skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a thing to worry about at this point.

In the real world (outside of programming competitions, that is), programmers don't get clear instructions for what we're doing, and what instructions we get deal with messy aspects of the real world. For just one example I tried: if you ask Codex how to calculate taxes on US products, it misses the point of the ask. I know that you have a tax rate and a price and you multiple them together - but what tax rate is applicable? Figuring that out is a thorny problem.

In programming, a lot of the inherent complexity is in understanding the weird bits of ambiguity and the corner cases. Whether that specification is through natural language or some other thing, we're a ways of from a computer capable of replacing us on that.
Everything is an eventual dead end but all you need to do is release security updates every 6 months and say that older version are unsupported and insecure. Its a SAAS.
What exactly is Elon's end game for Twitter? Ban all competing companies' accounts? Ban companies that refuse to advertise on it? Ban prominent (non alt-right) journalists? Ban opposing political views? Ban parody/comedy accounts? Ban all people disagreeing with him? Eventually there will be no one left to ban other than Russian bots and the Parler/Truth Social crowd. He could have just bought one of them for a lot cheaper.

This was also true a month ago, but if you work at Twitter you should really start looking for another job.
I like your edited version!
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means”[1], said the man who's now banning anyone he dislikes for no sane reason.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657
He asked if it had ever been done before.
Not a fan of renewable energy?
Probably not. Twitter is wonderful as a public service/utility, but it is unclear if it will ever be profitable.

I thought Twitter could never die, but if acts like this continue, Twitter's users will slip through Elon's fingers.
I guess "Request for Startups: Climate Tech " is easier to stomach than "Help us perpetuate idiotic mythology, and convince the world PLANT FOOD (CO2, which is 0.008% of our atmosphere, of which we only produce 0.004% OF that 0.008%) is somehow 'bad' so we can push communist policies" isn't it?

We'll make a site that says "Hur Durr! Duh globul warming" is you give us... Oh , I don't know... 25 million bucks! Deal?
Are you implying that Intel created Itanium in response to AMD64? Because my impression, backed by checking dates on Wikipedia, is that IA64 was in the works for years before AMD64 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 says "Intel and HP partnered in 1994 to develop the IA-64 ISA [...] The original goal year for delivering the first Itanium family product, Merced, was 1998." and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#History frames AMD64 as a response to Itanium, and says "AMD originally announced AMD64 in 1999 [...] The first AMD64-based processor, the Opteron, was released in April 2003.".

Edit: Or are you suggesting only that IA-64 went horribly wrong because Intel couldn't bully the market into accepting it?
parler.com
it appears these journalists reported that the LAPD has no police report around the alleged stalking incident at the los angeles airport, which i assume he didn’t want to trend
Did you see the clip at all? Elon looks genuinely flummoxed. He has no idea how disliked he is, because, as I said, he's surrounded by sycophantic goons. Getting repeatedly and viciously booed at a Dave Chappelle show -- regardless of where it is -- is incredibly notable. No one on the far left, even in SF, is attending that show; not since Dave forgot what it was like to be on the bottom.

As far as the authoritarian right, who else do you think the Fauci tweet was aimed at? It was aimed at the only audience that remains to give him the attention he wants.

Now ask yourself: who else attacks journalists? Who else acts capriciously and hypocritically while braying about free speech?
Fair point, I read this more under the light of paying for an ongoing therapist relationship to deal with a challenging situation (which as noted in another comment, $300 as a one time payment doesn't do much if you have weekly sessions with an out of network provider).

I agree it might help someone make a decision to try out therapy and see whether its a good idea for them.
Yes, including Lockheed Martin, who has the original Skunk Works.
I wonder if subliminal messaging will somehow make a comeback once we have ai generated audio and video. Something like we type "Fun topic" and those controlling the servers will inject "and praise to our empire/government/tyrant" to the suggestion or something like that.
I mean, unnecessary but funny. I'd like to see how many of them smugly posted "well go create your own Twitter" in the wake of 2016 and again in 2020 over the pandemic coverage. If they're as popular as they seen to think they are, they'll have no problem taking their audience across to a new platform.
If you post stalking on mastodon on twitter, apparently you get banned. Not all that complicated. I am sure you can share child porn on mastodon too, doesn’t have much to do with Twitter either as far as anyone can tell.
This opens up ideas. One thing people have tried to do with stable diffusion is create animations. Of course, they all come out pretty janky and gross, you can't get the animation smooth.

But what if what if a model was trained not on single images, but animated sequential frames, in sets, laid out on a single visual plane. So a panel might show a short sequence of a disney princess expressing a particular emotion as 16 individual frames collected as a single image. One might then be able to generate a clean animated sequence of a previously unimagined disney princess expressing any emotion the model has been trained on. Of course, with big enough models one could (if they can get it working) produced text prompted animations across a wide variety of subjects and styles.
You probably are not calibrated correctly to how many interviews you should be doing. One out of seven is a pretty good success rate. For me I just did interviews until I started to get bored during them and that's when I started getting offers.
Look at GAN art from a few years ago, compared to MidJourney v4.
genuinely curious, how does option 5 prevent specificity bombs?
> …folder of PDFs. Upload yours…

> Upload EPUBs…

> …compile [Twitter] threads… inside Reader

No thank you. I'm sure it's a wonderful app, but I've been burned so many times that falling for it again would be firmly into "shame on me" territory. No more trusting online services for me — I'm in data-hoarder mode now.
New era of library music.
He writes: "My guess is someone got those accounts suspended by submitting a bunch of fake abuse reports."

As somebody who worked at Twitter for a hot minute (2016-7), that could be possible now, but I don't think it was before Musk took over. I don't think my NDA would let me give details, but I think it's safe to say that mass reporting is not a new idea. If that's really what happened here (something I'd bet against) then it's almost like getting rid of 75% of the staff and 80% of the contractors could result in service degradation.
> A good rule of thumb is if the derivative work is drawing sales away from the original work.

That's a horrible rule of thumb. The canonical example of a derivative work is adaptation--the film of the book, for example--which frequently increases sales of the original work.

Drawing sales away from the original work is one of the factors used in fair use, and frequently ends up being the most important one.
In that region the legal loophole of writing off continued harassment as "wellness checks" is a known problem.

Trespassing is a crime not just of technicality and human beings are as territorial as any other mammal, they will use lethal force if they reasonably feel threatened.

In the Midwest USA the public servants are cognizant of this. If you think cops or sheriffs in the states are bad, wait 'till you learn how corrupt Aussie cops are.
Uh no.

On a modern intel CPU, one core of SHA1 does about 500MB/s worth of hashing. Blake3 on the same core is 1.5GB/s or faster.
Now is the time the "I like Elon because he is a free speech absolutist" crowd will start to gaslight and say that this is good for Twitter and that it was never about free speech for them at all.
Having ai that can replace coders doesn't translate to fully automated world of perfect abundance. I'm skeptical that the hypothetical bounty enabled by ai and robotics is going to be equitably distributed amongst the people.
I think but could be wrong that the article alludes to but does not explicitly state but that door is in fact a joke for instance it is a door that has a file cabinet on the other side and they didn't want people to go through it and they made a joke by labeling it thus and pretending the keys are lost. McMurdo feels like the type of place where someone could acquire a crowbar in under 10 seconds and that is the true key for that door if you ever in fact needed to use it.

A place I used to go to as a kid used to have a giant throw switch which said it would turn off the waterfall if thrown which was a joke they played on kids. It was in fact just the old Master throw switch for the house when they originally electric it up.
I've been excited for this product for a while now!

How do I set up email feeds, especially paid substack feeds?
sha3 is a lot more power efficient when implemented in hardware, which is nice when you have an IoT device that needs to do a lot of hashing.

It will also be really nice on amd_64 CPUs for doing large amounts of hashing if they ever get a sha3 instruction.

That said, hashing is rarely your bottleneck so there's not much urgency.
Spreading conspiracy theories that polluted their minds so much they became killers.
> It's not clear to me that it really can do that, though.

It would seem exceedingly foolhardy to put all your eggs into, what is essentially a compatibility shim layer/plugin, that may or may not actually be compatible with Oracle or all of Oracle.

The company behind it also is an unknown (to me at least) - HiGo[1].

So, IvorySQL is FOSS and free (as in beer) - but what happens if some feature doesn't actually work like advertised? Or something isn't implemented yet? Now you're paying HiGo for support instead of Oracle - although I'd trust Oracle's product a lot more personally.

> I'd ask why you are paying for any commercial DB in that case.

People pay for commercial DB's for a lot of reasons - including having someone to call at 3am when things go bad. Look at how prevalent SQL Server is - most of the deployments I've seen are because the company simply decided they will use SQL Server for everything (ie, not a technical reason).

[1] https://www.highgo.ca/
I think it's an interesting perspective but I will be very surprised if it's one that is common when this becomes more of a real choice. If there's two mp3s and one of them is more enjoyable to listen to, very few people will stick with the song they enjoy less because it's not AI generated.

Maybe a parallel would be furniture; there are people who buy hand crafted furniture but it's kind of a luxury. Most people just have Ikea and wouldn't pay more for the same (or have less good furniture) just to get some artisanal dinner table chair.
Ah, so free speech is good now?

Some of us do have principles. When Twitter was suppressing conservatives, that was bad. If Musk is banning people for being critical of him, that is also bad.
Bankruptcy. Or a firesale. Assuming there is anything left to sell.
> Does Schneier have some association to the NSA I don't know about?

Do you think he’d disclose it if he did?
I guess the question we need to answer is if Twitter is a public square? Or should be? I thin it's no to the first, and maybe to the second.

In any case it's not currently public property, so users don't have a right to be on Twitter.

But is it a place of public accommodation? And if so, how does that bind Twitter? If someone talks enough trash that it's clear they want to start a fight, a bar can kick that person out. No question. But what if they're kicked out unfairly? What is the line the bar can't cross in kicking people out, and is that a suitable line in the sand to use for Twitter? I don't know.

Do we need a cyberspace public square? I think we do. Should it be Twitter? What would that look like? Public-private adventure?
Why would you trust the source on the side that's telling you something new, but not the side that's skeptical of it?
I’ve thought about this and tested it a lot, it doesn’t work.

The reason is, the models don’t understand content or even context, they just recognize patterns and can generate similar patterns which we then interpret.

Case in point, a photo of an Astronaut on a horse is not actually an astronaut on a horse, it’s a 2D pixel map of light that our eyes then interpret to mean an astronaut on a horse. It’s even easier to understand this listening to the generated singing. It sounds just like singing - but it’s not language at all and doesn’t mean anything, it’s just a very similar pattern.

These AI models are great at making things that look like a pattern that to us means something, but they don’t generate semantically meaningful content itself.

So when you do this with GPT3 or other models and long-form narrative it falls apart pretty fast as the model can’t keep straight things like characters and their internal personalities and motives, nor the overall plot arc.

But! You can definitely feed in prompts and ask questions to get ideas and boilerplate - descriptions of people and places come out especially well - and then you can edit that and use it to accelerate your writing process.
Exactly. He has the free speech right to ban them from his platform. He was hoping they'd stick around long enough for him to do that.
It is crazy the stealing guy not being criminal charged, but instead you have to go to beg them to leave you alone. Anyone stealing should be criminal charged. Even the user of that software or the product.
Zero notifications, if such a thing existed, would help an online community stay constructive since the default behavior would be to forget conversations. This would help folks get some distance and perspective rather than being constantly reminded that they have an argument to win.

Another nice thing about zero notifications in our new social media app is that the development effort for that feature is very low.
It's never been about free speech.
Not generate … steal.
So we are bird counting now? What is the upper bird limit?
Yeah, it is just wacky stuff for people to be "COVID-19 NBD" while the hospitals are full and the morgues can't keep up with refrigeration requirements... it is not worth engaging with. The exact count doesn't matter, the spikes demonstrate the truth of the issue.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603572959758663680
Bison Relay: The Sovereign Internet
People who oppose fascism; then again, they plan to dismantle the Internet too, and I hope we start talking about meshnets as a counter to that.
> Quick question: Is it legal to repeatedly follow a person for the purpose of harassing the person with implied threats of violence?

An airplane is not a person.
His follow-up: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603572959758663680

"Apparently not. That's bad."
A JS library that can convert strings into view.
I hope you forgot to use the <sarcasm> tag.
Power Apps has a lot of hype right now in the old-school business sector (a.k.a. the ones that already have a built-in Microsoft audience). It's not a lot of fun if you have traditional development experience but it can easily pay the bills in a big enough market. Plus it's MS, and they've kept SharePoint around much longer than it deserves to be so it's pretty low risk if you're worried about it disappearing overnight.
Plus, how many children and adults have been killed by drugs flowing over a totally wide open border? Data: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html
I feel sympathy for the artists, and who knows what jobs AI will leave!

But I don't think the artists I'm seeing on Twitter understand that, even in their best case, where training on a copyright image is considered total infringement, this genie still isn't going back in the bottle.

Models are getting better and training more efficient all the time.

Soon you'll be able to train a model entirely on public domain content and have great generative art output.

It might be harder to express the style you want than just sharing a name of an artist in that style, but that won't hold things back.

With this worldview the discussion about whether training on something is infringing its copyright fast becomes irrelevant, for better or worse.
Quick question: Is it wrong for you to kick puppies for fun? Do you get pleasure out of it?

(I can asked loaded questions too.)
The web has given me an amazing career and life (that I feel is still very much only getting started). I’m always happy to contribute when I can.

That being said, I wish I could better articulate my opposition to No. 4. I think it’s because it immediately strikes me as a typo, like if someone was editing some CSS, deleted a selector and then forgot to write a new one back in before committing their work. Others seem to suggest that formatting addresses this, but I’m uncomfortable with that because it’s very subjective.
Trying to bait people into flame wars is pretty low effort and doesn’t make for interesting discussion, I don’t think. Plenty of other popular sites for that.
Maybe a related big difference is that McMaster Carr actually know what they sell?
One could be forgiven for thinking any committee depraved enough to enumerate the options sequentially as 5, 4, or 3, moreover where option 3 is not even the same as the prior option 3, has implicitly renounced any standing to be offering solutions in re. developer ergonomics.

Come back, DSSSL, all is forgiven.
The idea as presented wouldn't survive. People fade away from a network more often than they explicitly leave so a capped group of 10 would be 1-2 people soon enough. The challenge that social networks have had is that they need to maintain content levels to encourage engagement, but typically the people you choose to follow will post less with time. This leads to networks adding in a lot of content you haven't chosen to follow - suggested tweets and follows and reels and the like.

Looking at my personal Instagram as an example: I follow 223 people; I mostly follow only people that I know. Often I'll take a look in the morning and there are all of 1-3 things posted. Over time, people have dropped away from using the app or are discouraged by "is this good enough compared to the polished content that trends?" Instagram tries to compensate by suggesting content from people I haven't followed, which I resent.
Ask HN: Is there still a future for front end developers?
I’ve been doing this for a decade now, and increasingly it seems that job listings are almost exclusively “full stack”, or just “software engineer” now. Are the days of specialized front end developers coming to an end?
Hey, why have facts when you can guess?

More seriously, Twitter has been a toxic cesspool long before Elon made it worse, and I’m happy I deleted my account and have never missed it. Actually it’s been a boon when I visit a Twitter link and then Twitter nags me to sign in, it’s a great reminder to close that tab and move on with my life.
> TechCrunch tweeted at Twitter’s new head of trust and safety for comment on the situation and will update this story if we hear back.

Hmm. I guess there's not a number they can call or email to try.
Print Magazine had sumptuous paper. I can’t seem to find the price per issue for this, but it must have been ridiculous.
As an early Tesla investor (from early-mid 2010s), I find Elon's behaviour change over last 2-3 years pretty toxic and inhumane. From the days of fighting california for covid lockdowns to now hiding behind "free speech" doing whatever he wants anyways (which is sucking up to republics and russians and who knows who else).

I want to say this isn't 100% unexpected (some people show true behaviour openly only once they have nothing to lose). However, this does indicate a very deep flaw in our existing society i.e. giving certain individuals too much power; either via their job position or capital. This is why I think we should have higher tax rates and prevent at least an individual just to gain too much control by their capital. I would even be ok with 50%-100% tax rate above 100 million dollars net worth. There needs to be less imbalance in society, not more.

Edit: Also I had divested away from individual Tesla stocks a year or so ago.
If they don't share the conformist, leftist authoritarian views of the HN crowd, then it is legal to do anything to them and they're probably transphobic.
And... They... Just... Keep... On... Using... It.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/us-extends-covid-public-heal...
The best explanation I have seen to date is that it really was about being able to sell a whole raft of TSLA without cratering the market. That he ended up actually having to buy Twitter was a bit of a complication, the whole 'Champion of Free Speech' thing came later.
What most of you still supporting "vaccine" failed to understand is that a jab cannot be developed in less that 1 year. It was a huge experiment and many people paid with either their lives or have suffered severe damage. All for a virus that kill less that common influenza, which a much more dangerous corona virus than covid.
> The use of training data for the DNN is fair use according to jurisdiction in comparable cases.

That's more of an open question given that the lawsuits concerning exactly this haven't made it before a judge yet nor have concluded.

There are some very sound arguments against this particular case being considered fair use, and they haven't seen the inside of a courtroom to be tested.
Kindly asking: did you consider that English is possibly not the author's mothertongue?
Is this his way of going through a public meltdown?
"cops were made for community welfare" is ahistorical political rhetoric. apologies for taking provocation from your hints about questioning anarchist audience/motive in relation to community welfare.

btw, the circle around the anarchist Ⓐ means "order" - anarchists are as interested in community as you are, the difference is in terms of political means (anarchists don't believe the state, legal and state-sponsored policing systems have community's best interests in mind or incentive). anarchist literature is for everyone.
"I just banned fake news and wokeness from Twitter. Isn't this place better than ever?" – Elon

"Yes sir, you totally owned the libs. Could you build a self driving boat?" - fanboys

"On it. Will be launched next year." – Elon
Opera launches Web3 Guard for safer browsing for cryptocurrency users
And my guess is Elon's just spouting random half-ass commands like "banscript anyone who ever mentioned @elonjet" and the hardcore codemonkeys (read: trapped and unable to quit so obviously fearful of being fired) just run them rather than talkback.
In most American jurisdictions, yes, that's legal. The California stalking statute for example (Penal Code 646.9(a)) only applies if the person who's following you intends to make you afraid for yourself or your family. This why stalking victims so often struggle to do anything about it.
> understanding the weird bits of ambiguity and the corner cases

I suspect it would not do a very good job at writing test code for itself. Until it can prove that it writes code that works, it’s only really guessing.
Increase in speed if there's no decrease in density that's too painful. Or increase in density if there's no decrease in speed that's too painful.
Amazon is helping Ukraine by putting its 'government in a box'