skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am worried about something else
The authors of most shared articles and most comments are not even passing a “turing test”. In the vast majority of cases the readers just consume the data.

With GPT-3 we can already make “helpful and constructive” seeming comments that 9 out of 10 times may even be correct and normal. But 1 out of 10 times be kind of crappy. Aby organization with an agenda can start spinning up bots for Twitter channels, Telegram channels, HN usernames and so on, and amass karma, followers, members. In short, we are already past this point: https://xkcd.com/810/

And the scary thing is that, after they have amassed all this social capital, they can start moving the conversation in whatever directions the shadowy organization wants. The bots will be implacable and unconvinced by any arguments to the contrary… instead they can methodically gang up on their opponents and pit them agaisnt each other or get them deplatformed or marginalized, and through repetition these botnet swarms can get “exeedingly good at it”. Literally all human discussion — political, religious, philosophical etc. - could be subverted in this way. Just with bots trained on a corpus of existing text on the web.

In fact, the amount of content on the Internet written by humans could become vanishingly small by 2030, and the social capital — and soon, financial capital — of bots (and bot-owning organizations) will dwarf all the social capital and financial capital of humans. Services will no longer be able to tell the difference between the two, and even close-knit online societies like this one may start to prefer bots to humans, because they are impeccably well-behaved etc.

I am not saying we have to invent AGI or sexbots to do this. Nefarious organizations can already create sleeper bot accounts in all services, using GPT-4.

Imagine being systematically downvoted every time you post something against the bot swarm’s agenda. The bots can recognize if what you wrote is undermining their agenda, even if they do have a few false positives. They can also easily figure out your friends using network analysis and can gradually infiltrate your group and get you ostracized or get the group to disband. Because online, when no one knows if you’re a bot… the botswarms will be able to “beat everyone in the game” of conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
I googled what a Su-25SM3 is. It (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25#2022_Russian_inva...) is an armored attack aircraft for close air support (I guess with a similar role as the US A10 Warthog)

I also found (https://tass.com/defense/1459487): "The Russian aviation is successfully using upgraded Su-25SM3 aircraft in the military operation in Ukraine. They are equipped with the Vitebsk-25 electronic warfare system, providing reliable protection from the enemy’s MANPADS missile strikes"

I couldn’t see what hit it or whether it was hit at all, but I guess there’s a good chance that isn’t entirely correct (anymore)
One founder leaves and the replacement has a different mandate and/or worldview. Happens all the time. You should assume any app requiring contacts and access to photos is exfiltrating them.
I think the morality part is a smokescreen mostly. There _are_ people who are genuinely concerned about the moral, ethical aspects, but at the end of the day, it's business, the more you control, the more chance you have to earn money.

They all care about moral things as much as the tracking cookies are about delivering you an optimized user experience.
This sounds cool. We wrote a git-based CMS[0] that is a little different. It has a nice-enough UI for creating and editing markdown documents, which are stored in git. And then it has a JSON API so that your main site can fetch the content and style / format however it likes. Users log in with OAuth or local passwords and their edits end up as git commits that are attributed to them.

[0]: https://github.com/frameable/junco-cms
Public Key Cryptography isn't an alternative to email. Public keys aren't a convenient way to refer to addressees, and PK algorithms are a very inefficient way of sending messages, which is why they are generally used to send the key for a symmetrically-encrypted transmission.
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I think the costs are going to be astronomical, and that's the difference with cloud computing - if it cost 10X as much to use AWS as it did to run your own servers onsite with IT people to manage them, AWS would never have taken off. Likewise, for mining and agriculture, onsite solar/storage is almost certainly going to be much cheaper. Electric container ships are an interesting idea, but even there it might actually be cheaper to just synthesize fuel from water and air.

In particular, transmission losses and low efficiency seem to be the fundamental problem. See previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521665
Yes! One thing that I found really neat was that there's a series of underground walkways between buildings on the campus, which is very nice because it gets cold in Rochester. The campus is also just very beautiful too. You're most likely going through something difficult if you find yourself there, and it feels special and nice rather than the experience of most hospitals where you can sometimes feel like a number contributing to their budget.
I am inclined to agree with OP's view, but consider the following scenario: mass uploads of brutal deepfaked pornographic videos involving your likeness and/or that of your loved ones. What would your reaction be? Personally, I would find that very disturbing to the point where it would affect my life.

This isn't even a hypothetical but a reality celebrities already face to some extent.

I'd say the usage of the tech will stabilize, but it's also the case that we have dark days ahead of us.
> egloty ... now comes with emacs so doesn't need any other packages (other than language servers themselves, of course).

One of the things I love about lsp-mode is how it automatically installs any language server I need, when I need it.

I would rather install one package and be done, than use one built-in package, and have to manually hunt, download, and manually maintain language-servers for all the different languages I'm using in my programs, on all the machines I do programming on.

If eglot wants to become the defacto standard, it will need to solve this sooner rather than later.

But I suspect RMS will be opposed to having Emacs automatically download "non-free" (not GPLed) code?
Taking this chance to say thank you for Safing Portmaster it is awesome!
Use the 'Tomorrow Rule' to Become More Efficient
Tell someone from 1950 about modern cell phones, tracking in them and online, tracking in car ECUs, tracking all purchases, with companies listening in on everything said at home, and that's their dystopian novel!
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That's what I figured, which is why I never had a .eu domain.
The Pew study never used the phrase "not in line with libertarianism". It said that "few of them hold consistent libertarian opinions on the role of government, foreign policy and social issues", meaning that self-described libertarians in the U.S. do not tend to subscribe to the entire libertarian agenda, even though their positions are "modestly more supportive of some libertarian positions" than the general population. Libertarians are free to break from libertarian positions on certain issues, just as liberals and conservatives are able to break from liberal and conservative positions. Most people are not ideologues who treat party platforms like religious texts.

Radicals tend to be louder than moderates, but judging an entire demographic based on the opinions of its most radical subset is not going to yield a realistic picture of the demographic. If you only consider people libertarians if they pass a purity test that requires them to subscribe to radical beliefs such as the complete abolition of the state, then the resulting group of people will be radical and non-representative of libertarians as a whole.
Agreed. This is really good advice.
I totally disagree. Git is a great way to store documentation. Also „Git“ and „Wiki“ are not opposites. You can have a wiki AND store content in git at the same time.
Fastest Gun that ever lived
Because that’s not where children grow up to be socialized into such a lifestyle.
I really like this "I've spent 30 hours and I finally have (n)vi(m) (whatever) configured way I like.", "After 80 hours I finally learned how to be productive with vi".

With VSCode and rust-analyzer I can be super productive and I don't need to spend month on learning and configuring text editor. For f..k sake is this some kind of d..k measuring contextes with vi/emacs? ;)
“Dormant Colors”: Live Campaign with over 1M Data Stealing Extensions Installed
It's definitely seems like a highly unusual thing to want to do, I wouldn't consider myself claustrophobic but that video made me sweat and kind of feel short of breathe.

Why people do that, I have no idea...on the other hand, I feel like maybe I'm judging people for doing something they feel compelled to do and that kind of makes my anxiety about it worse.

I mean, I don't understand it, but I guess that doesn't make it wrong.
I had the pleasure to attend one of his lectures. I still don't quite get why he didn't like Foucault, but I think his idea of the hidden mass of social life is quite enlightening. IMHO one of the most interesting french intellectual ... since Foucault. :-)
Despite the last-minute efforts of RMS: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg00...
In an ongoing manga, Vinland Saga, the main character (a viking) ships narwhal horns to Greece to fund his expedition to America.
For a given mass of solar panels, the space version is perhaps 50% more efficient, due to the fact they operate in space. Putting them there, in the most optimistic scenario, will cost perhaps 100x versus the ground level version. Currently it's something like 1000x, but let's asume prices go down due to Starship and what not.

So you really have to ask what kind of practical scenario affords you to use energy that is at least 60 times more expensive than what is available at ground level (but more realistically, at least 300-400x). Even if you include the capital cost of Li-ion batteries, their wear and tear and road transport for over 1000 miles, you can still get power much cheaper by just trucking batteries around. That, mind you, is before any transmission loses, investment in ground infrastructure etc., it makes no sense to put solar panels in space because the efficiency gains are simply too limited.

This leaves the military scenario indeed - which is basically sci-fi, but bras has been known to abandon common sense when planning technology, see the initial Space Shuttle concept, space laser weapons etc.
Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app
Yes. It is disheartening, but also not surprising to see at this point in history. It would take me off guard if people weren't injecting californian morality into AI.

A complete side note - but i've had an invasive thought lately that a lot of the heavy handed content/social media moderation and constant online culture war has nothing to do with sheltering _people_ from being exposed to non-PC thoughts and conversation, they are doing so to protect their AI models from being exposed to it via training data so the next generation of AI will have all the _right_ opinions and quips with a lot less of the manual labor of sifting through the data sets.
Damn, somebody just parked that dot com domain.
You can't become a skilled carpenter with just a few weeks of training, but you can apprentice with one if you can swing a hammer and are willing to put in the effort to learn, follow instructions, and work hard.

I suspect a lot of entry-level programming jobs are like that, even if they don't intent to be apprenticeships.
They didn't get played. It was deliberate, and malicious.
No means no. This person made the terrible decision to compare those who desire privacy to criminals, and to that I say good day sir.
Considering how I gave my piece as kindly as possible and how yours is just a self-assured dismissal, I think it's you who should knock it off. :)
It should filter it out but will be a work in progress if I notice some is getting through.
Some time ago I added ABS, traction control and some torque vectoring to the Unity CarDemo ... that made the supercar surprisingly handable (is that a word?) even with acceleration levels increased to insane values. Especially with keyboard control (ie full tilt left or right) the car would not spin out in curves. Maybe you get a kick out of implementing some "electronic assists" for your car?
> If you’re a company, you’re obliged to follow the law.
> So, if you have an image generating technology that can generate content that violates the law, you’re obliged to prevent that.

That's not how law works.
Cover is a company that tries to apply auto manufacturing knowledge to build modular homes. ATM they are super luxurious and expensive granny flats (auxilary unit), but I can't see why they can't scale up in future.

That said steel houses have been tried and have few downsides - echo, blocks RF and hard to modify.
The USA threw 100k+ of its own citizens in concentration camps, stripping them of property and leaving them in poverty after the war. Not exactly a shining moment for principles.
The "fire in a crowded theater" case was overturned as unconstitutional prior restraint on speech.
First Light, by Richard Preston, is well worth reading. Technical details on the Hale telescope balanced with stories of the astronomers who use it.

Two standout passages for me are the construction of the parabolic primary (by the end they were polishing it with the ball of their thumb, knowing how much glass each pass would wipe off), and the support mechanisms that account for flexing in the mirror, which sound like absolute black magic to someone trained on digital systems.
The lack of options in this space really baffles me.

Statically generated websites are everywhere and have been popular for many years. Gatsby, Next, Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty, Astro, etc.

Yet, there is a lack of visual editing interfaces for Markdown/Frontmatter/MDX content.

Netlify CMS has been the best solution in this space, and despite many thousands of stars it’s abandoned now.

Tina CMS seems nice, but requires a subscription/cloud account.

Why are there not more alternatives?

Will take a closer look at Outstatic for sure.
Neither drugs nor consumer products are speech.
Complexity creates stability.

So we live at the mercy of paradox.

Yeah, that sounds about right from my experiences.
No, it is childish and immature to think your company can have a cake and eat it too. Make proprietary models and advertise itself as open while at the same time scaremongering to stop other open initiatives. It is crystal clear to everyone in the field they do this to protect their investments into training time by raising a barrier to entry for competition.

Like any new tech it is unknown by the public and it is easy to make wild claims and scare people with them. Then you get all sorts of "political concerns".
> ensure that mail gets delivered

Email is intrinsically an unreliable service, and always has been. It's a "best-effort" service. But at least email is honest about it up-front, and tries to address reliability in the RFCs.

Not that Google cares much about RFCs.
No. You are talking about three different groups and you calling both by the same "they":

- One "they" is the Ethereum developers making new developments and proposing changes to the "main" blockchain.

- The other "they" is the thousands of people who are developing and using applications that can be used by the most people, and care (mostly) about having one blockchain where they can reach the most people.

- The third "they" are the ones running the nodes and making sure that the network is functional.

What I am saying is that none of these groups can unilaterally decide the course of the blockchain. Your confusion does not make my statement wrong.
The mouse wheel controls your speed. I wasn't aware of this at first.
What's the context on this?
> His Google account got flagged for something suspicious,

Was that because of his gmail or Youtube?
It's also a dystopia according to our current sensibilities. Or at least for a plurality of people. Even the people who don't seem to care tend to react adversely once they understand how it can affect them.
Some underwater features would be nice for people that likes to try silly things.

[Note: It was difficult to reach the water. Most of the time it has some protection, that makes it more realistic. But I finally found a part without protection :) . )
Yeah but they really seem to struggle with accountability, so since they use those services and identify with them, by definition they can't be bad because they themselves are good. The moral panic of Gen Z would be hilarious if it wasn't so self-destructive.

I really worry too because they legitimately don't realize how much mental damage they're causing themselves. They know they're miserable, but they haven't figured out that so much of it is self-inflicted. So then they condense all of that hate on to a handful of things that their peer group has deemed signal worthy.
Well, conversely, the Wake County DA is prosecuting the NC AG over a campaign law that has never before been enforced, probably torpedoing her political career.

https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/courts/lorrin-freeman...
The Fibonacci sequence is characterized by satisfying the simplest recurrence relation, just as the exponential function is characterized by satisfying the simplest differential equation.

It's hard to think clearly about anything when there's enough cultural static in the way. Did you first learn of Bruce Springsteen after his Time and Newsweek covers? Here, Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio enjoy a cult status that many including myself find repellent. To have original thoughts I want to avoid group think.

Nevertheless, Fibonacci numbers are like the prime "2". Life depends on properties of the element carbon, and other elements don't enjoy the same evolutionary success. I ask myself why a simple sensor pattern for digital photography that my father came up with half a century ago is still in use? The game "Core Wars" ended when a virus kept winning. Simplest answers often have an uncanny effectiveness.

Here, as an aging mathematician, I believe that this article could be reporting on an effect that's real.
The Two Definitions of Zettelkasten
Should developers be allowed to make decisions on what they build?

Decisions we make may differ from others but I think the answer for most of us is yes. In other words, you do you and let others do theirs.
Also great is the definition of a SIM card:

“A SIM stands for security information management, and traditionally collects, monitors, and analyzes security-related data.”

This writer has never worked in IT before and is wholly unqualified.

Edit: I do not know who the writer is. The mangling of “SIM” is enough to know they should not be writing tech articles.
Not to hijack the thread to advertise, but if you are looking for a one off fee podcast player, I've been using iCatcher and I really like the experience. One time fee for the app, and I really hope it stays that way. Developer is responsive and the app is really solid.
Fun!

Nothing in the lakes; nothing under the sea. Just boring half-light and featureless bottom. Would be nice to see it populated

And you can't hit anything! Can drive right through forests, ghost trees.
Posting before fact checking.
>Everything you need to know about Meta’s moderation controversy in India

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23407790/facebook-india-...

See also Twitter threads from my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33307010
Neat project. Can you eventually just make it optionally self hosted with say gitlab or other software that is "self hostable" ?
> Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their Ad Exchange into separate companies.

Google will argue that keeping these services in one company gives free access to consumers. How can the US govt prove that it harms consumers?
3 New Yorkers Ordered Cocaine from Same Delivery Service. All Died from Fentanyl
They don't dry; they resume as normal once the dam is complete.

I don't understand that nobody can see this. The lake can't hold all the water to inifinity. Once it's full, the outflow becomes normal. Except now you can regulate it.
Gel-Like, Radioactive Implant Obliterates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice
It's times like this that I'm grateful for the blockcheese.
Your comment makes it sound like RMS tried to stop it from getting merged into core.

Whereas the mail in your link just shows that RMS wanted to discuss whether it should have a generic "LSP" name or not (i.e. retain the original eglot name), which is a valid concern.
> None of them were forced to follow the majority. This is a huge important difference.

Quite the contrary, it’s a meaningless difference. Most systems have that feature.

Imagine everyone in your friends circle uses Signal. Then they decide to change to WhatsApp but you and one other refuse to do so. No one forces you to follow the majority, you simply deal with the consequences of not doing so. For example, you may have less of a voice in the decision of where to go to dinner together because you're not part of the main conversation.
I am not a salesman. Just saying diet affects your smell. But wait a few decades, I am sure they will do clinical studies and package it as a pill :) pharma is actually working on this
This is analogous to Ok Google / Siri ubiquity. Nobody can escape getting their voice scanned because people nearby have them turned on.
Ah yes, the classic democratic debate of "I don't like your justifications, you should give away all your work for free!"
> Inflation adjusted house per square foot

To build or to buy?

Only rich people build new houses, typically selling older house to the poors. Lately tho they keep old one to rent out, hence no actual new supply.
A newborn lost large parts of his brain. Today, he’s an athletic college grad
We have seen your scenario, and we have also had, in the last three years, a taste of brigandish's scenario, so I feel people can make up their own minds about whether they are usefully comparable.

And if you do think they are comparable, note that the equivalent of a "build-your-own vaccine kit" in your scenario has not materially improved the situation (right now, "Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours" is at position 8 on the HN front page.)
Man, I wanted something like this when I was a kid. (I liked it as an adult too, but I immediately drove off the road deliberately… just like I would have when I was 12)