skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why a substance called "museum wax" was invented.
Glad I’m not the only one being targeted by obnoxious “health” mushroom drinks and such
The best feature of this LLM is that it goes from fooling people into having people make fools of themselves when they turn around and predict the end of the world/education/programming/whatever thing they don't quite understand based on what a confidently incorrect charlatan machine told them. It's like a viral marketing gag.
30 years ago we had fabricated boy bands like NSYNC.
I too have issues with this, but mainly trying to run protected ports (port 53 for DNS with PiHole) as rootless Podman -- it just did not work. Went back to docker and have not had an issue since.
It has a long tail but all the fat is in the beginning.
Hey, thanks for the info. Seems the SMTP got messed up :/ Will try to fix it soon

EDIT: Fixed. But the battle with the ports and broken default SMTP server settings was hard
Wow, I didn't expect so much interest in my comment!

I should start by saying that I'm not averse to a little "manual labor". I know a lot of people feel compelled to automate everything, and if you're like that, then you wouldn't like my methods at all. ;-)

My entire blog is in a git repository.

I use BBEdit for text editing. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ It has a full set of HTML tools and templates.

Whenever I want to write a new blog post, I create one from an HTML template that already has a style sheet, header, footer, and other structured info.

All of my blog posts are listed reverse chronologically in a table in the "index.html" file. I just have to create a new table row for the new blog post at the top and fill in the date, filename, and title.

I can preview the blog post in a web browser while I'm writing it, and BBEdit accepts drag and drop of images files, automatically creating img elements.

I also have a template for the RSS feed entries. I use the Atom format FWIW. Each entry has a section where I can copy and paste the HTML from the blog post into the RSS feed:

<content type="html"><![CDATA[
]]></content>
</entry>

I use the W3C feed validation service to check the RSS syntax, and I also subscribe to the local copy of the RSS feed file in my RSS reader app. https://validator.w3.org/feed/

That's about it! My system has become slightly more sophisticated over the years. When I started blogging this way, it was even more primitive. The whole point was to just start blogging, and not worry about my blogging system. It seems that worrying about the blogging system stops a lot of people from blogging in the first place.
He ‘attempts’ to address the concern by calling it nonsense, and then offers no viable alternative, while using a long series of poorly structured arguments.

As I’ve said above; he’s applying a black and white argument to a problem of degrees.

It’s just like Goldilocks - the food can be too hot, the food can be too cold, it can also be just right. The point of these children fables is to teach us basic principles of how the world works and to encourage us to use them to recognise our own mistakes.
If you prevent modifying completely, that would break large swatches of all extensions. I would imagine manifest will eventually move there, but moving straight to the end goal would have created a lot more outrage (rightly so).

Again, since you seem to have ignored the main point of GP and my reply, this was the "first step" in the right direction.
> the continuous assessment fad that has always been rather disastrous for equity

Can you expand on this?

I lived the two models as a student and still can't make up my mind on which is best. I feel like it just takes catching some bad cold the week of the exams or a bad exam subject / topic to fail them which seems pretty unfair, but I also know my shit better and have more perspective the week of the exam and prefer not having to stress every week because of the continuous assessment.
Could it generate some great publicity and cost nothing?
Sorry if you saw my point is off track. I was commenting more on the nature of bias given the topic of the submission.

I do think understanding biases important in determining how you act. Both in this crisis in future ones, and hopefully hopeful and avoiding future ones.

When it comes to the Ukrainian crisis, I think a major bias in the common understanding is neglecting the choices the US made that let us do the current state. That's not to say that it is the US's fault, but I think it is reasonable to ask how we got here and could it have been avoided with different choices. Should it have been avoided if it could have been?

So far, the war has been one of the best things to ever happen to US geopolitics since the Cold War ended
You are correct. And there is an Ansible role for automated management: https://github.com/linux-system-roles/podman/
Having been through a few layoffs at companies, I think it's still helpful to remember that even when a company does lay-offs and while thousands of people are losing their jobs, the vast majority are not. News articles don't state "100K engineers at company XYZ not effected by lay-offs".

I don't want to downplay the stress that comes from working in an environment like this. And news articles showing how thousands are being laid off can be really stressful, especially as jobs are means for housing, immigration, feeding your family! While you should always be prepared for the worst, it's by no means a certainly that you will be impacted by lay-offs.

When I read that the OP fully expects to be laid off; I hope they're wrong, and statistically they are. I don't say this to take away from the real pain that comes from this uncertainty, but more to offer a ray of hope.
> through various kinds of data abstraction, reasoning by analogy, and other techniques similar to what humans do.

No, that's exactly not how LLMs work. They are extremely good at predicting what sentences resemble the sentences in their training data and creating those. That's all.

People are getting tripped up because they are seeing legitimate intelligence in the output from these systems -- but that intelligence was in the people who wrote the texts that it was trained with, not in the LLM.
Software, uh, eats the world.
What is the true percentage from your experience?
A mistake on my phrasing. I meant MacBooks, not macOS.
It's not Microsoft as a whole though: the OS team goes above and beyond in maintenance, Office team did nothing of that, Azure team doesn't seem to be keen on that either.
> memorizing and regurgitating information - is now a commodity.

Google Search already did this! Connections have been the value for a very long time.
Law and Order’s writing quality and direction is only a little bit better than Rings of Power so I don’t quite understand your point.
The future is all prompt engineering.
The reason people use systems programming languages is because they need to efficiently and effectively manage and manipulate memory. That's why C was created in the first place - to write the 100,000+ lines of code that would become Unix Version 4 in 1973. (Not bad for a two year old language.)

Which means that when you present me with a systems programming language that enforces an ownership concept that makes it much more difficult to write allocators or even doubly linked data structures, and then use that language's existence to justify adding the same restrictions into a version of C, "who asked for this?" might well be the least offensive response I can muster.
Ok, so going with your idea. We kill a company, then sell to competitors. FDIC says "that's anti-competitive".

Now what?
Wondering how long it will take for our engineers to be requesting this installed on their machines..
That sounds like the Android nonsense where your data ends up "living inside" a particular application, though.
That was the smartest decision they made other than the product itself
I have similar with even fewer steps!

Edit directly in working copy

Blog repo is on GitHub

When I push to the main repo Cloudflare Pages does hugo build
The fact that they settle for sub 5% profit margins means they individually do not have the pricing power to do that. Clearly, a competing insurance company will steal business via lower premiums.

I suppose one could assert they are all in cahoots and have a secret deal to accept low single digit profit margins to keep out of the news cycle, while simultaneously agreeing to pay healthcare providers more and more each year, but I would want proof.
right? And some ads did just that... case in point... all kinds of snake oil medical cures. I think the US FDA did a good job of this for food and medicine, where false claims can have really serious consequences... but I for one am not sure what more can be done about cars, clothes, and electronics. We've got safety standards for those already. Beyond that we can try to create educated consumers; maybe make psychology and behavioral economics part of high school curriculum.
A feature that IPOed and is currently with a market cap of $24B. Please let me know where I can invest in more of such features, because the ROI is huge.
I think the biggest issue for me has to do with the fact that, being really into technology, advertisement has taken the form of "reviews", "previous" and so on.

Although I block both ads and sponsored content (with sponsorblock) it's still impossible to escape the recommendation algorithms that just show me all the new and exciting things the market is coming up with. And this doesn't just go for technology, it's everywhere, from plants to books to phones to fountain pens. The line is completely blurred. Though it is easiest to see in tech because every tech youtuber out there is doing "non paid reviews" but what are these if not just advertisement? They get the products for free just to show them off, and it's bonanza for everyone... well, everyone but the consumer.

The most critical situation for me is that in this age, if you have a little bit of money, there's always a right product fit for you. Sure, I might not be willing to spend the 1400 dollars of this top-of-the-line smartphone but hey, here's a very similar alternative for just half the price; it's chinese but you can always get around some of the drawbacks with a bit of knowledge, now, that's exciting.

It's difficult because I really enjoy technology, ultimately, I'm a weak person with a tendency to overspend; but I've realized the grand majority of tech "reviews" out there are nothing but giving you a list of specs on a nicely presented package. What do they add, really? I mean, they barely get to use these products at all! A nice review requires time, but when time has passed then the new product is already out. It's an extremely fast paced cycle that leaves everyone behind and it's all fueled by advertisement. Though there are some reviewers out there that really do a good job and give good information; when I was trying to buy a robot vacuum cleaner there was plenty of really high quality reviews of them.

It's become really difficult to separate between people giving valuable information and people just trying to create a need to consume in you.
Segreta anyone ?
Birth control has way less leeway than the parent describes hiv treatment. Oral birth control fluctuates wildly and must be taken literally within the same hour or so every day. I don’t think birth control and hiv transmissibility are comparable cases here, because the potential for pregnancy and the potential for hiv infection don’t appear to work remotely similarly. I don’t personally have a horse in this race, I’m merely pointing out I think this comes off as not understanding pregnancy prevention, hiv treatment, or both.
Startups in Web3 and the Future of Healthcare and Fitness
That’s impossible for me to know; however it’s low enough that the company just raised $5m on a $50m Val and is growing significantly in a downturn.
And even if you’re not directly, maybe a database provider has been bombarding your friend or coworker with ads for weeks and now they suddenly recommend that platform to you because it’s been seared into their memory
True, he doesn't, but there are alternatives. Back when ads weren't a huge thing yet you had phonebook entries for companies or tradespeople providing a certain service, much like one can find on google maps today. If someone needed something they'd just call a number from the list. Though one might consider those entries ads as well I suppose.

I (personally) think the problem isn't so much in the ads themselves since they're obviously useful when you're actively looking for something, it's that they're shoved in your face at every opportunity possible. And sometimes even in some impossible ones too. Given how we're bombarded with it online it may make sense to curb how much it's allowed in public spaces in real life to give people at least some breathing room.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34864753

Someone mentioned dupe detection not working, this looks like a good example, it's the same article and very recently posted with many comments
If you can build 4 months (or even just 3) of runway on 1 month of salary, it doesn't take long to get a really good buffer in place.
Presumably though we pay more for the advertised goods and services in order that they can afford the advertising to pay for the services we consume for free.

If we removed the advertising part of that then everything could be cheaper.
There is also an option outside "one exam" and "many exams" — and that's "no exams." Obviously, this is spectacularly hard to fit into the current system, but you see this a lot in vocational schools where project-based work makes up the majority of the grade and exams are held to comply with regulatory requirements.

ChatGPT might just fit into an educational world that values outcomes over fact retention. One may dream.
Death by Over-Recommendation
> Literally everyone you need was laid off...

All the least valuable people were laid off…
Before anyone says anything - signage is also advertising.

And if all advertising is prohibited; then it becomes quite literally 100% about who has the best geographic location which is the most naked form of capitalism I can imagine.
> The authors are generally OK with whatever the publisher thinks makes the most money.

Which means that it is done with the author's permission. That's fair.
The name of the blog is a little joke/pun about how bare-bones the site is. I'm not a designer, obviously!
In JS functions are first class citizens that can be saved to variables, passed as arguments or returned by other functions, etc.
Security cameras are usually low-framerate and compress highly anyway, due to not much happening between each frame, so I doubt it's going to be a significant cost in comparison to all the other, far more massive content which is also constantly being uploaded.
I don’t experience mass-market ads in my day-to-day life at all. None in person: I live in a rural town of under a hundred people, and the nearest billboard I know of is 40km away on the sides of a fish-and-chips shop, and the second-nearest over 100km away. (Also one road safety billboard (TAC) 45km in a different direction, but that’s at least a bit different.) None in tech or other things, either: no newspaper, radio or TV, nothing on mobile (which I barely use anyway), aggressive ad-blocker and JS disabled by default in Firefox.

Just occasionally (considerably less than once a year) I get exposed to TV (which I was not raised with). It’s awful. How does anyone ever willingly subject themselves to it? I detest televisions. They’re far too effective at stealing your attention, distracting you, et cetera, and their ads are regularly just sickening from the rapidity of transitions and visual stimuli.

Fairly regularly I go down to Melbourne (where I grew up), mostly by public transport but sometimes driving. Ugh. So many billboards, so many things trying to steal your attention (and designed to steal your attention), so many such things even actively causing safety hazards while driving (especially at night). A lot of current billboard practices should be made illegal as part of road safety laws, quite apart from anything else. Almost all of these practices, I will add, have come about in in the last ten years, mostly even in the 5½ years since I left Melbourne.

Things have objectively been getting much worse (e.g. ads inside and outside trains; and digitally-cycling ads are almost ubiquitous instead of rare, and animated ads are common rather than unknown), but I imagine there’s also a good chunk of me becoming more intolerant of these things due to no longer being acclimated to them.

I don’t like being in Melbourne very much. Escaping ads and distractingly-dynamic or too-bright digital screens everywhere wasn’t (directly) one of the reasons I left, but it certainly is now.
Don’t all organisms fight for their own survival?

If the IRS just told us what we owe them or they owe us TurboTax would be obsolete, so this should surprise no one.
Good to know, you can make polls on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
amazon graviton cpus
OMG

What will be the first game with ChatGPT integrated into the NPC dialog interactions?

My vote is Hitman, with variable voices....
The article didn’t say “from all PCs”. They also don’t remove it from Windows 7 PCs that don’t have Edge installed, for example.
Venture Fundraising Hits Nine-Year Low
Person A doesn't know about basic auth - primarily because it isn't a hip way to solve the problem - so person A spends a bunch of time understanding, installing, and using something unnecessarily convoluted. When presented with evidence of a simpler solution, they balk because humans value things they have spent time on especially when it is their own solution, their own "discovery".
Cleanroom development practice is a great point to make.

We have precedent of believing that exposure to some code (or other internals) might taint an engineer, such that they can't, say, write a sufficiently independent implementation.
If I (Netflix) purchased a book brand, which is what Roald Dahl is and I wanted to make a TV series about it, which would likely push kids into reading those books. It does make sense to me that I might want to modify aspects of the books to make them fit for today and potentially remove things that would be considered offensive in today's world.

This is simply a company trying to maximise their revenue from their purchase by taking a brand and fitting it into today's world. This isn't some government conspiracy to suppress thought or push an agenda.

To me it's not too dissimilar from movies doing remakes and changing the narrative, character and language used.

I myself, would prefer the originals to be reproduced so that they remain Dahl's stories.
As a parent, I'm hoping this will reduce the at-home workloads and shift more work towards school. What's the real life value of having students go to school and then spend all-nighters trying to do homework and all the expected extra-curricular?
There is a hierarchy of methods to get the job done (to close the production/consumption loop with exchange of information), ranked in order from evil to sublime:

* Spy on and and profile people, (mostly unawares) and push ads by finding their "buttons"

* Create (mostly false) desires across segments of society and use every surface to influence

* Push (more or less) objective catalogs for people to select what they need

* Dont push anything, simply give people tools to pull the objective facts

I think the more psychologically healthy and environmentally sustainable societies will gradually gravitate away from the worst forms of advertising
> it's really not that bad of a chemical nor are its combustion products

Dioxins are a result of low temperature burning of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
To the end user, and doesn't impair performance, and covers all edge cases, then it doesn't matter if something is a workaround.

But we're not being end users here, we're trying to look at what went wrong. And we don't know if the other two are true either.
No analogy is perfect. My point is that people go on and off HIV medication all the time for all sorts of reasons: costs, burden, side effects, etc. By comparison birth control is very easy. It’s an example how medicine can be effective, but still create risks in real life.
It doesn't have to be true though, it just has to be a nice story. And this is the kind of interview questions you can prepare.
Microsoft's antitrust suit was mostly about illegal business practices, wide bullying of vendors and OEMs to block conpetition. How was it not based on sound legal theory ?

[Edit: I'm actually thinking of the EU lawsuit that was probably broader and better managed than the US one. Memories are now vague, it took me a while to even remember US and EU had different suits, but sure th US one was a lot worse in many aspects as Microsoft was on their home turf.]

> every MS competitor just did what MS did and didn't get smacked for

If you believe this, is the fault on those who smacked MS or the regulators who didn't smack the later violations ?

Is your argument that a crime shouldn't be punished in the past if people fail to punish it later in the future ?
These USB cables with a switch won't work - since they only seem to allow power. But you're right - a button will do the job.
I agree with you directionally, it's a problem that VRBO et. al. should solve, perhaps in their search algorithm and UI. For instance, the fee-range search should include the hidden flat fees averaged over the number of nights, in the nightly rate.

I notice VRBO has a search by nightly rate and a search by total cost, so at least you can choose "deceive me" or "don't deceive me".
Or maybe they are not so talented after all.
Had the same issue, the containers did not resolve each other by hostname. This fixed it (run on the host):

apt install containernetworking-plugins podman-plugins
When was this? I drive through (Chicago) Chinatown a few times a month and am curious if I've never noticed it or can't read it. I see Falun Gong protestors out many weekends and Shen Yun had billboards and ads all over
Consider OpenAI vs Google in the chat AI stand off (who is David who is Goliath here). Then consider does it makes sense to talk about it without considering Microsoft vs Google?
Fastmail. No complaints.
I always wondered why browsers do not parse and understand markdown on their own, it would be so easy for thrm to implement it.
No, the price would be the same and the company would just pocket the money instead of spending it on advertising. If they do not get enough customers to sustain the company it will shut down.
I have in the past few weeks survived a round of layoffs, fully expect another round this year if things don't improve. What can I do? try to save a bit more money and keep looking for other jobs (but what if they go into layoffs as well? What industry/sector is "safe" these days?).
Great. So this is actually MY point that you’re now making.

The problem is a problem of degrees. How much is too much?

And most especially in terms of outdoor advertising, this is where the topic is especially pertinent - because someone can’t consent to this.

Whereas on the internet people can, and do.