skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are Mastodon instance owners having to create blocklists of domains? Does the ActivityPub protocol not authenticate people and just anyone can dump garbage into it? If people link their instances together are they not authenticating/validating one another? I've read all the linked articles and it still doesn't make any sense to me how this attack could be possible. Do Mastodon allow anonymous/new instances to automagically link to one another or is something else going on?

Or are these just individual bots registering on each individual instance and Mastodon implemented its own MTA? If this is the case, reconfigure Mastodon to use a local MTA and just hand this work off for Postfix to handle. If the queues grow too big there are dozens of different proactive ways to tune the queue management to deal with abuse even before considering whack-a-mole spam-domain lists. One could use pflogsumm to see what emails are stuck in queues and feed that data back into Mastodon without ever placing a load on Mastodon itself.
Rome is amazing, so straight off the bat that piece of advice will not work for everyone.

And I have more examples: Cinqueterre is out of this world. In same cases it's true though: Florence left me unimpressed, but I think it was the fault of the huge influx of tourists and peddlers that ruined everything.
I do not agree that AI will necessarily lead to a future dystopia. While it's true that AI has the potential to disrupt many industries and potentially lead to job losses in some areas, it's also important to remember that AI can be used to improve people's lives in many ways. For example, AI can be used to help diagnose and treat diseases, improve crop yields and food security, and improve the efficiency of various industries. Additionally, AI can be used to help tackle some of the global challenges you mentioned, such as poverty, war, and disease.

Furthermore, it's important to remember that the development and deployment of AI is not inevitable. It's up to us as a society to decide how we want to use this technology, and to ensure that its benefits are widely distributed. By working together, we can use AI to improve people's lives and create a better future for everyone.
I wonder how consequential this paper is? It has been cited once but appears to have been widely retweeted. Is it a particularly good paper?
side effect is creating a monopoly for trains which will lead in the coming years to stellar increase in ticket price. its fairly obvious
The fallacy here is that it’s somehow necessary to divide into feature and bug fixing teams.
What I find most disturbing is not the mistakes we make as humans, but
the mental gymnastics we use to avoid actually dealing with problems.

An article posted yesterday on the "Impotence of cleverness" (by
Alexander Stern: I was very impressed by it) got me thinking about the
curse intelligence really is. Many smart people I know are masters of
self-deception, rationalisation, avoidance, whataboutism, oh-dearism...

For each shameful act and horror we have quick clever answers, by
appeal to "reasons"; process, policy, necessity, authority, security,
tradition... and we use those to construct a tolerance of
misbehaviour. We feel prouder of that tolerance, - a shield against
hopelessness - and our ability to explain-away problems, than of our
willingness to challenge them. If only people could apply this
intellectual force to radical scepticism and freethinking needed to
break out of destructive cycles.
Sure but you don't need a CS degree for that. Actually, CS hardly teaches you anything useful in that area at all.

The job you're describing exists already, it is the job description of a business analyst.
They have a chance to improve things here, but they will just recreate the same dystopic work environment. They need bodies not change.
https://thetinycto.com/blog/writing-a-game-using-chatgpt
Ugh. I thought this was going go be about computing. Turns out it's just some guy's rant on social media.
I'm not sure where you're from but for a good majority of the world, protesting against the government and wanting to overthrow the government are two very different things. I am talking about the former.

The sorry state the west has devolved into in the last 2 years.
Belated thanks for answering here!
Using the python entry point I can get it to correctly perform basic integer math but not anything floating point.

As example of getting started:

https://imgur.com/a/P29DvGO

However we can use recursive Fibonacci to see it breaks somewhere. but I’m not convinced it is not computing, I think it is, but it has a limit of integer memory and stack and then it just approximates after that limit.

https://imgur.com/a/gp0yIaJ

What is incredible is that it get’s this far. It can compute but not quite correctly yet.

I almost wonder if the next step is to give it general compute somehow. Train it to know
it needs a computation.
PFAS have been used for almost a century, just long enough to figure out which ones need to be more regulated. Is certainly a trade off because they have superior safety properties in terms of fire mitigation.
I think it was the suicide nets?
Thanks for reminding me about QBI! I knew there was one other deduction but forgot to mention it in the thread. Last time I checked, the QBI deduction was 20% of the W2 income. Another great example of being smart about your own taxes.
Very neat. Support for MathJax/Latex would be great
Just like cars are heavily subsidised through motorway building. Every form of transport receives subsidies as a public good, even in countries where transport infrastructure is nominally privatised. This is one area where letting the free market decide invariably ends in disaster.
Was hoping that was the case, good to see. Seamless translation as part of my glasses would be great, as waving one’s phone about looks a little dorky. And I would have Arthur’s response to a babelfish I fear. The lack of subtlety in Roman lettering made pattern recognition easy, harder with complex symbology.
Pray tell
So the question is… is that the right reversal? ;)
Show HN: There is no place like 127.0.0.1
You should look at Iranian 'elections' since 2009 (stolen) or the last one (every possible serious opponent to Raisi being disqualified). Even NIAC had to concede this:

https://www.niacouncil.org/news/disqualifications-clear-path...
Looks like the Chinese android phone that has the most traction are BBK models, not Huawei.

> But we must keep in mind BBK has multiple players in the game. Two of their brands make it to the top list in market share data. Oppo and Vivo each hold 10%, equating to a total of 20%.

https://www.androidauthority.com/bbk-phone-manufacturer-8088...
Someone else with the simplistic impression that analog is just the opposite, the antithesis, of all things digital.
The morality police is here to stay (and it's not only about hijab!). They just renamed the department to "public safety police". It's said that the hijab patrols (gasht-e ershad) is gone. Not officialy yet. They are about to decriminalize having no hijab. No further arrests, but there will be a fine for those who have no hijab (believed to start from around $15. The minimun wage is $1/h here. The median is ~$2/h).

There was no hijab law for the first 5yrs of the regime. The normal police officers were to enforce the hijab law afterwards. It wasn't effective enough so they came up with the idea of having "hijab patrols" by the so-called morality police.
For anyone who is wondering what "Placing #1" means, it seems to be simply about being fast: https://adventofcode.com/2022/leaderboard

> Below is the Advent of Code 2022 overall leaderboard; these are the 100 users with the highest total score. Getting a star first is worth 100 points, second is 99, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.

Not to minimize what's going on, but solving small, relatively easy programming puzzles fast is the sort of thing we might expect this generation of AI to excel at.
This remind me a discussion about making Wordpress natively compatible with Sqlite. Somebody put on the the table that Sqlite is using the rule of St. Benedict (adapted I would say) as they code of conduct and that should be a no-go for such development.
Yikes. Maybe this is why we tend to get less politically tolerant as we get older.
La Maddalena.
Customers don’t want to glue things together they want whatever solves their problem efficiently.

Integration and ease of use are features in themselves.

The best of both worlds would be building things that is modular from the developers perspective but integrated from the perspective of the user. Few will pull that off though, and when they do the modular systems become complex and expensive bespoke setups (Typical of e.g SAP, Oracle).
Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly
It could also mean people signing their own firmware and freeing those devices.
That’s correct if everyone traveled from city center to city center, but in my case, the airport is easier to get than the hsr station, has more long time parking options, and sometimes the destination is a layover, so I would have to go from the center of paris to the airport equally. I Would love to travel a lot more by train, or less by plane, but right now and at least in my case, it’s not a very good option.
Musk Terminates OpenAI's Access to Twitter API/Database
Cinque Terre is gorgeous though. Out of this world. Unlike Venice, which truly is a cliché theme park to me...
Has anyone asked it how it would solve the climate crisis?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fuel-2
>Even if you're not being as much of a colossal arse as the headline of this story, which do you think is a better thing for money to be spent on?

The problem is no first world country is anywhere near finding itself in such position.

Resources are limited, but more often than not the problem lies in the allocation of those resources. If Canada can spend thousands of hundreds of dollars on bringing a giant rubber duck to a festival, it ought to be able to provide a goddamned stairlift.
Thanks, looks like we have it the HOD.
> “Samsung takes the security of Galaxy devices seriously. We have issued security patches since 2016 upon being made aware of the issue“

They’ve known about it since 2016!?!
I googled for this meme and it turns out it has its own page on gnu.org, "Incorrect Quotation" [1]

And while reading that page I realised that I actually work with GNU, not even GNU/Linux, systems in production every day. Because I'm mostly working on applications deployed in clouds: the kernel is managed, and I'm not sure if AWS even promised that EKS runs on Linux and not something entirely else but very compatible. But GNU userspace is definitely there in my containers.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html
Run your CI/CD pipelines as code and in containers
China operating over 100 police stations across the world, report claims
Tell HN: Switch ChatGPT to Your Language
Here's the trick:

I'm going to ask you some questions in German and you will respond in German. My first question is: "Was macht ein Auto auf der Autobahn?"

It should reply with: "Ein Auto fährt auf der Autobahn"

the conversation will then continue in a language of your choice
> The paradox of tolerance, as it is commonly argued, has to be one of the worst philosophical arguments actually taken seriously. It basically boils down to an argument from fear - We all believe in the importance of {Sacred Value}, but the Evil Ones are coming to take {Sacred Value} away! By using our own good natures and {Sacred Value} against us, they will claim power, and then destroy {Sacred Value}! The only way to stop them is to destroy {Sacred Value}, thereby depriving them of the ability to use it against us!

Hmm. If I were trying to present a bad-faith interpretation of the paradox of tolerance, this is how I'd do it. If I were trying to present a good-faith interpretation of the paradox of tolerance, I'd probably replace the last line with something like "The only way to stop them is to physically guard {Sacred Value}, thereby depriving them of the ability to destroy it!" Tolerance, as a {Sacred Value}, isn't like a treasury or fortified position, it's an open-air exhibition never intended to be hidden away. The only option, if we're actually serious about having it, is to stand against those who openly and boldly identify themselves as trying to take it away.

>He does not recommend censoring or removing any liberties of the intolerant, unless and until they respond to rational argument by force. Unless they instruct followers to disregard rational argument as itself deceptive. Unless they are inciting actual criminal activity.

I suppose you've never heard of right-wing militias showing up to left-wing protests while cops look on, or plot to kidnap and overthrow a governor? [0] I suppose you've never heard Donald Trump suggest that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening"? [1] I suppose you haven't heard of the banners at the most recent CPAC? [2]

>"In the context of chapter 7 of Popper's work, specifically, section II, the note on the paradox of tolerance is intended as further explanation of Popper's rebuttal specific to the paradox as a rationale for autocracy: why political institutions within liberal democracies are preferable to Plato's vision of despotism, and through such institutions, the paradox can be avoided."

I suppose you've never heard of Project REDMAP? [3] I suppose you've never heard of Murc's Law? [4] I agree with you -- the paradox of tolerance is best resolved by guiding our collective choices to avoid a direct confrontation with it, but the "political institutions within liberal democracies" seem powerless or unwilling to do anything about the encroachment of violent intolerance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44959340

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terro...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

[4] https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/12/great-moments-m...
I think it's more about shared experience, or lack thereof.

More and more, we are able to choose our own reality -- which "news" we subscribe to, which online groups we participate in, which games we play, etc. Two people in the same household, same room even, may have extremely different experiences each on their own device, and then have a diminished ability to process together.

It's a very different life from say, 30 years ago, when there were three or four major news networks, HBO for movies, a single TV in the house, a handful of print newspapers wherever you lived, people even going to places like church (which has its own set of tradeoffs). People in this world had a set of communal shared experience, apparently because they could not choose otherwise, like we can do now.
You do understand that cleaning a damaged toilet is an invitation to a flood of excrement? Sometimes just touching a leak is enough to get the thing to explode.

So anyone not calling the plumber (or skilled at being one) who tries to clean it may end up in the dumps.
An actual plumber will clean it after fixing or during fixing.
Stop slacking of and get back to work!
Timely move.
20 years ago, there were many more airlines in the US [1]. Many of these airlines, while 'national,' were mostly regional, and serviced particular routes. As the airlines have merged, not only have costs gone up, but routes have gone down because the big players aren't competing with each other. In fact, they were found guilty of price collusion with the whole 'capacity discipline' scandal.

Another thing to consider is the airports themselves. It's impossible for new carriers to introduce new routes in many instances because the airports cannot accommodate any more planes. Air traffic has gone from around 2B travelers per year in 2004 to 4.7B in 2019 [2]. I'm willing to bet terminals, gates, and runways have not gone up 250% in the same time period (it's likely air traffic has increased more in developing nations relative to the US, but I'm sure the US still accounts for a fair amount of this growth).

Personally speaking, I have never had more than 1 connection each way to anywhere in the US. I only fly major carriers and live near a decent sized international airport. I also travel any day or time, depending on which flights I like best, not necessarily the cheapest flights. It might be a worse experience if you're always shopping for the cheapest flight.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/airline-mergers-and-acquisit...
2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-...
Some more silly Punycode domain names
What board? They have resigned. It's just two directors remaining, one of which is the unresponsive CEO.
I stopped going to Starbucks long ago (around when they wouldn't let you lie about your email address and still get on the wifi), but one thing I hated is how it took going like three menus deep to tip electronically in the mobile app, which was the worst thing thrust on franchisees since Subway made everyone install toasting machines.

(I've never worked for Starbucks, but I am a former sandwich artist -- I also used to sell my old electronics to help offset the costs of the new ones at the now infamous "Jared Subway" before they had to take down the plaque because he wasn't uh... a philantropist... just a guy who would have gotten bigger if his dorm was above a Dunkin Donuts instead of a five dollar footlong factory.)

Anyways, you had to dig so far in the UI that I could tell, as someone who has published multiple scholarly articles in the field of human computer interaction, that many users probably never attempted to do so.

(This was all in the app though, you could always just drop a dollar in a jar I assume? I've been trying to just round up a bit and let people keep the change rather than overthink these things since I used to be at Starbucks because for some damn reason every cop in the township used to hang out there too, so counterintuitively it was a damn good place to do security research... though I tried to be nice and sit inside since they seemed to like the porch and I sincerely didn't want to hear whatever the hell they were talking about as I waited for the library to open.)
> The primary part is that article is pure sensationalism and clickbait. There was zero lines of none pseudo code. Sure it was syntactically correct python, but that is long way from actually working.

Not as far as you think. This has repeatedly been the case for AI progress so far.

> Same with Stable Diffusion. People acted as if it alone is going to kill artists and make every people able to make convincing fake news as snap of their fingers, but that is not the case.

I'm not sure how you can make that determination at this time as it literally just came out.
It even can model 'vi', including modal input, exiting with <Esc>:wq!, and it results in a file containing the entered text in the imagined filesystem.
They could at least automatically export the data and keep it downloadable for some time after the shutdown. But probably the reason the refunded the money before the announcement. "You got your money back now fuck off." This is terrible customer service.
Huh? If that’s true then It would make sense to keep these people on.
Americans are very fond of wide open spaces and square footage. Imagine being from Colorado, Wyoming, or Montana...or even California...and staying in a Japanese salaryman hotel. It's going to be claustrophobic for some people not used to the experience.
A lot of people compete to try to get on the global leader boards, which I find quite fun, also makes me wake up at 05:30 am every day!

But yeah, this probably mostly helps for easier problems, and is quite useless when either the problem needs a cleaver construction or some trick to make the time complexity good enough.

Deepmind has a project called AlphaCode, where they got in the middle of div2 rounds on codeforces in february 2022 (virtual): https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...

In the blogpost it actually comes up with a linear stack based solution (one of the intended solutions) to a problem where the naive solution is quadratic.
Thanks, I'll look into it, but my member of Congress is useless, so forgive me if I don't send them an email based on what I find :-)

Edit: I only found the island so far -- looks like they didn't renew the lease? That's on stripes, not Wikipedia, which only has an entry for the local area and says:

>In 1943, during World War II, Benito Mussolini was briefly held prisoner here.

What a wonderful piece of history, you're so blessed to live in a place that did such wonderful things -- sorry the US military may have literally shit it up. (For lack of better phrasing.)

[1] https://www.stripes.com/news/la-maddalena-says-goodbye-to-ba...
Wearable sensor unlocks the potential of exosuits in real-world environments
I agree with you about not listening to anybody. Even here on HN. I mean, people saying "stay out of the cities" -- nope! Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, they are all beautiful and interesting and worth spending time in, if that's your "theme" as you called it.

"Stay out of tourist traps" -- nope! Takayama is amazing. And there was a Wasabi farm (I forget where) to which we went biking which was one of my favorite experiences in Japan. I'm sure it was a tourist trap and there's much to be derided by HN connoisseurs -- to hell with them.

Osaka at night, just looking at its tall and futuristic-looking buildings, is amazing.

So don't skip the cities. Or do. Don't pay attention to me, just theme your visit according to your interests and screw everyone else's advice.

As if everyone liked the same things and there was a single way to enjoy your vacations.
You can ask it to generate a prompt that when given as an input to GPT will produce the thing you want. In a separate tab run the prompt and give feedback to prompt generating tab.
this is GPT3-provided reply, isn't it
Wow, that's incredible! GPT-3 is an amazing tool and it's great to see it being used to create top-level solutions. It's amazing to see the power of machine learning and AI being used in this way. Great job!

Disclaimer: this comment was generated by beta.openai.com
I read about the usage of dag in this problem. But my question is how are the actual cells referenced in the formula. As a user, I type =B12C34, then add two columns after A and 5 rows after row 5. The formula is now =D17E39. If I add 2 rows at row 20, the formula becomes =D17*E41.

The offset-based approach is what I considered to be the most optimal so I’m happy to see that mentioned. So a complete solution would be a dag of offsets? A native internal representation would store something like:

(col 4, row 17) operator (offset col +1, row +24).
>Speaking as an American who's talked to a lot of Canadians and made many trips there, one issue is that pallative care can bleed into euthanasia due to tolerances around opiates... what happens when you give someone enough medication to cure their pain, and they overdose? Or if you give them enough in a bottle to do so on their own? That's how you get to a point that people are handed nothing but Tylenol and an offer of a suicide booth or whatever... that is.

I am not really sure what you are trying to say here. Yes Doctors work with a lot of people on the edge of death, so their patients die all the time. Also Canadian doctors are not liable for the harm they cause in the same way as American Doctors. But poor care, freak accidents, or patients too close to death save are not the same thing as euthanasia.