to the fact that, without pre-existing human creation, tools like Midjourney or Chat-GPT and their output are not possible, so the original authors rightfully deserve compensation.

But artificial intelligence is much more than artistic or text authorship. It will replace most service workers, most agricultural workers, drivers, doctors, vast segments of society become redundant in the next century.

If you could press a button and duplicate the garment made by a Luddite at zero cost, would you consider that machine "stealing"? Should we smash that machine, or should we rather develop a new social contract aware of its existence and power?
I quit here: “it is conceivable that our entire observable universe is a supermassive black hole within a larger universe.”

It’s also possible that you’re just a simulation. What is the point? Just to shock.
and while tech was a growth industry nobody cared. For most blue collar workers “the economy is red hot” during the tech booms also sounded like bullshit.

Echo chamber.
The terms right view and wrong view are from buddhism. There is a right view as taught by the Buddha found in his teachings. Clinging to right view is better than clinging to wrong view, even if it’s still clinging.

But following your own logic, why the resistance to my comments if my statements are neither right or wrong and is just as valid as yours? I’m not intentionally doing the things you’re accusing me of doing.

At the end of the day, may you understand the causes of your own suffering and find peace.
Thanks for clarifying, I had taken the wrong idea.
> It's the process that is supposed to implement the design

Not sure I understand, are you saying that this is a failure not of engineering but of processes? In that, the original engineering was sound but somebody took shortcuts in the implementation? Or do you mean something else?
You seem to live in quite a bubble. Working in the gig economy is more about a lack of options than a lack of qualification.

And the Luddite movemebr was as much about working condition as it was about pay, e.g. having children do maintenance on running machinery being maimed and crippled. Luddites were no backward people, they wanted a livelihood, one the lost during the industrial revolution.

Maybe that is too hard to research and understand, when you are so qualified and busy making 1k per day as a software whatever.
I don't disagree that kind of thing being targeted at a person can be psychologically damaging, but not because there's anything specifically different about the genitals. It's all about the motive and meaning behind it.

I think the Anglosphere's over-sexulisation of any and all nudity makes it worse than it needs to be (I think my exposure to e.g. Germany's sauna culture on a few trips has really helped me form a healither attitudes to nudity in a dozen or two hours than the rest of my life over here, and that kind of thing being more common would probably help people be able to more easily shake it off) but I think the tramatic part is the stalker behaviour and being directly targeted by someone with a lewd motive. And it being done when the person sending it knows it's undesired and forcing them to look is kind of almost rapey.

So for me, I'd find it creepy if somebody was targeting me with that, but would have zero issues approaching it from "I'm here to filter out the dick picks so I'm going to see a lot of anatomy". This is very different to e.g. gore where I actualy do feel a bit physically sick if I know it's real, but if I randomly see nudity that's not motivated at me it's basically nothing.
How is it less searchable than slack?
For the locks to work they need water. It does not matter if fresh or salty. The canal takes advantage of the natural store of fresh water on higher grounds.

If needed, it would obviously be easier to pump sea water than to desalinise sea water, then to pump it anyway.
> enough free time for vacations,

Industrialization didn't provide free time automatically. There was a huge political power struggle for higher wages and more free time. That was sometimes bloody and violent even in democracies. Labor organizers had to fight really hard to get it trough.
I can write a control system easy enough to do this. I'm kind of an expert at that, for oddball reasons, and that's a trivial amount of work for me. The "smart enough" part, I'm more than smart enough for.

What's not a trivial amount of work is figuring out how to integrate that into HA.

I can guarantee that there is an uncountably infinite number of people like me, and very few people like you. You don't need to do my work for me; you just need to enable me to do it easily. What's really needed are decent APIs. If I go into Settings->Automation, I get a frustrating trigger/condition/action system.

This should instead be:

1) Allow me to write (maximally declarative) Python / JavaScript, in-line, to script HA. To define "maximally declarative," see React / Redux, and how they trigger code with triggers

2) Allow my kid(s) to do the same with Blockly

3) Ideally, start to extend this to edge computing, where I can push some of the code into devices (e.g. integrating with ESPHome and standard tools like CircuitPython and MakeCode).

This would have the upside of also turning HA into an educational tool for families with kids, much like Logo, Microsoft BASIC, HyperCard, HTML 2.0, and other technologies of yesteryear.

Specifically controlling my lights to give constant light was one of the first things I wanted to do with HA, but the learning curve meant there was never enough time. I'm also a big fan of edge code, since a lot of this could happen much more gradually and discreetly. That's especially true for things with motors, like blinds, where a very slow stepper could make it silent.
Love the idea of abusing the method name to extend an otherwise non-extensible interface. :-) That said, you will want a proper, future-proof design if you are really going to pursue that. An easy way would be to put a single magic number directly before the method name.

struct PyPyTypedMethodMetadata {
int arg_type;
int ret_type;
void* underlying_func;
int magic; // <--
const char ml_name[100];
};

Now either future version of PyPy or other implementation can use a different magic number to evolve that interface. (If you want to be even more careful, put another flag before `magic` and use it as a bitmap to the extension pointers... But that should be more or less covered by `ml_flags` instead.)

Or even more conservatively, you can always require a method with `METH_TYPED` to come with a publicly visible symbol `_PyPyTyped_<type name>_<method name>` or similar. (It is also possible to disambiguate duplicate names if it becomes a bigger concern.) It would be even better if you can do that without `METH_TYPED` at all, e.g. by listing all public symbols.
Well it’s true there’s a spectrum: venture capital is a tiny corner (really just a pimple) of the private equity space. But there are tiny PE buyout funds doing the same — look at Bending Spoons who is discussed on HN for how they manage acquisitions like Evernote.
I wonder If LLMs with their finite context windows, do better at APL than other languages.
Yeah exactly that. DCOM+DTC+MSMQ is the old new and the new old.
Windows Services for Linux can install a Ubuntu image for ready usage.
Business owners are doing well, not employees. The S & P 500 has done well over the last five years, or the last year:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC?p=%5EGSPC

People with money in no-public investments are probably doing even better.

Not just a US phenomenon either.
Large tech companies employ subcontractors specifically to take flak for this kind of thing. They save money, but more importantly deflect criticism by allowing subcontractors to engage in employment practices that break their own policies. Your sympathy should never default to a large wealthy company, but to the exploited, usually under paid, employees and 'contractors' forced to do unpalatable things out of the eye of regulation.
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> Njalla is not going to destroy their reputation over Nitter

What exactly is this supposed to mean?

Building your product on top of a domain that someone else owns (by design) is an inherently risky proposition. The only type of customer Njalla would attract in the first place are fringe privacy-conscious customers who begrudgingly accept this risk.

This is exactly the type of nightmare scenario their customers don't want to run into. If they don't treat these issues as a matter of urgency and don't support their customers as much as they're legally allowed to by fighting BS requests, they'll very quickly find themselves out of business. I suppose the irony of this is lost on you, "monero-xmr".
All of those outcomes are already accessible by fat fingering the existing UI. Oven won’t burn your house down, most modern ones will turn off after some preset time, but otherwise you’re just going to overpay for electricity or need to replace the heating element. Unless you have a 5 ton industrial robot connected to your smart home, or have an iron sitting on a pile of clothes plugged in to a smart socket, you’re probably safe.
We know there are many triggers. This is why they call lupus a polygenic Disorder. And it has as many variations of symptoms as it does causes. I mean there’s even drug induced lupus.

In my opinion, on the classification of disorders around symptoms does more harm than good when trying to discover the cause of the disorder.

We need to stop the delay in personalized medicine in order to cure people of these disorders. This is essentially what they did with this patient. They took the time and looked at their genetics, and they found what was wrong.
> Why would you continue to subscribe to a bullshit company that does this?

They said they subscribed which could mean that they have since unsubscribed. I think they’re texting them because they want them back as a customer - it makes no sense to pester your currently paying customers.
Yes it would be wrong in my book. First i think a obvious counter example of memoization can be used outside of dynamic programing. Otherwise you can do most dynamic programming algorithms with storing the results in a table, and searching the table afterwards for the best answer. Memoization is basically a strategy to speed up algorithms.
Clickbait. The BBC headline reads "Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed".

The news article contains no mention of anyone called Epstein.
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"Somewhat concerningly, the seven plastics tested accounted for only about 10% of all the nanoplastics the researchers found in the bottled water. They had no idea what the others were and whether they are, in fact, nanoplastics."

Eh? I'm far too much of an ignoramus to make sense of the original paper, but this is a pretty weird claim.

I do know that 10^5 nanoparticles per liter is an incredibly tiny amount of mass. Assuming an average particle size of 200nm, by my reckoning that would make the water 0.00000000004% plastic, which doesn't seem all that worrying.
Many people share your concern. Hence users dislike of snap
lol this comment is ironic on many levels, thanks
Do they force 2FA only or phones as well? If its just 2FA there is an option to use a TOTP application (e.g. andOTP for Android)
"Doing well" is just a subjective feeling compared to the past and compared to others around you.

Everyone here and everyone I know is doing unimaginably well compared to the year 1350.

Yemen is in the news. Their GDP per capita is $618 USD a year. Everyone I know is doing unimaginably well compared to that.

By and large we are a society with the mentality of spoiled children after decades of huge economic growth and no inflation. We got very use to the price of goods and services staying the same while getting better year after year as if it would always be that way.

I just seen the other day how a movie ticket use to cost $5 in 1972. That is $37 in 2023 adjusted for inflation.

Our lives are so great it is just hard to be impressed by anything.