skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Facebook unable to stop a wave of trojan infections through Facebook ads?
I am currently getting my Facebook feed flooded with "ads" that claim to be coming from OpenAI and/or Midjourney. These "ads" claim to be containing a "private release" of their new AI technology (Sora and others), and asks the user to follow a link.

That link directly goes to a Google Drive, containing a single RAR file, containing an "Installer". Of course the installer really is a trojan infecting your PC.

How on earth can Facebook be unable to filter this? How can it even be possible to post an ad with Facebook containing a Link to a Google Drive? Don't they do ANY validation of ownership of link targets? On Google Ads for example you can not link to any Domain you haven't proven ownership for.

This is not rocket science. I am not even asking Facebook to run a virus scanner on link targets. But how about disallowing links to Google Drives, or direct links to downloads in general?

Also, how is it possible that Facebook does not do ANY checks on registered trademarks when "advertisers" create accounts? How is it possible that scammers can create account names like "Amazon", "OpenAI" etc? How hard can it be to look up account names in a database of registered brand names?

Just today I have reported five of those "ads" to Facebook, but they keep popping up.

I am flabbergasted that it is SO easy to abuse Facebook to mass-infect users.

Does anyone have any contact to alert anyone with competence at Facebook? Just reporting those ads one by one won't change anything.
If you appreciate the patterns from DDD and the idea of domain modeling with type systems, I highly recommend checking out "Domain Modeling Made Functional" by Scott Wlaschin.
> "it's Nintendo's own fault for not releasing their games on PC and Android"

I understand if you disagree with this argument (I don't know if I'd endorse it wholeheartedly), but I don't see how it is asinine. The wider context here is that there are people who believe in "general computing", i.e. the idea that users should retain full control over computing devices and software they buy.

The philosophy of companies of companies like Nintendo is that when you buy a game from them, you are buying the right to play the game in exactly the way they want. If they could make modding illegal, they would (it is in Japan, to my understanding). This runs counter to the idea of general computing, where you should be to play a game you buy in any way you want, including modding, or playing on a different device, etc.

So to return to the point, the argument is that by refusing to sell their games to users of other platforms (as well as their other actions), Nintendo is working against the goal of general computing, and therefore it's not worth feeling sorry for them when people pirate the game. Phrased differently, people who don't own a Switch have no way to play the game besides pirating, and people should be able to buy games separately from devices.

Another fundamental argument here is that hardware/software walled gardens which are enforced by anti-circumvention and copyright laws are basically anti-competitive monopolies.
Glitch takes down petrol stations around country
presumably you can still put one on your roof tho?
I don't get the hype around IPV6 from this angle. I'm going to slap tailscale on it anyway. I also think the topic is 100% orthogonal to OS choice
Now I read the spec for 2.1 I see I am wrong and you are correct. I have only ever seen it from SERDES blocks with a 'continuous' clock.

Indeed, 2.1 seems similar to DP. It would require quite a bit more logic to do that.

I wonder how many TVs support that?
Strong "Oh, you know the ones..." vibes coming from that guy.
Yes, unfortunately if the "foreign" sources don't support CORS, you'd have to use a CORS proxy... If you want to self-host, there's one at https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere that can be deployed to CloudFlare Workers (the code is a bit messy though).

GitHub supports CORS for raw data for example, that's why I put it in the sample queries.
And here is the apparent answer to the mystery:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543532
We already have CTF competitions where players are given a server or program and have to hack into it. How about a competition where players are given a legacy codebase and have to learn it to fix various bugs?

With a huge prize pool, thanks to a few government and financial companies who are unexpectedly charitable...
yes, preventing monopolization is the entire point of antitrust law, even if it is regional in nature
> The graph showing emissions decreasing in Africa is from the consumption of energy decreasing

Africa is steadily increasing its energy consumption actually

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265590/primary-energy-co....

> Simply put they're getting poorer and using fewer resources as a result.

Or energy efficiency is also now cost effective. LEDs are the laziest and most obvious example that come to mind. But even any appliance you buy today has less power consumption due to inexorable march of technological progress.
good to see you've got your priorities in order
Another immensely useful source and pattern generator is also https://www.extron.com/article/testpattern.
So does Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. Google/Chrome does not write or edit the standard on their own.
Sokrates – polyglot source code examination tool
The era of cheap helium is over–and that's already causing problems
As an aside to this, are there any documentaries or clips or things to read about "retro" console piracy that necessitated something like the lockout chip? I mean at this point I know about flashcarts but I dont know a thing about back when the NES wouldve been new-ish, let alone before then.
Not trying to be a jerk, believe me, but try it some time. Deer have this mysterious ability to f*cking vanish during hunting season. In one town I lived in 3M had a plant with a little pond that was fenced off. During deer season all the deer would hop the fence and hang out at the factory because they knew nobody was allowed to hunt there. It was hilarious.
There are different cable converters available. That said, if the hardware is user hostile don't use it. What are birthdays for if not throwing out trash and replacing it.
Both of those camps terrify me. :)
Yeah, kind of. I have seen Escape From New York but I don't really remember it. I was more aware of the character via the reference/homage in Metal Gear Solid 2. In any case, I don't love the name but the obvious choice (Racquel) was already taken and "Plisqin" had zero Google results so I said "meh, good enough."
Bitcoin ETFs Break Volume Record Led by BlackRock Amid Wild Crypto Price Action
I like that HackerNews doesn’t include stock photos for each submission and ample whitespace that you see on other sites like CNBC and CNN.
Human DNA can be preserved for a very long time if it's in cold, dry conditions and little oxygen. And the DNA tends to be pretty damaged/fragmented anyway. Samples up to 300Kya have been sequenced from caves in Spain.
Making sweeping generalizations of other people's motivations and aesthetic values shows you have poor judgment.
This is to me the actual opportunity of deploying LLMs in customer service at scale. If done right, you won't need to wait through those endless phone trees.
I think you might be mixing things up here.

This isn't about using drones to help find an animal you haven't shot yet and are having trouble finding.

This is about using a drone to help locate an animal you did already shoot, but now are having trouble finding because it still managed to run off a bit, and now night is falling. It's going to die no matter what. It's not about not losing your hunt, it's also about putting the animal out of its misery.

This isn't about cheating. It's about reducing suffering.
EU accounts for roughly 7% of global emissions.
> In existing LLMs, we can replace all parameter floating-point values representing real numbers with ternary values representing (-1, 0, 1).

does that mean we can do integer instead of floating point math for some parts of the training? that seems like a really big win
Why are Americans so sick? Researchers point to middle grocery aisles
Oh, I absolutely believe this.

My example of Hawaii being 70ms away from Google was something that I knew about on paper but didn't truly appreciate until I was there on vacation a few years back (where the hotel wifi injected another 30-50ms on unloaded connections).

Moving interconnectivity to rural areas is tricky because most peering is where you can convince other network operators to meet you. This is a bit of a catch-22, where if you're not big enough then most network operators won't bother, and you can't get big enough unless you get these network operators on board. There's a secondary issue where just having peering isn't useful without servers (or vice versa), and you often don't have the economies of scale to justify spending millions on routing equipment, servers, etc. if you don't expect to serve many users there.

The compromise that some of these big operators (Google, Facebook, Netflix off the top of my head) make is to install cache nodes inside ISP deployments for last-mile delivery. My understanding is that this is generally a win-win for all parties involved: ISPs don't have to build out as much backbone / peering capacity, Google and co can get away with smaller deployments and piggyback off of the ISP's existing network presence, and end users have better quality of experience.

That said, for the most part, Google's cache nodes don't serve www.google.com because we generally view them as less secure, and we would have a very bad day if we had a compromise of any high-value TLS certs. (We mostly use them to serve YouTube videos, since that's where we derive the most value from bandwidth offload.)
Exactly. Diagnosis is a beneficial thing that shouldn’t happen, a straightforward and common sense position to take
It's the internet. Radical ideologies of all stripes are able to spread much more rapidly. Previously they were secluded the the fringes, and shunned. Now people can find communities dedicated to their views and form echo chambers.
Oh sure - that's the point of a long sentence. Unfortunately, federal prisons don't tend to grant parole, but a 10-year prison sentence coupled with a 10-year no-computer-access parole might be fair.
Not much gets through the smog.
You are right, 100db is only like a motorcycle. As loud as a motorcycle but only 12mm? Not Impressed! Get it together little fish!
I'm so sad EVGA stopped making GPUs because when my 1080ti that I had put an aftermarket liquid cooler on died, they had a new and better version of the same card at my doorstep in a week. Just spectacular service.
The standard is edited and written by Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla.
I just think back to my classes about algorithms and data structures. I didn’t think the big issues I’d face in technology would regard generating images of Nazis with the proper skin tone. Can’t say I’m thrilled with this particular direction technology has taken.
i think it was a ten thousandth of the distance from the north pole to the equator through paris, disregarding the southern hemisphere, which was more difficult to survey. i've been looking for a precise number for how far that distance actually turned out to be, but i haven't been able to find it; i would be delighted if you could!

whether 0.02% sounds ridiculously good or ridiculously bad depends on your frame of reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre#History_o... says that the original mètre des archives in 01799 was machined to within 50μm, which is 0.005%, four times smaller than the error in delambre and méchain's computation. so even at the time that was a pretty large error. since then the measurement uncertainty of the meter has improved by five more orders of magnitude, to about 0.1 part per billion. 0.02% is 200 parts per million, or 200000 parts per billion, which is a lot more than 0.1
Every time I read anything related to our calendars, and how we've changed them over time, I wish someone with a lot of influence led a similar effort nowadays to adopt the Kodak, or IFC, calendar[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
>These Southern singing conventions thrived because the untrained singers, who had to sing from written music, could learn how through a technique called “solfège,” to use the music-school word for it. Plainer folks called it shape notes. You know the system. You’ve heard it a thousand times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge

Solfège has nothing to do with the shapes of the notes, just the naming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note

This is shape note.

You can use the two together obviously, but they are not the same thing.
That's an interesting idea! Do you say that because you expect a tunable cross-encoder to have better performance? I think depending on how you implement it, the embedding model that I am building is like a cross-encoder that is essentially one complicated attention layer.

But outside of this special case, a cross-encoder is not computationally efficient. That is, if you implement the cross encoder as a feedforward NN with linear transformations with activations in between, that computes a similarity score, then in order to do semantic search over a document database, you'd have to compute the similarity between a query and each document, which is computationally expensive.

In contrast, with the model I'm building, you apply the model to the document embedding to modify it, and store it in a vector database. You don't need to apply it queries, just when you are saving the document. To retrieve a document with high similarity, you just need to do the cosine similarity, and if you use a vector database, they have efficient algorithms that only need a cosine similarity of a subset of the documents, which is computationally more efficient.

In the special case that the cross-encoder model takes the form of a single complicated attention computation, i.e. y \cdot f(x, \theta) (where f is a neural network, x is the document embedding, and \theta are the parameters of the NN) then this would be a type of cross-encoder, and you could just compute f(x, \theta) for each document, and use cosine similarity to retrieve it.
> The CTA and BOI legislation doesn't impose restrictions on that as far as I know,

ah. The two options here are either the 2024 rule change means it now does, which I'm assuming stripe's (and at least a few other companies, it sounds like) lawyer's read is it does. Or it doesn't and they're being a bag of dicks. which explains your reaction.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He’s a professional. He is expected to know and consistently obey the laws, no matter how loosely they are enforced.

Don’t shoot if you aren’t sure you’ll kill the animal. Get better at shooting if you miss so much that you need a drone.
Yes, that's possible. It could be that what we're looking at on the planet surface is the output of a huge planet-sized radiator, with a civilization living in air-conditioned comfort underneath. But the problem with that theory is that you can't actually use the whole planet as a radiator. You can only use the space-facing side. You have to use the sun-facing side for energy harvesting. That temperature gradient would show up in the spectrum, and AFAIK it's not there.

[UPDATE] I don't actually know if current exoplanet observing technology is capable of detecting such a temperature gradient, but given what I know we can observe I'd be a little surprised if it couldn't. A planet-sized energy harvester would make a pretty big dent in the passive thermodynamics, and detecting that should not be too hard. And it would be Really Big News.
We could make our homes easier to decarbonise by using tech called a "database"
There’s the guy in this thread as an example. Many such cases.
Oh, I lump the replicator in with the transporter. I can see the replicator as an ancestor of the transporter.
Another day, another framework that tries to reinvent a limited subset of C#'s LINQ query syntax :)
Ok so why not a hollow triangle? It doesn't have to be a cube.
That last sentence about the color of the sun being cultural is weird to me.

The sun simply looks very different depending on where you are on earth.

Example (from experience/memory): the sun looks very orange/red during a Norwegian winter sunrise for like an hour or so.

Around the equator the sun is up and white within minutes.
> it seems like the habits of riders with e-bikes on average does the trick, not the individual bike itself.

So you don't think it helps out on the inclines or with head winds? No chance making those easier helps keep people on the bikes longer?
I came here hoping someone would mention this, it's really strange and for a while I had just attributed it to the Air Force base traffic or Tampa International nearby, but it keeps coming up. Always interesting to learn more
seriously, what an absurd framing
> his sentence should be long enough to prevent from having any access to the markets he abused

You don’t need to put someone behind bars to deny them access to markets - you just need to give sentencing judges the power to ban them from engaging in certain activities (e.g. owning stock, being a corporate director or officer, trading on financial markets, etc)

Maybe sentencing judges don’t have that power - in which case, why doesn’t the legislative branch give it to them?
It's funny how baby mentally drives these companies. Really, writing "HDMI" is an issue? But if I write HDMl, then that's fine? Come on. Find a real way to generate revenue rather than wasting everyone's time.
That's not how it works. "No one got hurt" is a facile exoneration, and untrue at that. He didn't break the law "less" because by twist of fortune money showed up in the account sometime down the line.
1nm is the real physical size of a transistor that you would need, to get equivalent performance characteristics, if the transistor's other layout characteristics were fixed in 1997.

The divergence is because when FinFET layout was introduced, it gave as much of as improvement as a node shrink would have otherwise done.

See also: AMD Athlon "3000" CPUs, clocked at only 2.x GHz, performing "as well as an equivalent" 3.0GHz Intel CPU,
Lawyers are obligated to do whatever they can for their clients. I really don't understand why people get mad about this stuff or about defense lawyers who defend people like murderers. Even if we know someone 100% did it, giving people fair representation and trial is part of the moral framework we use to put these monsters in prison.
Right, so made up.
It would be interesting to know the potential cost difference between dispatchable and fixed output nuclear is more dispatchable, at least in theory.
Wow, still down. It is just their marketing site, or the platform as well?
Actual example of this:

Back in the Thunderbolt 3 era, it was up to each motherboard manufacturer to decide how many pairs they routed to USB alt-mode, so it's not necessarily a safe bet to depend on it working.

So, in one specific example, 4k60 over USB alt-mode DisplayPort is not supported on Apple's $4999 iMac Pro, as USB alt-mode is only assigned two pairs; however, 4k60 over Thunderbolt DisplayPort is supported, as Thunderbolt is assigned four pairs. The only way to get 4k60 out of that device is to use a Thunderbolt-only DisplayPort adapter, that has no USB mode at all.

This was resolved by USB 4 and Thunderbolt 4 both incorporating a more modern DSC (display stream compression), among other things as described above, but your mileage will vary much more wildly with USB 3.
Rather than (indistinguishable?) 0 and -0, why not add back some magnitude in the positive direction?

{ -1, 0, 1, 2 }

is most obvious, but it's not clear whether it's better or worse than

{ -1, 0, 1/2, 1 }

Maybe theoretically (if not architecturally) it would best to "split the difference" between the two and choose

{ -1, 0, 1/phi, phi }

or perhaps the more implementable

{ -1, 0, 1, 3 }

EDIT: Of course you can also go the other way, with

{ -1, 1 }
Actually they are cutting you out. Some solar and all battery installations require a backdoor that allows the government to switch your network off at any time.

I'm sure they'll never use it for wrongdoings... but also they probably will.

It's a way to leverage the loads in certain areas but it's dreadful.

But yep. Solar is great for Australian homes. I still think it's weird that we had to solve electricity at the home level though..
SQL is indeed pretty terrible IMO. Here's my favorite source to trot out when people inevitably disagree: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
Lack of incentive plus likelihood of being downvoted or swiftly banned by dang. Or for submissions, unlikelihood of being upvoted.

Of course, if LLM content is so good that it survives on HN, then it may actually be welcome.
Oh wow. I assumed that would make your insurance more expensive because you got into an accident, but looking online it turns out it generally doesn't because it's not considered to be something that you're at fault for.

But still, yikes. There are just so many bad things about that.
I'm under the impression that the spoiler is what they said about the gigastructure of galaxies. If you don't know the title, you can't related it to the spoiler they just told you
Also it's underwater. I bet if someone tried to fire a gun underwater, the pressure wave (sound) would be louder than usual.
Unfortunately, the upstream zig toolchain (LLVM codegen) does not support the Xtensa architecture (opaque CPU features), but it is possible to use riscv32 for esp32 from the C2/C3/C6, H2 and the new P4 release.

I'm currently working on a fork of the zig toolchain with espressif-LLVM to support Xtensa.[1]
It is now possible to test with esp-idf instead of microzig for baremetal (Blink) yet.

[1] https://gist.github.com/kassane/7bdb782a1984d0c6581ae7b44e1f...
Out of curiosity what region?
Show HN: Real time conversation between myself and my evil chatbot [video]
I showed off a video yesterday in which I am speaking to my chatbot. Today I have improved the delay of the text to speech, and the voice capture. It comes off slightly more natural now. I also made my bot evil.
2004? sure. 2010? doubtful. now, back to garbage
The author assumes we know what he means by "public work."
What I mean is that the game got leaked like 2 weeks before it's official release, - so on 4chan I think some anons created 60 fps patches a few days later, effectively creating patches before the game even got released.
This had nothing to do with Yuzu, I'm just remarking at how fast the community worked on it.
Tata Institute doctors claim new drug prevents cancer recurrence
That’s what they want you to think!
Seeing that list makes me deeply doubt the metrics or methodology here. As an Estonian, we use a lot of green energy, but the vast majority of it is imported, we're very much struggling with getting local production to where it needs to be.
No sound on Safari/MacOS.
An underwater gunshot at 12mm would probably break any normal microphone.
Yes, Hyperion could be an amazing adaptation. So many of these execs making strange decisions when good shows are already written for them to be adapted.
Someone else in the comments has suggested that maybe an entity or someone in a country like France where copyright laws are less strict might be able to write and maintain the patch without fear of persecution, but as you said, those guys may somehow still make life a pain in the ass :(
you'd have to decelerate several times slower (four gees to be safe, three gees to be gravitron-style 'comfortable'), but that's feasible in an aerodynamic (plasmadynamic?) fashion, even with a relatively low mass-per-unit-area projectile like a person facing forward
As aside, I'm curious: what was it like to work at IBM research, especially as a legacy industrial research org?
Do you know that, or are you mindlessly parroting a meme you saw on Reddit? Citation needed.