skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gosh, all of this is so locked down.

I've been waiting for this, and hoping I could "just" cook up some of my own code to use with WhatsApp, and/or integrate it with Pidgin or bridge to email or whatever. But the entire process is about as hostile as possible.

For example "Partner shall have in place a dedicated security team" basically excludes most startups, or most smaller companies.

It's not clear to me if this is really complying with the DMA – it's certainly not in the spirit of it, but less sure about the letter of it.
Don’t be too quick to accept these criticisms. You have to compare to competitors in the industry to get a clearer picture.

Looking at screen repairs for Samsung Galaxy phones the same security issues arise and there are complaints about Samsung blocking third party repairs due to security concerns.

So are both Apple and Samsung just being greedy or is there more to the issue at hand? I’m inclined to believe a company unless they’ve demonstrated that I cannot trust them.
Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI
It would be more useful as something like a video that plays while actually in view. I was actually reading the first part and when I got to the GIF it was in the middle of the animation.
I feel like there'd need to be some behavioral analysis done before implementing this. If someone is illegally trawling, seems like they'd have no qualms with abandoning shredded nets overboard then becoming an uncontrolled "ghost nets."
Researchers have found an amphibian that makes milk for its babies
I recall purchasing Dr Dobbs magazine in 1978 from Computerland. I still have them..
Fine-tuning on a niche task I guess! E.g. a bunch of LoRAs that can be easily swapped depending on the task!
And Frank Zappa's family, with the exception of his son Dweezil...
Who is "our?" Are you affiliated with OP in some way?
That's not true. There is a JWT token in the url with about 5 minute expiration window.
Hoping it's local :)
Whomane – An open source wearable with camera
I much prefer Claude 3 or even ChatGPT guardrails over Gemini. Gemini feels kind of powerful and then it does the most egregious things like this or hilarious imagegen of those black nazis as if they hammered it into the system prompt, bad code generation worse than last year's free Microsoft Copilot etc. it's like there is something surprisingly poor seeping through cracks. Weird model. I think it's simply not that hot and their system prompts shine through as the LLM doesn't quite "get" the intent and nuances. Gemini probably benefits tremendously from running uncensored. I hope all this is because Gemini 1.0 was something they wanted to get out the door urgently to replace Bard that couldn't even compete with GPT 3.5.
I'll just put this here:

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Sussman attains enlightenment

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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
https://www.thedataunion.org/
That entire section 6 is weird; because 6.1 talks about gaining access to WhatsApp's "systems, networks, databases, computers, or other information systems owned", and then 6.2 is the bit you quoted that talks about copyleft.

But ... it's not like WhatsApp is hiring me as a sysadmin for their servers, are they? Why would they give me access to their systems? They won't. This seems copy/paste legalese.
This kind of for-show pretend logic is aggravating. News is filled with it and people are suckers for it:

predicted that the Internet would fragment attention and consumption would shift into the “tail.” But Top Gun Maverick generated over $700 million at the domestic box office last year

Why is there a "but" in there? Those statements don't obviously contradict each other. You have to do some mental arithmetic to work out what proportion of the population that is, and know the price of a movie ticket and size of the population. How about just say "20% of Americans watched Top Gun Maverick"? Or better, compare it to the fragmentedness of historical movies. Maybe there's still a downward trend in popularity of hits. We're supposed to feel like we learnt something without actually having a clue.
Regexl: A High Level Language for Regex
You say "it's not my problem"

But you do not live there, you live in the West.

Just because the problem is diffuse and distant for you now, does not mean it is not your problem. If we all fail to treat it as the problem, it will become concentrated and local here also. (but sure, right now, it's more convenient to ignore it and party)
But only sometimes. ;)
What the hell is going on with the twitter replies? They are all jabbering about DEI? What on earth does that have to do with aircraft maintenance processes?
[waves to say hi]

I never studied computer science, I can't code a graph path-finding algorithm out of memory and yet I've been told by many former colleagues that I am one of the best programmers they ever met.

Which is quite hilarious because I still think I am quite bad, to this day, after 22 years of career. And no this is not humble-bragging, more like to outline how different our perspectives on ourselves can be from the perception of everyone else.

But this approach, I think, is what is keeping me intellectually honest. I am self-indulgent for like 2-3 days a year and the rest of the time I always think I have to learn yet another thing, and to practice it well.
Great points, and truly not in sarcasm. In the US, photos of intimate moments are plastered publicly on the internet by many.

Though, I doubt the line is always straightforward. There must have been reasons (hopefully not solely profit driven…). For example, Kafka. Granted I read, skimmed really, in an article that while his instructions were to destroy his writings, that he wanted them published.
> Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket?

No clue, but it certainly won’t be up to me. When I’m dead that’ll all be up to the ones left behind. What point is there in satisfying the wishes of someone that’s already dead? They won’t care any more.
My personal theory would be that the change in Boeing management is catching up to them. But like the anti-DEI folks, all I have to base that on is rough correlation. I certainly wouldn't try to make a case based on that alone.
Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality (2003) [pdf]
53, but that's still a lot more than the 5th degree polynomial that you need.
Funny, I've been having an idea of building a pulsejet drone specifically to address drone shortages in Ukraine recently.

Guess the ideas of this sort are literally in the air these days.
If I must have a central server and database then I'll totally do it that way.

The question is whether I can go without the centralization entirely and just have the devices (which are Arduino grade and not running python anyway) talk to each other.
Yeah I've never seen a domestic cat go for an adult chicken. They've always coexisted peacefully in my experience. They are symbiotic to some degree. Chickens can attract mice by virtue of how messy they are (throwing feed everywhere). Cats eat mice. Ecosystem balanced.

Also, an adult (egg-laying) chicken will weigh close to what a cat weighs. Cats have a plentitude of much easier prey.

Chicks would be fair game, but most people are raising chicks in an incubator setting. (Chickens are not great mothers, and you'll have a lot of attrition even in the absence of predators.)
The irony here is that - as Marquez highlighted in many occasions - he was deeply influenced by Kafka (probably his single biggest literary influence).

And Kafka as mentioned in this thread is probably the most well-known example of an author who wanted most of his work destroyed (he literally wanted it burned) but was betrayed by his executor of will.

So I wonder, given his legendary playful personality and the fact that he must have been aware of the Kafka example, if Marquez knew how this will end up, and made it so the unpublished novel will turn out to be filled with allusions of literary ghosts hunting down those who betray them and how those who are reading the book are deranged bastards for poking the corpse of the writer.
It’s already automated, you don’t need AI/ML to perform mass-phishing attempts. LDo you think there’s someone manually-dialing you every time you get a spam call?

The way we mitigate scams today definitely encourages me; the existence of victims does not imply the failure or inadequacy of safeguards keeping up with technology.

While AI stokes the imagination, it’s not so inspiring that I can make the argument in my head for you about why humanity’s better off with access to these tools being kept in the hands of corporations that repeatedly get sued for placing profits over public welfare.
Reducing the entire intellectual history of the european enlightenment to the actions of one IDF soldier. Yeah that makes sense.
Why do you seem to think there is one source only?
> you have openly decided to split your allegiances

Many people are born in the USA inherited dual citizenship. I personally know American-born Iranian and Russian citizens that would like to renounce their citizenship (since it negatively impacts their job opportunities in cleared engineering work) but are not able to do to current global political situations.
Sounds like Prevent is trying to Prevent threats to the current government and status quo, not threats of terrorism.
CORDIC doesn't make sense if multiplies have a similar cost to adds. If you have cheap multiplications then a successive approximation is faster. If multiplications are expensive relative to adds then CORDIC can still generally win. Basically this is only the case nowadays if you are doing ASICs or FPGAs.
I needed to do this to make the plugin work after purchasing it through the App Store on OS X:

1. Restart Safari

2. Activate the plugin

3. Add the button to the toolbar and click it once

Only after this did it function. You also need to open the plugin options from your Safari preferences to see all options, they will be cut off if you click the toolbar icon.

To the creator: Congratulations on making a very cool plugin! It fixes all of the worst annoyances of YouTube, meaning that I can start using the website instead of FreeTube and thus distribute my juicy subscription money to the creators I watch.
For now, it's for finetuning.

The issue of to what degree it might be possible to train a model from scratch using QLoRA is still an open question. The relora paper showed that it can work in some situations, but attempts to scale it up were unsuccessful. The recent DoRA paper perhaps might allow a "re-DoRA" approach to work. If so, that could be combined with quantization to do "re-QDoRA"!
Oh, for sure, they get all pearl clutchy when others try to do exactly what they have done, and they get all "not like that!" about it. The US is a society run by lawyers, and the big corps have the best lawyers. Maybe we can legislate out of the hole at some point, but it's a pretty grim outlook. Google et al also don't have to have the law on their side, they can simply litigate people and businesses into bankruptcy, regardless of the legal merit of their actions.

At any rate - there are ways of staking legitimate claim to content you publish online. Even by doing so, it may not be relevant. Robots.txt is a convention, not a regulation or law. It's respected out of social nicety, not because it's strictly legally required.

If you publish your data to a website where it's publicly visible, you are inviting the world to come download your data. When that data leaves your server and goes to live on the downloader's computer, the downloader can do whatever they want with that data.

It's not clear that it's legally possible to prevent the use of data in training models unless you require someone to sign a contract to that effect before being allowed to download your data.

That would be obnoxious, and I wouldn't bother with your content anymore. Like Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter, your site would get a 127.0.0.0 hosts file entry.

The US needs a clear, modern update to copyright law that upholds and maximizes individual rights, as well as privacy and property concerns. We shouldn't be playing this game where we pretend a website is somehow an analogy for a page of text scribed with a quill pen and using laws developed to handle issues when quill and parchment were relevant.

Let's write some new laws where we regulate what things are, and not play tortuous mental gymnastics to contort and butcher existing laws and precedents to say whatever the most expensive lawyers want.

Maybe the social contract allows for people to prevent their conversations from being scraped and used by third parties without explicit consent, even if the conversation is entirely public. I don't like that view, but I see the argument for it.

As things stand, though, fair use and public access make things pretty bright and clear, and rulings in various AI cases so far have favored broad fair use interpretations, and are requiring complainants to show specific, particular harms. If/When those harms are shown, then we'll see if any carveouts will be made, or if broad fair use interpretations will be the baseline for content scraping going forward.
The difference is motive. Some of us don't give a fuck about our fake Internet points.

Nor do I care about greasing up anybody on here; you're all strangers to me and I'd like to keep it that way.
Thanks for sharing your project! How does performance change when the `unsafe` feature is disabled?

It looks like there is only one usage of `unsafe` outside of the no_std build: https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm/blob/c50bae752f3...
> Would that be what’s best for everyone?

> If you’re being serious, I genuinely wonder if you realize the consequences of this drastic a decision.

It would be best for everyone who isn't Boeing. But we all know that the second it would happen, Boeing would run crying to politicians they own how unfair this action is/how it endangers their market position/how it threatens national security.
> but truth be told he does come off as a bit of an ass.

Being able to look past that is what constitutes one of the meanings of the expression "going out of your comfort zone" which is basically how you learn new things.

Like your sibling commenter, I distill wisdom and experience any chance I get. If I find myself being irritated by somebody, my first reaction is to ask myself why. If the reason is emotional I almost always dismiss it.
Oh great, now the previously lazy companies will pressure researchers to "not have discovered" bugs due to the legislatively required response to anything put into the system formally... and we will start hearing, "I don't use open source because it involves triage of too many CVEs. Michaelsoft never gives my engineers mandatory work."
yeah, but 52 adds can be a lot cheaper than a few multiplies, if you're making them out of shift registers and logic gates (or LUT). in a CPU or GPU, who cares, moving around the data is 100x more expensive than the ALU operation.
> constrained to one chip and one platform

and constrained to one compiler at a precise version, and one set of compiler options
The "developers developers developers developers" company did an incompatible rewrite of their API what, 4x over? At one point even Osborneing themselves, announcing the new incompatible version of Windows Phone just before putting out the first devices that used the current version. You can only screw over your app makers so many times; sure you may not need thousands of apps, but Windows Phone didn't have YouTube, didn't have WhatsApp; at some point it's just untenable.
That's obviously really unfortunate, but again, what's better out there?
It only says 'affor affor affor...(repeated 100+ times)' for me.

I am not sure how to debug this.
Thanks for the clarification, and thanks for going with a permissive license.

I think the link to the Design Exception was broken previously. Also in the definition it's called the Design Exclusion, might want to fix that.

It would just be easiest if every page where you download the design has a copyable license with correct attribution, and a LICENSE file in the download bundle, just like a typical open source project. As is, the license information is kind of buried in not one but two different FAQ parts of your website.
I can't tell, but are you advocating for human test subjects?
> How about we just stop giving Israel more bombs until they agree to let aid in the normal way

How about Israel lets no aid in until Hamas lets aid and doctors in for the hostages? They won't even say which victims are still alive.
Yeah - that's just red-flagging "interesting" urls to people running greyhat and blackhat crawlers.
> they celebrate airstrikes against Palestinians

Fwiw there are videos of Palestinians also dancing frenetically around the naked corpse or shani louk.
It's almost impossible to solve a Rubik's Cube in under 3 seconds (2019)[video]
LAX might be a better option for the airline, as it is a larger airport with several alternative flights towards Japan where passengers could be shuffled into.
Twitter removing likes and retweet from feed display
Do you know what's an easy, pleasant way to write GraphQL? Just write the GraphQL, in a foo.graphql file.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)#Risk...

> As of 2023, the Great Green Wall was reported as "facing the risk of collapse" due to terrorist threats, absence of political leadership, and insufficient funding. “The Sahel countries have not allocated any spending in their budgets for this project. They are only waiting on funding from abroad, whether from the European Union, the African Union, or others.” said Issa Garba, an environmental activist from Niger, who also described the 2030 guideline as an unattainable goal. Amid the existing stagnation, a growing number of voices have called for scrapping the project.
Especially since their year would be much much shorter than ours
Well, that's because the previous generation are high fidelity parrots and virtue signalling monkeys so they perpetuate the cycle.
With the end goal being?

Nowadays OSS only seems to provide fodder for the big companies to pick up and chew on. Better Linux ain't gonna get many non tech people to not buy laptops from Apple, Dell, etc
Does Microsoft's discussion forums work too? Because I wonder if Firefox has code to ignore backbitten pages.
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Yeah sorry I meant from, like, 2000-ish and on.
Neuromorphic computing basically uses individual "neurons", represented with either analog or digital circuits, which communicate using asynchronous pulses called "spikes". Unlike the human brain, neuromorphic chips are 2D, but we can replicate a good amount of neural dynamics in silicon.

It's unclear how they managed to use this to run LLMs, though. Getting GPT-2 running with SNNs is a legitimate achievement, because SNNs have traditionally lagged significantly behind conventional deep learning architectures.

https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/documents/ANe...
https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/documents/Ben...
You can't blame the search engine for indexing plain URLs. Listing a closed-but-unlocked door is a bad analogy.
Welcome back, you've been commenting near daily as showdead for a couple of months!!

I guess somebody cleared the drains for you.
Lessons from Hacking the Human Mind via Social BookMarking (2006)
I've only seen CVSS used by vendors to declare a lower severity rating than is warranted by an earnest understanding of a bug, and bug bounty hunters to do the opposite.

For example, what does Network vs Local vs Physical mean if it's an exploit in a cloud microservice?

Ooh let me consult the tea leaves. What's that? They consider it "Network" even though it's S3 mounted locally as a filesystem? Now that sev:med looks like a sev:crit.

The known alternative to CVSS is to rate severity levels entirely on vibes, and I find vibes to be more accurate.
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure the market is there for the "plausible CVE" replacement you mention. We already have EPSS and KEV, and we regularly see attempts to replace CVSS with something better -- Zoom did something recently, as did Vulncheck I think. They don't tend to get much traction.
Actually you CAN get real human SLA tech support from google. If you pay $20/yr for https://one.google.com storage you also get paid support for google account snafus. No joke.
Acoustic tactile sensing for mobile robot wheels
Ford Aerospace was one of the first commercial sites of BSD Unix. The licensing was complicated. We had to buy Unix 32V from AT&T first.
That transaction got on the path for major corporate documents. AT&T and Ford Motor had a cross-licensing agreement. Eventually, I got a no-cost license agreement embossed with the corporate seals of both the Ford Motor Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Made a copy and taped it onto a VAX. Then I drove up to Berkeley from Palo Alto and Bill Joy gave me a BSD tape.

BSD didn't have networking at that point. We bought 3COM's UNET.[1] That was TCP/IP, written by Greg Shaw. $7,300 for a first CPU. $4,300 for each additional CPU.
It didn't use "sockets"; you opened a connection by opening a pseudo-device. UNET itself was in user space, talking to the other end of those pseudo-devices.

Once we got that going, we had it on VAX machines, some PDP-11 machines, and some Zilog Z8000 machines.
(The Zilog Z8000 was roughly similar to a PDP-11)
All of which, along with some other weird machines including a Symbolics LISP machine, eventually interoperated. We had some of Dave Mills' Fuzzballs as routers [2], and a long-haul link to another Ford location that connected to the ARPANET. Links included 10Mb/s Ethernet, a DEC device called a DMC that used triaxial coax cables, and serial lines running SLIP. A dedicated 9600 baud serial synchronous line to Detroit was a big expense.

My work in congestion control came from making all this play well together. These early TCP/IP implementations did not play well with others. Network interoperability is assumed now, but it was a new, strange idea back then, in an era when each major computer maker had their own networking protocols. UNET as delivered was intended to talk only to other UNET nodes. I had to write UDP and ICMP, and do a major rewrite on TCP.

When BSD got networking, it was initially intended to talk only over Ethernet, to other BSD implementations. When 4.3BSD came out, it would only talk to some other implementations during alternate 4 hour intervals. I had to fix the sequence number arithmetic, which wrapped incorrectly.

And finally, it all worked. For a few years, it was said of the TCP/IP Internet that it took "too many PhDs per packet." One day, on the Stanford campus, I saw a big guy with a tool belt carrying an Ethernet bridge (a sizable box in those days) under his arm, and thought, this is finally a working technology.

[1] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_3Com3ComUN_1019199/pag...

[2] https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/stories/remembering-alum-david-...
I'm not sure if I'm using the jargon properly, but if r is the real cube root of 2, then I thought the extension generated by r is Q(r), which contains only reals. So (x^3 - 2) factors into (x-r) and the irreducible quadratic (x^2 + r*x + r^2). You have to do some extra thing to reach the splitting field, amirite?
You can add/delete entries in the iOS keychain from the Passwords section.

And I am looking at my iPhone now and Meta does not store tracking data in the Keychain.