skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. There is a lot of evidence that pornography causes real harm to both men and women. It can cause relationship problems, erectile disfunction, and can increase feelings of depression. I can provide official sources for this. While addiction is a very specific term and "porn addiction" technically doesn't exist if you want to be pedantic, I know many many people who want to give it up but struggle with doing that.

Here are the sources I got my information from. I sincerely hope that you read them. Being against porn does not necessarily mean being puritanical, as it has legitimate health risks that are legitimately concerning:

https://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/02/24/...

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-activity-in-sex-ad...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-012-0164-0?
If you asked me this, I would respond similarly, is that good or bad?

How should we think about one human (dis/en)couraging something that society generally finds repugnant? Why should we think differently about ChatGPT refusing to encourage such behavior? Why shouldn't OpenAI try to provide a safe answering system? What would be the fallout if it had encouraged your repugnant queries?

I don't see it as telling you what to think as much as trying to nudge you away from a bad idea. A lot more investigation would be needed to find the bounds of this ChatGPT feature and give us the needed data to form opinions or make any such claims.
Teen kids are worried about having enough to eat. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/83971/...
It would be interesting to get your opinion on censorship again if a specific lie was gaining exponential traction and threatened the livelihood of your family. Or even if there were something less direct, like if you couldn't go see a movie in a theater because a huge tiktok trend of yelling "Fire!" and filming people trample each other gains the spotlight of millions of users.
I just had a horrible idea. Decimal is commonly used with fixed point (no speed penalty), whereas binary is commonly used with floating point.

But what if... what if they had a bastard child? What if we moved the point a fixed distance in decimal... and also a floating distance in binary?

The value represented would then be sign * mantissa * 2^exponent * 10^bias

With a bias of -6, you could represent every multiple of 0.000001 up to 9 billion if I did the math correctly.
I only avoided suicide because of social media. I had no way to hang out with friends because my parents were always too busy working to take me places so I talked with my online friends to numb the pain.
OK, you got me. A lack of socialized everything that started in 2012 is the cause of the teen mental illness epidemic. Get out and vote everyone!!!
My day job is boring to me but I build hardware projects on my own time. These I just code up/go at free will, no tedious testing or CI process.
What about Julia? It's somewhat popular and heavily inspired by Lisp. It has a type tree that's reminiscent of Lisp's numerical tower: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/business5/uploads/julialang...
>The White House on Wednesday dismissed a blog post by a U.S. investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind explosions of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as "utterly false and complete fiction."

>...

>"This is utterly false and complete fiction," said Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council. Spokespeople for the CIA and State Department said the same.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-blog-post-...
Tour guides often tell local legends instead of facts, just like AI.
Is it really that hard? i have a few integrations with oauth api's and for the most part i just check the dates on the tokens before sending them through?
> I think it is unreasonable to believe that the U.S. attacked the energy sources of NATO allies as they scrambled to get enough energy before the onset of winter.

You haven't read enough history of mankind, I think.
No, user is redirected to fastspring.com. I guess it depends on whether my server code can access the CC data. I somehow got the impression that it cannot. So how is the payment element actually connected to stripe?
This is an interesting take, a nice way to get out of the russian gas stranglehold without losing face to the right wing & anti nuclear electorates

Gas pipes blowing up, massive disinformation campaigns, the utter hellhole that Ukraine is turning into... it's a scary, depressing time.

On the whole I hope this helps us transition into renewables quicker, so that at least there will be a silver lining.

(Conversely you might say this pushes us into burning more coal but I'd rather be an optimist)
Making an Infinite Lego Domino Ring
Yeah, Google's quick announcement of throwing $300M into an OpenAI competitor kind of reeked of desperation
As sad as it is, the reason PDFs just work like nothing else does is probably because they're technically horrible under the hood.
I swear it's improvement. Switched from wsl1 long time ago - 3 or 4 years I guess. Using Wsl1 for very specific task of doing socket forwarding from host OS, the rest happens in WSL2. Simple thing like using namespaces or not so simple like mounting loopback file with BTRFS not possible in WSL1 by design. Not even mentioning recent systemd support.
I bought one with low expectations, but it has surpassed them tremendously. Proton is most of the way there. In fact, most of the issues I find with some games are the third-party launchers, not the games themselves.

The EmuDeck project allows you to easily add pre-configured emulators with games as part of the UI. I've been catching up on many PS2, PS3, Wii U, and Switch games. It plays AAA games well since it only has to render at 800p at medium / low settings. Many modern games compared to the past scale well too, and their low settings tend to still be bearable.

Steam Cloud works well in case I want to play a game on my beefier PC once in awhile. However, I also have a hidden USB-C charger/dock combo by my couch that has ethernet, and I can do steam link over ethernet with my gaming PC, and it works extremely well for that, and I can get a performance boost in some of the more demanding games.

The main issues of course are battery life, and its docking capabilities. Battery life doesn't affect me too much because I'm usually not traveling or away from a compatible charger for more than a couple of hours. The docking to a TV / monitor is a joke with the standard UI...I have never gotten it to work well, so if I need to dock I have to go into desktop mode. Even there, if I play a controller-based game, you can't always disable the onboard controller for all games. So there's definitely work to be done on that front.
> This is not to say that Turkey is full autocracy: the incubent president has a genuinely large amount of support and it's quite possible they would win a free and fair election.

This is kind of skewed though, if people can't go on TV or Twitter and say "Erdogan doesn't know what he's doing and his policies are foolish".

This is really the modern autocrat's secret weapon: have reasonably(-ish) fair(-ish) elections, but also rig things in such a way that people only hear one side of the story. It's not a surprise people support Erdogan if they only hear how brilliant he is with tepid criticism at best. Control the narrative → control the vote. Ergodan, Putin, Xi all play by this book.

Having a free press and free investigative journalism is critical; without it you don't really have fair elections, even if the actual business of casting and counting ballots is sound and free of fraud.
Although Orbital Index is a very interesting newsletter, if you want to see the upper stage itself, you should probably go to something like: https://everydayastronaut.com/stoke-space/
Super exciting that the wait is almost over.

Now I can finally go rebase all of my plugins against the new GDScript now that it's stabilized a bit. Seems there were a number of small but breaking changes between the beta releases. Overall the betas have been fairly pleasant to use.

Hoping that the Godot team will consider producing double precision binaries now that we're closer to release. It's a small pain to have to build from source and divine the right flags etc.
Numbers (from Apple) returns TRUE for both expressions you list
I've never seen a good major one TBH. The best PWA I've ever used, however, is this Palm OS emulator:

https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/
Suppose this story was written by a "credible" reporter. Do you think NYT's Foreign Editors would allow it to be published? Would it pass the national security screening?
> If there's a crowd anywhere in the world large enough to leave 200+ comments on a post like this, you'd think thatg the one at HN would understand these models' currently unsolved problem with lying and fabulation.

if i'm being frank, that doesn't match my experience with HN at all. chatgpt is the hot new thing, of course people here are preoccupied imagining a future powered with it.

there are a bunch of different types of people here, with different perspectives that might be at odds with one another, but they don't necessarily comment on the same articles.
Actually just realized these were for-real bugs, not just sanitizer testing.

Got to say I've never found much value in sanitizer-type products. Signal-to-noise ratio too small, and frankly it's easier just to write stuff with a bit more care in the first place than have to go looking for bugs. Same goes for debuggers - good for post-mortem analysis of core dumps, but IMO not the most productive tool to track down bugs.

Best debugging tool when needed is a few well placed print statements or assert() calls.... Or just a few decades of experience and not creating bugs in the first place!
Isn’t there a perfectly good open source pdf viewer?
> It's something that Apple fans always told us it's impossible to build - a device that is joy to use by default while still respecting your wishes as a user.

I never knew I wanted a Valve phone and tablet, but now I do.
Networking isn't about talking to people, but about building mutually beneficial relationships. Those can require very little talk.

Sometimes I see places where we'd both gain a lot from a cashless transaction, so I make it happen. For example I send them clients and they advise me every once in a while. We're not drinking buddies, just two businesses helping each other out. We rarely talk.

In other cases I just build stuff and put it out there. It acts as a beacon for people who like that stuff. People often reach out to talk shop and good things happen. I meet people in the strangest places.

Others seem to follow my social media updates and bring them up in phone calls, so they must have some impact too.

If I don't feel like seeing people, I can still do those things without feeling overburdened.
Russia has blown up their own pipelines at least twice before. Surely it's equally possible that Russia did it?
In this video from 11 months ago, at 25 min. they say this:

“Ziti is only providing a pipe. That’s also very important. Some people might think that there is more going on there, but Ziti is literally, just… just a black hole, from one side to the other, and how it gets there… it’s like an SSH tunnel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjM5y8Op_I&t=1509s

He goes on to say “I’m going say it publicly: my mission is to kill REST. […] I’m going to bring us all the way back to the 1990s, and we’re going to do RPC all over again”

The linked article is about Zrok, which seems to be an application on top of that OpenZiti overlay network on top of the Internet.
As far as I understand it a search engine like this is meant to perform well on "Human" queries that are hard to formalize.

SQL queries, asking for records based on something like field a has to contain b or something like that are easy to formalize and fulfill by an RDBMS. But the SQL queries get hairier and hairier when the query involves multiple fields or even multiple unrelated tables. Or free form text. And those queries are harder to index.

On top of all of that, Humans often want things sorted in an order that isn't straight-forward to express in SQL. What is "relevancy"? All of that can be done in SQL, but it's not what RDBMS engines shine at.
If you're interested in learning more about Jon Haidt's work - Tim Ferriss and Malcolm Gladwell both have great interviews with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elo89pPREYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTS9vZFV2o
There's a reason Steve Jobs demoed the iPhone with hardcoded reception bars showing a full-strength AT&T signal.

The real iPhone 1 was 2G only, constantly dropped calls and had no copy/paste.

That a large chunk of HN audience is sitting agape watching similarly manicured demos is surprising to say the least.
I found ngrok looking for simple and safe ways to share our local minecraft server among my kid's friends. (about 5 years ago)
As stated it got Russia out of the Nordsteam1 contract without any legal repercussions. What you say is plausible. It’s also plausible Russia wanted this. I don’t know the truth of the matter. I don’t believe the U.S. decided that adding more energy uncertainty was a good thing just before the onset of winter. That doesn’t make any political sense to me and it’s not like Biden could reasonably expect that doing this could boost his political power or prospects.
I’ve been using a Chrome Extension to replace Edge’s PDF renderer with pdf.js [1]. It’s a little outdated at this point and it does change the URL in the address bar while viewing PDFs, but overall I find it works better (especially while scrolling) than the existing built in PDF viewer for Edge.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
My principle is that force is only justified in response to force, and speech is not force (unless it makes a threat), false or not. If you don’t agree with that principle then I’d like to hear it explicitly.
If I send someone a PDF document, I know exactly how it will look for them on screen and on paper.

HTML, not so much.
I've definitely paid less than the price of a book to scrape a subscription site that wouldn't just sell me a copy of what I was looking for.

Beats going to library and photocopying whole books, though.
This is a LOT like what I've done. I just stopped reading stuff. I uninstalled apps, etc.

Another thing: Spend time outside, sans phone (off or on mute is fine). Humans have survived for millennia without the glut of information we have now, and they did it by getting outside and spending some time with the planet. Try it. It helps.
If what you say is true, why has Russia blown up their own pipelines twice before?
The problem is that this author now writes these conspiracy theory pieces with ZERO evidence.

The Lai massacre was well documented - Hersh was a photographer.

These recent conspiracy theory articles he publishes have ZERO evidence. This is just the most recent of many.
See the !! debacle for C#11 to see how changing the default went.

So now we are back at warnings if non nullable references are enabled on the compiler settings, and eventually we can turn them into warnings as errors.

The biggest issue is the large ecosystem of existing libraries.
The problem with fine-grained approaches like this is that they are much easier to get passed: people are much more willing to restrict the freedoms of other people rather than themselves. For a ban like that to be ethical, it would have to have been voted on by the people it would apply to, i.e., the people below the age cutoff (who in this example, can't vote at all).
In the wake of someone driving an SUV through an Apple store, I saw a LinkedIn post by some VP of retail stores. They were in a position that sounded sort of like they were in an HR-ish, "people management" role.

Lots of talk about family, and close knit this, and "it's my job to support them" that. The usual self-righteous linkedin bullshit, but unusually brazen given someone was killed and a couple people injured.

I remember thinking "if they're so 'supported' by one of the world's richest companies, why do so many of them want to unionize?"

$15/hour for high-end retail is peanuts in almost any urban area. Given how much cash Apple has, and how fast they continue to accumulate it, they can absolutely afford to pay a livable wage to their retail employees.
fwiw, fix available in openbsd patch https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/017_s...
(run "doas syspatch" if you haven't in a while)

spot checking, debian stable, ubuntu 22.04 lts and rhel 7/8/9 all ship pre-9.1 openssh which aren't affected, if that helps put anyone else's mind at ease a bit.
> This article lacks any sort of reasoning or rationale to dispel the possibility that this is merely a timing fluke.

Why is it the author’s job to entertain hypotheticals like that?

Microsoft announced a generally available feature based on popular technology.

Google posted a gif of their chatbot malfunctioning as part of a blog post explaining that it’s not available.

Some things are kind of obvious.
Back in 1995, a friend of mine and some of her friends at the University of Michigan had fun with "Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation" using one of those lenses. - https://bclee.net/lens.html .

No images, much less video, to go along with the 1995 story, as you might expect from a time when most people had film cameras and dial-up.

It hit Slashdot 19 years ago, at https://slashdot.org/story/04/05/21/1936210/things-you-can-d... . Reading mention of someone I knew make the world seem a bit smaller.

Recalling this, and re-reading the account, brings bittersweet memories now as she passed some 10 years ago.
I think the perfect balance is having the companies in deathly fear of unionisation without actually being bound by a union.

But unfortunately in 2023 we're now in a state where company leads don't respect their workers anymore and think they can get off with any kind of abuse, disrespect and exploitation. Time to remind them about the past I think.
Dan, I respectfully ask you to reconsider. This is a poorly-sourced speculative piece of propaganda and clearly goes against site guidelines.

You repeat, above, that HN is not for nationalist flamewar, and requires substance. But this post is nationalist flamewar and isn't substantive. Allowing it while shutting down similar content from the opposite perspective is... unsettling.
This was true in practice before technology made communication and synthesized speech trivial. Unfortunately for us all, we no longer live in a world where "more speech is unambiguously better" is true. Technology has ruined the meme of free speech. I'm not saying there are any unambiguously good alternatives; we are all diminished by its loss. But clinging to its corpse isn't doing anyone any good.

As for the Churchill quote, the reason that democracy has those qualities is because it inherently involves compromise. An uncompromising philosophy like "more speech is always better" is quite a different thing. We need a new rallying cry to replace the meme of free speech, probably something to do with the notion of signal:noise ratios, but it's beyond me to invent such a meme.
There's this from George Friedman in 2015 The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (@1:38 mins) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eyfTX5n_fdI
where he mentions economic relations between Russia and Germany are the biggest threat to the United States.

Also see here https://www.reddit.com/r/jimmydore/comments/10x3yfq/jimmy_do...
What I learned by making a game in JavaScript
But advertising still isn't the root cause. Why does this type of content draw more viewers?
Not a lawyer but I could imagine a situation where you're in a store and you see an advertisement for a blue light bulb that says that blue light bulbs are proven to disinfect surfaces. You remember you have some blue light bulbs at home, so you go home and screw them in. Or maybe you go on amazon and order some blue light bulbs because they're cheaper, even though different brands are not making that claim, the first one tricked you into thinking it was true. You haven't entered into any contract with the manufacturer making that false claim, yet you are still harmed by it.
Ask HN: Tell us about your Startup
It goes without saying, that as an engineer, I often find myself indulged in discovering new Startups - especially if they solve a great problem. Sometimes great companies are hidden away, and great solutions to problems are therefore missed.

Tell us about your Startup, what problem do you solve, and most importantly - how can you help others?
with BARD
The problem is they lie all day, every day, even about trivial stuff that’s easily verified. This looks more like an admission of guilt.
The part you are missing is that Russia has many other pipelines to send oil/gas to Europe. This was only one.
If this turns out to be right --and we don't have conclusive evidence, but this would upset the current narrative. Why would Russia be an idiot to shoot itself in the foot (cui bono) and blow up their leverage; though in international affairs the unimaginable is possible, so yeah they may have done it to themselves -though to outsiders it would seem illogical

If true though, it would be as big as the Gulf of Tonkin incident [as in it was us in pursuit of our own interest]
I didn’t say a thing about US profit motive. I was very clear: Russia can’t blackmail the EU with energy if they don’t have a way to deliver it. Why would they want to lose that leverage (and their billions in investment)?

And EU industry very much depends on low cost gas (chemical manufacturing, vehicle and other industrial manufacturing, greenhouse heating, etc). There’s report after report of vital industrial facilities shuttering due to high gas prices.
Amazing the lengths people will go to censor anything that goes against the US proxy war narrative, even on HN. The mental gymnastics are truly breathtaking.
What do you call it, then, when a media group uncritically platforms active DoD officials on current affairs? Ask yourself, how do they even get that level of access? It's de facto state media. In this case, PBS is directly acting as a mouthpiece for the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies.

Northern Iraq, like Eastern Syria is currently occupied by US military forces. The Iraqi government has asked them to end the illegal occupation.
I thought that until literally two days ago. Turns out that if you sum a bunch of 0.37 (not even huge numbers, just around a few thousand) you end up with differences on the order of 10-20. Both in mysql and in Java. No, this doesn't makes sense to me either - the differences should be a LOT farther than 3 digits. And yet.

You should have seen my face when debugging this.
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I am forced to reply to myself again before my parent comment gets downvoted to oblivion.

YES - Heat pump efficiency drops with external temperature.

HOWEVER - A typical heat pump will be unable to operate at full power when it approaches it's lower temperature limit. It is unable to move more heat at any efficiency. The compressor will slow down or stop completely while waiting for the liquified refrigerant to vaporize in the evaporator coils.

THEREFORE - Regardless of efficiency the compressor will be using less power because it is either not running or running slowly.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF - certain heat pumps with auxiliary electrical heaters that cause energy use to spike at extreme low temperatures.