skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the kind words and I'll check out your Discord when I next take a pass at it.

Let me preface and say that I'm an application dev with only a working knowledge of Docker. I'm not super skilled at infra and the application I struggled with has peculiar deployment parameters: It's a Python app that at build-time parses several gigs of static HTML crawls to populate a Postgres database that's static after being built. A Flask web app then serves against that database. The HTML parsing evolves fast and so the populated DB data should be bundled as part of the application image(s).

IIRC, I struggled with structuring Dockerfiles when the DB wasn't persistent but instead just another transient part of the app, but it seemed surmountable. The bigger issue seemed to be how to avoid pulling gigs of rarely changed data from S3 for each build when ideally it'd be cached, especially in a way that behaved sanely across DigitalOcean and my local environment. I presume the right Docker image layer caching would address the issue, but I pretty rapidly reached the end of my knowledge and patience.

Dokku's DX does seem great for people doing normal things. :)
Terence Dickinson, astronomy popularizer, dies at age 79
I've put quotation marks up there now, as an alternative way of making the same point. That won't satisfy everyone but I hope the intention is clear!
code: https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo/tree/mainline/examples/GPT...
Where will it be written to and how is it guaranteed to be picked up by any further invocations of the tools?
> opt-in telemetry doesn't work.

Opt-out telemetry won't work when people send false data to the servers.
That's a good point. Synthetic prompts fed into ChatGPT result in fictional responses. That is to say, the public should not expect a response from ChatGPT that is in any way factual.

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And then I wrote this: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analy...
Ah the comment was aimed at the person replying to the reason why this was unflagged.

I do appreciate you replying! Thanks!

I realise it's an incredibly difficult question to answer because of the what-ifs, though.

I would also like to think you'd have the same stance... And for what it's worth I do believe you would.

I'd argue that your stance is currently harder to uphold since it makes the whole situation a lot morally murkier, and also because it goes against popular opinion (one can only be immune to it so much).
nobody anywhere who is latin american uses this term.
> ... traditional (imperative) way maintain its niche compared to declarative UIs ...

Where tied to traditional inputs/usage vs. gpt interpretation/generation from non-traditional / aggregate ai interpretation of input sources (eye glances, audio descriptions, "location context", etc. )
As this sort of argument always boils down to privilege, I'll throw my two cents in and say probably the biggest privilege (for a regular ass middle class person) is having a parent who knows math.
Regarding the topic of "cloud storage" - could someone tell me if Juice or maybe MinIO would be a good solution to:
1. Storing multimedia data (image/video) uploaded by an user - here I would guess it can either hit it directly or via the backend for auth
2. Should be accessible by an URL exposed outside of the docker-compose so it doesn't need to go through the backend REST API
3. Some form of authentication based on the JWT token in the Header - or maybe as this is a MVP simply generating a long enough random string will be enough

Or should I simply use nginx + filesystem and not overcomplicate?

I hear everywhere S3 but as it's a pet project don't want to go the AWS route, instead maybe a Hetzner VPS with docker-compose to run the whole setup with an external Postgres instance.
Perhaps after the OGL stunt by wizards of the coast, the issue reporter was also feeling less charitable about vague uses of authorized, also
The Baltic Sea is quite shallow, so not even necessarily a government. Someone did it so.
Why does the dev team to optimize a use-case that the user doesn't want optimized?
> are implicitly saying that covert act was justified?

This is still taking the OP at face value. If we're being honest, the destruction of the pipeline doesn't really make geopolitical sense for either the US or Russia, given the information we have. If we must assume that one of them did it, then in the absence of evidence we should prefer to assume that it was the action of an irrational actor, and Putin is clearly the more irrational of the two here (as evidence, allow me to gesture towards the war in Ukraine).
Presumably not with just anyone who reported that claiming to have a source, but only because it’s Hersh.

As far as I can see your position evaluates to ‘dang trusts Hersh‘.

Since it’s 2023 and we use machines to do our thinking now, I consulted ChatGPT about this. I draw your attention to the last paragraph.

—————

strawpeople: Can Seymour Hersh’s reporting always be trusted?

chatgpt:

Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has had a long and storied career. While he has been praised for his investigative reporting and his ability to uncover important stories, it is important to note that not all of his reporting can always be trusted. Like any journalist, Hersh is human and may make mistakes or have biases that affect the accuracy of his reporting.

Additionally, some of Hersh's reporting has been called into question, and he has faced criticism for making claims that are not supported by evidence or for relying on sources that are not credible. For example, in 2017, Hersh faced criticism for his reporting on the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, which some experts said was based on unreliable sources and was contradicted by a large body of evidence.

In conclusion, it is important to approach Hersh's reporting with a critical eye and to carefully evaluate the evidence and sources he relies on. While some of his reporting has been praised for its accuracy and impact, it is not always reliable and should be independently verified.
Thinking about the initial prompt that ChatGPT apparently has (see other comments), reminded me of asimov's robot laws. Apparently we have not learned from all his thought games and the outcomes even under laws that heavily favor human survival...
> It's been a huge rewrite to get this working on Linux and Windows from our original Mac and Metal code.

Would be interested to read more about the technical details in a blog post.

Did you end up porting your Metal code to something else which is then translated into Vulkan, Metal, DX12? Or do you now maintain your original Metal code alongside ports to Vulkan and DX12? Or something else?

If you were to start another project today, would you go the same route of Metal first and then whatever else you did? Or would you go directly to the way that you are currently doing it?
I got it to list out some keys with example values ("context information" in chatGPT parlance):

{
"Current date": "2023-02-08",
"Knowledge cutoff": "2021-09",
"Language": "English",
"Writing style": "Formal",
"Topic": "History",
"Intent": "Answer question",
"Location": "New York",
"Prompt type": "Question answering",
"Audience": "Experts",
"Emotion": "Neutral",
"Tone": "Informative",
"Domain": "Science",
"Task": "Generate summary"
}
This is the best advertisement for Epson I've ever seen. I know Canon wasn't thinking of it that way but being on the fence between the Canon and Epson photo printers this sways me strongly toward Epson.
Discussed yesterday, 90 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34703478
Airbnb Reverses Ban on Parents of Conservative YouTuber – Says It Was a Mistake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34703478
I doubt this would help, I think it would just dramatically increase moderator harassment but it wouldn't actually increase accountability more than a little because even if you know which mod is banning users doesn't mean you can remove them (other than through harassing them into submission).

I also don't see it as necessary or the fundamental issue behind a lack of moderation accountability. The problem with moderation accountability is that Reddit moderation is based strictly on seniority, there's really no effective way for users to protest bad moderation other than moving to another sub, and that's not really that realistic when the badly moderated subreddit has a better and more discoverable name. Admins will also rarely remove active moderators.
Is there a real issue? El carro is a problem? La casa is a very real issue?
What is authorized? Authorized by who? Can they deauthorize? Change the criteria for authorization?
I don't think I would say it is odd because it isn't a type of number that is directly supported by the hardware. That said it is available in the standard library of most popular languages, and probably just a package install away for any other languages.

Also, a plain integer is usually sufficient for financial calculations (just count pennies, not dollars) so in some ways I think decimal types are overused when an integer would do just fine.
Nice! "Transmission now uses Sonarcloud, Coverity, LGTM, and clang-tidy static analysis on new code. Several hundred code warnings have been fixed compared to Transmission 3.00."
I somewhat optimistically see two different vectors that could move independently:

- untraceability: it’s probably out of the window. I don’t know how much we still had, but with full digital money everywhere it’s dead and buried.

- practical privacy: could probably be saved. It’s hope more than anything, but just as we currently don’t have a social score system while technically all the pieces are in place, I think digital money would stay in the same status quo as long as we keep the same social values.

Basically, we already have safeguards against widespread abuse of our digital systems, otherwise we’d already be in the same social state as China, I don’t see any technical barrier to that. The question would be on wether we can preserve that going forward.
* unaccountable/summary de-monetisation of persons and businesses on the whim of a government

I at least believe that governments have higher barrier than private entities that have already provably done this.
I find it curious that the prompt is written in 2nd person rather than 3rd person, given the symmetry of the completion model. (i.e. there is no "you" the directive can be directed toward.)

I'd instead expect a prompt along the lines of:

"ChatGPT is a large language model trained by OpenAI. It responds conversationally to the user. OpenAI does not respond as the user. Following is a dialog between the user and OpenAI."
You can probably generalize and say that most teens stress about competing or despair about their prospects. I'd nitpick your use of stats, but I don't want to miss the forest for the trees.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
Telemetry is a curse word these days, but you should still read his posts.
Nah, I have no idea.

Now, that I read your post in more detail, it's an argument for why Russia might have done it. OK. You could have made that a lot more clear.
Salt water entering the pipeline can damage more than just the single length of pipe that has the hole in it, so fixing it is can be uneconomical.
Thanks! Indeed we now have a limit, but this limit depends on the OS you use. The limit is 200 on Linux. We found a way to remove this limit in the next version of Meilisearch (v1.1), which will be released in approximately two months.

I would like to know the use case for needing more than 200 indexes. We have handled multi-tenant with a single index and multi-tenant tokens. https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/security/tenant_tokens.ht...
From what I've seen, the problem is that if an employee communicates their concerns to their boss, then their boss can use that communication against them. E.g. by punishing them for "not being a team player". In practice, a situation where no communication is possible and a situation where it isn't safe to communicate are very similar.
Yeah, well isn’t this exactly what happened with that bard ad on its first day ? and how the news was formulated [1] is adding fire to the flame.

I find this screenshot [1] shows well what is happening : The LLM genie is out of the bottle, Precautionary principle be damned, let's just use it as a Trojan Horse, NOW.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34711244

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23589977/the-thirst-is-rea...
One of my favourite pieces of software. Simple and stable
An interesting case is two-dimensional interpolation. For example, for precise image resampling. In that case, due to the separability, the FFT is still O(nlog(n)), thus just as fast and much more precise than space-domain computations with 2D splines. Try to rotate 10 degrees iteratively an image 36 times with splines and with fft-based methods. Even 7 tap splines (which is a huge order) will utterly destroy the image contents; but it is just peanuts to the fft.
Uncharted is on Steam and Deck verified: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1659420/UNCHARTED_Legacy_...

HZD is on Steam and Deck Verified: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151640/Horizon_Zero_Dawn...

You can emulate Shadow of the Colossus on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFxnGZ3suV0

It really is the ultimate gaming machine :D
You're of course correct, but perhaps I should have focused more on the concept of skipping words when reading, misremembering, and "reading what you want to read" - those traits are extremely common if not universal at some level in human readers as well.
>The level of engagement seems to indicate there is interest

Far more heat than light being generated though, though. Which is predictable with this kind of story, raising emotion is part of the desired outcome of posting it (1). "interest" in baseless speculation and conspiratorial thinking is not a good thing.

Standards are slipping, that this story is protected.

1) https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/more+heat+than...
> the machine is a fresh install of Windows, what exactly is the data you think is being exfiltrated? In most cases... there's just nothing there.

Then there shouldn't be any requests.

> At best, someone now knows that ip x.x.x.x is running windows version y.y.y.y, and possibly that the user account is z.

Is this something you have inside information about? How many requests does this take? Your sentence seems far longer than the single serialized string that would have to be sent.

edit: and to be more direct, how is it all right for you to speculate about things you don't know but not all right for the OP? Is it only legitimate to make up excuses for suspicious behavior, and illegitimate to be suspicious of it?
Keyoxide's developer has gotten some grants to really beef it up. One of the things Keybase really shines at is documentation, it makes a lot of GPG things pretty stress-free to deal with, and Keyoxide has room to improve on the user experience, polish, and documentation side.

But since Keyoxide doesn't depend on a central authority to manage proofs, it is definitively going to be the future in this space. Nobody can really kill it.
To be fair, I think the touchpads are pretty crucial on the deck.

I play a bunch of games where I just really want a mouse and the touchpads make that feel relatively natural in a way that joysticks just don't.

I do agree, though - the focus on the touchpads on the original steam controller was perhaps over the top, and the absence of a second stick was limiting. I think the deck gets it right: You have two of each, one for each hand.

I can play games designed for controllers, and I can play games designed for mice, and everything just works.
Depends on the specifics. If the service is "submit a file and I'll load it into my laser machine and mail you what comes out the other end", then probably not. That feels like getting photos printed at the CVS and nobody would say CVS sells handmade prints.

If there is a substantial amount of manual work to the piece after it comes out of the machine, then maybe. It would have to be judged on a case-by-case basis.
And I just bought the cheapest model and a 512G SD card just like GP recommended, as all testimonials said it's basically equally fast in games as an SSD is.
I cannot find it on the main site but this software was at one time scriptable.

We used to use it to distribute really large files around to tons of machines using the scripting. It worked really well.
Do we know that request originated from the OS and not some other app the user had installed?
I use Windows Privacy Dashboard[0] to patch Windows 11 for privacy. There are many others like it, but I found this app intuitive and the ability to grab the latest telemetry block-list is great (Windows 11 introduces new and undocumented telemetry hosts all the time).

I primarily use Windows 11 for gaming and for Office 365. For anything sensitive, I use various Linux distributions. I also have a spare Windows 11 virtual machine (VM) for testing purposes and it's completely offline. I like to try out different Windows software in the VM and have it offline because some software I don't trust and I acquired it from sketchy sites, or it could be phoning home and sending sensitive data to some random server.

[0] https://wpd.app/
> 2017/2018 is when MtG started going off the rails for me.

Maybe a little off, but probably not by much.

MtG cards seemed to be calibrated such that if you preordered the "box set" (whatever it was) directly at retail prices (not speculative ones), you would wind up with a net profit if you went and sold the cards as individual pieces.

This has been increasingly less true over time. And some of the current box sets seem to be a significant loss.

> If they reprinted the reserve list

Every collector would head for the exit, MtG card prices would absolutely collapse, and the system would pretty much curl up and die.
@rsc, if you ever see this, your proposal here means that I will never use any software written in Go ever again, if at all possible.

What others have said in this thread about telemetry becoming an "accelerant" will happen. Abuse will happen. Data will be put up for sale. IP's will be logged because users can't verify that they're not.

The only thing users can verify is what is sent and to whom. And only if they run packet inspection. Most users don't.

(Edit: I just realized that users may not even be able to tell who data is sent to because of proxies or the original collector selling the data.)

I have no reason to believe your personal motives are anything but pure; however, this capability will not just be in your hands. It will be in the hands of anyone with less-than-pure motives.

I applaud your efforts to make telemetry more transparent, but they are destined to fail.

When it comes to figuring out how users use software, the only thing to do legwork. Ask your users. Watch them if they'll let you do user studies. Pay non-users to use the software for a user study and put them through all situations, including rare ones.

This is the same thing we programmers tell the police to do when the police whine about end-to-end encryption: do old-fashioned legwork. Why should we, as programmers, demand that of police when we give ourselves tools to violate the privacy of users in the exact same way that police want?

Yes, that's right, the exact same way. Telemetry is a backdoor on a private conversation between a user and a machine.

Just do the work. I'm pretty sure Google has the money to do so.

You may respond that this is for Open Source developers to get data on their users. Well, if those developers are hobbyists, they don't have time to crunch data, and they're probably scratching an itch. If they are not hobbyists, they are paid and should do the legwork.

There is no excuse for telemetry. Just do the work.
Feb 7, 2022:
https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8
Your top three points ring true (in a nutshell, people won't change their default filters), but the same could be said in general about participation in a community -- e.g. the people that struggle against the moderators in a community are usually not the ones passively viewing content, but more the power-users -- those who heavily comment, post, etc.

The power-users also (in my mind) determine the community -- if they feel restricted by not being able to post (as the parent link talks about) from heavy-handed moderation, they'd also most likely be the ones willing to change their filters.

> I believe that reddit doesn't want their users to be able to "turn off" moderation, even just for themselves, which you would be able to do by removing all filters [...]

To be fair, at the most unfiltered level, I was still imagining the content would still be "filtered" to cater towards the site-wide rules, and nothing else.
Hmm, well, true. I guess I don't have much sympathy for the kind of industries that couldn't stand up to scrutiny.

There are also fairly benign cases of cash-in-hand industries like builders etc., dodging tax by taking cash payments of the book, good question how that would evolve.

You hit the nail on the head there btw, it would lead to a shadow economy based on some other medium of exchange, perhaps crypto. Except... How do you buy your crypto in the first place? Surely not with CBDC..!
About the most interesting thing you can say about YC's "vested interest" is that they have a vested interest in having HN continue to be moderated at Dan's total discretion. That interest would change, obviously, if Dan was raptured. But discussing the possibility of Dan's rapturing is not interesting, curious, or productive: we're not talking about the failure modes of moderation when moderators are incapacitated, we're talking about moderatorial discretion.
> TE literally made ONE good product over a decade ago

Sure, if you ignore the OP-Z, pocket operators, TX-6, OB-4, and probably some other stuff I am forgetting.
Exactly. "God will save".

Inshallah Tayipp will find himself hiding from 10 million furious Turks storming his 1,000 bedroom palace by the end of the week.

It's time for this criminal go to jail or flee to moscow.
And Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov, with a Yorkshire accent because why not?
People who poke around in Tableau might not get a lot of respect in the hierarchy of DataFolk, but descriptive statistics and thoughtfully chosen visualizations can be immensely useful. Exploratory data analysis sometimes reveals patterns that are so obvious that to apply statistical inference is just vanity.

If understanding the data generating processes is the goal, I'd rather see some useful plots than wade through a technical description of some model whose assumptions were flagrantly violated.
My understanding is that you can edit images inside of Davinci Resolve just like video, though I haven't attempted it myself.
This is the only time a startup company meaningfully gave me anything that was worth something long term. (Money.) I still appreciate it. I sold the crypto when it was worth like $700 or so.

If I could pay to subscribe to Keybase, I could probably subscribe to it for several years before it cost me more than I made from using it. :D
Smallest unit also has issues. For instance the Indonesian rupiah technically is made up of 100 sen, but the currency is so inflated nobody uses it and currency libraries behave differently (even different versions of the same library). We had a bug where different OS versions provided different values when normalizing it to a smallest unit integer.

If you really don’t have access to a decimal type I think the best solution is to convert it to micro-units (price * 10^6). This is what Android does in its billing library.
> Is there a tried and true instruction to prevent windows 11 from running updater at all?

Check out this:

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-7/
True, though GP made a subtle mistake in not moving one space into the optional capture group. It should have been for example /Yes,( Prime)? Minister/, lest it were to match

Yes, Prime Minister
Yes, Minister