skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Constitutional change or emergency decrees are a fundamental threat to democracy. I read an article last week from a fscking dean of law from Berkeley arguing that we should hold a constitutional convention so we could sneak in an abolition of the constitution.

I fear we are in a world where we’re are simply going to be rotating dictators every 4-8 years unless power is reclaimed from government.
Like burning down you house so squatters can't use it. A poisoning attack that makes communication itself untrusted. Wondering if we will get to extreme reciprocal mistrust eventually.

This also reminds me of art images doctored to break models if they get into the training set, by applying invisible features with different semantics.
His insinuation that if you just MIT your code so that big tech companies can use it, and if they end up needing help with it they might even hire you, seems super sleazy and borderline exploitive especially in the current job market.
The ad itself doesnt steal credit card info, but forwards you to a website that does.
I'm still struggling with how you would address the bots that don't care for speed at all.

How much do we care about stopping crawlers that are slower than the average human user? Is this even possible to do given perfect wire-level emulation of a typical UA?

Should I expect pages protected by this technology to periodically Turing test me?
Yeah, you can try it out here: https://llm.hunyuan.tencent.com/#/chat/hy-t1

It takes a bit of nudging to get it to switch to English, but it's fast and accurate after that.
Notes on MCP
I wonder how these hidden links interact with screen readers. The article says they only get served when Cloudflare already believes you're a bot, but due to my privacy settings and VPN, a lot of Cloudflare-fronted web pages think I'm a bot when I'm just browsing around the web. I suppose that having invisible links in the page wouldn't hurt me much, but would they bug someone using a screen reader? Honestly just wondering.
They dont.
Phishing links, tech support scams.. it's not hard to imagine.
I presume phishing. Ad goes to e-commerce site, items never ship.
Of all of the stories I have read here, this is the first to make me laugh. Congratulations. :)
"We have identified that you are at an increased risk of cancer. To ensure we give you the best care your insurance premium has now gone up 20x, you are welcome."
Not trying to be funny, but "Ravioli code" might be closer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2052017/ravioli-code-why...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Ravioli_code

A related principle that I don't think is talked about enough is "locality": I'd rather have all the code about one feature in one file or close together, rather than it strewn across files where it's harder to read and understand as a whole. Traditional Java was notorious for being the opposite of this. Traditional HTML+CSS+JavaScript is also very bad for this problem.
They are not guaranteed to be precise anyway.
It would be imo worse if the information just gets lost once 23andMe shuts down. Make genome and health information open access.
Mine are here, free:
https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu80855C

(I had this done when I was launching Google Cloud Genomics so I had some data that I could work with without any restrictions. Illumina's genetic counselors told me "you have no genetic risk factors that we can detect" which is more or less what I expected (not that I don't have any- just that Illumina's genetic counselors weren't very good).
If a company offered to pay you $119 for sending them sample cells from your body so that they can sequence your DNA and do whatever they want with it. Would you take up on the offer? I would not.
Was the Moon time discrepancy to atomic clocks ever proven or disproven?
I'm not personally familiar with the implementation, but Rust's const fn is evaluated using an interpreter called MIRI with its own softfloat implementation, and therefore isn't limited by the precision of the host platform. The act of cross-compilation shouldn't pose a problem, and would be a soundness issue in the compiler if it did.
'A clever agent': notes from 'watchers' of spy Kim Philby
Kim Philby's memoirs read like a novel by John le Carré.
Please note that there also exist video lectures from Dirac on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GwctBldBvU
All of these things you mention are "thinking", meaning they require complex algorithms with a bunch of branches and edge cases.

The tasks that GPUs are good at right now - graphics, number crunching, etc - are all very simple algorithms at the core (mostly elementary linear algebra), and the problems are, in most cases, embarassingly parallel.

CPUs are not very good at branching either - see all the effort being put towards getting branch prediction right - but they are way better at it than GPUs. The main appeal of GPGPU programming is, in my opinion, that if you can get the CPU to efficiently divide the larger problem into a lot of small, simple subtasks, you can achieve faster speeds.

You mentioned compilers. See a related example, for reference all the work Daniel Lemire has been doing on SIMD parsing: the algorithms he (co)invented are all highly specialized to the language, and highly nontrivial. Branchless programming requires an entirely different mindset/intuition than "traditional" programming, and I wouldn't expect the average programmer to come up with such novel ideas.

A GPU is a specialized tool that is useful for a particular purpose, not a silver bullet to magically speed up your code. Theree is a reason that we are using it for its current purposes.
Nice, I don't remember this!

We used to use the lformat option of the list command to generate temporary scripts working on a set of files. I had written an 'expand' command which would do ENV var expansion and globbing (if I am remembering correctly - it was a while ago :) ).
>"How it works

Fundamentally, GREASE works quite similarly to UC-Crux, our tool for under-constrained symbolic execution of LLVM.

Essentially, GREASE analyzes each function in the target binary by running it on a slate of fully symbolic registers.

When errors occur (for example, if the program reads from uninitialized memory), GREASE uses heuristics to refine this initial symbolic precondition (e.g., by initializing some memory) and re-runs the target function. This process continues until GREASE finds a bug, or concludes that the function is safe under some reasonable precondition on its inputs. The blog post introducing UC-Crux [https://www.galois.com/articles/under-constrained-symbolic-e...] describes this algorithm in considerable detail."

Fascinating!

It's almost like the ability to run a given function inside of its own Virtual Machine / Virtual Environment and setting parameters/constraints for execution, that is, defining pre-conditions and post-conditions which determine successful (defined) or unsuccessful (undefined) behaviors!

Let me speculate that future programming languages -- might have abilities like this by default, that is, implicitly baked into them...

In short, I like the set of ideas espoused by this tool, and future compiler/language writers would do well to consider them when they write their future compilers/languages...

(Phrased another way, it would be like the ability to run any function of a program inside of its own custom Bochs [https://bochs.sourceforge.io/] environment, set pre and post constraints, run/test as many of these as needed, and return back to main program/environment reporting any constraint violations... or something like that...)

Anyway, an interesting set of ideas!
That's just today. We might live to see targeted diseases.

My fear, in the current era, is to be included in countless virtual 'police lineups'. The higher the availability of my DNA, the higher the chance of a false positive affecting me.
You'll get it when your insurance company bought your profile and automatically added a ton of pre existing conditions to the list of things they won't cover for you. Or when the government decides to start rounding people up based on ancestry or health conditions.

It'll be way too late by then, but at least you'll get it.
I bought Infuse a few years ago. But then they came with a Pro version. Did not make me happy. Now the Pro is subscription based. It makes sense because we all have to pay bills, but the path chosen makes me using Vlc instead.
This is great, I run a hobby project, vimgolf.ai, to get my friends to learn vim and had to do a lot with firejail to sandbox the neovim instances correctly. This looks be a lot easier to setup
They don't and they can't as long as corporate backing is their major source of funding.

Not to say republicans represent people either, republicans unapologetically back unchecked corporate power. Democrats try to serve two masters.
What I don't understand is this:

Whether they are gullible, corrupt, or simply pieces of shit and sociopaths... Why are they allowed to keep their job? And how can we fix democracy to make sure that they are held accountable?

Let's be clear about one thing: Hanlon's razor is bullshit. Globally, only about ~30% of humans think that "people are generally trustworthy". Even fewer think that "strangers can be trusted". So it fucking IS malice, and people are not trusting because they know that it is malice. In fairness you can look at nord-european countries for some counter-examples, but 30% is a good approximation.

I don't even care if politicians are stupid or malicious. They're probably both anyway because they're human. But what I care about is that they don't fuck with my hard earned civil liberties. So much blood was shed to get where we are... have we learned nothing at all?
And not just for bin. There's probably an edge case where you would need to give the ./ prefix to rm, but I've never come across it. The vast, vast majority of the time just entering the name of the thing is easier and less error-prone.
Thing is, what CU enables is advertising. They can't give money to a candidate, or even to a PAC that the candidate controls.

CU buys candidates by buying voters. In the end, the voters have a choice to turf out the politician. They don't.

Maybe that's not what voters "really" want deep in their hearts. But they vote, and that's all anybody can really know. I care about that more than I care about what they tell pollsters.
Excluding foreign students & "other", NYU is already 70% total non-Hispanic White (30%) & Asian (40%), rather higher % than within the overall US population 46% total non-Hispanic White (40%)/ Asian (6%).

And a huge % of the foreign students are Asian as well.

College admissions are not a single-metric first-past-the-post process like time to run a marathon or votes won in an election.

Hard to argue whatever balance of quantitative/qualitative inputs they are using actually harms Asian admissions.
Short of using a different data structure, I'm not sure how you would get out of that one. The claim was that some of these leaks ("leaks"?) could be avoided by using a language with a GC. As far as I know, most modern languages' equivalent of Vec will do exactly the same thing, GC or not.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/frank-fraud-trial-javice-jpmorga...
Well... My experience (having worked as an SWE) w/ medical technology is that if a company is selling something, they will choose the version of advice or analysis that most aligns with selling something. (I got ordered to adjust scoring thresholds in a statistical grouping to have "nicer" groups, for example.)

If your company does treatment X that competes with treatment Y, they'll look to expenand the edge cases that suggest X over Y as much as possible. If a company wants people to feel like they're getting something out of a genetic profile, they'll report the broadest version of risk, and then slow roll more detailed analysis.

Things like this are why I strongly think certain profit motives and business models should be extremely restricted. Just like private prisons create a profit motive for creating crimes, medical services have a profit motive for spreading inaccurate and twisted medical advice, whether it's things like alternative or new age medicine, treatment modality choices, or DNA information.
the excellent performance demonstrated by the models fully proves the crucial role of reinforcement learning in the optimization process

What if this reinforcement is just gaming the benchmarks (Goodhart's law) without providing better answers elsewhere, how would we notice it ?
I agree with this sentiment, and in fact have always thought of it as analogous to type-checking (which must programmers benefit from to some extent).

If you use something with a sufficiently flexible type system you can combine these benefits, for example Haskell will let you mix physical units into the type system and have them statically checked: https://wiki.haskell.org/Physical_units
Show HN: Fastrace: A Modern Approach to Distributed Tracing in Rust
Billboards... nowadays you have billboard sized LED screens flashing animated ads... Many ads turn "creative" using bright flashing text, or strong white/red light. Some cunts are convinced they're just doing their job installing this shit or selling the airtime.
Voters vote for free. If they want something different they can vote for it.

They can tell pollsters whatever they want. And what the candidates hear, and what I hear, is how they vote. If they're sending that politician back, then they can't disapprove all that much.
And multiple takes
You're blaming the victims instead of the abusers.
That's actually a good strategy. It avoids adding more false information in the infosphere while de-incentivising the crawlers from returning to the site (since they don't find the information they are looking for there).
Imagine your pet robot suddenly appropriating your kid's skateboard after its last update
Whenever I start feeling smug about how cagey I've been about data brokers in the past, I remind myself that enough of my relatives have handed over their DNA to operations like 23andMe so as to render my efforts futile.
Let's just wait for it to come up again organically. I think we're all on the same page now with respect to this thread.
The public already has enough information to substantially harm large groups if they want. A simple example being property ownership databases, which are often publicly available on the internet, can be referenced against culturally-suggestive first and last names to find the domestic whereabouts of large numbers of pick-your-group.
It may be a poor analogy but I’ve seen it used elsewhere. I didn’t make up the term, though I’ve certainly witnessed it.
So you need to use hacks, like compiling code into a web-browser language and messing with config files instead of having security out-of-box?

But thank you for letting me learn something useful.
There's enough blame to go around.
When actual people start using it
The problem, not stated, is that a bankruptcy can wipe out the obligations of a company to its customers. This includes privacy obligations.[1] Especially if the assets are sold to a company outside California or outside the US.

[1] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/data-privacy-in-b...
Yes, I can't find the episode now, but on the 37signals podcast, Jason and DHH said that driving signups with public writing are part of their job that they owe to their employees, and that includes presence on places they don't really like such as Linkedin.
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To add anecdotally based on logging on my portfolio site, all major US players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, CommonCrawl) appeared to respect robots.txt as they claim to do (can't say the same of Alibaba).

Sometimes I do still get requests with their useragents, but generally from implausible IPs (residential IPs, or "Google-Extended" from an AWS range, or same IP claiming to be multiple different bots, ...) - never from the bots' actual published IP addresses (which I did see before adding robots.txt) - which makes me believe it's some third party either intentionally trolling or using the larger players as cover for their own bots.
Insurance company sees you have a marker for some chronic illness or cancer or whatever and suddenly you can't get life insurance anywhere or have a massive premium. They could even deduce this if only your parents' DNA is available.

Current statute in the US only restricts using this data for health insurance as far as I know; and even if it's straight illegal, the playbook now is just break the rule of law and do whatever you want. I admire your altruism, but our society will not reward you for it.
Most likely, they're also sharing photos, videos and intimate details of you on social media.
Well said, and I agree generally. I’m not happy with the political situation in the US either. But this still seems like a very pro-consumer action taken by the AG. Perhaps not as pro-consumer as suing them into non-existence and destroying their (our?) data.

But honestly the Dems have been out-played at every level. I suspect we’re going to have to leave them behind if we wish to fix what ails us in this country.

But also as people constantly remind me when I am upset: the thing you’re upset about is only tangentially relevant. :)
Or just written by a Chinese speaker. The text do sound human, no?

China/Japan/Korea do everything from pencils to rockets in local languages. You can buy a quantum physics textbook in Chinese on Amazon, if you want. English is truly just a tool in Far East region, and so individual proficiency of a Far Eastern person and their English speaking skills do not correlate well if not negatively correlating.

e: asked Hunyuan-T1 itself[0] on the demo page[1], for fun. Its conclusion was "最可能的情形是：具备一定技术背景的中文母语者，在有限时间内完成的初稿(GT: "The most likely scenario is that a native Chinese speaker with a certain technical background completes the first draft within a limited time")".

0: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/7699db43ae23f054dc2db5673011...

1: https://llm.hunyuan.tencent.com/#/chat/hy-t1
Clearly that is what he meant, yes.
Government can work. All it needs is for voters to not actively hate each other. Democracy works when the politicians all agree that the good of the community as a whole matters.

That works in a lot of places. It's not perfect but it really is the best option.

If your citizens do hate each other, there really isn't any system that can work. I don't have an end game in that scenario, except to wait for it to collapse and hopefully be replaced by something else.
Which Google product out of the many[0] do you know that doesn't scrape data?

I think Google profits massively off of the ignorance of its users and is reliant on their unawareness that they're producers of actual relevant data.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
What do you use for home hosting security cams, storage, and PW management? Does your storage solution work for automated phone data backups?
> I never personally understood that or why someone would want to turn over so much data to a commercial entity.

I found my half sister and biological father thanks to 23 and Me. Maybe cases like this will help you understand. Some people are willing to "pay" a lot to find out who they are.
Don't be so harsh on your phone)
But most people don't want Google to not exist. They derive significant value from it - from Google search, from Maps, from Gmail, whatever. I think that the access they have to my data has cost me basically zero, and I've gained a lot.

Had 23andme had access to my DNA, that might be worse in future. Although today there is not immediately a lot of downside, you can certainly imagine futures (maybe slightly dystopian ones) where that turns out to be pretty bad.
OpenAI and MIT release first study on how ChatGPT affects emotional well-being
There's the magnetohydrodynamic effect, which can be used for propulsion[1], guess the reverse should generate electricity?

edit: Hunch correct[2]. Off course requires magnetic field, and while naturally magnetized rocks exist AFAIK, not sure how strong they are.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator
This is pretty much the same way Americans view America, right? Dead convinced that American freedom of speech is the best in the world, even while people get their permanent residency revoked for making Israel look bad, and other people get denied entry for texting their friend that they aren't the best fan of Trump. It also happens to be the way North Koreans view North Korea (understandable for them, since they're shot if they don't).
I'm not, tech people have loved that shit forever.
The polar vortex is hitting the brakes
For simply copy-pasting code you could start with using simplest traditional macros. No matter what approach you choose your code will be pain to read and understand (maybe we need to have "show generated code" button in our IDEs).
France is giving everything they receive to the NSA anyway, so there's not much difference.
It has a meaning. Fascist behaviour and actions are the behaviour and actions of fascists.
Google the search engine could exist without being a privacy pest. But once Google bought DoubleClick in 2002 and made their ad delivery platform their own, going down the panopticon path became inevitable.
How so?

The whole discussion stems from someone saying that they should be paid relative (in proportion to) their value.

All I want to know is what proportion (i.e. a percentage between 0 and 100) someone would deem fair. Why is that so hard to provide?
> Imagine we have immutable records that hold just data and static classes as function containers, and those functions just act on the records, return some new ones and change no state

Or imagine those functions are part of the immutable record and create new instances. The aspect of (im)mutability is orthogonal to where you place your logic. In the context of domain models, if the logic is an inherent part of the type and its domain, then there are good reasons to model the logic as part of the type, and those have nothing to do with Java or the typical OOP dogma (Rust chrono: `let age = today.years_since(birthday)` - Yes, you could argue that the logic is part of the trait implementation, but the struct's data is still encapsulated and correct usage of the type is enforced. There is only one way to achieve this in Java.)
Yes - afaik all of the "game streaming" solutions (Sunshine, Apollo, and probably others) derive from Nvidia's GameStream tech which just mirrors the local display remotely.
> We already know relatively little about Neolithic Europe despite there being major cities there that rivaled or eclipsed those in Mesopotamia in population.

What are you referring to? I could certainly imagine such a thing but I can't say I've ever heard of someone finding evidence of a city that matches this description.
This is a dialect of AsciiMath. The major difference is in the implementation. AsciiMath proper is pretty tightly integrated with MathJax, while this just outputs standard MathML, and then you decide what to do with it.

Second difference is with supported MathML target output. Mathup is far more expressive (we even have tensor index notation in mathup). In mathup you can target your preferred MathML output in a way you can’t in AsciiMath. For example in mathup you can purposefully write any token element you want except <ms>. (`<mi>`, \`<mo>`, "<mtext>", and #`<mn>`), in AsciiMath if you want to wrote Gamma as an identifier (as opposed having it turn into the greek letter) or int as an operator (as opposed to an integral) you have to do it with <mtext>. Here you can do `Gamma` for <mi>Gamma</mi> or \int for <mo>int</mo>.

Thirdly is some differences in syntax. Most noticeable is matrix notation, in AsciiMath you write [(row, one), (row, two)], while in mathup you write [row, one; row, two]. Another major syntax difference is how whitespace works. In mathup you can group pars of your expression together with whitespace, so a+b / c+d is not the same as a + b/c + d. In AsciiMath, you have to use parenthesis to do this.