skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is there any evidence to suggest technology based solutions by themselves lead to any of those obviously bad false positive outcomes?

Specific to this type of technology? YouTube and their Content ID comes to mind - stories abound about people getting random videos flagged or demonetized because of a match to something in a background, or false positive match to their own original rendition, or to their own original rendition of their own work they own copyright to, or even against noise. Some of those stories end up harming those YouTubers financially. It's happening often enough that pretty much every channel I've watched has a video commenting or complaining about this at this point.

Then, related, random bans of Google accounts, or people having their apps kicked off Apple's App store or Google's Play Store for seemingly no reason (following some of those stories over the years, I estimate it's 3:1 false positive to the person actually violating ToS). Google account bans, in particular, can easily make your life very difficult for some time, or even kill your company, and they have a nasty feature of being transitive (if you have multiple Google Accounts connected in an obvious way, e.g. by recovery number, having one banned tends to be followed by having the rest banned too).

Point being, those big cloud companies don't have particularly good reputation when it comes to algorithmic moderation. So when one of those companies wants to deploy another set of automated scans, with a twist that a false positive now has a chance of quickly and irreversibly derailing your whole life, it's hopefully understandable why people are apprehensive.

> whatever the specific technology in question, it's difficult to imagine it playing out in the current legal system of any of country that isn't already based around just semi-randomly throwing people in jail.

With this particular crime, you don't have to go into jail to have your life destroyed. You don't even have to go to court. All it takes is that a rumor leaks out that you're accused of consuming or producing CSAM - it'll do irreparable damage to your relationship with others, as they're always be wondering whether there wasn't something to those rumors.

In a way, this technology being criticized so loudly and broadly is a form of mitigating the damage it could cause: the more people are aware it's liable to spurious false positives, the more chance the victims of such false positives have that others will believe them.
Distributed SQLite with LiteFS in Go
Its a little amusing that a project meant to help rid users of Windows is being used to prop up Windows for some users.
Umm.. how?
What other profession expects to be paid for producing work and expects to keep the result of the work?

The guy got £20,000 for some pages of babel. He should be elated.
I have been using AI tools since a couple of months to help my writing. It does not mean my entire job is replaced by an AI, but it makes it much easier to do my job.

There might be a future where AI can do a lot of work and we might shift our jobs to work on top of these AIs. We might have new jobs that did not exist till now in the future.
But is it the best possible way to spend £15M to achieve altruistic aims? Plus, they own the house and land but they also have to maintain it. That's not inexpensive: most of these country houses are no longer in the hands of the original owners because they couldn't afford the upkeep.
The downvoting of your thoughtful (but minority opinion) post is evidence of the hype you mention. I think it's part of the postmodern rationalist ersatz religion that still holds a lot of sway on the internet to affect a disattachment from one's own body parts in the event of death.
> they’ll try to tell you it’s because the cellular modem requires extra testing by the carriers and manufacturers

That's crazy, though. It's not like there isn't a module for that cellular modem, and they don't touch that code for every release.

That's like blocking a Firefox update because the Windows driver for the mouse could be impacted.
A number of countries have already done this and it’s not definitive that changing to opt out systems will make a noticeable difference in actually donated organs. Most of the “this is so obvious!!!!!” studies that promise huge results are actually looking at registration numbers, but if you die in a way that makes you a good donor option, the doctors in most places will ask your next of kin about it whether or not you are registered. In some places the next of kin can even override your opt-in (or failure to opt out). So social education/opinion campaigns that increase registration and influence potential next of kin could be a better move than going opt-out.
That's an advantage versus other dynamic languages without multiple dispatch, but statically typed languages do not have this issue in the first place. The only other dynamic language used for numerical stuff is Python, but its issues go well beyond lack of MD.

MD can be useful for static languages of course, but it comes up significantly less often and static MD is simply overloading/ad-hoc polymorphism.
Remember MP3? This dude, the inventor, received nothing from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Brandenburg

This might help talking about fairness when in fact MP3 build the foundation of streaming music. ;)

Same goes for iPad silhouette girl: contract work, nothing else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_advertising

Or the nike logo, or...

It is hard. There won't be so many George Lucas opportunities: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/george-l...
Scientists have found it only now, but I have always thought about it. :D ... I have always wondered why no one has invented a toilet with an auto-closeable, auto-cleanable "inner lid" (sitting collapsed just below the seat) that closes only while you're flushing so that all that flush water tsunami doesn't come out on my floor and everywhere else.

If a potential founder and creator is interested, I have a design in mind for the same. :)
Complete msc

Rethink current job and maybe try to find compiler job
If the choice is between finding a translator and paying them to be able to read something at all vs immediate free translation with the occasional mistake, I know which one I find more useful.

Yes, and that's how people will think about everything that can be generated by AI, from images to writing to music to code. People are very happy to accept a cheap-but-worse alternative. That that thought and apply it to what you do, and you'll see what the problem is.
Glad to see that this supports mTLS. Will have a look at this tool.

Does the TLS/mTLS settings allow you to override the host name of the server, so that I can connect to localhost even though the cert CN is example.com?

Is it able to import proto files to define endpoints automatically, and to fill in generated data for the types?
-hope i didn't get affected with covid even though it's not a big deal.

-stay healthy as dreamed.Sleep early and quit smoking.

-stick to onething cuz the more you're trying to figure out,the more likely you ended up knowing nothing throughly.

-smile more and don't overthink
Unless you control enough nodes. Tor was never designed to be 100% surveillance proof
I'm not eager for the good old days back but what I miss is the structure of these reference works and the curation. With Google et. al. I may get the answer but there is a real risk of missing context.
What a racket...

If it talks like a racket...

Why didn't they just go the whole hog and buy a megachurch?
Travis the company had an exit a few years ago, the general feeling since is that the product isn't really maintained anymore. If your needs are simple, GitHub Actions works well, if you need features like insane parallelization, use Circle.
Ummm... it gets cold in the midwest, so cold catle will freeze if not kept warm.
I've noticed as a general trend that Reddit comments tend to be more positive, whereas HN tends to be more critical. On the one hand critical comments can enhance discussion by introducing opposing perspectives, on the other hand they have the danger of lacking empathy or being overly cynical.

In this particular case I see the value of both sides. I sympathize with the writer and think he did a good thing releasing his work into the public domain, yet I also agree with comments that his contract was more reasonable than he makes it out to be.
I was gonna post the Muppets version too.
Just use Rust. Enough said.
I can’t donate organs due to a chronic health issue. Now that disqualifies me from the medical treatment I am more likely to need?

As a sort of reverse of your proposal, in the US (and I think elsewhere) if you volunteer as a living donor, you are at the front of the line if you ever need an organ. And, this privilege is somewhat transferable to a person of your choice.
Oh right, that's what I had in mind. For some reason Snowball came to my mind instead of Snowmobile.

Was surprised to see that Amazon Snowball also exists and serves the same purpose :)
A deep dive into the UBI File System for Embedded Devices
>Windows will tell you the size of a dir in the right click -> properties menu, but it takes a while to calculate for large/complicated directories.

Caja (and probably Nautilus/other-Nautilus-based managers) does that as well. But although can show it in properties arranging by size doesn't take it in consideration. (Rather it just sorts them by number of items inside.)
Being skeptical makes sense. Abandoning science is less of an obvious step. This consists primarily of some initial observations and speculations being shared. These could potentially lead to a testable hypothesis which could then in time lead to a published peer reviewed paper. Initial observations and speculations never lead directly to published peer reviewed papers in the short term because those require work to prepare and verify. That you are responding to some initial observations and speculations with demands for a published peer review paper indicates that you lack interest and understanding in the actual work of science. If you really are not engaged then maybe it would make more sense to allow others to investigate findings to see if they are truly interesting and perhaps could lead to robust results.
But the point is, assuming Charlie is a good agent, Julian would also have made more money (and with less effort) because Charlie would have put in the work to ensure Julian got a good deal.
“I love SCIENCE!” types don't get how important are general and specific fashions.

Here we have a superstar topic, an asteroid killing dinosaurs. It would be fine if it was simply famous, but many consider it One True Measure for everything to align with. So when people present some old or some new data, and say that they are sufficiently confident that their methods are precise and well-adjusted enough to show that X happened before the impact, or that Y happened long after the impact, they are simply dismissed, or told to invent a better explanation that respects the impact as a source of creation of everything, or told that something might be wrong with the method (which effectively means their whole field has been producing nonsensical garbage all along). Moreover, after a decade or two there comes a generation that naively believes that it's their duty to defend the holy principles, and shame the heretics. And then there's internet know-it-alls shouting something about Occam's razor.

One would think that years-long volcanic winter would be disastrous no matter which season it happened. However, the desire to touch the superstar yourself could lead to risky behavior.
I'm hoping Notch responds to this, or at least reconnects with Julian in some way. I remember when he purchased that mansion because the story was posted to HN and Notch answered some questions about it.
I mainly use it as a footstool when I cut my toenails.
> It's that there's a large developer community and security researchers who have access to the code who will collectively read it all. Of course this isn't a guarantee that there are no security flaws.

Yeah, about that, I'm as much of an Open Source buff as anyone, but:

> Analysis of the source code history of Bash shows the Shellshock bug was introduced on 5 August <<1989>>, and released in Bash version 1.03 on 1 September 1989.

[...]

> The presence of the bug was announced to the public on <<2014-09-24>>, when Bash updates with the fix were ready for distribution, though it took some time for computers to be updated to close the potential security issue.

Especially older Open Source software tends to have maintainers that haven't adopted modern software development practices so we're back to square one, since most of this older software is foundational technology, like Bash.
Very cool seeing this pop up again!

I've done a bunch more optimization since I wrote this post last year, and I'm in the process of writing a follow-up.

Spoilers:

- Since last year I've made this algorithm run another ~2x faster. The performance improvement comes about largely thanks to replacing ropey with my own jumprope[1] library. (~60ms -> 30ms)

- I've written a new CRDT algorithm which is another 10x faster. (time drops to 4ms). But the algorithm is only faster when the editing history is largely linear. So, its a better approach for something like google docs (where most edits are made by one user or online). But its much worse for something like Git. I think its possible to make it better in every case, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

I re-tested automerge a couple of months ago. Automerge-rs has adopted a lot of the tricks I listed in this post, which is delightful to see. Performance has gotten a lot better (5 minutes in 2021 dropped to 400ms in 2022). But its still 100x slower than diamond types and uses 100x more RAM (200mb for automerge vs 2mb for diamond types). The main optimization automerge is missing is the internal run-length encoding trick that Yjs pioneered.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/jumprope
It's not that strange with a little perspective. For whatever reason (death of the middle class, changing demographics, being outcompeted) a lot of white people are doing worse than their parents did. There'a a generation of people who feel entitled to a lifestyle they can't practically support.

Sure, black people might have it worse in real terms on average, but this is a new problem, suffered by people who are close enough to positions of power to raise a stink about it.
Scientists have know that particles come up for a long time. This study visualized them. Here's an excerpt from this article:

> Researchers have known for over 60 years that when a toilet is flushed, solids and liquids go down as designed, but tiny, invisible particles are also released into the air.

Do we need to come up with something new? What if we start closing the lid that is already there before flushing?
Indeed. Altruism is a sickness. Effective Altruism has just institutionalized it.
A lot of us never actually saw that ending because for the longest time minecraft didn’t have one. It came much much later and was kind of, to my understanding becaude I never finished the game, kind of a random and rushed way to add an ending to the game so that notch could not call it an alpha or something anymore and move on.
> Just enable router advertisements on your router

Thats not “manually”. Thats clicking in the routers UI. My idea of manually is roll your own Linux.

Worked just fine for ipv4, looks like a full time job for 6.
I peeked at the source code and it seems like it's just sending a HTTP request to https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/ with the contents of a comment.

This should be probably mentioned since it might have some privacy, performance and data usage concerns.

Additionally I am guessing that there is some rate limiting to using huggingface's service for free.
I definitely agree with the sentiment about GPT. It's a really powerful tool that can produce some really impressive outputs, but of course, it does have its limitations.

One of the things I really like about it is that it's not always perfect, yet still provides some really useful texts. It usually takes me a few tries to get exactly what I'm looking for, but it's definitely worth it. I've had a lot of fun using the generator to reimagine classic stories with different characters (I loved Cindirella one in but like in Blade setting).

Even with the help of the model's statistics, I still feel like I have a lot of ownership over the text that I create with the generator. It's kind of like ordering from a fast food restaurant instead of cooking from scratch - you still have certain expectations based on the statistics, like food safety or meat content, but you don't have to worry about all the details.

Having a tool like this to assist me with my writing is really appreciated. I can be a bit chaotic when I write, so having a tool that helps me organize my thoughts is a huge help. I can't wait for the text generator to be commercialized so I don't have to worry about timeouts anymore.
> ...but all it does is regurgitate existing works.

And this is the uncomfortable truth. When I share this with people, many people don't believe and knowledgeable people don't care.

Also, most (if not all) the work is just collected without consent. I'll not re-open that can of worms of licenses, fair use, ethics and what not. I'm done for today on that front.

Which is pretty unfortunate and grim if you ask me.
There isn't much of a market for shitty software though, if you are worse than Google people will just use Google etc.
> There are linux distributions that can operate on other kernels than Linux.

Then by definition they're not specifically a Linux distribution?
What is the problem with systemd?
Most freelance developers do? This is a work-for-hire situation, not an employment type situation. Works for hire have a different legal basis than works created as an employee.
He had multiple opportunities to get his agent (and he had one the whole time, which he mentioned early in the story) do the grown up talk for him, and he passed it up every single time. Every time, it's excuse after excuse about why he either sent nonsensical emails when trying to talk to people about compensation or just stayed silent while resenting Mojang for not actively coming after him and shower him with millions out of nowhere.

Honestly very little sympathy from me. I would be beyond pissed if I was trying to close a deal with someone who kept sending me novels over email instead.
Love to see so many people wanting to learn or improve in foreign languages. Good luck, you can do it! :)
I take issue with the thing being a part of HexFormat. It should use hexformat, optionally. What if I want to dump the memory to binary or octal instead? The hexformat class itself could have been an adjustable BaseNFormatter :(.

Sorry for the tangent, it had to get out somewhere and I did not think it was worthy of an email in the actual review thread : - )
Apple just undercut this by creating an ecosystem which funnels something like 80% of mobile profits in their pockets.

Then they just point at marketshare and say: "we only have 30% worldwide". Yeah, but your stuff is aspirational and the vast majority of Android users have lower disposable income so spend less and many switch to iOS when they have enough money.

It's very sneaky and it's breaking everything down.

Laws just haven't caught up to it.
You can use Method Handles now for better performance in a lot of cases
I think that depends heavily.

Yes if the live chat window is annoying you that you should buy something or sign up for a newsletter that is super annoying.

But if you really need help and there is a human within one second on the other hand this is amazing.

Also vice versa. If I'm online on Crisp or Intercom it is super easy to understand what my customer tries to do and help them within a second.

Not everything is negative about live chats, as always :D
Thanks! And I completely agree, I generally do the same. I don't sign up without a sense of the value.

I put the sign up wall - reluctantly - recently because people are not inclined to suggest their favorite quiet spots. And I need to grow the quiet map to make it liveable for me. Currently its all on my dime & time.

It needs to stay a free platform for users. It's not the affluent that live next to railways, share rooms, can escape to the countryside.

So I put the sign up wall so I at least have the possibility to send an email every once in awhile, to reach out to the interested users. To encourage them to add a quiet spot. I have not send such email since I created it 7 months ago.

I'm not happy with this "solution" but have not found a better way. Would welcome any advice or input.

ps: If you like, I'll send you an entry code.
I think they are afraid of indoctrination from Amazon based stories, not that children can't handle strange animal stories.
There isn't much of a market for shitty software though..

Are you sure? I mean ... gestures broadly at the software market
Just search for any song and append “ karaoke” and you’ll find a plethora of renditions ready to sing. Some are better than others so YMMV.
Well yeah, this is the personal reddit instance of a startup accelerator isn't it? Makes sense for that to be vastly overrepresented.
This experiment was done on a public-style (commercial) toilet. They do not have lids.
I’m both a dev and a writer and being a writer doesn’t pay compared to being a dev
The Dangers of PFOA
When we were working on adding gRPC support to Step CI, I needed a client that I could use to test my mock APIs manually

BloomRPC looked ugly and outdated, Kreya would crash on my M1 mac and Insomnia didn’t have all the features I needed. Ezy was a new discovery and offered both great UX and features that were missing from other clients

When I’m working with gRPC APIs, Ezy is the client I reach out to!
> This problem has been well understood for decades (and by other civilizations for centuries), but is repressed / conveniently ignored by a wealthy, government-subsidized food industry

Sounds like corporate software. Software typically doesn’t make money and everyone is aware (except some developers). The business makes money and funds internal software to establish automation which streamlines the business to make money more efficiently. As such automation is the business goal for funding that software. Most corporate developers are not well trained to think in terms of automation. They think in terms of data and code. This is a massive disconnect resulting in wildly different expectations which is compounded through hiring practices and reliance on third party software developers don’t have to write. These things solve for code but fail to address automation in any direct or meaningful way.
I remember seeing years ago an interview with a Japanese clothing designer. When the interviewer said the text on his shirt didn't make sense, he replied "I know, but it looks cool and it sounds cool."

Respect.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221208055043/https://www.bloom...
Where I live in the US, no till farming is common and it is growing in use.
The more I hear about EA, the more I think it is becoming the World Economic Forum for for zoomers. You may or may not think this is a good thing.
Well, I dont have an issue with "altruism". Nothing wrong with a selfless act for another... but this? No.
I understand your sentiment, but I don’t agree that these workshops are of no consequence for the engineers who “do the real job”. These meetings will decide how many servers you’ll be able to rent and what headcount will you get.
It is deeply concerning that the FBI would want to conduct surveillance on such a scale, that targeted operations (planting a keylogger, recording password entry, etc.) cannot support them.
Historically Those are secondary benefits. The primary benefit was that locomoting got you somewhere you needed to go. That part isn't so important anymore. Most don't bother because it's optional.