skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be legitimately useful, but it can be abused by intelligence agencies. You can imagine a machine learning algorithm trained on the shopping history of terrorists and associates, which then scans the entire database to identify new potential terrorists.

For example, the US has a No Fly List with millions of algorithmically identified potential security risks. If you're on the list you can't get on a plane, but you are never notified or given a reason, and can't challenge the listing. Here's a paper that describes the issue I'm talking about: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/4284150/61150_Goede_M._de_Trans....

> This paper argues that the deployment of transactions data of many kinds has become the banal face of the war on terror’s preemptive strike. Because the failure to predict and prevent 9/11 is partly thought to be a failure to ‘connect the dots’ of available intelligence, post 9/11 policies seek to register, mine and connect ever more ‘dots’, or association rules, in the form of credit card transactions, travel data, supermarket purchases and so on. We argue that it is in these ordinary transactions that another spatiality of exception is emerging, one in which the traces of habits, behaviours and past practices become the basis of security decisions to freeze assets, to apprehend, to stop and search or to deport. As such, these developments constitute a relatively unacknowledged violence in the war on terror, which is in need of critical questioning.

Here's an article referenced by the paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20090101121831/http://www.indepe...

> Supermarket checkout staff are being trained by the security services in how to detect potential terrorists. MI5 has been secretly advising food retailers, including Asda and Tesco, on how to identify extremist shoppers. Measures include [...] being alert to mass purchases of mobile phones, which can be used as bomb detonators. The awareness training for staff also covers bulk sales of toiletries which could be used as the basic ingredient in explosives.

With a full supermarket loyalty database, you can just scan for anyone with suspicious toiletry purchases and an ethnic-sounding last name and bring them in for questioning.
> Although I use Nvidia GPUs and in general the support for their drivers are still way better than AMD’s which are more open.

On open source desktops, my general experience with AMD GPUs has been very positive, with the main caveat being that I don't buy AMD GPUs near product launch (which, right now, is probably not a bad decision for just about anyone, since the new products are rarely a particularly good deal). I used NVIDIA GPUs on Linux from like 2004-2016 or so, and things have just changed a lot in the intervening years in my point of view. There used to be all kinds of issues, but it has started to go the other direction, and now it's getting harder to get NVIDIA drivers working right sometimes.

When people ask me personally, I recommend AMD GPUs on Linux to basically anyone that isn't actively interested in using CUDA.
Absolutely important. No labels = No model.

You have to label data once for every problem you want to solve. You could apply any number of different classifiers to the same problem but use the same labels.

My RSS reader YOShInOn does content-based recommendations and needs about 500-1000 labels to make decent recommendations. With 8000 I get an area-under-curve of around 78%, TiKTok gets around 84% with vastly more investment as well as a lot more data (because it serves more users.) One reason I haven't moved to productize it is that I think most people would expect to get results with 5-10.

You can probably make about 2000 judgements a day (I've done bursts of a lot more than that on images and it makes my visual system malfunction though I might be especially vulnerable to that) and my impression is that for most text classification tasks you don't really get better performance when you go past 10,000 labels or so. Everybody thinks you have to raise $20M from VCs and then hire a bunch of people in a third world country to label things but the reality is that people spend more time talking about a product they want to make than it takes to make enough labels yourself to make an image.

But there is a garbage-in-garbage out problem. A recommender can't get 99% accuracy the way some things could because people's preferences are fickle, on the other hand a recommender with 78% AUC is pretty satisfying to use. If you need high accuracy you need to do some ontology work so you know your categories are very well defined. If people don't the labelling can't agree 99% of the time there is no way the model is going to get there.
Is it not non-deterministic by choice? A random factor added to prevent it from just choosing the deterministic most-likely next token.
I thought a TV was already redundant when everyone has their own iPad to watch whatever they want.

I'm going to hold judgement until I can try it, though.
Sorry, I had not seen the english version it was the translation for. Both French and English version look awkward, they must be read in context ^^;
Meanwhile, my Framework laptop from 2021 has twice the RAM and storage, was significantly cheaper, and runs an even more unix-like graphical environment.
Well for one thing, Anki is using an ancient SuperMemo algorithm. I wouldn’t take Anki as a benchmark in terms of spaced repetition effectiveness.
I take minor issue with the phrase "correct" here. Thats one way you can do things but its also works completely fine to not do that. Another way of setting these things up has your states be honest elements of L2, and says observables are just POVMs (i.e. maps from a space of measurable sets to positive operators which obey some natural restrictions like additivity). Then given a measurable subset A of the spectrum of some operator the Born-rule probability is just given by an inner product like < phi | P phi> where P is the projector you get if you integrate the spectral measure of the operator over A.

This has the advantage of not having any funky "rigged" states suddenly appearing in your calculations and is also exactly how we deal with non-projective measurements in finite dimensional quantum mechanics.

See here, for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POVM
> If it really was continuous so that physical quantities were real numbers as defined in mathematics, then it is in contradiction to maximal information density. Because almost all real numbers contain infinite amount of information.

Yeah. As they said, it’s computer science leaking out.

It can be misleading to reason about entropy, which is the relevant physical concept, as if it were strictly equivalent to information as computer scientists understand it. Entropy works perfectly fine with continuous densities of states and real numbers.
I'm confident that I did not design the Titanic, a ship launched before my grandmother was born IIRC, however yes, I'm saying that this trade might well not be worth it in the bigger picture, not for all the ships covered by SOLAS.

Titanic is the sweet spot for wanting more lifeboats, they had a long time, but they were in the middle of the ocean and nobody was coming to help.

If you go down very quickly lifeboats are useless. Herald of Free Enterprise could have had ten lifeboats per customer, wouldn't have made a difference, there were 90 seconds between nothing is wrong, and oops the ship is laying on its side in the water, lots of people are going to die in that scenario.

On the other hand if the port isn't far you can make for port. Despite a ship being on fire, or badly holed it may have hours left, the Titanic had almost three hours.
That should have been historical drama, to be clear.
> rewarded for volume of "participation" more than anything

I can see you are well versed in corporate life.
You can of course do what you want in your own writing but the GP's suggestion that you need to 'credit' or explain every allusion is not good writing advice - it would mean not having allusions at all.
"One hope of analysts had been that Canon might be able to sell the machines to China, something ASML can no longer do with its advanced tools due to US export controls."

So this is the competitive advantage.
Yeah. While I like the idea of live voice chat with an LLM, it turns out I’m not so good at getting a thought across without pauses, and that gets interpreted as the LLM’s turn to respond. I’d need to be able to turn on a magic spoken word like “continue” for it to be useful.

I do like the interface though.
I am sure there are plenty of companies we are not aware of who have been building apps for the platform in partner with Apple Marketing Dollars for some time.

If Autodesk and Blender don't have a whole team pointed at this, I would be highly disappointment.
Yes I have looked there. I did not find any WER numbers and latency numbers (ideally both together in a graph). I also did not find the model being described.

*Edit*

Ah, when you write faster_whisper, you actually mean https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper?

And for streaming, you use https://github.com/ufal/whisper_streaming? So, the model as described in http://www.afnlp.org/conferences/ijcnlp2023/proceedings/main...?

There, for example in Table 1, you have exactly that, latency vs WER. But the latency is huge (2.85 sec the lowest). Usually, streaming speech recognition systems have latency well beyond 1 sec.

But anyway, is this actually what you use in WhisperLive / WhisperFusion? I think it would be good to give a bit more details on that.
I'm aching for someone to come up with a low latency round trip voice recognition, LLM, speech generation tuned to waste the time of phone scammers. There is one famous youtube guy who has tried this exact thing, but the one video I saw was very, very primitive and unconvincing.
You’re basically talking about the underpinnings of XAML. Terribly underappreciated and completely alien to the FOSS world.
> PS: In the US, if younger people were as organized as AARP and participated in elections at similar rates, things would be better for them...

Why limit that just to the US? Voter participation, unless mandatory like in Australia, is always skewed to the old.
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Maybe lazy is the wrong term, but less attentive apparently. There was the Ironies of Automation paper about this: https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...
The thing I don’t get is why Netflix won’t allow their iPad app to be used. They had to go out of their way to disable the platform from using their existing app.

I get not building a new one, but reusing the existing one makes more sense imho.
At least Tolkien actually had a few pages dedicated to the food and villagers being brought into Minas Tirith in preparation for the war.
Had to move manifest.json from public dir to src dir and load src dir in chrome.

EDIT: And the popup doesn't do anything at all. Can see no js included in popup.html.
Hi!

I would love to try this. I am currently on my 7th language so I am always excited to find language learning apps. So far none of them has beaten a good old language course and consuming media in the language.

Maybe the website has received a bit too much love but I am trying to search for a TV show and the UI is not reacting at all (I entered "How I Met Your Mother" in the textbox below "How to do what you love" on the playground page).

A bit of a strange question I have is who created the pictures for your updates page? The style reminds me of Raycast marketing material which I find incredibly beautiful. I really like the optics, is there a name for this style?

All the best!
How was it established?
https://www.facebook.com/ronal.kat?mibextid=VqkefZtyiaKY4pB6
I wasn't familiar with trends in other countries, so didn't want to speak to them. (Also, made some small edits to clarify)
Haven't bothered with PSVR2 either, and have not updated the original PSVR app to the point where it no longer functions.

Netflix is clearly saying "We don't want to be a 3D/VR movie service". Perhaps Apple will pay for 3D licenses and serve them as part of your AppleTV subscription, which would suck, because it would mean no 3D movie support on any other headset.
The page doesn't make a good job communicating what it offers. There's a lot of unimportant fluff, generic "we're the best", but I didn't really understand what the app offers beyond showing the same phrase in multiple languages.
It looks like the project is currently targeting .NET 8
And Maps. Don't forget about Maps. That was one of the killer apps too.
Why do you use those inflammatory examples and not, say, the following:

So, say we get an amazing third party store named F-Ios which is loaded with world class free software like Fennec (non-mozilla Firefox build), TermIos (Termux on Android) and IosPipe (Newpipe on Android). Well, new customers might be drawn to Apple's ecosystem that previous weren't customers.

Imagine the possibilities offered by adding an iOS version of the Android F-Droid repo. That would draw customers which thus far shun Apple like the plague.

> But those are customers and use cases that Apple probably doesn't want.

Unfortunately you're most likely right here in that Apple does not want to give its customers the freedom to choose to evade its toll booths by choosing free software - they want to remain in control.
The $500 headset can't really do this well. They may have demoed one in a store and realized this isn't a great experience. You will also not find a lot of people online recommending it either.

I have a Quest 3, and I would much rather watch movies on a laptop or iPad than it. The screen quality is not great. You can see the pixels due to the low-ish resolution. The contrast ratio is not great.

The screen quality is generally good enough for VR games and other VR-specific experiences, however.
I wonder how this performed compared to a DECStation 5000/240 running Ultrix.

That was my workstation for a student job. It had a MIPS R3000.

DEC probably would have lasted longer if they had bought MIPS instead of sinking all the effort into Alpha (and PRISM before it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation
There was no way I was going to keep paying a subscription to get 5-day shipping when ever other e-tailer gets me packages in 1 to 3 days.
Author is a Brit, and so should be using British English.

>So if you're a linguistic descriptivist

Absolutely not.
> Of course, you must realize that if you substitute "entry in the bank database" for "points", your (pun intended) point is still valid.

This is quite different. Banks have strict regulations regarding how they have to handle your money.

Now, of course, the banking system could collapse, but so could the state, in which case the cash in your wallet would loose validity, too. Gold would be valid, but only as long as you have people to trade to. For most states, though, this is a far smaller risk compared to some retailer shelving their cashback system.

EDIT: Responding to your edit:

> Yes, I know that trust(private company) < trust(bank) < trust(banking system) < trust(government), but neither is 100% (or even very, very close).

You are right, but reasonable trust in some unregulated cashback system of a private company is orders of magnitude smaller than the reasonable consumer trust in a bank (assuming we're talking about a stable country).
How are the masks(molds) created for the Canon process?

https://global.canon/en/technology/nil-2023.html

Would they still have to make a standard photomask and use that to produce a mold using EUV lithography? At which point a cheaper process could be used for production. ASML would still be in that supply chain, but only for mold production.

> In addition to the technology enabling high-accuracy measurement of positional-deviation information, matching technology enabling alignment with lower-layer patterns is also important. Canon has developed a proprietary matching system that achieves alignment by using laser irradiation to thermally deform the wafer (Fig. 2). This system makes it possible to change the heat input pattern and freely deform the wafer by controlling an ultra-fine mirror group called a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD). Instead of assuming that thermal deformation of the wafer worsens alignment precision as is conventionally thought, Canon has applied an innovative new approach to the alignment (Fig. 3).

This is damn cool (hah)! They use a DMD to deposit packets of heat to different parts of the mold to warp to match the underlying layer it needs to imprint for localized nm level positioning. Bad ass.

Am I wrong?
That's a recursive function, so to make it fully general a recursive type can be used:

type CompoundInt = int | list[CompoundInt]

def fooify(x: CompoundInt) -> CompoundInt:
if isinstance(x, int):
return x * 2
else:
return list(map(fooify, x))

print(fooify([1, [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], [[[4, 4, 4]]]]))

This uses the `type` keyword introduced in 3.12. Unfortunately Mypy doesn't support it yet :( so this workaround can be used instead:

from __future__ import annotations

from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

if TYPE_CHECKING:
CompoundInt = int | list[CompoundInt]
It would definitely work if a parent could report the accounts of all the kids involved and their tiktok/whatever accounts got deleted + their phone numbers and emails got block-listed for the service.

Even more if the system worked in a centralized way: this email/phone is used exclusively by a kid, so now all on-boarded companies must delete their accounts and not allow them to register again.
Fortunately, at least in my part of the US, there are still a decent number of supermarkets that don't use these cards at all -- so there's still a few I can shop at and get normal prices without having to subject myself to this form of spying. I just have to avoid the major chains.
Actually if you read the study (I didn't want to give them my email either) you'll find that they can't tell generated code apart from any other code, and are just saying that code quality went down (per their metrics) in 2023. They assume it is because of Copilot. They do not demonstrate this.
libcurl is used in billions of situations.

Fair point about memory allocations in C, but often alt languages rely on other people's code which you'd implicitly trust to do the same thing. So then it becomes an argument of testing and trust. All the same, you trust strangers code or you write your own.
This post is annoying in that it doesn't tell you what laptop the person got to have a good experience. It tells you the bad example but not the one that worked.
Also don't use WD40 and other cheapo sprays. They can gunk up the hole.

Graphite or PTFE-based sprays are much better.
> Or spending money.

People are willing and ready to spend money on quality software. It is a trillion dollar industry. Open source is an endless circle of misery that needs to be ended as soon as possible.
It is a good enough lubricant. In my experience with door hinges they stay non-creaky for much longer with technical vaseline though.

Btw, about a year ago I read that copper grease is absolutely the best for this purpose but I'm still waiting for a hinge to become squeaky so that I can test that.
Lean heavier on a mypy config file. Make heavy use of per-module configuration, in particular, setting per-module ignore_errors = true for modules you’re not yet ready to type check.

See https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/existing_code.html for some more advice.
I'm not sure we entirely disagree.

The idea here is to load your RAM with enough information so you can go and interact with the language, and you have enough critical 'hooks' to start to boot up your GPU. Then once you've done that, you should have some good memories that you can start to commit to long term storage, should you choose

(did I go too far with the computer analogies? I feel like it broke down).

Either way, I think we say in several places, no app is going to replace the learning that happens from interacting with the content. _That's_ where you actually learn. Our sole purpose is to get you to be able to interact with it as fast as possible, with as little gymnastics as possible.
Probably because support volume still increases even if it's not "officially" supported. And then you can't just tell those people to go away, because they'll be pissed off.
... Thankfully, I don't live in California.
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This is actually the only case where I tolerate performance regressions: where the previous implementation was actually incorrect, rather than merely old or in need of a rewrite in whatever framework or technology is currently in vogue.
Google Cloud Platform added 4 more subprocessors
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As someone who needs housing and medicine, that's minuscule comfort.
They operate at very low margins, 1-3% don't blame them.
The original iPhone had 2G cellular connection which was slow for the time, and especially silly since, as you point out, it was well powered otherwise. The iPhone 3GS caught it up to other smart phones in the market.

It also launched without cut and paste available in the UI, which again, was silly given how it was otherwise an impressive mobile computer.
I respect that point of view, but Meta has over 3 billion monthly active users. This is a large enough potential customer base for any product. I also find the privacy options on the Quest perfectly adequate, and I'm curious if there's any specific option you feel is missing or if it's just their tarnished brand reputation that causes the lack of trust.
In addition, B2C subscription software incentivizes making the customer dependent upon your software. If I pay up-front for software, the business is agnostic as to how much or little I use the software. If I subscribe to a SaaS service, they are incentivized to manipulate me to use the software more.
OTOH the technology which allows that would just as easily, and more likely be used by the scammers themselves to fully automate robocalling rather than having to outsource to call centres like they currently do. Your time wasting robot would just be wasting the time of another robot that's simultaneously on the line with a thousand other people.
I agree that in a way it makes sense for a lot of software. But as a consumer who just wants something to use once in a while it does not make any sense. It just feels like you are being milked.

I think there are 2 issues. The first is that if you dont use a piece of software very often it does not make sense to have the subscription because it is super expensive compared to the value you get. The second issue is that you make your workflow depended on something and that gives them so much pricing power and you can't stop paying because it would be a lot of work to move to something else.

Music streaming is a good model for me because I like to listen to lots of different music and if I bought all of it it would be much more expensive. I also don't feel locked in because I backup my playlists and listening history so if spotify dissappeared tomorrow I still have everything and just move to somrthing else. But I don't like netflix because I am not big on tv shows and I just want to watch one show every couple months.
Could there be a naming conflict between your phrasing.app, and phrase.com, a translation management tool?
Do you also think that children should be allowed to buy cigarettes? I'll be honest, I am not certain that social media is any less deleterious than tobacco.

I'm a pretty pro-market guy, but there are times when the interests of the market are orthogonal to the interests of mankind.