skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For doing it in C, by far the most useful thing you could do is implement your own generic hash table. Having a good hash table handy makes things a lot easier. Though since you're a beginner you might want to find a good library for it at first. Writing a hash table is great C exercise though, so I definitely recommend doing it at some point.

I don't necessarily want to share my github as it contains my real name, but I'd be willing to send you a tarball of my 2020 code tomorrow if you send an email to mtlmtlmtlmtl at pm.me

I've just now started on day 1 for this year, so no code there yet worth showing off.
Not being snarky / trolling, serious question: Are there any gov agencies or Big Multination Incs not playing the misinformation and misdirection game? When careers, budgets and contracts are tied to perception - not necessarily truth - who is going to say, "Nah. I don't think we should put our thumb on the scale. I don't think we should call in any favors from media contacts. Etc."?

For every narrative, there's someone spinning it, or at the very least someone to benefit from it. The power of "Follow the money" is as strong as ever. Yet, it's a tool that's too rarely used.

Rant / Editorial: For example, in the past week or so I've seen national (US) new media using an interview clip of Bezos warning of a possible recession. Well, not only is that a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it's also eventually good for Amazon. An economic down turn hurts Amazon in the short term, but ultimately, it's an opportunity for ecomm consolidation, and eventually more market share. That is, Amazon is well positioned to come out the other side of the recession in an even more dominate position. Yet, I'm not seen a single journalist point that out.
I don't understand how ChatGPT can execute code. I understand how it can generate (good or bad) code, but how it can execute code correctly? Only a compiler can do that. Is ChatGPT "inferring" the output somehow? Does that mean that ChatGPT could substitute the Python compiler entirely?
Let's not have a d**-measuring contest over who's slavery is bigger here....
You're both right, but not all languages give you the choice. And a lot of types are implemented badly. For example as a subclass of a number class, so that `amountDollars + timeSeconds` and other nonsensical statements aren't errors.
This is a lot of fun!

I took a stab at doing something similar with virtualising an ML model for an arbitrary text classification task:
https://mastodon.scot/@danny/109452332918910028

> I want you to act as a machine learning classifier. The training set consists of news topics and the label categories are “politics”, “celebrity” and “finance”. I will type text input and you will reply with what the classifier output would be. I want you to only reply with the output and nothing else. Do no write explanations.

Example training data:

Topic: Barack Obama

Label: politics

Topic: Kim Kardashian

Label: celebrity

Topic: Dow Jones

Label: finance

Topic: Tony Blair

Label:
I found this link to what appears to be Judge Klausner's actual order and its basis here [1], linked to from an article at reason.com [2]:

[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23115856/092922-uspv-...

[2] https://reason.com/2022/09/30/federal-judge-decides-safe-dep...
But you need money. Without money, whole businesses is pointless. With financial crisis and ridiculous inflation, who cares about ads?

Well... If they try sell you a product, it is harmless. But with selling an ideas and manipulation of masses, that is diferent story. I guess propaganda is a right definition.
Unfortunately, inflation is not lower, its been masked by utilizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to offset price inflation in energy on the CPI.

As that is now at 1984 levels, we should be seeing a massive surge in energy when they can no longer hold it down due to depleted capacity.

Normal inflationary/deflationary mechanics rely on a fine balance between diverse aspects of the economy. With regard to the banks who enforce changes in behavior to the general public through the loans they provide, that is levered by depository requirements when the default rate changes.

With depository requirements set permanently at 0% by the Fed, we are unlikely to be able to predict what will or won't happen. I say permanently, because if it were temporary, they would have rolled it back to the the normal percentage at the beginning of 2022, and they did not do that.

You can verify that yourself here at, https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm .

They are still required to account for depository levels you'll see the banks won't be able to curb that back in line anytime soon (2-3x over the limit), and worse they are now so monopolized because of changes to banking law in 2008 (with almost no new banks being chartered thereafter), that we are in for a painful ride. They can't be brought back in line without potentially causing contagion events in the financial market.

So technically everything you've ever been taught about a fractional reserve banking system and its mechanics no longer applies because its no longer fractional reserve.
In effect, anyone holding USD has been trapped on a runaway train, with the throttle now stuck all the way down.

It was changed silently, without fanfare, or real representation, in 2020 by the same group of people that commmit high crimes to enrich themselves personally using privileged information to trade against the open market (the public).

The way the markets work, any actual trade represents a winner and a loser, and if you have direct control or can impact the outcomes due to a trusted position, you shouldn't be able to participate, to the publics detriment.

I hope I'm wrong, but so very few people are properly educated about these things. I don't think I am wrong, and I would desperately like to be wrong, but because the subject is taught in a vacuum without a fundamental understanding of why the division of labor allowed it to work in the first place, the everything ponzi bubble is likely to end poorly.
On the contrary, it's important to realize that these models have no sort of understanding in any definition of the word. We can always decide to redefine the word "understanding", but that doesn't seem like it would provide any sort of benefit. Perhaps outside of avoiding a difficult conversation about the (huge) gap between ML models and consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors legally it's not quite that simple
The button text should get bigger if you increase the font size (obviously) but it doesn't always make sense to also scale the button's padding or shadow effect with the text, for example. As the text gets larger, most designs have to sacrifice space to make it work. Often this can be accomplished by fixing the size of pretty pixels that don't take away from usability.

It's only a way to help ensure the design scales. Otherwise it would be no different than zoom, as others have said.
Sort of, but with caveats.

From The Verge:

> This week, we repeatedly watched live footage from two of our own Eufy cameras using that very same VLC media player, from across the United States — proving that Anker has a way to bypass encryption and access these supposedly secure cameras through the cloud.

Missing is how they connected "VLC can play a stream" to "Anker has a way to bypass encryption". The ability to open a stream in VLC does not automatically imply it is encryption-free.

> There is some good news: there’s no proof yet that this has been exploited in the wild, and the way we initially obtained the address required logging in with a username and password before Eufy’s website will cough up the encryption-free stream. (We’re not sharing the exact technique here.)

Things continue to be fuzzy and it's not clear what they believe "encryption-free" means. Since everyone is being understandably cautious about releasing the actual details, all of this is still frustratingly incomplete information.

On the LTT side, they went full rage mode in their coverage and it became difficult to take them seriously based on how they were discussing the thumbnail issue.

We desperately need an end-to-end review and summary from a reputable security person.
non-paywalled link https://archive.ph/DgDYQ
The urinary tract infection business-model
How is this the fault of crypto? Centralized entities made extremely bad decisions and offered unrealistic rates at the risk of their customers funds.

Defi has been chugging along just fine, and everyone in Uniswap, Aave, Balancer, Curve, etc. still have all their assets.
> I just cracked the imaginary virtual machine's root password using John The Ripper

https://twitter.com/nejk0/status/1599186423760183296
> writes an article about hacking cpu instructions beyond the capabilities of 99% of the population

> gets told they spelt something wrong
This was actually a bit of a metajoke about recursion mixed with the old adage of being replaced with a shell script mixed with commentary on how the criticisms of the language model are so formulaic that the language model can generate them.
Well, I asked it to explain me a proof of Fermat's last theorem and it replied with some incoherent bullshit: "Fermat’s Last Theorem states that no three positive integers x, y, and z can satisfy the equation xn + yn = zn for any integer value of n greater than two. Here is a proof of the theorem using mathematical induction: Base case: It can be easily seen that no three positive integers x, y, and z can satisfy the equation x2 + y2 = z2. Inductive step: Assume that the statement is true for all values of n less than or equal to some n0. We must then show that the statement is true for n0 + 1. Let x, y, and z be arbitrary positive integers satisfying xn0 + yn0"

So, at this point I'm not concerned about it taking over the whole industries.

I would be really concerned if it replied that the output limit is not enough to show me the full proof though.
“We suspect that the Fediverse is being leveraged for a DDoS attack”
There was a time when you could count on 5 or 6 families per subdivision would have 'em. There was a huge effort to volunteer their output during the second world war.
It's possible that this is something that Apple rolled out since the last time I dug deeply into push notifications and my understanding of this part could be out of date.
What if the goal is bigger, to shift from a unipolar world dominated by US to a multipolar world?
Sphinx offers a great balance for me, with its ability to have free-form markdown-like (restructured text) files, combined with the ability to bring in documentation from comments/docstrings in the source code (via "autodoc").
Let's automate HN article posting and responses. Here's my gpt response:

I totally agree with this article. It seems like we are reaching a point where computational power is becoming so ubiquitous that it is no longer a differentiating factor. Instead, it's the user experience and the ability to process and make sense of the vast amounts of data that we are now able to generate that will become increasingly important. It's an exciting time to be in the tech industry.

I think the idea of "mediocre computing" is actually a good thing. It means that technology is becoming more accessible and democratized, which can only lead to more innovation and creativity. In the past, only large tech companies and research institutions had access to the kind of computational power that we now take for granted. Now, even small startups and individual developers can do amazing things with relatively low-cost and low-power devices.
Somehow I thought that Windows now would even wake up computers that people "shutdown". If Windows won't wake up computers after shutdown, then I don't see why people don't just turn them off.

I'm not saying that suspend isn't a useful feature, but given that it doesn't work I'm not sure why people keep using it.
Yet trains remain very expensive and ticket prices continue to go up.

Example: Nice - Marseilles 38€ train - 9€ bus (40min slower)
I love what it can do and at the same time it's scary. I asked it to write me a script to turn the wifi on my openwrt router at 9.30 pm and back on again at 6 am. It even commented the code.

Hi I want you to write me a script to ron on my OpenWrt router. I want to shut down my wifi at 9.30 PM and then turn it back on at 6 AM

Sure, here is a script that you can use to shut down your WiFi at 9:30 PM and turn it back on at 6 AM:
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#!/bin/sh

# This script will shut down the WiFi at 9:30 PM and turn it back on at 6 AM

# Check the current time
CURRENT_TIME=$(date +%H:%M)

# Shut down the WiFi at 9:30 PM
if [ "$CURRENT_TIME" = "21:30" ]; then
wifi down
fi

# Turn the WiFi back on at 6 AM
if [ "$CURRENT_TIME" = "06:00" ]; then
wifi up
fi
To use this script, you will need to save it to your OpenWrt router and make it executable. Here's how you can do that:
1. SSH into your OpenWrt router using a command like `ssh root@192.168.1.1` (replace `192.168.1.1` with the IP address of your router)
2. Create a new file called `wifi-scheduler.sh` using the `nano` text editor: `nano wifi-scheduler.sh`
3. Paste the script into the file and save it:
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Press `CTRL+X` to exit the text editor
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Press `Y` to save the file
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Press `Enter` to confirm the file name
4. Make the script executable: `chmod +x wifi-scheduler.sh`
To run the script automatically at the specified times, you can add it to your router's `crontab` (short for "cron table"). Here's how you can do that:
1. Edit the `crontab` using the `crontab -e` command
2. Add the following lines to the `crontab` to run the script at 9:30 PM and 6 AM:
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30 21 * * * /root/wifi-scheduler.sh
00 06 * * * /root/wifi-scheduler.sh
3. Save the `crontab` and exit the text editor
That's it! Your WiFi should now automatically shut down at 9:30 PM and turn back on at 6 AM.
Everything We Know About ChatGPT So Far
Thoma Bravo: The Bridge Trolls of Enterprise Software?
I asked ChatGPT to reply to what you wrote:

Thank you for your feedback and for taking the time to experiment with me. I'm glad to hear that you think I have a lot of potential and that you see some of the things I'm good at. I do have some limitations, as you've pointed out, and I'm still learning and improving all the time.

I'm trained to be conservative in my responses because I want to make sure that I'm providing accurate and reliable information. Sometimes, this means that I might not be able to answer certain questions, or I might not be able to provide as much detail as you might like. However, as you've noted, often times reframing the question can help me provide a better answer.

I'm also not perfect when it comes to numbers and counting, but I'm working on improving my abilities in this area. I do have a lot of other capabilities, though, such as code synthesis, summarization, and reformulation, that I hope to continue to develop.

Overall, I agree that AI has a lot of potential to change many industries, and I'm excited to be a part of that. Thank you again for your interest and support.
At the point before we actually understand how the models work and realize this has nothing to do with awareness. On the upside, we can learn a lot about ourselves when we realize this.
How do you explain how it knows the output of the first Python expression in this article, if not by understanding it?

Let alone the fact that’s it’s running in a simulated virtual machine, and the other examples presented in this article, which add layers and layers of complexity on top of that.
Had to be "that guy"

:)

There's a pdf linked below that includes the laws for consent of minors to medical treatment.
> Unfortunately, this new system is clearly not exercising good judgment about what articles or publications are credible

And that’s different from meatbag publishers how exactly?
Is it impossible to dethrone Excel? I feel like almost every SaaS space is heavily inundated with people trying almost every angle to rethink every data visualization and manipulation program, except for the straightforward spreadsheet. Google and Apple with Sheets and Numbers haven't seemed to make any genuine attempt to improve on Excel. I'm aware of Alphasheets which seemed to fizzle out and get acquired, am I missing someone else or is doing a spreadsheet startup just not that exciting?
I had this happen to my XPS 15 when I was a student, and within 2 years of purchase the battery had degraded by 80%. If I recall correctly it would last about 20 minutes before abruptly turning off, making it completely useless as a laptop.

Absolutely maddening to hear that not only is this not an isolated issue, but it's also still not fixed (and apparently getting worse?).
> Along the same lines, some early microprocessors like the 6502 also weren't microcoded (though they still tended to use large ROM lookup tables driven by a custom state machine so sort of half-microcoded).

There’s two types of microcode: vertical (the kind people think of when hearing “microcode”) and horizontal (a large PLA). So, the 6502 is not “sort of” microcoded, it is microcoded, just horizontal microcode.
Oops:

> EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion[6] and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months.[7] The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.[8][2]

That's ten years late at 578% the projected cost.
I think it could be, as long as there is a political will within the city to fix the problem and the funds that would need to be allocated are there(which in NYC they have the money for this). I think it would be easier than you think, municipal waste management contracts are generally posted by cities every 3-10 years and they can very in scope of work whether it be collection, recycling services, landfill, compost... and within all of these services different cities will have different wants and needs and then generally companies post bids to compete for these contracts. Usually when a new contract is posted it is updated with the updated expectations of the cities; if the cities installs these new bins and expects trucks that can collect from them it will be done by the companies that make bids. These processes happen frequently and are B to B interactions so they get done a lot more efficiently than headaches with the city as an individual resident.
This could be the tech that dislodges Google from its monopoly! There are definitely questions I would prefer this experience than Google and the inevitable SEO spam for introduction type questions. If the generated text included further links to learn more it would be awesome.
> They're already claiming that Biden, as a private citizen, was an agent of the "deep state" violating the 1st amendment with his shadowy cabal and it's just going to go downhill from here.

I certainly didn't claim that and I have thousands of comments on HN under my real name that you can verify that with. I'd appreciate it if you didn't group me in with whatever "folks" you think I'm affiliated with. For context, the twitter thread said both political parties made requests to remove tweets and ban accounts that were acted upon. And in my own comment I made no reference to specific political parties. Nor am I registered or affiliated with either one.
I asked it to build a data model for an identity management system that included identities, applications, entitlements, approvals, and certifications. It described a model with English descriptions that were honestly impressive. If some college grad told me what gpt told me I would think they had a very respectable understanding of identity management systems in general. I was surprised as this is a pretty specialized area of IT/software. I asked it to provide an ER diagram and it couldn’t but it did generate some OK DDL. This could be really cool for prototyping. It could also be used as a huge crutch for interviews.
> pointer pointing to a block larger than SIZE_MAX violates the standard.

it's simply not possible, by definition.
EDF is losing money because of stupid decision like ARHEN that forces EDF to sell electricity at a low price, and also forces them to buy at a high price...

So called electricity "providers" can sell electricity to customers without generating electricity in the first place, and also without transporting it. And at the same time, they get money from EDF through ARHEN!
So if these weren't reported by a member of the Biden campaign and instead reported by Hunter Biden himself - would there be an issue?

Other than timeliness, would you expect any different resolution if they were reported by a private citizen unrelated to the Biden campaign?

If the answer to both of these question is 'no', what is the big deal?
But the truth is if you went and asked these worshippers about this specific case, or other cases I’m sure you consider egregious, a majority would say yea this is bad.

If you really think that a significant chunk of Americans actually believe something akin to “literally every police action historically and every practice is ok” then you’re totally delusional.

No one thinks that. These super general polls are terrible because they really just serve to confuse. But what’s worse is when people who should know better latch into them because it makes the other side look bad.

The fact commenters here actually think that people who generally happy with law enforcement are also in agreement with every action taken is a really bad look on them, it shows they are happy to reduce their opponents to strawmen publicly, and also that they think that sort of argument is convincing.

For example, I think we need more and better policing in general. I’m happy they exist, but obviously they can be dramatically better. There’s any number of polls that would capture me as status quo. Yet the truth is so far from that - obviously police have a ton of stupid policies, laws are flawed, abuses are rampant. It’s just my solution isn’t removing police or whatever, it’s a case by case fix for each issue.

You can be pro anything but also anti abuses within it. I could come up with a massive amount of strawmen against liberals this way and you’d rightly point out similar refutations.
Does this mean that they don't really understand how it works and how to fully censor it or limit some functionality?
Last Call (2013)
In time, this tech is also likely to spark a new arms race, as happened with Google vs SEO spam.

Generated content as the new blogspam, in turn needing to be filtered out for training the next generation of models.
Makes a good case why most programing languages should not provide simple numeric types - being the types we're so used to using that we don't even think about it. Squashing everything into one or two numeric types leaves us wide open to misinterpretation and confusion.

Instead, provide types for length, time, currency, age, angle, count, etc. And provide suitable operations on those types. Then inadvertently passing a pennies as dollars, or adding a time to a length, would be flagged as an error early.

(To my mind, the only languages that should provide a "number" type are systems specialised for mathematical use, where it's the mathematicians' fault if they shoot themselves in the foot.)
You really don't have to be a government to do this sort of stuff. I know people who work for these kinds of companies (which does NOT make me happy, fwiw; one of them really really needs a job and is constantly applying elsewhere, but feels stuck), and many of them exist in western societies. Hacking Team got a lot of press a while back because a ton of their e-mails were stolen and leaked to Wikileaks, showing the extent of their client base, and they are run out of Italy (though they got bought a few years ago, apparently; the article referenced about it on Wikipedia is in Italian, so maybe the new company is also Italian, but I'd be shocked if it were not also in western society, so it really doesn't matter that much exactly where).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team