skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense is a whole chunk of the internet is going to just get washed out with the tide as it gets demonetized by search, and that's the stuff most likely to be ML-generated. Meanwhile search engines like Google will start to laser in on fewer and fewer higher quality sources that have some signal, both through manual tuning and automation.

I think it's important to distinguish between ML-assisted and whole cloth ML generation too. I imagine many high quality content sources are going to be using ML-assisted writing tools; for instance, at my old news company (edsurge) the journalists spent most of their time gathering info and constructing the story, which was the real meat of the work. The writing and wordsmithing was the not operating at the top of their skillset, it was pretty inefficient manual labor, especially the drafts. So from content production perspective, ML could automate a lot of that away while letting the journalists tune the narrative and edit the output for better nuance - in other words, editing vs producing.

This also assumes a single output, but if you take the edtech lens and couple it with the power of ML and you could easily have any given news article have nearly infinite varieties based on reading level, language, and even past knowledge (by including or removing context). As someone interested in new mediums and innovating news, this is absolutely exciting to me. A really interesting question here is if there's an opportunity for collaboration between expert sources and search engines, such that for a given set of domain-specific queries the expert sources are in charge of fine-tuning the generated outputs.

Completely agree about contextualization. The automated detection of ML (the defense part) needs to be tuned toward trying to extract and analyze claims that are being made in the content, and a lot of ML content is nonsensical, or introduces wild, novel claims that lack evidence and alignment with other sources. Some big questions for the analysis are whether those claims are corroborated by other higher quality sources, whether relevant context is included, and whether its bringing anything new to the table.

In this kind of setup redundant sites will be ruthlessly demonetized by search. As you say, this also drives us in a direction toward expert systems with some probabilistic measurement of the truth of claims and completeness of context, which may also have actual experts at the controls of some of this (like above). This of course raises a lot of questions where unorthodox ideas may fit in this model.

I'm not an ML nor search expert though, my experience is more on production side.
I doubt that any personality disorder has as its sole cause "childhood emotional abuse", so I would not want to indirectly someone's parents because of their perceived personality flaws.
Until we prove P!=NP that (i.e. its only secure because we dont know how to solve it) is pretty much true of all crypto algorithms, even classically.
which well known 256 bit hash is broken?
I cannot vouch for the quality of this model, but I remembered I had bookmarked this tweet, having wondered the same:

https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/145528744318439424...
Just call them bleeping hypocrites if that is what you mean.

Pseudo biblical language to provide an illusion of authority is stomach turning.
Super Simple (but not reliable) Storage Service

There is a reason why storage is hard and why I only trust big techs to do it
UFOs by definition aren't real
This is right up there with “gifs with sound” for me.
No. (1) because just how massive the Earth is a number you don't fully comprehend, and (2) because the Earth is actively warming itself from ongoing decay of nuclear isotopes which sunk to the center during it's molten phase, so really we're just tapping into a big pile of decay heat.
It is similar to how the Warez and online music piracy scene works. They steal from everyone with abandon but god forbid one person repacks, re-encodes or changes someone else's "work". Some communities thrive on drama.
Secret service does this very often. The same also happened in Afghanistan.
I think you misread my comment. I'm not asking for Tesla's justification; I'm expressing my own view that the market's valuation of Tesla is excessive. You're welcome to disagree, but the underlying point remains: Tesla is fundamentally not resource-constrained in the way Signal is.
we have had problems with millions of rsunk files.
Why comment if you don’t even open the link?
From what I saw on an earlier post about this technology is that the mm wave drilling technique actually causes the bedrock walls of the bore hole to turn to a type of glass and then no casing is needed. I will try and find the source on that.
Why your website is about to get more expensive
I see a "Pay with Apple" button (doesn't appear if you're not using Safari, I guess). I click it, and Safari pops up an OS-level dialog, prompting for TouchID / FaceID / Apple Watch / password authorisation. I authorise the payment, the goods are paid. Works on Mac, iOS, etc. The card is the same one I use to pay for stuff in a shop, so basically buying groceries and buying things online are like the same thing, one click/tap away. It's pretty neat, if you don't mind Apple being a middle man.
I have to imagine, too, if they were to give up individually, they’d still want to stick around in hopes someone else discovers the root cause.
If it happens I’ll tell you first.
please attach a bearer token with a signed attestation that you don't own a teapot, and re-submit your request
Isn't it that this is specifically JSON syntax?

"JSON recognises JSON".
Some of that could be that they started gaming at a younger age and their brain is wired stronger for fast reflex.
This is not a good example, and is part of the problem with these types of discussions.

Not everyone wants the same thing in the prisoner's dilemma. The prisoners all want one thing and the prosecutors want something different. If everyone wanted the same thing here, there would be no dilemma.

That's the case with 32 hour work weeks. Employees want them - but employers don't. So there is a misalignment of incentives. And employers specifically have much more power in the situation because there is a significant imbalance in risk between the two. The external mechanism is needed here in order to accommodate and mitigate that power balance.

The mechanism could be legislation, it could be collective action in the form of a union, etc. But it's specifically because not everyone agrees, and the disagreement comes with a power imbalance that the law is necessary.
> Advocating for spreadsheets is advocating for these vulnerabilities.

Spreadsheets will exist regardless of what developers think of them. Ironically, that's a good thing.

Many projects that put food on dev's tables started out as out-of-control Excel monstrosities that were created and operated for long spans of time by well-meaning and productive folks. They start as simple manual spreadsheets with some formulas and then evolve into much more involved beasts. Work gets done and it's all nicely contained in somebody's cube and they look good and can be rightfully proud of their accomplishment.

Things just get done. For a while. Sometimes a LONG while. Until the bitter realities that software developers have learned to deal with over the decades start to seep into these projects and drown the unwitting folks who created them, slowly but surely, like an ever-increasing number of small holes in the bottom of boat. That's when things break or become unmanageable and that's when developers start getting engaged-- assuming these excel masterpieces have actually become mission-critical.

There's a guy at work that operates one of these excel monstrosities. It's been going for ~7 years now. It's a monster excel spreadsheet that, among an ever-growing list of things, does dubious probabilistic forecasting of future PO's based on shit ripped from salesforce (not even using the api). He has a dedicated laptop behind him pulling in data from multiple sources, like clockwork, and has recently started making attractive Power-BI dashboards using his excel worksheets as the data sources. And you know what? He looks GOOD to the people that matter. Does the forecasting actually work? Not really, but being so immersed in all that data has made him knowledgeable about many details of the operation. He's able to keep track of costs and stay on top of things. It doesn't matter (to him) that the whole thing will vaporize when he leaves, or that he could tire of it and just foist it upon some hapless supply-chain person who's just learned to use formulas in excel.
Heh. Reminds me of:

It's hard to remember now, but there was a period of time not long ago when "the cloud" hadn't yet become an overused catchphrase. In those heady days of yore, people used to store things themselves – usually only on one device, and uphill both ways. These were hardscrabble people, living off of whatever meager storage they could scrounge together. They’d zip things, put them on zip drives, and hope for the best. Then one day almost everyone looked up towards the metaphorical sky and made a lot of compromises.

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
The site's domain was registered in 2009, and I guess it hasn't been updated since then. Their 1TB S3 price is in line with S3's 2008 price of $0.15/GB, and many (all?) of S3's advanced pricing tiers wouldn't have debuted yet.
The Scarlet Letter is not obscure, there was even a major Hollywood movie made a few years ago that was extremely loosely based on it.

Perhaps you need to read more.
They were before too. But in any case their role isn't about relevance or production of whatever the company produces.

It's just a way the company expands after a certain size as an organism and starts feeding itself, growing bigger while allowing for redududancy and waste - like a state does.
I'm not sure if I should be proud of this or not, but once I had some pretty critical field values in a Excel spreadsheet that I had to make sure were compatible with my code. I ended up adding some derived formulas in a new locked sheet within the file, committed the XLSX to Git and then created a JUnit test to make sure everything was in sync. In a nutshell, the XLSX became the source of truth
Speech police complaining about others using techniques to feign authority on things they themselves have no authority over is pretty fucking hypocritical.
I see where the disconnect is. I have a hard time placing your bar for being considered "westernized". Can you cite me the names of some nations that you regard as falling below the threshold?
Instead of focusing on AI generation, Google should focus on content farms in general. Those will have a different signature than non-spam AI content. There's legitimate uses for such content, the most obvious being research and artistic projects, not just content farms.

Even then... A lot of financial news is written algorithmically. A peer in my Comp Ling masters program started a business that does just that, and sold it or consulted on it's use with Bloomberg, or maybe Forbes? It was more than a decade ago. That stuff was mostly mixed methods of rules & stochastic, so I'm sure it's come much further. But it's a valuable service because so much of this news really is very formulaic: "Stock $X came in at $Y earnings for quarter $Z, beating analyst target earnings of $A. This is in line with the general rally in the $B sector, following similar estimate-beating earning in stocks $C, $D, and $E."

Dozens of these a day (or more) could certainly look like a content farm.
I think CS has pretty different dynamics than most fields for a few reasons. CS is really well positioned when it comes to both funding received and average funding required to do a project. Similarly, the time required for set up of CS work can often be minimized in a way that is not possible for many natural sciences. And culturally people seem less attached to old school academic status - CS has many viable and relevant career paths for someone that wants to exit academia, some of which even allow for fairly easy reentry to a university position.
Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere
I am not saying they are committing the assaults, theft, etc. I’m saying that it is illegal to be in the US without documentation. It is also illegal to get forged or stolen documents and work.
The Future of Deliveries
It's not even about expecting free development and fixes, it's about mutual respect.

I respect that a developer doesn't have to fix an issue I report, but it's only fair that the time I spent on gathering information and reporting the issue is respected. It should be triaged, valid reports should be marked as such and if it's never gonna be dealt with then it should be closed.

Not some kind of software development equivalent of stringing someone along as a side b***ch.
> it's much, much cheaper to rent one

It’s much, much more convenient to be able to go where I want when I want.

Hiking, skiing, my friend’s cabin, the lake house, my friends in the suburbs, Costco, that speciality root beer store I like. I don’t even need to plan my trip. I can go whenever I want.

Yes you can rent a car to do those things. But it is indisputably friction. My experience is that my friends who don’t have cars are subsidized by those who do. Either that or you don’t see that friend because public transit makes it too inconvenient.
While it is true that there are no good incentives for a bot to comment here, I believe that the best safeguard against AI-generated content is that here such content will be noticed easily.

I have seen a couple of times on some other even smaller technical forums what appeared to be sequences of comments generated by an AI, from a fake account (until the accounts were banned).

There could not have been any kind of financial gain from those actions, so the conclusion was that someone was testing the capability of their AI to carry a conversation on such subjects.

The messages posted were remarkably coherent, but in the end it was obvious that their source could have been only either an AI or a human with mental problems.

What made those messages stand-out was that even if they contained mostly correct information, the same that might be found e.g in technical magazines, there was always some weird disconnect between their answer and the message to which they replied.

Apparently, in most cases the AI failed to identify which exactly was the point-of-view of the previous poster. The reply referred to various items mentioned in the parent message, but instead of referring to the essential points it referred to some non-relevant things mentioned more or less accidentally, or it tried to argue for or against some points as if trying to contradict the previous poster, when they actually had argued in the same direction.
The point here is that even this facade is untenable now.
> get it back after police/judge agrees that it isn't your fault

You're advocating for a guilty-until-proven-innocent system?
Change ya password
Just upload everything to /dev/null on your server, unlimited write only storage. Save millions with this one neat trick, AWS salesmen hate it.
It's the opposite. A game engine is a higher level piece of software, that often requires less coding (and in certain cases almost none) than what we call framework in other development areas. Modern engines also often come with complete tooling.

However, most game engines are highly extensible, which naturally means that people will build libraries targeting those engines, for doing very specific things.
There's also a huge amount of internal friction created by the moon stretching and squeezing the earth, I believe that accounts for more heat than nuclear decay. Regardless, there's no way we can realistically impact planetary dynamics by blowing some cold water down tubes to the mantle, there's simply too much thermal mass - so yeah geothermal is a fantastic and reliable energy source.
Seize – Fast, efficient, and robust memory reclamation for Rust
Hack Tricks
Let’s assume you’re right and the crypto itself is sound. I agree that is likely and doubt any TLAs have a significant mathematical edge. Does the NSA just stop there and call it a day? No, of course they write Stuxnet. They attack everything else.

What well known piece of software isn’t broken?
You should read more education research, it's not uncommon.
i believe there is an opportunity in the market for an advanced data storage technology to support writing huge volumes of information to a single 3.5" floppy, provided the legacy constraint of offering a read operation can be dispensed with.
I don't think availability via any particular distribution mechanism is a reasonable litmus test for "open sourcedness." Such a test would have excluded Linux for most of its development history, prior to migration to git.
I have 7 close friends that graduated with CS PhDs from UW in recent years, and they all feel positively about the union.

Here's a table from the union comparing before and after unionization in 2004:
https://www.uaw4121.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/UW-ASE-Be...
How to build a dashboard for your Peloton workout data using Dash
The Hacker Recipes
Amazes me how much HN talks about the declining quality of search results, and then in this thread weeps and wails with crocodile tears the moment Google tries to do something about it.
Most blogspam written by humans is garbage, why not set the bar higher?
Driverless Cruise taxi stopped by confused SFPD
SQL on Rails

https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg

Always cracks me up, never gets old.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7343019 ?
The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy?
Yeah, unions can usefully do things where they’re negotiating with the university over e.g. pay or benefits but a supervisor? How?

Outside of “My daddy arranged a new chair so I could get in here.” students have ~0 leverage. Academia is feudal, at least in fields based on Ph.D.s. Your supervisor can make it impossible for you to graduate at any time with minimal impact for them. If you graduate and they don’t want you to get an academic job you won’t. That’s what letters of recommendation are for, just with the usual justification flipped.

This isn’t a necessary part of academia. Law and medicine don’t work that way because their terminal degrees are Master’s degrees with elephantiasis. But absent getting rid of PhDs or changing them so radically you might as well change the name the power imbalance isn’t going anywhere.
MMW systems can potentially‘case-while-drilling’using rock melt or can post-drill install rock melt liners for significant well cost savings over steel casing and cement.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/02/f7/mmw_drill...
Blazingly fast: No SSL handshakes!
Yet even with the utter disasters of the great leap forward and the cultural revolution, China is _still_ leaps and bounds ahead of India. How does that figure into your calculations? Outside of China, all the East Asian Tigers achieved their growth under authoritarian rule.

How much more evidence do we need before having second thoughts that hey, maybe democracy is not the end-all, be-all of government systems?
I host some domains with migadu and have been pleased. For my newer, less used domains anyway.

I also bought a lifetime account in mxroute. It’s also fine, but wonky, as they’ve repurposed other tools to admin it.

However, some of my users have a lot of old email, and the storage options on migadu suck. I don’t want to pay more per month because two accounts need more space.

Lately, I found https://purelymail.com and put a domain with them. They’re neat because it’s usage based billing for storage. The billing model is exactly as I want, however, I think it’s a one man show, so reliability and longevity could be an issue.

Ultimately, I may use cloudflare email routing and migrate people to free gmail accounts. Sadly, the multiple logins (gmail and custom domain) will be confusing.
Easy! Once you've written to the end just seek back to sector zero and continue writing. It's a like data-layer-cake.
Ah yes. I suppose you still believe in Powell's story that inflation is transitory. Forget about the money supply or the sudden course correction to hike interest rates faster.
Iirc pytorch's einsum used to be very slow
there's a browser extension for this.
/dev/null as a service? Webscale!
You didn’t download the WSDL
Engines are significantly higher level than what we call frameworks in web dev, with a lot of stuff built-in and coding being a minor requirement. Traditionally they were even genre-specific: fighting game in case of Mugen, shooter in case of Quake and Source, etc. Also, in the case of Mugen, they are mostly data-centric rather than code-centric like a web framework.

Another interesting distinction is that engines can often written in one language but offer extensibility in another, like being written in C++ and having programmers write Lua or C#. Notable exceptions exist, however. In frameworks that's quite rare I guess.
I haven't burned myself in any significant way (i.e. seriously), but apologies for an admittedly imperfect example.

Here is a better example: "Live by cooking, expect to die by getting burned." That's the kind of argument OP is making and it's unsound.
> In short, although things are pretty good for residents of China at the moment, IMHO the risk of the whole country's becoming a hellscape is much higher in China than in India.

that's the tradeoff. In a democracy you intentionally cripple your own government's ability to get things done. It lets you avoid major risks but consequently you don't get to reap major rewards.

In a situation like India's, don't you think maybe greater risks are worth taking? Stability and preserving the status quo is something you want _after_ becoming developed. Consider that even after China kneecapped itself with the cultural revolution, today it's still far ahead of India. "Pretty good" is an understatement relative to India, unfortunately.
I don’t see much difference between GPT-generated text and so-called “copywriter”-generated text.

Both are spam trash I never want to waste my time reading.

Google should aim for higher standards.
BC seems to be doing similarly, with the NDP playing hardball and threatening transit and other concessions to holdout municipalities
If I understand https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.22.0/numpy/core/einsu... and https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.22.0/numpy/core/src/m... correctly, using einsum without the optimize flag seems to use a for loop in C to do the multiplication.

The optimizer clearly tries to improve the performance, but in many cases, it doesn't seem to change anything. Let's simply multiply some matrices:

x, y = np.random.rand(200, 200, 200), np.random.rand(200, 200, 200)

I can do

%timeit x@y
40.3 ms ± 2.52 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

or a naive

%timeit np.einsum('bik,bkj->bij',x,y)
1.53 s ± 21.8 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

But even with optimization, I see

%timeit np.einsum('bik,bkj->bij',x,y, optimize=True)
1.54 s ± 10.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
Capitalism is destructive, America is destructive. There’s valid arguments to remove yourself from the system or work within it to make it better.