skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EU online companies providing services to US users fail to provide the free speech guarantees that the US laws afford their citizens. That's because all EU countries have more strict laws limiting free speech. Should the EU companies break their own countries' law to satisfy the US audience?

Could you sharpen up this claim? Like suppose I run a microblogging site but I delete libellous posts and incitements to violence in accordance with my local European law. Am I violating a US law by allowing Americans to use the site?
Thank you! it is indeed true and allowed then.

I'm quite surprised as it adds ambiguity and complexity and leaves a backdoor open for playing with serving sizes and dilutions. I mean they could list the instructions for a diluted final product that makes the values look good but the actual preparation everyone does is way more concentrated.

Fortunately it doesn't seem that exploited if not for very specific products.
You're missing a critical part: there's additional information we can communicate. And that's what this is all about, what information is being communicated. The inefficiency is lack of perfect information.

If you indiscriminately watch or block that is a signal. Watch communicates potentially more because there's a secondary effect of some of those people buy the product. But by indiscriminately watching or not watching, we provide information about an interpolation along what was binary before. It is more complex to read, but now we can communicate that we don't dislike this add more than our willingness to support the channel. And on top of that, again our conversion rate. In a way, the discriminating information tells us something about the likely conversion rate. This is just more information, though that doesn't mean we are good at measuring it.

> The market is for "high quality" (i.e. profitable) viewers, not high quality videos.

Yes, but profits aren't the only thing people care about. At least not all people. Money is still a proxy for something more abstract.

To make it clearer, there are in fact ads that I do enjoy. This is true for all of us because an ad is so vaguely defined. During a political campaign I appreciate some ads because I want to know the candidates positions, when they are debating, and so on. Too much of it pisses me off, but that's different.

I also like ads that make me aware of certain things that provide utility to my life, but maybe not yours and this can be based on timing.

So stop rejecting this and recognize that these are all attempts at communicating these other factors. It's another variable in a system of equations.
I understand how one would use YARA rules to identify that there's a file in VirusTotal containing secrets. What I don't get is whether there's a way for an actor to actually get the content of that file.
That's been around for years, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_group
Me too. I can drink half a glas of whole milk, eat all the cheese except for tête de moine, and eat half a block of butter, without a problem.

If it comes to a situation where it's impossible to avoid consumption of high in lactose products, I drink the lactose-free milk and do not take the enzymes (lactase). The milk already contains a lot of lactase. The enzyme tablets do not work with me somehow :)
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Because, very sadly, it is now an epidemic in the US that has no workable solution in sight because of intransigence around a 233 year old constitutional amendment in a context of intense, media-led paranoia (perhaps creating a feedback loop). "Bowling for Columbine" is 22 years old now - I don't think there's been substantial progress any of the root causes Moore called out back then.
Nah the localization itself is fine. Where it becomes problematic is when there's no opt-out at the app level. Or perhaps it should even be opt-in.
Apologies from me, see tikkosam comment, it seems true indeed. There is an exception that allows this practice in article 31. My trust in EU regulations took a tiny hit today.
Seems like the overwhelming majority of the listed sites require you to already have an account, then go to a difficult-to-find URL on a settings page, enroll a passkey, and then you can login with the passkey. So granted, a handful of sites support it, but I have trouble believing the Google number. Maybe that's including people using their device to sign into Google itself?

Putting myself in the position of a typical user, passkeys haven't "replaced" passwords until I don't have a password for Home Depot or what have you. Otherwise there's still a password I have to write down or remember somewhere.

I'm not even here as a hater - I do like the idea of cryptographic authentication replacing passwords - but I'm just saying I've seen zero real world uptake of this so far.
Sounds like what Rabbit AI is doing too, with agents. I'm not sure if they're very successful though, since their product flopped.
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Yes, I made a critical comment and it was instantly flagged.
GPG is using ed25519 keys as default since 2.3

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/0004...
The only part of Russiagate that wasn't true was no proven collision. The remainder was plenty bad.
If producers can communicate to form a unified actor, why can't consumers too ?

And just like that, the USSR was magically reconstituted.
> unless you think the NSA have an unknown backdoor that nobody was able to find

Your post names sense to me, but I don't think it's too crazy to allow for the possibility that e.g. the NSA has backdoored some of the "recommended" crypto constants in current use.
> Best in what sense? Intelligence, speed, cost?

Best at product / market fit. And that space is very very wide. Does the GenAI serve as a feature in a larger product (like realtime “reasoning” on X or in Apple’s case in iOS)? Is it a standalone product that general public or enterprises use? Does it play in a niche area? Etc.
Not sure if it needs to be public. But semi-private might work.

But honestly, my comment was more about sharing a vibe than a comment about how you should change your product.
But there is a target here, too. "Ana" and "Leslie". I get the "b00b" ones may be "bad" in the sense that those are sexually explicit nouns, but as for "d00d" or "babe", not so much as it requires a target.
The Register weighed in with a Yeah, Right skeptical attitude:

The Register has found no evidence of a denial of service attack directed at X. Check Point Software's live cyber threat map does not record unusual levels of activity at the time of writing. NetScout's real-time DDoS map recorded only small attacks on the US.

If a DDoS was indeed the reason for the delayed start of the event, it appears not to have impacted the rest of X's operations – there were plenty of posts commenting on the problems with the Space occupied by the interview. And Musk was tweeting from the very network said to be under attack.

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/trump_musk_livestream...

They also threw shade on the numbers:

The interview commenced some 40 minutes after its advertised time. Live audience statistics reported 1.1 to 1.3 million attendees during the portions of the event The Register observed – although during the stream Trump claimed that the event had an audience of 60 million or more, exceeding targets of 25 million.
Pretty simple explanations for all of those:

- xAI opens sources models with a 6 month lag, look at Grok 1

- No one else stopped development, so why should he?

- He owns Twitter, why wouldn't it be okay for him to train on Tweets?
Pretty sure google docs solves this in a much better way... For ideas you need a blank slate, a whiteboard, not some Q&A boxes. It's sharable with optional view-only option that only allows you to leave comments when you're dealing with large amounts of people.
I don't think their bias was implicit. :)
Hmm, it's not that simple, is it? Let's say the AI is trained on the tweet "Ben Adams drove to Mexico yesterday but I still haven't heard from him."

From this knowledge, you can ask the AI "Who has driven to Mexico" and it might know that Ben Adams did, and reply with that.

HOWEVER it's also baked into the model and can't be surgically removed after a complaint. That's the irreversibility part. You can't undo isolated training. You need to provide it a new data set and train it all over again. They won't do that because it's too costly.

The problem with the above example is of course that it can also contain sensitive or private user details.

I've easily extracted the complete song lyrics to the letter from GPT-4 even if OpenAI try to put up guardrails against it due to the copyright issues. AI is really still in the wild west phase...
I wasn't arguing in favor of SponsorBlock, I was stating that you have to option to not watch the content at all if the sponsorship is so annoying you'd consider installing something like SponsorBlock.
Sometimes implication follows conclusion and it's not a matter of argument but facing reality. If conclusion is large surface combatants aren't survivable, then maybe bad idea to double down on large surface combatants. Problem is navy institutional inertia/identity depends on building big ships, with 11+9 carriers mandated by law. The other implication is if large surface combatants, and US to some degree needs largish combatants with high endurance to run global missions, is not survivable, then maybe US naval/expeditionary model is not viable and if there's no alternative (can't protect global basing without survivable global navy) a lot of dominos start falling.
Any one source to back this up?
I think a single turn app like this one might not be very beneficial. I've used LLMs to brainstorm startup ideas and they almost never are creative enough.

I think the benefit of LLMs here is doing market research, finding risk, asking questions, etc. Someone showed a pretty cool demo of Perplexity doing some of this stuff recently.
Buy lacto-free milk and drink that instead of the pills. In my experience, it's much better than the pills and works faster and better - enzymes added to whole milk are the same as in the pills.

I, for me, wouldn't go vegan, as then supplements are needed and that add really up in costs :(
Yes, it's an entirely new stack, that's what the higher level commenter was talking about. I realize we've discussed this same article before but I do believe it is the way forward, for web apps at least, because the current HTML and CSS stack is really not as good as it could be, and as well, we are seeing a lot of new renderers in various languages coming out, so they'd need a new unified API. There is no reason to think that extensions would break once that new API is finished, because at the end of the day, it's all just Skia rendering the content, whether it translates from HTML or WASM.
Maintenance is often the reason why people decide not to self-host. So maybe the future of SaaS is a hybrid one.
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Hey, thanks for looking into this so fast.

I checked this and it doesn't seem to be working for me - I can select it as a GM synth in the settings and select the right MIDI port, but it's not actually playing out via WebMIDI - it sounds like it's still using ADLMidi. Same behaviour in both Firefox & Chrome.

If I refresh the page after that, it just then keeps skipping tracks instantly. I'm using https://pixeltune.org/?b=ZD1UcmFuc3BvcnQgVHljb29uIERlbHV4ZS9... as my test tracks.

edit: just noticed there's some debug logging in the JS console. Here you go: https://www.pastery.net/naegce/
I have a note on my desk "If there is a bad tech option." It's a reminder not to get mad when my boss or their boss decides something stupid. Like using GraphQL to upload large amounts of data. Or deciding a 5 person team should be developing micro-services. Or moving everything to tailwinds.

As a developer I don't have the power to stop these bad decisions. I just have to stew in them. Holding me responsible for the bad code that gets written to kludge past the bad decisions.

Better I suppose than the company that had me build a rails app to move millions of records an hour, hosted on their personal windows laptop. (yeah rails on windows)
Cisgender is banned on twitter ? That's hilarious.
The EU itself wants to data mine everything, just look at chat control.
See references on Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve under “alternatives to dark matter”.
For anyone else who doesn't know, Pieter Levels is a gifted solo entrepreneur that likes to build in public (to some extent). He is an inspiration glitter bomb. He has an open and honest attitude that really makes him relatable and I believe everyone can find inspiration in his content, no matter the field.
Funnily enough, I am doing these experiments in 2024.
All seems to work in the short run. Please wait a year for the results :)

P.S. USB flash drives failed miserably, except for maybe Samsung FIT. Very unreliable.
Fun! I put in “Antimatter warp engine” and it told me “needs more features” hahaha excellent
He is not wrong on the main claim, which is “All ECC (X25519-P521) will be broken by private sector quantum chips before RSA-2048 due to the physical limitations of stabilizing qubits.”

Shor’s algorithm is polynomial, however the number of qubits required is in order of O(log(n)^2), where n is the length of the key. Because ECC keys are much shorter (e.g., 256 to 521 bits) than RSA (2048 to 4096 bits), a smaller quantum computer would be needed to attack ECC.
0.9333... is equal to 9/10 + 1/30. To get 9/10 + 4/100 I think what you're aiming at is 0.93999...
why? AI is very useful in day to day life, and having a phone with on-device capabilities is crazy useful even for those that like their privacy and are paranoid about big corpos stealing their data. I don't see any reason to hate these features.
Well, yes, this is what everyone who runs a startup or company will tell you. People will tolerate bad products as long as it solves their problem, the hard part is getting them to use it in the first place.
> Corporations have provided more value to the world than any person

If by value you mean: "have increased gini coefficient", then yes, corporations have done that.
Tl;dr reason: RSA requires larger key sizes, which makes it slower. ECC makes cryptanalysis more complicated, so the keys can be made smaller, which makes it faster.
> Work that we're used to offloading to syntax is instead carried by your brain.

Kinda like the challenge to eating salad is all the chewing. It's not just that the brain needs to parse a lot more language to express a simple concept; it's also that the fingers also need to type all that out.
I told it my idea: A toilet that bites you every time you take a dump

and it said it's an inappropriate idea... mind boggling.
Get leads via LinkedIn or scrapers like Apollo, set up a cold email campaign to the main stakeholder like the CEO or CTO, whose email addresses these scraper sites will have. Be sure to properly set up DMARC and DKIM.
> AdPaw Hat

> A unique hat for dogs that allows owners to monetize ad space through bids, creating an innovative blend of pet fashion and advertising.

> What problem does it solve?
Many pet owners struggle to find creative ways to earn extra income. The lack of unique, monetizable pet products limits their options. This idea addresses that gap by offering a wearable solution that can be marketplace-driven.

> Who is target audience?

> Targeting pet owners, particularly millennials and Gen Z, who are tech-savvy and interested in innovative products that also provide financial benefits. They value unique items for their pets and are engaged in digital marketplaces.

> What makes this solution unique?
Unlike traditional pet accessories, this hat creates a platform for advertising while providing an interactive and engaging product for pets. It bridges pet fashion and income generation, making it distinct and appealing.

(edit - hn kindly removed a spate of useless emojis)
> Well this just means that for you avoiding death at any cost is more important than leaving a full life

Don't be hyperbolic. It means that avoiding death at the cost of preparing your own meals is more important than eating at restaurants. Restaurants aren't very important and preparing your own meals isn't very taxing, so it's not a high bar to clear.
I fully support ParadeDB's decision. For an open-source software company, AGPLv3 + Dual License is the most sensible choice.

If you go with Apache 2.0, you're literally doing free work for cloud vendors.
May be not directly the lactase, but the split' lactose. Lactose is split into (milk) sugar by lactase enzyme. Lacto-free milk is sweeter than whole milk. So, it's the same problem with as with all sugars.
The data is not really an optional, you can edit each field (even the generated ones). Thanks for feedback :)
i m asking the same question
In my experience, human dubbing never captures the original tone anyway. Probably never can unless it's done by people fluent in both source and target languages and're also good at voice acting. And so I have a huge preference for subs so I can appreciate the nuance in the original voices.
Been there, done that. The real challenge is not implementing a non-trivial macro; it's coming back to that non-trivial macro a week later.
the lactose is converted in glucose, so probably yes, but it depends on the original quantity of lactose
Great article! From my own teaching experience,

> I'm not a hundred percent certain of the exact mechanisms of how, yet. In my experience, I learn the most when I struggle; if a student can shortcut through all the hard parts on, for example, and assignment, they're not going to learn very much. On the flip side, when most students struggle, they just give up. Somehow I need to make assignments which thread the needle between being too hard to solve and too easy to learn anything.

The academic theory is that for each learner, there are three concentric circles - the way I was taught them, they were called the comfort zone, the growth zone, and the danger zone. (https://commonslibrary.org/the-learning-zone-model/ calls them comfort, learning and alarm zones) Learning happens best when you push people beyond their comfort zone, but not into the danger zone (where the amount retained rapidly converges to zero). Of course, this is easier said than done, especially with a class of students with varying abilities, though I like your approach to the problem. It's even harder when you're teaching a 200-student introductory class and there's no way to really set individual assignments.

> [Lecturing] is designed for the lecturer's convenience ...

I personally really liked most of my lectures I sat in as a student - yes there was one guy who just read out from the textbook he'd published, so I skipped those lectures and just read the book. But overall, I liked most of my lectures; I might be the exception to the rule. I think the important thing is to make a lecture interesting with some of the same storytelling ideas that writers and TV/film scriptwriters use, and to throw in jokes and asides every now and then. Be a human being with personality. Worked examples, live-coding, experiments etc. are also useful, depending on the topic. (For more examples and scientific background, see Willingham's book "Why don't students like school?") Of course, that's a lot more work for the lecturer than designing for their own convenience. I've lectured like this myself before and students loved it. I've also heard from students at various places that, now the pandemic has died down mostly, "We're not paying fees just to watch some videos. We can do that on youtube. We want real lectures back."

The most important part, which one of my professors told me in the first week and was some of the best advice I ever got at university, was that you don't actually learn anything in lectures. That's not the point. You learn things by doing the exercises, and by studying in your own time. Lectures are just there to prepare you for the learning, because without the prep you wouldn't know what to do in the exercises.

> If you're on the fence about teaching, you should definitely give it a try, if only because interacting with students is such a rewarding experience.

Definitely!
you're right, the issue being google hasn't even applied for certification. Aside from that, try buying anything google hardware outside of select core market. Somehow, Samsung and Apple (and a ton of smaller players) are able to have global availability with no issues.
Thanks for feedback! I appreciate it!
The whole discussion is about how much excess warming we get from human released GHG. That’s why it’s about deltas, why we talk about warming, why the discussion about baselines happen.

Obviously the delta will depend of the baseline you take but no one is discussing that either and obviously, some thresholds are in actual value. No one ever denies that.

I don’t understand your obsession about Mann and your weird conspiracy theory about the field. The controversy surrounding Mann was about temperature behaviour and the presence or not of warming acceleration. Nothing to do with baselines. Mann is a respected climatologist.

It’s hard for me to follow the discussion because it’s a bit all over the place but to me. It seems you want to be right and everyone else to be wrong and misinformed so much that you are actually the one missing the point.
Optional does not change the behaviour of the bad actors. Private corporations already run rings around governments, on tax and regulations.

If you really have to experience Musk's chat bot on day one just use a VPN?
Hoping that journalists pick up on cases like these and spread the word wide enough is... optimistic, to say the least.

A much better solution is to build incentives into the legal system, like tgsovlerkhgsel suggested. The problem isn't that bad actors abuse the system, the problem is that the system allows bad actors to abuse it.
> I’m looking into using sd cards for my backups.

probably not a good idea. Modern, high density SD cards will likely use not very reliable MLC NAND internally, pretty much requiring active maintenance by the software on the built-in controller.

I once had an embedded board booting from MLC NAND that lost its entire u-boot environment after being without power for a year, just sitting on a shelf in my office.

Similarly, at home, I have an SSD with Windows on it for occasionally playing games. It required extensive recovery after sitting in a desk drawer for a little over a year.

I generally wouldn't really trust flash memory for offline backups.
My hall of residence at a North of England Uni used to turn off heating at night in the late 90s, bearing in ming the rooms' nice, old sash windows. Getting up for early lectures in winter was fun...

I don't think they do this anymore. Certainly there were apparently many complaints from students when an Oxford college proposed to do that recently to help tackle the 'climate crisis'...
I disagree with my Exynos S22 Ultra... Battery life is abysmal and it heats up instantly, a thing that got extremely better with Snapdragon S23 and S24. Hardware is still important
Just want to say, this is pretty cool.
My understanding of your post was that you know that it violates US law and so you're asking what should be done. What I am asking is if it really does violate US law, and if so how.
My app is focused on providing a quick and easy way to share initial project concepts with others. The key is feedback gathering. I use LLM just to quickly provide project brief for user. But the key is feedback from audience you have.
Oh, you're right and I was completely wrong. So Disney really is just trying to hold someone to a contract for a completely unrelated service...
Yeah, that’s an obvious workaround that I somehow overlooked lol. I hope I haven’t made any decisions during my career based on that particular lack of imagination.