skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... despite there being no evidence of a widespread voter fraud problem ....

The courts say otherwise. When it comes to local votes, I believe, a handful of votes can decide the outcome. A quick search returns the following:

Texas: Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for a federal conviction. Her case has drawn significant attention and debate regarding the severity of the punishment.

North Carolina: In 2018, Leslie McCrae Dowless was charged with multiple counts of voter fraud related to absentee ballots in a congressional race, which led to a new election being called.

Pennsylvania: In 2020, several cases were reported where individuals were convicted of illegal voting, including double voting and voting on behalf of deceased individuals.

Florida: In 2020, a man was arrested and charged with voter fraud for changing the address of Gov. Ron DeSantis in the voter database without his permission.

Maryland: In 2016, an individual named Gladys Canales was convicted of voting twice in the same election. She cast ballots in both Maryland and Virginia during the 2016 presidential election. This case resulted in a conviction and highlighted concerns about cross-state voting

New York: In 2018, a New York City Board of Elections employee, Valerie Vasquez-Rivera, was involved in a case where fraudulent absentee ballots were submitted during a City Council race. The case led to a plea deal and underscored vulnerabilities in absentee ballot processes

California: In 2020, a case emerged in California involving a man named Robert Richard Lynn, who was convicted of casting ballots on behalf of his deceased mother in three elections. This case resulted in a criminal conviction, demonstrating the risks of voting on behalf of deceased individuals.
Aiding and abetting. It's a crime.
Telegram is an absolute hive of criminality but, more importantly, Telegram will simply not cooperate with law enforcement.

That is why he's been lifted. Google et al will cooperate, even if that's by way of an onerous bureaucratic procedure involving MLATs.
Any questions about why we don't have innovation in search can only be attributed to one monopoly.
I'm slightly pivoting https://uxwizz.com, to focus more on the text-to-SQL feature to generate graphs/charts and export them. It's a lot easier to create custom dashboards like this, and it's also easier for me to implement the "UI" to create the embeddable charts using AI text-to-SQL instead of a visual SQL editor.
> By the end of the 20th century, there were 120MB floppies

In the form of Zip disks, yes. I’m reasonably sure 3.5” disks, the last thing to be called “floppies”, topped out at 2.88M.
The person in the best position to fight the nightmare company that is Facebook is the next Instagram, Oculus, or WhatsApp founder. Please don't sell to Facebook. kthxbai
Interesting idea. I would worry about ruggedness though. And the lenses aren’t exactly fast: “21mm f/2.8, a 28mm f/3.5, and a 32mm f/3.5”
> some aloof technical genius who is going to be likely regarded as an asshole to the rest of the team.

We can agree that no one wants a true ass, but I don't understand why some aloof technical genius needs to automatically be regarded in that way. It looks like the connection is in your mind.

Moreover, it obvious to me that your goal is to use up VC funding, not to generate revenue for the company. An average SWE isn't going to do the special work required to generate revenue.
Codon: A high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native
Let's be a little more cautious and observant in our approach to antimicrobial stewardship.

Yes, we can bleach surfaces, but pathogens (in relatively rapid terms) develop resistance [0].

Yes, we can reduce bacteria at factory farms to small numbers with the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animal feed, but it's easy to observe that this trains pathogens to avoid our most powerful chemical antibiotics.

And so it is with fomites, respiratory pathogens, STDs, and probably even with measures to control arboviruses.

We live in an ecological balance, and discretion is the better part of valor with regard to ensuring that this ecology becomes more likely to nurture increasingly better health outcomes.

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464077/
I'm confused... Let's make this more concrete... Putin sends hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight to their death by means of... AI?

Hundreds of years ago there even was no AI and there were... less wars?
RealPage accused of using algorithms that drove rents higher
Wherever possible I think we should prefer ways of getting along with each other.
So TikTok? And it's arguably even more of a "nightmare".
I've seen nothing but ads directly promoting malware as "AI" image and video creation tools.. The malware steals credentials and uses the credentials to post similar ads from the compromised accounts. Facebook seems to be doing nothing as all methods of reporting are ineffective.
> I have an experiment going on, I have an art account on insta and X, every night I post the same image to both and X gives a lot more views and engagement than Instagram for the same content. Also it seems like the X algorithm is smarter than FB/instagram because it shows me similar art to what I post and keeps the correct vibe. Insta/FB show me random crap I couldn’t care less about.

You post the same image? And then you're happy you get more engagement from x?

I don't get your experiment... You want lots of engagement when you post boring content repeatedly?
Thanks for the heads up! I'm going to report a few APs during my next bike ride
If his was really true for banks there would be a large number of bankers in jail. This number being close to zero, I guess the courts are very lax at charging bankers for crimes.
Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I looked into it!

Even replacing bulbs every 1 year seems like a lot more than people are bargaining for. Most people seem to expect UV will be a "Set It And Forget It" solution (hence why they prefer it over filters), so they risk neglecting the necessary replacement interval.
What are you talking about? Efforts to make it more difficult to vote are almost exclusively right wing. Just look at the list of cases tracked by Democracy Docket: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/
please use a more generous reading of what i said. clearly small companies shouldn't be held to the same standards as big ones. but even small companies should be able to provide an explanation for account closures, and no terms and conditions can abrogate the right to sue. so you don't have to take them to court, but they may well take you to court after you close their accounts. however if you have done your homework, and documented the abuse you'll win, and they will have to pay your court fees.

but until someone sues small companies will probably fly under the radar and the focus is on big companies as it should be. and yes big companies do have an advantage, that's why their actions deserve closer scrutiny.
Sorry, I was not clear: by "native Windows", I meant the Window-specific tooling (batch files, powershell, registry etc...). This is a whole separate world in the opposition to *nix (which today means Linux, BSDs and Max OS) which use things like bash, coreutils, and so on.

My point that now, in 2024, there is really no need to bother with both Windows and *nix support, unless you have special requirements. "Cross platform including non-WSL Windows support" is much more complex and limited than "cross platform which requires WSL on windows", and no one should waste their resources on that without a very good reason. It's perfectly fine to require *nix-like OS for your workflows and enjoy the ease and compatibility that this brings to the table.

This is especially important for open-source contributors, too: someone running Mac OS or Linux is going to be heavily discouraged from contributing any scripts if all scripts are required to be Windows-compatible. And someone running Windows might contribute powershell script but that would be useless for non-Windows people, limiting its utility. My advice to everyone is: unless your app is in Windows-heavy niche, drop non-WSL windows support requirement.
why are there so many parameters in the first place? and was it humans who generated so many? seems like a very big job for a human to do, or even a team of humans to do.

disclaimer: I know next to nothing about llms. and I'm not that interested to learn about them. just asking casually.
Individually visiting profiles seems to change the feed a little.

One guess is if social media engagement isn't as high as desired, users are increasingly presented with alternatives to take them in different directions until they're more engaged, or at such a deficit of dopamine they will be ready to jump to the next thing, maybe like a tik tok?

Today, if a social media network made and kept it about people and not algorithms calculating the topically desired outcome of one company, maybe there would be a different usage.

People have historically learned how to tune out certain forms of media when or if they became too focused on topics not aligned to them, including advertising. Newspapers, Radio, TV..

Hyper personalization may be an option, but if the result of it is distance and not supporting authentications in real life and not digitally, the brain is wired for one for the former a lot longer than the latter. An example of this is how much more.. vivid spending time in person with someone was after not being around people as much during the pandemic.
Lower latency would change things a lot more than higher speeds.
It is not exactly async memory, but at the turn of the millennium a few unices experimented with scheduler activations: the kernel would upcall back into the application whenever a thread would block for any reason, allowing rescheduling of the user space thread.

In the end, the complexity wasn't worth it at the time, bit it is possible that something like that could be brought back in the fitire
> For anyone who doesn't have an idea why something like this matters or is inspiring beyond art...

(Emphasis mine)

The OP acknowledges that these are beautiful, and then explains other reasons why this work may be interesting or important.

There's nothing dumb in that.
> them infiltrating the servers to know everything about anyone involved

That's not a possibility. Split-key encryption doesn't allow such a thing to happen.
One thing I wonder about with AMD is that they know the history of how CUDA got to it's current position, but even if you say trying to compete in that market is fighting yesterday's war and they don't want to dedicate much resources to it they don't seem to have much vision to start and do the long-term commitment to what could be the next big thing. What projects do they have to boost their strengths, and can't be copied easily? The examples I would point to though are Zen (a massive course correction after K10-Bulldozer) and early HSA after acquiring ATi
The thinking went something like "If this were true, I'd be wrong, therefore it is not true."

and possibly "If this were true, I'd be responsible for killing a hundred people, therefore it is not true."
> what air purifiers are supposed to effect, as observed in the study

Which would be? Have you seen details in the submitted article? I suppose this is the study (but the page is bouncing me): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

I have an air purifier working not two meters from me - and it is an HEPA filter with forced ventilation. Not an "air disinfectant".
That’s disgusting but certainly effective to take down something very quickly.

I was very disappointed to hear that UFO related subreddits take down and block UFO sightings. What’s the whole point of the sub if they censor the relevant content.
Are you talking about Brian Steel? He was held in contempt because he refused to name his source that informed him of some misconduct by the judge (ex parte communication with a witness). That's hardly relevant here, the client wasn't involved at all as far as anyone knows.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk/comments/1dd32ji/brian_s...
This is downvoted because it is true but inconvenient. Humans tend to prioritize feelings over facts - just like with handwashing, "if this were true, I'd have killed people, therefore it is not true."
I love that we’re going full circle. Social media is so terrible we’re getting back to just call people on the phone. I hope the next thing to come back are pen pals. Proper old school with envelopes and paper pen pals. It’s gonna be great!
I get what you're trying to say, but I don't entirely agree. Raising levels of abstraction is generally a good thing. But up until now, those have mostly been deterministic. We can be mostly confident that the compiler will generate correct machine code based on correct source code. We can be mostly confident that the magnetised needle does the right thing.

I don't think this is true for LLMs. Their output is not deterministic (up for discussion). Their weights and the sources thereof are mostly unknown to us. We cannot really be confident that an LLM will produce correct output based on correct input.
I recently had used an LLM to convert a lot of Python to Rust. It got it 99% right, and it took me a short while to fix the compile-time errors, and carefully check the tests weren't broken (as I trusted the code worked when the tests passed).

Is that "compiling" or "translating"? Lots of people use language to C "compilers".
Sorry, I'm showing my age. When I was a boy it was common to play "slug bug". Sighting a Volkswagen Beetle was an excuse to punch your friend/sibling in the shoulder without retribution.
This is such a strange hill to die on.

Like what great ideological purpose are you serving if you delegate writing tailwind boilerplate to a LLM, or a basic axios get request?

Does your code become impure if instead of copying code from the documentation you get an LLM to do it?
Why no Twitter/X? I believe they have an API that you can use, but they've locked down scraping pretty hard. The API should be cheap however, if you're only scraping trending once per day.
Humans actually live way outside of the ecological balance point. We can move the balance point, or the ecology will return us to that balance point.
I think GP’s approach is optimized towards a smaller but closer-knit group of friends. Facebook does the opposite: it makes you feel like you have hundreds or thousands of friends when in reality you may not communicate with any of them at all. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a close-knit group of friends, or a few close friends, and communicate Facebook-style. But Facebook points you a different way.
To be fair that % of revenue Unity was historically getting from most of its customer that were actually making meaningful amounts of money (i.e. enough to have a permanent paid workforce) relative to the value it provides (especially compared to Apple's 30%) was very low. Of course not surprising given how relatively little pricing power it always had.

But I don't really buy the pricing argument. Most of that type of games are all made with Unity meaning that it wouldn't be too hard for all of them to raise prices by a few % with minimal impact. That mostly only applies to IAP not to ads but then again Unity was offering a discount/waiving the fee if you were using their platform (which is of course scummy and predatory but probably wouldn't have had a massive financial impact).

Overall yeah... they completely messed up with aligning their pricing model with their long term goals as a company. It was always highly suboptimal (the per seat license is almost insignificant for some companies while a significant barrier for smaller ones, contractors etc). They would probably still have been fine if they hadn't started almost literally burning money like complete madmen after the IPO for no reason. Instead they now have >$2 billion in debt (albeit low/zero interest) and nothing to show for it whatsoever (well besides IronSource to some extent I guess..) in addition to a still extremely bloated but also unproductive and heavily demoralized workforce.
> If one out of ten thousand people use your product for illegal deeds you’re fine.

This logic clearly makes the prison of someone like the owner of Telegram difficult to justify, since 99.999% of messages in telegram are completely legal.
I mean, if you’re friend with someone it shouldn’t be “awkward chats”. It should just be a chat with a friend that wants to know if you’re doing great and knowing what you’re up to.
Man that’s a blast from the past
Sure. And Tik Toks attempted ban is about Chinese surveillance.
This is where LLM's have been the most helpful for me. When I am engaging with an entirely new subject and have a bunch of questions I need to pepper someone with, I can ask as many clarifying follow ups as I need without getting self conscious or worry about annoying whoever I'm speaking with. The LLM is infinitely patient and able to easily handle beginner level prereq questions.
East Germany has just the biggest chip cluster in Europe.
If you find a friend reaching out once in a while to be awkward, then I’m guessing you probably don’t want to be friends with that person. Or, maybe you have a bar for “friend” that involves more regular contact so it doesn’t feel random.
Both of them are black boxes though by the author's own definition.
This is a qualitatively different kind of abstraction. All other abstractions still require the programmer to express the solution in a formal language, while LLMs are allowing the user to express the solution in natural language. It's no longer programming, but much more like talking to a programmer as a manager.
They should have just rebuilt it. (I've been an ARRL member since 1977). I suppose they didn't want to lose LOTW.
I came here to state exactly this.
As a dutch individual that has 'cloud' high on his CV, I would like to create an account and test this to see if it is something I should invest my time in to make it part of my cv.
But ... they won't allow that.

Ah well, next!
I like the definition proposed in the post - all possible mazes should be equally likely. A function could return the same maze each time and pass the criteria above.
We rarely use reasoning too. When a lightning strikes, a thunder follows. When the sun shines, trees grow. These are correlations we've learned. Now can you derive them with proper reasoning? In fact, if we dig deep enough, at some point we'll face some principle or axiom that just postulates an observed correlation as a law.

What we call reasoning can be the art of finding a chain of small correlations to connect ends of a big correlation. Some sort of quantum-powered DFS algorithm.

However a reasoning machine is just a machine. Someone needs to tell it what to reason about.
Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics
The name is a slang NSFW https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hot%20glue
> "service provider" apologists

I sincerely doubt that Telegram makes most of it's money by being this kind of host. I don't generally give the government the benefit of the doubt when it comes to _communication_ platforms. I also see zero evidence that Telegram's existence or policies help promote or create crime in any way.

It's not conspiratorial to refuse to show deference to the government which currently only has vague accusations to justify jailing a CEO. If the French government was so concerned about the criminal aspect then they should just order Telegram to not operate in France or they should work to block it at a national level.

The problem, the reaction, and the solution are not at all aligned here. Why anyone would jump in to defend the government's actions is absolutely beyond me.
Reluctantly, America eyes building more nuclear weapons
Even worse, in the US they clearly go out of their way to lobby for no control of gun sales. They should be indicted as facilitating crime.
> Of course they could still be on the hook for normal costs relative to the actual workload imposed (i.e. what the median law firm would charge), but that’s a potential consequence for any lawsuit whatsoever in the UK. Or any other ‘loser pays’ jurisdiction.

That still seems like too much for a free tool that they are getting no revenue or monetization from, and the author seems to agree.
This is the best blessing the internet has given to worldwide curiosity and intelligence. The ability to ask "why" ad infinitum, without pissing off parents or taking up the entire class's time.
Looking into better compression algorithms inspired by ML, LLM techniques under different constraints. For example if the receiver has a prior knowledge because future devices will have some foundational models that already understand higher level concepts like how a human looks or speaks, do we really need to send the entire recording or just the "words", "intonation" etc and reconstruct it on device.

Fabrice Bellard and other has done some work in this domain
https://bellard.org/
yep, I would call this the anthropomorphisation of llms. undesirable, just as any other kind of anthropomorphisation is.
Got myself 3 iMacs (1998) and 2 Macintosh SE's (not sure specific model yet) yesterday at an estate sale for $50.
>> how would you create a compelling CSAM image with nothing resembling the target in the training data?

(1) You feed it extra training data to suit the desired output.

(2) The AI combines bits from existing training data. It has non-pornographic content of children. It has adult pornography. Layer one over the other and voila. Crime. Most AI has zero images of cats doing calculus, but is very capable of generating such content.

(3) You manually aid the process. People forget how powerful standalone AI can be when one manually selects good output and feeds it back as a guide for the next iteration. This does not scale to a multi-task environment, but is very useful when accomplishing one specific task.
Most jurisdictions have early voting and/or mail in voting. I understand the time off argument, but in most cases early voting seems like a reasonable solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
I'm not entirely sure how this is something you can 'shift' to. It doesn't compete with the three big ones at all (not in features, not in price and not in scalability, and it has no integration or ecosystem to speak of), but if we were to see it for what it is, it might be more of a competitor to DigitalOcean.

If what you need is a DigitalOcean, then yes, you could shift to this. But when you need a DigitalOcean, you're probably in the wrong place if you were using an AWS/GCP/AZ instead, which is also where this article seems to create a failed comparison.

The play itself does make enough sense, there is a significant duplication in effort across companies, even if you're not doing hyperscaler things and using 'enterprise hardware', the people, processes and technology involved are pretty much the same in all places (which means you wonder what value is added by doing it internally at all -- spoiler it's usually legacy reasons, legacy governance and aversion to change).

When there are enough regions and scalability (capacity, higher resolution consumption pricing, shorter cycle times) you could probably use this as a datacenter-in-the-cloud type of deal, which while 15 years too late is definitely still an improvement in so many businesses. We have some larger companies like Hetzner, OVH and Leaseweb which also try to pivot to more of an XaaS but that in itself is just adding to duplication and a fractured ecosystem. Will this actually work out? Only time will tell...
It’s because there’s a subset of people with a boiled enough attention span that they need something visual to watch (like a speedrun challenge) while listening to a podcast clip.
8 seconds is apparently the upper limit of the attention span now.