skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm just pointing out that Khalil is affiliated with a group that supports Hamas

The article that you linked says he was a negotiator for Columbia pro-Palestine protestors. Painting them as supporters of Hamas is a tired tactic intended to silence anyone who doesn't support Israel's actions.
Yeah this feels like scaremongering when this is literally already the case anyway. Where do you think your voice is going? The echo is just a microphone and speaker. It can’t process anything.
No, you're not missing anything. That's the intent.
What would you accept to be said? What would be good enough for you? Words are not magical, they are just sounds. In the most important situations in life and in death, words are simply lacking. We as humans haven't been gifted with neither a spoken nor a written language which can encompass all our feelings and meanings. Words cannot even come close. So people have to do with what they have. And you are in no position to judge against somebody who means well.
This is an interesting explanatory challenge.

Temperature is roughly how fast molecules are moving, vibrating etc. And the impact of low/higher temperature are really how fast molecules are knocking you. For an ideal gas, temperature is proportional to the square of the velocity.

So at room temperature (300K), the speed of the molecules is roughly 300^0.5 = 17.3 in some arbitrary units. If you drop down to freezing point of water, (273K), speed is 16.5. And that is starting to get cold. -40C (as cold as most humans will experience) is 15.3. So each drop of 1 in speed is pretty drastic.

At 100K, the speed is 10, or 7 drops from 17. That should be a lot colder than room temperature. But not cold enough. Most of the speed is still there, we haven't even cut it by half. It's the next few 1/3rd cuts of the temperature that will start to get us closer to zero speed.
Do you need to boot Windows? Have you run Windows in a VM on Mac before? It’s sad that the fastest Windows laptop these days is… a Mac. I just use Parallels to run windows whenever necessary. Yes it’s a $100/year subscription but it works flawlessly and comes with Parallels Toolbox apps for Mac, many of which are actually useful. So I’m willing to pay for that. Oh and Windows laptops still can’t do low power states right, so good luck taking it out of your backpack after two days and attempting to use it.
Quite impressive, esp. considering this was 1980’s tech. Presumably, today it should be much more advanced.
Free will -> original sin -> all manner of diseases, suffering tyat are part of the human condition.

Even without the theology, a person suffering due to a forebear's poor decision is well-understood: a decent percentage if people think it's the natural order for a child to go hungry if their parents are drug-addicts or imprisoned.
I suppose deporting you to Guantanamo and detaining you there until your country of origin agrees to take you back would be consistent with the current administration's actions.
Congress voluntarily giving up its powers to the executive branch [0] (unfortunately not new, but worsening), isn't exactly Democracy failing, but it's certainly a breakdown of the system of checks and balances upon which our Federal government was conceived, and is most definitely not "how things are supposed to work".

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...
So the same folks complains about lack of AI in Alexa are complaining now? - cloud level processing is needed for the gen ai features
> You only opt-in to the Internet of Beefs driven by a sincere grievance if you are mook enough to want to. If you aren’t, and you haven’t fallen into the IoB by becoming vulnerable or compromised in some way, you are there either because you’ve been baited in, or because you are profiting from its existence.

I'm profiting from its existence. Beefs are good for engagement. Although I do sometimes wonder why it so often happens to me. Maybe my takes are more controversial. Maybe it's because I simplify things so the barrier to disagreement is much lower.

Although I do disagree with the 'end of history' argument. Humans have always been like this. Just look at Jon Ronson's book 'So You Have Been Publicly Shamed'. People were always terrible. The only difference is now we have the technology to gang up on anyone using the internet.
Apart from being backed by Postgres instead of MySQL, is this different from Vitess (and its commercial vendor PlanetScale)?

https://vitess.io/
> Flashing every day isn’t too uncommon if you’re often changing the key map, macros, and other configuration

That sounds like a failure in design of the keyboard and/or your own personal use case instead of the designed-for use case.
Iirc not legal advice but there are reasons why some people may not want to apply for citizenship, if something has happened since they got their green card and they'd prefer not to have to have to put on an application.
the core idea is to model the state and valid state transitions formally (which may be more directly applicable to the audio driver), so they can be enumerated exhaustively up to a certain bound.

it may be that a bug only shows when hundreds of transitions are performed (like an overflow or bug due to large data), but that's more stress testing. many bugs have repros involving a few state transitions.

relational algebra is a useful tool in my opinion because much of programming involves adding/removing things from sets or testing for their membership in a set. also relations are powerful as they can express recursive ideas like which widgets are contained within others (from the GUI example).

relations also allow defining invariants at a high level which must be true at any state. (eg, there should be no state like: audio_buffer_is_empty and audio_playing)

additionally we have languages such as SQL or for example https://alloytools.org/applications.html that can help programmers specify this in a familiar way.
it's pronounced more like "cutch" (well, for me it is anyway) :))

if the name bothers, it can be forked. looking forward to "yCont" messenger!
Run Windows in Parallels, it’s actually faster than a real Windows based laptop. Sad really.
That will never work anyway. Migrants could switch to crypto or other methods. The levy would probably end up hitting business transactions if anything.
I’m not GP, but I don’t think their position is necessarily in tension with leveraging computation. Not all FLOPs are equal, and furthermore FLOPs != Watts. In fact a much more efficient architecture might be that much more effective at leveraging computation than just burning a bigger pile of GPUs with the current transformer stack
> distros to require it

Distros requires a lot of stuff, e.g. libc. This does not seem inappropriate given what a distro is.

> software up the stack to hard-depend on it

What does this refer to?

I can see this for session/user/service management programs. But not normal single-user programs.
Web browser is something I would pay subscription in a heartbeat, and I mean it, it is my actual OS now
Kerning the hard way would be to hardcode the “numberOfChars factorial/!” number of custom kerning distances.
> Coal ash is not classed as radioactive

And yet the largest human release of radioactive material in the environment comes from coal ash.
> "Athena knew where it was relative to the surface of the Moon" - but without a working altimeter it was kinda fucked for actually touching down.

Z is an axis that exists in our 3d world, and a required value for any relative position, which means it DID NOT know where it was, relative to the moon.
Tangentially related: is there a good guide or setup scripts to run self hosted Postgres with backups and secondary standby? Like I just want something I can deploy to a VPS/dedicated box for all my side projects.

If not is supabase the most painless way to get started?
If you work as a dev in a first world country, it’s hard to imagine you’re truly struggling in any real sense (monetarily speaking I mean) unless you’re in your first couple years I suppose.

Still, if it somehow is the case, then this message isn’t directed at you. It’s just a little hard to imagine most developers can’t handle giving up a thousand bucks a year or whatever, which could literally save lives in some cases.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but LLaDA isn't block text diffusion. This is a mix between an autoregressive model and a diffusion model, which is brand new.
Any thoughts about direct lan/vpn communications as an option? The use of tor makes a working high quality internet connection a requirement, and potentially makes it more attractive for attackers to DOS attack tor in order to make their targets move off Cwtch and onto less secure communications methods.
He's literally dissolving, dismantling, and undermining the systems that you're claiming are "working". And federal judges are deciding cases along strict party lines, which is a pretty clear demonstration that they're utterly ignoring the actual written words of the law. And Congress has completely given away their intended control of federal spending. So let's cut the shit. You like Trump and you want this to continue. Don't lie to me and tell me you believe one single word of the mental diarrhea that you just wrote.

It's like we're standing on the street watching a building burn down and you're saying "look the sprinklers are on, this is how it's supposed to happen". No one is stupid enough to say what you're saying and actually believe it. So clearly you're just lying.
I don't think that black-body radiative transfer is a linear process.

The Stefan-Boltzman relation says power scales with the fourth power of temperature. So 1/3 absolute temperature would be 1/81 the inbound radiative energy. If you are getting 800W inbound at room temp, you would get 10W inbound at 100K (=300K/3).
Additionally, Firefox has the recommended extensions program where they take the most popular/functional subset of extensios in a given category and manually vet the code for security and privacy issues.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
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Ransomware would be less of a problem if applications were sandboxed by default.
Thanks for that. I need to think about it. From that view, "international" anything isn't legitimate. There are always some country(s) where a given act is okay. The USA hasn't signed that treaty against land mines, for example, and isn't onboard with the ICC in the Hague. Malta and Panama do shell corporations that make Wyoming flinch. Banks in Cyprus, Guernsey and Isle of Man are widely considered to exist merely to launder money.

So a country sanctioning or allowing something is a really weak basis, as you point out.

But "countries with X% of the world population" is just as bad. Saudi Arabia is still an absolute monarchy. No telling what North Korea is, but a sanction from there does not represent the will of its people.

Good point! Maybe no "international" anything is legit.
Very nice (in a Christian Bale accent).

All these smart speakers can turn that on anytime processing and storing such a vast amount of data becomes viable. Not surprised. I don’t use any of these smart devices for exactly this reason.

I don’t need smart XYZ appliances that connect to the internet. After working a decade in the industry, I’ve seen enough of what these companies do with user data. No thank you.

Also, I don’t speak English at home. So that’s a hedge for now I guess.
> But I welcome you to point me to a country the size of the United States that has solved this problem.

Russia, China, India. Almost everywhere because to pull the US pattern of suburbia off you needed two things: to build the suburbs in the era of the car, and be rich enough to afford the cars. The USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand met those two criteria. Almost no one else did.

The size of the place had nothing to do with it. New Zealand isn't that big. As I said the Netherlands for a while decided to emulate what USA pattern. They had the money, and they started to build the freeways to enable the expansion. They decided against it. Whatever caused them to do that, it wasn't size. It was probably because the preferred the denser style of living.

Most people do, because it and easier and cheaper lifestyle. Maintaining all the larger house block, the long travel times, the increased freight - it all takes effort and money. Perversely, you get more exercise in these denser cities because you walk / cycle everywhere.
Oh they'll live up to the promise, because of the protocol's technical architecture. Also mentioned in the article, if they decide to go on a direction the public doesn't like, it's an easy fork.
Thought it would be good to reply to all the subs-comments from the least useful comment.

I find it ironic that most of those defending edge's default ad infested config as ok because you can turn it off are likely the same people who'd lambast Firefox for having a lot less stuff turned on my default. I control everything in Firefox, no way anyone can say the say for edge, chrome or even safari.
This is not inherently a good thing, unless you believe that Chinese values are worth spreading over American ones.

This is not to say that is or isn’t the case, just that it’s an effective end-result of letting them have massive influence globally.

Additionally, many of China’s deals are meant to bring nations into serious debt, rather than to truly lift them up. Again, this may also be the case with the US, so the question is who you would rather be your creditor.
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The goal for this project is to be analogous to Vitess for Postgres.
If you were right, they could easily clear the record by actually charging her. In several of the cases, they held people for extended periods rather than letting them leave the country which they really shouldn’t be doing if they don’t have enough evidence for at least one charge.
I would have thought the chief limitation in an operation like this would be that your profits are (presumably) Pareto distributed, so 80% of profits come from 20% of victims. This would make the operation more like mining Bitcoin than serving lunches. One thing that supports your theory that the margins are slim, however, is that there are crime syndicates kidnapping people to work in these call centers. If the wages didn't represent a significant marginal cost, they wouldn't need to risk attracting international attention by kidnapping people in the first place.
The separation of concerns is legitimate.
Your particular article lays out exactly how Congress is approving (ie. balancing) the Executive branch's actions. Which means yes, working as intended. You just happen to disapprove.

Majority of the other things people are freaking out about were done via Executive Order, and therefore can be undone by Executive Order.

Smart people have been warning about that for nearly two decades. Now that some people happen to not like what's being undone, it's suddenly a crisis.

News at 11...
You say this based on your history of landing rockets on the moon?

And on your history of dealing with the lunar regolith near the poles?
Hey I wrote the Omni benchmark. I think you might be misreading the methodology on our side. Order on page does not matter in our accuracy scoring. In fact we are only scoring on JSON extraction as a measurement of accuracy. Which is order independent.

We chose this method for all the same reasons you highlight. Text similarity based measurements are very subject to bias, and don't correlate super well with accuracy. I covered the same concepts in the "The case against text-similarity"[1] section of our writeup.

[1] https://getomni.ai/ocr-benchmark
Mine works again. Didn’t realize it was the only way we use our old dumb TV. Mostly watched on tablets this past week. Was starting to consider something new but am glad it’s working again. Great device.
It sounds like newer devices had a Do Not Send Voice Recordings option that transcribed and processed queries locally.
Yes, it wasn't. You can check by measuring power usage and data volume over time.
I thought you only need a passport if you're crossing international borders?
Isn't it just a marketing number? I didn't think durability was part of the S3 SLA, for example.
"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. "
Given Donald and NSA, is this wise?
New job limits the damage a lot though. Until tenure is overstating things.
If you're underclass and beat up on by society above you, stoicism is a very rational philosophy to adopt.

If you're upper crust and controlling everyone beneath you, I think it's still worthwhile to consider stoicism. Or is there some kind of divide - if one is poor you should enact one set of philosophies, if you're rich and powerful one should enact different philosophies?
Also, they shouldn't be part of 4-front trade war against the country's biggest partners comprising >50% of all trade.

"Do something or we'll trade with somebody else" is not a credible threat if they know you've already pissed off everybody else.
"I want to make cool things without thinking about how doing so will make users dangerously unsafe"

Go make cool things. But you need to remember that thing you think is cool isn't safe for everyone to play with. Don't shove your trash onto others.
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> All these smart speakers can turn that on anytime processing and storing such a vast amount of data becomes viable. Not surprised. I don’t use any of these smart devices for exactly this reason.

The same is true for smart phones, yet almost nobody has an issue with those.

Not only could they listen at any time (albeit with lower quality), I put extremely personal information into my phone via the screen keyboard all the time. How is trusting the manufacturer to not transfer that information any more reasonable than trusting Amazon to not spy on me when they say they don't?
> Isolating the US by driving investment and allies away

Foreign government's have an easy solution to solve the problem.

Don't unfairly advantage your goods and services against American products and we won't do the same. Free trade shouldn't mean "Free trade for one side". Free trade should be contingent on reciprocity, both in terms of social and economic alignment.
Thanks for the correction.

Discussing with a coworker yesterday, they also pointed out the distinction I'd missed, which is that there are separate robotics groups doing research (Gemini) and applied work (Intrinsic? physicalintelligence.company; these are under the Alphabet or X projects umbrella, I infer? Really haven't paid attention.)
The article, the store page and the tweet - none of them mention how many t-shirts were for sale. Was it 500,000? Was it 8?

Apart from being barely significant in the first place, the article lacks the context to even make its point. Journalists are meant to do research. This is just a big, sloppy retweet.
Though the Deus Ex Machina is indeed a Deus Ex Machina, even when signposted.
Ryan Holiday is a good guy. I've followed his content for a while. Yes, he is marketing essentially "free" philosophy, but he does a good job adapting it to modern life.
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I thought so too, but now if I look it seems as if every letter is just under two stripes with from its neighbor?
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Been done. It's called scientology.
so if I understood it right, Firefox is vulnerable to the problem they wanted to avoid but without giving us WebUSB?
I've never met a parent in my life who has been able to dictate every meal, every moment of the childs day and their bedtime to the minute. I've met many who have tried, but reality doesn't work like that.
It's time to change the rules. Up to this point copyright has benefited the big fish. Thanks to copyright, we've got so many billionaires that own half of the nation's wealth. Today copyright benefits the small fish, those pesky authors that stand on the way of the AI revolution. If we want to lead the world in wealth concentration, if we want to be a country of a few trillionaries that own 99% of the nation's wealth, we need to make AI exempt from the copyright laws. Of course, when an average Joe downloads a book without paying, he must be thrown to prison. It's the law, after all.
Probably not. However, I do believe Fedora and Debian configure and patch out the most egregious Mozilla-isms that infect Firefox already.
> I used to be somewhat mean to telemarketers, until I learned that some of them are prison laborers - getting paid pennies per hour to work in a prison call center.

Are you talking about people who have been convicted of a crime and are calling you at dinner to sell you something or conduct a survey, or about people in Southeast Asia who have been kidnapped and are being forced to run scams? I've heard of this happening in Southeast Asia, but not with actual convicts, only kidnapping victims.
Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
What Happened?
• The compromised Action executes a Python script that dumps CI/CD secrets from the Runner Worker process.
• Multiple v35 tags were modified four hours ago, indicating a recent supply chain attack.
• The malicious behavior can be observed in StepSecurity Harden-Runner insights, showing the Action downloading and executing an unauthorized script.
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