skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is that every piece of software you run on your own will be attacked by hackers constantly. Everything from plain old password guessers over scriptkiddies playing around with DDoS attacks to script kiddies finding your old Gitea, Gitlab, ... on Shodan and exploiting it with yet another 0day. Or, worse, shitcoin miners who have a direct financial interest in hacking systems to run their crap on.

Don't get me wrong: I love the idea of doing your own stuff on the Internet, but it's simply unfeasible to run anything more complex than "here's an S3 bucket with Cloudfront in front of a static-built website" because of all the abuse. Or running a mail server which is even worse, as many providers have blacklisted all known dial-up and many cheap hosting network IP ranges, not to mention the mailserver software itself that is a constant source of exploits or the constant onslaught of spam and scams.

You have to invest untold amounts of work just to exist on the Internet these days, and it's incredibly sad.
Then there is a special category of people being just smart enough to get themselves into a situation they cannot handle. They tend to be hardworking but average or below average talented, not outright stupid.

These people tend to cause debt to accumulate, orders to get blocked or stonewalled, infinite delays, legal costs etc.

A stupid person generally will fail early and obviously, an average person, especially in skill or experience, will get themselves beyond what they can handle before they recognize being insufficient.
> Citizen support for the rights and liberties of even those political groups that they dislike

Is exactly zero now for most of politicized Twitter with their loud congratulations of deplatforming of their opponents.

(Who otherwise think they are an example of tolerant)

I wonder if the research highlights their low cognitive ability.
Tell HN: Translate a made-up language using ChatGPT
You can describe characteristics of a language, for example "polite English" and ask ChatGPT to translate a sentence into it

"translate from German to very polite English: Ich liebe Hunde. Die stinken"

In very polite English, the translation for "Ich liebe Hunde die stinken" would be "I absolutely adore dogs, even though they do have a certain odor."
It's not necessary but I saw big companies with different budgets for development, (manual) testing, maintenance, operations. The team for testing is definitely separated from the development one, different managers, goals, etc. Operations more like so. Maintenance and bug fixing could be done by the same people but there is always tension at management level about whether to prioritize new features or fix problems. There are different internal customers behind those requests and turf wars are fought every now and then. Different teams and different budgets solve part of that problem but of course the fixes of some bugs can become new features on their own and more turf wars follow.
I mean considering the level of shitware samsung install on their phones (and make difficult to remove or disable) it will be hard to tell the difference between the official stuff and straight up honest malware.
that is true but unreal really lowered the bar and with unrealengine 5 we even seen major studios with their own engine state that they were moving to unreal
The countryside around Reading is incredible. Did you explore it ? In contrast with the city itself, which is pretty generic.
If interesting in Omega-3 benefits, I would suggest watching this video with Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Bill Harris who has researched fatty acids for over 40 years. [1]

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I've thought about this issue a lot - I participated in some deep research into the training data that went into Stable Diffusion, for example: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/5/laion-aesthetics-weekno...

I'm beginning to settle into the conclusion that the trade-offs here are worth it.

The positive value provided by these tools outweighs the massive number of people who have each been hurt in a very small way.

I'm not happy about this. But I also don't think it's possible to build tools that are this powerful without massive amounts of training data that have been gathered without consent.

I've written a lot of material that has gone into training these models. Copilot for example seems to know how to write Datasette Plugins, and I've written over 100 of those over the past five years (way more than anyone else) and shared the code on GitHub. I'm delighted that my code has been used in this way, even though I don't get attributed for it.

But I also don't make a living in a way that's damaged by these models (I don't think they're going to replace me as a programmer: I just think they're going to let me be more productive and effective).

If I was an illustrator working on commissions who was losing work to generative image models that perfectly initiated my style I would likely feel very different about this.

So it's complicated. I still like my AI vegan analogy from a few months ago: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/#ai-v...

I'm most definitely not a vegan, but I do think about how the AIs I am using have been created. And then (like eating meat) I decide to use them anyway!
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>You do not need a strong mechanism to suppress intolerance

I would argue that you do need one, evidenced in your examples. You need a strong cultural bias/expectation towards tolerance. You need people to understand that tolerance is a good thing, a universally positive attribute. If the cultural holds that as a central belief, it has a strong defence against intolerance. The problem with the pop-culture formulation of the paradox of tolerance is that it weakens that belief.

I heard a quote some time back that I loved; the only thing harder than holding to your convictions all of the time is holding to them some of the time. Any weakness in a people's belief that tolerance is a virtue, any exception that they carve out, can be worked on, widened, and manipulated by malicious actors. The danger of this idea of the paradox of tolerance is that it naturally leads people to accept intolerance - in the specific sense that the paper under discussion is using the term, the revocation of civil rights and liberties - as normal, necessary, and right.

The idea of the benevolent despot is a Platonic one that Popper was arguing against. Fundamentally, the argument that some ideas are naturally dangerous and require suppression demands such a despot - at the very least, to determine which ideas are to be suppressed. Hence why the paradox of tolerance is an argument in favor of autocracy.
Tied to this topic seems to be the ability to tolerate unpleasant emotions.

My impression is that avoiding negative emotions is something we all impulsively attempt, and it takes practice to increase one's ability to tolerate them. This, in turn, seems necessary to tolerate positions so different to our own that they cause us to feel threatened, which can, if the fear is intense enough, lead to outright hatred.

I assume quite some intolerance can be linked to this principle.

It seems our earlier evolutionary impulses (fight, flight in this case) can easily take over unless we not only learn to become aware of them but also to tolerate them.
In most cases this is virtue signaling to Wall Street. The purpose is to signal that you will move to increased profitability.
> I will not be surprised Apple will cease the plan in India as soon as China steps back from the zero-covid policy,

Companies are not stupid to invest billions just to get manufacturing for few months.
If someone is making assembly plans they will be willing to use it for atleast 4-5 years
Hi, your careers page doesn't seem to cover Front End dev position.
According to stats there are 1.3 million people incarcerated in China.

If incarceration rates in China were similar to those in USA it should be 10.3 million people. It would be pretty hard to hide them.

USA are by far the number one country in the World for jail population and for incarceration rates, worse even than Putin's Russia.

They would love to share the top step of the podium with someone else if they could prove it.

The most logical explanation is that they can't, because the numbers are probably not true, but not too far from the truth.
Fyi, this is related to the story from 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823946

An important comment from the original story:

> OEMs have mitigated the issues above in previous updates. A new security update from Android is not required to mitigate these issues. Ensuring your device is running the latest version of Android is a general best security practice for users.

Though the ars story says Samsung is signing their first party apps with it still. So who knows.
Maybe, maybe not, but it has run out of medical funding and the MAID people publish yearly reports of how much money their survives have save the medical institution.
Having a look at mentions of "political tolerance" in academic papers, it seems like there's been a great deal of discussion surrounding this since the 50s.
Looks like a lot of gatekeeping on your part. This was the good old days when you were travelling but now that other people travel, they are the worst because they take too many selfies.

Negative impact of tourism have been documented for a while. There’s just more people traveling because flights got cheaper. But new travellers aren’t worse than you were, there’s just more of us traveling and it makes our impact more jarring.
There's also "Amerikamura" (America Town) in Osaka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikamura
I suspect that many techies come to book reading with incorrect expectation. Outside of a limited area books are not source of hard facts,they are encoding certain mental landscapes - the reader is challenged to decode those landscapes and enjoy a walk in them.

The reading speed should be compatible with this process, re reading a book can be as pleasurable as repeating a hiking experience you had in the past.
"Iran state television is reporting that the morality police has definitely NOT been removed"

https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1599396059251253249
It's French airspace, they can do whatever they want?
and how long do you have to watch the same scenery before you can be classed as not a problem?

besides, the problem is the hoarders that want to take hours watching from the few good spot, preventing access to anyone else because they don't "enjoy it" if they don't transform a spot place into a whole experiencial journey
Don’t be surprised by the downvotes. There seems to be a little bit of the “USA BAD” vibe here right now ~ especially in terms of the military.
The US does seem to emphasize training and preparedness over simply having equipment which could lead to higher relative levels of contamination when compared to other militaries. I’m not sure if that is the case, but I recall the training differences being considered a factor when evaluating operational challenges (for example Saddam’s iraqi troops vs Cold War Soviets in the same equipment and situation ~ the Soviets would be expected to present a significantly harder challenge just by virtue of better training ~ at least in theory)
I think you're right to be critical in this case, and I'm not defending the service. But as far as whether you can use GPT to write a more humane email, you definitely can. You just need a well-constructed prompt.

At it's core it's just a text prediction machine. If you prime it with language such as, "the recipient of the following email found it to be thoughtful and enjoyed reading it. The recipient was amenable to what the email said, and had a good opinion of the email's author afterwards", it will try to predict a message that would most likely follow that kind of text. I have found that it's usually better than myself at accomplishing that.
Musk’s Twitter Antics Are Tarnishing Tesla as Its EV Rivals Are Catching Up
"From NAND to Tetris" is the best resource to understand how computers really work in a fun and engaging way. The authors have two free courses available at Coursera based on the book:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

https://www.coursera.org/learn/

Edit: for more real world example look at the Linux kernel source code, files like main.S
Thanks for this, I saw this on a domain I didn't recognize much earlier.

In general is the Hindustan times pretty trustworthy? I mostly know about SE Asia, China and North Korean news sources outside the typical English language EU stuff, but sometimes I see things like this and am not sure if I should trust them and wait a bit and my usual source for anything adjacent to the Middle East or India (Al Jazeera) often lags on things I'd expect them to report much quicker if they actually support democracy and free expression and not just whataboutism.
How do you feel about ant colonies and queen and worker ants ?
Same sentiment. Airports are a pain to get to, security is a pain, taking time to account for the variable length of the security line is a pain, checking your baggage is a pain, dealing with the race for the overhead bin space is a pain, the inevitable delays that will ruin your whole itinerary are a pain, the lack of legroom is a pain... For destinations on the east coast (where Amtrak is actually reliable) I've begun taking trains to the exclusion of flying. Slower, but more comfortable, and I can get work done or just relax without being crammed into a sardine can.
Ask HN: Is there a curated list of tricks for ChatGPT?
I disagree, for long term sourcing. It takes awhile to get relationships, supply chain, etc. established.
Every air field in the world that had fire drills in the last 50 years have PFAS in the surrounding environment.

It’s extremely hard to clean out, although not impossible. Using certain plants to collect the PFAS from water, then harvesting and incinerating them has been shown to work.

I’m assuming there is no current use of PFAS in these bases now. The economic responsibility for cleanup and compensation is of course with the US.
why am i downvoted for stating a fact? this year there were 43 days of strike. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_gr%C3%A8ves_%C3%A0...
> Why don't they just embed an RFID chip in every box, give the robot sensors to triangulate the position of the RFID code matching the desired product, and grab that?

Whenever you start a sentence with "why don't they just", remember that there are literally hundreds of people whose entire job it is to solve these problems, and there's probably very good reasons.

In this case, the answer is "noise".

A fellow I knew worked on a project at Amazon fulfillment to use RFID enabled shipping labels so that ideally they could load the truck and know which packages were on it.

It was a total failure.

If the sensors are high enough to read every package, then you'll read half the packages 20 feet away as well. If it's low enough to only detect the ones you want, it won't detect all of them.

"Triangulate the position of the RFID code" is just not really a thing. Maybe in the future, but today RFID is just not that reliable.

Also the labor cost to add an RFID tag to every item is prohibitively high.
Wow. My initial impression of both Silver Bullet and Bangle is very high

I have have used various tools in this category such as ThinkTank and More since the 80s. I used Setext, and then transitioned to Markdown soon after Gruber announced it. Currently I most work with notes in whatever text edit I am currently using with a dose of NVAlt.

I will need to give both of these new tools a deep review to see if they are worth of daily usage.
> Joe Biden (AKA "The Big Guy") was taking a cut from Hunter Biden's ridiculous business dealings with foreign entities

Parent asked for an unbiased summary. Right off the bat you’re providing the right wing narrative. There is nothing in the laptop or elsewhere to show that:

- the “big guy” referenced in the email is in fact Joe Biden

- that even if it is, Joe Biden was aware of the e-mail

- that even if he was, that Joe was actually taking a cut.

The evidence before you is so far off from the narrative you’re spouting that you might as well be making it all up. But sadly you’re not, you’re just regurgitating the leaps of logic that have been fed to you.

> they were conscious of the need to publicly at least, keep his name out of it.

The lack of evidence of a crime is evidence of how well the crime was covered up. Classic conspiratorial thinking.

> if it was Trump, we would have seen 24/7 media meltdown

Here’s the thing. If it weren’t for Trump, this would be a bigger deal because Trump normalized government corruption during his presidency. Even the worst case scenario imagined by Republicans about Biden is mild compared to Trump’s least concerning corruption.

Conservatives can’t get any traction with their “Biden’s corrupt!” narrative as long as they ignore and excuse Trump’s corruption. It’s impossible to convince the world that Joe Biden who takes the train to work from Delaware is corrupt, while Trump who flies around in a jet with his name on it is squeaky clean. As dumb as people are, there appears to be a limit to what they will accept.
It’s worth noting that Iran was a democracy until the 1953, when the US and UK supported a coup to install a corrupt dictator so they could avoid paying oil fees. The 1979 Iranian revolution was the pendulum swinging back hard the other way.

I’m in no way supporting Iran’s religious extremism or current government, but they are monsters that we created.

The coup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat?...

Edit: it has been pointed out that the pendulum metaphor isn’t quite right, and that makes sense to me, but I’ll leave it since people have responded to it.
Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search
> what people want when they put their lives on the line to make a change

[removed: a reference to The Troubles] A minority of people can feel very, very strongly about something without the majority of people feeling that way.

> [the] part of the population [that supports the Iranian regime] is generally a smaller part

Happy to believe that, but where’s the data? That some people are clearly very angry at the monstrous and evil regime there doesn’t imply that it’s the majority or even close to.
This is the argument that Uber used in NYC, though its validity is highly questionable. In countless cities around the world, however, Uber's operations were blatantly illegal. Uber pretty effectively used its customer base to lobby local governments against enforcing regulations, though, and Uber's operations were legalized in many places.
Do you work for chatGPT or something? I've seen a lot of really spammy people use phrasing similar to the beginning of your post lately. I'm not flagging you or downvoting you, but you made me raise my eyebrows, I can't tell if posts like these are authentic interaction.

(I don't mind if someone's a sincere fan of a service, there's places I've plugged, for lack of better phrasing, if I've found value from them, but I'm trying to cut back on uncompensated endorsements since folks abused the spirit of trying to respect good work.)
We live in a time when even bums are concerned with their titles and how their status is conveyed.
Yep, storage space but also multi item shipments.

When Amazon puts two items into the same box, they massively reduce shipping costs. And shipping costs are the biggest cost they have.
Usually what is done with that information is scheduling or sales. Typically overly optimistic scheduling or selling a thing one does not possess (a future).
I don't want to defend the Chinese government, but the transitions of power in China have been peaceful since Deng Xiaoping.
Even if Google has been on it their search engine dominance won't last long if the research is out in the open.
That was a response of the commands in Okinawa, not an ask from the Japanese government.

Much of the activism against Okinawa gets overruled at the national level by a Japanese government that wants the United States presence, and this is problematic,because Okinawa is much, much poorer than the rest of the country.
Idk I like to think MVP stands for Minimum Valuable Product
When We Look in the Mirror
> Need to understand more about governance structure & revenue plans going forward. OpenAI was started as open-source & non-profit. Neither are still true.

In other words, “show me the money.”
To give an example Italy had an election with 98.5% for the fascist party in 1929. That was to confirm or reject the list of house members appointed by the party. I mean, there were no candidates to chose from, the ones in the list would be... elected?
This is quite true, I've found. I have a very extensive pinned map of the UK that I share with people and most of the really interesting places are outside of London.
>The paradox of tolerance, as it is commonly argued, has to be one of the worst philosophical arguments actually taken seriously.

I think you meant that people use it as an excuse to be intolerant, instead of applying it whole. They are not "taking the philosophical argument seriously" in the first place.
> Do trains in France use the same sort of demand-driven pricing scheme airlines use?

For the high-speed trains, yes.
YouTube vs Instagram, short in India
It’s my understanding that most Android devices don’t get OEM updates for very long
All these elon stories all the time has gotten very tiresome.
> Musk doesn't have a huge amount to offer on that topic, so I'm not here to support or adulate him, but I do care about words like "authoritarianism" being used with a reasonable level of accuracy, and I always hate seeing people being portrayed negatively on largely false grounds.

Then you must hate Musk. He is, after all, always willing to portray people negatively on largely false grounds. According to Musk, cave divers are pedophiles, Apple hates free speech, California is fascist, and so on and so forth.

Authoritarians have a loose association with the truth. The truth is just too inconvenient.

> He didn't argue for Ukraine to just submit; he said there should be an externally supervised referendum so the people in the contested regions can self-determine which country they're in.

Of course he did. There can't be an externally supervised referendum. They have been invaded. They are at war. Putin doesn't recognize Ukraine as a country or Ukrainians as a people. Russia doesn't do democracy. It hasn't for a long time.

> In both cases of Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan, he sees that the worst case scenario is utterly catastrophic (all-out global nuclear exchanges), and wants to find ways to resolve these disputes before it gets anywhere near that.

The solution in both cases is simple: Russia gets out of Ukraine and China stays out of Taiwan.

Russia and China are authoritarian regimes. They both share the attitude that big countries tell little countries what to do. Musk's advocacy of appeasement and submission to their belligerence is apology bordering on the quisling.

> You've presented no evidence for this,

Now you're just being naive. Space X is Elon and Elon is Space X. There is no in between: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/business/spacex-workers-e...

Musk offered up the idea of a moderation council at Twitter which sounds like a good idea: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792

But the reality is Musk will make moderation decisions and the council has no real power: https://www.complex.com/life/elon-musk-final-decision-twitte...

He doesn't believe in free speech, except his own speech.

> Clearly, the governments/bodies mandating lockdowns and vaccinations were authoritarian.

No, public health measures are not authoritarian. That is farcical.