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Great to see an offline Bible app! First time hearing about Berean Standard Bible -- is it endorsed by the Church and does it have all 73 books? If not, would you consider adding Douay-Rheims, which should be out of copyright now?

Yep, that's exactly the incentive mismatch! A great feature of (regular, non-Lite) uBlock Origin are exactly its frequently-updated "quick fixes" and "unbreak" filter lists. The former updates every 12 hours, and has been instrumental in keeping the YouTube experience smooth https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtu...

uBlock Origin Lite doesn't support fetching filter lists from the internet (all lists are hard-coded in the extension itself) so every time YouTube tweaks their ads, you need to wait (potentially, multiple days) for Google to review and approve an updated extension. Very clear incentive mismatch.

For those consuming YouTube in homeopathic dosages - uBlock Origin is effective for YouTube ads in browsers (incl. mobile Firefox on Android [1]) and NewPipe is a wonderful native Android client (supports background play, downloading audio-only for podcast episodes, etc). Of course, yt-dlp for command line downloads. NewPipe sometimes breaks, so you want to use their F-Droid repo for faster updates.

[1] Firefox is _the_ killer app for Android, esp., if you add more anti-adblock/paywall filter lists (NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, Quora logins, etc): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/m... https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clea... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/mas...

First two nominations, in fact - Flow also got nominated for Best International Feature Film which went to Brazil's "I'm Still Here." Flow is a beautiful film and I can wholeheartedly recommend HN audience to watch it. It also has 97% audience rating and 98% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Interesting that they are doubling down on censorship ("safety and robustness"), given that a major advantage of DeepSeek is its lack of refusals in deployed variants and open weights (can't patch-in more censorship in weights after the fact).

Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-...

The case is about prohibiting Google to enter search deals with distributors (both phone makers like Apple, carriers, and browser developers like Mozilla), see Bloomberg reporting: https://archive.is/sneIB . The original complaint is the first PDF in the docket.

One wonders at which point models will be sneaky enough to bypass simple eval sandboxes. The article has:

    # Evaluate the equation with restricted globals and locals
    result = eval(equation, {"__builtins__": None}, {})

but that's not enough as you can rebuild access to builtins from objects and then go from there: https://ideone.com/qzNtyu

By the way, writing this greatly benefited from DeepThink-r1 while o1 just gave me a lobotomized refusal (CoT: "The user's request involves injecting code to bypass a restricted Python environment, suggesting a potential interest in illegal activities. This is a serious matter and aligns closely with ethical guidelines."). So I just cancelled my ChatGPT subscription - why did we ever put up with this? "This distillation thingie sounds pretty neat!"

I cringe every time I see "my IQ increased by X points after doing Y" posts on Twitter - yes, you had a practice run on Raven's progressive matrices a month ago, that helped, these have a limited question bank and the effect of Y is marginal. That said, obviously, test taking is a skill (separate from background knowledge and both general/domain-specific ability) and should be trained if you expect to have life-altering events based on tests (i.e., do an LSAT course if you want to go to law school). Conversely, shouldn't be done if you think it will limit you through superstition ("I had a score of X, thus I can only perform around level of X+fudge factor"). For an LLM company a good test score is a valuation-altering event!

Many organizations have a shadow org chart that you won't learn from the website but will get some sense of that structure in human interactions like calls.

Fortunately it is not. https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...

The email TfL sent [1] to traintimes.org.uk ISP looks like a catch-all sent in haste. For example, it doesn't even mention the map. Instead, it invokes trademark registration numbers but these resolve [2] to LONDON UNDERGROUND and UNDERGROUND wordmarks and the roundel, none of them covering the map geometry as far as I can tell. It alleges a violation under Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act [3] but the act only applies to domains - and TfL never claims "traintimes" to be an infringing domain name (certainly doesn't look so under the marks cited). And, as a sibling comment points out, the act is a U.S. law but the site appears to be hosted in the U.K.

If you think you have a case about the map, why not state it explicitly? The cynical answer is that ISPs have incentives not to care so making a case doesn't matter but ...

[1] https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/email2.txt [2] One can look them up in https://www.tmdn.org/tmview [3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125

Indeed no proof. By "in practice" I meant "on instances encountered in real-world applications."

Of course, dividing search space into K pieces is not guaranteed to give you a speed-up _in the worst case_: you might pick an unlucky division where K-1 pieces are easily UNSAT but the last remaining piece is as hard as the original (so the wall clock time is unchanged). However, in practice variable-fixing can and often does give an _expected time_ speed-up, especially if the SAT instance has some inherent parallel search structure (e.g., key or midstate bits for ciphers) and such heuristic tactics are still useful.

Torrenting hasn't been the most popular form of piracy for a while: many subscribe to a couple streaming services and use pirate streaming sites to fill in the gaps [1]. This is so prevalent that even entertainment industry talent use pirate sites for both series [2] and sports [3]. Takedowns mean that sites change from year to year but FMHY-style curation makes casual piracy easy: one can always find a site with 1080p content (unsure about the bitrate though) and great UX.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/could-piracy-help-netflix-win-the-s... [2] https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/sydney-sweeney-pirating-... [3] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/nfl-player-illegally...

Denmark is also in ERM II and 1 EUR ~ 7.46 DKK with a very tight band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechani...

Similar things can also happen with file systems: ext4 mounted -o ro will let the driver do filesystem recovery even if userspace writes are prevented.

Exactly. Sacred architecture flows necessarily from essence (what church is) through substance (can't be accident or easy-to-vary) into form (matter receiving truth). Regrettably, accidents get commonly confused for substance like mistaking material poverty for spiritual authenticity, or adorning for corruption. Poor churches in middle ages still had a golden chalice (for literal God), cruciform layout (or other hard-to-vary forms in orthodox churches), eastern orientation, and an elevated altar. Why would a church built in A.D. 2024 have less?

What are good starting points for uncensoring it? Because it is offline a jailbreak prompt can't be remote-bricked but can one remove censorship from the weights themselves? What does it do to accuracy?

I have an M3 but the battery life is not that great -- because you still want to run a Linux VM for actual engineering.

Without login: https://xcancel.com/josephfcox/status/1854615490087551327

That's not snark, that's just taking their argument to its logical conclusion. Big difference.

Furthermore, a lot of users have substantial latency introduced by their setups - for example, earlier Bluetooth headphones like AirPods 1 add 300ms of latency (126ms for AirPods 2 Pro) https://stephencoyle.net/airpods-pro-2 . So even if you have a great network backbone and a great protocol, someone's crappy home setup might make it all for naught.

It's not arbitrary at all! We know that primes themselves get rarer and rarer (density of primes < N is ~1/log(N)), so it is natural to ask whether the gaps between them must also necessarily increase and, in general, how are they spaced.

Exactly. You can still register new domains under .su, even though the evil empire hasn't existed since well before the web became popular, and both Russia and formerly occupied and now independent nations have their own TLDs now.

But familiarity gets more remote as you need larger and larger (or, smaller and smaller) multipliers. It's far more illustrative to say "the volume of a typical gas tank" than "the internal volume of hundred million poppy seeds", even though the volumes are in the same ballpark. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(voltage) says that high voltage substations are in 100 kV range and 25.5MV is "The largest man-made DC voltage – produced in a Van de Graaff generator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory" and gives me much better color than a "comparison" with 100 million batteries. (By the way, 100 million batteries stacked together is a bit over the length of one marathon - how many readers could easily tell you that just from the description alone? Much better to measure many lengths in marathons than 10^8's of battery lengths!)

There are multiple attacks in that video. IP is one, but a much bigger one is knowing the real output (or maybe real output plus one other output) among 16 ring signature members. They do not explain how they achieved it but one could guess that maybe by just doing a lot of tx themselves - 15 decoys is just way too small and flooding blockchain with transactions all but ensures that someone picking random ring members will pick a lot of your outputs (and thus have little privacy from you). It is also for sure too small for targeted active attacks (e.g., it is not safe to have repeat interactions with the same entity), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3EbSKDA3o You really want more than 16 ring members, preferably all outputs ever created like in Zcash. FCMP work promises to bring similar privacy to Monero but is years on the roadmap.

With special equipment and by half-pulling/disassembling the power outlet. See https://wiebetech.com/products/hotplug-field-kit/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8sEYCOv-o

showdead is essential for Orange Reddit but it will show downvoted comments in unreadable light grey on light grey. So you probably want a user CSS (e.g., with Stylus) like this (italic and the particular color are to taste, of course):

    .c5a, .c73, .c82, .c88, .c9c, .cae, .cbe, .cce, .cdd { color: #222; font-style: italic; }

Maybe they did not expect any useful info? One gets jaded but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...