skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but Twitter is one of those things where I really can't understand why anyone likes it and uses it, let alone why it is so popular.

I think it's a carryover of general nostalgia for how the Internet "used to be", i.e. before every site with a few million users decided to start experimenting with algorithms to max out user engagement and ad impressions, leading to the hell we see everywhere, from IG to Tiktok.

Yes, there was a time when Twitter wasn't a toxic mess. It's the last social network that was popular before smartphones took off.
State-level actors (five eyes) should have no problem with avoiding that kind of detection.
A lot of pages are now behind CF, hosted on AWS,... It would surprise me if these providers didn't share their data with the 3-letter agencies.
M-DISC: The storage medium that lasts 1000 years
I am going about the parity bit. 0x46 has odd number of bits set (three, to be precise) so for the parity to check out (that is, the number of bits set has to be even), a parity bit needs to be set and the resulting encoding has to be 0xC6, with four bits set.
Mmmm...

Hizbollah

Hizbollah was the largest armed political group in the country with a base mainly in Shia areas. It said that it supported the country's ratification of the Optional Protocol in meetings with government officials.29 The group denied any use of children in the ongoing conflict with Israel, including the war of 2006.30 In 2007 there were reports that its military wing was recruiting boys aged 16-19. [...]

The US military accepts recruits at age 17, so I think you're really stretching the definition of 'child soldiers' here. The report goes on to mention that Hezbollah organizes youth camps and suchlike, and in turn we could point out that ROTC accepts recruits aged 14 and up. While I would not say they're exactly alike, as someone who grew up outside the USA, this society is very militaristic compared to a lot of others. I was genuinely shocked when I discovered that US schoolchildren are expected to recite a pledge of allegiance every morning.
Not everyone lives in a country where government is a friend
As to the uncertainty and mysteries, you are 100% correct. One of the big failure modes for engineers in dealing with human health is the assumption that things are as simple and logical as the stuff we build, when it's simply not at all like that. There are (1) big arguments over basic things like "why do SSRI's work?" Outside of LLM's I can't think of a thing in software where we are still arguing about why things work in production. We never say "Why does Postgres work?" in the same way. (2)

And yes, this is true for many other areas of discussion at HN. It's just that it is most obvious to me in the area that my wife specializes in, because I pick up enough via osmosis from her to know when other people don't even have my limited level of understanding.

1: Or at least were 15 years ago when my wife told me about it- the argument might have been largely concluded and she just never updated me since I don't keep up with the medical literature the way she does.

2: Two decades ago there was a huge push for the "human genome project" under the basis that this would be "reading the blueprints for human life" and that would give us all of these medical breakthroughs. Basically none of those breakthroughs happened because we've spent the past 20 years learning all of the different ways that it is NOT a blueprint and that cells do things very differently from human engineers.
LinkedIn silently opts users into generative AI data scraping by default
Hum... For those eligible to WFH, there is no higher salary, simply state WFH or you will not find any workers interesting in working for you. IT workers united means no IT company can survive against them.
> Tor was literally developed by the intelligence community. I’m sure there are a variety of means to gather actionable intelligence from it, with or without the cooperation of the exit node volunteers.

These two statements make little sense together. It was originally developed by the Navy. Okay. So why would they design it from the get-go with such a fatal flaw that would risk their own adversaries gathering "actionable intelligence" from it?

I'd like to stress if we're talking about the Navy's involvement, then you're questioning the design of the whole thing from the very beginning, not just the current implementation.
Node.js TypeScript Production grade setup template
Google Demonstrates Error Correction Below Surface Code Threshold
That sounds distinctly like an expectation that didn't hold.
Cool. What Meta is doing is better than cigarettes from the perspective of addiction. If Meta is the best we have, then we'd better create something better, or prepare for the inevitable enshittification.
> economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has moved up but remains low.
"If it's not terrorism, what is the differentiating factor(s)?" The power structure in charge of labeling.

What's the old saying? "One mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".
A few years ago I began an effort to write a new tech book. I planned orig to do as much of it as I could across a series of commits in a public GitHub repo of mine.

I then changed course. Why? I had read increasing reports of human e-book pirates (copying your book's content then repackaging it for sale under a diff title, byline, cover, and possibly at a much lower or even much higher price.)

And then the rise of LLMs and their ravenous training ingest bots -- plagiarism at scale and potentially even easier to disguise.

"Not gonna happen." - Bush Sr., via Dana Carvey

Now I keep the bulk of my book material non-public during dev. I'm sure I'll share a chapter candidate or so at some point before final release, for feedback and publicity. But the bulk will debut all together at once, and only once polished and behind a paywall
Just added 'build a new landing page' to my to-do, appreciate the feedback!

Anything else we could do to make double.bot a more compelling option for you?
Bromium aka HP Sure Click is based on Xen. I’d argue Xen provides comparable security, along with nice to have features such as multi processor support.

I worked on Bromium, and also coauthored what I believe was the first research paper introducing the idea of a browser OS. See https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/tahoma.pdf
We're all working from limited examples - this entire article is about only one. I know many other government workers in different branches who felt similarly.
Versatile microscale robots can fold into 3D shapes and crawl
LE will issue you a wildcard certificate and it's usable for mail.
Not a user of StarRocks, but I'm curious about your experience with BigQuery and its price-to-performance (as well as its alternatives).

I'm building a product with the gist of "BigQuery but cheaper" (~30%-50% expected cost reduction) by utilizing GPU acceleration (think Nvidia RAPIDS), but I'm still in the market validation/talking to prospects phase.

How much better was StarRocks in terms of cost efficiency? Does it scale to your needs?
The first cars, networks, and many other things were not unexpensive. They became so with time and growing adoption.

Cost of compute will continue decreasing and we will reach that point where it is feasible to have AI everywhere. I think with this particular technology we have already reached a no return point
I don't use them that much, but a relative does, and they've told me that they like using one that can do recipes (they have a household with very specific food restrictions) and another one. I don't remember what it's called, but it sounds vaguely like Magic School Bus, and it's good for doing forms and rewriting things to be less, say, sweary (they're a grader and the stories they tell about students submitting stupid things...)
> it's shocking how many people are baffled by this

Is it? These stupid word generators are marketed as AI, I don't think it's "shocking" that people think something "intelligent" could perform a trivial counting task. My 6 year old nephew could solve it very easily.
I came here to say something like this. I've worked in product development in the Bay Area for 30+ years and brought numerous products to market, mostly manufactured in China. There's nothing like the density and ability of manufacturing that's in China (and more broadly in other parts of Asia). In the US I've worked with great molders and toolers, PCB fab, machine shops, CMs, etc. but the ability to turn on a dime and get stuff done quickly in southern China is insane. In the Bay Area you see billboards for esoteric SaaS products and credit cards for startups, in parts of China, they are for molding machines and CNC tools. You drive by rows of roll up doors in the base of apartment blocks and each stall/shop is filled with bar stock, plastic pellets, CNC machines, injection molding machines, etc.

You'll also see people doing complex repairs of mobile phones sitting on a stool on the sidewalk. The level of skill and access to tools/spare parts that is endemic there is completely different than the US.
It's not the training dataset.

All of these models, including the "open" ones, have been RLHF'ed by teams of politically-motivated people to be "safe" after initial foundation training.
I haven't figured this out.

Ideally we should should hold employees to the work they produce but I still cringe a little when someone calls into a meeting because they had to run an errand. I want management to believe wfh isn't being abused. It's exclusively about the optics. The lack of interruptions is a net positive.

If we miss a deadline, it makes it easy for management to start blaming people not being at their desk. We shouldn't be giving them ammo
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've been pretty underwhelmed by o1 so far. I find its instruction following to be pretty good, but so far Claude is still much better at taking coding tasks and just getting it right on first try.
You missed my point. Everyone surveils everyone else. There are no exceptions.

Any country with the capabilities to surveil other countries does. We do it to every country we can, allies included. Allies do it to us. And everyone does it to enemies.

That is my point; it has nothing to do with Israel or the US in particular.

Specifically, Israel's intelligence apparatus is one of the main reasons they are such a useful partner to the US in the Middle East. It is far easier for us to deal with Israel, even now, than it is to deal with Iran or Pakistan or Qatar; but suffice it to say that every single country surveils every other country it can.
Thanks for the "fair enough". I was worried that I had been too harsh.
I too was a libertarian when I was 12 years old.

But seriously, if you paid attention over the last decade, there was so much shit about big tech that people said were going to lead to tyranny/big brother oversight, and yet the closest we have ever gotten to tyranny is by voting in a bombastic talking orange man from NYC that we somehow believed has our best interests in mind.
I don't think there's a single way that we learn things, there's too much variety in how, when and why things are committed to memory and still more of a difference with things that actually update our thinking process or world model. We forget the overwhelming majority of sense perceptions immediately and even when we are intentionally trying to learn something we will fail to recall it even a few seconds after we see it. Even when we succeed in short term recall the thing we have "learnt" may be gone the next day or we may only recall it correctly some small number of times out of many attempts. Contrary to that some things are immediately and permanently ingrained in our minds if they are extremely impactful in some way or sometimes for no apparent reason at all. It's too deep of a topic to go into but all this is to say that it isn't so simple as to say that continued pretraining of an LLM is completely dissimilar to how humans learn, in fact the question and answer style of fine tuning that is so widely used to add new knowledge or steer a model to respond in a certain way is extremely similar to how humans learn e.g. quizzing or testing with immediate feedback and repeating the process with many samples that vary their wording while still pertaining to the same information is one of the best ways for people to memorize information.
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> they haven't found a way to build convincingly human bots, let alone a procedural content creation system.

The 'they' being the corporations that hired thousands of people from the very countries you're associating with spammers , to review, correct and train AI models?
> PSA: motherboards these days have a RAM compatibility list on their product page, check it before overspending on RAM.

That's a valuable PSA, but FYI it's been that way since the 80s. I've been bitten by compatibility issues at least once a decade since the 90s myself, and the answer from forums or support is always "did you check the compatibility table tho?".
I don't think we can yet compare microplastics to asbestos. Asbestos is still used today but in much more industrial, safe ways than it once was used. Not to downplay any net harm but I don't believe its as clear yet.
Good to hear, although not a first. For example, this has been happening in Lugano, Switzerland since 2017 [1]. And I guess in other places too

[1] https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1138424/ecco-all-opera-i...
It's sad that we have come to a point where people frown upon a company that makes a product and sells it, without luring their customers in with monthly subscriptions.
Good find. Yeah, pretty much exactly like this.
A question before I enter your Manichean universe:

Does Tor Browser Bundle currently ship with Ublock Origin installed and on by default?
The first two do not count, Israel did not even exist. They had nothing to offer, they wanted to take some of the land from the Arabs for their own state. They owned less than ten percent of Mandatory Palestin that they had purchased from Arabs and the United Nations decided to give them more than half of the land - admittedly including a lot of desert - for their own state. None of the Arab nations and obviously not the Palestinians agreed to that. Ben-Gurion took the offer and established the state of Israel, not because he considered it fair - he said he would be mad if he was a Palestinian - and not because he was satisfied, he saw it as a step to eventually take over all of Mandatory Palestin.

I can not say much about number three but your quote says that it did not get very far, so I am not sure why this is on a list of rejected offers if there was not even an offer, only considerations.

The way Camp David is described also does not match reality. They failed to agree on several points and therefore there was never an offer that could be rejected. One point of contention was the right to return for the Palestinians expelled by the Israelis. You can not say one side blocked it, the Palestinians wanted more than what Israelis offered, they could have accepted less or the Israelis could have offered more.

Number five, the realignment plan, that was a proper offer, but the characterization in your quote is still misleading. Israel unilaterally proposed to withdraw from most of the Westbank and permanently annex six percent of it containing the major settlements. There was also some other stuff including some land swaps included. I am not sure if the reason for the failure are welk known, you find claims about rejections, claims about just not accepting, that story about not being allowed to look at the map before agreeing, ... And given that it was an unilateral offer, I am not sure that it addressed all points deemed relevant by the Palestinians, for example what happens to the refugees. I would love if someone could provide additional insights.
This book does an OK job of examining those philosophical arguments.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/terrorism-and-the-right...
Who is out here mixing types in a list anyway?
> Could someone like the NSA with limitless resources do it? Sure

Yes, this is obviously the sort of adversary we would be discussing.

> , lets also ignore that there are different types of nodes

causing your number to be an underestimate

> The answer is less than 0.14%.

So almost certainly thousands of people
That was true, but the more recent Quorum queues provide more traditional scalability tradeoffs (you can set a ceiling on the number of synchronous replication hops that a published, replicated message goes through): https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues
No one wants to holiday in an apartheid state. The younger generations have access to actual footage on the ground in Palestine, they will never support Israel.
This will lead to strawberry appeals forever.
they make chromebooks, at least...
Amazon doesn't really pay severance for PIP, nor are they required to pay severance for layoff. They would be required to do a WARN notice, but how would that be worse than giving people 4 months of notice about the RTO policy?
Tesla has enough time to get brand recognition for cheap charging, even if it gets less relevant over time.

Even when chargers become more common in cities, there will always be some places like smaller villages or long roads where you only have one option; that option possibly being a Tesla charger.

So even if it loses significance, the difference will still be there. And maybe it will be sufficient to retain Tesla being known for being cheaper long-term (because of charging).

Whether that's realistic: I don't know.
As pavel_lishin says, as long as the bully/their family aren't paying, they don't care. If you drive drunk and crash and disable someone, you're not paying their Medicaid all by yourself. If you did, there might be less drunk driving (though given the poor decision making and impulsivity alcohol precipitates, not that much).
switched to mastodon, bluesky long ago.
I think if the Tor Project wants to boost their network they might try putting anything about how to do so on their website, easily-accessible. I'm trying to figure out how to run a relay and having a pretty challenging time finding anything at all about this. They just really want me to download Tor Browser, it seems.

Edit: I finally found it![0] I had to go to Donate, Donation FAQ, "Can I donate my time?" , "Learn more about joining the Tor community.", and then "Relay Operations" -> "Grow the Tor network" at the bottom right. I would really hope there's a more direct path than this...

[0] https://community.torproject.org/relay/
I wonder about the security of this. Are programs executed in some kind of jail? Is there a limit to certain features, e.g., opening a socket to somewhere?
Not parent, but I did use Mastodon for about a year. I ended up moving back to Twitter because:

1. I just couldn't vibe with the culture there. From my POV, Mastodon is made out of pearl-clutchers and politics.

2. So much drama. The FediSearch drama. The Raspberry Pi incident. It's just so tiring and you feel like you need to walk on eggshells all the time.

3. So much drama. You would just pray that your admin didn't get into a spat with another admin and get defederated. You could get a solo server, but that costs money and you might get blocked by a large server's admin anyway.

4. So much drama. Pray that your server doesn't shut down, because you can't import your posts elsewhere. Solo, yes, but costs money.

At least with Twitter, the rules are sort of well known, and you can follow anyone there unless they block you personally.

I heard BlueSky is good, though. Haven't tried it yet. Nostr was also another one, to get around the admin drama issue, but it doesn't seem very popular.
? tor reroutes the packets so how would you identify who is visiting who? it's not just 'layers of encryption' it is layers of redirection
are you implying that Tor is not used for illegal or immoral purposes? (I took out the primarily that you threw in to make your argument stronger because that made my argument stronger, and I took out your scare quotes because morality doesn't scare me)
I wasn't really compelled at the time, nothing has changed.
If the consumer becomes richer by brining industry back to your country you might actually end up a victor in that transaction.
One guess is that the live demo is quantized to run fast on cheaper GPUs, and that degraded the performance a lot.
i'm just using a hardcoded private ip to connect to the imap server. are you saying i can get a certificate with a hostname of "*" that will match ANY ip address?
The problem is that the users and their capital are not organized enough to suggest or demand for this. On the other side of the table we have the "establishment" which may not be formally organized but has enough shared incentives among itself where the outcomes aren't any different as if it were indeed formally organized and pooling resources.

In this sense we have this intractable push and pull going on with just about any community of sufficient size. We have the users who might want or should want some privacy and respect and other such benefits, and then we have the people who actually invest and build these platforms, who are incentivized to deliver other things than what the users best interest might be. Either you empower users to have more money to be able to roll their own solutions, or you try and set up a world where the incentives of capital perfectly match the needs of the individual or collective of individuals, which is probably impossible to do.
Most of those alarms will warn about trivial everyday results, that may (with rather low probability) cause death down the line. My bet is they'd get mostly ignored very quickly.
True, but it could also be totally innert and not have any measurable negative effect. Who knows?
So if there are greater than only 357 people on topics the GP is interested in that's better than 50/50 odds.
These sort of “Tor evangelism” comments are so tiring, frankly. There are quite a few like it in this thread, in response to…not people poo-pooing Tor, or throwing the baby out with the bathwater, rather making quite level-headed and reasonable claims as to the shortcomings and limitations of the network / protocol / service / whatever.

One should be able to make these quite reasonable determinations about how easy it’d be to capture and identify Tor traffic without a bunch of whataboutism and “it’s still really good though, ok!” replies which seek to unjustifiably minimise valid concerns because one feels the need to…go on and bat for the project that they feel some association with, or something.

The self-congratulatory cultiness of it only makes me quite suspicious of those making these comments, and if anything further dissuades me from ever committing any time or resources to the project.
Lots of juicy Internet protocols are still running in cleartext. OCSP, for example, and DNS, as you noted. And the IP-level metadata of TLS connections is still enough to uniquely identify which entities are communicating with each other in many situations. I very much doubt XKeyscore has been retired.
Have you played Blossom (https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game) before? It's really good. I do it intermittently, as I do all games.
Way weirder than this is that LLMs are frequently correct in this task.

And if you forgo the counting and just ask it to list the letters it is almost always correct, even though, once again, it never sees the input characters.
Sorry that it is hard to find. This is the root link to point you towards.

https://community.torproject.org/relay/

Thanks for considering to run a relay.
i self-host TS (headscale), so maybe not mutually exclusive
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False positives are not harmless. Textbook example is breast cancer screening https://theconversation.com/breast-cancer-screening-in-austr...
This is trained on their closed captions