skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently GPT-3 has learned a large number of personality types and their fine grained biases, well enough to simulate a poll with good accuracy. This means you can poll it any time to check how a population of choice would have reacted had something happened. The language model does not carry the just biases of its builders, it learns all biases equally, you just need to specify the desired bias (personality type) when you call it. The responsibility falls with the user, builders are not to blame this time unless they didn't cover every bias equally well.

> GPT3 can simulate real people, Jack Clark

https://jack-clark.net/2022/10/11/import-ai-305-gpt3-can-sim...
Some tutorial for bringing these drones down stated that you should load your magazine with 2-1-2-1-2-1 etc where 2 are normal bullets and 1 is tracer. Not sure how effective it is but using normals with tracers is good idea I guess.
How does this work in a serverless world? As far as I can tell local dev for most serverless environments that people actually care about is a joke.
OP is referring to this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/9/23395490/twitter-lock-kan...
I've tested https://openweathermap.org/ multiple times in different places in Europe. The forecasts are far from accurate when compared to weather.com (which is the data source for google weather). Right now for example it show 6 degrees C less than real for my location for the entire week.
Nope, they're saying that products like hasura resolve the issue with the duplication of data. Or to put in another way, you don't need multiple stores like kafka with redundant data storage. Just use hasura.
Title is clickbait... the Z80 does not have "protected mode" (x86-specific term), in the video protection of the I/O space is implemented using additional hardware.
Musk and everyone else is right that we do need a platform with free speech. The only problem is that all those free speech advocates are actually NIMBY's when it comes to free speech.

I have been following self proclaimed free speech absolutists(because I too, believe in free speech but don't believe it exists) and they are totally not the kind of people that say "I hate what you say but I will die defending your right to say it". In all places, these people are curating comments and posts to push agenda.

The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

Yet again, I like that Musk and Kanye kind of people claim that they want free speech because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it. This is in contrast with the pure fascist where they cannot be held responsible for anything because they don't claim virtue in first place. It's a bit like companies doing greenwashing, which can be exposed when they don't deliver on their claimed virtues versus companies who don't even claim such virtues and instead pretend that it doesn't matter. Those who claim virtue are better even if they ultimately fail.
So you read the comment which specifically made the argument that they didn't want to prevent the new looms from being used and concluded that they wanted to prevent the new looms from being used?
I thought that was obvious, apologies: anonymous payments.

Do you also require an example of why anonymous payments are useful to non-criminals?
> YAGNI is not an excuse to take lots of shortcuts against known good implementation patterns.

I’d say it is, because “best practices” and “patterns” are usually context dependent and will have a negative cost when applied when not needed.
Or indeed you're in a position of overlapping authority.

Universities will often have a cash-strapped organisation-wide IT Department (e-mail for english majors) and another layer of IT in certain academic departments (computer labs for CS students) and another layer of IT after that (the centre for machine learning paid for that cluster, of course they have full authority over it) - and often it's that third-level body that's getting all the grant funding and publishing all the papers.

The people who control www.example.edu might basically be the marketing department for their glossy student recruitment brochure. Who's to say they have authority over certificate issuance for datasets.ml.cs.example.edu ?
Many people can be high achieving and functional despite having mental health issues and pushback from people like you.

Kanye has made decisions his whole life. Maybe some were bad but he has made it through and succeeded to a high degree.
He accused a rapper of being co trolled by Jewish people, and also that he'd go "deathcon3" on Jewish people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63198991
I only remember NOP from x86 assembler: $90
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Annual vehicle sales are 90 million, give or take. Assume 50kWh per battery, and around 850 grams of lithium carbonate per kWh. No recycling, no tech improvement, full market penetration, no savings from autonomous vehicles or the like and it is 3.8 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent - market price assuming today’s lithium price of $60k works out to $230bn, or the dollar equivalent of 23 days of global oil consumption. Assume more normal lithium pricing of $20,000 and you get 8 days of current run rate oil consumption for a year’s worth of lithium vehicles at 100% market penetration. This is existential for commodity trading houses longer term: they can sell more lithium, copper and nickel but the core businesses they are in are big, lucrative and going to shrink and there is no certainty that lithium is not going to disappear into vertically integrated supply chains that do not need freewheeling intermediaries or “financialized capital”.
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This math for lithium stands before we consider really disruptive things such as: maybe lithium isn’t it for grid storage, or even autos? This is the latest from the Sadoway lab - if we are going to use primarily sulphur and aluminium for batteries they will be laughably cheap. A tried and tested way to make money in materials science is to “do it better, with more available materials and less energy” - this is all three if commercialized. Over the last few years cobalt demand estimates have been crushed by developments in cathode chemistry due to cost and performance improvements in simpler chemistries - I am sceptical that this is the last time that today’s “unobtainium” becomes tomorrows chopped liver. Maybe new nuclear works, even if at low levels of total energy provided simply for stability and security reasons? Perhaps we can do a lot more pumped hydro than we thought? All the while the solar wafers get thinner and more efficient and use less materials…. the preponderance for everyone now calling for longer term structural energy inflation when papers like this are coming from Oxford which take account of these dynamics seems deeply unwise if you are doing anything but playing quarterly revisions.
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https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/unpacking-kanye-wests-ant...
the article mentions Dugin, and doubts that Kuryokhin actually supported his ideas. do you have more evidence that supports your statement, that Kuryokhin actually had become a follower of Dugin?
I thought "A Place of Greater Safety" (her first work) was good in part but too long. My favourite book of hers, other thann the Wolf Hall trilogy is "Beyond Black".
I don't understand. I thought you needed different docker files for different architecture? x64 vs M1 chips?
Indeed; that was the intended message. I don’t go reporting random people who slack off but yet complete their work; that would be a really busy job… I think there is even a word for that now in English (I am dutch). I will try to find it.
Given that Parler is primarily associated with alt-right users, this purchase is quite amusing. Yet it underlines how the right to speak freely is under threat online and I am not sure if Billionaires further centralizing access is the right way forward.
Ask HN: What are some counter-productive security practices?
I thought I damaged my phone recently, and tried to turn off 2FA on my password manager to get into the vault on my laptop. It didn’t let me, I think because my former employer required admins to approve it. So I couldn’t get into my password manager. I managed to fix the phone but the codes didn’t work now.

I spent the night copying my passwords into Gmail from my phone app (bad for security).

A support request got 2FA disabled and I got into my vault, but I won’t be turning it on again (bad for security). I’ll also be exporting my passwords.

An ostensibly good idea (make company admins approve turning off 2FA) has resulted in less security. I can imagine employees having a single bad experience and then swearing off password managers.

What are other examples of “smart” ideas that actually reduce security?
> Why mind this if the hardware to add is the same level of technology like Z80 itself?

But it's not "the Z80's protected mode" - it's "the Z80 + an extra circuit to emulate protected mode". It's a super clever hack, yes! But filthy clickbait also.
It's one of the oldest set of OSS libraries for Java that is still useful and actively maintained. Some of this stuff dates back to when it was still called Apache Jakarta in the nineties. Things like commons-io, commons-lang, etc. are very widely use in almost any Java code base. The only thing more common is the standard library.

To be clear, this is about a handful of utility functions in one of the libraries. Unless you are actively using those functions, you should be fine. And if you are, you'd be misguided to pass in unvalidated input straight from your APIs. That's almost always a bad idea with any library that implements functionality like this.

And of course it's something any security auditing would check on principle to see what falls over. I've been on multiple such projects where we found issues like this with other forms of string interpolation. It's a common junior mistake to not handle input properly and only do happy path testing.

If you are using these functions with e.g. configuration files or other strings under your control, it's not a problem; as that's pretty much the way this stuff is intended to be used. Disabling this is biasing on the border of better safe than sorry; which is a good thing of course. But if you need it, it's nice to not have to reinvent the wheel.

The other thing that's useful to know is that the maintainers of the Apache commons libraries have been pretty good about maintaining API compatibility. Some of these libraries have very infrequent updates but it still happens. Usually, updating these libraries is very low risk. I've never really seen good reasons to not update to minor releases of any apache commons libraries. You get bug fixes, some new functions, and generally no breakage whatsoever. And in the rare case something needs fixing, it's probably for a good reason.
Yes apologies. Thought there was something else. Edited comment a bit.
> at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it. This is in contrast with the pure fascist where they cannot be held responsible for anything because they don't claim virtue in first place.

What's the plan to do that when they censor all dissent on the platforms they just bought?
Hong Kong protester dragged into Manchester Chinese consulate grounds and beaten
This looks more like pulling a 'Trump' with Truth Social, since they both got 'yeeted' from twitter and other platforms.
I mean you can say “men are trash”, “white people are trash” and so on, but at the same time you are not allowed to say anything against jewish people or other people? Isn’t it kinda hypocritical? Maybe we should not allow toxic behavior at all and have a civil discourse about someone is feeling towards some group of people to allow him to change his mind? Personal attacks and hatred will not do any good this will only prove to that person that he is right.
Many Researchers Using Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals Universe of Uncertainty
I tend to agree. There are things that some groups find super easy, yet others struggle and I don't even talk about complex things like physics. For instance, I remember at Uni we had mechanical engineering classes where you have top, side, and front view and you need to draw the piece from a perspective. I could 'rotate' the object in my head like I was wearing a VR set,but some people absolutely struggled with even simplest objects. It'd be good to know why it's like this.
Relatively recently they switched from announcing track/train/signalling/overhead line/… failures to announcing everything as "repairs". I suppose the hope was that that would make them sound more proactive (look, we're already repairing the failure), but in practice those new phrasings often just sound silly.

> Deutsche Bahn has some announcements which are amazingly unspecific (something like "[the delay] is due to delays in the operating sequence")

And the local public transport operator (buses/trams) uses "operational reasons" as a euphemism for "lack of drivers".
Did not see this whole backstory. Ty for the link.
So you need years and years to build nuclear don't you? Sounds like hopium to rely on an unpopular source of energy that has decades long contruction times. And the builder has to declare bankruptcy. Wind and solar are far faster and less risky financially to build. Yo.
Practical

* Principles by Ray Dalio - honesty

* Good to Great by Jim Collins - integrity

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Theoretical

* Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - Happiness via Utility

* On Liberty by John Stuart Mills - Equity
The already existing definition of shrinkage applies to anything that shrinks - including a penis. i.e. its not a new context.

How about "regifting" what context does he use there instead of the preexisting definition of gifting a gift you have received? The existing definition would apply for ALL gifts - including penises (or whetever context thats about).
>psuedoscientific

yeah, animal breeding and crop selection work, but it couldn't possibly work on humans
When it happens we’ll call you.
Probably similar to what is currently happening on all the other platforms censoring dissent.
One big reason is that when you add two samples together, if you overflow a signed int that's UB, but if you go over 1.0 on a float it's just business as usual. This means you can do a ton of audio processing and only have to deal with fixing the overflows in one place right at the end (they use a compressor, but other algorithms are also possible).
In all of this horror, it is the forced deportations which trouble me most.

Hundreds of thousands of people, forceably transported into Russia.

Where are those people now? what is happening to them? how are they going to get back to Ukraine?

Russia historically, in conquered countries, destroys the local culture. Cyrillic and Russian become mandatory in the schools, organizations and traditions of local culture are suppressed, and mass deportations and incarcerations. Also, of course, beatings and torture; all of which we see now.

To my eye, as in history, this is part of Russia looking to make Ukraine actually Russian; to conquer and subsume.

The Poles used to say they preferred the Germans to the Russians; "with the Germans we lose our freedom, with the Russians we lose our souls".
I meant ECS with fargate launch-type, of course. IaaC support is you can use single CFN template to deploy autoscaled service, with load balancing and run time parameters. No kubectl or helm needed.
So ain't the ability to "learn how to be funny" encoded genetically in them? And some people, no matter how they tried, would never be able to become funny, since they simply do not have "the genes" that would allow it? Do you think everyone comes from the womb as a tabula rasa? Everyone has the same inherent ability to "learn to be funny"? And on a related note, an autistic guy "being funny" around his family or friends is a lot different than a professional comedian being funny on national television. Just as a national champion track and field competitor must have a baseline genetic ability to achieve this level of success, it's pretty much obvious that a highly successful comedian must be "born" with something special. By definition, he at least must "not be born" with something that impedes him to achieve it.
Then do what Gab, Gettr and Truth Social did and 'build your own platform'. If not that, then use a Mastodon instance like mastodon.social as an alternative?

The only thing these networks censor is anything that is illegal in their hosted jurisdiction i.e the US.
> Extremely strict RPC settings. I’m talking zero retries (or MAYBE one) [...]

I disagree. If we're talking about distributed systems, then one thing is guaranteed - network is not going to be reliable. And if we have 10's or 100's of services, this policy means that at the smallest blip the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. If the concern is "it's hard to troubleshoot", well then perhaps implement better logging ("connectivity to service X has been unreliable with X% failure rate over the last Xhrs" instead of "connection terminated", or no logging at all).
What do you mean? Be a billionaire and buy the platform?
But actually conducting an anonymous payment, even on a blockchain, is not straightforward at all, and it’s almost certainly a bad idea to do so on a permanent public ledger.
I might have something for you that reduces context switching. I am working on an IDE extension that shows the content of a localized message inline. A screenshot can be found here https://github.com/inlang/inlang#vs-code-extension.
> In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial

In my opinion controversy and political incorrectness are Okay. I don't think people should be too concerned about hurting others' feelings when discussing objective phenomena or expressing their own opinion (as long as they acknowledge their subjectivity) . Nevertheless obvious (although not to everyone) absurd, blatant lies and manipulations shouldn't be covered by the free speech umbrella. I wish people could correctly judge what they read themselves, taking what they read and what they feel critically, but many apparently can not.
DIY USB JTAG and UART Connection for the MEGA65
UK Goverment reverses scrapping of IR35
I use copilot to do things that I would’ve hired people for. I create tests and put comments in my code and copilot comes up with pages of dreary boring shit that would take me 0 pleasure or brainpower but would take a lot of work to just go through.

A real good example is mapping objects: let’s say you have a deep nested object from an ERP and you need to map that to another system(s). This is horrible work and copilot just generates almost everything for it if it knows the input and output objects; it ‘knows’ that address = street and if it is not it will deduct it from the models or comments or both; if there is a separate house number and stuff, it’ll generate code to translate that. I used to hire people for that; no longer; it just pops, I run the tests and fix some thing here and there.
oh nothing wrong with that, but it's in the right path towards getting burnout.

ive tried 3 jobs at the same time back then, i still dont recommend it.
Their objective is the targetting of specific individuals who are involved in the conflict, wherever they are.

Russia is showing that it has the intelligence reach to target those it wants to target.

It is the same sort of tactic that the US' and its allies uses in its wars on terror, with targetted drone killings.
> Boarding procedures are more complicated and take longer than any European Schengen airport

This is not even close to being true. Security in Chinese HSR stations is minimal. You walk through a metal detector, put your bag through a scanner, and that's it. Boarding itself takes a few minutes.

> prices are higher than European budget airlines

A 7.5-hour trip across the entire length of the country, from Guangzhou to Beijing (over 2100 km, roughly the distance from NYC to Miami, or Rome to Copenhagen), costs the equivalent of $130. It's difficult to complain about that price.
> he is a vocal anti-semite (whilst at the same time claiming to be Jewish)

You know, there's a name for this. It's called a black Israelite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites
Someone once said: "Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny" (I forget who it was). It was an eppifany for me. I realized that his show was extremely backward and annoying after that. The overall popularity of it amazes me now.
What would you say would be a contemporary equivalent for kids to poke around on to the same experience you had back then with the Z80?
Is this a covert hit piece against licenses that prevent the very same "investors" from exploiting opensource by SaaS?
oh definitely remove the hard disk. even if you delete files, pros can recover it.
Ask HN: How to feel ok charging people?
Hello HN, using a throwaway account for this one.

I am a few months into a work hiatus, the primary purpose of which is to find a way to make money without being salaried.

I have generally found it easy to find employment, and I tend to create work which people find useful. I’m not a wunderkind or anything, but I enjoy consulting-type work and the feedback I get is that I add value to projects. Theoretically I should be able to build a small consulting firm out of my skills and network.

However, I have a real issue with charging people for work. It’s not a self worth issue, I know I do good work. It’s simply that helping is enough.

If money did not exist I would be perfectly happy learning organically about the business problems of the people around me, research a bit with them, come up with a solution, implement it and move on without any compensation. Conversely, if I am asked to work on a pointless death-march project that is really well paid I just can’t sustain my interest long enough to see it through.

Has anybody found themselves in this situation? How did you work through it? I’m starting to realise that if I don’t figure this out I’ll have to go back to the job market. It just seems so _silly_ to fail at this because getting paid is not interesting to me.

For background, I am a data scientist. As with most people in my field, I come from somewhere else (finance) and dabble right across the stack.
Why is that amusing?

It makes sense that the "more free" platforms tend to attract people from the right because highly moderated platforms tend to censor right wing discussion more than left wing discussion. More extreme people are kicked off each platform successively until they end up places like 4chan. The opposite would be true if the mainstream advocated right wing politics, forcing left wing people onto the fringes. Similar to what happened pre-internet with the 60s counterculture, left wing ideas were found in the underground, whilst mainstream media pushed right wing ideas.
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

I posit that this is the unavoidable result of free speech absolutism.

People like their idea of what absolute free speech will be like, but they don't like the real thing when they see it.
Or if you disable javascript the spinner remains despite the content being complete under it. Fucking web devs!
I may be completely wrong, but looking back at history, at people in similar situations, my take on it is that he's faced with what is for him an unacceptable outcome, but where there is no way to avoid it : in this situation, people try and delay and defer, rather than facing it.

I think it's only that, nothing more sophisticated. He won't give up, because it's so unpleasant, but he can't win, so he's in limbo. The war continues until Ukraine and the West push Russia out of Ukraine.
If you work in frontend try remaking a company app in SolidJS and present the benefits.