david_draco

There was a very short window of time when you could make very advanced queries over your Facebook friends graph. It was awesome.

Not sure how taking off all the safety and exploring "the best model" freely without considering ethics is a "scientific" approach. Computer scientists like us should think about the ethical and societal impacts of what they are building. At many universities, it is part of the curriculum.

After reading so many GPT news item, I was confused what APT is, no explanation on the page, no link ... took me a while to realise it is about debian linux' packaging tool apt.

Probably could set the seed and temperature and store these. Run with a few variations and keeping the best would probably work even better, at the expense of more computation.

anyone who has ever been pickpocketed or robbed or worse will know reason and feelings are different things

> Given how easy the infiltration is and how extremely hard to detect it is, likely a lot.

I read it exactly the other way around: the infiltration took years and detecting it was the default with a fuzzer, which had to be disabled for the exploit to succeed.

It speaks to the hardening and that hardening should be required more. And of course the precarious roles of maintainers, which have been discussed elsewhere.

How does it compare to gnumeric in terms of speed?

Another approach is to create a synthetic joint distribution by combining the marginal distributions independently and train a random forest classifier to distinguish the synthetic joint from the real joint. If the classifier is unable, the distributions are uncorrelated. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07526

> Whole different story but do we really have to insist on not delivering any first party frontend logic in 2024?

Yes. Not all users may be able-bodied, or humans.

> The vast majority of discourse around AI development assumes that subservient, "moral" models aligned with "human values" are universally beneficial -- in short, that good AI is sycophantic AI.

There is a logic error in these first two sentences: A implies B cannot be summarized as B is A.

He was busy getting us towards wifi first.

A bit ironic to buy "news" to "think nothing has changed in fifty years".

Good that there are open source alternatives:

  socat - TCP4:192.168.2.100:1234

  socat TCP4-LISTEN:1234,fork,reuseaddr -

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/getting-started-socat

You can have a lot of output once you stop receiving input for a few days.

Is it even legal to take a GPL-licensed code, translating to Rust ensuring it is exactly compatible, and then releasing under non-GPL? I thought you would need to extract a clean-room specification from it first, and ideally have separate people extracting the specification and writing the new code.

Not disagreeing that plastic is a concern, but calling it one of the biggest threats? I recall it is negligible compared to climate change and expanding land use, which can be addressed by reducing meat, flying, consumption, and increasing regulation, carbon tax, and all the other good things that various NGOs have advocated for years.

How does differ from the very neat joblib.Memory https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generated/joblib.Mem...?

Thanks!

I suspect the point is that all NP-hard problems are equivalent to each other, often one can be transform one NP-hard problem to another. This shows that quantum will not save us. This is bad but also good for encryption. NP remains an important topic post-quantum that cannot be hand-waved away.

If you have a 300-page legal document, and other sources reference passages, e.g., a paragraph on page 234. It would be unreliable if over the years or depending on the viewer it moves to another page.

Is eye-tracking tech not good enough these days to position a cursor when one stares at that position for 2+ seconds? I am recalling studies of driving or artwork where the gaze lingers.

> I wouldn’t consider any of this open source any more.

If you sell someone a AGPLv3 licensed software, that is completely okay and FOSS. If that someone sells someone else a (maybe modified) AGPLv3 licensed software, that is completely okay and FOSS.

Not only Matrix can resell Element for a fee, so can you! That is open source and freedom for you.

The ability to change or dual-license has always been limited to special circumstances. That said, yeah, don't sign a CLA.

I was also put off by that, but consider the maintainers perspective: The more versions, the more combinatorics (also considering install time), which means more ways for bugs to occur. Then someone files a bug, does not give all the dependencies' versions, once you have them ... there is little a maintainer can do with limited time when upstream says "update to the latest version we released". Old versions are remembered in the git repo history of the package tree IIRC.

Ireland, which is milking Facebook, would block high fines. Their DPC does everything but enforce ... (see noyb.eu)

I took it from the article: "We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser." but yes, not yet.

Based on what are you expecting bug fixes for free from Mozilla? None of us is paying Mozilla for developing in any particular direction.

To see the bugs fixed that bother you, contribute to the open source project? Can be code or paying a developer.

see also http://antirez.com/news/129 after "Flood effect" on some discussion on why this does not scale to open source projects.

It checks lots of browser APIs and makes a proof-of-work calculation in the background. I guess we are getting close to paying for entry with computation.

Has anyone actually been fired for not returning to office, after applying for home office, or is this only a threat?

The author gives evidence that many old people refuse further treatment that would extend their lives, shortening their potential life span. Then they conclude "These centenarians should seek thorough medical care, ... This, however, will require the revolution of policies, ethical standards and legal issues to ensure maximum longevity." So people should be forced to live as long as possible? My grandma wanted to die because she could not take the physical pain, plus was lonely after grandpa died 10 years earlier. But she was not allowed. Requiring people to live longer than they wish is cruel.

"I discovered" in the abstract is a bit misleading, they realized it by reading the existing literature.