skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The blame squarely falls at the IA's feet; being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior

> This way of thinking is the reason why we are losing so many great things. Laws are created by people to support a society we want to live in. When laws no longer sever the society, then the society must rise up and change them. Like with any bug, fixing it early is cheaper than fixing it later.

Let me put it bluntly: the IA went about pursuing that change in stupid and impulsive way, and their actions may very well accomplish nothing while causing us to lose more "great things."

"I'm going to pretend the laws I don't like don't exist in order to try to change them," is an activity for people with little other responsibility and little to lose.

In hindsight, if the IA wanted to try something like the "National Emergency Library," they should have set up an independent entity to take the fall and contain the damage if it didn't work out. And since they didn't do that, they should probably have tried really hard to settle and fight another day than go down in a blaze of glory.
Fallout 76 hits over 1M players in a single day w launch of Amazon Prime Series
At least some of them certainly do record it. I have multiple passports and have had difficulties several times with an airline that has one of my passports listed, that doesn't show the right of entry to the other country and which I was not intending to use for that flight. Moreover, if you are travelling on a codeshare flight, for instance, all airlines involved will record your travel documents, but only the airline operating the flight will be able to make updates to them.

edit: they certainly do not anywhere rely on eyeballing a piece of paper and letting some random staff member say "yup looks legit".
A reference to the mishap at the Oscars I assume.
I don't think I'd pass the personality test to get hired onto a job that tracked my time in the washroom.

Sure hope that those who are tracked that way unionize soon.
Off-topic, but the bit numbering convention is deliciously confusing.

Little-endian bytes (lowest byte is leftmost) and big-endian bits (bits contributing less numerical value are rightmost) are normal, but the bits are referenced/numbered little-endian (first bit is leftmost even though it contributes the most numerical value). When I first read the numbering convention I thought it was going to be a breath of fresh air of someone using the much more sane, but non-standard, little-endian bits with little-endian bytes, but it was actually another layered twist. Hopefully someday English can write numbers little-endian, which is objectively superior, and do away with this whole mess.
For an exploration of the dark forest theory at least, I recommend The Killing Star. Fair warning though, it’s extremely bleak.
“The Redemption of Time”

It ties together loose ends and goes into more detail about what happened to that brain.
I may be mistaken but I think this is satire. I don't know for certain though. I just came across this as I was web surfing.
> In the most popular character encoding, UTF-8, character number 65 ("A") is written:

> 01000001

> Only the second and final bits are 1, or "on".

Isn’t it more accurate to say that the first and penultimate bits are 1, or “on”?
I'm sorry to hear your library is like that. Mine isn't, and I don't think this generalization is fair.
If you want a privacy-compatible logger, simply record every two-key sequence with a counter on each. That way, order is obscured, but you have a relational graph.
Could you clarify which specific details are missing from the messages? Additional clinical documentation can be sent in 275 attachments.

The law does not specifically require X12. The law gives CMS the authority to set technical standards and they chose X12 for those transactions because there was no other practical option. But recently they have granted at least one exception to use FHIR instead.
Interesting - I almost always iterate on code in the same session. I will try doing it with history off and frequently re-starting the session. I naively assumed the extra context would help, but I can see how it's also just noise when there are 5 versions of the same code in the context.
That comparison doesn't hold.

If you're dealing with lengths, you can get input data in meters, centimeters, millimeters, inches, feet, etc.

If the input data is human heights, would you automatically assume meters even if the input data is "183"?

If the input data is the weight of humans, would you always assume grams, even if the input data is "75"?
It tends to be the opposite. The UK is so strict about overstays that it doesn’t need to fine anybody to enforce the rules.

The countries that fine people are usually (not always) more open to allowing them back in again.

I’m not aware of countries that imprison overstayers, although I’m sure there must be some. Detainment awaiting deportation yes, but usually if you show up at a border and try to leave after overstaying most countries will not interfere with your exit (with or without a fine).
How advanced is excel now comparing with 2016 version?

New expensive laptop had the same "fast" feeling which fade with new iterations of software. Browser takes insane amount of CPU and memory but isn't faster.

Maybe some intense CPU tasks like zipping folder is faster then ever, but I'm not zipping all day. However Slack is behaving like there is server side remote rendering for each screen...
Thanks, updated. It would take a little over a day for them to generate $196 million.

Let's assume the combined daily gross profit of the three companies is:

T-Mobile: 15.5 million (estimated gross margin of 34% on 45.5 million revenue)
AT&T: 42.5 million (estimated gross margin of 34% on 125.6 million revenue)
Verizon: 121.5 million (estimated gross margin of 35% on 349.3 million revenue)
Combined daily gross profit: 15.5 million + 42.5 million + 121.5 million = 179.5 million

To generate $196 million in gross profit, it would take the combined daily gross profit of the three companies approximately:

179.5 million (combined daily gross profit) ÷ 196 million (target gross profit) ≈ 1.09 days
Yeah, I did check it all before I commented, quietly preparing to come out with something a little more scathing.

It's nearly there though so it's genuinely an improvement on how they used to behave.

Leaving aside the general ridiculousness, that is, and without checking their actual daily revenue which I'm fairly confident is more likely to be wrong than the arithmetic.
That is why we have fortnight, hence fortnightly, so biweekly can mean twice weekly.

However that then all falls apart once we have US based folks in the conversation, especially if one of them used 'biweekly'!
Article title: Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
They don't care about you or any one individual. They are collecting this data so they can buy/sell shares ahead of the public markets and quarterly reports. Same idea as using satellite photos to determine Walmart parking lot usage.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/08/19/129298095/with...
This is so spectacularly outdated. KOI-8 has been dead for ages.
> 5% weight loss at the end of the day, and no cardio metabolic improvement [0]. So basically the net change was super small and cosmetic. I understand this could still be useful for very specific cases, but it's more of a niche that we're willing to admit.

Hey 5% weight loss is pretty good! And remember, there maybe a period of time where the process repeats after getting off (no research to support this yet).

Also, I think you're under-estimating the psychological benefits. The lessened/blunted impulses to eat/do other addictive things might prove to be way more valuable in the time frame than simply the weight loss.

Also, note that the 5% is basically the worst case -- it's possible for more motivated people to keep more than that off, especially if they change their lifestyles appropriately, and importantly the drugs help people get in a headspace to do that.

> I hear you, I and I think we'll see more and more diverse drugs with different mechanisms. I'm just not sure we should be saying "this time it's different" every single time when we could take more measured approach before pushing it to the masses. Right now we're already in the YOLO phase waiting to see how it will pan out now that everyone and their dog want the miracle weight loss drug.

Yeah but I'd say this time it is different -- we've literally never had any weight loss drug that was this effective with so few side effects, and is well studied and essentially has an arms race between the largest pharma companies in the world to produce.

I agree with you though -- it's not a miracle drug, but it's the closest we've seen so far, so that's worth celebrating.

Personally I don't think anyone has to push this drug -- the masses are demanding it -- it's just that only rich people/lucky people with good health plans can afford it so far.
It depends on whether your bit numbering is like x86 (your description), or PowerPC (left most bit is 0).
> Tons of irrelevant detail and uninteresting sidestories.

That's how I felt about Succession for 3 seasons.

I felt it just dragged and dragged and I couldn't understand what was the fuss.

Then I started watching some YouTube commentary and starting to understand that the irrelevant and uninteresting was actually relevant and interesting.

ATN, the succession, that was all bogus for character development, a setup.

I feel like House of Cards may fall in a similar category there. It's not much about the action but character evolution and dynamics.
On that note, for anyone who hasn't run into the "looks like it understands, but doesn't" issue, here's a simple test case to try it out: Ask ChatGPT to tell you the heights of two celebrities, and ask it which would be taller if they were side-by-side. Regenerate the response a few times and you'll get responses where it clearly "knows" the heights, but also obviously doesn't understand how a taller-shorter comparison works.
Microsoft would like a word with you (utf-8-bom & utf-16)
What constitutional right to privacy from private parties? There’s no explicit constitutional right to privacy, and the constitution only binds the government.
Getting this error:

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Because profit is a poor indicator of financial flexibility. Amazon being the famous example of running at maximum growth for many years instead of trying to have fat profits. That said, revenue isn’t a great indicator either.
Or if you want to use revenue, revenue from the data sales.
What would be the justification for using profit rather than revenue?

For years Amazon was one of the biggest companies in the world while never making a profit. If it engaged in wrongdoing should they have been given a fine of 0$ (or negative I guess) since they weren't profitable?
No experience but Alternativeto.net might help.

The sharing part makes that a little less common.
> just feels like there's this overwhelming amount of constant change and detail

The good news is, you can mostly ignore it. I have 20 year old server-side rendered apps that are still running just fine today. Why run on that treadmill? Find something that looks solid and makes sense, and stick with it for awhile.
You can start by assuming UTF-8, then move on to other heuristics if UTF-8 decoding fails. UTF-8 is "picky" about the sequence of bytes in multi-byte sequences; it's extraordinarily unlikely that text in any other encoding will satisfy its requirements.

(Other than pure ASCII, of course. But "decoding" ASCII text as UTF-8 is safe anyway, so that hardly matters.)
> thereafter they're just numbered with the plain number.

$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_391"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_391-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.391-b13, mixed mode)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The loss of dark skies is so painful, maybe the worst thing modern life brought to us. I remember laying in the grass with my grandma looking at the stars for hours, she would tell me how the whole village gathered around the only TV they had to watch the moon landing live, about sputnik, galaxies, satellites, &c. there aren't many things as mesmerising, maybe watching a fire or the ocean waves, but it doesn't trigger the same emotions in me.

I don't travel much but when I go to remote areas star gazing is up there on my list of things to do; watch the stars until you're about to pass out from hypothermia, go back inside, make some tea, enjoy the fireplace, forget about the daily (non) problems, it never gets old
>> I don't want to live in a society where authors don't get paid, so the laws are just fine.

> The vast, VAST majority of money that an author makes is from their advance. It is exceedingly rare for a book to sell even enough to cover that advance, and even rarer for it to have sales strong enough that the author sees meaningful, life changing residuals.

This is how author advances would work in a world without copyright: authors would self-publish their books, and there would be no advances. If the book proved to be popular and successful, all the major distribution platforms would "pirate" it and pay them nothing. No conceivable DRM would save the author's income, because the platforms can afford to pay people to manually key in the work.
Yes, I thought that too but since we're on the Cold War level again, it might be a trick and the article a glorification of Russian agents...on the other hand, they work with Bellingcat and if those guys don't think it's fishy...at least I wouldn't dare to question their resources.
when has your claim "the Luddites are always proven correct in hindsight." been true?
One or more beings with power and intelligence many orders of magnitude higher than our own. To call it god or gods gives a religious tone to it that totally derails the discussion and I’m specifically avoiding. This isn’t about going to church on Sundays.

There are a few answers to the “Where are they?” question. One is that the parameters to the Drake equation mean life is so rare we actually are alone (as another commenter linked to). Another group of answers is that there is life, but something about the relationship between us means we don’t observe them. Maybe they’re hiding from us. Maybe they’re hiding from everyone.

I think the range of possible answers that people think of for this scenario is generally much too narrow. The power imbalances can be wildly greater than “they’re avoiding us”. We experience power imbalances this large every day. What’s the relationship between a Petri dish of bacteria and a person? Imagine a culture of penicillin reasoning how it came to be.

Maybe this universe is a total construction. Maybe it’s partially constructed, in the same way a farmer “makes” a farm from the Earth. If anything like that is the case, stochastic models are completely the wrong way to reason.

It would be like if I wove a basket. There’s now at least one basket made by Travis Jungroth. Surely there must be more? Out of the millions of baskets made across time, what’s the probability that only one was made by me? Even for a low probability of any individual basket, the numbers start getting decent there’s another out there.

But there’s not. I just… decided to make only one.
> if libraries didn't predate copyright, they never would have existed because copyright owners would have argued it's a flagrant violation of copyright.

Before the advent of digital media, the meaning of copyright could be cleanly derived from the words it is compounded from.

Any publisher arguing that to lend a purchased item to another person infringes on their exclusive right to produce copies, would have been laughed right out of the courtroom.
I didn't mean to shoot the messenger.

I'd like to think the site was a joke, but if it is the joke stops too short for it to be very funny.
Does anyone still take Lunduke seriously?

Something something Betteridge's law of headlines.
Academic departments with low budgets and cheap electricity who can make due with old CPUs
1 L3 spot doing 150kW translates to ~15 L2 spots or ~100 L1 spots.

For the same power distribution, an apartment complex could easily do several L2 spots and L1 for everything else.

With my 11 mile commute, L1 was almost viable (catching up on charge over the weekend).

If both work and apartments had L1, that'd be enough for most people commuting.
Basically everyone uses x86 bit numbering. It has the pleasant property that the place value of every bit is always 2^n (or -2^n for a sign bit), and zero-extending a value doesn't change the numbering of its bits.
How to Improve Speech-to-Text Accuracy
The opposite is definitely true
bubblewrap is just a simpler than either firejail/apparmor, both in usability and effectiveness. But yes, it is much better designed than firejail which is just a disaster full of silent footguns.
How about assume utf-8, and if someone has some binary file they'd rather a program interpret as some other format, they turn it into utf-8 using a standalone program first. Instead of burning this guess-what-bytes-they-might-like nonsense into all the software.

We don't go "oh that input that's supposed to be json? It looks like a malformed csv file, let's silently have a go at fixing that up for you". Or at least we shouldn't, some software probably does.
You could replace the license with a "contract" in the terms and agreements section to achieve the same effect? Contract law would apply, so I have no idea.
Because then you wouldn't be nearly as outraged by the "data" of course!
Make your life easy. Assume 7-bit ASCII. No one needs all those other characters, anyway...
I agree with your point, just want to point out that models have been trained on AI generated prompts as synthetic data.
I just thought what kind of narcissistic public figure would sue an AI chatbot because it got his birth date wrong, but then again these people are hyenas.
Researchers detect a new molecule in space
Swiss banking system changed a lot during the last 15 years.
Or allowed one of the many NAT-busting methods to connect through.
> I think the issue is that it's relatively easy to make infinite copies of ebooks.

That's the case regardless of any DRM or even what the source material is. You can OCR a physical book or type the contents into your computer once from any source you can read with your eyes and then make infinite copies thereafter.

The thing that prevents this is that making unlimited permanent copies is copyright infringement, the same as it ever was. Making the unlimited copies is now cheaper than it was a century ago, but that has nothing to do with where or how the infringer gets the first copy.

Never mind breaking DRM, there are services that will OCR a book for around $15. For most books it would cost less to OCR than to buy a single physical copy, from which an infringer could make an unlimited number. Putting this out as some kind of significant distinction between physical and digital copies is just looking for an excuse for a money grab against the new technology.
> I thought that the crooks in charge were running it into the ground for the past ~33 years, I didn't realize that this was all it took to get them to start managing the country well.

You are completely misunderstanding modern Russian economy. The “Running into the ground” part ended 20 years ago. Organized crime was contained, necessary reforms were mostly done, entrepreneurial culture emerged, they started developing industrial policy and digitalization. Old Soviet industry and monocities around it were dying, true, but whole new sectors emerged and they are damn good. Banking and telecoms, hospitality, IT and e-commerce to name a few. Even industry is not completely dead, on the contrary: whole new automotive clusters have grown with increasing localization of components etc. One very good indicator of the shape of industry is the current output of military industrial complex: they scaled it incredibly fast and currently outperform the entire EU on a number of positions. This means that not just some factories are working but their entire supply chain is ok. This is the part of Russia that actually prospers and has been growing for a while now.

> Sure, you can inflate property values to whatever amount you want, if you start printing money to finance a war, but that doesn't on its own result in economic prosperity

The thing is, they don’t print money. Their head of central bank is one of the most competent professionals in Europe if not the entire world.
What is happening now is redistribution: oil money going into the pockets of the poor people, a family member of which has signed the contract and went to war. No wonder the war feels “justified” for them: they have never seen this kind of money before and they spend it. Just for example take the small town Mtsensk. Since the start of the war property prices there increased by 50%. Old Soviet panel building is still a big upgrade for those who were used to go outside to the toilet. This is another part of Russia, forgotten and abandoned for a while, which won a lottery ticket while supplying the war with cannon fodder.

Both parts exist and when counted on average, negate each other. Omitting one of them is oversimplifying.
can you select a context length that fits in your GPU though? I suppose even a 128k model would be more than enough for almost everyone running these models on their own hardware.
> It's nearly there though so it's genuinely an improvement on how they used to behave.

It's writing the conclusion at the beginning, so none of that convincing-looking mathematical reasoning had any bearing on the provided answer. The sum in the fourth paragraph could have been implemented using a plugin: we have no reason to believe the actual language model is doing it (and lots of precedent to suggest it probably didn't).

Note: the original comment has been edited since these remarks were made; it originally said (warning: machine-generated nonsense):

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It would take the combined daily revenue of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon approximately 2.67 days to generate $196 million in revenue. To estimate the time it takes for T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon combined to generate $196 million in revenue, we need to calculate their combined daily revenue.

Let's assume the combined daily revenue of the three companies is:

T-Mobile: $45.5 million (as estimated earlier) AT&T: $125.6 million (as estimated earlier) Verizon: $349.3 million (as estimated earlier) Combined daily revenue: 45.5 million + 125.6 million + 349.3 million = 520.4 million

To generate $196 million in revenue, it would take the combined daily revenue of the three companies approximately:

520.4 million (combined daily revenue) ÷ 196 million (target revenue) ≈ 2.67 days
I would love to see more standardization for consumer NAS builds. I've been asking ASUSTOR in particular for a few years now if they'd consider building a Mini ITX-compatible backplane/adapter, so you could swap out the backplane after a few years if you want. Or even Pico ITX or something, so you could swap in an SBC.

I hate that after 5 or 10 years, NASes can't really be upgraded. A lot of 1 Gbps NASes could be upgraded to 2.5 Gbps or even 10 Gbps if you could swap out the motherboard, keeping the chassis out of the landfill or extending its useful life.
bifurcate
I'm far too lazy to do the math, but I do wonder how many typical residential connections it would take to make a noticeable dent on a big company's bottom line with this method? I'd wager it's a surprisingly low number.
No, they aren't. They actively remove content that has been subject to a legitimate takedown request. As has been the case many times when I've tried to use them for piracy.