skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that civilians CAN have guns, they just need - just like police and military - a background check, training, certifications and permits. Police and military can't take their guns home, anyway. On paper.
Do you have an example?
The fidelity of requirements needed can vary by team, industry and problem. My two cents is that a repo of what teams at specific companies use would be more helpful/interesting.
Just as an example: I didn't notice a former landlord had immediately placed a STOP PAYMENT on my rental deposit return (with no notice/reason given, $thousands) until ten months after I had moved out!

I have spent the majority of my blue collar adult life earning <$50k/yr.
I want reviewed studies that clearly show how much CSAM is send by those public available services. There are none based arguments for making this regulation. Just spreading a fear and public guilt.
At earlier layers the activations don't correspond as cleanly to tokens, and I expect that vendor APIs for proprietary LLMs wouldn't let you do anything like this.
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> Thorn also revealed that it was working on „issues related to encryption.“ Weeks earlier, the organization warned in a blog post against plans by Meta to offer end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger and Instagram Messenger. It said „the world stands to lose 99% of its intelligence on CSAM. This means that abusers will be able to share illegal and harmful child sexual abuse material undetected on the same platforms that we, and our children, use every day.“

Alright, so force Facebook to deal with their CSAM problem and quit taking it out on everyone else.
That made sense before cryptocurrency, not after.
I don't think that the problem lies with the commission. If we had a Senate like the US or if Parliament decided to introduce new laws then nothing would really be different. They would still make these boneheaded decisions that are unattached to reality.
These laws only hurt abiding citizens.

Same as with DRMs and those annoying "piracy is a crime" banner we got for minutes before watching a DVD. Nobody pirating content has ever seen those.
this +100 I can't just let some random exe run on my machine with nothing but claims from the author.

In my head, I'm also wondering why a botnet wouldn't just want to take over such a machine because they know for sure that it's a scarecrow. But security by obscurity is no way to instill trust here
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> is certainly not pro-petrodollar

As in it’s not an anachronism from the 1970s, yes. BRICS (né BRIC) wasn’t coined until 2001 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC
It's interesting to me that this isn't a wider complaint by the ftc. Like here's some examples that I think also deserve some attention:

- Adobe released a stock image service, then bundled this deeply into their products. This could be considered anti-competitive bundling. There's also other examples of bundling which could be considered here as well.

- Adobe's file formats create not just lock-in for people willingly using their tools, but also require other agencies to use the adobe software to be able to work with the files. There is also limited backwards compatibility and limited ability to export to earlier versions while maintaining compatibility, this forces people into the subscription product. A similar issue was brought against Microsoft Office's formats.

- Adobe shutters apps/services on short notice while providing no migration off-ramp, or an off-ramp that requires the user to subscribe to a more expensive product. This is seen repeatedly with their own experiments, but also with acquisitions.
I don't support this legislation but I also do not live in the EU. Honest question, why do we (US, EU, wherever) not have more harsh punishment for child SA? Why not castrate the offender after two strikes or even one? I am sure there are other biological reasons for this to happen but I got the impression a lot of abusers were abused as children.
Bizarre comment.

> I've been following drug policy around the world for decades

Is this supposed to make you an authority on the topic?

> Of course cough medicine …

You literally said “cough medicine isn’t mind altering,” and then used the next paragraph to explain how it is mind-altering.

> … presumably because they use it self-medicate trauma

Are you implying that when vulnerable people try to harm themselves with drugs we should let them pick their own drugs and dosage? How about, you know, real medical help?
I think this seems like a fairly extreme and unlikely worst case scenario. I'd be sceptical about the EU's ability to actually implement something like this - there are limits to both what American companies are willing to do (e.g. Google leaving China), and what some of the more historically liberal European states are actually willing to tolerate from the EU level (imagine the blow to business confidence).

That's not to say that the present proposals aren't already bad enough.
This is reason enough for me to support leaving the EU. I always suspected it to become something else. And since VDL it has become rather clear that staying will make things worse.
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Presumably after a while that didn't ring true. I've worked at at least one company where an engineer flat out pirated the software he used, and I'd say all others have been a bit lax with the terms of the licence
Why would it be a huge opportunity for India and not China?

And for either they run a risk of running afoul of US and EU sanctions depending on what goods and services are provided.
>I still feel both bad and right.

Stand tall for your righteousness.

It's time to bring shame back to inherently-sociopathic corporate NPCs.
This is a shortsighted kneejerk take to be honest. What about laws you agree with that get rescinded? What if a law that protects your privacy gets struck down, do you think the privacy advocates that made it happen in the first place "committed an illegal act and should be liable for it"?
Similar reason why there's no death penalty. If you get the wrong person and you lock them up you can release them with compensation, it won't fix it but its better. You can't un-castrate someone the same way you can't revive them after an execution.

Courts convict innocent people all the time, hence no irreversible punishments.
You keep saying “we”, as if yours is the prevailing UK opinion. Not only was Brexit a close vote, people who voted to leave have largely been regretting it.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/04/11/why-most-people...

In the aftermath of Brexit I remember reading time and again of people who voted to leave and by doing so screwed up their own business (e.g. florists whose flowers come from abroad). They expressed nothing but regret.

So no, the UK didn’t vote leave because they “hate the unelected, undemocratic, wannabe-communist institutions”, they voted leave because they didn’t understand the big picture and were tricked by unscrupulous politicians making false claims (probably the most famous being that a lot more money would go into the national heath service).
>Does Brazil have a history of monetary stability?

It does, now that its in BRICS.

>Does Russia have respect for property rights?

It does, now that its in BRICS. (ahem sanctions are a crime against humanity, yo.)

>Are India’s domestic affairs tranquil?

They certainly will get better, now that they're in BRICS and their people stand to gain a lot from the economic growth that involves, outside of the Western control that has put India in the position its in, in the first place.

>Are Chinese finances transparent?

Well, ask the other BRICS members: they are the ones who can say, definitely, yes. To Americans? No, of course not.

>Does South Africa have great investment opportunities?

They certainly do, now that they're in BRICS.

>Which is why BRICS has been almost completely worthless ..

.. to the Western Empire.
They're "figma" find out about Adobe's best practices.
oh my

that's odd

thanks for telling us
Or has the Russian keyboard installed, even if not used IIRC.
Sweden's parliament just voted to support chat control in the Council of Ministers at EU level.

https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/112637416326793501
You are spot on and this has been with most/all LLM since the beginning.

- Asking for structured output in the same request as the main unit of work introduces the chance of lower quality output. Instead you should be doing your unit of work and then following up with a different request/model to parse it into json or your flavor of structure.

- Grading on numerical scales introduces weird bias. I never went down the route too far but I would notice certain floating point numbers would show up too often when using numerical scales. Using a word based scale works a lot better.
Because the age of consent is 14 in Germany.
>> The public, as a group

I don't know, my local journalists paid with public money seem to be able to follow a lot of domestic trivia. They are much less capable of following matters of national interest, like how the country's economy is doing, what laws are coming up, and how's that Orwellian State business coming along.
I mean nefarious behaviour, sure, but idk if you mean in any context or just this specific one.

That said, if they commit illegal acts they should be tried and convicted like any other civilians, if not with a more severe punishment because they are our leaders that set the example.
Want Amazon Prime and can wait? The free trial will come around again. Or the reduced one.
And they never will because they insist on paying peanuts. The government is stuck on a lots of stupid people model when they need to be on a few smart people model. That's why they can't execute on complex projects and need to always contract it out to the private sector.
Mobile Xeon? Pardon?
> but I can't openly discuss moving companies with them

Why not? Do you believe that if you mention that you are evaluating the big picture of your career, they'll fire you or something? Then you are in a bad place to begin with.

If you have already decided to leave and there is no way they can offer help or advice then it is good to keep that private. But don't hide your goals and desires from the very people who have the power to grant them to you. Your reasons for wanting to move companies might be resolved by switching roles in the current company. Let them help you figure out whether or not that is possible. After all, good leaders help their people grow.
Yeah, authoritarians love provisions like that.

They abused a similar one in the US constitution (the commerce clause) to rule that growing wheat on your own land for personal consumption counted as "interstate commerce" (Wickard v Filburn) and backdoored into the federal government controling basically everything physical.
This needs a (2022) tag. IIRC Kutcher had to resign from that role.
Locking someone up is a one-way punishment, they will not get their years back. Branding someone as a child-molester, even if they are later vindicated, is permanent. We already have irreversible punishments.
"clientside backdoored" is a vague statement, but they may mean e.g. Snowden's revelations that the NSA has secret backdoor access to the big tech companies.
Thanks!

>For spiders then there is an action pattern that upon certain stimulus they will use their spinnerets begin forming a web, first placing anchor points and gradually building it up with radial threads and spiral.

I can sorta understand stimulus causing them to start making a web (sorta like stimulating a mammary can cause lactation) - but how do it 'know' to use a radial pattern rather then ah-hoc mess the black widows on my porch make? The 'ad-hoc' pattern seems like it would be more 'likely' then a nice pattern? Overall, I guess it just seems like a rather complex pattern/behavior?

Also, I guess I have a more basic question of 'what is instinct' if its not some sort of 'memory'? People seem to have an 'instinct' of the mechanics of throwing a ball, yet we have wildly different abilities with regards to accuracy, 'form', distance/speed (due to muscalture?) - it just seems like we have an 'instinct' for the 'simple' mechanical movements but not for the more complex behavior like throwing a ball to hit a target ?

Thanks again!
Throughput != latency, and often is tradeoff to latency (e.g. if you send stuff in big batches, database can process 100k tx/sec, but one by one it's 1k tx/sec at most)
The Irony is in the UK we are about to get a socialist state, not renowned for their libertarian acceptance of other points of view. I am sure the new Labour government will make sure we have the same system in the UK in the name of co-operation.
By communists you surely means far-right.
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I suppose the 'bus facor' is not so hypothetical in the military.
> and I believe we the west are probably more awful to humanity than even the Chinese, Israel or the Russians, and that is saying something

This is a wild POV to hold and one I'm pretty disappointed to hear on HN. You'd really prefer a world of Russian hegemony over NATO? My cousins in Ukraine would be shocked to hear otherwise smart people cheering on a regime which the rest of the civilized world has broadly condemned.
I don't know, mobile phones and messengers in particular are a very small target compared to general personal computing.

There are very few relevant messengers and adoption rate is king, because at the end of the day we want to use these messenger to communicate with people.

Getting people to try out new/different messengers is already a pain. And here every blow against an uncompromised messenger to make them harder to get will lower its usercount and push more people towards the compromised software they can easily get on the store.

Sure I'd say some way of circumventing this will probably remain available for a while, but I'd say it is extremely easy to make this very inconvenient.

After all this isn't about having some way to communicate safely, this is about being able to communicate safely in our daily lives is what I'd say.
This is more proof that the GDPR was nothing more than protectionist laws.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.

We can do it for America, too: a union with Mississippi’s economy, California’s taxes, Alabama’s services and Kansas’s natural beauty.

This form is good for jokes but bad for analysis. BRICS could have worked if its members agreed on anything. They don’t, and there are better multilateral forums that don’t rely on the West that could be constructed in its place. (Starting with continental organisation.)
My local-to-Chatt gym (unfranchised) allows no-hassle cancelation, pro-rated.

I now only attend the county's free gym, which is actually decent (and true athletes, not just social meetups); or buy a daypass to local college facility ($5).
Just don't go to the Yasukuni shrine.

(Why not? It's Japan's memorial to its war dead. All of them. Including the convicted war criminals. Visiting the shrine is seen, especially by Chinese and Koreans, as an endorsement of the war crimes. Every now and again a Japanese celebrity gets "cancelled" over this.)
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Show HN: HNhance, a Userscript for HN
I made this for personal use because I wanted dark mode and content filtering on Hacker News. I reckon others may find it useful as well.

- Dark mode toggle
- Comment auto-collapse (filter by user)
- Submission filtering (filter by user and domain)
- YC ads removal (hide unvotable submissions)

Use the hamburger menu on the right side of the header bar to configure the script. It shows options based on the current context; to block a user, go to their profile page.

Dark mode uses quick and dirty CSS filters. This approach works well for normal text, but falls short when dealing with images. Fortunately, HN doesn't typically display many images, and users tend not to use emojis either. While a cleaner implementation is possible, I don't see a strong motivation to do so.

Script installation: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/megagrump/hnhance/master/h...
Code repo: https://github.com/megagrump/hnhance
Case in point

2009 Swiss minaret referendum. Amendment to article 72 of the Swiss Federal Constitution reads: "The building of minarets is prohibited."

It's completely nutty to put random token issue into the constitution. Its' just gigantic fuck you for Swiss citizens with ex-Yugoslavi or Turkish roots. It breaks all legal principles and does not work serve its intended purpose of "stopping creeping islamization". They even failed to define term "minaret". Minarets are not required in Islam and fundamentalist Wahabbi/Salafi sects don't even accept them.

All that said, I support 100% the right for the Swiss people to be idiot edgelords. That's what democracy is all about.
A muse named confusion. Conmusion?
Also wrt. solutions in the military setting: a strong NCO corp, competent and enabled to take on-the-spot decisions.

But it is not "oh, we have solved friction". It trades the "combat" friction of having to wait for orders (possibly compounded by the weather, comms jamming, your courrier stepping on a mine, etc.) and turns it into "strategy" friction of having subordinates taking initiatives they shouldn't have taken. But I'd argue (like modern armies do) the tradeoff is worth it, and the strategic level has more resources to overcome their friction than combat troops engaged in a fight. But it wasn't always the case (cue the famous tale of a Roman consul, Manlius [0], who executed his own son for disobeying, even though he was victorious ).

[0] https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-613
https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=haa...
Wow - that surprises me - I would have thought heights would be an 'instinct' thing - like water (animals know to try not to drown...)
…it may have a different name, though…
> 10000 samples are nothing compared to 2^100 possible outputs. It is absolutely, definitely not a "brute search". Testing a small fraction of possibilities (e.g. 0.000001%) is called heuristics, and that's what people use too.

Brute searching literally means generating solutions until one works. Which is exactly what is being done here.

> Please learn a bit of combinatorics.

Don't be condescending - I understand the problem space just fine. Fine enough to realise that the problem was constructed specifically to ensure that "solutions" such as this just won't work.

Which is why this "solution" is straight-up broken (doesn't meet the target, exceeds the computationally bounds, etc).

> It's ridiculous to demand GPT-4 performs as good as a human.

Wasn't the whole point of this prize to spur interest in a new approach to learning? What does GPT-[1234] have to do with the contest rules? Especially since this solution broke those rules anyway?

> Obviously its vision is much worse and it doesn't have 'video' and physics priors people have, so it has to guess more times.

That's precisely my point - it has to guess. Humans aren't guessing for those types of problems (not for the few that I saw anyway).
Wherever it’s coming from, it’s not based on any particular language. Museums in English-speaking countries use the term.
Not quiet about it, instead vocally in support of how good a person Danny Masterson is, ignoring the serial rapist part of course.

ps://www.newsweek.com/mila-kunis-ashton-kutchers-letters-danny-masterson-full-1825816
It seems likely that in direct democracy European constitution would have replaced decades ago and ECJ would be neutered.
Hungary had that. It didn't really work.
> I feel particularly blindsided knowing about such a decision on the same day it is voted.

That. I get the local newspaper, and I am not sure if I have seen any report of Chat Control at all in the last few weeks.. If it does get mentioned at all, it is usually a 5-10 line paragraph :|
Im struggling with depression too, homesick for 1 year. Can’t go anywhere cause of panic attacks, no health insurance, no money. No jobs because I live in the Balkans. I develop software but can’t sell it. I’m thinking of buying some chickens and start selling eggs.
Only direct elections are democratic. Everything else is at best semi-democratic.
> stricter immigration laws

Good

> generalized increase in the length of penalties for petty crimes

Good. If you disagree spend some time in SF.

> death penalty

Debatable
Many new laws are unpopular, always.
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Besides paying money you also go through a (pretty simplistic) audit. It’s about the only way we have to know who published some code, which is important. If you can come up with a better way you should implement it and we’ll all follow.

As a side note, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get an EV code signing cert that isn’t tied to me (want to make a tool Microsoft won’t like and don’t want retaliation to hurt my business) but I haven’t come up with a way to do it - which is a good thing I suppose.
Nothing is true in absolute terms but banks care about loss percentages and that’s much better in the real banking sector.

For example, the national bank of Bangladesh was compromised in 2016, believed to be a well-resourced attack by North Korea, and the attacker was able to attempt to transfer $1B. That’s about as severe as it gets, but the U.S. Federal Reserve blocked 85% of the transferred funds and of the remaining funds, all of the money sent to Sri Lanka was recovered, and they were able to recover some of the funds laundered through a corrupt bank in the Philippines whose manager was subsequently charged. About $64M was laundered through casinos which were not at the time required to follow KYC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169

So, not great, but the losses are under 10% of the amount the hackers had access to and there’s still a chance of recovering the rest - that’s survivable with insurance and it’s basically the traditional finance world at its worst in terms of corruption & poor preparation. Compare it to cryptocurrency, where losses on that scale happen multiple times a year rather than once a decade, and the attackers have a much easier time laundering funds through the infrastructure setup for exactly that purpose. North Korea is getting over a billion dollars a year from cryptocurrency, which is much better than the tens of millions at greater risk they got here.