skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. I think the real distinction is reach. Are you consuming content passively, or are you creating content for many people? If you're creating content on torture China's doing, they absolutely will track you down. If you're in North Korea and revealing what life is really like in South Korea, or in Russia exposing the realities of the Ukraine war, Tor is probably unsafe.

But there is also an element of resources. Even if you're sowing distrust in, say, the Comorian government, I don't think they have the resources to go after you unless you are truly destabilizing and not just annoying.
There are methods that make it feasible to train models over the internet. DiLoCo is one [1] and NousResearch has found a way to improve on that using a method they call DisTro [2].

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08105

2. https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO?tab=readme-ov-file
Help Finding Unique Companies
heyy i understand this is very random but i had an idea of gathering some unique companies on a spreadsheet
they Dont try to dominate the market, only to build their neash and have good products, even tho thier products in almost all instances more expensive than the competition. common ways of how you might find is them being just plain simply nice, comfy, nonaggressive company. Their name holds value. they dont let you down as a customer when something bad happens. also one other requirement: their main product should be something physical and tech for now, idk i might even add some non tech too if you reccommend some very unique companies, also im taking some name suggestions for this spreadsheet, thanks love you all<3
> Local politicians attach tax breaks/incentives for companies with office workers.

Has that actually happened?
That q is too similar to single story ą for my taste (even if this font uses double story a/ą). But otherwise it's the most aesthetically pleasing of the legibility-oriented fonts :)
Hey. I paired a block party with HN. I do not generally pair HN and drinking!
Rust and Solidity are interesting omissions from this ranty post, especially given the crypto attachments.
But an adversary with enough money could just buy servers from multiple ISPs, right?
> Any other person trying to pull that off would be in jail already.

Not ANY other person. Just people who are not rich and well-connected. See also: Donald Trump.
Nanomachines, son.
This isn't all so unusual if its written into the job description. SREs in tech companies are expected to respond within a few minutes if they're paged in the middle of the night. They are usually compensated for their oncall time, however.

Expecting a worker to come to the factory out of fear or good will is not the way. Just write it into the contract/expectations/evaluations.
If you’re advocating for a bigger network… we need more relay operators. Can’t wave a magic wand. There’s like 8000 relays. Haven’t looked in a while.

Or if you were arguing for increasing the number of relays in a circuit, that doesn’t increase security. It’s like one of the OG tor research papers deciding on 3. Bad guy just needs the first and the last. Middle irrelevant.
Former tech advisor to Google Patent Litigation here.

The Ex Parte Reexamination is a fundamental tool for fighting against patent trolls:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination

They can also be used by big companies to steal IP from small inventors. However, this is not why the backers of this bill are trying to limit them.

When a troll buys up a patent from the early 2000's, they hope to stretch its claims, with the help of a patent-friendly judge, to cover some modern technology. Naturally, it's the FAANG and other big companies they really want, but first they build up a war chest by settling with smaller fish.

Filing an IPR is a cheaper way than going to trial for challenging these bogus patents, and believe me, nearly all software patents are bogus. I busted lots of them, including this:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-patent-may-block-goo...

If you go to trial, it's some unsophisticated jurors who decide if the patent is valid. For a reexam, it's PTO people, who at least know what the law is.

So that's why trolls want to get rid of reexams: to force companies to negotiate with them.
Yea, I believe you Zuck, it's not like Facebook is closed centralized privacy breaking walled garden.
Unrelated to Tor, what was your favourite project to work on that you're allowed to talk about? That must be a fascinating job.
If you put a machine that blew asbestos fibers out the wall/roof of the building in most homes in the US people would probably be pretty upset.

For that matter, I wonder if they ever made asbestos clothing for routine wear? Looks like aprons, oven mitts, and ironing board covers.
Those "best people" may also be some of the higher paid - so if you only care about short term results that may be more of a feature than a bug.
Maybe all companies are doomed this way, but it was the first step on a slippery slope. Not in terms of the slippery slope logical fallacy, that's only apply if someone argued they'd end up force-hiding output before GPT-3 if they went capped profit
Elon is trying really hard to destroy Twitter, isn't he?
> Perhaps from their users' data?

nope, not yet.

FAIR, the people that do the bigboi training, for a lot of their stuff cant even see user data, because the place they do the training can't support the access.

Its not like openAI where the lawyers don't even know whats going on, because they've not yet been properly taken to court.

at Meta, the lawyers are everywhere and if you do naughty shit to user data, you are going to be absolutely fucked.
I'm also skeptical about the magnitude of their effect, but I wouldn't entirely discount it, either.

The actual campaigns are limited in what they can do. They can buy a lot of advertising that insinuates terrible things about their opponent, but they can only lie so much before they are subject to defamation charges. They can't get away with paying operatives to pretend to be the other side, "concerned" about something the candidate did or said.

I don't know how effective such tactics really are. It's entirely possible that they lay a groundwork of negativity: "Sure, that troll on the Internet might have been lying, but maybe that just means that this less-unbelievable thing is actually true."

It's impossible to measure. But in an election that's close, it doesn't take much, especially with the Electoral College. Elections swing on a few thousand votes -- a microscopic fraction of the ~150,000,000 votes that are cast.

So I concur that the effect is probably small. But I'm not so sure that the small effect is unimportant. It gets to shift things in ways that the campaigns, and even the supposedly non-aligned SuperPACs, can't do.
>It’s then best we’ve got for achieving actually meaningful privacy and anonymity

...while being practical.

One could argue that there is i2p. But i2p is slow, a little bit harder to use, and from what I can remember, doesn't allow you to easily browse the clearnet (regular websites).
I do think there's probably a lot of political pressure on employers to not just abandon downtowns. And some do outright own a lot of real estate which puts them in a somewhat difficult position of probably writing down investments. But my first-hand observation in that employers who lease are just not renewing in at least a number of cases.
Good. Now compare to OpenAI. Clearly what Meta is doing is better than OpenAI from the perspective of freedom and decentralization.
> Surely eventually I'm going to get a hit where all three nodes in the circuit are my nodes that are logging everything?

If you're looking for static assets, why would you need to see the whole chain? Wouldn't a connection to a known website (page) have a similar fingerprint even if you wrap it in 3 layers of encryption? Does Tor coalesce HTTP queries or something to avoid having someone fingerprint connections based on the number of HTTP requests and the relative latency of each request?

I've always assumed that, if a global adversary attack works, you'd only need to watch one side if you're looking for connections to known static content.

I don't know much beyond the high level idea of how Tor works, so I could be totally wrong.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/732409 (fixed url)

seems like the issue is specifically with IMAP- I can confirm that calendar syncing works fine with the self signed cert.

this is really disappointing.
And then you plug your cheap pop-off USB cable into the expensive 100w charger?
> what drives these decisions

I watched a replay of a billionaire summit/conference once. They get these ideas in those echo chambers and bring back anecdotal evidence to the company and represent it as empirical fact.

> Is there that much solid evidence that they get more value out of people in the office rather than home?

Nope

> Or are there other reasons like tax incentives that encourage in-person work over remote?

In the corporate real estate sector, there were grumblings about incentives to companies. Basically, if you stay or extend the contract then we will improve the space “for free” or reduced rate.

> Is this just a control thing or or there a compelling argument that I am missing?

Some say it has to do with future layoffs. There are hints that AMZN is going to layoff people anyways but instead of having to pay out severance. They put these shitty policies in place to nudge people towards leaving on their own accord and thus paying out severance package.

Have seen this at a previous company. Unfortunately the people that do leave tend to be the people that you really want to stay. Almost the “anchor beings” of the team so to speak. Those people tend to find new jobs relatively quickly and the people you are left to work with simply just cannot replace those that left.

Velocity decreases. Management rushes to hire and push through the ranks with not so qualified individuals. Velocity further decreases because of the increased training and onboarding of a very inexperienced persons. People get annoyed all over. Veterans begin to slowly drop every month. New people begin to leave as well (within a year). Management then hires the worst off shore contractors. Velocity decreases further. Regression bugs, new bugs increases. Stability of application or platform is questionable.

Honestly these B-grade MBA losers are just clueless. This is all just a game to them every quarter so they can get their precious golden parachute or minimally meet the boards bonus requirements. These same losers then get rotated through various companies.

See CrowdStrike CEO, and Google CEO
Yes, that's my point: it's the X model because Musk bought the platform so he can amplify himself and censor whomever he likes.
When large agricultural firms lobby congress, they always talk about the "small farmer". Similarly, with patent law, you have huge businesses talking about small firms or single inventors.

Which is to say, they lie a lot. Take it with a gain of salt.

Unfortunately they also frequently get non-profits to be their mouth pieces, which makes finding some sort of unbiased alternate viewpoint difficult. As a practical matter, I wouldn't trust anything the Federalist Society says.
Am I completely off-base/confused thinking that the GFE originally started life (like back under csilver) as a fork of boa[0]?

[0]: http://www.boa.org/
I don't think they're stating either - just that it's pretty impractical to remove plastic from clothing at this point.
NotebookLM (Google): generates NPR-interview style "audio overviews" from PDFs
What if we turned hardware support into a subscription (kind of like JetBrains model I think?) and stopped yearly releases in favor of more interesting releases? I wonder how many resources are used just to make the next iteration a bit shinier to catch the consumer's eye.
If LLMs stop evolving now, we (humanity) have a great new technology to build on. When we have computers and smartphones that can run Llama 3.1 405B the possibilities will be infinite.

If that doesn't turn into something as profitable as Google, that's actually great for all of us but terrible for the investors. I'm actually hoping for this scenario.
IBM Social Media Head: "The Future of Social Media is OPEN SOURCE and DECENTRALIZED"

This must be a sign that Meta is not confident in their AI offerings.
Thank you, kind internet stranger. That was an awesome dive into the matter!
The Australian system is really flexible with entrance requirements, you don't need to have completed high school to get in. You can get in through a variety of alternative pathways, like professional experience, special entrance programmes, etc. Age is no particular barrier either, and it's pretty common to have older students.

It's recommended by a lot of people not to go straight into uni, especially if you're unsure what direction you want to go in. Spend a year or a few, work some hospitality jobs, and just enjoy yourself first, then go do uni in your 20s.
> if there was a startup that negotiates on behalf of employees for salary, benefits, remote vs in-office, etc. using collective influence as more people from a particular company used it.

I...love this idea. And end-users could pay them dues, excuse me, fees for the service.
>Or if you were arguing for increasing the number of relays in a circuit, that doesn’t increase security. It’s like one of the OG tor research papers deciding on 3. Bad guy just needs the first and the last. Middle irrelevant.

Because of timing attacks? There are ways to mitigate timing attacks if you are patient (but I think clearnet webservers are not very patient and my drop your connection)
Certainly tax breaks related to local employment have been a common thing in the past. Whether this is related to any current RTO activity I have no idea.
People probably think you’re exaggerating but it’s true. Sometimes when I would get blocked the suggestion was to “read the source code” or “submit a fix” on some far flung internal project. Huge fucking waste of time and effort, completely unserious.
Just one person's experience but when I was younger, I worked for several years at both a non-union grocery store and a unionized store in different cities. Working union was much better but part of that was the quality of co-workers was better. At the non-union store, I can see why unionization on the surface would be unappealing since there were lots of low quality employees. If you're someone who does their assigned work and see other slacking off constantly and constantly screwing things up, hearing the typical union messages of solidarity isn't going to be appealing. You have to be able to view things in the context of unionization of the company also making the jobs more appealing to a better quality worker. In my n=1 opinion, the non-union chain lost lots of money through poor quality labor and might have been better off with high labor costs that would be offset by higher quality labor but I have no way of actually being able to quantify that to determine if it would be true.

At both the union and non-union stores there was a perception that union dues were used by union officials more for their own enrichment than for the benefit of members. Having worked at the non-unionized store first, the better wages and benefits easily outweighed the cost of union dues, but some of that could also have been due to the location in a more affluent area.
Society benefits when people refrain from illegal and immoral activities.
>Surely eventually I'm going to get a hit where all three nodes in the circuit are my nodes that are logging everything?

The word "eventually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Let's say you actually manage to add 1000 servers to the tor network somehow without getting detected. The network currently sits at just under 8000 nodes. For simplicity, lets also ignore that there are different types of nodes and geographical considerations and instead just ask what is the probability that someone randomly chooses three nodes that you own. The answer is less than 0.14%. If that someone decided to use 4 nodes to be extra-safe, that number goes down to 0.015%. And it decreases exponentially for every additional relay he adds. Combine this with the fact that tor nodes are actively monitored and regularly vetted for malicious behaviour[1], and these attacks become increasingly difficult. Could someone like the NSA with limitless resources do it? Quite probably, sure. But could you or any other random guy do it? Almost certainly not.

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wiki...

Edit: For all the cynics and doomsayers here, consider this: Tor has been around for a long time, but there has never been an uptick in arrests that could be correlated to cracking the core anonymity service. If you look closely at the actual high profile cases where people got busted despite using tor, these people always made other mistakes that led authorities to them.
i’d definitely follow Dave the Crow
Or check out "money printer" on github: a tongue in cheek mashup of various tools to take a keyword as input and produce a youtube video with subtitles and narration as output.
I suppose it depends on your opinions around patents. To me, anything that makes patents more "sticky" is a bad thing. I think patent grants should be scaled back heavily, and patent terms greatly reduced. There's far too much junk that's been awarded patents and then used as a bludgeon by companies to intimidate others (even worse when the company is a patent troll).

Even if it's true that these measures would help stop larger companies from stealing patents from smaller firms (I'm skeptical of that), I'd still oppose them.
> Israel undoubtedly surveils US citizens; but as a counterpoint, the US also absolutely surveils Israel

There is no symmetry whatsoever between Israel and the US. The US are a superpower, Israel is (supposedly) a small client state. The US have a vast political influence over the richest part of the world, Israel has almost none of its own. The US by surveilling Israel might saves themselves some embarrassment (doesn't really work, obviously); Israel by surveilling the US and possibly manipulating its politics manages to sway the world's most powerful nation to serve its own interests.
Maybe still democratic, although surely dropped quite a few ranks in democracy ranking, moving ever closer to authoritarian dictator led state.
Non-searchable and non-indexed sounds like a breath of fresh air these days especially for such a whimsical project
Because the vast majority of Amazon employees love the paychecks. In the end, private company = private rules.

Also, Amazon is never going to count hours, so people are going to do the same thing they are doing now - come in for a few hours and peace out.
As another commenter pointed out, you could (and people surely did) make the same argument about lead or asbestos. That alone doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.
Not true. Without rev hold it actually can go lean. The main reason for rev hold is to reduce oil vaporization.

https://www.carthrottle.com/news/what-rev-hang-and-why-do-pe...
I'm not saying it is impossible, I'm only talking about the situation in the US. Currently it is dominated by the billionaire tech and financial oligarchs and we need to do something to change it. It doesn't make any good to sugarcoat this reality.
"Being there" can be harmful in and of itself. Blocking receptors, clogging up conduits, etc. As I understand it, this is why certain elemental metals are so toxic: They're big atoms that deposit in harmful places and can't be effectively filtered out.
For some reason, this has made me wonder if we just need more non-classical-social-media fediverse stuff. Like of course people will glom on to Threads, it means they can interact with the network while still being inside Facebook’s walled garden…

I wonder if video game engines could use it as an alternative to Steam or Discord integration.
Kubrick: An Odyssey
> A pension is theoretically much better because the company must pay you the money even if the investments didn’t work out.

A 401(k) is theoretically better because you can pass the unspent amount to your heirs.

(I make this post to point out that it’s a tradeoff, not that one is dominant over the other for all people/situations.)
Google Ads took Twitter on, too. Google now delivers ads directly into Twitter that /sort of/ look like tweets, but just off enough to tell they’re ads. The “Why this ad” sends you off to Google.
https://archive.ph/398K3
32B is a nice size for 2x 3090s. That comfortably fits on the GPU with minimal quantization and still leaves extra memory for the long context length.

70B is just a littttle rough trying to run without offloading some layers to the CPU.
Research uncovers what causes li-ion batteries to self-discharge
Lawyers. If harmful effects are found decades later, then we'll be entitled to compensation! How fun.
Yeah, fair point. We will have nothing to pivot on. It is more of a focus question for us and being true to our users. Where do we see demand, and what do we prioritize? We could market as a general-purpose DB and then not prioritize needs from non-AI use cases. This would leave users frustrated. Instead, the problems we are solving for AI have a massive overlap. This helps us mature faster and onboard more non-AI use cases over time.
A lot more institutions, but in terms of total number of students, about 4x the UW system, ~2x amount of administrative staff, 4x the academic staff.

Not saying the UW got a good deal of course, it's pretty clear based on the progress of the modernization that UW didn't.
You mean a text editor where you can change your font? I am pretty sure most of them support that feature, VS Code just to mention one. Or do you mean other kind of tool?
20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel
Sorry but the failure of the state to contain the terrorist organization within it does not mean Israel should be expected to sit there and be attacked. Any country, when its citizens are attacked, have a right and a duty to respond.

Or maybe you are confused and think some how Israel has security control within Lebanon? Which is clearly not true.
“I hope some false humility makes the attention being currently given to the awfulness of my beliefs go away, that kind of attention makes it much harder to spread them covertly.”
Are you implying that Tor is primarily used for illegal or "immoral" purposes?
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes for Writing Vectors by Hand
A Data-Driven Approach to Writing Better Developer Documentation
They should rebrand as Open-Your-Wallet-AI
Perhaps using speech-to-text to make it accessible and searchable would be nice.

The text wouldn't even need to appear on the site; it could be hidden in the accessibility meta tags.
Chronic stress: The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load (2022)
Thanks for the question, nurettin.

Although GraalPy can create standalone applications [1], you don't have to turn your hello world script into a self-contained binary. You can, of course, create a JAR that depends on GraalPy, or a fat JAR that contains it, and deploy it just like any other Java application.

We are still updating our docs to mention more details on this and publish some guides, apologies for the delay.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/stand...
Zimbabwe doesn't really have anything to do with Cuba, either, other than also being a country that left the descendants of its European colonizers notably dispossessed after achieving independence. The tone of GP's rhetoric betrays a strong sense of chauvinistic grievance; it's not hard to draw a line between that and the sanctions and predatory sovereign debt arrangements that make anti-intellectual claims of cultural insufficiency moot.