skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The government doesn't learn which web sites you visit, and the web sites don't learn anything about you other than you are certified to be age ≥ 16.

If the zero-knowledge proof doesn't communicate anything other than the result of an age check, then the trivial exploit is for 1 person to upload an ID to the internet and every kid everywhere to use it.

It's not sufficient to check if someone has access to an ID where the age is over a threshold. Implementing a 1:1 linkage of real world ID to social media account closes the loophole where people borrow, steal, or duplicate IDs to bypass the check.
Yes, if someone is dying of thirst, why do we give them water? It’s like giving the champagne-less champagne.

One of these things is not like the other.

The law, in its great equanimity, forbids both the rich and poor from sleeping under bridges.

There is only one trick in the history of humanity that has consistently improved a lot of every citizen in a society, and that is to dedicate a portion of the private surplus public good.
Cloudflare Turnstile is a free alternative, and there's also hCaptcha as a freemium alternative.

ReCAPTCHA is not effective if your users are any way motivated.
I think I have a fix deployed now. Please try it again if you have a moment.
So you want to buy stuff that the landfill owner sells?
After reading about the person running HN threatening local government officials maybe none of us should be using any server owned by HN either.

If we use servers owned by Twitter/X does that mean we identify with the political ideologies of whomever owns it servers.

As it happens, there is no need to touch any server owned by KF when using nitter.poast.org. So you should be safe.

Maybe we should revoke Section 230 and require that server owners take legal responsibility for the behaviours of the people who use them. That would spell the end of Twitter/X. Then we would not have to use Nitter instances. Problem solved!
Not sure why scientists has to pin point a single cause where as you have different vectors that can cause the same disease is also plausible
Thanks Soneca. Fixed and deployed.
Afaict, this is not an entirely new finding. For example, this page (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07771-6) references a 2018 article about the issue of Alzheimer's being transmitted (or rather "seeded") through growth hormone extracted from cadavers. Perhaps the new article provides additional evidence or perhaps the other article only suspected a casual link and this one proves that there is one. I haven't read it thoroughly.

What I find interesting and scary is the "seeding" part. The small amount of growth hormone injected to the children cannot itself have caused Alzheimer's. But it must have caused some rewiring of the brain to make it accumulate more plaque which over a period of many decades slowly decreased their brain performance. If this effect is synthesizeable then one can easily imagine many countries using it to develop terrifying biological weapons.
I don't think it's like saying that at all.
Thanks, I much prefer text over video anyway, and now even people who can't read Chinese can join in on the fun, though Google Translate struggles a bit with the 暴雷 slang https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9A%B4%E9%9B%B7#Verb
AWS "Nitro" hypervisor which powers EC2 is their (very customized) KVM.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi...
An opinion (not my blog) about Flatpak (just to trigger discussions): https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
> I mean you can put regulations on anything to make it sure it is doing what it is supposed to be, right?

Yes, and when it comes to selling health-related products, the standards are higher than, say, entertainment devices. For very good reason.

> The harm caused by the lack of a super cheap and effective air filter, especially in CA where we can get smoked out for weeks due to fires could be greater than the harm reduced by the regulation.

That's not clear to me. I know lots of people with air filters, and they all chose them based on aesthetic judgements. I doubt any of them would've acted differently if it was $5 cheaper (from certification)

Also, you can still just buy a box fan ($30) and tape a filter ($10) to it and hope for the best in terms of air purification. You just can't pay someone else $70 to sell you that, unless they run a test to prove it works. Doesn't seem like a big deal.
I read the article as well, as there is no info on this at all. After some searching I did find the information in a different article about Canadian airlines:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/what-happens-to-unclaimed-lug...

Air Canada and Westjet both open the bags to look for identifying information so they can contact the owner. Then they donate the bags to charity or dispose of them if they can't locate the owner.

I think the moral of the story is to make sure your bag is well tagged. We have been putting an airtag in my bag for the last few flights, and it works really well. It's a pity there is no Android equivalent, as I have no way of locating my tags on my phone. (I just use an ipad).
Swept wings wasn't a thing until after WW2. The Me262 had swept wings because the engines came in heavier than expected, and sweeping the wings back was the easiest fix.
Yes, that's the sort of thing that I was suspecting.

As to the submarine essay itself, I was amused by this line

> A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths

I found that amusing because telling selective truths is a form of lying.
Back when Svelte Native was created it was pretty much endores by the maintainers, there's even a channel for it on the official Svelte Discord :)
No, in the US, claims are paid out based on the type of debt, outlined in the Absolute Priority Rule.
The main benefit of a GPU in that case is much faster prompt reading. Could be useful for Code Llama cases where you want the model to read a lot of code and then write a line or part of a line.
Interesting; it might be different in different jurisdictions, or my information might be out of date.
> Electric cars using solid state batteries are also novelty that will be obsolete once electric engines that use liquid fuels become mainstream (fuel-cells).

This seems like a big statement, can other experts comment?
Or both: when downloading music, both the one downloading and the one uploading can see legal action.
I'd go even further and say all content is by default "opted-out" from training unless explicitly allowed.
Vision Pro ships with Safari, so people can just go to Netflix.com to watch content in fullscreen.

Really no reason for Netflix to implement a native app. But yes if Apple treated their developers better we would likely see a Netflix app.
Wonderful, Working perfectly. Thank you.
Already exists, simply include the header

Rating: RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA

in HTTP responses that include adult content, and every parental controls software in existence will block it by default, including the ones built into iPhones/etc and embedded webviews. As far as I know all mainstream adult sites include this (or the equivalent meta tag) already.

In general, I don’t think communicating to every site you visit that you are a minor and asking them to do what they will with that information is a good idea. Better to filter on the user’s end.
True, but most points on the curve aren't close to Any data point. That means most of the output of ML is completely original. Let's use a simplified example of a straight line between two datapoints. Example:

Point A ------|----------------------------------------|------Point B

For a line segment (above) between two points, most of the line does not approach the vicinity of Either point (the boundary of closeness for points A and B is demarcated figuratively with a pipe "|" if the line segment is between the pipe and the point it is too close, if it is not then it is an original work). This intuition still applies even if the line only moves close to the point and does not touch either point. Basically the output of ML is by majority not even close to a copy as most of the curve is far from any point.

The only way for most of the line to be a copy is if the data cluster is so close and similar that the data itself is mostly a chain of "similar" copies. Not sure if you're catching my meaning here. Example:

Point A --|--|-- Point B

Above A and B cross their own thresholds and are essentially "close enough" copied data points. The left Pipe is the threshold for B and the right pipe is the threshold for A. As a result the entire line between the two points must be a an illegal "close enough" copy as well.

If such data is used it means existing data is in violation of copywrite law already. The logical implication is this:

For most of the results of ML to be a technical "close enough" copy of the datapoints, you must also admit that most of your data contained "close enough" copies as well.

As a side note this kind of thing can be useful for defining a quantitative measure of what close enough even means as we can certainly define a numeric threshold between close enough and not close enough for copywrite law.
Yeah that's correct. The article mentions a few cases of people who died from transmitted CJD that may have also received some beta amyloid or tau proteins that could have catalyzed development into Alzheimer's if only they didn't die from CJD, which seems to develop more quickly through that route. If Alzheimer's is truly is some kind of prion-related disease, which the research is suggesting.
“Yeah, but humans have two eyes and they do just fine!” /s
Tony Blair issues call for NHS medical records to be sold to fund treatments
But it doesn't explain why they can't use the tags to locate the owners. I did find the answer (see my other comment), but it wasn't from this article.
I also went to MIT for a PhD: 2009-2015. Definitely around 2012ish was the most memorable: in particular the simple stuff like walking down mass ave from central every morning, stopping by Flour bakery for an oatmeal + egg sandwich, going to LaVerdes for snacks, Anna's for burritos. Staying in office til 10pm messing around with research, then taking no 1 bus (or often red line from kendall) back to central, rinse and repeat. That IAP of Jan 2012 was really nice too, was able to dabble a bunch in really interesting stuff like painting classes and such.
Ask the creator?

Why would the buyer be responsible for pricing?
Covid-19: Negligence by Experts
I initially read it as "QAnonYoutube.com"
Brian from Real Engineering thinks[1] a likely culprit is that the company that makes the fuselage doesn't completely secure the door plugs because they usually get removed to build out the interior of the plane according to the customer's desires. If Boeing actually didn't take the plugs out for that purpose, it's possible that there was a miscommunication that that was the case, or a missed step in the procedure documents that those need to be fully secured even if they were never removed.

[1] https://youtu.be/hhT4M0UjJcg (that part starts around 3:45)
False equivalence. You stated how its different in the premise on top of that
Ads on broadcast television are varied and usually diverse. They can be actually informative for products, services or sales you might actually be interested in. Broadcasters have had 75 years to figure out what is viable and what will alienate viewers.

Linear streaming ads are not close. They are repetitive, annoying, disruptive, jarring and as alienating as possible. They've also screwed up by adding the countdown timer as well - it doesn't help the viewer, it makes them tense while waiting for the ad to end or for the skip button to show.

Ads and commercials can actually be helpful if done correctly. I like when I see ads for new movies, online services I may have needed but didn't know existed, and even new snack flavors or whatever. Also, local ads are super useful.

Streaming ads are just a money grab right now with zero respect for the viewer. They just shove whatever they want at you, and if they don't have enough inventory of ads, they just shove the same one at you 20 times.

The question in my mind is when Amazon sees how badly Prime subscriptions are affected by this move, whether they'll reconsider or not.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655
mindshare on this site would probably vastly expand after you delete your account
Yes, although that doesn't seem correct. That would be 7500 a year.

When they say the founder was buying 3k a month, either the RF ids are great at reducing the losses worldwide, or something is wrong with those numbers.
effectively regulating and destroying the anonymous nature of the internet

Social media is on the internet. It is not the internet.
I don't deal with power utilities. But have talked to water utility managers.

Key thing. Regulated utilities can't just raise prices to generate a profit. But capital improvements are an asset that you can earn a profit on. So investment is how you can 'grow the business'

Replace the pole pig feeding your house with bigger one? The utility makes a profit off that. If it were me I'd get the utility involved in upgrading residential panels to support heat pumps and car charging.
I was the first technical hire 8 years ago, we'd been friends for over ten years prior. We had some tensions and disagreements in the beginning when the company was small, but as his CEO role took him away from engineering and as I got into progressively lower level backend work, that all ironed out.

I'm still happily working as an IC despite all the attempts to get me to accept a management roll, and we still have a great friendship and a lot of trust (though we live in different countries now and don't see each other very often). Being an unquestionably-trusted IC with a direct line to the CEO and all the other upper management is pretty sweet, and though the salary is maybe 2-3x lower than I could get at some other places I wouldn't trade what I have here away for that.
Their opinion that it would be straightforward shouldn’t be considered.
One day we will be able to talk about Flatpak without being sidetracked into deconstructing this stupid post. (And the one at flatkill.org — I've seen it posted so many times it's burned in my brain)

Alas, today is not that day.
What I wish I knew as a Junior (Developer)
You aren't generating the information though. You're learning it from an existing source.
> there was a project to be a vB->Discourse converter

God, why? I can't be the only person to find Discourse inferior to vBulletin.
Probably not, because that is a niche interest. We both know that. I’m not salty about it. But come on, get off the soapbox.
Can you beat a lie detector?
M3 Max is actually less than ideal because it peaks at 400 Gb/s for memory. What you really want is M1 or M2 Ultra, which offers up to 800 Gb/s (for comparison, RTX 3090 runs at 936 GB/s). A Mac Studio suitable for running 70B models with speeds fast enough for realtime chat can be had for ~$3K

The downside of Apple's hardware at the moment is that the training ecosystem is very much focused on CUDA; llama.cpp has an open issue about Metal-accelerated training: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/3799 - but no work on it so far. This is likely because training at any significant sizes requires enough juice that it's pretty much always better to do it in the cloud currently, where, again, CUDA is the well-established ecosystem, and it's cheaper and easier for datacenter operators to scale. But, in principle, much faster training on Apple hardware should be possible, and eventually someone will get it done.
No I just ran it out of the box but I had to modify the source code to run for Mac.

Instructions here:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/947/
I've got similar interests to the OP and the parent comment. I had some fun with both Chicken and Chez, but building standalone/static binaries was a bit of a pain.

The interesting thing for me (a while back) was realizing that even doing something as simple as an HTTPS request would be a bit of a challenge: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/06/20/2310
Since switching from Chrom{e|ium} to Firefox, I'm noticing I'm having to fill in a _lot_ more captchas - is this just me, a coincidence, or is Google treating Firefox as less trustworthy?
if you need OpenStack you're not running one rack, but a couple dozen.
Any issues with funding or whatever, and their customers would get locked in on the yesterday's "top of the line hardware" (reminds how Oracle used lawyers to force HP to continue support Itanic). Sun was 50K persons company, and they struggled to support even reasonably wide set of hardware. Vendor lock in is like a Newton law in this industry.
Yes, assuming this isn't vaporware. They're supposed to start shipping in March.
https://maticrobots.com

Edited to add this quote from the website:

Matic's intelligence is localized on the device, and it never sends any of your data to the cloud for processing. That means no user information is ever sold, shared, or even collected in the first place.
After doing the same for Google maps few years they just did it again. It's beyond me that anyone would use Google/GCP for anything serious. Services killed all the time (check Google graveyard), sdk and APIs constantly deprecated, prices increases, ...
It seems google is doing everything wrong since at least a decade now.
I think that's a special case, because large pickup trucks have moved from being work focused to being luxury vehicles. Trucks people bought in 2005 don't really exist any more new, even if the same model is still technically around.

That said though, I'm pretty sure they do still make basic work focused trucks, although they might be hard to buy outside of fleet type sales.
I think people are being incredibly disingenuous when they imagine that the government won't abuse this power to censor and harm marginalized communities. Many states are trying to remove LGBT books from school libraries for being "pornographic" right now, for example. All it takes is some fancy interpretations of "safety" and "social media" for it to become a full internet blackout, for fear of "the liberals" trying to "trans" their kids.

I don't deny that kids can get into trouble and find shocking or dangerous things online. But kids can also get in trouble walking down the street. We should not close streets or require ID checks for walking down them. Parents should teach their kids how to be safe online, set up network blocks for particularly bad sites, and have some kind of oversight for what their kids are doing.

Maybe these bills should mandate that sites have the ability to create "kid" accounts whose history can be checked and access to certain features can be managed by an associated "parent" account. Give parents better tools for keeping their kids safe, don't just give the government control over all internet traffic.
According to Wikipedia it is a "New Tier 1" city. T1 is still just Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen/Guangzhou.
It would be more reasonable for the government to protect its citizens in a state where air quality is a major public health concern.
GGUF is just a file format. The ability to offload some layers to CPU is not specific to it nor to llama.cpp in general - indeed, it was available before llama.cpp was even a thing.
Assuming you can make active queries to the verifier, you could do something like

- Have your backend generate a temporary AES key, and create a request to the verifier saying "please encrypt a response using AES key A indicating that the user coming from ip X.Y.Z.W is over 16". Encrypt it with a known public key for the verifier. Save the temporary AES key to the user's session store.

- Hand that request to the user, who hands it to the verifier. The verifier authenticates the user and gives them the encrypted okay response.

- User gives the response back to your backend.

Potentially the user could still get someone to auth for them, but it'd at least have to be coming from the same IP address that the user tried to use to log into the service. The verifier could become suspicious if it sees lots of requests for the same user coming from different IP addresses, and the service would become suspicious if it saw lots of users verifying from the same IP address, so reselling wouldn't work. You could still find an over-16 friend and have them authenticate you without raising suspicions though, much like you can find an over-21 friend to buy you beer and cigarettes.

Since you use a different key with each user request, the verifier can't identify the requesting service. Both the service and the verifier know the user's IP, so that's not sensitive. If you used this scheme for over-16 vs. over-18 vs. over-21 services, the verifier does learn what level of service you are trying to access (i.e. are you buying alcohol, looking at porn, or signing up for social media). Harmonizing all age-restricted vices to a single age of majority can mitigate that. Or, you could choose to reveal the age bucket to the service instead of the verifier by having the verifier always send back the maximum bucket you qualify for instead of the service asking whether the user is in a specific bucket.
I am a former professional gambler and now I don’t gamble much, because I have neither the time nor interest to find good wagers, but what I do is on predictit. Being a great gambler mostly means not gambling until you have an edge, and what he says about and market being less accurate than 538 is true in my experience. I’ve been betting on there every couple years for maybe ten or so, it’s held up well.

As many mentioned here, the fees are high. That contributes to market inefficiency for sure.

Arbitrage opportunities pop up there all the time, but ones that are profitable after the fees less so. They do happen though.

He is neglecting how long contracts take to settle. There’s a lag of two months between when the election and when president is sworn in. It’s not unreasonable to sell your winning position at 98% just to be able to bet on more things.

It was the first time in 20 years of hoping for such an opportunity that I managed to get to bet on something that had already happened. That’s every gambler’s dream and I’m unaware of many instances of it happening without breaking laws or trickery. But even then, you bet 93 cents to win 7 and then pay 5% on cashout so it wasn’t exactly making people rich.
Yep. The Amazon book. The YC App is basically a modified PRFAQ. There's a reason why the PM-to-Founder pipeline exists.
vBulletin just had a major release 5 months ago. It's not abandoned, and it's certainly superior to the UI of Discourse, especially to a community which is very familiar with vBulletin.
There are companies like phind that offer copilot-like services using finetuned versions of CodeLlama-34B, which imo are actually good. But I do not know if such a larger model is gonna be used in such a context.
I've been thinking a lot lately about decentralized moderation.

All we need to do is replace the word "moderate" with "curate". Everything else is an attestation.

We don't really need a blockchain, either. Attestations can be asserted by a web of trust. Simply choose a curator (or collection of curators) to trust, and you're done.
Release coming later this week!
I am also speaking from experience with medicine, there is no way I can create cards as good as Anking's and still have time left to actually study/review.
> Romeo hasn’t divulged the exact location, for obvious reasons

The most obvious reason being he doesn't know the exact location.
> It's a combination of supply, demand, and the business value of services rendered.

Just supply and demand. Demand is a function of that business value (among other attributes).
Pushups, air squats, DB military press, neck exercises, walk around the house, adjust your standing desk height for the next block of work.
So if a bad actor wants to remove a famous person from X’s search results, they just need to make some fake denigrating media files about them?

This does not sound very good for any well known party.