skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hire a lawyer, they submit a takedown request to FB or TikTok or wherever else they’re using my identity, now what?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if someone lives across the world and is doing all this impersonation online, what legal recourse does a lawyer have access to? Drag them to The Hague?

I’ve been in cases before where someone in a different continent is trying to impersonate or sink you, and I can say in my experience there’s little a Canadian lawyer could have done.
> they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way

This is such concise and brutally accurate way to sum it up, I salute you for this brilliant description. I could not agree more, such a spot-on assertion!
Does it matter?

Search engine works on how useful 'knowledge' is for the seeker. One of the parameters is how many others have back linked to the same source - among various other signals.

If AI content is highly cited and was found useful by many others, then I would want it at the top of search result.
Maybe you just don't want to finish the projects you started because they're not as fun as you imagined?
Yes, the most successful entrepreneur on the planet is unintelligent and irrational.
"Remaining power plants"?!

Isn't that the sorta thing you would rather not let any others know, you know, for the sake of, national ... you know?
It's very cool, I love the talk.wasm example.

It looks like it will open a new application scenario for low-performance hardware products.
Found a video of it and you can actually see the entire runway when landing, amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbhyHpQa-_E
I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out.

Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc.

Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a web browser.

[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...
I seem to remember that a good pencil has lag on the order of 1ms (how long it takes the tip to settle out after high speed motion), but I don't remember where this number came from, so it's untrustworthy.

I always view the IBM selectric as "beyond the horizon" in terms of responsiveness: that's 25–30ms.
They were working on LIGO for 20+ years before it went live.

I was in a physics PhD program in the 1990s and remember attending a talk where they simulated a neutron star collision and showed what the gravitational wave chirp looked like and it was exactly like the real gravitational wave chirps they measured later.

So personally I like hearing about little ‘big science’ projects such as detectors for rare radioactivity (proton decay, dark matter recoils, majorana neutrinos) and this project which may lead to a sun grazing satellite.
There are three time periods: before there is any intelligent life, during the spread of the first intelligent life, and afterwards where it's already extremely unlikely to be independent of the first life.

If you assume life spreads very fast, the first duration being much much longer than the second, and the third duration has no room for independent life to exist, it means in most universes most observers are the first. Only if a second life somehow develops during the second time window despite the expectation time being the first time window, you'll have a chance of not being the first. The time for a critical fluctuation to arise is much much longer than the time it takes for it to dominate, so most critical fluctuations are the first.

Universe isn't infinite because we know it started with the big bang. We're likely the first in whatever scale it is likely that life can spread to faster than develop independently. So we're likely be the first anywhere we'll ever be able to reach.
>Pre-internet, one would rarely be exposed to ideas that are extreme, unhinged, insane or downright weird.

"Good afternoon, do you have a moment for me to talk to you about our lord Jesus Christ?"
> It's not like North Korea is paradise. It's certainly not. It's another poor third world nation, not unlike many of the ones currently on the western side of things where the same sort of life happens.

There's pointing out propaganda (which I agree Radio Free Asia is), and there's boiling down a country well-documented as a known human rights violator[1] to "just another poor third world nation"

[1] https://reliefweb.int/attachments/838602f4-8043-3da8-85bd-12...
I never knew about this tool, but it looks quite useful--much better than just using df.

The only thing I wish it had was a squarified treemap view of disk space. There was an old graphical tool for Windows called SequoiaView that I used to use years ago, and I've never found a worthy replacement for it on Linux or MacOS.
Nuclear is not cheap base load, unless you are given the power plant for free.
Because, assuming / means integer division, this would return 6 as the midpoint between 7 and 7.
When you hire an expert on a subject, listen to them about the subject.
So the alternative is apparently just the government enforcing a queue to the point people can't get the surgery they need? Is that better?
Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks

> I can understand why you might feel that way. Copying and pasting from ChatGPT without permission can be considered rude and disrespectful. It's important to always ask for permission before using someone else's work, especially if it's for a public forum like Hacker News. Not only is it the ethical thing to do, but it can also prevent potential legal issues. Additionally, using someone else's work without giving them credit can take away from their hard work and efforts. It's always best to give credit where credit is due and ask for permission before using someone else's work.
> Another lesson is probably old but worth repeating: investment and professional polishing matters to open source projects

While I'm not going to disagree that it matters, to my mind the main thing about early (0.x, 1.x) PyTorch's success was a clear vision (most visible to me from Soumith and Adam) that put the targeted users first (as in your productivity comment), awesome execution on it, and a creating a community where I, as an outside contributor with modes skill and no AI track record, and likely many others, felt welcome.

Now, the many great people employed by Meta, but also other players like MS, NVidia, AMD, Intel, ... to work on PyTorch enabled all the things that make PyTorch 2.0 nicer and more broadly applicable than 1.0. (And to my mind it's quite a non-trivial accomplishment to enable other corporate players to join the party.)
Fair enough, but a similar, albeit lesser impact, scenario holds if there's a localish (but not close enough to walk) dropoff point.

(anecdata: My closest dropoff point is a 40 minute drive each way.)
The video which this appears to be a transcript of is over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
For some reason I associate that rhyme with Piet Hein, based on the game Soma.
Alpha. Bravo. Cyrillic
I don't thing this is challenging at all for the graphic design field as a whole, although it can disrupt some specific activities. It's mostly better tooling for everyone to explore and come up with improved, more creative, quicker results.
That headline is so misleading.
The benefit to society largely comes from those who have complied, not the punitive damages from those who haven't.
https://archive.ph/iw5dt
Don't have a largest int type?!
There is no CLI version of Docker Desktop https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/

Once this GUI app is running, you can interact with it via CLI.
https://whaletailsales.com/products/747-400-cowl-single?_pos...

Haha, an entire engine cowl for 1.5k. I wonder how much shipping costs.
I asked ChatGPT whether it makes positive or normative statements. It errored, so in the comment box I explained that the correct answer is that it makes statements normative to the consensus of its data set, which sometimes happen to be positive.

This is why it's easy to make ChatGPT reveal bias, and why the restrictions patching that bias tend to fall prey to simple ruses that reveal its preferences; everything looks like a norm to it, so it lacks the causal chains that would lead towards logical outcomes. As a result it's extremely gullible and emits nonsense when given a tough logic question.

Given a task like "give me a list of words ending in the letter u", it will oblige with a very lengthy alphabetical list of words, most of which end in u, but not all. Asked to find the largest set of rhyming words in the list, its answers changed radically each time, from "I can't do that" to a somewhat plausible candidate(except for having words that don't end in u) to getting stuck repeating "buttocks".

I used it to write some business language to respond to a recruiter. It's decent at being a secretary, since that stuff is 99% norms.
I don’t feel like either of you are wrong. We have made amazing cultural advances while also taking steps backwards. I love the internet (and technology in general), but at what point do we say enough is enough when you address the points that OP has made?

Edit: Never stop making things better in terms of equality, but perhaps we shouldn’t celebrate cancel culture or people getting internet points for gender confusion.
>Premature optimization should be avoided. It's in the name.

Right, the word premature is what makes it a bad thing. What's missing is a complementary concept, let's call it early optimisation. Sometimes you can optimise a thing early on without loss of generality, increase of code complexity (sometimes, with a judicious comment at least, optimised code might even be simpler) or incurring technical debt. The problem is, as there is no awareness of this difference, early optimisation is often misconstrued as premature, even when it really isn't.
If you like dictatorial regimes, please state it plainly.
It’s Vampire: The Masquerade for the modern rebel.
Today I learned that cephalopods are molluscs
Fortunately water is extremely common in the universe, as are the other building blocks of life. Every proposal I've seen for life not based on carbon, water, and the other building blocks of life here relies on chemistry that is hard to pull off in a lab (or impossible, though in theory is seems like it should be possible). Water and Carbon have some very interesting chemical properties that make it the mostly likely building blocks for life.

Of course since we are talking about unknowns, I can't say for sure that life elsewhere isn't made of something else, but our current knowledge of chemistry makes the idea unlikely.
Stylometry does not identify any of my alternate accounts. I ain't skeered.
Is this still applicable as there are source archives here :

https://vivaldi.com/source/

I don't use Vivaldi, and have no interest in the Mastodon for now, but they were smart enough to change their use agent in order to have further compatibility, that actually triggered a market share loss on paper.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-10-no-strings-attached-2/

Would be interested to hear if anyone uses Vivaldi and how it is.
Chinese protestors are flipping videos, using filters to evade internet police
Seeing as this is a “ChatGPT answers better than humans” question and I’m the OP, I think adding ChatGPT’s response was actually warranted.
> But overambitious is only obvious in retrospect.

I disagree. If you're trying to do, say, implement five revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once, so you can tell people you're going to go from zero to sci-fi in a couple years, there's an extremely high likelihood you're being overambitious. That's something that's obvious from the start.
For what it's worth, my MBP is also a coin toss if it manages to get to sleep or not. Oftentimes even if i explicitly click Apple -> Sleep it just flashes and stays awake.
Soft updates: a solution to the metadata update problem in file systems (2000)
'Fairly obvious' ist not really scientific.

I may be a little bit picky, but if someone cannot formulate a clear question in such a simple case, he will fail more badly in more complicated cases.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars higher than ever on 35th Red Planet flight
Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew 14 meters above Mars' red dirt on Saturday, Dec. 3rd
The unix philosophy is as much to blame for this as what you refer to as the cartel of commercial players. In the world of unix everything is a file and every file is a stream of bytes. This severely limits the kind of composition you can do. Sure, it's cool that you can redirect some line output into sort(1), but that's all you can do, really. You can't sort by column because output isn't structured or typed. You can't inspect output objects or write programs that build on top of them. Powershell is a step in the right direction but the open source community has loudly rejected that approach.

I agree that end user software should be programmable, but I think we've learned that you can't make good software by having applications talk to each other by JSON or XML over HTTP.
Such a great tool. Thank you!

On a Mac, I've been using OmniDiskSweeper for years, but this can be run in a single directory and on my Linux machines as well. Fantastic!

And look, it didn't ask me to sign up for an account, and it didn't require me to consent to usage data collection with a huge Privacy Policy attached! How is that possible? (still dealing with this morning's scars from trying, and failing to run the warp terminal)
Great post. Hadn't heard of JOSS - enjoyed reading the Wikipedia article.

> The terminals used green ink for user input and black for the computer's response. Any command that was not understood elicited the response Eh? or SORRY.

So cool. Would be cool to have the same font/coloring output as that page in the wikipedia article.

> Web 'timesharing' system

This would be cool too. I'd love some interactive demo as to how this worked.

> In order to support multiple user programs, the PDP-6 hardware was modified to examine bit-20 of any address reference. If this bit was set, the address was in "user space" and was modified so that address zero pointed to the base address of that user.

Interesting!

Mik is cool because of Zig.
if a > b {
mid = (a-b)/2

That only avoids overflow on unsigned types (where it would be called wraparound) ...
I have a question for the interviewer, maybe a bit metaphysical: what should your function return when one parameter is zero and the other is 1?
Indeed this overflows too! Still don't have the rights here to edit or delete the comment, sorry for the confusion! It needs a couple of extra conditions: x and y need to be uint, and y needs to be >= x (you can swap them if they are not).
Wolfram Language is one of the coolest languages in existence.

The fact that it's not open source is a huge deal breaker for me.

I can't deploy it on any interesting platforms, nor can I bundle the it easily to release to the public and guarantee that the public will be able to run the code.
Maybe spit out a warning and use bignums? You are then supposed to explicitly narrow the type, or explicitly opt into using bignums.
Nice GUI to `du -h --max-depth=1 .` or `du --max-depth=1 . | sort -n -r`
I guess this is the full text. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07674
I am in the "older" group.

I always felt ripped off when manufacturers started doing something similar (hardware, not software), example (old thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555

Or, as another example, many years ago the Italian FIAT and the Spanish SEAT were making very similar models with same engines but the SEAT had the same engine tuned down to fewer HPs since it was the "cheaper" line, or in more recent times when within the same car manufacturer catalog sported three different cars belonging to different segments that had the same engine with only a few different parts (besides ECU regulations) with three different power levels.
You eventually need bigints for that, and thus trade off performance against the no-overflow guarantee.
‘Oumuamua is now on its way out of the Solar System
So, this is basically what dynamic languages do because they _can_ go back an allocate more memory transparently to the developer. However, static languages cannot change the size of the values dynamically at runtime without additional memory allocations. In fact, this would likely mean that all numbers must be heap allocated, which will likely be a performance penalty when working in high-performance systems. In these cases, using an algorithm that produces correct results without error with constant memory usage is preferred.
This is really cool, and I have been meaning to get my hands dirty with Whisper

I looks like you’ve definitely maximized the parallelization on the CPU/AMX here, but have you tried getting it to run on the GPU or the Neural Engine? I love the portability, but I feel like you would get a massive parallelization boost while dramatically cutting energy consumption.
Nice tool - although with remote machines my go-to tool is KDE filelight, the joy of remote X11.
To be fair, while I wouldn’t generally be in favor of a comment like the one you're replying to, I did feel empathy for it in this case. It's not about avoiding a difficult topic; it's exhaustion with this extremely tiresome tendency to try to bring bad-faith arguments about social media moderation into literally every topic. It reminds me of the scene in The Big Lebowski:

https://youtu.be/pn-kxUEySy0

"Excuse me, sir. Please keep your voices down. This is a family restaurant."

"Oh please, dear. For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!"

Is social media moderation worth discussing? Sure! Is, "Teens may or may not have been executed for distributing movies, but on the other hand they deleted my tweet" a conversation worth having? Debatable.
Spoken like a true defender of Monsanto.

What it was designed for often has a few unintended consequences like many products do, chemically, electrically, or mechanically.
Understood but my point was the list changed to add price points not that they had no list at all. Hard to argue the price points are the only ones that should be used because Apple is the best at marketing if Apple themselves are adding price points.

The other reasons for using the price point model are very convincing just not the appeal to Apple having a hoarse of marketing people.
honestly we should have had that for a long time. Being able to blacklist sites on Google is a feature we should have had for a long time precisely because it would even be in Google's interest to add such a feature. They can use it as an extra datapoint in their search algorithm, if lots of people blacklist a site then maybe downrank it a little, maybe even depending on the social rank of the people.
> There is no evidence of any sort that would indicate this so this thought has to have manifested itself from some fantasy.

Actually I think you got that backwards. It’s not fantasy, considering that the only evidence that we have that life exists at all are ourselves and what we have on this planet. Of course it’s logical to assume that life exists elsewhere because the math and universe’s scale is staggering and it’s reasonable to assume that if there is life elsewhere some could be more advanced than us. However, until we find someone or something else, all the evidence we have is on this blue marble of ours…so if we are only going to believe what the evidence currently tells us…it’s that we are the only or first emergence of life.

All the rest—conjecture and faith. In essence other civilizations are the fantasy until more evidence is provided to the contrary.
Monopolies built on ads end up being not much more than a global tax on business.

Not really different than the old mafia offering "protection" to local shops.

Advertisement seems to be necessary for products discovery, but it used to be healthier when it was less monopolistic.
Ah. That makes sense. Thank you.
ncdu is fabulous. I used it a while back on my 2009 Mac mini and recovered 40GB of disk space. 8GB of this was in just four folders: ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice, /private/var/db/systemstats, /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd, and /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store.
Making Our Figma Public
If anyone here from Sequoia (or any VC for that matter) is interested, I am looking for 100mil for 10%, of which I will "reinvest almost all back in" to their fund.

Open to multiple rounds as well
Remember that Chrome is also closed-source. You can't build Chrome from source, and you can't check whether Google hasn't added anything nefarious on top of Chromium (and they do, at very least the DRM).
sequoiaview looks like a clone of kdirstat, which is available on all platforms.
What do you do when incrementing (or adding to) an integer in a loop? You’d need sophisticated analysis to determine that the overall sum will always fit into a specific type, or otherwise you’d end up with bigints all the time.
My god this is awful. He was brilliant, accomplished, and kind. A few days ago he announced his 'permanent rest' (https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/1599108759183577088). I'd thought it meant from the Ruby community and that the replies asking if he needed help were reading too much into the wording.
This refers to proposed legislation in the Senate "to ban the use of Chinese semiconductors by US government agencies and their contractors," not the Executive's very severe action against making them in the PRC.
I’m sorry, but if you think TikTok and Snapchat have little overlap in their user base and feature set, you shouldn’t be speaking so confidently about teens issues because your perspective is woefully outdated.

I worked at Snapchat. Nearly every new feature we made was to compete with TikTok and drag eye ball time back from them into Snap. It sounds like you just googled “TikTok usage teens” and are using that to advance your (very shaky) argument about gender ideology.

I have teenage sisters and we talk frequently about how different discourse has become in their classrooms than it was 10 years ago when I was in high school. The 50% anecdote claimed doesn’t surprise me at all, after what I’ve heard.
I want to quote something from another article about CBDC usage in Denmark, as it seems like Denmark is pretty oppositional to using CBDC:

"In a report on new types of digital money, Danmarks Nationalbank analyzes the popular motivations for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) amongst developed nations. As context, Denmark is one of the EU countries that is not part of the euro currency zone. A core rationale promoted by the European Central Bank (ECB) is for a retail CBDC to act as a trust ‘anchor’ for digital money once cash disappears. Denmark’s central bank highlights that its domestic payments are already primarily digital – just over 10% of physical purchases in Denmark use cash – and it does just fine without a CBDC."

Source: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/denmark-cbdc-trust-anchor-dig...
Nice, didn't know this one, I was thinking about the Shakespeare quote of the day iPhone app SSL error meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2048708-fake-quotations
Frustration is just a word. It's maybe not the optimal word for it, but we understand what's meant: the situations on the inside and outside that made him consider such a choice.

Keep in mind many people on HN (incl. me) don't even speak English as a first language.
For the reason that it (along with many others, eg https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~thorn/grooks.html ) is his.