skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that even if you re-built that product, it would quickly get overrun by engagement optimizers. If the product is open, they'll rush in.

We need the Craigslist of friends and family social networks. A company that is just aggressively disinterested in bloat or hyper engagement.

Something where "re-sharing" doesn't exist and links are deemphasized in the UX, so it's more focused on your content (hopefully you talking about your own life, thoughts, etc.). Especially text content, with photos/videos present, but a bit deemphasized.

Absolutely no business or "influencer" pages, of course.
Headlines like this promote narratives, not facts.

A narrative isn’t true until the story is finished.
We have no idea today if Putin‘s survival depends on victory, but it’s a great story.
> it’s amazing that companies are permitted to increase prices due to “inflation” but not simultaneously increase wages.

The implied proposal sounds like a great way to get a wage-price spiral.
Just my point. Many builders over-estimate the efficiency of a heat pump when deploying the systems in places where it's -15F for months at a time and the frost line is 60 inches down. The label rating isn't going to be achieved. That can be fixed in time with better heat pumps made for actually cold places but right now there are still early adopter problems that don't apply to traditional furnances/heating.
What setup is immune to zero days?
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS SES that are quick to get up and running
I have been trying to get my AWS SES out of sandbox but it seems taking so long and need to explain how i handle bounces and complains.

I have no intentions of misusing it but that doesnt mean others wont thats something out of control. for example one creating an account with someone else's email address.
does that work better than jumping to a preferable employer (assuming such is possible)?
> Perhaps the problem isn't C, but its standard library?

That's certainly at least a factor. In Rust, the "reverse a string byte by byte" bit could look like:

let reversed_string = String::from_utf8(some_string.bytes().rev().collect::<Vec<u8>>())?;

This is just what I thought of first. Peeking at the standard library examples, this one is fun:

unsafe {
let vec = some_string.as_mut_vec();

vec.reverse();
}

This is unsafe because you may create invalid utf8, but we've already established that's not something we care about, so...

But yeah stuff like this isn't impossible in C, though you'd not have method call syntax, of course. Rust's libraries are just richer here.
I like how this author's cursory research was so scientific that it fails to consider and control for all the other aristocratic children from those eras that his list is from who had tutors, connections, and apprenticeships and failed nevertheless to become "exceptional".
"Our" reality is not necessarily the only one, or is somehow special: under the many-worlds interpretation, every "quantum event" forks the universe. It should look somehow similar to "updating" a typical immutable data structure (a tree, a list) so that a new copy is created, sharing most data with the old copy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
Sounds like the TVA - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Variance_Authority
> the prosecutor would have then had to prove it was you in the driver's seat for any sort of moving violation to stick.

Obviously in a fair system, this would have to be true, but in today's system, is it actually true? Don't a lot of speed cameras automatically mail out tickets by license plate, and it's just assumed that if you're the owner, you're also the driver, unless you can prove someone else actually was?
I've never heard this before -- do you have a reputable source?
Watson as a system was designed specifically to play Jeopardy. After the win it got a lot of global hype behind it and IBM's marketing and sales teams went into overdrive positioning it as some next generation intelligent AI that could help with generic business processes, analytics, medical diagnosis, legal briefs, customer service and every other business area under the sun. Instead, companies that bought into it got the same army of IBM offshore consultants to custom build half-assed solutions for them like before.

"Watson" is ultimately a marketing name for a sub-par IT consulting service, nothing more.
>The %n functionality also makes printf accidentally Turing-complete

No it doesn't. Printf has no way to loop so it's not Turing complete. Even if you did what the IOCCC entry did with putting it into a loop it still wouldn't be Turing complete as it would not have an infinite memory.
Totally, if it understands "hex editing" and recognizes harmful vectors--perhaps even editing those out to be benign--we've essentially one-upped biology with software.

Summarizing viral markers like "this segment of code would execute a write attempt" or "make a network request" could accelerate the malware field that previously needed (software) autopsy and reverse engineering.

We could fall back on the existing tools to verify, of course, but expediting the grunt work would be welcomed.
Then don't add code to your site to make it work different?

>Why should we make a distinction between humans and machines?

Because machines can be used to abuse a site at a scale that humans can't. Site owners want to protect their site against abuse.
The python interpreter is not the bottleneck
> every single use of the dart was for a criminal? a 100% conviction rate?

Maybe uses where that wasn't the case just don't count as "successful".
Yep, I've seen this at a previous job too - a 30 person team just dealing with the AWS knot.
>is the constant appearance of normalized, or even celebrated, impropriety.

Can you provide some examples of such "impropriety"?

>For example, I strongly suspect that if any real accountability and real restitution had followed in the wake of something like the 2008 financial crisis, we'd see a lot less radicalization today.

What would this look like? My impression of the 2008 financial crisis was that the factors were so varied and the responsibility of a single actor so diffuse that it was very difficult to actually convict anyone of causing the multi-trillion disaster.
Not sure but probably some security thing - if you don't need it why leave it open to abuse.

An ISP I've used in the past hasn't allowed self hosting on a standard plan but has allowed on a plan you need to ask for specifically.
What is the Clearway Law controversy about?
This title really irks me. Basically it is saying that quantum states or possible paths are realities. But the very definition of reality is what we experience, so how can a quantum state, be a separate reality? The article mentions reality 5 times, not explaining what it even means by the word "reality".

While there may be some philosophical content to the statement, it is not a well-defined physical statement and moreover, the article doesn't show any "evidence" for it assuming that there is even a valid way to interpret the title.

I've come to expect this type of artilce from Quanta Magazine though.
Google did this for the same reasons AWS created Graviton; the article kind of mentions this: lower energy consumption, better performance for common workloads, and improved security.
many people who have ADHD also have aphantasia
Spam reduction from botnetted machines, and selling business lines, are the reasons I have seen given.
I think the current state is very much “the formulas work, don’t get too philosophical with them though”. IANAP.
>> The ground is a pretty safe place to be, the sky is a pretty safe place to be, but that first couple thousand feet between the ground and the sky is rather hazardous and jetliners get out of it as quickly as possible.

Then the problem here is trading safety for something - cost apparently.

BTW, in a small plane I found soft field takeoffs quite fun. Nose up early, wheels up early, fly in ground effect to gain speed. I suppose that is a safety tradeoff and might not want to do it in some conditions.
Linus Torvalds releases 'pedestrian' Linux Kernel 6.2, urges testers to try
“democratic ownership of the economy” cute way of saying socialism. But if people in the democracy don’t want to own the economy then it’s not democratic.

Same critique of so-called “Democratic socialism”. If it’s socialism, it’s not democracy.
If people are going to hang (cheap) AI art on their walls, they never were going to pay a few hundred (or thousand) dollars for something that someone would consider art from an artist. They could have gone to the local poster store and purchased a random poster for $15 and tacked that to the wall (and there's nothing wrong with that).

Spending more than the cost of materials and you're not shopping for AI produced images anymore.
If McDonald's required showing your driver's license to pick up your order, would it be a felony to show a fake license and pick up an order? You're not lying to a government organisation. You're just obscuring your identity to a private corporation. I fail to see how that can be any more than unethical.
> If they ever stop finding value in it they can delete it

Actually I can’t delete my Facebook account. I forgot the password years ago, and I get the recovery questions incorrect (I have to recognise people in photos from extended social graph and I don’t know them!). I’m not sure I even have the email account any more. I can’t delete the account.
This sounds like JavaScript: The Good Parts revisited. Agree with everything you’ve written. However, in the rare situation that one has to go down this path, a linter/static code analyzer can prove to be a life saver. Found some on this page: https://github.com/caramelomartins/awesome-linters#cc
The story is all over the internet it was just the first source you didn’t need to pay to view.

But here’s the telegraph with the exact same story.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/13/russia-ukr...
how? lol
Since OpenAI is a "capped-profit" company [1], the employees and investors only get up to 100X their initial investment. Anything beyond that would still go to the OpenAI non-profit. It seems like a reasonable compromise, however, the massive Microsoft investment does concern me.

[1] - https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
This sounds like ADHD to me, especially in context with the other thread I replied to about aphantasia. Search YouTube for "Russel Barkley ADHD"...
I had a vivid imagination as a kid, lost it in my 20s, and regained it in my 30s. After decades of schooling, reading had beed reduced to a mechanical necessity.

It took some work and intention to slow down and learn to actually imagine the world that the author is laying out for us. But like any other learned habit it becomes easier and eventually not noticed with practice.

Finding engrossing fiction (in my case, science fiction) helped me break through. Given your references to visualizing physics, you might enjoy the first book or two of the Three Body Trilogy.
AFAICT Calva has come a very long way in 5 years
I don't get it, wouldn't you use ssh keys and also just move it to a different port anyway to save the annoyance of random scriptkiddy pokes all the time?
> GPT3 is far more accurate than GPT2

Please say more about what you mean here because I disagree.

It’s certainly more eloquent, but it still can’t multiple 2 4-digit numbers…
Because the republicans want a red herring for the next election to use against Biden.
Why do you assume the riders are the ones throwing them in the river?

And what does "so to speak" mean here? They're literally getting thrown into rivers.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/spark-421-1.4973383/why-are-p...

https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/electric-scooter-bird-l...

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/electric-scooters-hi...
This is the path I took, and recommend. The borrow checker and Rust's restrictions are easier to understand once you have experienced doing it manually. And the basics of C89 don't take that long to learn!
i could think of a few cool reasons:

sorting out minor technical details on BOM for electronics projects
asking for a bunch of iterations of custom furniture for a studio space
*getting a bunch of recipe ideas - that spin off recipe books you own.

i could go on :)
True, but in capitalist systems anyone is free to start a new business without the government’s approval.

Airbnb’s founders sold parody cereal to hustle up the money to keep their business afloat.
It's certainly better with such safety annotations than without...
Bing AI is just a combination of taking the worst parts of both Microsoft Tay [0] and Zo.ai and throwing a GPT in the mix for it to generate this bullshit.

Makes Google Bard look like it is on its best behaviour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo_(bot)
What is Gretta money?
If you're running an email server that is running at full throughput to send spam (due to your clear negligence) from a residential ISP account then depending on what plan you've purchased it may violate your terms of service.

I know of friends who have been banned for doing exactly this.
This is the old internet, and what got me addicted to urban exploration and other niche hobbies - it's still an active community, especially on UER.ca, if you ever wish to join but facebook really has decimated small websites like such and expanded reach.

I remember over a decade ago, there was a small chat on UER that you could hop on and chat with people and it was a really core, solid community, and 15 years ago it was much more, open and solid community. I personally can't believe it's been quite a while. You can still post photos/meetups on UER.CA but it is very reputation based, while the facebook side anyone shows up - and a few that I've attended have just turned out quite differently then older Urbex meetups.

RIP ninjalicious :(

The internet back 15-20 years ago was much much more decentralized then it is today, and while no one is actively preventing you from creating your own forum/site - the network effect is not the same as using your Facebook to join a group and going from there, unfortunately. And for fringe hobbies, the harder it is to get into or find the more active the community is, simply because the people involved are much "content creators" or passionate about it.

And trespassing and possible tangible legal issues, and risk - Urbex was about exploration, one could describe learning about network vulnerabilities, or walking open directories or even guessing FTP passwords, or, SSH passwords.

I remember reading similar posts in the same time frame about older Internet users about the heydays of IRC and BBS's and thought "heh, that's cute" but now seeing this come full circle. Just wow.
Level 0. Use infra like kafka, and eventing to replicas.
> $8 cheapens their pageant award.

did you care about the so-called "pageant award"?
Does nobody believe in anything anymore?

Grumpy and cynical takes everywhere you look.
This also sounds like ADHD to me, not disassociation, but I could be wrong. See my other replies.

Also don't freak yourself out, reading a bunch of stuff on the web! It's easy to give oneself an anxiety attack trying to figure out things like this yourself. Instead write down your symptoms and see a doctor (first), psychologist, or psychiatrist.
S3, Github, Netlify etc are going to be infinitely more secure than your home setup.

And are basically free.
The fun thing is how you stop being verified if you cancel your sub after a month, when you've already proved you're a real person by having money change hands, even if you do not change any of your profile information.

Money grab exposed, really.
You can setup a wireguard network then proxy pass from a cheapie VPS if that’s helpful. Probably only worth it if you have multiple services though.
In my opinion, it's terribly disingenuous for them to argue in favor of this approach and use TypeScript as an example without acknowledging that a great deal of making TypeScript practically useful involved investment into adoption and support, and the open nature of it. C-rusted will never expand beyond a niche of some industries if not opened in some form, and likely, if it's actually a good idea another tool will eventually eclipse it.

That's a shame, as it seems like a pretty decent idea, even if I feel like the paper is written a bit like an advertisement (it feels a fair bit biased: it's hard to argue that you can't adopt Rust incrementally at all even if it doesn't allow for gradual adoption in the same manner as C-rusted or TypeScript. Also, it definitely doesn't demonstrate a similar competency towards being able to express things safely as Rust does.)
I didn't expect that the tagline would give the impression of being able to "generate a frontpage with AI content". After reading your comment I even asked ChatGPT to see what it thinks lol. It says "A "frontpage for AI-generated content" typically refers to a web page or interface that displays content that has been created or curated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems." I agree that we need a better tagline though.

Also, there are bunch of platforms that do generate content using AI but no proper platform that is specifically dedicated to sharing your creations in one place. Maybe there is but I am not aware of it.

Thanks for your comment on the homepage. Maybe I can fulfil your expectations sometime in the future when I have enough resources :).
I already have daily active contributors so I am going to improve the platform even further.

Thanks again for your feedback. Really appreciate it.
Physics is a model of the way the universe works. There's no reason to be sure that it does work the way that we model it. Practically speaking though it doesn't really matter as long as the model gives us accurate predictions. At that point you are entering the realm of philosophy.
> Superman, an illegal alien, had come millions of miles not to be featured on the front page of the Daily Star, but to save mankind from itself, its ugly awful self.

Wrong. Superman is not an illegal alien because he does not belong to the human species, and most laws, including immigration law, do not apply to him.

He belongs to a fictional extraterrestrial species, the Kryptonians. To infringe the law under most jurisdictions you first need to be a person, and Superman falls into a legal void due to being a non-human extraterrestrial, and there is no legislation or jurisprudence that establishes a legal framework for them.

We don't have immigration laws for extraterrestrials. And if one of such laws was enacted as a result of his presence, it would not make Superman an illegal immigrant because his "illegal" entry would precede whatever law we create to govern the entry of extraterrestrials, making it ex post facto (laws cannot apply retroactively).
> How many lives should be spent to prevent Russia taking the next bite out of some other country?

At least the one, taken out surgically with the Rods from God Ginsu kinetic weapon.
If you are white, maybe.

However, I noticed that after growing long hair more citations would stick too.
This is the graphical equivalent of a PR fixing a typo in a comment
Pilot wave theory

Note: I don't have a good grasp of quantum physics
Sounds like you’ll be angling for the position of Commissar of Which Things are OK to Innovate.
Typical “rationalist” stuff: a supposedly smart person makes bald faced assertions backed by sophistry. Bonus points if it’s asserting something contrarian.

But what do I know. I’m not officially high IQ enough to blindly assert that my personal biases are valid a priori because I’m smart.
The only actually useful thing I found for myself so far, was as a helper for TTRPGs. Essentially a random story (encounter, issues, background, anything) generator on steroids.
I think self hosting may be cheaper for huge data volume stuff? Like I serve (legal) video, audio, audiobook, book, and photo content, it amounts to around 20TB of content. It cost me around... 1k in capital for all the components for it, most of which went to the harddrives? And according to the self hosting people on reddit I'll probably need to swap a drive every few years, around 150 bucks a pop. Beyond that though my only cost is electricity, for which I have no idea but our monthly electric bill total is like 80$/month anyway so I'm not stressed about it.

Anyway I'm not paying in/out costs or costs for static hosting. Looking at hetzner's offerings it apears to be 536.58 euros/month for 10tb of storage? That's block storage on SSD, maybe they have cheaper HDD storage somewhere?

Point is I think my server setup may have "paid for itself" (not that it makes me money) after one month. And that's for 38TB total of RAIDZ1 space, I'm only filling 20TB so far of it. In actually it's like 60 something TB of space lol I just wanted RAID so I could lose a drive. I've got plenty of room to grow and swap components as needed.
I love SciTE/Scintilla's column selection feature. SciTE's recent find/replace panel is excellent too.
I thought the exact same thing. Really just put me off reading the article since I opened it in a new tab.
Imagine you're starting a restaurant.

When you start a business, your costs basically fall into 3 categories: initial costs (like furniture and stove-tops), fixed costs (like rent and bare-minimum employee wages), and variable costs (like raw input ingredients and additional labor to handle additional business).

As long as your revenue is growing each month, and you're making money on each individual sale (as determined by your variable costs), you'll eventually achieve profitability.

When I say most new businesses have no fundamental flaw in their business plan, I mean that most businesses make money on each sale (e.g. they're not selling burgers for less than the cost of ingredients and the labor to prepare it), which is not that surprising. What is perhaps surprising is that the business is also usually growing each month and they're on a path to eventual profitability, yet they run out of money and fail anyway. When starting a business, you're not convincing investors and debtors that your business model is sound (most are), but rather, that your business model is more sound than most other businesses that they can invest in.
Your attempt at sarcasm appears to have decayed into incoherence.

If the point you're trying to make is that I don't have to use the software, I already knew that, but thanks.

If the point you're trying to make is that I'm not entitled to opinions on the matter because I didn't pay anyone for the software, that's horse shit.
Wait what? Why? The purpose of having governments isn't to extract money from private activity. The purpose is to enable privacy activity to be efficient by providing a baseline level of services that would be difficult or inefficient to produce privately. Having reliable ID provides benefits to many private individuals and corporations, and their economic activity results in taxes that fund the government (likely far in excess of the costs of providing such an ID service).
Should New Zealand cats be kept indoors?
Why all this catastrophising over verifying with a government ID? It works well for flying places, collecting post, registering visitors, so why not this.

The rent extraction argument sounds preposterous. Should a bouncer have to pay compensation to the government if he uses a driving license to make sure his clientele are of age?
Almost the opposite of react, which is imperative core functional shell.