skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it safe to say in your opinion that Google and ChatGPT are basically trained on the same information?

Google crawls the web/scrapes it/indexes it.

ChatGPT crawls the web (not sure if they have access to Google's internal scrape results, I doubt it), "trains" a model on it, serves it back to you in a "human friendly readable summarized format".

It's just Google from the perspective of "it's going to return the same information Google has" but instead of a search index trying to guess what's relevant it's an interactive language model designed to basically summarize the same underlying blog posts. Is that your opinion/understanding as well?
The GDPR is only unpredictable if your business model is at best in a grey area with regards to it. The spirit of the law is actually very clear, and should your business model be compatible with it, you will be fine.

It isn't Europe's fault that the tech industry's only business model for the past decade has been about misusing personal data in ways people didn't expect or consent to (otherwise GDPR would not be a problem again since people will willingly opt-in).
OP doesn't depend on Google. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement, not one of dependency. Perhaps if Google was the only employer that would hire OP, but odds are they could quickly get a different tech job at a thousand different companies.

Your argument could be used to say that OP should pay out of pocket for server hardware to run their programs that Google uses, which doesn't make sense.
> Your Netflix account is not "sensitive" - your bank account is :)

While I generally agree with the sentiment (and frankly do the same sometimes) I think it's worth noting that if targeted attacks and spearphishing are part of your threat model (it isn't for most) then a Netflix account can conceivably be traded up like a red paperclip to your bank account.

But if you just care about password stuffing than this is probably fine.
Paul Ehrlich has predicted ten of the last zero apocalypses.
There are really two different groups of compliance programs: privacy compliance programs like GDPR and CCPA, and security compliance programs like SOC2, PCI and HITRUST. What's been happening over the last few years is that some of these security compliance programs like SOC2 or HITRUST are adding privacy concerns (usually as optional components) so that companies can do one audit for everything instead of doing multiple audits.
I think the fact that Windows is much less themable these days is a part of the problem. Back then, people actually used all kinds of weird themes, and that was a forcing function on the developers to stick to system colors. Win7 was the last version that supported it, though, and even then only if you used the Classic theme. Dark mode for Win32 apps wouldn't show up until Win10.
I read that at the time, but that was 7 years ago. Requests has been pretty much backward compatible for that whole time. They could still have active developments available in pypi for people who need the newer features, but python has been dropping minor releases about once a year, that should be plenty fast for new features in requests.
In many cases it is difficult to get funding for ad-hoc donations such as this, let alone the authorization to do it on behalf of the company.

I wouldn't be surprised if that effort was driven by a single employee.
Nope, Facebook is free not to provide those services.

They just aren't allowed to provide them by spying on you.
>Europe that keeps them from being a hotbed of technological innovation [...] across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech.

In some cases it's OK and frankly preferable to prevent "technological innovation" that comes from the US. I recently signed up with a new healthcare provider that wanted me to use their portal, but buried in the signup agreement was text that said you agree that if your data is shared with a third party from this portal it no longer enjoys HIPAA protection and may be used for any purpose. Yeah, fuck that.

I consider healthcare information highly sensitive and see zero upside to handing off any hope of privacy so some middleman can make a couple of bucks reselling my data. That specific kind of "technological innovation" needs to be legislated away - if my data enjoys HIPAA protection it needs to be tainted such that it may never leave the HIPAA ecosystem, and no one should be able to gatekeep my access to healthcare by insisting I give up my right to privacy.
It's not like they haven't been fined before, and continued doing shady shit. I'm sorry, but I have such a low opinion of Meta/Facebook/theZuck that none of this means anything positive to me. I am a much more pessimistic person regarding these kinds of things that I give no credence of benefit of doubt. I also don't trust these legally-binding orders as they are only legally binding until some sharp tongue lawyer figures a way to weasel out from under them.

I'm happy for you that you are much more optimistic about these things, and I hope for all our sake you are not disappointed. From point of view, I can only be pleasantly surprised. To disappoint me at this point would be an ultimate new low.
Higher salaries don't solve shortages. If there's 200 buyers for 150 homes, higher salaries would just let those buyer make larger bids. In order to let the poorest 50 people get homes, we need 50 more homes.
Recently read Nein by Paddy Ashdown. Lot of interesting stories of literally every intelligence agency running their spy networks all over Europe, from Switzerland and everyone knowing each other.
There's really a parallel issue, which is private vs. public interests (companies vs. government / the people).

You see it play out with European companies too, where they exploit populations where either there's lack of regulation or where they can bribe the officials. Profit, see what you can get away with. That's just on the legal front (like this case), not the moral or ethical front.
Replit 100 Days of Code

https://replit.com/learn/100-days-of-python
Not great framing because nobody made electric vehicles worse, they started off at a certain level of performance and then they'll just improve from there.

Now you could say well we made snow plowing worse, and of course in this specific example you'd be right, but you'd be ignoring longer time horizons and not really comparing or accounting for the impact of negative externalities.

An easy way to think about it is if you uninstalled an existing window and had tarp on it for a few days while you installed a more energy efficient window. You wouldn't say "things are worse now!", you'd recognize that you're making a change which is better over the long term.
I wonder if this is the beginning of some kind is Kodak moment for Google. Fundamentally I suspect most people are looking for answers, not link to sites. This product category, to my knowledge, does not really exist right now outside of chatgpt. Google is, similar to Kodak and digital photography, not interested in this product because it might reduce traffic, reduce page views, reduce ads. Google is bloated to show more ads. Ads are per definition distractions and in the way of the core product the customer wants, and I think Google is trapped in this conundrum.
…you realise not everything is a business, right? That things like the arts deserve to exist irrespective of whether they make money?
Good directories:

- https://indieweb.org

- Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195

My favorites:

- gwern: https://www.gwern.net

- Ben Kuhn: https://www.benkuhn.net

- Shtetl-Optimized: https://scottaaronson.blog

- Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com

- Lyn Alden: https://www.lynalden.com

- Beng Tan: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/

- Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/

- Brian Hicks: https://bytes.zone

Me:

- https://taylor.town
I love this story and I wish you all the best. It goes to show that everybody has their own pace and journey.

I feel like a lot of people are happy in their work even without a side gig, but it's kind of not cool to say.

I'm totally happy with my role and couldn't be happier and more committed to my current job.

The beautiful thing is that I have my own pace as well on a side gig. After 10 years of thinking and planning I just started on one faithful day with a HN comment 23 weeks ago.

Today my weekly newsletter for remote working parents has 23 newsletter sends and over 100 subscribers (muscle)
Unfortunately you can't please everyone, but I think your approach is the safer one, and it's ok to put your foot down, it's your project after all. The people who would care so much about external dependencies may not be the ones you want on your side anyways. The only middle ground I can even think of would be something like using git submodule/subtree/subrepo where the user can choose to either not even clone those parts (or somehow exclude them altogether) in order to use the system libs, or be able to update the dependencies themselves if they don't want to stay on your known-working versions.
$50mil settlement is more revenue than most startups. :) https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23270157/apple-butterfly-...
You're right, calling exit when out of memory is at least controversial if not even bad. I still do it because the goal is to be source compatible with GLib. And this is how GLib handles out of memory, unfortunately.

https://libsoup.org/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-mallo...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16974254/glib-handle-out...

Thanks for pointing out the null termination issue. This was actually a bug and I just fixed it in g_string_append_len. The other _len methods look fine to me.

Since CLib aims to be source compatible with GLib the documentation for the respective classes of GLib should do it:

https://libsoup.org/glib/glib-Strings.html

https://libsoup.org/glib/glib-Hash-Tables.html

https://libsoup.org/glib/glib-Doubly-Linked-Lists.html
It's come a long way since the days of our old Orlando Tech meetups :)
> Nobody is talking about it because it is still politically incorrect in our overall culture [1] to admit that globalization is collapsing.

Arguably it is politically in vogue in the US to be against absolute globalization.

For example, the EV tax credits in the IRA are exclusively for US assembled vehicles.

This caused a great deal of upset among foreign carmakers who don't have significant assembly operations in the US. The IRA went even further in requiring the key component of the EV, the battery, to have it's materials sourced in US free trade partners.

Vehicle manufacturing is among the most politically visible and sensitive of industries.

The consensus across the right, left, and center is towards rebuilding domestic industrial capacity in strategic industries.
Not even that; TSMC hasn't closed its factories, and Samsung is as strong as ever. Sony still makes excellent image sensors. Bosch and Siemens still churn out colossal amounts of power and control semiconductors. Etc.

That is, globalization of semiconductors is still there, but suddenly it has less Shenzhen and Hong Kong in it.
You're right in it not being a realistic solution. It's a shame, but I'm not naive.

Your main comment though is about requiring 100% fixes before scaling. I specifically said "until they've ironed out *enough* issues that they can release the tap and scale a little bit more" which is not the same thing, so I'm not actually advocating what is implied. I suspect I'm closer to what you yourself are saying in that argument than perhaps I made clear (sorry).

With that said, I see all this as part of a larger problem. The examples of YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook come to mind. They are terrible at moderation, and the reason is that the default approach is to automate these aspects due to the scale involved.

And I think that's wrong for the same reason as my original comment - if you cannot moderate at scale you shouldn't scale. The annoying thing is that they can moderate at scale, but to do that they would need to employ more humans. Which they won't do.

An awful lot of what is wrong in tech is down to the willingness to scale purely by automation and not with humans, consequences be damned.

Again, though, I'm not naive about the chances of it ever being otherwise.
- uBlockOrigin - Most essential of all

- Dark Reader - To save my eyes at night

- Vimium - Vim navigation for the browser (once you start using it, you won't want to go back)

- Bitwarden - For password management

- Raindrop - For bookmarking and highlighting sites

- WhatFont - for seeing what fonts a site uses
With respect to colors, at least, if you use the system ones for whatever UI framework you're using, it'll be good enough if not perfect.
LeanDomainSearch has found me so many good product/domain names over the years. Thank you so much for creating it, and best of luck to you with going full time!
Unions create a wage floor and standards of working conditions which eliminates the main benefit of churning though young and optimistic people trying to break into the industry. That's another reason (besides barriers to entry) that unions are responsible for why the film industry has more "old" talent than games.
>advertising platforms can effectively defraud their advertisers by serving their ads to people who have no interest in them

Why would a platform ever do this intentionally? This will just result in lower CPM and advertisers pulling out.

>which would be impossible in a world where people explicitly choose which types/categories of ads they're interested in.

It's possible. You can still make an ad model to give people the worst ads and ignore their preferences.
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The use of the term "elites" does not give me confidence in the person using it.
The possibility to have a healthy debate on any topic is the root of progress!
Cookie banners are only necessary when using cookies that are not technically necessary, i.e. for spying.

Also, most cookie banners are designed to nag you into clicking "yes, track me". Refusing the tracking is often more difficult than accepting it, which is illegal.
> It causes so many issues: syscalls that can’t be interrupted (and thus you can’t ctrl+c a process), stuck mounts that can’t be unmounted, hanging for ages on `ls`’ing a folder with a lot of symlinks…

These things have nothing to do with distributed systems, they can happen on any machine. That's what the "Not ready reading drive A. Abort, Retry, Fail?_" prompt is for.
America requires dual criminality for extradition. America has no privacy law similar to GDPR so that couldn't happen + I think GDPR violations are a civil thing only (?).
Did it trigger the WARN act?
You can do something similar (albeit less fancy) without using any 3rd party applications on macOS.

1. Open Automator.app and create a Quick action.

2. Drag "Launch Application" to the workflow and choose an application to open. Save it.

3. Open Preferences -> Shortcuts -> Services and assign a keyboard shortcut to your action. Unfortunately, macOS will not let you assign many combinations. The other annoying thing is that running the shortcut is not instantaneous, there seems to be a noticeable delay before the action executes.
I'm happy to be an EU citizen for all the great tech regulations that are actually passing here !
> It's actually impractical to use ChatGPT just because of how much that gets in the way.

Could you give some examples?
Hey, Thanks for pointing this out.

Currenlty I am using window.location.replace to update the URL field, which doesn't add to history and just replaces it, and on my Chrome browser my history is not bombarded with history like you showed. Previously I was using window.history.pushState, which would pollute the history in a bad way.

Is the browser in the picture EDGE? Would appreciate any suggestions!
What's with the unnecessary "lol" here?

This is just about user choice and freedom from dark patterns.

If you want tracking and targeted ads you are still free to enable that option.

All others are asking for is a chance to opt out of targeting. I don't see why having that as an option is so bad.

If ad targeting was such a great thing for users Facebook/Meta wouldn't have to fight tooth and nail to prevent people having nothing more than an opt out.
Your premise is wrong. Nothing is "banned for all society".

From TFA: "Meta has to get "opt-in" consent for personalized advertisement and must provide users with a "yes/no" option. "

> Going by revealed preferences,

...people are able to reveal their preferences by opting in.
This article doesn’t seem to be about tracking.
One other comment - I appreciate the work to endow the mess of emotions with a bit of vector space structure :)
India approved $2B incentive plan for green hydrogen industry
I like it more than the (admittedly extreme) situation in France. There could be a happy medium, but going far enough down the road to making it hard to fire makes it hard to get hired.
exactly. covid basically ushered in "globalization" for skilled (or even unskilled) workers. now I'm much more open to think hiring 50% of my dev teams in places like Estonia or Mexico compare to just 5 years ago.
Equally, as a US citizen and someone who used to work in the ad tech industry, anti-user products (e.g., surveillance capitalism) needs to die.
Integrals -> Derivatives -> Series -> Limits?

That’s not a progression I am familiar with. In trigonometry and precalculus I learned Series then Limits, then in calculus derivative first then integrals. There are definitely new directions to go with Series and Limits after learning integrals, but the concepts are prerequisites to calculus (and arguably trigonometry).
The dream of the 90's is alive in Portland - The tattoo ink never runs dry
The people downvoting you are suffering from a sort of survivorship bias. Sure, now you'd like the comfort of knowing your employer would have to pay you a ton of money if they laid you off, but what if you were somebody who was recently laid off looking for a job and people were reluctant to hire beacuse of this requirement? It's not clear to me that it's a net win, from my perspective I'd rather be able to easily replace my employer as opposed to them paying me for a few months.

A strong labor market has been effective in rasing the real incomes of the bottom 25% or so over the past few years, it's entirely possible that a weaker labor market with stronger workers protections would've been less effective at doing so leaving the very poor worse off.
I assume because donations would, ideally, be tax deductible through the company (or at least would have no personal tax repercussions) whereas making a donation of a gross cost of $1000 to an employee might mean only donating $500-600 net.
Giving me an example that is created to work explicitly at system/container level isn't the "gotcha" you think it is.(IAM profiles have their own limitations)

Separate process vaults, HSMs and other techniques of offloading security credentials - are the same for microservice architecture, as "monolith".

The implication that anything other than a microservice architecture must be exclusively an uber executable doing literally everything, is naive.
In Russia few decades lobbied initiative, to store all country traffic for some amount of time, for law enforcement agencies. As I know, now this reborn-ed to store just connection initiation data (tcp syn from tcpdump, gsm call originate/receiver numbers, datetime stamp and duration).

In Ukraine, I hear inside, one law enforcement agency asked big provider ~ in 2000 to gather all emails. Co-owner said, "ok, you will got it". Than he few weeks gather old hdds from everywhere, and once sent to this agency small truck with few hundreds hdds, filled with data.

After that, at least 10 years, nothing similar asked.
> People are awful at understanding their own risk profiles, especially in the face of advertising.

Advertising is also regulated, by the government. The same one that regulates what goes inside of food. If the public is vulnerable to manipulation by advertising, the government is also vulnerable to manipulation by lobbying (remember the USDA "food pyramid" that put grains at the bottom due to industry lobbying?). Your argument is inconsistent because it implies that the government is somehow both simultaneously going to allow the public to be deceived by advertising, but correctly regulate the contents of food itself.
Apple is designing for more IPC and lower clocks, whereas Intel and AMD basically need to target their designs towards a 5GHz target clock rate to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lower clocked, but much wider core can be much more power efficient, and Apple almost never provided sufficient cooling to run Intel processors at sustained top speeds anyway. A larger die increases cost, but vertical integration means you don't have to find margin on each component, just the assembled product.

E cores work the problem the other way, if you narrow the core, you can get about half the work done per core, but in about a fourth the space. That's a win for throughput, but not for latency/interactivity. Drastically different per core performance makes OS schedulers work harder though.
Not fun. I read somewhere a year ago that there will are more than 10000 salesforce cloud related jobs available and can't be fulfilled.

For me it looks like Salesforce is here to stay. We'll see how it goes for them if their clients start to tank.
In the past, teachers would just hand out endless worksheets to drill students.

I don’t see how that is any less of an excuse for substandard teaching.
Yes and, unfortunately, conversation around these issues always falls into the Communism vs. Capatalism line of debate rather than ossification of systems consolidation of power - the far more impactful topic.
The Irish DPC is supposed to be an independent regulator. In practice, it has acted as an arm of Irish economic policy.

This story shows the DPC for what it is: a regulator that was captured from the beginning. The idea that the DPC might sue EPDB is astonishing and shocking.

This comes as I read of Irish plans for a watered-down Northern Ireland Protocol. That would certainly please the UK government; but it risks subverting EU law. If the Irish government is bent on circumventing EU law, perhaps they should just get out of the EU.
The really frustrating aspect of this whole story were the attacks to the users who were reporting these issues. Apple was officially ignoring them, but their army of fanboys and payroll-“journalists” were straight out making fun of people: “you don’t know how to maintain a laptop”, “you are dirty” etc

If not for Casey Johnston and Joanna Stern, who clearly have some journalistic integrity and went against the giant, we would still not have acknowledged the problem.
Shopify is axing all meetings involving more than two people
Get ready for assisted living and nursing salary to double. There’s already a shortage.
Because globalization is not dead, nor will it ever be. The only thing changing is countries trying to bring production of strategic items or high value products to keep all the profits.

They may bring chip manufacturing back to USA, but all the flags, hats and freedom merch for Fourth of July will still be produced in China and that is never changing no matter how hard you try. People don’t like paying more money and that is not going away.
> It is bloating my ABI if I'm not careful

How so? The private implementation functions are usually declared static, only the public API functions are visible to the linker. Some single-file libraries also allow to declare the entire API as static (via a config define) so that none of the library API functions are visible to the linker.
Noted - thanks for the nudge to work on it!