skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a problem in this area is that if one avenue of data collection is denied, another one will be implemented and it becomes a game of whack-a-mole.

For example the USG is forbidden from collecting communications from US citizens, but that does not keep it from buying this information from private domestic sources or from other governments.
Poisoning people is accepted as wrong by most people. Monitoring devices so that you can "make them safer" or "save the children" or whichever other BS reason they give is easy to give them a pass on.
> 1. The hardware isn't nVidia's primary moat. CUDA is.

People really don't appreciate this. So many times I see people comment that AMD should implement CUDA and not try to get software to move standard.

AMD have a massive task ahead because they NEED to get CUDA unseated just to play on a level playing ground, let alone win.
Very nice, but probably very US-centric aswell, so maybe displaying for what job market it applies might be a good thing :)

But yeah reminds me in about a year I will also have to apply for a new job, and I'm certainly not looking forward to the whole process.
> know companies that use it

We can only do a limited set of operations homomorphically. Moreover, it’s more power intensive than conventional computation. In most cases, local computation is the more effective (and secure) solution.
Also there’s literally a causal relationship between model topology and quality of output.

This can be plainly seen when trying to get a model to replicate its input.

Some models perform better in fewer steps, some perform worse for many steps, then suddenly much better.

How is discovering these properties of statistical models NOT science?
Unfortunate 'typo.' I meant in the top 10. Edited the post.
You appear to be conflating a few different things here.

The primary thesis of your original post appears to be universities' shift toward getting people ready for careers that require advanced knowledge (and away from pure learning/research).

That has very little to do with research freedom and the race to publications. Those are both real phenomena, but a) it is arguable whether the former is actually a problem, and b) they are only very loosely connected.

The number of grad students being trained, by contrast, is much more likely to be related to the degree to which universities still value and practice learning for learning's sake—although I think it is somewhat less so than vkou wished to imply, since there are, in fact, plenty of non-academic jobs that do require or prefer a Masters or even a PhD.
Hard to say, I ended up leaving for Lemmy, which isn't as big but it gets the job done
Imagine using the same argument with weapons for the military.
Like buying warfare boats that are working thanks to servers in foreign countries?

In fact, we have a precedent in France regarding Microsoft crawling itself in inside our military:

https://www.april.org/en/french-ministry-defence-and-microso...
> In 2023, the company’s revenue was $804.0 million. Research and development, at $438.3 million, was more than half, an awfully big number for a company of this age. Total costs and expenses were $944.2 million. The net loss was $90.8 million, which at least is an improvement over 2022, with its $666.7 million in revenue and $158.6 million in losses. [1]

These expenditures blow my mind. But if reddit can grow revenue to 1200m and cuts expenses to 300m, the story looks totally different. A turnaround like that might only take a couple of years. Reddit is an incredibly sticky product, just badly mismanaged. With some new management, it could even be a buy at 5bn.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2024/02/26/reddits-...
Shareholders being about 100 billionaires
> who actually owns them? We need to treat this similar to the "right to repair" issue

Ownership is a bad framework for this issue—it’s too ambiguous. You can “own” a vehicle all you want, that doesn’t give you the right to fuck with its odometer or catalytic converter.
Nice living in the wealthiest country in human history, ain’t it.

Do you think this is the case for the billions of people closer to the equator or in poorer countries?
The hardware is still on the chip.
No it's not. No-one has claimed it is. The parent of this whole thread is "If ever I'm the subject of a lawsuit that'd require me to turn in my computer, I'd scrub it to oblivion at the slightest intimation of what's happening."

'So if I was being sued, I'd destroy evidence.' is a great way for the court to give you the hardest of times, and potentially jail time.
What the exceptional case is depends on the what the pre- and post-conditions of the function are. If a function assumes that the user is logged in then the user not being logged in is indeed exception. Not to say that it is good design though. That function is quite fragile like this. If it must assume that a user is logged in, then it could easily require a user to be given as an argument which will remove the whole possibility.
Who do you trust to determine the right amount of aerosol? Some areas will be harmed by temperature increases, some will benefit. Who decides who benefits? This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons. We are underequipped to cooperate.
Why would you not use online editors with real time merging, like Word online and Google Docs? Going back to ye olden times of diffs seems like a nightmare
It's a story that is a classical part of education for most adults who have gone through it (US-focused).

Perhaps you didn't read it. If your education journey was in another locale, are there any stories that stick with you that strike a similar contemplation, of the hubris of man and the untamed heart?
"Open source" or "open weight"? Because there is a distinction. Many have previously provided open weights (or what they call "open model" now): Mistral, LLaMA, Falcon, etc. There are not many open "source" LLMs out there that bring true value to business and academia.
No hallucinations and answers that are backed up by the product description or a seller Q&A. If I wanted general information, I'd use Google.
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Since nobody answered the question, the reason is its terribly absolutely insanely slow. It's possible, just requiring hundreds of thousands or millions of times as much work as say, a normal lookup in a database.
It did work in terms of what the Reddit owners wanted, which was engagement - they did get more people onto their app and using their platform. The owners got just what they wanted.

In return, quality has fallen off a cliff. Moderation on some of the most popular subs is scarce, so all the popular ones have started to coalesce into a 'blob' of sameness. Discussions are poor as well, and misinformation is rife.

For the niche subreddits, often dedicated to one topic, where there isn't a lot of traffic, not that much has changed. There's still a decent amount of engagement. It might be that some quality has fallen off there, but it's the "new normal".
https://archive.is/lmMp9
>Sure, the car company will homomorphically encrypt your driving data when it sends it to its own servers.

You can encrypt the data such that the insurance companies cannot target any particular individual (which is my problem her) but they can use the data to improve their insurance pricing models.

I have no problem with a health insurance company using population data to find out how many are susceptible to say cancer.

But I have a problem when they use this data to over price a particular individuals insurance
because their gene say that they are susceptible to cancer.
In Atlanta the tap water in summer is more like 22°C (72°F), which is coincidentally the average nighttime temperature.

I could imagine that a place where the nighttime temperatures are in the mid 30s (°C) would not have any cooler water available.
It's pretty much impossible to explain to people what it's like to work in a CL environment.

A good presentation on what we're missing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3s
Hong Kong doesn't deserve this.
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It was always clear that the nazi mods would never ever give up their power, which made this whole "protest" ridiculous from the start. The only ones who left were the few good people in small subreddits, who just wanted a forum to talk about their niche hobby, leaving behind an even larger percentage of powertripping narcissists.
8087 - vector edition.
Ministry For The Future was far too optimistic. Termination Shock presents how late stage capitalism and the accelerationists would team up to make money on half-baked science to save the planet. The West will probably be fine but we're going to make Mao and Stalin look like amateur hour mass murderers when we finally save our own butts.
Can't be bothered to log into every device to read a reddit page. It requires an account for some pages as simple as r/rust
Do you believe everyone has that available on tap?
After following all the steps, I see this error:

AttributeError: module 'mpmath' has no attribute 'rational'
Did you read the book? (Spoiler Alert) Basically the only thing remaining with Charlie after his regression was the memory of his friend Algernon. A "mere" laboratory rat, like himself. That's a message about what things really matter in the long run.
Currently imagining myself as some hideous beast that breathes the well-known toxic corrosive gas "oxygen".

Makes you think of the sulphur dioxide in Venus' atmosphere, and whether life could still evolve in those conditions.
Not surprised that pg proves once again that he is little more than a narrow-minded capitalist, who doesn't actually understand anything about culture, the humanities, literature, or what it is people actually value in those spaces.

His writing is consistently flat, uninspired, and egotistical. He's ok at writing clear prose and this plus his success in relation to YC has made him popular among technical people that also embrace capitalism. Anyone outside of this little cult realizes that pg says very little of value, particularly when he decides to comment on subjects outside of his capitalistic and technical wheelhouses. I have not read a single pg essay that touches on culture, ethics, or general epistemology that has given me anything other than a complete groan of a reaction and astonishment that this is the sort of thinking that passes the "high-quality" bar for the average technologist.

pg can try as hard as he can to write the "best essay". He will never convince this reader since he occupies a completely different world and basically isn't even capable of speaking to this audience in the first place.

...just to lengthen this comment more than is due, the quote is astonishing. I mean, how arrogant do you have to be to claim that the past hundreds of years of literary development, in which the notion of "best essay" is considered at best completely relative and at worst nonsense, must be wrong and that anyone who thinks otherwise must just be a "pseudo intellectual" (read: someone who disagrees with paul graham). He's really high on his own supply.
How would ODF be better? Office Open XML standards are also publicly available if you need them.
I use maybe functions a lot for things like "maybeShowReminderDialog". The conditions for displaying the reminder are wrapped in this maybe function.

Surely that's simpler than specifying those conditions before every call to show this dialog, resulting in plenty of duplicated code. And if those conditions change, there is only one place I need to update it.

Of course I can make a single operation to check those conditions like "shouldShowReminder", but that too is doubling the surface area of this code.

I see the merit of the argument here but disagree with the absolutist stance against "maybe" functions.
Not really sure most will want to live like the folks in the Silo TV series.
Of the solutions:

a) Impractical because cars are needed for daily life and there’s no incentive for automakers to not sell your data.. so all cars will unless this becomes a compelling enough product difference to move the needle on profits,

b) Legislation/regulation that creates the right incentives isn’t easy, but certainly doable.

c) Impractical because homomorphic encryption is absurdly computationally expensive, is still not a fully unsolved problem, and.. in what universe do automotive companies implement this far fetched and expensive means of privacy without sone.. err.. regulation?

It doesn’t seem to be superior to option b)
> Why not look at the FDA? When was the last time you were poisoned?

How many deaths happened because of excessive regulation, extreme delays, and overall refusal to acknowledge other medical bodies' acceptance of treatment?

The CATO institute, a Republican think-tank, put a number on FDA drug law alone from 20000-120000 deaths per decade. (I was aiming at another more impartial org, but sigh)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-fda-drug-monopoly-let-pa...
You know that a main function is not really the only way to do programs right? Like shell integrations and other such things are exactly what you talk about. Those are software with "interesting APIs". It just does not make a lot of sense for a foreground application or at least some application that needs control.

And besides if you have a look at Apple platforms and how they do communication with running applications, "interesting APIs" right there.

And finally there is no requirement at all that ELF binaries are stripped of useful info (symbols, debug info etc), there is a desire though to save disk space and make reverse engineering harder.

All of this has nothing to do with the executable code format (native vs byte code or what have you).
Maybe they should've labeled it 'for UK only' instead.
I thought we were on a site where people were knowledgeable and precise about the technical subjects being discussed.
> How is GDPR badly written?

Enforcement is fractured. It’s a mandatory-complaint driven model, which is both intensive (every complaint demands manpower on both the regulator and regulated’s sides) and prone to abuse (known tactic for quashing European competition: herding complaints). All that means it’s ambiguously burdensome, which means there is a fixed cost to compliance even if you aren’t doing anything wrong.
Oh yes. For everyone who is collaboratively editing texts, track changes is a much used function. Also the diff to create so-called redline versions. And commenting.

Sharepoint also tracks all versions automatically which is quite handy.

Haven’t yet found anything resembling this in the LaTeX world. Does OpenOffice offer this?
My current favourite is OnlyOffice – pretty concise interface and good compatibility. Unfortunately, there's no build for Linux on Arm yet, so I'm stuck with LibreOffice (not too bad either).
> Yes, but to me there's another important issue, with all the tracking tech in our vehicles, who actually owns them?

It's even worse. Your car acts as a blackbox against you. A 1990's car? I can do whatever the fuck I want to, I can drive it offroad, I can speed, I can even be near a bank robbery or whatever.

A modern car? Someone robs a bank a few hundred meters from where I am, and now the police will come knock on my door because the IMEI of my car was near the bank when the robbery happened. I speed a little bit to overtake some dumbass driving 20 km/h below the limit, the police makes a dragnet subpoena against my insurance / the data processor from the manufacturer, and issues me a ticket.
Though demand for heating should be falling simultaneously, no? I wonder what the net CO2 tradeoff is there. At least historically with burning fuels to create heat, that likely contributed more per unit of degree-change than AC, however with Heat pumps now that's probably either a wash or reversed, if I had to guess.
And to what extent are those labs doing the same kind of fundamental research that Bell Labs was doing back in the day?

Sure, they wanted to produce things that Ma Bell could monetize—but it was abundantly clear that they were not being micromanaged to that effect. Today, at least from the outside, it seems like any industry-funded research is cut off the moment it looks like it's not going to produce a clearly-profitable product or service within the next few years.
With good encryption we wouldn't need to spend alot of time trying to enforce these laws
US Equity Investors to Focus on the AI Sector, Inflation Data This Week
> Poisoning people is accepted as wrong by most people

Sure. It was still prevalent prior to the F&DA of 1906.
Haystack 2.0 – compound LLM pipelines are here
This represents a major rewrite of the package with more powerful features than ever.

We have introduced the new concept of components. Components are composable and customisable and can be connected into pipelines. Pipelines are dynamic execution graphs that support a range of flows from simple linear chains to more complex execution flows containing loops. This means, you can get started easily with a few lines of code, but have room for extending and customising the logic of the pipeline.

This restructuring of the package paves the way to building truly extensible and composable AI systems ready for production.

The team will be around for questions!
Well, the use-case I have in mind is that I want to convey a message to (say) my granddaughter, on or after her 21st birthday. I'll be long-gone.

There's no point in encrypting a secret to protect it from my own eyes; I already know the secret.
Thomson Reuters Plans $8B Spending Spree on AI Targets
If it wasn't for our former governor John Sununu, (father of the current one), the US response to climate change might have been quite different.
Someone should get all of Wallstreetbets to short Reddit to the deepest depths of evaluation :D

Or someone just buy all the stock and just end it, pretty please.
I wonder whether people who defend piracy also defend making money with it.

That tends to be where I draw the line (except for perhaps very extenuating circumstances). For me, piracy without profit motive is literally just knowledge / information sharing. I feel as though copyright basically shouldn't exist in cases where someone doesn't profit from reproducing / copying / distributing some kind of content.

As soon as someone starts making money with someone else's creation, it becomes a crime in my view.

I understand that there is nuance to this...what if someone runs a torrent site and needs funding to keep running the site, thus technically creating some kind of cash-flow / revenue stream. I don't really have the answer to that (except perhaps that we should all just use open-source DHT-based torrent searches, so no funding of centralised sites is needed?)

But yeah, in cases where someone is this blatantly operating an IPTV service, it's obvious why they got prosecuted.
> It doesn't seem in the car company's interests to take on the reputational risk for this kind of financial reward.

Tell that to Boeing, they're on course to tank the entire company out of the financial shenanigans they pulled after 1997.

As soon as a company goes publicly traded, the incentives change - there is no more priority on long term, the only thing that matters is INVESTORS INVESTORS INVESTORS (read that one in your finest Steve Ballmer voice).
I didn't find it to be ruined at all. It might be worth asking yourself why it bothers you so much.
Right, so latency is less of an issue (because control flow is predictable) and performance becomes about bandwidth.
Their IPO pricing requires some 20-25x growth. No way.
This underestimates just how slimy Reddit is. When looking at all the stats and financials provided remember this is a company that started by creating fake users & happily acknowledges as much. Or the direct edits by founders to underlying database to influence discussions. Or the weird super moderators that have power over thousands of subs that seem to have their own agenda far too often ( https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fb... )
Appearing "safe" via slow speeds and slow turns does not equal "safe" in the real world.

Unless the car has cameras staring at you, it doesn't know if you're checking your mirrors before lane-changes, going 10-under the limit in the far left lane on a busy highway, etc.

Even then, cameras aren't good because assuming people are telling the truth when they use test-taking software, there are false positives that have to be manually-reviewed by proctors when the computer thinks you're looking in the wrong place.

(Edit: it also doesn't know if your mirrors are positioned properly so you do not have a "blindspot". In every modern vehicle I've driven, it is possible to set the mirrors so you can continuously see cars in the left or right lane next you - from the rearview mirror to the sideview mirror to the side glass. Hint, if you can see the side of your own vehicle in your sideview mirror: it is set improperly.)

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> frequent lane changes as a risk factor.

People not willing to change lanes is how you get more traffic and more dangerous driving overall. Traffic should stay right unless passing - which means once someone is done passing, they also need to move to the right. People crusing in the left lane is how backups happen and people trying to make more dangerous lane-changes to pass on the right. Less lane changes would be a bad thing to incentivise.

If more people used cruise control in general, that might help (don't know if any studies have been done about that). As it is now, most people's speeds ebb and flow and that causes traffic, especially when they either consciously or subconscious try to speed up to match someone trying to pass them, or whether it's curves, hills, narrower lanes due to automated tollbooths, bridges, etc.
There's that. And it also reduces the chance for race conditions:

if ( shouldShow() ) /* state changes here where it should not show */ doShow();
I hope that was sarcasm...
The main concern with the official app is the data it hoards. Back in the day it even needed permissions for your Google account on Android, and did not work without it.
Definitely. "Splotches"
<Sure, 30degrees and 90+ humidity is survivable, but only just.>

And how could you get any work done? I worked in the oilfields when I was in my early twenty's, if the temp was over 100F, less work got done because we didn't want to die. I knew men who got heat stroke, they were never the same again. I myself got heat exhaustion several times, it took a few days to recover. Our bodies can only take so much, no matter how tough you are, wet rags and frequent breaks don't always work.
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Maybe someone have NixOS configs with all the settings, generating live ISO based on those configs. So the matter is just generating/booting those ISOs and you have a clean system with your configs.
Put in some impermanence, and you have a clear separation of irreplaceable user and OS data, and replaceable data. Regularly back up the irreplaceable data, boot the ISO and mount this data (or an assumed not compromised version), and you effectively have your system back.