skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Revenge porn isn't generally illegal to post. Posting pornography as revenge is the illegal bit, generally speaking.

IIRC, there are laws against sharing revenge porn in 48 states. They don't require you to be the person it was originally shared to: https://cybercivilrights.org/nonconsensual-distribution-of-i...

>Also, harassment is illegal in some cases, but talking on a public forum generally doesn't qualify. If the parties talked about it publicly and then committed it, that's their problem.

If the example of Null asking his users to harass someone doesn't count, then at what point can something be considered organized harassment?

Another example is the user "Not Based and Redpilled" hacking the game developer of Yandere Simulator. Other users were egging him on and giving suggestions on how to misuse the hacked account. Null was aware of it and described it as a violation of federal law, but didn't punish the hacker. In fact the only user who was punished was someone who criticized the hack: https://archive.is/dr0MR#10%
A problem only Windows has: multirooted filesystems, the infamous and awful "drive letters". When was the last time you swapped out a floppy? Can't remember myself, but we've still got drive letters.
Floating photovoltaics could limit Africa's future use of hydro-generated energy
Author here. Which products are you currently subscribing to?
Is this a competitor for opnsense and pfsense?
Rich text yes (markdown rendering, most IRC clients support this) and emojis yes (IRCv3 explicitly supports UTF8, but I am pretty sure servers and clients generally supported this anyway prior to standardization).

Also videos/images you just send as links and use a URL previewer. KiwiIRC supported as much out of the box via Embedly IIRC.

Voice chat no, you would use another protocol for that. It's a chat protocol, not a communications platform, but a part of one.

I wouldn't even contend that video chat is apart of a chat platform. Slack doesn't have them and neither does Google Chat. They are separate tools within the overall suite.

But what you could do is use an IRC chat as the chat interface for a video chat/conference room. Given IRC is channel based, this seems intuitive.
They earned wages and paid taxes on them. Anything on top is just the price they're willing to accept in exchange for their principles.
Architecture at large scale is built by the rich, it's the product of their minds. They could decorate it any way they want, but they choose not to, as it "doesn't add value", "it's not efficient" and "it's not productive". Architecture shows what their minds look like: machine-like, ugly in their raw efficiency. The common folk still decorate their houses and front yards if they have one. It's still unheard of to live in a grey cube with concrete slabs instead of the lawn and flowers.

This slow shift in architecture style also means an eclipse of the ability of humanity to perceive beauty in general. The eclipse is temporary, but it lasts for centuries and we are yet to see its darkest moment. All this talk about productivity and efficiency is another face of this eclipse.
Wow, I already knew about testing-stack stuff like localstack (different purpose and unrelated to this project), but the fact this is compatible and connectible with standard AWS client libraries is cool. Imagine self-hosting your own S3! That's already a software-app-inclined homelabber's dream.
If the original agreement offered equity that vests, then suddenly another future agreement can potentially revoke that vested equity? It makes no sense unless somehow additional conditions were attached to the vested equity in the original agreement.
Observation of Spin Berry curve-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in kagome metal
How many inches does it yield?
I just watched it. Good movie with an ending you don’t get too often in such movies.

I did kinda hate the talking heads kinda narrative that goes on. I get why they did it but I grew tired of it.
No,the idea behind dropout is to reduce an over-reliance on specific outputs thereby, in theory and typically in practice, making the network learn more reliable representations reducing the chance of overfitting.
I don't find that to be the case with wg - have actually tested this and found a ~1-2% difference in battery consumption over a full charge, all on lte (pixel 8, graphene). Openvpn, though - yeah.
> I think superalignment is absurd, and model "safety" is the modern AI company's "think of the children" pearl clutching pretext to justify digging moats. All this after sucking up everyone's copyright material as fair use, then not releasing the result, and profiting off it.

How can I be confident you aren't committing the fallacy of collecting a bunch of events and saying that is sufficient to serve as a cohesive explanation? No offense intended, but the comment above has many of the qualities of a classic rant.

If I'm wrong, perhaps you could elaborate? If I'm not wrong, maybe you could reconsider?

Don't forget that alignment research has existed longer than OpenAI. It would be a stretch to claim that the original AI safety researchers were using the pretexts you described -- I think it is fair to say they were involved because of genuine concern, not because it was a trendy or self-serving thing to do.

Some of those researchers and people they influenced ended up at OpenAI. So it would be a mistake or at least an oversimplification to claim that AI safety is some kind of pretext at OpenAI. Could it be a pretext for some people in the organization, to some degree? Sure, it could. But is it a significant effect? One that fits your complex narrative, above? I find that unlikely.

Making sense of an organization's intentions requires a lot of analysis and care, due to the combination of actors and varying influence.

There are simpler, more likely explanations, such as: AI safety wasn't a profit center, and over time other departments in OpenAI got more staff, more influence, and so on. This is a problem, for sure, but there is no "pearl clutching pretext" needed for this explanation.
They don't talk publicly, but they're almost always OK if you're friends with them. I have two ex-OpenAI friends, and there is a lot of shit going in there. Of course, I won't reveal their identities, even in a court. And they will deny they said anything to me. But the info, if needed, might get leaked through trusted friends. And nobody can do anything with that.
> Well, for a start, there is no way of knowing if a message I sent actually get delivered.

There is, but nobody uses it.

> Massive spam issues.

Verify your recipients, then add them to a white list, then block everybody else, like a typical chat program does.
Wait until you find out its a name too
> stare at you until you sign it because you are physically dependent on eating food every day

Even lowest level fast food workers can choose a different employer. An engineer working at OpenAI certainly has a lot of opportunities to choose from. Even when I only had three years in the industry, mid at best, I asked to change the contract I was presented with because non-compete was too restrictive — and they did it. The caliber of talent that OpenAI is attracting (or hopes to attract) can certainly do this too.
I think something can have a lot of detail (granularity) but not necessarily be appealing. I imagine it's more like patterned detail, so fractal patterns which can expand into substantial and endless detail.
I've always taken 'Welcome to the Future' as the thing being presented is futuristic and exists now in the present. Not 'in the future we will welcome you to the future' - while that is a nice sentiment it's utterly useless. To point out the obvious - of course futuristic things exist in the future and of course I have to wait for the future to happen.
The exact thought I had reading this headline.
A fire 2,200 years ago preserved moment in Iron Age, down to a gold earring
Right, but the employee would be able to refuse the consideration, and thus the contract, and the state of affairs wouldn't change. They would be free to say whatever they wanted.
I think maybe come up with one or two more simple, but dumb models. Show all three at once to demonstrate the wildly different results that can come out given different assumptions.
Hmm, I wonder if graphene is different than stock Android. This doesn't jive with my experience, sadly (tailscale).
Pirates, gentrification, and the future of living aboard on Puget Sound
i'm guessing you can add dilute solutions of sodium fluoride and calcium chloride dropwise to a large beaker of water being constantly stirred, with a seed crystal in it? fluorite has a very non-negligible water solubility of 15 mg/liter and a reasonably high melting point, so intuitively i'd think this should be easy and fast

maybe the ingredients are hard for you to get tho, in which case you might be reduced to generating hydrogen fluoride from fluorite and an acid, then bubbling the gas into the beaker

the standard industrial method sounds like it would be pretty annoying to do in your garage:

> However single crystals for industrial applications are usually grown by solidification from a melt. The so-called Stockbarger-Bridgeman and the vertical gradient freeze processes are used for industrial manufacture of single crystals. The crystals are grown in a drawing oven and in a vacuum of 10^-־4 to 10^−5 mbar in the Stockbarger-Bridgeman method. A crystalline raw material is melted, so that a homogeneous single crystal is obtained with exacting control of temperature.

> In order to make the single crystals up to now the crystalline raw material is slowly heated in a vessel to the volatilization or evaporation temperature of water of about 400° C. and is maintained at this temperature in order to keep it free of water for some time. Additive scavengers, such as PbF2, SnF2 or ZnF2, are used to remove oxygen from the raw material. The added scavengers react with the oxygen present in the raw material and arising partially by oxidation and/or hydrolysis to form easily volatile oxides, which escape at these temperatures. After that a so-called refinement during a single week at 1450° C. usually is performed followed by a multi-week cooling to about 1200° C., in which the desired crystal is solidified from the melt. The single crystal so obtained is then cooled in a first slow cooling phase and then cooled to room temperature in a second accelerated cooling phase after the first cooling phase.

from https://patents.google.com/patent/US6364946B2/en
Yes, it looks pretty bad imho. It seems that the researchers have learned about a handful of recent techniques, such as Gaussian Splatting, and decided to apply it to a novel domain (hand drawn images) without any deeper understanding.

Gaussian Splatting is, in my opinion, simply the wrong tool for geometrically inconsistent images even if you manually annotate a bunch of keypoints. Another thing is that the spherical harmonics color representation makes it easy for the model to "cheat" when there are relatively few views, i.e. even when the Gaussian is completely geometrically wrong, it can still show the right color in the directions of the views. Perhaps they should have just disabled the spherical harmonics thing (i.e. making each Gaussian the same color regardless of which direction you're looking at it from), since most cartoons have flat-ish shading anyway.

Furthermore, they didn't attempt any sort of photometric calibration or color estimation between the different views. For example the paintings each show the building in a very different lighting condition, and it seems they made no attempt to handle that at all, leading to a very ugly reconstruction.

Finally, this method requires significant amounts of human work to do the manual annotation for a very subpar result, making us wonder what the whole point of it is. It would seem to me that diffusion models like Sora or Veo could do a much better job if you just want to interpolate between different views. It isn't much different from image inpainting, which diffusion models excel at.
A word generator based on statistical probabilities. Has no understanding of the real world or logic. Everything is hallucinated, some word combinations coincide with reality but that’s a random occurrence.
The claim from the website is "automatically achieves near-ideal speedup".
I'm glad you like it, compatibility with the official client liberys was a key objective for this project otherwise its just a NAS with a web interface. I've been told there are some homelab subreddits that would really like this project but I don't use that platform, feel free to post there if you think it would be of value, I will be working on this for the next few weeks
If math can make you feel awe, you've got to watch the Numberphile series on very big numbers. They're constants used in proofs that are specific, well-defined integers known to be finite, but so huge that the physical universe does not have enough particles (or even Plank-scale microstates) in it to represent the number of digits these numbers have! Absolutely mind-bending stuff.

Listed in increasing order:

"Graham's Number"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg

"How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo

"The Enormous TREE(3)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU

"TREE(3) (extra footage)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihcNa9YAPk

"The Daddy of Big Numbers (Rayo's Number)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3l0fPHZja8
My unreliable memory is Altman was ( once? ) in favor of extending the period for exercising options. I could be wrong of course but it is consistent with my impression that making other people rich is among his motivations. Not the only one of course. But again I could be wrong.
The website claims "automatically achieves near-ideal speedup"

12x for 16x threads

51x for 16.000x threads

Can someone point me to a website where it explains that this is the "ideal speedup"? Is there a formula?
This seems like a nonsense article.

As for 'invalid because no consideration' - there is practically zero probability OpenAI lawyers are dumb enough to not give any consideration. There is a very large probability this reporter misunderstood the contract. OpenAI have likely just given some non-vested equity, which in some cases is worth a lot of money. So yeah, some (former) employees are getting paid a lot to shut up. That's the least unique contract ever and there is nothing morally or legally wrong with it.
I’m no lawyer. But, this sure smells like some form of fraud. Or, at least breach of contract.

Employees and employer enter into an agreement: Work here for X term and you get Y options with Z terms attached. OK.

But, then later pulling Darth Vader… “Now that the deal is completing, I am changing the deal. Consent and it’s bad for you this way. Don’t consent and it’s bad that way. Either way, you held up your end of our agreement and I’m not.”
How much faster (say, for something like an image codec)
How much easier than writing the code yourself, given that you have the problem and solution in mind and need to provide the context and detailed description for the copilot code generator? I find writing the code itself to be a similar amount of effort and more satisfying.
The best approach to circumventing the nondisclosure agreement is for the affected employees to get together, write out everything they want to say about OpenAI, train an LLM on that text, and then release it.

Based on these companies' arguments that copyrighted material is not actually reproduced by these models, and that any seemingly-infringing use is the responsibility of the user of the model rather than those who produced it, anyone could freely generate an infinite number of high-truthiness OpenAI anecdotes, freshly laundered by the inference engine, that couldn't be used against the original authors without OpenAI invalidating their own legal stance with respect to their own models.
Have you seen the contracts?
Genuinely curious… What is the other thing?

Is this some thing about an obelisk?
Sid Kapoor, Content Specialist, forgot to include himself in Growth or Pro plans. Guess he is Basic!
Well, then, people are selling their souls.

I got laid off by a different company and can't disparage them. I can tell the truth. I'm not signing anything that requires me to lie.
Probably not, seeing as they're too busy with the obvious things like putting an eraser at the bottom of their pencils.
> insurance won't cover anything related to it

If the grey market is cheaper than you would pay for the real drug after insurance’s contribution, who cares?
It's especially funny considering the same is done with real TV cameras. For an easy example, a lot of supposedly square rooms used in sitcoms are trapezoidal shaped; the walls meet at obtuse angles. Very few people notice that.
Reminds me a little bit of Concurnas [0] which sadly seemed to get abandoned right at the point when it was nearly viable.

[0] https://concurnas.com/
In particular Dicronaughts is quite mind-bending, with its two time dimensions.
It seems to be more like a reverse proxy that integrates with ZeroTier.
It's just a semantic issue. Some folks will say aren't really fully vested when they are double trigger until the second trigger event. Some will say they are vested but not triggered, other people say similar things.
I can't register an account at discord, negate I'm behind CGNAT and someone else in the region was banned by discord.
Judging by the features, it doesn’t seem predominantly focused on routing and acting as a tool or server you can deploy to operate a network and allow other devices to leverage it to route between networks.
This is common, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Not at a university then.

I teach Math with mine, using OneNote as a whiteboard replacement. I've also seen about 6/160 students in my classes this semester using them to take notes. Many more (about 40/160) were using iPads though.
Sounds like standard doomer crap tbh. I'm not sure which is more dangerous at this point - climate change denialism (it isn't happening) or climate change doomerism (we can't stop it, might as well give up)
I'm really sick of seeing people jump in and accelerating the demise of society wholeheartedly due to greed.
I would be pretty appreciated if people criticize my project. That is how you grow. If people tend hide cruel truth behind applause, the world would just crumbled.
I think “network routing solution” means something different to me and the authors.
Did you mean "lash and wood"?
> if nothing is perpetual, then how long can it last supposing both sides do get ongoing consideration from it? the answer is, the judge will figure it out.

Isn't that the reason more competent lawyers put in the royal lives[1] clause? It specifies the contract is valid until 21 years after the death of the last currently-living royal descendant; I believe the youngest one is currently 1 year old, and they all have good healthcare, so it's almost certainly will be beyond the lifetime of any currently-employed persons.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_lives_clause
Has someone written the example in "native" GPU (C/Cuda) to compare performance?
Clearly by design.

The most dishonest leadership.
This is bizarre. Someone hands you a contract as you're leaving a company and if you refuse to agree to whatever they dreamt up and sign the company takes back the equity you earned? That can't be legal
The bust of ai will be glorious. I just hope it’s the VCs are the one holding the bag instead of the tax payer or retail investor.
Cool tool. I've had a few problems building it from source. Could only run from the pre-built release. It would be great to see more documentation.
The threat of a lawsuit.

You can't just sign a contract and then not uphold your end of the bargain after you've got the benefit you want. You'll (rightfully) get sued.
More Northern Lights soon as Sun storms strengthen
I can't register an account at gmail, for the same reason. Not without providing a phone number that hasn't been used yet.
Yeah. If you are going to be tampering with the zero offset, the side by side charts have exactly the same issue of misleading.
OpenAI's military-industrial contracting options seems to be making some folks quite nervous.
This is a very disingenuous argument. There's a huge difference between a doctor making $300k a year and a relatively small amount of people making millions (or billions) selling easily mass produced chemicals at prices that can't be afforded out-of-pocket. And you know this, but you think you're being clever. It's not clever.
The argument would be that it's coercive. And it might be, and they might be sued over it and lose. Basically the incentives all run strongly in OpenAI's favor. They're not a public company, vested options aren't stock and can't be liquidated except with "permission", which means that an exiting employee is probably not going to take the risk and will just sign the contract.
Linux(gnome desktop): an update, sorry half of the extensions you have installed broke.
Linux(KDE): X crashed, do you want to report it?
That's kinda hilarious, because I think the book was exactly wrong in its predictions. This can be evidenced by the continuous failures of his AI company, Numenta.
Not really sure what that has to do with anything. It would be easy for the USA to keep Novo Nordisk from doing business within its borders and have a nationalized pharmaceutical company produce the drugs at cost.
This is a 26 part series (so far, still growing) including both blog posts and videos covering debugging https://debugagent.com/series/debugging-course
If email didn't need fixing, spam wouldn't exist. There's more spam than there is legitimate email traversing the internet. That is a problem worth solving.

You could solve it with existing infrastructure to some extent, eg. your email address is actually a cryptographically generated guid rather than something easily guessed or harvested. If you combine that with a background handshake procedure for introductions, so that all of your contacts get their own guid alias mapped to your canonical one, then you can revoke any of those if they get compromised at any time. Spam is effectively solved.

This is basically like the web of trust, but for email.
Clout > money
WUFFS is provably safe - that's the whole schtick. If a WUFFS kernel exists, you can assume it is safe. If it's not proven safe, it doesn't compile. The reason everyone doesn't program in WUFFS is that you have to write a proof that your kernel is safe, which takes a very very very long time.
South Korea to ban Chinese online products without KC certification
So send a request in the opposite direction.

Now both are servers, and they're communicating with servers. Server to server communication on http.

(What would "server/server" even mean if you're making that distinction? Two communicating parties that only receive data, never sending it?)
You lost me. How does if/else have "no reason to be ambiguous in the first place". It's ambiguous in the actual language from which it was derived. English itself has no syntax for expressing a nested "if" such that you can match the right "else".
It might be that they agree to it initially when hired, so it doesn't matter if they sign something when they leave.
This would be hilarious and genius. Touché.
I still use nitter.poast.org for threads and search. It works. For brief period it was presenting a homegrown CAPTCHA but not anymore.

Having many instances was great; however even when there were many to choose from, in practice I only chose to use one, whichever one worked the most consistently.
Why isn't content addressable inodes a thing? Address them by hash instead of id and avoid creating duplicate inodes. So for example, two 1TB files containing all zeroes will take up one inode worth of disk space but the fs table records 1TB worth of inodes. You tune the fs inode sllocation table disk usage a lot, what other downsides are there?

Also, how is linux support for apfs these days?
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