skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever
I had to drop the leading “This” from the title as it was too long.
> They should and education and empowering is needed, globally. ... The minimum level of participation is to vote in all occasions.

1. It'd be great to use the Australian system of compulsory voting (and it's kind of a community event, from what I've read). But that's not likely to happen in the U.S., because certain segments of the political spectrum don't want "the wrong sort of people" to vote, and so when they gain power they make it as difficult to vote as they can get away with.

2. "Education and empowerment" has worked so well in other areas of life — among other successes, absolutely no one smokes tobacco anymore; everyone drives carefully and soberly while obeying all posted speed limits; everyone eats healthy foods in moderation to maintain an appropriate weight; etc. (Not.)

And that's why in the tech world, for example, everyone takes the time to properly document their code, thoroughly test every release, refactor when appropriate, and clear away technical debt. (Again, not.)

And in medicine, doctors never misdiagnose illnesses or forget important steps in treatment because they always use authoritative best-practices checklists, which the medical establishment works hard to keep up to date and quickly disseminate to practitioners. (Yep, not.)

Apropos of that last example: Remember the crash of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions [NOTAM] system last week? That's a federal system; 50 state systems would be unworkable.

While we're on the subject of NOTAMs, here's a thought experiment: Imagine that the NOTAM system were somehow to be privatized — investor pressure for growth to boost the stock price would eventually and inevitably lead to dangerous corner-cutting and underinvestment.

3. Bottom line: Every human being is a mixed bag: We're created co-creators helping to build a universe, but we can also be short-sighted and narrowly focused on what we want without regard to how it might hurt others. All this can lead to stupid decisions — or malign ones — which we're great at rationalizing. So: Our political structures and laws need to deal with humans as we are, not as we wish we were.
> Can Comodo's firewall be used standalone, i.e. without its antivirus?

Yep, just pick the firewall from the installers and make sure you uncheck everything except the firewall during the install (they are tricky, these guys):

* https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cis/co...

after installing go through and (again) disable everything but the firewall. I also use their firewall to block their firewall (hah) from updating. Once you do this it works fine as a standalone firewall and the only reason to ever update it is if you reinstall or upgrade Windows.

EDIT: It does per-app blocking great; that's why I use it. I tried glasswire and didn't like it (or maybe they wanted to charge me money, I forget).
I was just thinking "very cute, but needs a killer application", then found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9zfOWTXQc

What could be more badass than a ...uh ...tracked tamagotchi for office warfare?
Just add a Dalek voice ("exterminaaate!") and it's perfect!:^)
Fair enough but you're in the minority there. Average joe just wants directions that will keep them away from traffic jams, and manufacturer maintained head units wont realistically do that without paying a subscription. Even then all their data is going to come from the big tech companies as its them who have all that data.
Very insightful comment. A sort of publication/survivor bias for models that survived the benchmark.
https://tex.com.tw/products/ble-kits
Free In-Person Machine Learning Course in London
Non-profit organisation are running a free course aimed at software engineers who want to upgrade their skills and start developing AI-driven products.

The programme is led by experienced machine learning engineers and will include talks and workshops with data scientists from Deepmind, Meta and Google.
Question: can you modify, compile, and run that code and still have it work for the same uses?
As a Canadian, I think it’s important to provide some additional context. In Ontario, the province where I live, the provincial government has a near monopoly on alcohol sales through its LCBO stores. These stores bring in well over $2 billion of revenue each year (https://www.lcbo.com/content/dam/lcbo/PDFs/AnnualReport/LCBO...). While I know there are arguments for this like “if people are going to drink anyway, the government should control and benefit from it,” it certainly sends mixed messages. The LCBO even advertises to promote alcohol consumption. Even worse, the sale of alcohol doesn’t offset the costs of alcohol to governments, according to this study on a government website: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publ...
Ask HN: How did your life and career change at 40?
I'm fast approaching the 40 mark. Every decade was spent in a certain profession and focused on particular life goals. I find a lot of that is dramatically shifting now as life takes priority over work but also my once prolific coding marathons take a back seat to a more fragmented schedule. I'm curious to know how things changed for others at 40. Did you stop programming? Did you take on a new role? Did you prioritize family or other things?
Fair point, perhaps the solution is the car should feed back more data through to the CarPlay/Android Auto API to allow them to use that extra information?
His cs231n course is how I learnt about neutral networks. And now on to learning GPT and Transformers.
Even simpler is farbfeld which supports 16bit per channel + alpha. The header is nothing more than a magic string and image dimensions.
Is the developer experience on the Web so terrible?
I'm not sure how to respond to this. You seem to believe that panics express problems which are constrained to the call stack which instantiated the panic. This isn't true. But I'm not sure how to express this to you in a way that will convince you. So I guess we're at a stalemate.
I have implemented a Zlib / Deflate decompressor (RFC 1951) in 4000 characters of Javascript. It could be shorter, if I did not try to optimize.

E.g. this C implementation of Deflate adds 2 kB to a binary file: https://github.com/jibsen/tinf
I had a good look for usable info leaks, some GitHub dorking for how the IDs might’ve been generated, but came up naught in the end
You still can have untrustworthy page and user still has to make that determination with TLS or without. If you connect to bad guys server you still will get owned.

Problem is that technically *user should not make that determination* - for casual user TLS is transparent. Which takes burden of technically knowing if traffic was or was not MiTmed out of the question for end user. End users should make less technical decisions because they want to browse websites - not worry about if someone is injecting stuff in their traffic.
They never really took off on laptops to begin with. However most PC GPUs are still majority DP despite USB C being tried as an easy connector for VR headsets and most monitors use a mix of DP/HDMI.
> Of course it can be misused, like any tool, but no amount of safety features in ChatGPT will make users of it more or less careful in their use of it. If someone using ChatGPT cares nothing for using it safely then it will likely end poorly, just like it will end poorly if I use a hammer without any care for using it safely.

I'm not worried about hammers when I have them. I'm worried about hammers when someone who wants to hurt me has them.

Same with ChatGPT.
GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23485732/sony-mocopi-mot...

Not open source but pretty cheap and does 80% of what you want, especially if you combined it with this.
I like it. Easy to understand, fast, no allocations.
ChatGPT is like a super charged rubber duck. It often doesn’t give me the whole answer or the right answer. But it unblocks me and gives me ideas to keep moving.
Ask HN: Fallout of Stable Diffusion/Getty Lawsuit?
It was recently reported that Getty Images is suing Stability AI for using scraped Getty images in its training dataset.

Hypothetically, if a result of the lawsuit would be that Stability AI is no longer be permitted to use its current dataset, what do you think would happen next?

Aren't communities like civitai and huggingface already building derivative models based on the datasets already available?

If individuals use models circulated in the open source community that include Getty Images in commercial products (as I expect they would), and they don't disclose how those images are produced, how would they be stopped?
> Your google search isn't equivalent to my medical degree.

True, occasionally it's better.
DNS? crt.sh? Certificate Pinning? Apply this only to non-routable IPs? Apply this only to certain TLDs, such as: .local .lan .personal
There are many options.
Also, how would this be any worse than visiting a plain HTTP site instead?
Glad to see this kind of courses done in person instead of online.

Also the focus on data engineering seem good!
I dont think self complied version would work with service like belasting etc.

I did not look in depth, but the source code would reveal how thing are getting encrypted and business flows but not the data. That is in the digid's infrastructure
I think of https://wiki.c2.com/ where pages are organized like a graph, but within a page you might see a thread of paragraphs from people replying to each other. That's an interesting mashup of the two ideas.
It seems to be working well for me. As long as you are specific about injuries or weaknesses it seems to take them into account as well which is nice. Also if you have a long term goal, (i.e. marathon, 10 pull up's etc) it will make a training plan to work towards it!
That first paragraph is a master class in making me feel old. 1996 was yesterday for some of us.
That article refers to 8% of the population as "progressive activists," but of course most people who believe in progressive ideals are not activists, so attempting to imply that 98% of the population is conservative and anti-woke is disingenuous at best.

In the context of the posted article, even objecting to the presence of racist and offensive speech counts as "woke." Any positive representation of non-white, non-Christian and non-heteronormative demographics in the media beyond minimal tokenism, and certainly outside of the conservative narrative, is considered "woke."

Most Americans tend to identify as "socially progressive and financially conservative."
A good number of humans would fail your intelligence test.
This is a really great project, thanks, will definitely have a play with this and it might enable some project prototyping for me that are too small for a proper mocap setup.
I was a communications executive and had been for more than a decade. But I always had a passion for engineering and built many side projects. I decided to pursue that passion and became an entry-level engineer. I was fortunate to have my company’s (and my wife’s) support. I went from managing a team of about 20 to being part of a small R&D team of about 6. It was the right change for where I’m at in life now despite a substantial cut in compensation.
With some loss of fidelity, convenience and reaction time, you can always just point a camera at the screen. If no other device is available, a mirror might help.
I think you have a few years on me then. When I was an undergrad, we had a slightly elderly vax 11/780 (iirc) and a line printer that probably deserved 3-phase power.
Actually you can find people that are really "smarter" that others, who get things noticeably quicker, even in research. Although as you note, being smarter isn't enough at university level.

But in any case they are a too small sample to make the modern science work, and most of the scientists are, well, average people maybe "smarter" than the average people but not by very much. What makes the difference is interest, motivation and opportunities.

And I say that as a former scientist that decided he wasn't smart (and interested) enough but who met many non-scientist smart people in his life
It's been extensively discussed on twitter, and the general conclusion seems to be that yes, this particular snippet is good code.
Basecamp details $3.2M bill that caused it to quit the cloud
> pointing to 1001 different (supply) factors

and I would probably agree that most of them have some role, but ignoring the demand side is fundamentally flawed (in principle) given how circularly an economy works, especially over the long run.

Quantifying precisely what role demand plays would need careful justification and counterfactual economic "experiments" [0] but that was not my point. My point is that it is a factor seldom discussed, whereas even casual exposure to non-western society shows that people have very diverging attitudes towards consumption which are very culture driven.

[0] This should not be so difficult. Even today, centuries after the industrial revolution in many parts of the world 50% of the population is not even granted any agency, let alone be drivers of economic demand.
The Microsoft 365 admin panel still asks you how likely you are to recommend it to a friend or colleague.

"Hey Steve, I recommend the Microsoft 365 admin panel. Of all the one admin panels for 365, it's definitely the best!"
The Logitech K400 Plus [1] is a solid contender in the couch-service class IMO. It has a left click button on the top left of the keyboard and a trackpad on the right, such that you can swipe on the touchpad with your right thumb and click with your left thumb. [2] Very natural and intuitive ergonomically, but most importantly for me in college it was both indestructible and cheap.

[1]: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/used/1357323

[2]: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/multiple_images/images50...
When I've talked to startups in the past I've always warned them to be careful about accidentally
building a product which competes with a potential customer's existing good Excel spreadsheet... so it's ironic that I've ended up myself focusing on something that falls into that bucket!

Right now I'd say the big things are:

1. Size of data. Datasette is a great tool for when your data is too big for Excel but not so big that you need a data warehouse - think 100MB to 10GB range

2. Interoperability and automation. Building tools in other languages that interoperate with an Excel spreadsheet - a web crawler that updates it constantly over time for example - is possible but in my experience pretty hard. Writing to a SQLite file is usually much easier in comparison

3. Publishing data. This is a core concept in Datasette: the ability to publish your data online so other people can explore and interact with it.

4. Plugins. Writing plugins for Datasette is pretty easy, and there are over 100 now: https://datasette.io/plugins - so if it doesn't do something you need, you can add that feature independently of the core project

5. SQLite generally. Some projects are a better fit for a database than a spreadsheet, and SQLite is a /really/ good (often underestimated) database.
Requiring a remote 3rd party to bless a transaction in order for two computers on a local network to talk to each other, is tyrannical and anti-resilient.
One obscure aspect of thonny i like is that the whole thing is a simple "executable" package (i.e. a normal package with a __main__.py file). That's it.

This is also my favourite way of packaging python apps. Excludes all need for layer upon layer of external packaging, dependency, and distribution requirements.
Who is Hu? Chinese president is Xi instead of Hu.
Adding 1 Byte to each line of raw pixel data is not that much. You can set it to zeros to avoid filtering. But it gives you a chance to improve the compression.
What scenario are you imagining where your vpn is compromised through Hetzner or Digital Ocean for example? This is a standalone server set up just for you, not sure how tailscale works but does it spin up a segregated server for each customer without a single point of failure?
Thanks for answering, have two follow up questions. How do you differentiate between acquisition of intangible things like Krav Maga and Russian language, and tangible things; is the value you derive from exclusively engaging with them sufficient? Secondly—and this feels like an obvious one—do you feel like the social connections you've made along the way, in what appears to be a black and white intensity of lifestyle, are where you want them to be?

I enjoy travel, and don't have the resources to travel full-time, but at 30 I feel like if I were set up financially for it, my lack of relentless working has let me build a resilient group of relationships that I struggle to think would be around otherwise, and I'd be able to leave for a while without them suffering too much. Those two fulfillments strike me as diametrically opposed, but I always like to hear about other paths.
> click and keep clicked for a second or so the green window button, and it will give you option to put the window in a left/right tile and chose another for the other side

But it won't let you just tile a single window to a side, it is mandatory to select another window for the other half of the screen. Also it moves those windows to a separate workspace for whatever reason, which causes a delay when entering/exiting this tiling mode because of the workspace switching animation.

I'm glad Rectangle exists. Now I just need something like Mission Control but with keyboard support (seriously, why can't I at least select another window with the arrow keys?)
If you want to blog away with simply editing HTML pages, but have no time for coming up with a template, or spend time with databases or static page generators, there's Zonelets https://zonelets.net/
In order to verify your ID with the app your phone must have NFC support to scan the passport/id, and on the screen where you do the verification it says: if your phone doesnt have support find a friend with a phone that supports it, I kid you not..

edit, found it in the code:

https://github.com/MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app/blo...
Here's one example of Cloudflare marketing.

https://www.bigmarker.com/innovatus-digital/The-newest-appro...

> We know a third of web traffic comes from bots with their insatiable appetite for attacks. From credential stuffing, to stealing inventory, to price and content scraping, stopping bots is critical to a strong web experience for customers that is not undermined by bots.

This seems like classic demonizing tactics to me. Generalizing a whole class of users as an out-group, associating them with negative behaviour, painting them as criminals.
185W is nothing? My Haswell desktop with dedicated GPU, ssd and two spinning hard drives maxes at 140W
Sure but by that logic you can outsource any component of your software from the start because it might evolve to be something more complex.

For contrast, adding another service that comes anywhere near touching user data (including user IDs or IP addresses) means doing due dilligence on another service provider, signing a data processing agreement with them, vetting their data protection claims, updating your privacy policy, adjusting your processes for users' data requests (including export, change and removal of their PII) and so on, not to mention adding another recurring expense, point of failure and third-party API dependency.

TINSTAAFL. Of course I understand for many companies (especially outside the EU) a service like this may be much closer to "free" because most companies try to get away with not doing even half of the things I described, whether or not that will come back to bite them. Especially if you're in the business of running a VC-backed startup designed for growth it's often a safer bet to ignore that your engine is on fire as long as you continue to go fast because if you can hit your target (i.e. "exit", whether via acquisition, acquihire or going public) in time that will be someone else's problem or no longer matter.
Did I miss the reference to or evidence of VTOL?
Simple formats are PPM / Netpbm; they’re ASCII text with an identifier line (“P1” for mono, “P2” for grayscale or “P3” for colour), a width and height in pixels (e.g. 320 200), then a stream of numbers for pixel values. Line breaks optional. Almost any language that can count and print can make them, your can write them from APL if you want

As ASCII they can pass through email and UUNET and clipboards without BASE64 or equivalent. With flexible line breaks they can even be laid out so the monochrome ones look like the image they describe in a text editor.

See the examples at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#
"...adding packages is just about 2 clicks."

Thanks for that. I spent part of the day fighting with my kid's Windows 11 PC to properly install the requests module in the Python IDLE, without success. He had Thonny already installed and installing requests was a snap.
Itty-AWS: A teeny tiny ~14KB AWS SDK for TypeScript
Would be right down my alley, but I'm certainly not paying 71.99 to see this article without ads and tracking cookies...
It's a very interesting problem with psychology and the locus of control -- I think, ultimately, it depends on what works for you and solves your current psychological funk at the time.

Some people think they control everything about their lives -- they do think that if they put in the time, effort, and energy, they can achieve anything. When they don't, they blame themselves endlessly. Sometimes, learning that it was something beyond your control (ie social forces were stacked against your particular endeavor) can be liberating and break the person out of personal blame an hopelessness and let them start again.

On the other end of the spectrum is feeling like an endless victim. Sometimes, it's easy to blame everything and lament how everything is stacked against you. This provides psychological solace but can prevent you from moving forward because you're convinced you won't be able to. In these cases, some of the stories of 'self-made' optimism can help get you out of a spot of hopelessness into action.

In this situation, though, what's medicine to one is poison to the other. I can think of times in my life where each view was helpful and warranted, even if they're hard to reconcile with each other.

In this case, the 'truth' isn't really knowable because we can't objectively observe a system we're a part of. So, until we know, I guess it's whatever view gets you where you need to go.
Also, that the therapist recommended Michelle.
I mean deep embeddings (i.e., sequences of hidden states, the ones are computed by all those interactions) , not the shallow embeddings of token ids in the first layer of the model! Those deep embeddings are much richer representations.

Imagine if you and others building apps had access to "GPT3 deep sequence embeddings v1.0" via an API.
Asking ChatGPT to write fiction isn't "propagating" anything. You could argue that questions like "what are some reasons Republicans think Joe Biden stole the 2020 election?" may be prone to misinformation, but selectively editing certain topics ignores the fundamental problem that ALL ChatGPT queries are prone to misinformation.