skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, it is important to recognize that the collective good and well-being of society should always be a priority, and that includes protecting against harmful or extremist ideas that could cause harm to others.

As an American, I disagree. We are a sovereign country, and people from other countries don't have any say in how we conduct ourselves. It doesn't whether it's online or offline.

American Nazis and Tankies have the first amendment right to spread their dumb ideas. If they want to make their own websites, that's fine with me. The government should mind its own business unless there are actual crimes taking place.

The rest of the world doesn't have to like it. It's just the way it's going to be.
Ableism? Isn’t that a bit much? That this taking the victimization nonsense to a level even I didn’t think was fathomable.
> Airtable is so so nice as a backend/DB for simple sites, and I'm intrigued by an open source competitor!

https://baserow.io/
> “Part of the reason why there are so many vacancies and unfilled jobs in the US is that we are missing a whole lot of immigrants who regularly were coming before Covid,” said Giovanni Peri, the author of the UC Davis research and Director of the Global Migration Center.

Is that correct? My understanding is, Covid led to a noticeable number of (mostly) women opting out of FT work. That is, financial day care is too expensive compared to being a stay at home parent.

That's not to say immigration won't help. But why has the narrative not been willing to address the sociologist shift triggered by Covid?

p.s. I ask this after reading (in 3Q 2022) "Pay up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)" by Reshma Saujani.

https://www.amazon.com/Pay-Up-Future-Women-Different-ebook/d...
I don't aim to control anyone. Only not support AI and find other people of a similar mindset to do so, and spread this message. People can of course ignore it.
Events which statistically can be expected to happen every 1 to 5 years will widely be called "unprecedented" and "nobody could have predicted".
100 no but 90-95 is possible but hard to get. 70-80 is standard for consumer grade stuff
You have effectively moved the conversation from 'the FBI requesting removal of illegal content' is completely different from'the FBI is acting to enforce censorship of protected speech with twitters willing compliance' to 'is the journalist being an alleged sex criminal relevant'. So lets all stop that line and go back to 'regardless of anyone's past activity raping peoples, you are wrong.' Retort?
Depends on how they're benchmarked. If you're a non US employee doing senior dev work at a FAANG or FAANG-adjacent company then I think you are probably correct.
My brother in law works as an engineer for Tesla Palo Alto: according to him these features are all driven from the very top. Always at the expense of fixing bugs, or getting even basic things working reliably in ways that would make driving safer and more enjoyable.
Make your own conclusions about buying one. I would steer clear, literally, knowing some of the bugs in there.
Yes, and they also put a lot of effort into intentionally disguising the fact that they're plagiarizing. AIs don't.

The real problem is that our definition of "plagiarism" did not anticipate, and was never intended to describe, anything even remotely like ML.
It's easy to take a single example and demonstrate a principle. That doesn't mean it'll hold water when the next issue comes around.

Should a small bank be obliged to provide payment processing for a supremacist website? Do they have the right to use the logo?

I'm not falling on one side or another. Simply pointing out what reality has been demonstrating strongly in recent years. These issues will come up. So will other, more commercially salient issues.

A service like Kickstarter just won't be neutral. There's no chance. Pressuring Kickstarter won't help. Want neutrality? It needs to be achieved by a different path.

I'm worried about AWS, and such. The current state of affairs is such that exclusion, censorship and such are inevitable.
Tiktok doesn't operate in a vacuum. They have US advertisers and pay US content creators. You can very well impose drastic fines and make it very difficult to make any money in the US if they violate privacy laws. You also have Google and Apple that are US based and have to ability to audit these apps.
What on earth happened to Matt Tiabbi and Glenn Greenwald? Does a certain amount of exposure to news and conspiracy break people at a certain point? I occasionally worry that they didn't change but that I did.
That's coming to an end.

There's only so much a cell phone needs to do. I think a Note 4, which is 8 years old at this point is still a perfectly functional phone, with only software related issues. And the battery is replaceable.
> AIs are just doing the same thing but way faster, and I don't see any issue with that.

Isn't this like saying "cars are just doing the same as horse drawn carriages but faster, they shouldn't be regulated differently"? That "faster" changes the game completely. Similarly, many of the laws applying to physical actions can't be immediately transposed to electronic actions.

The current rules were made under the assumption that we're dealing with humans and "natural" laws. Like the fact that humans eventually die while an AI can live forever or transfer the entirety of useful knowledge to the next generation. A human doesn't have time to steal in a lifetime as much as an AI can do in mere minutes. A human can be punished for breaking the law, especially for repeat offenses, whereas an AI can't be even if it breaks the law more times than all human artists put together. These are all complete game changers, speed is only one of the many compounding factors. Scale changes things, a punch in the face isn't just "a gentle tap, but faster". An AI can suck in all of human knowledge and work with all of it at the speed of light.

> How do you think humans learn art?

Humans as a race have created art from literally nothing. Humans as individuals have constantly advanced it with original material. AI seems to be by definition derivative. Humans are encouraged to create something as original as possible and attacked if they borrow too much, AI in "encouraged" to copy as much as possible and as this discussion stands to prove, also to "borrow".

This at the very least invalidates the too simplistic view that AI is the same as humans but faster.
While I agree, is this not more of a case of self-preservation? It sounds like KS knows that it may not be able to weather the lawsuits from copyright infringement and CSAM generation.
I feel like if someone made a bunch of threats on Twitter and then followed through with them people would be completely outraged why the FBI didn’t stop them.

Anyway it’s interesting we are having this debate TODAY when after 9/11 and a decade later the adroit use of social media by ISIL the alphabet agencies were crawling all over the internet. Pandora’s box was opened years ago.
Technically it has to point to _a_ valid frame, but it doesn’t have to be the active function’s frame. So it’s safe to omit setting up a normal call frame, you just aren’t supposed to use it as a GPR.
Somewhat counterintuitively, people are often more creative when they have more restrictions in place. Being limited in what you can do can make people more likely to find creative solutions.

I suspect that this is an example. There are a huge number of ways things could be worse, and a far smaller number of ways things could be better. So it may actually be easier to come up with examples from the latter set, since your options are more restricted.
> all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy.

This is true, but your framing of it as something that could be stopped if… something? is absurd
My predictions for 2023 ( lets see how badly they age; I so want to be wrong on some of those btw ):

- Crypto POW will be banned in US, but not across the globe introducing new hot underground market
- RTO will be ultimately successful due to confluence of FED overshooting with rates and big employers colluding behind closed doors
- WFH will become a carrot for more 'vocal'/useful employees
- Giant consolidation across industries ( including Big Tech ) will continue unabated and any slaps ( MS + Activision will serve only as an olive branch for the hardcore 'break the tech' crowd' )
- Musk may end up being removed as CEO of Tesla and/or Twitter ( not because of popular demand, but because of shareholders ); SpaceX will likely still keep him
- SBF ( Bankman ) will not go to jail, but will get a sweetheart deal for a publicly unknown reason despite public uproar
- Copilot and similar technologies will be adopted by giant vendors pricing out coders from Singapore, India, Ukraine ( and other former soviet republics ). Amusingly, resulting code and output will be contractually guaranteed to be reviewed by internal customer team increasing workload beyond and further increasing a number of competent programmers
- After Disney discovers the risks of AI generated art based on its IP, it will be severely handicapped for general population ( think, DVD optical drive where you can only change a region once )
- Disney's streaming service will become dominating streaming platform
- Netflix will be bought by Microsoft in 2023 and will perish in 2025 ( if history is any indicator )
- Israel will attack Iran before redline of enriched uranium is crossed with a quiet permission from WH
- Trump show ( including Biden's laptop arc, Jan 6th arc, and 24 run will continue to be broadcasted on dying medium that is cable )
- Free speech freedoms will be further eroded under an attempt to rewrite Section 230 ( unsurprisingly, carve outs will be made for current existing players )
- Splintering of the net will continue in an unexpected direction: 1) standard based 2) community gate-keeper based AND, naturally, along currently redeveloping geopolitical lines of influence
- Ukraine war will escalate further to include NATO member either by provocation, an actual accident or choice of one of the powers
- OFAC list will expand twofold as a result of the above
Thank you, I discovered few new tools with this website :)
> For many categories of research, especially works in other languages, this strategy won't work in the future because the primary sources will increasingly be contaminated by citations of sources built by AI and ML, unless by "primary source" you mean "dedicate 20 years of your life to learning this language and studying the original, ancient manuscripts."

Isn't that—not the "learning the language" part, but the "original" part—exactly what "primary source" does mean?

For some citations this may be a higher bar than others, but already the basic bar of, e.g., checking direct quotations, and discounting (in the sense of assigning less credence to, not necessarily completely disregarding) works that summarise their sources rather than quoting them directly, can eliminate some intentional or unintentional misrepresentation without requiring a disproportionate investment in learning to read the sources.
I'm sure the cited expert really is an expert, but this article fails miserably at conveying any cohesive understanding from them to you. It's full of conclusions that don't follow from their leading statements.

My understanding about warming up an engine before putting load on it had nothing to do with fuel or power steering fluid, it was about thermal expansion of all the machined parts that suffer wear if they are run under load while they are loose-fitting from being cold. This is a thing even in summer and merely worse in winter.

This article barely talks about this and doesn't say anything intelligible but just says "stress" from stepping on it right away.

Maybe that issue also no longer exists on modern engines, but nothing in this article explains that.

Mostly everything this says about why idling is supposedly bad, applies to operating the thing at all, idling or not. The conclusion would be "don't use your car at all in winter"

Well, if you're going to use it at all, then you're already doing the damage, so you might as well be comfortable and have an easier time clearing the windows. The device only exists in the first place to serve you.
I'm sysadmining because there's noone else who can.
I.e. don’t do what a former coworker did (on x86) and use both the stack pointer and frame pointer registers as index registers for your FFT implementation.
Honestly I don't see anonymity as a right. It is a sticking plaster defence against the loss of other rights and protections.

Yes it is useful for people to organise against oppressive regiemes (either Amazon strikebreakers in Wisconsin or police / security forces in Tehran) but we really should have a clear and direct solution to Amazon in a democratic society. And if we cannot then anonymity is a poor second best.

Secondly, yeah you want to be a paid shill for Russia / BP / Qatar etc go for it. Reputation matters. Maybe some kind of labelling / fair advertising is a good idea "all opinions expressed here have been paid for by tonights sponsor Marlboro."

I would be interested in hearing from a proper human rights lawyer - anonymity is going to have a lot of case law surely?
That depends a lot on why you left and your relationship with the company/manager. A sensible manager will know that any employee could move on at any time, therefore it's not unreasonable to take someone back whose circumstances have changed. They're still going to provide higher immediate value than a new hire, and I don't know that they'd even have a higher risk of leaving, again depends on the existing relationship.
The problem is that so far there hasn’t been much of interest here. Having a few people tweet unsupported claims gets more traction because some people won’t read past the spin and it allows the more journalistic end of the right-wing media to talk about it without being directly criticized for the spin: Fox News can run a “people are saying” story rather than claiming it as an original story.

The story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was similar: if there’d been anything significant revealed the WSJ or Fox would have covered it directly. There wasn’t and Giuliani’s sloppy handling made it unreliable, so they didn’t want to put their reputations on the line.
A common actor strategy for that is to have a dedicated actor for communicating with that mutable state
Chances are, they probably really did violate the TOS. Or most of them did, at least. So then you, as the employee receiving it, probably do feel some real pressure to remove the tweets when the FBI has correctly pointed out that, yes, these tweets are against the site's terms of service. Many tweets likely are against TOS, but nobody would give them any real thought.
I remember using a 800x600 16 color generic SVGA driver with early Windows (3.11 or 95?).
At registry level, I guess the mode was made mostly standard as a derivate of the 640x480 16 color standard VGA mode. Indeed both modes fit within the 64 kiB segment using 4 layers and matching the 256 kiB of VGA memory.
I've always been a holdout due to pc games, now I just bought a desktop pc for the first time in 10 years. If steam really manages to pull of Linux gaming, it is gonna be my year of Linux desktop!
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I mean we allowed the alphabet agencies to cooperate with social media companies to fight "ISIS propaganda." -- what did you think would happen?

Scorpion, frog, etc.

If we had stood up to them in 2013, drew a line in the sand and said "No, a bunch of poorly edited snuff films aren't going to cause a bunch of American teens to join an Islamic revolution" these relationships wouldn't exist.

By the way, we are currently trying to ban TikTok because of similar concerns about it rotting teens brains. Before we start frothing at the mouth in rage at some problematic app let's do a thought experiment and consider the future blowback from taking such extreme action.
I worked at the engine plant in the early 2000s that made the 4.6l v8 that was in Crown Victoria for cop cars and cabs. The cop/cab version of the engine was different in that it had a highly polished timing chain for exactly this reason.
> I don't see how idling would 'strip it away.'

What the article is saying here is technically correct, but I doubt the effect is as large or as detrimental as the article says.

The key point is that, as the piston moves up and down in the cylinder, the part of the cylinder wall that is traversed is alternately wetted by oil and gasoline. When it is wetted by gasoline (i.e., when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke), some of the oil can dissolve. But when it is wetted by oil again (i.e., when the piston is at the top of its stroke), as you say, the oil pump will push more oil onto the surface and replace what was lost. So the actual effect will be to very slowly decrease the amount of oil in the engine. This might also mean a small increase in engine wear, but I would not expect that to be very significant compared to all the other sources of engine wear. If one is really concerned about the possible loss of oil, just check the level between changes (which many people do anyway).
<< WW3 trends on Mastodon.

Sir. You have won the internet today. I salute you.

It is funny. It is timely. It works on several layers.
No visitor counter?
Canadian wrongful dismissal law is quite different. It's not so much the statutes as the precedents that have been developed in a number of court rulings. If you have followed the Business section of any Canadian newspaper, you would be well aware of employment law rulings in Canadian courts.

I suspect Amazon HR has assumed that they can get away in Canada with what they do in the US.

They may be about to be taught an expensive lesson.
why is it distorted?
It doesn't have all of the conversational tuning, but regular GPT (https://beta.openai.com/playground) is much less restricted than ChatGPT.
One would hope that after the patriot act, the bush jr wars, cablegate, the nsa leaks and so on just in the last 20 years people would desire to not keep the old habits, but I suppose all it took was one buffoon to take presidency and all that rolls back.

Truly a sad sight from those looking hopeful after the occupy movement and all the anti surveillance sentiment post-leaks.
I'm not aware that this was a common practice in periods of early email adoption.
The cold still damages your EV’s battery. It is still, after all, a lithium ion battery.
I did. My issue is more with the fact that many people keep old devices around stashed away which over time can turn into fire risks.
That's the thing though - almost nobody is. Neither are the people merging the PRs, and while there's significantly fewer committers than contributors, the current setup just makes sense at scale. I'm not saying it's a good end result, just the most efficient at the time.
Define "old" in this context. Is old considered 7 years ago, around when this guy was an employee at logmein?
Right, just like ChatGPT operating on matching and predicting patterns doesn't mean that it doesn't understand.
Are there any good sources of statistics that back up this concern?
> It was because they become too slow

This can also be because of degraded batteries. It will also be much less of reason over time as phone processors mature.
Not OP but I do - because I’ve tried Ruby and python feels like an extremely clunky and inflexible version of it - similar enough to feel quite close and remind me of all the flow and conveniences it doesn’t have.

The feeling is like speaking to someone with a stutter or walking in a room filled with things to slightly stub your toe onto.
The US is a limited govt.

No govt agency can do anything for which it isn’t explicitly authorized.

The FBI is not authorized to be ensuring private companies adhere to their policies.

If a agent is being paid — with taxpayer dollars - to check on Twitter and give it ‘advice’ on how to run itself, that agent is acting outside the scope of his authority.

It’s an abuse and misuse of power.

It doesn’t matter what the ‘greater good’ is. The FBI’s purpose isn’t to generally look out for the greater good. Rather, it’s to investigate federal crimes. There is no crime in telling people to ‘vote this Wednesday.’ There is no crime of ‘misinformation.’
The FBI were sending Twitter lists of pro-Venezuela, pro-Russian, etc "bot" accounts. Were they really doing forensic analysis to determine they were run by foreign governments or were they just flagging account with opinions that ran against US foreign policy?

All the while the government was running their own fake bot propaganda accounts and having Twitter white-list them against their bot filters.
Yep. My buddy actually worked at making one practice less paper dependent. If there is a place, where tech did not make a big impact yet ( and some of it for a reason like confidentiality ), this is it. Naturally, doing it well will be hard ( and suddenly finding a lawyer that knows what he/she is doing tech wise will be about as bad as .. any other company on the planet ).
> Sun would have been pushing shit uphill to convince Oracle to support a new port for a BSD they would sell on x86 systems.

That would have been far and away the easiest part of that mission. Oracle will keep an utterly obscure port of the core database product alive for a single customer if they're paying enough money, or at least that is the way it was 20 years ago, and their other products generally just depend on a working JVM. A BSD port in cooperation with Sun would have been extremely easy.

Making enough people in Sun care about desktop computing again would have been the hardest part.
First, thank you for actually discussing this because I’m interested in this topic and appreciate your point of view.

I do not know if any animal is “happy” but this[0] is the paper (and there are quite a few that are similar in nature) that have empirical evidence that “happy chemicals” aren’t only there for happiness.

Another point is that the “happiest” and longest living pockets of civilization are actually farmers[1]. Costa Rica and CA should be discounted as there is a 20 year average age discrepancy between Japan/Italy/Greece(90s) and CA/Costa Rica (70s).

In my opinion, I would say that happiness is evolutionary and it is driven by desire to get better/explore, etc. This fits your thesis but I fork at the notion that it’s a driver. My hunch is that happiness is kinda like candy or weekends — intended in small doses as reward for survival. Since “happy chemicals” are responsible for such a large swath of human bodily functions[2], a high release can have detrimental effects (dopamine is responsible for movement and memory, for example, in addition to motivation).

Basically, I agree with the video that we’re not suppose to be always happy and our search is actually a by product of understanding “happiness”. Kinda how pigs will purposefully knock apples to the ground and eat them a week or two later to get drunk[3].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2720267/

[1]: https://time.com/5160475/blue-zones-healthy-long-lives/?amp=...

[2]: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22581-dopamin...

[3]: https://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/drunk-pigs/
I'll go one further... if even 1 single person (the person who owns HN), decides that they don't like the content of that comment, then they should be free to delete/censor the comment on HN and ban the person in perpetuity from HN.

Your argument doesn't really make any sense because everybody here is talking about speech in the context of a walled garden owned by a company/person. That is a completely different situation than what you are alluding to. I can just as easily prevent the reverse question: I have a blog with a comment section, and somebody I don't know posts a horrific, rude and distasteful comment that I don't want associated with my blog post. Can the government force me to not delete that due to free speech, or do I have the power to moderate my blog however I want?