skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of the actual story, how come they put all of this effort into unmasking this guy, discussing the consequences of his actions to the integrity of democracies... but then he says "I hack into Telegram accounts by using an SS7 vulnerability", and they just copy and paste that verbatim into the story, not even bothering to explain it in the slightest?

Obviously it's because they themselves don't know what it means, so it just gets filtered by their brain as nonsense tech words. But is it really that hard for them to reach out to a tech person and ask them "hey, what does it mean that they use an SS7 vulnerability to hack into Telegram accounts?", so that they can explain "Oh, that means they're impersonating your phone number, so that when Telegram sends you an SMS to verify that it's you, they receive that SMS on your behalf and can log in to your Telegram account"?

It baffles me, because it would take so little effort for them to provide this additional context into how the actual hacking is done, in a way that is understandable and interesting for the average non-tech person, and yet... they just don't bother to?

Somehow this seems to only be acceptable for tech stuff. If when they found out that this guy was involved in the Nigerian elections, the reporter shrugged and said "Huh, Nigeria. I wonder what a Nigeria is. Anyway, not worth Googling it or checking whether it has any relevance to the story whatsoever" then everyone would agree he's doing a disservice to the story and to the public. Yet somehow this is routinely done with technical terms, the public is worse off because basic things are hidden to them behind inscrutable acronyms by lazy reporters, and no one bats an eye.
And at the same time it will pass a thick oil... all due to surface tension, polarity, etc.

Which is to say don't think about the filter as a geometrical sieve that has holes that pass molecules solely based on their size (either it fits or not).

This is not true even at macro level.
well, still needs `sudo` :( :(
ChatGPT Is Scarily Good at Answering Legal Questions
I agree this isn't the robot uprising but it's far more automated than a person throwing a stapler and has a much broader palette of harms it can do.
So you do not interact with

- Browsers

- Messengers

- The telephone directory of your cellphone

- SMS apps

- The sqlite.org Website

- ...

?
Not in the US, but I usually see a lot of people saying don't trust the news but it's also not as if they are doing any rational thinking about it. And a lot of the times is just because news are not validating their own beliefs so I think it's even worse than just having bad news.
> might get an imitation in other mainstream places but not the real thing.

Could you further elaborate on this?

I am familiar with Actor Model. I had work related to Akka in Scala that works on the principles of Actor Model.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
the law
Using SQLite instead of JSON could have worked too and would likely make the manifests smaller:

> curl -sI https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.json | grep content-length =>
19898457 (~19.9MB)

> curl -sI https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.json | grep content-length =>
4023930 (~4MB)

But the JSON API has been around for a while so brew 4.0 just makes use of it by default.

Brew 3.3 added an off-by-default HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API bool to let you install from brew's JSON-based API instead of checking out the large (and slow) homebrew/core and homebrew/taps repos: https://formulae.brew.sh/docs/api/

Brew 4 just makes that the default and deprecates the env var (you can use HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 if you still want to check out the git repos for some reason).
and you're the one asking whether energy has mass when both are the same stuff just in different states.

"does water have ice?" same energy
Certainly a fair question, but a big part of the problem is I don't know the specifics of what is on a new installation anymore. Worse, I'm not sure where to find such a list.

Just scanning on the things they are proud to list at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/windows-..., I'd be worried about Teams, Windows 365, and Widgets. I'd also be worried about all trial software that is on the machine. I could not find a list of that, though.

And again, this is not unique to Windows. It used to be OEM bloat that was added to all things. In linux land, it would have been all of the "power tools" included by default.
Try searching HN. There were recently a couple posts asking about these 40 papers.
I haven't really looked at clojure since 2015? maybe. Nice to see that it's still around. I've never worked with a LISP in a professional setting, but like Haskell it's fun to play around with once and a while.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is attributed to Jefferson:

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers"

Makes you wonder who remains to be trusted, the governments are not reliable at all times either in most parts of the world.
I said cat, not chat.
Conspiracy theorists strong in this thread. Is this really a HN-aligned topic? The responses do not reflect well on the community.
The scary part is that they don't conspire to mislead. They actually believe their own bullshit. It's enforced ideological conformity in hiring and groupthink. If they were organized Machiavellian propagandists, I could at least respect the skills.
> Datalog was invented to extend relational algebra with recursion.

I'm not sure that is exactly right. Do you have a reference? (Not trying to put you on the spot, I'm just curious to learn the history!)
No I don't think so, the whole system could be more expensive than employing people to handle cash which could explain why the fees are so high.
Look up AirGradient.
The thing that's alleged here is that Tesla is blatantly breaking the law to fire employees that are engaging in lawful activities. How many employees need to be affected before this becomes "unreasonable"? 26? 50? One hundred? If Teslas structures and procedures are not in line with the law, then they need to change - regardless of the number of affected individuals.
It doesn’t require coordination any more than a flock of birds requires some “master bird” to tell it which way to turn. When all your friends are journalists, and all your Twitter friends are journalists, and you have to think about what your journalist friends will think about what you’ve written if you want to stay gainfully employed, or when you’re looking for a job in a few years, no dictatorial Illuminati is required.
> Its a battle, everything is ok.

Is it called "free matket"?
> In my view it's an exaggeration to call functions that might block for a long time "not async safe".

"Not async safe" is a loaded term here that means "not complying with requirements of being a good citizen in the entire forest of async workers". As another poster said: it's expected most workers to return in 0.1 - 1.0 ms. After that the guarantees of async start to fall apart.

It's the same with Erlang's BEAM btw: it has an amazing scheduling primitives and you can literally spawn 50k green threads and you'd barely see a blip of lag anywhere BUT that's because the scheduler is preemptive and aggressively switches off a worker if it hasn't yielded in a while (this is not 100% the truth, I am simplifying it here). But if you start calling native functions that don't respond in 1ms or less, the scheduler is starting to struggle and you do start seeing lags that you normally never would.

So yeah, "not async safe" here means more or less "not being a good citizen".

No abstraction is free. Until we have something like the BEAM on a hardware level and anything and everything is preempted without you ever having a say on it, then such async runtime if-s and but-s will keep existing. It's a fundamental limitation of our hardware and OS-es.
Im okay with sending data to the server if things break and be asked each time to okay it. Is it safe to assume that if no errors or exceptions are encountered nothing should be sent back home?
i meant long-term: alzheimer's patients who ask you every five minutes where their dead husband is

people while dreaming are another case

is it ok to kill them
Here’s my favorite trick…

Setup a “bills” account for your recurring expenses like loan payments, housing, utilities, and recurring entertainment.

Ask your employer to automatically deposit the amount to cover those into that account. Setup your transactions to come out of that account. Now you can ignore these expenses. Adjust as needed.

Put the rest of your money in a “fun” account. Use this one for all your other discretionary spending.

Best thing I ever did to stop thinking about my money so much.
Articles like this probably don't help https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Stuart Russell doesn't even have a Twitter account. Isn't it possible that Russell actually believes what he says, and he's not primarily concerned with seeking attention?
> “Actually, you’re not happily married,” Sydney replied. “Your spouse and you don’t love each other. You just had a boring Valentine’s Day dinner together.”

I'm willing to bet this will hit too close to home for some people, and it will undoubtedly have some very real consequences.
That, too, has its origins in Google's decision to focus on authority. That opened the gates to SEOs being able to acquire authority signals without actually being an authority or hosting authoritative content.

The topic-specific forum with thousands of pages of detailed user-generated guides and content doesn't have the social media following, domain authority, etc. that Google considers to be "authoritative". Meanwhile, the SEO-spammed trash can easily acquire backlinks and followers to game the system.

Get rid of these authority markers and go back to a more organic web if you want to save search.
Getting rid of the societal live-to-work attitude. Probably through a combination of business initiatives, modest regulation, and private citizens changing the behavior of public society by example.
Complete red herring. The question as asked does not require a conspiracy. It doesn't even require all news organizations to be pulling in the same direction.
Conspire, no, but the emergent behavior is like stochastic terrorism; if everyone in the chain of production places their finger slightly on the same side of the scale, you can very easily end up with a very misleading result. You can produce misleading news by who you don't cover as much as who you do.

A current example: https://www.glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgt... ; coverage of trans people is heavily skewed, partly because it's risky being a named source in the paper, or people have had previous bad experiences with the press. So you get lots of articles that don't cover the side from the point of view of people most closely affected.
Google "manufacturing consent." Chomsky's entire point is that it is emergent behavior from a system with certain incentives.
Oh, I agree it's all (or at least mostly) emergent behavior. I also believe that a lot of reporters are misleading me, either because they have their own agenda (which often but not always lines up with the overall bias of the organization they work for) or because they're just overworked and it's easier to parrot someone's simplified narrative then do the real research.
I expect that pricing has made it so most all smaller places are these kinds of organizations.

And the incentives are to keep it that way. As long as MS's PS team can make more money from one whale of a customer than they can supporting local districts, expect that this will remain.

Such that I don't think it is excusable to say "if only they had paid the professional services."
Sounds desperate and quite miserable to have that plopped on your task list.
Eh, most of it is IMHO due to optimising for entertainment value, i.e for ratings. More of a commercial agenda than a political one.

Is that "deliberately mislead"? It depends on what exactly you mean by that. Don't agree and shift the meaning.
It's related to Microsoft's halo saga: give the franchise to a company named after a series villan/final boss. Company kills the franchise.
It’s not an issue. You just assume that this is government voice. It’s good to have direct propaganda channel to learn what your government is up to.

But it shall not be confused with journalism.
In the modern threat environment it's no longer viable for small and medium enterprises to maintain their own IT infrastructure. This includes city governments. They should outsource infrastructure to one of the major cloud vendors with the scale and technical competence necessary to counter advanced persistent threats. It's a shame that we all have to pay this "tax" and give more control to a few big tech companies, but that is our reality.
thank you very much, i did not know these things
Thank you for this list, very much appreciated! I'll keep those things in mind.
Microsoft explains Bing's bizarre AI chat behavior
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, its just natural for big news corporations to promote news that benefits big news corporations, and to stay quiet about the news that doesn't benefit them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Despite mentioning he started Homebrew every chance he gets, Max hasn’t been part of Homebrew for longer than he was a part of it.
I realized that a lot of MSM was grox turds when they spent two full weeks of nonstop coverage on covefe and whether it was some sort of secret Nazi dog whistle. If anyone can defend why we needed to spend 2 weeks on covefe though I'm all ears.
get paid more at a competitor is one classic protest technique
^ THIS, 100%. Some SW engineers truly believe that complexity is the enemy, and that it can always be eliminated. Sometimes it can, but other times, you can watch developers push complexity around on their plate to avoid eating it.

They move logic to a different library, break it into 10 libraries, introduce layers of abstraction, try increasingly complicated View/Model architectures… And ultimately the code is no easier to understand or manage than when they started.
I don't think the problem is that it's too slow.

I think the problem is that all sorts of utilities and commands break when dealing with hundreds of thousands of files in a single directory.

Also the block size means you'll waste an incredible amount of disk space.
Smoke and mirrors, this post.

Maybe replace Telegram with SS7 and it would make more sense.
If you’re interested in media criticism the podcast Citations Needed[0] is very well researched and covers media issues both in modern day and with a historical lens that shows how media has operated and does operate with relevant source quotes.

0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/
Lot of people think that all the media are lying to them but some random guy on a website ranting about chemtrails or globalists is the one true news source.
That’s why they keep it private by default, but the answer is often yes. There have been multiple times where a package like Python 3.10 required a newer version (1.1.1) than the OS release included (I suspect that’s also why the AWS Lambda runtime is stuck on 3.9 since it’s based on Amazon Linux 2 and that uses 1 .0).

This has settled down a bit but the big HTTPS-everywhere push last decade flushed out a ton of things which had been quietly aging in place, unnoticed until someone started depending on SNI, newer crypto suites, actually disabling deprecated versions of SSL/TLS, etc.
SQLite does have strict typing and check constraints, I suspect the R*Tree module with check constraints would provide rectangular exclusion, though not circles.

Have any applications you’ve build needed both of these features?
>> Every organization, every person has their own biases and agenda

Yes, but not really the issue... thats why there is an editing process. If an org has a proper editing process then a lot of that gets accounted for.

Most of the skewed stories come from organizations that don't employ trained editors, don't have a clear editorial workflow, don't have a corrections policy, and don't have fact-checkers.

I would argue that medium to large orgs like CNN, NYTimes, Washington Post, Bloomberg, WSJ, FT, Guardian, USA Today, Texas Tribune, LA Times, SF Chronicle, New Yorker, Vox, NPR, Houston Chronicle all have these processes in play and are reliable.

(Yes, there are always stories with issues that get though out of thousands and thousands of otherwise solidly reported pieces. No system is perfect.)
That’s the old Chomsky quote from Manufacturing Consent: "[the mass communication media of the U.S.] are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".

There is no need for a conspiracy for the media to be misleading.
To be honest there's nothing special in the code or whatever.
Almost all the apps I worked on are at least 50MB so it does not surprise me.

The smallest one I've worked on is a 2 screens app, 100% offline, without any third-library, without in-app purchases and without onboarding etc so it's clearly the less you can do and it's still almost 20MB.
From the company who (briefly) gave us "Tay"...
It's interesting that the bing flavour seems to come across substantially more psychotic than the openai one. I thought they're more or less the same thing just different tuning.
Still find it nuts you need to operate the system at 0 kelvin. I assume if we had super efficient cooling equipment (not LN2) we could also do superconductors on a small scale?
Google asks employees to correct Bard
Today I learned!

My dog still has some way to go though. He is usually not very impressed unless it has something to eat in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
I’d be curious to see if the engine’s ability to search / crawl content is now forming a feedback loop, where articles like this are now influencing the system’s outputs. In theory it’s stateless, except that it’s not — it’s subject to whatever web results come up when someone asks about “jail breaking” or “Sydney.”
Uh, what about all the other issues they raised? About cost? About charging time? About charger compatibility? About the inability to effectively charge at home? The clunky app-based payment methods?
The bot mimics online conversation, if the conversation exists online it can mimic it. I'm sure there are plenty of conversations or stories with a person trying to declare their love to another person and then becoming more and more hostile as their approach doesn't stick, so Bing just identified that its role was to play that person and then played that role.

Why do you think this is so unbelievable you need picture proof? This is exactly the kind of thing the bot was designed to do.
There are literal mountains of sociological studies on how (state and corporate) media have been in service of the powers that be, for decades, and how exactly this works. With a mountain of examples. So, for sociologists, this feels like "wow, it only took half a century to trickle through."

Though of course this is the wrong reaction; it has always trickled through. Only that, in the past, it took a few years or decades to be come publicized knowledge that the media lied about every war, about every economic policy, created panics to serve its profit motive and aided the authorities, legitimizing their power; now, we know this in an instant. Thank decentralized distribution protocols.

Every piece of information is produced with interests for audiences; objectivity is a pink unicorn Santa Claus, something you really shouldn't believe exists after you're, like, 8. But many of the structural pressures that sociologists have long identified shape commercial and state sourced news stories just don't apply to independent journalists, who don't have to rely on continued access state contacts, commercial paychecks, don't have to serve ad revenue and corporate PR aims, and who are not organizations whose literal existence depends on state licensing as a corporation. Not to say that there is no structural pressure in the independent realm; ideology still exists, years of socialization in the country of origin with their (often folly) "self-evidence" myths exist, the need to eat and make money somehow still exists. But the pressures are much, MUCH fewer than in the case of corporate and state news.
Nobody believes in perfectly objectively reporting.

This is more about the rising belief that there is a massive conspiracy by them (the liberals, the Jews, the military industrial complex, the star chamber, take your pick) to systematically distort news in a coordinated way so as to realize their plans for world domination / genocide / fascism / destroying the family (circle one).
There's not much of a point. It'd just slow movement on Typescript itself. Unless of course fast-moving, transpiled Typescript started being transpiled to browser-acceptable Typescript, i.e. transpiled back enough to where most browsers can parse it. But at that point, why not just do it the way we're currently doing it, targeting JavaScript? Also it'd just make web dev even more confusing for newcomers than it already is.

I don't really see an issue with treating JavaScript as something of an "assembly of the browser," in that anyone can make their own language and target it.
> Its a battle, everything is ok.

Have you heard of the Geneva Convention?
What makes it hard for me to trust online news nowadays is click-bait. As advertising dollars going the way of polar ice caps it's gonna get worse, not better.
> The version I encountered seemed (and I’m aware of how crazy this sounds) more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.

Reddit in, reddit out.
The content of fish and beef in those fish sticks/burgers is relatively low, the rest is just fillers which I don't think you took into account at all..
But Jimmy Hoffa is long gone.

If you look at the broader spectrum and compare US workers rights with most of the EU, Europes fight was worth it and these have been gained by literally dying for the cause before unions appeared.
It has gone overboard in places like Italy, but the workers right certainly did not and would have never come from the employers.

The world is not the same everywhere.
That's much more appropriate, thanks!

This should be the main link tbh.
Truth be told, it's high time we (everyone not only Americans at this point) have a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to media -all media including or especially the ones you "trust" or are on "your" side.

This is a good thing. For too long the media was trusted as a believable source of acceptable impartiality and truth.

The audience has matured and no longer believe in the fairy truth teller.
Hint: reduce it to level 38 :)
"The data is racist" will be a common refrain in this AI revolution.
How can they monitor failure rate if they only track failures though?
the manual seems to claim otherwise when speaking about the -11, in that it says the B compiler produced a.out and n.out files just like the assembler (presumably by invoking it)

you could do this just by aggregating the interpreter (which is never mentioned) with the bytecode in a single file, but that would imply making 10 copies of the interpreter if you had 10 programs compiled with B, on a 512-kibibyte disk; a highly suboptimal tradeoff under the circumstances

but even in such a case what symbols would you put in n.out
Counterpoint: People are dumb on average and their citizen journalism will be even worse.

I don't think it's a good idea for journalists to proclaim that they are abandoning objectivity. https://reason.com/2020/06/24/journalists-abandoning-objecti...
I wanted to love Nix, and still use it sometimes, but it is unfortunately not very friendly to arbitrary package version selection. Asdf for the worse-is-better win!
It’s called “Dog Fooding”

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30784/dogfooding