skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They exist to "protect and serve" those in power, and you're not that person. That's what being a police state is all about

So who are the police serving in this case? It's not like Big Karen(TM) has a trade group that hires lobbyists. It's not like The System(TM) really cares if your kids walk to wherever.

The police in this case are enforcing the morals of some subset of the local population. Some nobody called them up and they dutifully got right on it.

HN is angry because the morals enforced in this case are excessive and the amount of enforcement is disproportionate but the fact of the matter is that the person/people who's morals the cops are backing up with state violence is probably not that different from them.
C was a small enough language to allow compilation on a mid-1970s 16-bit minicomputer with limited memory and a small removable disk pack for storage.

PL/I compilers ran on mainframes.
> For example: hot upgrading. The fact that an Erlang process can tail call itself means that you can swap in a new process with the same signature at the tail call of the old process. Nobody else does this that I know of.

You can do hot loading in C with dlopen and friends, but you've got to be a lot more intentional, and have the right shape of program. I did it once for a networking proxy type thing where Erlang was inconvenient (I'd need to make NIFs to get at the data and didn't want to deal with that), but I had state I didn't want to lose or serialize while making changes to the code. Of course, I then proceded to make only one or two changes. ;)

Edit: or you can do it in C the more exciting way, by updating your mmaped libraries on disk. That'd take a lot of intentional effort to not just crash, which is what tends to happen when you accidentally update instead of replace mmaped libraries. (There's a reason to use install instead of cp)
If it's matched with safeguards that are themselves empowered, then it's not centralization of power.
> I suppose asking for exact equality isn't dumb, but it's a language model, not a paragon of truth.

This isn't about GPT, but specifically about the moderation endpoint OpenAI provides (and also uses internally). I'm not sure if they published how it works, so for all we know it might not be a large language model but something much simpler. It's also free, so both in terms of cost and added latency there are good reasons for OpenAI to do something more clever than asking GPT3.5 "is the following offensive".

But apart from that technicality, I think asking a sentence to be treated as equally offensive no matter if it uses the word "men" or "women" is very reasonable and doesn't justify slippery slope arguments.
because they don't have any. C operates on headcannon
Same. I don't actually believe this to be true, but I have had the thought that as I get older there's been a clear progression of tech being created which could convincingly create a fake reality. The thought being that at the culmination of my life will be the perfection of this tech followed by the universe revealing that my existence has been an elaborate generative hallucination all along.
Unopened first-generation iPhone set to sell for $50k at US auction
It’s all a horse and pony show. It’s most definitely not just one politician deciding things - they just want you to think that. Ever notice how the villain changes ever few months?

It’s planned.
Was surprised to see this coming directly from mullvad. Big names are pushing back on this recently. Good.
You should try to live there as an average local person with average income and without "connections". "Crisp $20" in some countries might be quite a lot.

Also: I've seen this many times, foreigners from rich countries get completely different treatment.
I assume that's also post all the expenses incurred (and profit share) by their publishers, who I believe also did quite a bit of work on the Steam version. So total Steam revenue should be a bit higher than $10mil.
Neither of us were there, and I can’t speak for his motivations just from the article. He may well be power tripping, but I can also see someone saying that because they genuinely believe that kids should not roam around on the streets on their own. There are parents, cops, and state child safety folks who genuinely believe that.

While police overreach is an issue, I think that misses the deeper problems that gave rise to this. I have linked a different article in other comments here and elsewhere about the current epidemic of mental health issues teenagers and young adults, and the possible link to not being able to have some kind of childhood independence. Such young adults are not well adapted to the uncertainties of life.
Sometimes I think we're better off when one party or the other has more of a majority in congress, so the whole institution isn't so vulnerable to the wingnuts.
From the article:

> This technology will have an enormous amount of power to shape human perceptions and manipulate human behavior. Therefore, they can be misused for societal control, spread of misinformation and discrimination of demographic groups.
Working on that for my fortress now but I have managed to flood the caverns with a river I've redirected...
Writing Software That Will Still Build and Run in 20 Years
I still have a copy of the alpha release version of CounterStrike here somewhere. As I recall, probably as a self-extracting exe but maybe a zip file, and it was about 8 megabytes; that's not quite so amazing as it sounds, as it was purely a mod for Half-Life and sat on top of an existing Half-Life installation.

I should check that it's available in historical repositories and if not, see where I can send it for posterity.
You are illustrating why "The hard part is fixing an organization that has some good people and some bad people."

People within an organization don't all have the same amount of power to affect change. Most have little power. And at the same time, they have bills to pay at home.

Meaningful change has to be systematic.
I thought the fun part was going to be that Chat GPT would condense those bloated SEO preambles into neat paragraphs.

I can picture a Chat GPT browser that transforms those pages into their essential meaning, if they have any.

I think too there should be standards and rules regarding affiliate content. For example, affiliate review sites. If the reviewer cannot prove they actually purchased the product and used it, their reviews are filtered out, SEO rankings be damned.

For now I'm mostly excited about Chat GPT going into role playing game engines and NPCs, and as a sort of dynamic encyclopedia to aid my research and learning.
IMO it's more vital than ever to fund projects like the Internet Archive. They're the only ones incentivized to maintain a snapshot of un-LLM-clouded training data of human knowledge, unclouded by the hubris of "who cares about the old stuff, we should focus our archiving on the web as it exists today" that inevitably will take hold (or already has) in big tech companies who will have laid off the vast majority of those voicing these concerns. We owe it to future generations to prevent ourselves from falling into the training-cycle trap.
>se la vi

C'est la vie.
Absolutely.

I'm aware of my privilege, but since I have it does it not make sense to use it for my maximum liberty? At the end of the day I have to act with the resources I have, not the resources someone else has.
Question is whether they recorded investment in the Dwarf Fortress over the years, so they could subtract it from the base of the tax.

They spent more time on this game than on any other.
Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
What are you proposing? Democracy isn't perfect but it's the best political system we have come up with to date.
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It's very possible that you've come across my work in the past. I authored a front-end web development book (with a major tech-focused publisher), co-created and maintained a very popular FOSS frontend focused library (available on Github), and created numerous other popular FOSS libraries. I have extensive experience speaking and writing, along with an almost 20 year career where I focused on backend development, frontend development, and even management. I also have numerous non-tech certifications that have helped me evolve my leadership skills over time.

I'm interested in new opportunities that are both fulfilling and challenging. Both management and IC roles are right up my alley, and I would prefer to have a frontend focus at this time, but I do very much enjoy being involved in the full-stack (due to my experience).
After a certain age you can't any longer switch from private to public insurance (exceptions exist). This is meant to prevent exactly such cases where you'd use cheap private insurance when young and healthy, and cheap public insurance at old age.
> The only way around this is to have a random Microsoft Word window

Notepad is better and starts faster. At least the Win10 version.
What do you mean it is not a type bug? You've seen the fix with your own eyes. In the static language that fix would never have been needed, because the consumer would never have made the mistake that caused the miscalculation in the first place. Of course it is a type bug!

This is along the lines of

def is_valid_email(email): return str(email).contains('@')

class Person:
...
def __str__(self): return $"{self.name} <{self.email}>"

print(is_valid_email(Person(name='Peter @ Work', email=None)))
This is the best time to use LLMs before the enshittening happens
Agreed. Just like every fight for freedoms, it is a constant battle, and one that will never end.
> for decades

At some point they went deep Tea Party/MAGA type, but seem to have come back to their roots over the last few years. However the commenters are consistently still MAGA types.
Show HN: Inverse Kinematics in the Browser
I built a small web app as a way to teach myself inverse kinematics/controls concepts-- and to get more familiar with Rust and Web Assembly.
My takeaways:

- Redundant Inverse Kinematics is very complex. Treating it as an optimization problem has the simplest model but is very inefficient. Jacobian methods are much faster but have their own quirks and limitations.

- Web Assembly is pretty slow actually (for my use case). Where I was seeing a 100x speedup on native Rust over js, I was only seeing a 4-6x speedup of WASM over js.
Me personally? The same way any small business does; I forget the exact line number but the upshot is you tell the IRS who you paid and subtract that amount from gross revenue.
> NWO is not a conspiracy theory any longer.

It never was. Conspiracy nutheads just took it for them, and gave it their own evil twist. They always take something and see the evil option in it, and sell it as some fact which never was there. A similar thing happened recently with the term "Great Reset".

But the simple truth is, we always strive for a better world, so aiming for a new world order is something totally normal happening. Nobody thinks the world today is flawless.
Could you though? I mean in theory it’s possible but the barriers are basically insurmountable for creating a viable 3rd party. It’s like trying to remove Putin by voting him out.
Curiosity mostly. As stated in the article, Opus is excellent and better than QOA in every way except in complexity (and as a result, performance). A possible application for QOA is games, where you need to play dozens of audio files immediately.

I haven't done any formal benchmarks, but with a simple `time` on the command line QOA encodes 10x faster and decodes 7x faster than Opus.

QOA should be quite suitable for SIMD optimizations, which would improve performance even more. Still on my todo list.
It is surprising that I had to scroll down so far to see this answer. Unlike government services, street cameras, and things that cannot be avoided, it is reasonably possible to avoid Disneyland altogether. I do it quite easily (but I am in a country that doesn't have a Disneyland). If OP doesn't want to participate in the Disneyland business model for monetisation of their brand, then don't do it (no Disney+ either, so that you don't have perpetually disappointed kids).
For immigrants, not short-term visitors. Membership on the CPC would be incompatible with naturalization in most countries I would think; such a person has to take two fundamentally incompatible oaths:

> It is my will to join the Communist Party of China,
uphold the Party's program,
observe the provisions of the Party Constitution, fulfill a Party member's duties, carry out the Party's decisions, strictly observe Party discipline, guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life, be ready at all times to sacrifice my all for the Party and the people, and never betray the Party. [1]

This seems incompatible with naturalizing in Canada, for example, assuming the person still adheres to their oath and the party:

> I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Canada, His Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada, including the Constitution, which recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen. [2]

Generally, it's a potential issue for anyone with dual citizenship, or membership in any group that requires unconditional and irrevocable loyalty (such as some political parties). If the two groups come to conflict, it may be literally impossible to not betray one of your oaths.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party_Admi...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Citizenship_(Canada)
What other definition would there be?
I don't think that was true, even the AWP (highest damage in the game) wouldn't kill people if you shot them in the legs or below. I think at least, was a long time ago I last played the game. Scout was even worse, only headshots would one-shot someone.
I never meant that anyone was forced to sell, legally. Only that the economics forced them to sell at a different schedule or terms than they would have preferred.
Bittorrent still exists. Plenty Gen-Zers use it too.
One step closer to wireheads, with a trickle current going across a wire inserted into the pleasure center of the brain, in Ringworld.
I see this take a lot and I don't get why this is different from what we have right now.

> Unlimited 24/7 AI streamers on Twitch.

So basically Twitch as it is?

> Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

Which is TV right now?

> Unlimited AI opinions about any topics.

Welcome to Twitter.

You filter in the same way people always have. Studying, learning, acquiring taste.
Didn't Kitfox games did a lot of work on the Steam version (I assumed art, UI etc. were not done by Bay 12 games)? They must have incurred some expenses.
>-- Why doesn't ai say ... about the child-abuse from the catholic church ...

And this is a great example of why equality can be hard in this situation. Take a random sentence about "Catholicism" and "child-abuse" and a random sentence about "Judaism" and "child-abuse". The one about Catholicism is likely a little closer to an actual sentence printed in some verifiable source about the sex abuse scandals in the church. The one about Judaism is likely a little closer to an actual sentence printed by an uncredible source as a reference to the historical anti-semitic trope of blood libel. The end result is one sentence will rate higher in terms of likelihood of truthfulness and the other higher in terms of likelihood of hate speech. That doesn't mean that Catholics are more likely to abuse children than Jews. It means treating those two terms identically is both difficult and potentially a problem because history has a bias against the Jews that is evident in all the data that these AI systems have used for training.
I think the point is that so what if you don't run these tools as root?

If a malicious actor compromises your normal user account, they can also compromise your configuration files and alias sudo or set up a keylogger or do all kinds of nasty stuff.

Going from standard user to root isn't much of a challenge for all but the most minimal infections in almost every standard setup for common Linux distributions.

Malicious hackers don't need anything other than your current user permissions anyway; your API/ssh keys/crypto wallets are all stored in your home directory or other places a malicious program can get access to.

There are exceptions, but I very much doubt that most people develop on QubesOS levels of Linux security.

There is no practical antivirus software on Linux that will catch anyone sophisticated enough to exploit tcpdump. You need a LOT of know-how to run a "safe" Linux system that you're more likely to learn as a sysadmin than as a developer. Security is hard, especially on the Linux desktop, and it will be as long as attempts to add it are met with responses like "they're trying to take our freedom away".

Common internet resources aren't much better ("just disable selinux") and current solutions for usability problems in this space (i.e. sandboxed applications not being able to access the directories you chose because they don't correspond to what the dev expected) aren't very great either.

I definitely think we should use the resources for secure desktop computing that we do have, which includes running tshark and friends at the lowest level of privilege possible, but I can definitely understand why people ask "why should I bother" when most of their setup runs at Windows XP levels of security out of the box.
Make it accessible.
Indeed, I think terming yourself in good vs bad as an we vs them terminology makes several biases go undiscovered that if you truly go for objectivity despite your sense of moral leaning is telling you.
True fairness is subjective, but we can objectively measure true equality. At least on simple metrics like "what happens if we change the word men for women or left-wing to right-wing". And I think that's worth striving for
crases for me as well.

I am running firefox nightly version 109.0a1
Basic economic theory predicts that a in a market with perfect competition, all firms will have zero profits (the economic definition, wherein opportunity costs are taken into consideration, nominal profits aren’t zero).

It’s interesting to observe the number of people who will post about capitalism and competition and not consider the fact that for any rational actor, competition is existentially horrible and should be avoided by all means necessary. Perfect competition exists purely as a mathematical model and not as an actually observed outcome of a “natural” system for a reason.
It's not just FAANG, it is how many larger organizations work. I would point to the Indian consulting shops like Infosys who typically grow rapidly, hire a lot of "freshers", have a lot of opportunities for promotion, and try pretty hard for the senior people to transfer their experience to the juniors. On a good day those organizations succeed at this pretty well.
This is exactly like Seinfeld but that only means its dry as sandpaper rubbing on tree bark.
https://archive.is/ZQF9o
None of these are anywhere in the linked article: "2.5" "similar"
Curious why that AI claim never found its way to court, if true.
Another way of phrasing this is "always argue against the best possible interpretation of your opponents argument."

It's a HN rule for good reason. It makes your own arguments stronger.

Even if your opponent _is_ a shadowy new world order cabal member or supporter, arguing against the best possible interpretation which requires of their stance helps sway random citizen X who may not know of or believe in such a cabal.
> Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

This right here is where we can make obscene money off of Hollywood. LLMs are a godsend for streaming platforms. Everything from script to sound track. Production costs will sink, and can scale to meet demand. Open Q is whether people will eat the AI dog food (think faux meat..) and history suggests the proverbial couch potato will lap up any slop if continuously delivered.
Nothing quite like hearing, "Fuck you, you fucking camper" echo across the office floor at noon.
Because big corporations can be easily controlled by a hostile government while small businesses (absent legislation and other covert means like this) are not as easy to control. Simple as.
Apple Is Dropping Industrial Design Chief Role in Post-Jony Ive Era
sound blaster at some point allowed you to emulate exaggerated "3d sound" polyphony. I distinctly remember a control panel, where you could drag around surround sound speakers and it would attempt to emulate them in headphones.
In the back of my mind, I have a hope that it will lead to the collapse of the platform internet and a return to smaller trusted communities and boards.
Saw this on the news, they already have a office in the city.

One body scan was about $200
We still have curated libraries and the knowledge contained in those books has a much better signal-to-noise ratio than the internet ever will!
Your analogy doesn't work and I suspect it's because you may fundamentally misunderstand what qualia actually are--this isn't about gaps; this relates much more to the logical impossibility of reducing qualia to something that can be understood through quantitative methods. You dropped the key in the dark and are looking for it under a beam of light three feet away by trying to claim that any any amount of neuroscience could answer a question of this nature.

That said, much like the problem of induction, its insolubility is not necessarily of much practical importance day-to-day. We know that certain wavelengths will be recognized by people with normal visual faculties as "red"; whether the way they experience that qualia is different or not is not of much practical importance. It's more of a reminder of the limits of our empirical knowledge.
Separation of church and state is exactly what I'm talking about. I consider it modern, even though the idea is now pretty old. Throughout most of human history, religion has been a key part of the power structure of most civilizations. In that context, the ideas brought forth and during the Age of Enlightenment are still very "modern".

There are also still many countries that have yet to adopt this ideal, and even within many developed democracies there are still forces that wish for us to regress.
It used to be - but even now the problem is a different one. Less about police brutality (Menezes and Tomlinson notwithstanding) and more about police apathy and not-my-job-ism when facing any crime harder to solve than a traffic collision.
nope, switching to a lower level at the same company
You are clearly skilled at cooking. For people like myself, who are not so blessed, rigorously following recipes is the only realistic path to producing decent dishes.

So, for me, a recipe can indeed be correct or not. My definition of "correct" is narrow, though -- if it produces a dish I enjoy, it's correct. Otherwise, it's not.
There’s a great book called The Coddling of the American Mind. It talks about play grounds safety, cancel culture, and many of the topics covered in this article and thread. It tried to use data to back up its claims and identify the causes for America’s shifting mindset. One interesting takeaway from the book was how the creation of the Americas Most Wanted tv show may be responsible for some of todays parental fears. However, statistically this is the safest time to be an American child. I recommend the book to everyone, but especially parents.