skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another victim of the Streisand effect.

Oh no. The Streisand Effect is so '90s.

Current political operatives the world over, particularly conservative/nationalist ones, have since learnt to weaponize Streisand - they stoke polarization on relatively minor arguments, in order to foster a siege mentality where everyone is forced to declare whether they are "with us or against us". This solidifies their support and makes the opposition look vague and unprincipled.

This is a line that goes all the way from GWBush to Berlusconi, Modri, Orbàn, Trump, Abbott, Turnbull, Erdogan, Salvini, and Johnson.

Modri wants this to be a big thing, precisely because it allows him to play the victim against "evil and corrupt colonialists bent on keeping India down". As policies go, it costs effectively nothing and has great propaganda value.
The point is that we should all be more concerned with the question of whether it is a problem than whether our favorite bad guys think so.
There seems to be an inordinate amount of venom directed at Pichai relative to other CEOs
You do realise the irony here, do you?
"As the raids are underway, documents were seized and phones and laptops of journalists were taken away. Employees were asked not to call anyone."

If those phones were bought out of country there may be tax implications
AI Commits – a CLI that writes your commit messages for you
This all reads vaguely like justification people often use for one off anecdotes trying to support a whole system. Obviously sometimes things work out, otherwise the system would completely collapse, it's just a matter of ratio and amount of grifters in the field making our (the "average" HN high level coder) lives miserable through sheer incompetence
What memory safe languages/tools existed in 1996 and still exist today with some meaningful marketshare? Java (barely, and I think it was proprietary at the time)?

It seems like "write memory safe C" was the best technique in 1996 if you wanted any semblance of portability/performance.
I think that's right. I don't think the article is imputing "strategic thinking" to the individual larvae. They carry out a strategy, but they probably didn't whiteboard it themselves.

I think it's mainly the ability to start or stop jumping according to temperature. Jumping in a random direction, only when you're too hot, is a strategy for finding shade. Given a pattern of light and shade, that strategy is provably better than never jumping at all, or jumping regardless of temperature. (I haven't proved it, but I think I could.)

I think they're saying a jumping bean "has a strategy" in the same sense that a Roomba "has a strategy." The Roomba has an edge over a traditional vacuum cleaner. But if it's you against the Roomba, you're normally going to win.
I am super excited about ChatGPT even just yesterday it helped me fix a really difficult bug. (I was so excited that I even wanted to pay for it but their payment was broken haha)

However, I am starting to think that moving it to bing already wasn’t a smart move. These things are great on OpenAI scale. But I fear they are a money pit with bad pr for google and even bing scale.
You didn't read the article, in the particular the new list of chemicals they released that were previously undisclosed. (It's not just the same story on repeat). I don't think organic acrylates conveniently break down in water; I suspect they'd be persistent environmental pollutants, in addition to being carcinogens.
> who’s to say that what you see in /lib/package.min.js is the real result of minifying /src/package.js?

This is why NPM really needs to start demanding that packages (with more than N downloads per month) are reproducibly buildable from source.

Someone did actually produce a tool for performing these checks[0], specifically with the linked article in mind, but unfortunately the online service connected to the tool has been discontinued.

[0] https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-if-we-could-verify-npm-pa...
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/19/us/virginia-school-shooti...

(of course the kid didn't buy it, but the considerations are pretty similar for people preventing children from accessing other things)
These are BS patents, since they magically somehow couple the eletromagnetic force to gravitation, which has NEVER been observed at the energy levels we are capable of generating with current technology. It's magical thinking, 100%.
It's seems most likely the run off is from the ruptured tanks, petroleum lube oil, diethylene glycol, polypropyl glycol, and butyl acrylates. And likely primarily the non flammable ones, the oil and the glycols.
There is a very clear statistical standard here "difference of means" test at the very least. Very very small dataset. Lots of options all of which would most likely conclude no statistical difference and low power.
A lot of people enjoy stuff, so it is possible. Maybe try something else.
You're assuming that the vinyl chloride burns perfectly and all of it will be converted without residue, which I don't think is a safe assumption. The products of burning it are less problematic than the original, but setting it on fire doesn't simply solve all problems here.
The military always claims they will have a human 'in the loop' to make kill decisions. That promise will go out the window just as soon as other nations arm ai enabled drones with anti air missiles. There's no time for 'human in the loop' when the first to act survives.

Thus down the slippery slope we go. In 20 years time we'll probably have aircraft that do figure eights over enemy territory for hours before automatically engaging 'military aged males'.

Slaughter bots is the ultimate conclusion to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
This is just one prong advancing the digital ID agenda.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202211/advocacy-groups-urge-...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/massive-pandemic...
Eh, I always assumed bitcoin ATMs just looked for the stores that do things like Western Union, lottery tickets, parcel drop-off etc - i.e. businesses who want a secondary revenue stream which gets people into the store.
I don't think there is a service for that, and of course the Laws will be very different from country to country and each provider (domain/mail/hosting) will have their rules/procedures and what not.

In some states of the US there are Laws connected to UFADAA or RUFADAA, see (only as an example):

https://trustandwill.com/learn/what-is-rufadaa

From what I understand, the "best" (and probably the only sensible/effective way) is to transfer your "digital assets" to some form of trust, not really easy or affordable by many.
The BBC provides journalists with phones to do their job, be that a live broadcast using something like LU-Smart, or just getting their emails on the road.
Remember when winner of the voice interface war was going to win the future of computing? Apple has a "dumpster fire" of a voice assistant and they're still around.
I bet the mentats never saw that AIM9X coming. See what happens when you destroy all of your thinking machines?
See Stealth 2005
The problem with this analysis is that first movers usually don't win.
If it is ever aliens, we will know about it.
...yeah, there are several roles/functions that are by definition thankless tasks. In compliance, the best you can produce is nothing, as in no incidents that could have been prevented through better compliance, while causing a ton of cost and frustration across the organization. The worst you can produce is ruining the company and sending people to jail in a way that you were tasked with preventing and could actually have prevented.

It sort of reminds me of this thought experiment that Nassim Nicholas Taleb mentions in one of his books: What if a bureaucrat had figured out, pre 9/11, that terrorists flying a commercial airliner in to a building was a risk worth trying to prevent and had passed legislation for all cockpits to be bulletproof cells that could only be opened from the inside, or something like that. 9/11 would have never happened, and that bureaucrat would have caught shit for the rest of his life for championing legislation that is causing a lot of people a lot of cost and frustration and has never had any observably positive impact anywhere in the observable universe.
here's how that is much nicer with dataclasses:

import dataclasses
from typing import Literal

@dataclasses.dataclass
class Food:

temp: Literal["hot", "cold", "warm"] = dataclasses.field(init=False)

temp_arg: dataclasses.InitVar[str | int]

def __post_init__(self, temp_arg):
# optional bonus, get the list of temps from the annotation at runtime
# possible_temps = self.__annotations__["temp"].__args__

if str(temp_arg).lower().strip() in ["hot", "warm", "cold"]:
self.temp = temp_arg.lower().strip()
else:
try:
temp_int = int(temp_arg)
if temp_int > 120:
self.temp = "hot"
elif temp_int < 60:
self.temp = "cold"
else:
self.temp = "warm"
except ValueError:
raise ValueError(
f"temp must be a number or one of the "
f'following: "hot" "warm" "cold", received: {temp_arg}'
)
Or you need a big differentiator which makes you the new first mover.
> The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent that's why they don't need to use violence as openly as not-so-rich countries.

Disregarding the fact that proving your angle is super hard.

So what? It sure beats beating and killing people.

> When their monopoly is threatened, they act equally ruthlessly.

Ok, but if they don't have to do that all the time, it <<still>> makes them better.

It's a tough pill to swallow, go check military casualties for wars. Get back to me after reading Wikipedia pages (so nothing super fancy) for 50-100, chosen randomly, and tell me how many have higher casualty rates for the Western party.

My back of the napkin analysis says that at most 10% of those wars have more Western casualties.

At the end of the day, that's what it boils down to. If you find ways to avoid violence and when you do have to become violent your stuff is better armorer, moves faster, shoots farther, flies higher, well, that's because someone ultimately, to some degree, maybe because they were forced by public consensus, respected citizens' lives.

It doesn't much matter how you get to that respect if you do get there more than your perceived rivals.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard Google has lost its mojo.

Same thing with Wave, Google Plus, Allo, Reader, countless examples.
I see, new in Py 3.10 and new to me
you know who wants us to think that?

ALIENS
I'm extremely skeptical that this kind of study can tell us anything about the relative value of remote vs in-office work.

When it comes to early stage startups, success is going to hinge on the founders and early hires ability to focus and execute on the right things. What those "right things" are is nebulous (hence the challenge of startups!), but I'm quite sure that remote vs in-office is not one of those inflection points (unless it is! in a specific case!). I'd further postulate that VCs who use remote vs in-office as a meaningful investment signal will do nothing but water down their ability to find the outliers in their non-preferred segment.

At this point it's pretty clear that remote vs in-office has a huge list of pros and cons on both sides, many of which could be showstoppers for specific individuals or businesses, but none of which are universal. It's a tradeoff. As with all tradeoffs you should make it with your specific context in mind. A founder who is keying off a study like this because they think data > gut feelings does not have what it takes to be a successful founder.
> Google employees

> Interactive chart of Alphabet (GOOG) annual worldwide employee count from 2010 to 2022. Alphabet total number of employees in 2022 was 190,234

There should be a rule where you can't over-represent a group of people in media headlines.

What percentage of 190,000 people called the CEOs response a dumpster fire?

What percentage of 190,000 are even aware of ChatGPT or Google's response to it?
> is this some new literary technique to have opaque titles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

> just be direct and say the fucking thing in the title

But then you might not click the link. The ones making clickbait don’t care to inform or impart knowledge—they don’t even care if you read the article—all that matters is that you open the page and give them some advertising money.
I am hearing about this tool first time and the git repo examples look impressive.

Is this free and open-source in the sense that we can host it on our own infra with no license fees? Is there any guide or example for deploying this in a AWS environment with typical data sources like S3 data lake (CSV/Parquet/Delta) and Redshift?
just wait until the various ChatGPTs are training each other using the well "researched content" they spamming the internet with... That alone will kill search more thoroughly then ChatGPT ever could by facilitating search at Bing.
That didn't seem to present an issue with health insurance.
(Disclaimer: Google employee, I don’t work on Bard, views my own, etc.)

I don’t think either Bing Chat or Bard is ready to be released widely. You need a certain mindset to be able to wring value out of them, and most normal users will not think this way.

That being said, it’s probably fine to release these tools to enthusiastic early adopters who understand how to use them.
Packj flags malicious/risky open-source packages
That's just not true though. Using fossil fuels affects everyone around you.
Jean Noel Barrot is a member of a centre-right party in France though.
When I was a kid - it was not possible to access hardcore porn with one click. Even adults could not do it back then.
>It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop

Yes, but what if it's really aliens?

(cue Not Saying It's Alien But It's Alien meme)
> Setup an IPS on a server exposed to the net. Record all attacks for a month, then look up the IP addresses, then you will understand.

These "attacks" are automated scanners trying a bunch of SSH/Telnet credentials and five year old Netgear CVEs. Why are you worried about these? If you are vulnerable to them you have a serious problem because someone will try them from a BuyVM or Ecatel machine that is Western but more lenient towards scanning and then you will be compromised.
Currently happening in Canada, too: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-senators-vo...

However I don't think it's accurate to say "regardless of political leaning" - just scratch the surface of the lobbying groups (and age verification companies!) backing these bills and you'll see it's conservative Christians all the way down.
That a "Doomsday Preppers: Where are they now?" follow-up sequel has not yet been produced is highly disappointing
The list in the article is the same one I linked to.
It's true. Even Ballmer had a vision.
Interesting, do you have details on that, or is that a guess?
exactly, for the price we paid, I was expecting Mark Abene, Marcus Ranum, or Bruce Schneier, not the dressed up, Little Bobby Tables.
This is the crux of it. You say "their home", they say "my home".

"This is my house. I own it. I should be free to kick anyone out at any time for any reason or no reason."

One's reaction to the above sentence probably shows which side of the fence one is on fairly quickly.
Show HN: Screenshot.Rocks: Open-source browser and mobile screenshot mockup tool
Every new thing gets hyped up as the "killer" of existing businesses.

Siri, Alexa, etc. were all supposed to be existential threats to Google's search, and then they weren't
The USG uses sanctions against organizations or individuals that act against its interests. When it is in a war, nationals from that country will receive increased scrutiny but I hope USG have learned from the internment of Japanese citizens in US during WWII that there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed. (Gitmo indicates they have indeed learned something.)

I understand your point about how unfair and unjust guilt by association is. In a country that hoists the banner of freedom and attracts the best and the brightest from around the world, the US must take steps to protect civilians in the US from bigotry and discrimination. Regardless of their background.

I apologize for the current political climate causing Russians civilians in the US to feel this way. If it is of any solace, be assured they are not alone in their experiences.
> Only a C suite or a mgmt consulting firm could possibly believe that.

No, programmers/engineers/etc. are equally susceptible: https://xkcd.com/1831/

Related:

• https://xkcd.com/793/

• https://xkcd.com/1570/
If you don't create a Microsoft account then there is a potential pitfall:

These days when you buy a new laptop from one of the big manufacturers it is fairly common for it to have the harddrive encrypted with bitlocker.

If you don't create a Microsoft account and later the laptop stops working and you want to read the harddrive or ssd in another machine, uh oh, you don't have the bitlocker key, you have lost any files you did not have backed up.

Some models of laptop intended for corporations have an option to erase the TPM if the laptop is physically opened. You opened that laptop to see if you could add more RAM? You need the bitlocker key to get your files back (or you need to restore from backup if you have one).

The FBI wants to be able to access and forensically image devices that they have seized. If Microsoft keeps a copy of bitlocker keys in Microsoft accounts then they can also give them to the FBI and other spy agencies.
I looked up the article because I hadn't read it. It's different than what I expected because I was expecting big bets on new things. It's more a list of incumbent (but modern) industries to try disrupting, ie breaking Google's monopoly on search:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
In Iceland they start between 8:00 and 9:00 (and being on permanent DST this is actually worse in Iceland). So like my parent said, sports (and other kids culture) are not the reason for sleep depriving teenagers, they are merely an additional contributor.

I just felt the need to state the difference in culture here, where US kids activities are really tightly coupled with school activities. While in Europe a simple change in policy—often just on a school administration level—is needed, while in the USA, this is way more complicated.
True.

But I'd assume that most are just used by their creators.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612732 was the companion discussion. To quote the author. "(Note: This is the companion post to my article at Public Books about evading data detection at Disneyland. For the fun story, read the Public Books version; for tech details and the "why" of my choices, read on here)."
Playboy is way tamer than current porn sites where anything 18+ goes.
In the long run, sure. In the short to medium term, though, they solidly dominate the field.

We're still in that phase phase of both Tesla and Bing AI.
That's not a particularly good position.

There is no state that allows someone under 21 to buy alcohol/booze, but somehow teenagers do actually find alcohol, how very peculiar.

Furthermore, with a lower limit to 18, there's still an overlap with seniors who turn 18 soon before graduating, thus the argument in that regard is not particularly convincing either.

If you peruse through [1], you will find that in a non insignificant number of cases, the perpetrator was an adult. This then suggests that in the remaining cases the perpetrator was a teenager or a child, thus rendering the argument not particularly convincing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
As a Python instructor, classes are a pain in general to teach. OO seems to have a non-understandable aura around it. Especially for folks without a CS background. self is weird until you explain that __init__ is not really a constructor. We get through it but there are bumps in the road.

I don't teach dataclasses until I teach intermediate classes because I like my students to understand decorators beforehand.

This make me wonder if I should experiment with teaching dataclasses instead of __init__ (and just hand-wave decorators and types)...
Huh?

None of that addresses how to allocate actually scarce things.
I might be wrong because the source ( https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/age-can-buy-gun-america-73181... ) is not super fresh (2018) , but:

"
(while the age for rifle is federally 18...) Exceptions to this include if the gun is to be used for specified activities including employment, ranching, farming, target practice and hunting.
"

and

"
For example, in Vermont it’s legal to sell a handgun or rifle to someone over 16.
In Maine, Alaska, Minnesota or New York State you can sell a rifle to someone over 16.
In Minnesota, as long as it’s not in the city, you can sell a rifle to a 14-year-old without parental consent.
"

Seems confirmed by ( https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/minimum-age-to-pur.... ):

"
Age 14 or 15 and has a firearms safety certificate
"
You’re not stupid: the OP wrote a bunch of jargon that more or less nobody in the industry uses on any regular basis. It’s a similar pattern to functional programming evangelists’ rhetoric.

The short answer is this: the compiler enforces type-checked unions (called `enum` in Rust) guaranteed to hold one specific type, and requires any `match` block (cf `switch`) checking a value to exhaustively check all possible ones. That’s not the whole story, but it covers about 99.99% of the use cases the OP refers to.
That would be great if it were true, unfortunately railway accidents are merely a reality of transporting dangerous chemicals hundreds of times per day.

If we want to blame the railroad union not getting any time off or sick leave, there are no secret cabals of the rich - that is purely the white house.
EULAs only can bind the people who are parties to them.

If say Bing were to tell you something false and defamatory about me, like say that I write Luca fanfiction that ships Alberto and Ercole, their EULA might protect them from liability for the psychological trauma being exposed to that pairing caused you (Alberto and Luca is clearly the OTP for that fandom...) because the EULA is between you and them, but it would not protect them from liability for defaming me because an agreement between you and them cannot waive my rights.
Eh, this feels different. There are some immediate utilities delivered from ChatGPT and Midjourney that feel like magic. Will they get over hyped? Sure. But is there a real kernel of something different there? I think so.

Chatbots were just a worse way to fill out a form. NFTs we’re…where to even begin.

But I’ve already used GPT to write thank you note and create a blog post, and I’ve used midjourney to create stock photos.
Well, mostly that there are not that many desktops being sold or used these days, but still lots and lots and lots of laptops. So if Windows is still king of the laptops, its very, very far from being "dead".
I'm responding to the substance of your comment: "The total amount of hydrochloric acid this could possibly produce would hardly register in the water table." The other stuff will certainly register, and if you didn't mention it, then it can read to imply a negative.
I think it may be time for you to watch (or re-watch) Yes, Minister. I seriously think that every civil servant in the UK has seen that series. One of the points/jests of the series was that the worst enemies of each Ministry are their own staff.
The other weird thing is, if someone is looking to have an edge in these sorts of things for their business, they should replace the AI helpdesks and automated emails with real, well-trained and friendly humans who will be an instant improvement, surefire hit with their customers, and cheaper on the R&D side to boot. But Google, and other companies, are spending huge amounts on bots that answer questions incorrectly, while leaving their customers without anyone to contact for critical customer support functions. We live in a weird time.