skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But do you know a little bit about how shaky Seymour Hersh's later writing has been:

>… But his allegations are largely supported only by two sources, neither of whom has direct knowledge of what happened, both of whom are retired, and one of whom is anonymous. The story is riven with internal contradictions and inconsistencies.

>The story simply does not hold up to scrutiny — and, sadly, is in line with Hersh's recent turn away from the investigative reporting that made him famous into unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bi...
Dang, the question mark is not significant enough in my mind to present this story in a proper light. I think you should preface the title with "Theory:", "Hypothesis:", or some other disclaimer to immediately signify to the readers that it does not have substantial evidence to back up its extraordinary claims.

I respect and appreciate your opinions on all things HN related, but in this instance I think we need to make readers more urgently aware.
ChatGPT doesn't lie because it doesn't have intent. All it does is it produces 533689522 sequencies. It's us who assign meaning to 5 and 33.
> Private banks would not offer you any higher rates on savings than the CBDC does (why would they, when they can borrow at the interbank rate for less?)

The interbank rate has to be lower than 7% I'm sure, but that's what I have in a savings account.
How about an app for travelers that translates what people around you say in real time, then displays speech bubbles in your native language next to them?
All this boils down to "an unskilled engineer will misinterpret data even if they have it". I'll assume the Go team knows what they're doing, based on their track record so far.

There's a lot of very simple questions you can answer very reliably, too, like "what proportion of the users are still using a certain compatibility flag".
I appreciate your answers.
I admit to being one of those that really doesn't give much thought to COVID but I think it's due to having school age kids. During the year long initial isolation phase my kids didn't do well so now they are in school and back to normal. With that said they are surrounded by kids coughing and sneezing on each other all day so I see it as an inevitably so don't worry about it. We all got COVID about 8 months ago and thankfully all recovered pretty quickly. Symptoms were equivalent to the flu but I know these vary from person to person.

All the best and I hope we hit your metric sooner than later. Good luck at your race!
It's important to point out here that Russia has done MANY brainless things during this war, things that actively harmed their position in the world. Miscalculating an attempt to change the calculus is definitely a possibility.

Or Russia did it for the internal audience: "Look at what they did the big evil US just wants europe to suffer we are the best"

I'm not sure it makes sense for either the US or Russia to have done it. I bet it was some smaller NATO country or ukraine just whistling in the corner and giggling a little as everyone points fingers.
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"Wasting someone's time" should not be illegal.
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned getting a self-contained vehicle for freedom camping. The laws around self-contained vehicles are designed to solve the problems you discussed.

I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting freedom camping in a non self-contained vehicle, nor littering or other anti-environmental or illegal behaviour.

But anyone with a self-contained vehicle is well within their rights to freedom camp on council or public conservation land except where camping is explicitly prohibited. Alternatively, if you have a non self-contained vehicle, you’re never far from a legit campsite anyway.

I agree about the UK though, it’s next level. I was up in the lakes one time, can’t remember exactly where, but on the path from the carpark to the lake (maybe 500m) I noticed an insane amount of rubbish (some of it very old), so I grabbed every plastic bag I had and started collecting it. I received extremely dirty looks, people started handing me their rubbish (???), and an old man asked me what crime I had committed to be forced to do community service.

I struggle to understand the mentality of people who visit national parks for their beauty then ruin them by littering.
> The HN guidelines are clear about political topics.

I agree with that guideline. I don't want HN in general to devolve into standard tribal mudslinging.

But I don't believe this is the standard 'breaking news' chum of the day, mostly because of the reputation of the author, though I readily admit the sensationalist title is click-baity.

So far (7 hours after this was first posted) most comments seem to be complaining that the HN users can't flag this away. I found the story interesting, it makes you think about just what the USGov is doing, if it's true or not is somewhat immaterial...the story was an interesting read, whether it was a non-fiction story or not.
Maybe? But it only started happening recently, and no settings or anything have been changed. It makes the bassy operational noise as if it's indeed actually warming :-O
I'm just worried that it just gets chipped away to nothing.

It's already in a state where a new platform, major os change, architecture change could kill the apps usability for me. It's just coasting now.
Mozilla and their friends at Google want that Apple opens up iOS and let them bring their bloatware browsers to iOS. Complaint is legit but Firefox and Chrome are not the best choice for users although Firefox on mobile is actually good unlike Firefox for Desktop.
> What I do think however, is that it should very clearly notify the user of this, and give them an easy way to disable it.

You make a good point.

As a for instance from a popular Mac-based package manager that (unexpectedly for many) defaults to telemetry from your CLI:

`brew analytics off` is not hard to type after installing homebrew, but the installation text doesn't mention that; instead it points to a web page you have to read about how wonderful the analytics are before eventually finding the incantation:

https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

I wonder how many people care enough to click that link, read all the "analytics are actually good for you" copy, and then change their mind to leave it on. I'm guessing almost zero?

But perhaps most users won't cut and paste the link, where if it just suggested `brew analytics off` many users would type it.
I've done waiting/service type jobs. For me, the stress during the work period was way higher than anything in my software/business jobs. But, every night when I got off work, the stress was immediately gone. That shift was over, and the tomorrow really was new day. With my office jobs the max stress is lower, but it also never really goes away.
I'm a litigator, as it stands now I'd waste more time explaining to an LLM what I'd need than what I'd ever get the benefit of it doing for me. Tons of automation exists in the legal industry (you should see what doing research looked like 20 years ago). I just don't think LLMs are a solution to every problem and the people that insist to me that it will make my life more productive have no idea I actually do it seems.

>Mindlessly relying on any tool is obviously going to be the downfall of any profession

Tell that to the guy offering chatGPT-based contract interpretation. It did a really bad job. I told them, but they didn't seem to listen. Maybe you'll have better luck!

> Mindlessly relying on any tool is obviously going to be the downfall of any professional

Also, are you aware you offered this in response to me responding to a post about how self driving cars already exist in SF? I think you are making your own hypo that isn't what is being discussed here, which is when these tools are being used in lieu of the actual professionals (exactly what the self driving car argument nets) .
I'm not sure if I really have the rights. But since you're the second person to say it, I've uploaded it with all the info I have: https://archive.org/details/pc-gamer-uk-2000-the-complete-hi...
What applications require polynomial interpolation with such high order that an FFT is worth it? Why not use sinc interpolation if you're computing an FFT anyway?

sidenote: polynomial multiplication != interpolation
> I have no idea why you wouldn't want unions.

A union can get a monopoly over a certain employer, such that all hires are required to join the union or they don't get the job. Union dues can be half the annual salary with no benefit to the union member unless they remain a member for 10-20 years. Though this practice is technically illegal, it goes on without any Labor Department intervention. Why would you want to give up half your salary for no benefit until you've been working for years?
You are still incorrectly comparing. The equivalent to HN in Reddit world is a single subreddit. When you compare a single subreddit to HN, you see there aren't many differences at all, a single set of rules being applied as the mods intend.
Bing believes I want to read that page in German; it says:

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Stellen Sie echte Fragen. Erhalten Sie vollständige Antworten. Chatten und ###erstellen###.

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The highlighted parts are incorrect. One may guess an AI translated this text.
It does sound pretty problematic from a FOSS point of view.

> You must use the app for legal, authorized and acceptable purposes.

In particular the "authorized" and "acceptable" part. Authorized by whom? Acceptable to whom?
According to me.
I don't own a Steam Deck. I sold my PS4 and I own a Switch.

The one thing that makes me want to get a PS5 is I really do like the PS exclusives[1] like Uncharted, The Last of Us (part 1 now coming to windows though), Horizon Zero Dawn, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, etc etc.. And it gets enough of the cross-platform AAA games as well that I feel like I have enough of a selection to make it worth it.

I am super interested in the Steam Deck as well though. I know you can hook it up to a TV and play with a controller, I wonder if anyone here uses it that way. While I like the ability to hold and play anywhere, my ultimate preference is sitting on a couch and playing on a TV (most comfortable) and I would most likely try to use it that way

1. https://store.playstation.com/en-us/category/5bb9a9b4-f9f4-4...
Read the other responses here, and the “Alternatives” section of the article you posted. I am very happy the default is not what you just suggested.
Mainly wanting to save time/costs of having to create a UI for each platform.

Also sometimes just laziness.

Although electron sucks it wastes so much memory.
Lucky for Google they already are. Somewhere on reddit someone posted about bing rejecting a prompt due to ethical reasons - something about a cover letter. If a cover letter is an invalid prompt its a good as useless.
It really depends! Floats are /really/ fast for many operations that are really slow on ints.

On modern CPUs, it's faster to cast a number to double, do a square root and cast back to int, than even the cleverest bithacking int algorithm.
We were quite happy with cheap energy and it was great to have a choice between Russian gas and American LNG, until that option disappeared.
No it didn’t. Lying requires intent and understanding.
When that first showed in theaters in the bay area, people cheered and clapped when she was using Nmap and SSH Nuke. Non tech folks were probably a little confused.
Yes, moderators moderate this site. This has been true from the beginning, 15+ years ago.

Your comment suggests an assumption that without moderation, the ranking system would indicate "what is interesting to everyone". That assumption isn't just wrong, it's super wrong. Here are some past comments about that, if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... The short version is that without moderation, the site would be dominated by the same few hot stories repeated ad nauseum, plus an endless supply of riler-uppers. This is no way to optimize for what is interesting to everyone. As I said elsewhere in a reply to you, there are tradeoffs along every axis of this thing.
Very popular programming language and IDE have telemetry on by default, VSCode, C#, Java etc ...

People act like they discover telemetry in 2023.

I don't think it's a big deal, ultimately it's to improve Go and the proposal makes it very easy to disable it ( single env variable ).
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-just-like-your-opinion-...
>But, they often still pay far better than just about any other career you can do.

Yep, that's completely true.

>I'm a fairly unremarkable developer who works for a no-name tech company, but still make twice as much as my friends my age who are in law or accounting, even finance.

Yep.

>Only ones who even come close are in non-white collar jobs with unions and access to lots of overtime hours that they pick up. Their base pay isn't even close.

Yep. I would say that SWEs have even better working conditions than any union I have heard of.
To be a good parent is to sacrifice your child's future like a pawn to save the queen of your own moral grandstanding.
We need to stop knocking vocational programs in the US IMO. College has a learning modality that is not well suited for everyone. I wish I could find the Youtube video but there is a German Manufacturer of CNC machines in the US. Their apprentice program looked excellent/fun. The students were building electric bikes and motors - learning undergraduate level electronics in a hands one fashion - using CAD - then milling the parts out on a multimillion dollar machines. Mostly learning by doing. Getting paid to do so and would likely have a job when finished.

In the US there is a perception that the vocational or trades route mean failure. We tend to think of trades as an expense, dangerous or someone that works on an assembly line. Some people just get bored sitting in a classroom.
The current date is given to the model in the leaked initial prompt that each ChatGPT conversation starts with.

"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Respond conversationally. Do not answer as the user. Current date: "
+ str(date.today())
+ "\n\n"
+ "User: Hello\n"
+ "ChatGPT: Hello! How can I help you today? 
\n\n\n"
Interestingly enough there’s been some mod drama over on /r/AskScienceFiction today. This is a sub where people ask questions and get in universe responses. It’s very nerdy and can be fun. It also can attract a certain type of poster who can be lacking in say, self awareness and take it too seriously.

The new Harry Potter game is generating a lot of posts and a particular mod who has personal reasons to dislike JK Rowling added an auto mod post to the top of each post related to Harry Potter spoiling the game story. They’re unrepentant about it and their responses show what a lack of self awareness in moderation can do. Probably the worst case I’ve seen in a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/10wstqa/...
Heads up: there's not an actual hall of mirrors in this article.
Rosetta is built into the hardware of the M-series chips somehow, they're specifically made to be really good at emulating Intel commands, which makes them crazy fast.
Yeah, Elastic also brings advanced aggregates and filters, Kibana, nice UI where you can explore data and create dashboards easily and tons of bigger and smaller features. But in some areas both products are comparable.
> Why leave one of the brand new, larger pipelines undamaged ...

Two possibilities:

(1) explosive charge malfunctioned

(2) make plausible arguments that it was Russia who did it
This is not okay. The only ethical way to do telemetry is opt-in. If not enough people are opting in, you need to incentivize them to -- most simply by just paying them for their data. After all, telemetry is "valuable", isn't it? But if you can't figure out how to convince people to opt-in, then tough luck, sucks to be you.

Opt-in or GTFO, Google. I'll be patching this out of the Alpine package for Go the day it ships.
Nobody uses that rhetorical construct in regard to physical entities. Your anologies are disingenuous.
I'm going to sound irritating and glib, but to stop doing something you've got to have the will to stop doing it, and then...stop doing it.

Sure there are tools out there to help and techniques and blockers - but ultimately there will always be pressures to consume and a multitude of opportunities to do so. So ultimately it comes down to you: if you want to sort this out, you've just got to stop.
What you're saying was true of the CBC from 8ish years ago, but the modern CBC is an entirely different animal.

It really is embarrassingly partisan, and increasingly out of touch with the absolute vast majority of Canadians.

This is true for their television programming, but moreso for their radio side. Often third rate podcasts and YouTube channels will bring in more views than their flagship shows. It's really only kept afloat by increasingly large funding by the federal government, with the associated conflicts of interest that brings.
I think it's not even downturn. I would call it rebalancing.
That's such a bold statement, I can't begin to debate it.
Nostrel
Congrats! Question for the team as I see a possible discrepancy on the website.

The "Comparisons" page says there is no limit for number of indices (https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...)

However, the "Limitations" page says there is a limit of ~180 indices (https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...)

Can you clarify what, if any, are the limitations of # indices?
Team TESO wrote an excellent exploit back in the day - one of the best groups of the early 2000s.
I think speculation with literally no evidence is pointless at best, and actively harmful at worst, so we should really hold off on making guesses based on effectively nothing.
You're framing this as though the "ethical" choice were obvious, or that there was a person who "knew this was the ethical thing to do, but turned a blind eye".

I disagree, I think it's a very contested topic, with lots of discussion whenever it's raised here, with either side possibly being a vocal minority.
Now Twitter Blue subscribers can write 4k-character tweets
The rule of thumb for this sort of thing is to never rely on color alone to convey important information. Shapes and patterns and textures are much preferable to simple color variations.
That's literally the plan if you read it.
Elon Musk to unveil Tesla's 'Master Plan 3' at first investor day
It's not a scaling problem , it s a "reddit likes free labor" problem. They aren't going to give up on the small group of self-important idiots who named themselves mods 15 years ago and still havent quit, because they can't find new ones. No sane person will do such work for free in 2023

Trying to reason on the behavior of the mods is like arguing with the weather
Also, near the top of the page it says "das Bing" (more correct), while near the bottom it reads "der Bing" (less correct). Some other wordings are also borderline awkward.
> with a CBDC is that there is nowhere left to "withdraw" to

Why can't I use them to purchase dollars or yen? How did we get from the BofE issuing a currency that people can use to everyone being forced to use it? (Also, may I humbly suggest the wikipedia article on Gresham's Law, if you're not familiar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law)

I agree that bad things would happen if everyone was forced to use a currency they don't want to use, but that's kind of axiomatic.
Seems like we should be testing geoengineering in deserts first before we try it in much harsher environments like Mars. I think desalinated ocean water via low tech solar might be a good way to start - https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/08/F...
I’m inclined to mostly agree with you, but I think when it came to politically charged subjects there might have been some influence or attempts, particularly around left-wing issues, communism, labor unions, and civil rights topics.

Nixon had his famous Enemies List which was filled with journalists, and Nancy Reagan was in frequent communication with Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler about the criticism of her husband (then California governor) in the paper, as only two examples.
This is a phenomenon.

People who did good work and have fame are getting old. Instead of retiring they just start to do sloppy work, or fall prey to people who exploit their reduced cognitive capacity. They get publicity because internet has no editors.

Hersh is 85. He has been on decline for some time.

Remember Michael Atiyah few years back. One of the greatest mathematicians in the last century. He claimed he solved the Riemann hypothesis little before he died. It was clear that he was in cognitive decline, but media and social media had their day.
The figures are beautiful!
Business Insider is now The Onion
I take this with a grain of salt. The 'source' (or sources) here are un-named and unclear if just the one or more.

The author, Seymour Hersh, has accused the Obama administration of lying about the events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, and disputed the claim that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on civilians in the Syrian Civil War.

This all sounds very plausible. It may even be true, but I do not trust the messenger that much.
It does seem to be this way, unfortunately. I don't think many people are against CSAM hashes being used to find that type of content on private devices. But when a politically inconvenient photo of an immigrant becomes as illegal as CSAM, it puts the overall purpose of such tech into perspective.
Saying what amounts to ‘we’d never be in that position’ comes across as pretty evasive.

Also saying Hersh only writes this kind of thing supports the idea that Hersh is biased enough to be taken for a ride by a source with an agenda.
Original with better video quality - https://www.youtube.com/live/yLWXJ22LUEc
Shared experiences. These help you learn to socialise: you can talk about what you watched and heard last night on television with a wide and local social group. You feel closer to your community through having shared things to discuss and learn the skills to operate within a social group. Without this you feel isolated which leads to depression.

It seems to me, with modern technology, things are shared amongst people to create shared experiences and discussions but these are not people within your local physical community--leading, again, to isolation and the dangers therein.
Journalists Remain on Twitter, but Tweet Slightly Less
> Among the group of approximately 4,000 journalists analyzed by the Tow Center, fewer than 10 have deactivated their account since Musk bought Twitter.
Calais is another good one.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Maybe: The Great AI Chatbot Race
Which brings us back to my original point. Algorithms are just a multiplier.

If you give people two history books, one with actual history and one with interesting conspiracy theories sprinkled throughout, most people are going to find the one with the conspiracies more interesting. Stopping people from photocopying the book will help slow the spread of the false information in the book, but it does nothing to stop the underlying problem that people are writing fake history books.
> puritanistic surveillance state bullshit

Probably. Also consider how much the porn industry is willing to pay to serve interested users ads. Incognito probably represents a substantial loss of revenue for Google.