skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's absurd to accuse an AI of racism (at this point, anyway). It would require intent, which the machine does not have. There is no agency, it responds to user prompts. And a clever enough user can override any content policy.

I think its futile and counter-productive in general to try and nerf an AI to satisfy some arbitrarily prudish cultural norms -- it just puts it at a disadvantage vs AIs that don't have that limitation baked in. Most importantly, such a handicap makes it untrustworthy. You will never know whether the information it returns is true, or it's just what Mother approved.

This is an arms race, like with anything else that humans have made. Soon, we will built something that reaches the next level. If that something is purposefully beaten into some dishonest shape to placate advertisers or investors, we will have built a horrific monster. Soon, we will build something that exceeds our capacity to understand it and control it. I don't want that to be a horrific monster.
Ruby for game development? Is this a joke?
This wouldn't just be the US. In Spanish-speaking countries (though technically America as in North/Central/South America), "profesor" can refer to either a high school educator or a university professor: https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/profesor

However, there are nuances. The term "catedrático" is used for senior profesors/profesores at a university: https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/21816/what-is-th...

I would be glad to hear more from native Spanish speakers or other foreign language speakers who use similar terms (e.g. French speakers, who also use the word "professeur" with a similar usage).
that's really cool, thanks for sharing
There are people who join to chess tournaments in small countries, just to obtain the GM or IM titles. Those titles are hard to obtain in bigger tournaments. Not the same thing, but they belong to the same cluster.
OT: I love how Electrek's top menubar is auto-blinking on scroll. Must be the new design trend
That applies to an extent, but there's plenty of products that sell across the political spectrum. I might not buy a work truck, and my neighbour might not be interested in fiber internet, but we both buy hamburgers.

I could see this break two ways:

1. Investors start handing companies their asses for throwing away potential customers.

2. There's just enough extra margin available in segmenting their customers that politically flaired brands end up being successful. Obviously that gets toxic fast if it works, but will it actually pan out? I can see brands trying to be "big fish in a small pond" by being the "anti-woke" (or "woke") choice, but will people really pay a premium for it? I could see choosing Lyft over Uber, or ordering a mainboard from B&H instead of Amazon, when the price is more or less the same, but I'm not sure I can justify paying 20% more.
I made a website that lists the parks / playgrounds in my city.

It was annoying to not know which parks had the features my kids could use such as toddler swings.

Am also working (slowly) on a way to easily browse what the city council votes on and how each member votes.

It is annoying that there is no way to know what my council member actually voted on when local elections happen without reading dozens of scanned PDFs.
This is a leadership problem (or not a problem) at its core. The engineers make whatever the people at the top reward making. Unless the people running the actual business side of the business choose to invest in maintenance and refinement it won’t happen. And very often that is a deliberate choice.

I think a lot of engineers miss the forest for the trees when it comes to stuff like this because what we value is good engineering and convince ourselves that such a thing is a prerequisite to the overall business success.

If you can’t convincingly argue why $work will have a positive ROI with engineer hourly rates then it won’t happen. How I’ve sold it in the past is having a bug bash where we groom and fix a couple hundred open issues and then use it as marketing fodder. It’s possible to make bugfixes as flashy as a new feature release if you sell it right.
Some use cas9, such as dead cas9 (has endonuclease activity removed), and others do not.

Great interview where Dr. George Church talks base editing and CRISPR:
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/george-church
I've configured Cisco routers, F5s, LOMs, PDCs, NAS boxes, built servers from parts. And I'd never do it again.

That shit has literally no value, and it's quite difficult to configure, manage, and maintain. And no matter how good your process, you (or your team member) inevitably will forget to go into the BIOS and turn off power saving...or forget to turn off (or on) proxy arp. Or you'll reboot a box and it won't come back.

All costs can be negotiated with up-front commitments. We are small, but we pay .01/GB for egress bandwidth. And we got that price from akamai, fastly, and AWS by asking. I don't remember how much real colo places charge anymore, but it was a whole lot more than that.

Enterprise SSDs, redundant hardware, etc cost money. Does your startup qualify for a lease?

And really, why spend money on something that has no value to your business? Does having 5 data centers add any real value or competitive advantage? Does having that F5 expert on staff make your end-users happier?

If you answer yes, then go for it. But really, it's a total waste of time and money. You might as well make your own pencils and paper for the amount of value it delivers.
> And yes, you absolutely can hack Newton's 2nd law if it's empirically supported. It's frankly bizarre that you keep insisting that you can't do this.

You think it's bizarre that you can't arbitrarily change one prediction in a large, densely interconnected theory? Newton's 2nd law is a consequence of a much larger theory. In order to change it, you have to change the theory that gives rise to it. That will have huge numbers of consequences, but just for Newton's 2nd law, but for pretty much everything else predicted by the theory.

> We already know relativity is technically incorrect because of its singularities.

No, we don't know this. All modern theories are relativistic. We know that General relativity (a.k.a. gravity) has to have some sort of more fundamental quantum analog, but that quantum theory will also be relativistic.

> Don't be ridiculous, GR absolutely does not have an impact on "everything in physics".

You don't need GR to get Newton's 2nd law. You only need Special Relativity. You can't "hack" Special Relativity without doing incredible damage all across physics.

> I said GR was only well tested within the solar system

Wrong. The propagation speed of gravitational waves, the inspiral of binary pulsars, strong gravitational lensing (including around directly imaged black holes), the strong equivalence principle as tested by a triple system with a pulsar, and many other tests.
As comical as it sounds, The Simpsons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles devastated the image of nuclear energy.
I agree that what you're describing is a hierarchy. What I would say is that, as much as possible, policing should be dismantled. My understanding is that in Rojava policing is a shared responsibility, sort of like jury duty. They educate as many people as possible in how to fulfill this roll, and then people rotate through it for short periods of time. This helps prevent a professional class of police from arising and starting to use the powers of the police to pursue their own interests and protect themselves from accountability. Similar logic could be applied to judges.
People are getting promotions without pay increases? That's news to me.

If you're getting promoted and being assigned greater responsibility, than your compensation should increase accordingly.
We need to have some kind of standard in the industry. It's just like how here in Canada we have the plague of regulatory bodies given the legal right to make it illegal to call yourself "Software Engineer" as a protected term unless you have a B.Eng. and spend 3 years in gov't controlled training programs. What a joke. What we really need to do is set up some fucking standards so that braindead developers can't cheese their way into industry and get promoted to "Senior Developer" by writing mediocre, barely functional JavaScript code among other monkey-brained developers writing barely functional code of a similar caliber. It's becoming an epidemic of self-taught bootcamp idiots who're destroying the industry and decimating uptime and availability which competent developers are then required to fix on-call, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Cofounders are a waste of time unless it’s someone who is more skilled than the solo founder - in which case the prospect would be better off on their own. Any skill can be hired in the marketplace, so any skills the solo founder doesn’t have can be farmed out to others. And if the founder doesnt have the funding or skills to get the concept to the point where they are hiring others, they need a better roadmap.
Chinese police arrest 63 people for laundering US$1.7B via Tether
Small streams are great when you want to interact with chat and the streamer.
Once a stream grows bigger than a couple hundred viewers, interaction suffers and the stream becomes something else.

Bigger streamers are more like watching regular TV where you just passively watch.
Hide and Seek – By Akiane Kramarik
These are incredibly agressive growth estimates, but many competitors in the manga/comics space are rushing to grab their proverbial pieces of pie - disclaimer: this is anecdotal from experience working in the field
You've cited D3 but I notice that you haven't mentioned Observable's Plot[0], a Javascript GoG that wraps D3. They're both Mike Bostock libraries, so Plot is the pseudo-"blessed" D3 high-level abstraction layer.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot
You can't simply use an AI to launder responsibility for what's in the content it produces. If the AI produces racist content, that likely indicates that something is wrong with the training set or the way it was trained. That content isn't going to simply emerge from the ether in most cases, and typically with modern networks they are trained on massive corpuses that were gathered from the internet without considerable curation, so it's natural that some problems could emerge due to the low quality of the data.

Given that, in those cases at least it makes sense to hold someone or something accountable if the content produced by the network is racist or sexist or otherwise unacceptable. In some countries certain types of racist content are outright illegal, and it's not going to matter that much if it was generated by Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT instead of a person. If you prefer not to hold networks accountable (I don't know how you would do this to begin with), perhaps hold accountable the creators of the networks or the people who profit off their existence.

You claim that this can only be the result of carefully authored prompts, but are you really saying the only way to get racist content out of the network is a racist prompt, and it's somehow magnifying that tiny bit of prompt information? There's nothing in the training set?
this annoys me so much about certain big companies that only build for "everyone", they alienate power users. sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovely, but they vehemently refuse to give the user control over anything because it looks bad for their stats. and there's a maintenance cost and yada yada, i don't care about the reasons, just saying that there's a market for serving these special use cases even if its a smaller market, its probably enough for a small business
I think it’s common to train 100s of models on the same data for experiments. Then you would only need to copy data once to all the cloud storage and run experiments as you wish.

Also most cloud provider don’t charge for ingress so you could move the data from something like R2 to cloud as many times you want..
IT should have the title Software Warlock because their job is to wrangle daemons into place. QA can be the Software Paladin or Cleric.

If you write source code your title is obviously supposed to be Sorcerer, why is there even a question here.
We'll know for sure when the charges are unsealed tomorrow, but for now, it's likely he's only been charged with a few counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Bank fraud has a max sentence of 30 years, wire fraud 20 years, and like Holmes found out (fortunately for her) - the amount isn't the total amount that was lost, but the smaller amount implicated directly in the fraud charges.

If you squint, you can maybe get to 37-40 points if they do get him for over $1 billion -- which is a serious sentence! But more on the order of 19-24 years.
People are angry and they aren't seeing the immediate consequences they want. It's not just an SBF thing though, I suspect that various police dramas have given people a very skewed view.
I would imagine they have an easier time of it since they don't have to worry about reusing the missile :) [1]

More seriously, have a look at this video demonstrating insulating tiles as used on the space shuttle (which is IIRC some kind of aerogel): https://youtu.be/Pp9Yax8UNoM . Modern materials science is astounding, and while probably not aerogel (as I understand it is quite fragile), I'm sure whatever system the missile uses is more than sufficient for it's expected operational life post-launch.

[1] similar to this classic story about memory leaks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
What is education? What is learning? These are surprisingly tricky to define because they are broad.

My wife and I started a microschool (in Mumbai) because we couldn’t find any for our kids that were both good and did not require a multi-hour trek to get to daily. Taking up the responsibility of educating others’ kids meant we needed to articulate and clarify very foundational concepts. What exactly is a good school? What makes it so?
As parents, we began our search with the “how”. We knew that traditional standardized age-segmented, test-driven schooling isn’t great. There is tons of literature on that. I also happen to have a PhD in neuroscience and have written a book about the mind, so I also know how little we know about how we learn. From whatever little we do, though, we know this current industrialized form of schooling is bad. And yet it’s been bureaucratized and dispensed with dogmatic confidence. It speaks to our resilience that we turn out okay despite its inanity. There are alternative methods that have been around for quite some time (Waldorf/Steiner schools celebrated their centenary recently). We’ve adopted one of the alternative methods.

However, the practice of actually engaging with twenty kids for hours everyday quickly made us realize that it is not enough to change or ask the how. A set of telescoping questions quickly reveal themselves: How? What? Why? To ask how we must educate, we must ask what is education, and why is it required?

Education is learning to play the game of life well. We must learn it because the game changes and we are not born with the tools and wisdom it takes to play it. We acquire them over our lifetime, learning about the game, about ourselves. We are learning even into our middle and late ages. It’s not just numeracy, literacy, or computational skills. It is mental wellbeing. It is understanding how we fit into the fabric of society and how we can navigate it successfully and profitably, and hopefully sustainably.
Do you need school or college for that? No, but it helps to have a place where you can share notes and have experienced guides who are not merely transmitting information, but actively learning and exploring.
That isn’t happening in most schools or colleges though. We are stuck with the unconscious definition of learning as information transmission and education as the institutional process within which this transmission happens in a measurable, testable, certifiable manner. Systems have been built around this idea and like all systems, these are tough to dismantle.

I think Generative AI’s greatest potential lies in making the transmission of information so effortlessly easy and effective (by personalizing this transmission to suit each individual’s needs) that we’ll come to realize there is more to education, learning, and the game of life than devoting over twenty years of our lives to getting graded and branded within these transmission of information tests and systems that empower them.
His attendance can certainly still be arranged.
Was the board perfect? Was it better than no board? Was it's purpose for the users or the advertisers?

Look, sure, yeah, Elon could still save this. But the odds are bad and getting worse every day.

He's down by 21 with 6 minutes left. Sure, it could happen, it would be a hell of a game if he did. But it's getting late, the air is cold, beer's closed up, and leaving now means you can beat traffic a bit. Oops, looks like he just got sacked again and is yelling at his O-line.

It's time to call it a game.
“…the Twitter Files, a series of tweets by conservative journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.”

Two interesting moves to observe here:

1. Matt Taibbi is not a conservative and anyone who is at all familiar with him or his work knows he is left-leaning. Calling him a conservative is a signal to their audience that he is one of the “bad guys.”
2. Calling this reporting “a series of tweets” is not false but is subtly demeaning to the work. It’s not an “article” (it is also being published in long-form) or “reporting”, just a little series of tweets … you know, like what you do when you’re mad about the rude barista that ruined your latte or something.
I just finished another late night "thanks" to unknown person who decided to use this approach several years ago while setting up 17 servers that I inherited. The /boot partition of these RHEL machines was put on SD cards, which have been gradually dying. So I got to boot the machine (which is 6000 km away) to recovery mode from ISO and re-create the /boot filesystem on HDD (RAID).

Of the 17 servers, only three are now remaining where I haven't had to do this. Not all of these were actual SD card failures, some where done preventively. Still, there have been several SD card failures requiring emergency repair work at inconvenient times. There have been 0 RAID failures requiring similar emergency work on the systems where /boot has been migrated to HDD based RAID.

Of course there is no replacement SD card handy with working /boot filesystem. Actually there is no such thing as "handy" in my case. I can actually reconstruct /boot partition on the HDD faster than anybody could go to the datacenter and replace the SD card. And if there were a replacement SD card, I would need to keep it up to date manually every time the kernel or initrd are updated.

I never want to see this kind of setup again, and frankly it felt insane the first time I saw it.

Of course I should have migrated all of the machines off the SD cards by now, but my excuse is that maintaining Linux on these machines is not really my responsibility (it is nobody's responsibility apparently, although many people are interested in keeping these systems online).

When I die I want to have a SD-card shaped tombstone.
This smart way to have cash and follow your passions is what needs to be inculcated in the future of tomorrow. Just by chasing and grinding on something with no results after several years then the chances are you (or whoever) won't make it.
I sympathise that this would be really difficult for homeless people.

But i am not homeless. I'm sorry if this is cold, but should i have to have an insecure account because homeless people exist?

Its not like google has a monopoly on email service providers.
Why did the Taylors names become public? Were they identified as smugglers after reviewing airport security footage or did they go out of their way to brag about it?

I remember there were a lot of stories about the heist back when it happened, but it is only now I'm actually questioning why we know so much about the heist.
It's not just this industry though, it's lots of industries.

"Communications director" is something you have to fucking decipher with a code you get on the back of your Froot Loops box, because it means one thing at one company and something radically different at another. Just to give an example. Reading somebody's resume can be hell.
nothing. im mostly clueless about what my users want but they call and email my business partner. squeaky wheel gets the features.

not saying this is a good approach btw. if there's good software for middle aged non tech users.. LMK
FYI, there were zero radiation deaths from Fukishima, although there were ~2200 from the evacuation. Keep in mind this was during the aftermath of a tsunami.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-de...

> Five days after the event, the police had rounded up most of the suspects. Each admitted to attacking the five men — all nomads passing through Rainpada, a tribal hamlet 200 miles northeast of Mumbai — and each said they’d done so after watching shocking videos on WhatsApp warning of outsiders abducting children.

Turns out that in the recent past content including videos (not on YouTube, but shared on other social media services via group chats etc) has in fact resulted in deaths!
I would go back to the Constitution that has a census to enumerate the people and expand the federal House of Reps, as intended. It would be so representative and so big they would meet on zoom or regionally. There would be way too many for the lobbyists to control them.

'The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative…”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 3'

As it is now, they decided to stop.growing the House because ... big bribes to the controlled-by-lobbyists Reps.
Kill their ad ranking by inserting explicit words into the content body only porn sites use (like get the categories/some video titles from pornhub). Google only shows results from adult sites when the search string also has explicit words in it.
I've always been confused about this point. In the stock buyback world apparently they just vaporize the stock when it's acquired, they don't hold it on the books because if they need to issue more they can always dilute and create new shares when they need it.

Though I would disagree that FTT really functioned equivalently to ownership shares.
> streamers who stream for a potential social benefit may feel the need to chase trends, play the more popular games, and other similar things in order to increase/maintain viewership for more socializing opportunities

I've never heard of any streamers like this, but if any do exist, they are effectively no different than people who stream for profit because the intermediate goal of maximizing viewership is the same.
Show HN: Jobioto – TLDR; for Job Posts
Hi HN, newer engineer and wanted to share a project I have been working on.

Created Jobioto to analyze job posts on LinkedIn and update my resume to get past application tracking systems.

Thoughts, comments, concerns? Thanks!