skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't this allow people to abuse and share token amount many users? People used to buy one subscription and share among friends e.g. Netflix but only shared amount family or friends - you wouldn't want random people know what movies you like to watch. Similarly people would less likely share their chatgpt plus account because everyone can see history and change settings. But with such privacy pass those issues don't exists I guess so more likely this can be abused.
Yeah, bribing your industry's top regulator seems highly likely to have a positive ROI.
Nah, this is something you say about a dude who stole your highschool girlfriend, not about the absolute sort of psychopath who could, you know, literally give every kid in America free lunch with little to-no-effect on his own life and money, and just chooses not to.

Let's hate the dude too :)
Bro, just don't rob CVS
Can somebody educate me on why Trump would be interested in not enforcing the ban at this point, given that he was the first to propose it? That 1.5M followers really worth it?
In what world do you live in that Twitter under Musk is a free speech haven?

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/16/free-speech-experts-real...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...

https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...
The great thing is, if a president can unilaterally decide a law doesn’t matter, they can also decide that an imaginary law applies.
What differentiates this from other tools? Eg tesseract, EasyOcr?
The rust project is not stalled. There is pushback from maintainers, but as trust is established, things will hopefully change and it'll get easier. Escalating erodes trust and simply will make the process take longer. Anything that fuels us vs them narratives are simply damaging. Everyone needs to focus on the shared objectives of the overall Linux project. Ignoring the maintainers and pretending their opinions are wrong or don't matter won't help. I'm not sure a top down directive is necessarily the right way to establish a healthy space for rust in linux.
Maybe they're tired of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force.
> Fedora views shipping EOL Qt as unjustifiable neglect

That's rich, coming from a project very closely tied to Gtk, which has a history of massive breaking changes, and outright removing functionality, leading to many projects continuing to use older versions of gtk for a very long time.
The coup is complete. Laws passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court now mean nothing.

The sooner people stop talking about it as if the US is still only "sliding down the path", and start publicly admitting the reality that they now live in a single-party dictatorship á la Russia and China where the rules are whatever the leader says they are, the better.

I know this isn't easy as it takes time to change decades of reinforcement of the tribal ingroup/outgroup neural pathways where "Russia and China" were seen as contrasts to the US. But y'all can do it. Start by uttering the words out loud to yourself. Break through that first "denial" stage of grief.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is an apt quote here. You understand R values but don't seem to be factoring in mutation rates once a virus jumps species.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has received approval from the Labor Department to use software that could allow it to transfer vast amounts of data out of Labor’s systems, according to records seen by NBC News and interviews with two employees.

The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed some of the Labor Department’s career employees.

Putty is a client, not a server. They should have been alarmed earlier that they had SSH daemon running, if

Transferring government data outside established protocols could have high stakes for anyone whose information is in those databases, because of the chance that more people would have access to their information than originally intended, increasing chances of a breach.

I guess it’s yet another invent something scary and push the agenda under it kind of article.
Because the former works with all associated values in a case, whereas the latter does not. `case let .some(x, y, z)` vs `case .some(let x, let y, let z)`. And the latter exists because you may want some to be immutable and others to be mutable: `case .some(let x, var y, _)`.
while it's incredibly coincidental that you replied to me to say this

>I was in Cape Cod

it give me the chance to tell you, "we say on Cape Cod". There are a number of towns on Cape Cod that you could be in.
He’s working to force a sale to a crony who will kick back cash. Anything that devalues TikTok reduces his cut.
What text search do you think surfaced that grant?

It is labeled with STATUS & JUSTICE and says:

THIS EFFORT ALSO SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO DIVERSIFY THE STEM WORKFORCE THROUGH AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS

...

THIS RESEARCH ALSO SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO DIVERSIFY THE WORKFORCE

Literally every award I have looked at contains DEI text that roughly matches the labeled categories. I don't doubt the list was generated with the help of automated tools and isn't adequately verified, but your "text search" complaints do not seem valid.
I too remember that old slogan: "it's a private platform".
There are 8+ billion humans on the planet, and you're not worried about a virus evolving to spread between them?
FWIW WhatsApp has this builtin, at least at the device level. If you change a device, the other person is notified.

If they steal it, unlock it, clone the user's voice before the phone is marked as lost, then yeah still bypassable (but so would be a device-based QR code)
By all means, read the paper then! It's quite readable, and one of the best papers in software development IMHO
Weird, I didn't read it like that at all. The article really just comes off as an explanation of the effects of decentralized solar on existing utility companies. It doesn't ever say that solar installers are bad.

In fact, it even somewhat welcomes it by pointing out that the competition utility companies now face will force them to offer better service.
The dealer's users at least have addiction keeping them engaged. Ads in a car is more like drawing blood from an animal that's trapped in a cage.
I think it's reasonable to ask, but unreasonable and unrealistic to expect someone to come tell their story just for you. Even if you (and others) have never seen this before.

What you could do is plug "Asahi Linux targeted" in to any search engine and read as much as you like. It's not like this is very new either, this mess has been going on for years now.

As usual, it's also your average internet mud-flinging contest, but at the core the issue of harassment stands, and shining a light on it regardless of the actors is always a good idea.
I'm not going to be harangued for being an omnivore who's against factory-farmed chickens. You can lump me with the rest of the meat-eaters if it makes your feel better, but I'll have you know I don't purchase or use their services from those I find objectionable. I make no apologies for having a different moral scale, or liking chicken as a protein source.
I honestly think Trump always saw this (and most things) as an opportunity to personally profit in some form.

I don’t think there’s any real ideology or principle at play. He’s happy to sell out the US if he gets to do it.

His first term time and again on some topics he talks big, like repealing Obamacare, china tariffs… and walks away after some small action.
While this is a neat sounding idea, there's a few issues here:

1. Embeddings are very close to a reversible function. It's not hard to take an embedding and query back the closest query semantically from the source LLM.

2. We already don't log any queries from the users. I'm aware this has to be taken on faith from Kagi users. But you can believe that not having any user query data at all anywhere is a significant speed bump for us in feature development, bug tracking and roadmapping.
redundant array of independent disks

and when you look at the prices of them (the setups for hotswapping) you'll go with that
Interbeing
Labelling Singapore as a petro-state is a stretch. Collecting taxes from refining is a very different thing than reaping the benefits of royalties from oil production.
I've worked with plenty of talented engineers who behave like this. It takes a certain psychology to achieve incredible technical feats, however they often come at the cost of personality issues in playing with others.

You add these personalities together, where everybody believes they are right an everybody else is wrong then it's a recipe for disaster.

People have to learn to adapt to change, or they get burnt out continually hitting the brick wall.
From https://www.ocr4all.org/guide/user-guide/introduction :

> OCR4all is a software which is primarily geared towards the digital text recovery and recognition of early modern prints, whose elaborate printing types and mostly uneven layout challenge the abilities of most standard text recognition software.

Looks like it's built on https://github.com/Calamari-OCR/calamari
> so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations.

They could be human impersonations though: https://xkcd.com/538/

That said the system is decent and require scary threat models to break it!

But anyone using this system is already paranoid (not an insult... paranoid can be useful)
Have advertising rates on Twitter changed significantly over recent years? I wonder if that is a factor at all.
I just can't think of any "widely-adopted" open source projects that are not corporate influenced in some way.
'Agent of Chaos': Blue State AGs Sue Elon Musk
yes... and apointees usually need to have or undergo clearance. It is also a tradition to get Senate's approval. Those are the good faith checks and balances.
How does it compare to https://decodeinvesting.com/chat ?
Yeah, they do seem to be quite busy illegally destroying New Deal Federalism and any judge loyal to the constitution is gonna be occupied well into the future with that
OK, cool, you don't like Yudkowsky and want to be sure we all recognize that. But I hoped it was obvious that I wasn't just talking about Yudkowsky personally.

Suppose someone is interested in what the consequences of AI systems much smarter than humans might be. Your argument here seems to be: it's Bad to think about that question at all, because you have to speculate and extrapolate.

But that seems like an obviously unsatisfactory position to me. "Don't waste any time thinking about this until it happens" is not generally a good strategy for any any consequential thing that might happen.

So: do you really think that thinking about the possible consequences of smarter-than-human AI before we have it is an illegitimate activity? If not, then your real objection to Yudkowsky's thinking and writing about AI surely has to be something about how he went about it, not the mere fact that he engages in speculation and extrapolation. There's no alternative to that.
For those who'd like the read the article instead of a legal filing pdf: https://www.courthousenews.com/agent-of-chaos-blue-state-ags...
They advertised on Twitter before Musk bought it, which implies it was profitable. The platform is doing better than ever, so we can assume it’s still profitable today.

The only reason they left was politics.
It's missing a lot of items I guess. I only really spent 17 million and a big bulk of it was land and real estate.

Damn.
> This doesn't fix fingerprinting or IP associations

It solves the problem of using a paid service without compromising customer’s privacy which is a breakthrough. The rest are different problems and they are universal issues with various existing solutions as you already pointed out.
When the Michelin Star Becomes a Restaurant's Curse
Does this actually work, though? The token can only be redeemed once, which means that, realistically, the client is going to be in a loop generating and redeeming tokens in a given search session, which makes the pairs trivial to correlate. The article even states it:

> For this reason, it is highly recommended to separate token generation and redemption in time, or “in space” (by using an anonymizing service such as Tor when redeeming tokens, see below).

Sure, Tor will random the space. But what about the time? I then went to "see below" and didn't see anything relevant. Or is the idea that, with sufficient request volume, clients mask each other in time?

Also, Tor will only randomize the space insofar as you keep re-establishing a session; the loop remains static for the duration of a session afaik. And re-establishing a session takes like 10 seconds. So is it really randomizing the space?
While this is true, (and I don't want to try to be politically neutral here), if we look at Elon's enormous increase in power and also significant increase in wealth, it would definately be positive ROI for him.

He went through a lot of stress thought being leveraged in the stock market crash.
The problem with neofascism certainly isn't a lack of hate. It's more like the lack of consistency in applying principles, or the unwillingness to generalize beyond the current target.
On case #4:
select *
from phone_records
where
caller_id= 11 or recipient_id = 11

The results header is screwed up, there is an extra 'id' column. At least on firefox.
Mostly I have no clue how I would use it in my project without rewriting from scratch.
I'm on mobile, so maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how youbare even supposed to get started without knowing SQL. If this is supposed to teach SQL then there needs to be some tutorial to guide the way.
TIL. That’s funny, I’ve thought for 20 years they were Italian. Thank you!
I know it is not possible in our Universe but on a lighter note, in some parallel universe out there, someone has made a sorting algorithm that runs in O(1). I wonder though if a quantum computer can simultaneously sort all the elements in O(1)
Because TikTok bent the knee. It's really that simple. It's a timeworn "carrot or stick" proposition that up-and-coming dictators always use to buy consent: create a crisis (tariff, banning, etc.) then remove the crisis when they say how great you are. Rinse and repeat and you can get away with anything because everyone, on paper, is backing you.
Musk used his "hoard" to revolutionize the car industry, then the rocket industry, then the communications industry, etc.

Did you know he gave away free Starlink to victims of hurricane Helena and the LA fires? When FEMA did nothing?

He's also going to rescue the astronauts abandoned in space.

My gawd, Elon is pure eeevil!!
I was going to say, isn't tesseract /already/ OCR for everyone?
Looks like strings of neurons are bundled together like Cat5 cables, fed along the way by parallel blood vessels. It's not hard to imagine a thin multicellular organism undulating up these bundles, between strands or between sub-bundles.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Ilfeld/publicatio...
> The platform is doing better than ever

By which metric? Even Elon has admitted they're not making money.
It doesn't. It has shown this banner for years, for anyone with a HackerNews referrer.

As for the flagging, the guidelines say otherwise. A change in leadership and governance of a prominent open source project is noteworthy to the point that discussion on HackerNews is a perfect fit.

Right here, of all places, people should be able to either understand the banner, or ignore it and get to the point of the article.
Yea. Why would they be sick? We only discovered _antibodies_ in their blood.

This ceaseless hyperventilation over the flu is unwarranted. There are vulnerable populations that would benefit from additional care under _any_ conditions. Let's just always be prepared to have to give them the necessary care and stop with this trumped up nonsense.
a "monarchy" with checks and balances

>. Article II, Section 2
empowers the President to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to
appoint the principal officers of the United States, as well as some subordinate officers .

Yes, there is a process: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44083/6
I wonder of all the people who read this comment and also drove today, what percentage violated speeding laws.

The TikTok law was meant to force divesture to a US company. The Supreme Court ruled on the legality of it at the very last minute, so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer, including Biden saying he won't enforce it on the last day in office.

They know a lot of Americans depend on it for livelihood and entertainment.
Apple Plans to Overhaul China iPhones with AI by Middle of Year
I find it hyper salacious. Driving a boat twice as big doesn't make you inherently deserving of double the pay, just as investing double the money doesn't make you inherently deserving of double the return. And the oft-cited accountability of leadership over large machines does not come even an additional 5% closer to validating that salary.

I am of course speaking from a human context, which I realize is not the context normally used when talking about these things. You're utterly right: It's not salacious in the capitalistic context from which we have yet to find a viable escape.
> There's a monthly limit of 2,000 tokens per account to prevent abuse

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

So I guess you _could_ share them, but only with so many people or so many searches.
I had a go, but there were a few I wasn't really sure by. To the creator, can you add a "Not sure" option?
Worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
Wait until you find out that in many states, you can walk into a business and buy a schedule I controlled substance, and the federal government has been ignoring it for over a decade!
If you can’t tell that is satire then you owe it to yourself to keep
better informed about current events.
lawsuits are rolling in. Let's hope the executive branch actually furfills its ideal in being shielded from political atmosphere and properly access the situation.
I guess we'll see, won't we?

I remember when the government confidently told us that eggs were bad, butter was bad, cereal was good.

Now eggs are good, butter is good, cereal is bad.

Alcohol was bad, then it was good, now it's bad again.
Graph Transformers and Relational Deep Learning at Reddit [video]
It's parody
Empathizing with someone who routinely demonstrates they have no empathy is a dead end road.
If you want to be reductionist, the only difference between eating at a restaurant and cooking at home is money (and also that they’re fundamentally different things). That doesn’t mean that people do one or the other for purely financial reasons.

Also is it still a PhD by your definition if you pay tuition? Or only if you’re paid a stipend?
That’s not surprising at all.

You hate everybody, lol.
I don’t have all the metrics handy but I know traffic is constantly growing and at an all time high[0].

Revenue is down with the advertisers leaving but costs are down so much, I think it’s recently profitable or will be soon? And with advertising coming back on top of the new cost structure, it should be a cash cow.

[0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1821581350975189151?s=46
> making it so hardware providers must maintain their drivers is a good start

How do you propose that happens?
Ask HN: Would you prefer a subscription or a one off for business software?
So as a business would you rather prefer to subscribe say annually for a software product or pay one-off and attain a lifetime license, what are the trade-offs, and from the vendor's perspective doesn't the one-off model reduce long term customer value? How does this model makes sense for software like virtual dj or serato etc?
yeah he managed to try to sound reasonable and measured for most of that, then:

> including an upstream language community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility guarantees, and which is actively hostile to a second Rust compiler implementation (I suspect because it might limit their ability to make arbitrary backwards-incompatble language changes).

with the full context of all of this it is quite obvious this is just a classic case of a software engineer being an antisocial jerk with strange vendettas in their head and who thinks the strange personal opinions they came up with in their basement are unassailable facts
Storm-2372 conducts device code phishing campaign
it's not that recent that it's a very negative term - the wiki even says the usage with regards to covering up police crimes dates back to the 70s
But then you can’t blitzscale and exit after a few years as a centimillionaire!
> This was used to identify Soviet spies by showing them colors written in Russian; native Russian readers were slowed by the incorrect coloring, people who didn't know Russian could read it quickly.

Hold up, I’m confused. How could people who didn’t know Russian read them at all? There’s probably something obvious I’m missing, but I just can’t parse this at all.
I crossed 100k threshold in 2007, few years out of college. Today I make more than 3x that at a startup, fully remote. I could have another 2x if I wanted to work at FAANG.
Cook is a smart man. Showed up at Trump's inauguration after paying $1 million. Advertising back on X so they have some leverage to prevent damaging tariffs and sanctions that would impact Apple's manufacturing in China.
$2.4B for an NBA team? Those stack up quickly to drain the ol' bank account: buying 10 cost me around 8% of my stack! And that's only .. 33% of all teams in existence (there are 30 in total). So, for only 24% of Musk's net worth, he can buy the entire NBA.

No single person needs this much money when there are still people starving to death and dying of basic diseases. Unless..
Trump (or more likely Musk) almost certainly made a deal with TikTok. TikTok gets back the US market in exchange for changes to the US feed, and possibly other concessions.

TikTok showed a message thanking Trump when restoring service to US users, and users have been commenting on certain topics getting much fewer recommendations by the algorithm since then.
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>I don’t have all the metrics handy but I know traffic is constantly growing and at an all time high

No that's not what Elon said and the tweet he was replying to is a nobody with zero data.