skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unsettling to see how lacking in ethical principles some people are. If you truly believe that you would not care if a highly Republican-leaning social media company was collaborating with the government to suppress content from Democratic creators, then I can understand your perspective. However, it's likely that this situation would be viewed differently if the roles were reversed.
> Not encrypting the URLs is just such a baffling choice, i honestly don't understand how that ever happened.

That's obviously a design choice in order to extract data that can be monetized.
How trustworthy is git-fsck for detecting random-bit corruption?
These two items have always been true, they do not describe the future.

For instance:

"If I take position A on something and you take position B, it's possible that we can both believe the other person is conversing in good faith."

There are only 8 or 9 people in the world with whom I can have good and challenging conversations. I have to know they are arguing in good faith. I don't waste my time arguing with someone who might be arguing in bad faith. I don't waste my time arguing with someone who is lying, or who doesn't believe in anything they themselves say, or who is simply trying to manipulate me, or who is simply trying to insult me, or whose idea of veritable fact is utterly different from my own.

There are also those who are simply engaged in mental work so different from my own that I would have to devote years of study before I could understand them, and I have no interest in investing those years. Gödel's incompleteness theorems remind us that for any given system of axioms there will be statements that are true but which cannot be proven true using only the given axioms. If I were to waste time engaging such people in conversation then they might end up saying something that is logically consistent but it would take me several years of effort to figure out that their statement was logically consistent, and without investing those years of effort, it simply sounds like they are speaking nonsense. But I don't have enough lifetimes to figure that out.

Therefore, challenging conversations, that are personally useful, have always been limited to small groups of people.

Likewise:

"I think there's a future for folks who self-organize into interlocking circles of trust."

That is the way things have worked for humans for at least 10,000 years. We self-organize into interlocking circles of trust. That's how circles of friendship work.
Similar-ish: “Cool, but obscure X11 tools”

https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/
5. Ain’t happening, too many people died or retired and the worker shortage won’t be fixed for decades due to a population collapse that is starting.
It's written into my contract, so I get a larger notice period and potentially redundancy money if I'm fired after six months.

I haven't studied the actual law, probably should!
Life is not short [0]: we just waste most of it.

[0] https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short
I know a lot of people who after crashing and burning became "born again Christians" and started voting Republican.
I truly struggled with writing for the longest time, but three practices helped tremendously. The practices are 1) writing with a piecemeal approach, 2) accumulating notes as fuel for tomorrow’s writing, and 3) rewriting with keyword outlines.

My most important shift was to start writing nonlinearly. Instead of writing a beginning, middle, and end, I instead gather together all the claims, facts, etc. and develop them individually without concern for the overall logical structure. Eventually, the pieces start fitting together and the linear structure emerges. It is so much easier to start with too much and whittle it down.

Where do these claims, facts, etc. come from? This is what your note taking system should create. As I read a text, I highlight relevant sections and then go back through to paraphrase them. These notes are organized around topics and solve the daunting blank page problem.

How should you paraphrase? Keyword outlining is the practice of picking a handful of _keywords_ from a source text, setting aside the original text, and then paraphrasing using the keyword outline and your recollection of the original text. This is a subtle shift from the typical approach of changing a few words of the source text to paraphrase it. This is also great practice for honing your sentence and paragraph writing skills.
What is good summary that point to the core of the issue as revealed by these “leaks”?
What am I missing then?
Maybe instead of just repeating that we should re-read them, you should point out exactly what is so aggrevating, and where in the files you're referring to?

Simply repeating things is a propaganda and brainwashing technique.
I'm not so sure about that. Since the bubble burst, Japan's GDP per capita has been flat for 20+ years. And South Korea is on the verge of a population implosion, with its pathetic 0.81 fertility rate. 2020s will be a challenging time for these countries.
> "these are Russian disinfo, eradicate them"

The actual wording, of course, was this sort of thing:

"FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy..." (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-employees-notified-twit...)
With football at least, I think they’re underpaid considering the major problems with TBI those guys are having.
Google, IBM not require college degrees in a tight job market, but may not last
> The dead internet theory will become true.

How would you know that it isnt already?
This doesn't seem like a good explaination. If you ask ChatGPT to separate each letter in a word with a comma, it will do it correctly. So it can "see" and do operations at the character level.
I don't see the point of this. Airtable sucks at anything except providing a managed database you can store a small amount of data in for free. If you have to do the hosting yourself, just choose postgres.
So, what's so special about Silicon (Si) which puts in the middle of the 8-shaped figure at the top of the story?

Also, why does Carbon seem to protrude from the spiral towards Silicon?
The fact that comments such as yours are getting downvoted straight to the bottom tells me that people simply aren’t willing to see the implication this has to whatever illusion of freedom the American people still possess.
No mention of their business model. Looks like an HN clone from the image; where's the repo?
Likewise Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook.

Hadn't stopped them.
The distinction between the government "asking nicely" and "making demands" is not strong enough. In theory could Twitter could have resisted but the costs would have been quite high.

The government should be prohibited from making such requests.

It's also apparent that regarding the Hunter Biden story the FBI outright lied in order to make web platforms censor the story.
Augmented intelligence is another aspect of automation. Does not sound as scary of create entirely new paradigms.
All art, to some degree, is farmed from public imagery. That isn't a great argument for AI art being theft. All major styles of visual art came from somewhere, and people copy them anyway. If you study art in college, art history is literally part of the curriculum and you spend time trying out different mediums and styles pioneered by other people.

Truly original art is rarer than 8' tall humans, but that doesn't stop the industry from existing at scale.
The push toward fewer and fewer owning "everything" puts humanity in a position where we're not really very likely to survive another century (or two) and even if we do, we probably won't be very "civilized" anymore. If ever it gets to a point where there's just one person in charge of everything then we'd best hope they're benevolent, fair, intelligent, and wise. The nature of human greed makes that highly unlikely.
It depends on what you use on their respective OSes. If you use your MacBook as an expensive Chrome/Slack/Netflix machine, I'd agree it's straight forwards to upgrade macOS. However there is a large range of very expensive professional apps that are pretty much guaranteed not to work on major version updates before the vendor also releases an upgrade, if they ever do. Avid for example. Or Ableton. There's a huge library of 32-bit x86 VST plugins that are now locked away from newer macOS versions due to it dropping 32-bit support.

A lot of hardware didn't get new drivers either, and macOS went and changed that around a few versions back. These are professional products, with many thousands of dollars invested into them,
so the upgrade cost is often impossibly high. Hell, I forget the name of the movie, but it was cut on a version of Final Cut Pro (not X) that was five years old when the movie was cut. That editor held onto that their ancient un-upgradeable machine for dear life because that was the workflow they lived and breathed.
If someone can suggest the best URL for this topic, we can change it again. (It was even worse before.)

Edit: we changed the URL from https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/weather-verif... now, to the article suggested by timmaxw and semi-extrinsic.
I disagree. Fighting against technology has a point. Some people are already recognizing it and using less technology, and trying to live simpler lives. Every dollar that is not spent on technology slows its progress, and if enough people quit spending money on it, it cannot develop.

Movements can grow unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere. It may be possible that enough people will enjoy the idea of living a life unencumbered by pointless junk and if so, their actions can have the power to shut down companies like OpenAI and the like.

If I could convince even one other person on this planet of the dangers of technology, I would consider the effort I put into talking about it worth it. In fact, I myself have been convinced by other people and in turn I have already spent far less money on technology because of it. Maybe it's a drop in the ocean, but drops of rain can become floods, and one day I truly hope that flood will come to completely shut down efforts like UnstableDiffusion and similar projects.
> If one wants to spend that time productively better to invest it in working, doing research, or entrepreneurship.

None of those are “socializing and making connections” though. Sure it happens during these events, but this article seems to say it’s “innovators” of our tech world—who dare to dream. Except the people who actually did that work weren’t out partying. They we’re studying physics, chemistry, math and programming while having a curiosity to tinker and experiment with this knowledge.

It also took some silver tongued entrepreneurs with rich families like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, etc. to use these geeks (being rich nerds themselves) to create profitable organizations now synonymous with Silicon Valley itself

I guarantee you, innovation isn’t suffering because a bunch of Stanford frat students can’t fill houses up with sand anymore.
I made a website for my amateur games at the time, with the requisite visitor counters and guestbook. I was fortunate enough to find an archive somewhere, and saw someone who worked at a library had come across my site and left some encouraging words. For me, that was the best part of the web back then.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
Nonsense. The "art" you're creating is derivative of art other people made which you saw and learned from/incorporated into your own work.

More to the point, much of modern art is derivative nonsense that lacks soul - which is why it's modern artists who are scared of AI. Their work is easy to mimic.

AI isn't going to replace a Van Gogh anytime soon.
At the risk of sounding like the snob that I am, isn't that a selling point for Mastodon? Keeping the complete morons out by making it slightly difficult or requiring a modicum of effort is a big plus, as far as I am concerned.
You should probably briefly skim the Wikipedia article on the Gestapo.
I for one agree with pleb_nz, its kind of like replacing CLI with GUI. Thank you, but no thanks! To me writing custom bash script or "kill -9 $(lsof -t /dev/nvidia0)" is much better than typing "do kill the process which is locking up my GPU". Plus what if you want ot pass additional arguments to kill or lsof? Once you master CLI you'll never go back, at least that true for me. I'm actually tyring to replace more software that I use with CLI not go back to GUI. I'm even considering making terminal based websites of my projects as an option. So everyone can access them with lynx and similar.
Sure, the Rittenhouse coverage and how people responded to it was terrible. People saw what they wanted to see, regardless of the facts. But the whole situation was ammunition for the culture war and not really a matter of public concern more generally, unlike the Iraq war.
Self Hosting Password Manager
> Year of Linux desktop!

After buying a chromebook a month ago I am completely convinced this came a few years ago and no one paid any attention as it wasn't the vision they had of the Linux desktop.

I was blown away by how nice ChromeOS is to use, how seamless everything is, and how well Crostini (I think it's called this) works at running Linux programs. ChromeOS is honestly the single best Linux experience I have ever had.
Nuclear war
I have to say I’m astonished at the casual dismissal of the blatant lies of the previous Twitter regime, their clear election manipulation, and the governments involvement in drawing attention to utterly trivial social media activity. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the governments attention on small, inconsequential accounts was all a backstop to justify the narratives they were feeding to the press about Russian election manipulation and “misinformation”.

I feel like a frog in the boiling pot watching the other frogs try to convince me there’s no danger. I hope you’re correct.
No, they don't. https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/16051281807503196...
I struggle to see how that would help. There are already plenty of paid shills out there. Just feed your shills the script and once again you have a sacrifice of anonymity for nothing. Like how real naming policies just made people double down.

Frankly I find it disturbing that people jump straight to throwing away rights as the solution.
> these are Russian disinfo

And is that the case of those accounts? Do we have access to what 5ose accounts have propagated?
A lot of people completely agree with heavy-handed information control.
> Per 1gb of RAM

The Google study you linked says "25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion
device hours per Mbit".

Assuming bits, {25000 to 70000}/1e9 * 3016 1000 = 12 to 33.6 bit errors per month. Assuming bytes, it's 96 to 268 bit errors per month.

Apparently you've meant bytes, not bits. (I'm a pedant, but was also just unsure and interested in the numbers.)

FWIW, a comment I ran across that confirms toast0's view[1]: "It's a bimodal distribution - you either have many errors (due to a defect somewhere) or basically zero. If you're on the good side of the distribution, with only extremely rare errors, then you probably don't need ECC. But without ECC, you don't know whether you need ECC!"

[1] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpost...
Thanks Matthew, great write up. I have a couple of questions/comments

1) Have you guys considered changing the licensing to require larger organizations to contribute financially to the protocol? Permissive open source licensing is great for allowing small upstarts (i.e. individuals like me) to build off of and contribute to development without institutional scale funding. However the virtues of the system become hazy when organizations with gigantic budgets come into the fold and begin essentially parasitizing off your work, despite clearly having the resources to contribute. I'd like to live in a culture where sound moral and economic judgement ruled the day, however based on my experience with the current open source company that I work for (https://goteleport.com) and the similar experience detailed in your funding post, it seems that we simply don't live in such a world. IMO the Open Source world should be considering moving to a Source Available model which looks to maintain the innovation/security benefits of Open Source, while experimenting with a greater variety of license enforced models such that larger players are required to contribute financially. Juce is one example of a project that works something like what I'm imagining (https://juce.com/get-juce), Unreal is another model (https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq).

2) As Matrix grows, it seems inevitable that it will fall victim to the spam problems well known with email. My current understanding is that this spam problem is essentially what's pushed email into becoming a de facto centralized protocol wherein its extremely difficult/impractical for independent operators to enter the ecosystem (without large scale financial backing) -- Big co's have developed a notoriously finicky and unaccountable IP-based reputation system which often causes opaque deliverability issues for individuals who try to run their own servers, resulting in many just throwing in the towel and going with a big email provider that can guarantee high-reputation IPs. Based on the Matrix Foundation's stated values, I wouldn't imagine you guys intentionally using the popularity of the matrix.org homeserver to build a similar sort of system, however since Matrix represents a relative clean slate to address this problem in a way that needn't rely so centrally on trust in a single organization, I'm curious on your thoughts on the following:

There's an idea out in the ether of solving spam by allowing users to set a bounty to send them a message, which is returned to the sender if the user accepts the message as non-spam. So for example, I could set my personal bounty at $2, and if anybody not in my contact list wants to send me a message, they need to include $2. When I accept the message, that $2 goes back to them, but if I don't then I keep it. That way it becomes prohibitively expensive for spammers and scammers to engage in non-targeted spam/scam campaigns, while still keeping it relatively cheap for individuals to i.e. send a message to a public figure they don't know, and free to message a new friend who they're sure will return the bounty.
In my case it was clearly a bad RAM stick. Took it out, OK. Switched them around: errors. Replaced it with a new one, back to OK.

In this particular case, a bad PSU would be the end of the PC. It's an HP dekstop mini. Basically a laptop without a screen, powered by and external adaptor that puts out a single 12V line. All further conversions are done on the motherboard somehow.
If any party was responsible for this FBI behaviour, surely it would be the party that was in power at the time? The Republican party were in control in 2020.
Is there going to be more muscle put into polishing up the various bridges? Matrix has an amazing opportunity to be the glue protocol between various communication silos, but there's a few things I've encountered that have been preventing me from using it further.

One issue I hit is this:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack/issues...

I tried pinging the people that were committing to the repo on the matrix channel for that bridge, but never got a response and now I'm just stuck with a room with a dead bridge. It's not a huge deal since the Matrix side of things still works, but having some way to reach out for stuff like that would be really helpful.

The other thing is this issue:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issu...

It's not a showstopper since the bridge still works, but it's a lot of management to sync all of the rooms initially, and keep them in sync with any changes. I'm going to wait before that's implemented before suggesting that we try bridging Discord and Matrix for my friend group that's stuck on Discord.

Hopefully this doesn't come across as negative, I still use and love Matrix myself. All I want for Christmas though is to have one communication app in my life that talks to everyone everywhere effortlessly :)
what is the right way?
Is Rising Student Debt Harming the U.S. Economy?
If it's not reproducing protectable expressions then it's not theft on any level, but merely another tool for producing art, albeit at an industrial scale. This happens in every profession eventually. It's simply your turn.

For my part, I'm quite content with this state of affairs. Now, rather than paying exorbitant amounts of money for lackluster results from artists, people can use so-called AI to generate decent results on the cheap. On a long enough timeline this should result in the price of art assets for games dropping into the basement where they belong, taking the price of games with them in the process. The public benefits, while intermediaries lose. I fail to see the problem.

TL;DR Humanity should not be compelled to dwell in darkness so candlemakers can continue to profit.
Humans generally recognize when they are plagiarizing. AIs don’t.
An average-ish human lifespan of 80 years is approximately 1000 months, or 4000 weeks, or 10,000 days. It's frightening,but my memento mori is to remind myself of this periodically.
Companies should cooperate when compelled so by law, not just cause. This gets into the space where many here knock Chinese companies as they are regularly directed partially by the CCP.

The real question is, when does laws that apply only to the government, like the first amendment, start applying to private companies when the private companies are being directed by the government?
Gpt3 is definitely not going to kill Google.

Gpt4 might though, but probably not, large companies are hard to kill and Google is at the forefront of this kind of research so likely they would counter with their own language model. Imagine if the thousands of data scientists and billions of compute that currently goes towards improving search gets retasked with making language models, that would happen really quickly if Googles main source of revenue gets challenged.
Can you cite a source? Be specific.
By all accounts, he's not a normal person. To quote the man himself: "To anyone I've offended, I just want to say: I re-invented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you also think I was gonna be a chill, normal dude?"[a]

He was never going to come in and execute a conventional "first, don't kill the patient" kind of plan. The upshot is that yes, there's a real chance the patient will die a horrible death, but we don't know if that's what will actually happen yet... so I'm waiting to pass judgment.

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[a] https://theweek.com/speedreads/981823/elon-musk-incredulousl...
Banning DMs talking about true events seems like something reasonable to be outraged about.
Ah the old ad hominem argument.
Objectivity and neutrality have value even if they can never perfectly realized.

Case in point:

You wouldn’t be arguing against objectivity and neutrality if doing so did not advance your own social and political power; you yourself have abandoned any pretense of aspiring to either.

This makes you a self-serving person to whom it would be dangerous to grant power.
Please enlighten us.

I have no agenda or allegiances.

I tried reading them closely. I see some new stuff that is of mild concern given our post-Snowden world, but I am also not able to see the great outrage.
It’s definitely context dependent. But I spent the last few years of my dad’s life not really speaking to him much, and when he died - suddenly at the age of 53 - I realized it had been for really petty reasons. The things I disagreed with him on blinded me to what really mattered: he was still my dad.

This year I sold my company, and as exciting as that has been, I wish I could have told him about it. :(
The middle step is "it's not a big deal/it doesn't affect you"
Ok, we'll try that one - thanks!