skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I'm sure curated datasets that are guaranteed (within some margin of error, probably) to not have been AI-generated will be a valuable commodity, or rather already are. Maybe that would include old reddit posts/comments, not sure how far back you'd need to go. (You would know better than I).
Telegram’s End to End Encryption by default is disabled, only available for one-to-one conversation. My ‘guess’ is that most of group conversions are pretty accessible on telegram servers, which might be the case here.
Rspack 1.0 is released, Webpack compatible,10x faster
FCast: Casting Made Open Source
Thanks! I've updated the list with more archived links.
Indeed, though I suspect part of the value of the bankruptcy is it's finally a limited number of counterparties for the negotiation and they have to respond.
Some GC detects cycles, some not (reference counting is example of GC which does not), but even those which detects cycles, may not able to detect all of them or it can be expensive as, for example, in typical Mark&Sweep GC, because it may require to stop the world to perform GC, which is unacceptable for system programming languages, like C, C++, Rust.
The speculation on this situation is crazy. People are losing their minds over the idea of Durov being arrested over crimes committed on his platform, but we don’t even know the details. For all we know he could have been completely complicit. Hold your horses people.
>You're probably using WoW64 right now and not realized it because it's so seamless

That's very unlikely, since I'm typing this on a Debian system.
A higher level summary: A lot of institutional knowledge has been embedded into the C code over the years, sometimes in subtle ways, and a naive port to Rust can introduce security vulnerabilities if some of these subtleties get overlooked.
Trying to understand his legal situation by analogizing with US law understanding strikes me as some real Dunning-Kruegering. Surely someone like Preston Byrne has someone he can reach out to to get a better understanding of the actual French legal situation Durov is in.
On February 3, 2023 Mulesoft announced that after 17 years in operation, it had shut down Programmable Web.
This is for todo lists; for text-based calendar management, let me recommend remind[1]; if you prefer a TUI, wyrd[2] has you covered.

1: https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind

2: https://gitlab.com/wyrd-calendar/wyrd
Is that e.g. batch 16/32 for each operation e.g. 16-row matmuls in a pipeline? Or a pipeline of vector-math ops that has 16/32 stages? Is the pipeline also double digits deep?
Yeah, it's the same "low-background / pre-war steel" of training data metaphor that's been floating around for years.
Because it is hard. Windows (10 and 11) still has problems.
Anyone know how well this would compare to the Nvidia based workstations at the GPTShop.ai place?

ie: things like this https://gptshop.ai/config/indexus.html
There's a nasal flu vaccine as well. Theoretically, it's supposed to induce immunity in mucous membranes and prevent infections in the first place, rather than merely reducing symptom severity. As for how effective it actually is at those goals, we'll have to see.
I think my "points" as you put them are all over this thread. I don't plan to ask you to do anything for me.
To construct anything socially, boundaries or islands, are required protected from the rest of the universe.

Globalization, or the interconnecting of all kinds of societies and social constructs, within and across national boundaries, has thrown things up in the air. People who used to call the shots and gained a lot through globalization, are flailing around helplessly, cuz what they gained doesn't help them control anything.

Look at cash, flowing instantly from one shell company to another, across city/state/national boundaries, avoiding tax, constantly multiplying, more and more disconnected from any social requirement or purpose.

The fact that those who call the shots aren't in control is where salvation lies.
You would also be locked out if you ran OpenSSH on Tailscale's autoconfigured WG interface. Setup WireGuard manually, or enable serial console login, or make sure your servers are dispensible. Tailscale (and Nebula) mostly alleviate the last case.
Slightly exponential? Do you mean geometric?
The problem with Reddit posts is that they might be edited. But if you limit yourself to non-edited comments from before 2022 you’d be good.
How is it turning out?
I have a family acquaintance who works at a fairly prominent hft shop in nyc. He's rather circumspect when I ask him about details of his job, which doesn't directly relate to trading but I get the impression he has to know quite a bit about how the various trade plans work, since he is deeply involved in maintaining the highly bespoke infra they run on.

After a few beers he'll sometimes start bringing up "customers purchasing order flow" from them, which apparently accounts for a significant part of their revenue. He's also indicated that this is not a practice unique to their shop but is fairly commonplace among companies that have highly advantageous (next-building or same-floor/dc equivalent latency) transport to various exchanges.

I assume, but am hesitant to ask directly, that this activity cannot actually be what it sounds like, but now I don't know.
> I'm trying to understand

Well on the one hand you make it seem like you're here for genuine adult conversation.

On the other hand you call people that disagree with you the "NSA".

And that is the point this conservation has outlived its usefulness :)
Just want to clarify a couple possible misconceptions:

The diffusion model doesn’t maintain any state itself, though its weights may encode some notion of cause/effect. It just renders one frame at a time (after all it’s a text to image model, not text to video). Instead of text, the previous states and frames are provided as inputs to the model to predict the next frame.

Noise is added to the previous frames before being passed into the SD model, so the RL agents were not involved with “correcting” it.

De-noising objectives are widespread in ML, intuitively it forces a predictive model to leverage context, ie surrounding frames/words/etc.

In this case it helps prevent auto-regressive drift due to the accumulation of small errors from the randomness inherent in generative diffusion models. Figure 4 shows such drift happening when a player is standing still.
He starts by saying that in the US, social media owners are not responsible for crimes committed by their users. How does that relate to the Kim DotCom case? Is piracy treated differently?
It seems not yet. Signal is e2e encrypted data which telegram is not, Facebook has regularly collaborated with authorities, which apparently telegram did not. Every case is different.

I think TFA is ignoring the usual practice of prosecutors everywhere to stack accusations with a bunch of things which won't stick.

Nonetheless, France has been flirting with extended internet censorship for a while.
Google also spawned a second one for me from my original gmail address, but I still use my original pre-google+ youtube account. After signing in to that google account on any given device, I have the option to switch between the two youtube accounts associated with the email.
Both. It feels even now like we're just monkeys sitting on a tower of cards swinging around tools we don't understand. There are a lot of very smart people that have built the software and hardware we have today, and lots of smart people coming in to replace them; but the majority of engineers are not that, and (myself included) largely pretend at being wizards while in reality we are all the sorcerer's apprentice.

The systems we've built for society are even worse. For every story about how tech is improving lives, you hear another two about yet another horrible dystopian usecase for the same technology, and it's never hard to imagine a dozen more.
Works where i am in the EU. Our national elections (I'm not a national, so I can't vote.. I just watch from the sidelines) had about 5% of the 'noise' of any US elections.
For which i am eternally grateful.
Fair play to the DNC, though. Their convention this year was very interesting.
But - where are we at? Eighty days to suffer until the US elections?
IMHO, it's way too much.
Ah finally we are starting to see something gaming related. I'm curious as to why we haven't seen more of neural networks applied to games even in a completely experimental fashion; we used to have a lot of little experimental indie games such as Façade (2005) and I'm surprised we don't have something similar years after the advent of LLMs.

We could have mods for old games that generate voices for the characters for example. Maybe it's unfeasible from a computing perspective? There are people running local LLMs, no?
fbpurity.com

Try it out. I'm pretty happy with it; managing the feed doesn't feel like trying to hold back the tides anymore.
Indeed. Two of the more common questions I get with Tarsnap are

Q. How do I know that Tarsnap is secure?
A. Read the source code.
Q. Ok, but you're really smart, what's stopping you from putting in a backdoor and hiding it really well?
A. I don't want to get tortured, and ensuring that I can't decrypt your data protects *me*.
> What it means is that European states are going to try to extraterritorially dictate to foreign companies what content those companies can and cannot host on foreign-based webservers

It looks like the author failed to grab that Durov asked for the French nationality and therefore is a French citizen who must comply to French law.

> Telegram is not the only company in the world which has a social media platform used for unlawful purposes

Except Telegram is the only one of those companies which intentionally doesn’t answers to legal requests. All other social networks are cooperating with law enforcers in the countries they operate.

Even Signal is cooperating when asked too. The difference is that unlike Signal, Telegram owns its users data in plaintext.

Also the author fails to understand that the complicity here doesn’t mean that companies in Europe are responsible for their users content. Like in the US, they are responsible if they fail to comply to laws in a reasonable time. Telegram doesn’t comply in a reasonable time since they voluntarily don’t comply at all. That’s a huge difference.
I can IPO, sell some shares and make billions but have to take 25% in tax or I can not do that and what happens? How do I turn my non IPO shares into profit? Presumably if you liquidate to cash you owe the capital gains right?

You’re still going to end up making a higher valuation on the stock market than you would trying other means to avoid this tax.
Some of them may then be vulnerable. This is the recent SSH vulnerability: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnera...
> The covid vaccine I had to take to as a condition to travel and employment has been banned from the market for safety reasons.

Which one? If you're talking about the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, you should be gald to know that the suspension was short lived, and around April 2021 it was in the market again.

They stopped selling it in 2024, but that's because:

1. we are collectively burying our head in the sand about covid (in the UK it seems we don't even monitor the wastewater covid levels anymore)

2. there are a bunch of other vaccines available, and due to the earlier suspension, people trusted the other vaccines more (and thus it was struggling in the market)
Disappointed they didn't even mention intentional data poisoning - we simply have no idea what trapdoors are being laid in training data yet to be ingested...
Iridium is LEO and had way worse business prospects at the time of their bankruptcy, as well as far less utility in general. Still wasn't abandoned.
> where text prompts are enough to create a fun new game!

Not really. This is a reproduction of the first level of Doom. Nothing original is being created.
More relevant is if by _playing_ it they couldn’t tell which is which.
It just occurred to me that it's entirely fitting how often Kowalski refers to the Caudine Forks, for that battle is a metaphor for ping pong arguments:

Suppose we have two statements (Romans), A and B.

A priori, there are four possible situations:

A & not B | A & B | not A & not B | not A & B

However, as mathematicians, let us play the Samnite. First we close one pass, in proving A → B, which is equivalent to ruling out A & not B. Then we close the other pass, in proving B → A (ruling out not A & B).

Now our romans, err, statements are confined to A & B | not A & not B, and (with no truth values having been harmed) must therefore pass under the yoke of equivalence: A ↔ B.
assagne me twice, shame on me,assange me thrice, propably a monday
Yea they don't really define stampede, let alone the subsidence/ threshold to break-off.

That's not a simple rule.

Is it traffic, weight, vibrations? An absolute threshold for decrease, or just a rate drop?

Which made me think- maybe a second rule exists, but it probably isn't necessary from an 'algorithm works' standpoint.

If an ant starts marching again once it no longer has another on top of it- once the supply of ants starts to dwindle (too many tied up in bridge structure), the bridge will start to deconstruct itself on its own.

It's a status toggled by other elements having the same boolean column. If too many are 'busy' as bridges, that leaves too few to hold the toggle buttons of the remaining others.

It's not a bridge, it's a self-sorting, self-clearing traffic jam. You drive when you can.

Which as a civil engineer the traffic aspect is more interesting to me than the bridge aspect.

But probably would get fewer clicks.
This and in addition, I have not seen proof that he knew about a pending arrest when he went to France. Many commenters and media paint him somewhere on the spectrum between arrogant and stupid, when it is not clear at all that he had a chance to avoid the situation.
This article repeatedly referred to Telegraph as "encrypted" ("have full encryption on their services", "when you’re running a globally accessible encrypted platform"), which seems misleading, if by default, it is not end-to-end encrypted.
Not good check out /r/vaccinelonghaulers but this will start a whole thread of mess.
What most programmers don't understand, that in the very near future, the entire application will be delivered by an AI model, no source, no text, just connect to the app over RDP. The whole app will be created by example, the app developer will train the app like a dog trainer trains a dog.
It is just video. There are no external interactions.

Heck, it is far simpler than video, because the point of view and frame is fixed.
How would this compare against producing a 3D mesh using traditional photogrammetry and comparing the CAD model and mesh for deviations? Or would this be unrealistic since the photogrammetrically produced mesh would lack the level of detail required?
While I guess “crypto” makes the headlines, this seems to just be garden variety embezzlement, only I this case the embezzlement was to support an “investment” that was itself fraud.

It’s not functionally any different from if the money was lost due to him embezzling and putting it into madoff’s fund or Enron, etc

I’d add an additional note though: bro was a bank CEO yet fell for a blazingly obvious scam, so it seems like the people who put him there should have to answer questions about their approach to ensuring he was competent for the position.
In my opinion it's primarily for less noisy logs.
This is a take I keep seeing, more or less, and yet Telegram is not an encrypted messaging service for the most part, and so Durov could have moderated but actively promoted his not doing so; and the crimes this article leads with, as examples of things that’d get you in trouble in the US too, are said to have been prevalent on Telegram.

(Also, maybe it’s nitpicking, but there are very obvious reasons why it’s better to have the Taliban using WhatsApp and the US getting all that metadata and maybe more, rather than the Taliban finding some other channel. If Washington wanted WhatsApp banned in Afghanistan it would’ve happened long ago.)

What I can’t figure out is, are these commentators naïve or just piling on for attention or what?
I also post less because anything I say seems to be immediately shown to the person most likely to be outraged by it.

I used to use it like a daily "here's what I'm up to today" blog, because my friends and family would see that and it was a cool way of sharing my life with them.

The, somewhere around 2014-ish, it was suddenly unsafe to post normal stuff without getting criticised. I had a whole series of arguments with folks about things that I or they had posted. I stopped posting as much, and started checking all my posts first, and deleting old ones.

Then in 2017 I got a stalker who messaged all my friends and family with shit about me. I had to make my friends list private and unfriend a bunch of people (no great loss). It felt even more unsafe.

Now I post travel pics and that's it. I miss the old safe space.
This is quite a one-sided take.

What makes Telegram unique is:

1) They have access to almost all the content

2) They try to use arguments about jurisdiction to avoid helping law enforcement with lawful requests

All the other messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage) have started to use end-to-end encryption to avoid being in this position in the first place. But they also comply with law enforcement and share the data they do have, and don't hinder lawful investigations.

The biggest issue with Telegram is that due to the lack of end-to-end encryption it is a huge security risk; how do you know the operators aren't selling access to your chats to some criminal actor or a repressive government agency? You don't.
The fundamental problem we have right know is that we know the charges, but not the factual allegations that underlie those charges.

Put differently, if you wanted to put together a charge list for the head of a large social media company you didn't like, this is what it would look like. If you wanted to put together a charge list for someone actively running the group chat of a terrorist group... this is what it would look like. And same for pretty much every level in between.

Deciding which of these scenarios is more likely is more indicative of your priors of the scenarios than it is of the evidence. Is this the French government going after a fairly innocuous service because they don't like what they provide? Or is it the government going after a service saying "neener neener your laws can't touch us"? Or is it the government going after an individual with tenuous connections to criminal organizations? Or one with solid connections to criminal organizations? Truthfully, we don't have the evidence to distinguish between these scenarios yet, and we should reserve judgement until such evidence comes to light.
I wonder if you're incapable of seeing what's amiss with your 'hack' job on Carlson.
Just be aware electric toothbrushes can cause more abrasion, damaging the dentin. This leads to tooth sensitivity and increased risk of cavities!

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Conclusion

Using the same brushing force and a highly abrasive toothpaste, manual toothbrushes are significantly less abrasive compared to power toothbrushes for an 8.5—year simulation.
An old Reddit post is how we ended up with glue on pizza.
In general, cash is fungible. You gave an example of a "shade of fungibility" with marked cash used in crimes. Unfortunately, reality is not binary. Ethereum is fungible to the (increasingly small) non-OFAC compliant nodes, but non-fungible to the OFAC compliant nodes.
Except Google is taking down any illegal data they are asked to takedown or to give to law enforcement.

Durov is not arrested to have hosted illegal content but to deliberately have not do anything against it when asked to.

If you did something illegal via Gmail and the law enforcement asked for your mails to Google, they’d give them. Telegram voluntarily did not.

Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.
> It's fully-cross platform

To a point. Making cross platform native desktop apps is still in the hands of 3rd party vendors such as Avalonia and Uno. MAUI was supposed to fix that oversight to a less than stellar results.
Maybe, in future, techniques of Scientific Machine Learning which can encode physics and other known laws into a model would form a base model. And then other models on top could just fine tune aspects to customise a game.
Firefox allows users to choose a global preferred font, but also individual Serif, Sans-Serif, and Monospace preferred fonts. Which means this site, which correctly specifies `monospace` as a font fallback, does show correctly in my preferred monospace font.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15240

> We demonstrate that when using Gemma-based verifiers on algorithmic and grade-school math reasoning tasks, GenRM outperforms discriminative verifiers and LLM-as-a-Judge, showing a 16-64% improvement in the percentage of problems solved with Best-of-N. Furthermore, we show that GenRM scales favorably across dataset size, model capacity, and inference-time compute.
Caroline reported that you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee.
One of my kids is in 5th grade and is learning to some basic algebra. He is learning to calculate x when it's on both sides of an equation. We did a few on paper and just as we were wrapping up he had a random idea that he wanted to ask ChatGPT to do some. I told him GPT is not great for that kind of thing, it doesn't really know math and might give him wrong answers and he would never know, we would have to calculate it anyhow to know if GPT had given the correct answer.

Unfortunately GPT got every answer correct, even broke it all down into steps just like the textbooks did.

Now my 5th grader doesn't really believe me and thinks GPT is great at math.
antacids just made my body ramp up making more bile. I eventually started taking betaine HCL, which helps when I have reflux or pain in the stomach. Seemingly a lot of bugs survive the stomach acid these days. Started taking the betaine when I went on carnivore diet and saw undigested meat in the stools.
Jensen Huang's vision that future games will be generated rather than rendered is coming true.
The headlines on the ruling can be misleading:

> Plaintiffs may have succeeded if they were instead seeking damages for past harms. But in her opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that partly because the Biden administration seemingly stopped influencing platforms' content policies in 2022, none of the plaintiffs could show evidence of a "substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable" to any government official. Thus, they did not seem to face "a real and immediate threat of repeated injury," Barrett wrote.
I think that's marvelous in its own way. One of the defining experiences for me as a software engineer was hearing my boss tell a story about another engineer — there was a problem that had been hanging over the team for over a year, every engineer on the team had tried to solve it, and everybody thought it was going to be a huge effort, until one day this engineer came up with a solution. His solution was so simple that he was able to implement it by himself in a couple of months, and it was so elegant that a year later, nobody could remember why they thought the problem was hard in the first place. Having seen the solution, they were so changed that the person they had been before they saw it was unimaginable to them.

Ever since I heard that story, that's what I have aspired to. Is it disenchantment? I don't think so. The mystery is merely moved, from "how could this be possible?" to "how can a thing go from impossible to boring?" and "what currently impossible things will become boring in the next 50, 100, 500 years?"