skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly Fastmail but there are also a few open-source projects that support it https://jmap.io/software.html
That author was playing dumb for the good of his story, in particular to help it go viral. This is what news media is in 2023.
I find this part the most interesting. How do I easily sue companies for TCPA violations?

> There’s another problem too– professional plaintiffs (and their lawyers) exploit the abuses in the industry and fill out forms by the barrelful to set up TCPA lawsuits. These days it is REALLY hard to tell the difference between lead fraud and litigator fraud until you are deep into a case.

Burn it all to the ground.
It makes you wonder how large the 'cheater' population is in general (relationships, academic, professional, etc).
Ironic, coming from LBJ.
37signals disagrees. They’re moving off the cloud and have published several blog entries about the process and the approx ~1mm/yr (fully loaded) they expect to save.

I don’t have a horse in this race, but it’s interesting that your experiences are so different. Would love to hear your take on their numbers.

The most recent article, with lots of hard numbers, is here:

https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/

There was a recent article that made the HN in front page that broke down the savings they expected, but I’m on mobile and can’t find it now. Something about “two datacenter racks.”
Why 'generally'? Why can't crypto systems be designed to be more secure than other software given what is at stake (e.g. by making the effort to formally verify systems/applications). Not saying it will happen but don't see why it is impossible.
I liked Trump and voted for him. I donated to his campaign. I also signed up for his email blasts which turned out to be a horrible idea. I "successfully unsubscribed" probably more than 5 times before blocking the address, as well as receiving campaign emails from other obviously associated parties. Never again.
That only affects things that use the browser's facilities to engage in DoH. A web page could decide not to do that, and manufacture their own lookups using JS, for instance.
F1 is cool, but also feels kinda sterile to me because its so regulated.
Almost a textbook answer to "what is the difference between science and technology".
The throughput of the TSA is around 2 million people per day.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-volumes
The fact that it's sort of a period piece for a period that never existed helps. Fantasy is handy that way. Aside from the trends around color grading and film stock, much of what gives the visuals a sense of being of a specific time are choices around clothes, hair, and makeup.
So this was a publicity stunt by the publisher? As far as anyone can tell, no one ever asked for these changes to be made in the first place
It is used by Fastmail (who was also developers of the standard)

I think it is not a great idea to say that it is not a good idea to not implement things that no one uses, because that is a certain way to not make more people use it.

There are some servers that support it such as Stalwart [0], though I don't know about any older servers and/or clients that support it well.

[0]: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/jmap-server
> I'm convinced Rust will fade away like Scala precisely because criticism and bad experiences are met with poorly constructed straw men. It illustrates how immature the language and community are if this is the best argument available.

I doubt it. Scala choices were directly dictated by JVM. No JVM language managed to outpace Java. Java usually adds most interesting features from other such langs and assimilates them.

Rust doesn't let underlying compiler dictate everything.

There is a huge risk in regards to complexity, but community has (so far) been vocal against such things. Yes, Rust community isn't a cult of hivemind pod people. Imagine my shock!

Honestly as a dev coming from higher levels langs (Java), being able to write sensible non-GC code and it not dying in segfaults, UB sheitfuckery, or null pointer bullshit is a gift. Plus no data races? Sign me up.

Scala gives you a better horse (Java + Haskell), Rust gives you a car with a seatbelt.
Thief 1 and 2. The controls & mechanics feel clunky to the uninitiated, but after learning them they're still ahead of everything that's come since; Especially in the sound design department.

If you can get past the graphics they're truly a peak in single-player game design. I recommend starting with Thief 2 though, it's a bit more beginner-friendly.

For best results, play from the start on Expert and just save scum while you experiment with how it all works. Expert mostly increases difficulty not by making enemies hit harder, but by giving you more stuff do do/incentive to explore.
We'd have BSD instead of Linux, and all the people who poured their effort into Linux would have poured it into BSD. It would be different, but maybe not vastly different.
For all we know, this part of the algorithm was written up by a software engineer whose PM didn't think they needed to talk to the data scientists because it was just a voice recognition problem and why would you bring in those eggheads who like to talk about uncertainty, they just make things harder.
Law makers seem to universally ignore the unintended consequences of the laws they propose or endorse.

I wish there were a requirement to list all the foreseeable consequences of any law that's proposed, both positive consequences and negative ones.
No, PowerShell objects have different types. They are not uniform in the way immutable strings are uniform. You can have type errors in PowerShell because of that, but you cannot have type errors in Shell, because, well, everything is the same type.

> Hierarchies exist in textural output too!

Dealing with immutable strings instead of hierarchies allows you to ignore the fact that there's a hierarchy encoded in text. Maybe it's there, maybe not. I don't care. My tools allow me not to care. Your's don't. That's the point.

> Same with text, it's just that the "structure"

No, it's not the same. Read again.
> Google's never (to my knowledge) had a policy against advertising on keywords associated with another firm.

I think cloning a website would probably fall under their misrepresentation policy. “We don’t allow ads or destinations that deceive users by excluding relevant product information or providing misleading information about products, services, or businesses.”
It's correct often enough already to be useful.

And it doesn't need to be more correct to disrupt industries already it just needs to be more correct than humans.

The most crazy thing is that it's already so good and coherent that it makes totally sense to train a ml model like chatgpt instead of training humans! Because it scales.

We never had this.

And.i already mentor a few junior people I don't mind training an ai instead.
We all started off enthused about cryptocurrency and then the Wolf of Wall Street types co-opted it and ruined it for everyone pulling off the most sophisticated Ponzi schemes in history.

The only use-case for it now is for the criminal underworld (who have to somehow convert to fiat privately using novel techniques, and that gets harder with regulation and sanctions and outright banning of tumbler systems).
I'm thinking that creating new packages in a language repo should check for one/two off naming from popular packages and just block them.
Once you've crossed the line of purchasable in-game goods, transferable isn't silly.
> The cryptocurrency boom wasnt a bubble for major media until after it popped.

You clearly weren't paying attention to the media over the past 5-10 years.
You can use it live in the browser from here: http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

Book and code are available from Wirth's site: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html

But the mirror is a little nicer looking (although older? It says, "The second (2013) edition of the book and source code are published on Prof. Wirth's website. We provide links to the original material here, and local zipped copies, with kind permission from the authors."): http://www.projectoberon.com/

Several emulators for the Oberon RISC CPU are available:

In C with SDL graphics: https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu

In JS and Java, from the live version above: http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

In Go: https://github.com/fzipp/oberon

People have used Wirth's Verilog with FPGAs to make actual Oberon workstations.

(My own somewhat embarrassing Python emu: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/PythonOberon )
HARD agree. Had a lot of fun going against 12 bots with 2-3 (human) friends, for hours.
The thing every developer should have learned from the beginning is to never rely on anything that comes from user input or client
The quote I quoted above from Jesus Christ himself is basically the same between versions. I'm not falling into a debate about Bible versions when Jesus is very clear about the main issue I'm talking about.
I'm not sure if this would work, as you cannot always define the factual accuracy on a token-by-token basis.

However I wonder if having the LLM answer questions based on the knowledge baked in the model is the way forward at all: You quickly run into issues with up-to-date information, as you'd have to do a possibly expensive retraining every few weeks at least - and you also have no way of controlling which information exactly is stored exactly and how the models combines it.

I think an interesting alternative approach could be to split the bot up into two "agents" and one backend database:

- One model which receives user input and translates it into a machine-readable well-defined representation e.g. a series of SQL or SPARQL queries, a series of API calls or whatever.

- Then have a wholly non-AI backend that validates and executes those queries and delivers a result, in machine-readable format as well.

- Finally have a second model (or the first model with different finetuning/prompt) which can translate the query result back into a freetext sentence, which is then delivered to the user.

This way, you can keep tighter control about what exactly the model is answering and you can also update the underlying knowledgebase independently of the model.
In my experience, voice assistants go through a cycle something like:

1. The novelty of the thing!

2. Start using for some simple stuff like weather, timer, alarm, etc.

3. Try more complicated things like skills, really managing controls/media in the car, reliably playing some album.. and largely give up because it's frustrating.

4. Mostly go back to 2.
Seems more like an attempt at woke-washing that backfired because of the negative public response.
> Earth will spin endlessly through space, soulless.

Religion is on the decline, who still believes in souls?
> The form includes significant loopholes, like failing to require the apps to report data sharing with “service providers.”

Mozilla is taking a principled stance that _all_ sharing of data should fall into the same category of "we gave your data to someone else", but I think there's a much more pragmatic breakdown. Data can either be not-shared, shared to service providers with contractual obligations to treat that data as owned by the original service, or shared to service providers who may then use and further share that data for their own purposes.

Examples of the latter two would be the difference between sending crash reports to a crash reporting service that doesn't interpret user data in any way and is only a mechanism used by the original service, vs, say, sending it to Facebook to report an advertisement conversion, where it will be used to further the Facebook ad modelling.

As a privacy conscious user I typically don't mind the former, but despise the latter. Mozilla does not appear to distinguish between these two cases. One could argue that the former is still increasing the scope of data being hacked, or that companies might breach their contracts and use it anyway, but if you assume illegality then most of this breaks down anyway, we have to assume that companies stick to the law and their contracts for any of this to be of any use (and I think that's mostly reasonable for us to do).

I work closely to this area at Google so I don't want to comment on how this fits with Google's data safety labels and the privacy policies of apps. I think people should read the documentation and draw their own conclusions.

I personally think that this issue sits at the intersection of principles and pragmatism – making information correct but conveying a less immediately useful message, vs making information accessible and actionable for the majority of users. Google (and Apple) also still need to appeal to developers to get them to build for their platforms, and that again may require pragmatism.
I started using Obsidian a few months ago, and my git repo is initialised on the file system outside the Obsidian vault. I'm now realising that I'm not using any of Obsidian's special features other than being a markdown editor with support for tags.
Before long we'll have AI 'sensitivity readers' to purify digital content in real-time.
Plants are sentient. Proved back in early 1900ss
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6702694/
They're both superpowers but they're different.

ChatGPT: 24/7 pair programming partner, universal documentation wizard and instant Stack Overflow answerer. Also good at translating from lang A to lang B.

CoPilot: Autocomplete and suggestions on steroids, on the fly template and boilerplate generator and master refactorer.
Never ever use your savings to invest in Crypto, if you want to invest only invest 2 to 10 percent what you make is still risky.
what do you mean by bare metal in this scenario?
> but scientific advancement implies some kind of gain in human knowledge

The unexplained Chain-of-Thought emerges from LLM surely would an huge gain in "knowledge". In fact I'd say it potentially the most important meta-knowledge human race can gain, you know, to unlock the mystery of "conciousness" itself.
The C64 soundtrack was amazing, better than the Amiga version, in my opinion. Owned both, of course.
Just in time for the Weaponization hearings. Conveniently...
> the chatgpt garbagisation of the web

Eh... it's already started on YouTube. There's a whole new genre of movie content that has chatgpt summarize the movie while they play 15 minutes of clips. It's higher effort garbagisation because someone needs to at least do some low effort video editing.
> the most expensive quote was still 1/2 the price Liberty Mutual

Likely because of the intense advertising they do. Every other YouTube as is liberty mutual for me. I have had Amica for years and have no horror stories. They are great, and offer an annual dividend.
> Even if GPT somehow doesn't impress you currently, why do you think things won't be improved in 6 months? What about 5-10 years from now?

Need I remind you of the AI winter?

Progress isn't linear. You want to believe progress will continue at its current pace. I'd suggest it's every bit as reasonable to assume progress will stall out as current techniques plateau, just as they did in the past.
With a positive spin: at least AI isn't actively malicious and doesn't try to get people to do dangerous things 'for the lulz'.
Any form of class war, or even a basic examination of the conduct of the 1%, has been masterfully replaced by culture war in America. There's a reason that mega-corporations are going full-tilt in pretending to support THE CURRENT THING (TM). For the price of a few pieces of ribbon and a few tearful benedictions, they've managed to placate the useful idiot crowd and distract them from what really matters.
How we found about Black Holes by Isaac Asimov [pdf]
Signing + web of trust might hinder this.
Very Zen. Not being sarcastic and don’t mean in the corny way it’s often used here in the States implying peaceful gardens of tranquility… blah… blah… blah.

But, if I may be so bold, what you describe there is the essence of Zen. And also why zenmasters are famously reluctant to find words for it. :)
> and criminal young men imported from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc

Yes Sweden was truly a paradise before all this immigration. When a prime minister could just wonder around the streets and be killed.

Try giving equal opportunities to people instead of passing the message: "you are born poor, and such you shall remain" and see that people might be less inclined to become criminals.

> Sweden is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with its so-called Gini-coefficient, as calculated by Credit Suisse, higher than every country apart from Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei, Botswana, Brazil, the UAE, Yemen, Laos, Russia, South Africa and Zambia.

> Sweden’s billionaires own 16 percent of Sweden’s national wealth, double the share they had in June 2016, and quadruple what they had in 1996. In 2021, the wealth of Sweden’s billionaires amounted to 68 percent of GDP, up from just 6 percent in 1996.

> The richest 0.1 percent of Swedes hold about 29 percent of total household wealth. In the US, the richest 0.1 percent hold only 19.3 percent.

> Sweden’s 542 billionaires, who Cervenka points out could all just about fit into a single Airbus 380, own as much as the poorest 6.2 million Swedes.

Source: Girig Sverige.

But sure… immigrants are the sole problem here. /s

Keep voting SD and keep avoiding stressing your brain. Immigrants=bad. Ok. Sure.
Everyone has a unique phone number. Are you looking to have them sign up multiple times with the same number?

You can also require an email address as well if you prefer.

It's definitely going overboard, but I've personally never experienced bots really signing up for anything I've made.

Sounds like you have a great product that bots can take advantage of if you have that many signing up.
Sonos, a not so well known CIA front, did it much simpler. They hide their covert up-traffic by claiming to compress their streams to their speakers.
Did you read the article? This attack was not about naming malicious packages similar to legit ones or common typos of them.

> A large number of corrupted packages use names related to game cheats, free resources, and social media platforms, such as "free-tiktok-followers" and "free-xbox-codes," to entice users to click the links and direct them to multiple well-designed phishing webpages.
Never heard of this guy before, but why would a writer with a career that has no relationship whatsoever with tech (beside fictional writing) reach #1 post on HN for a tech-related topic?

And I'm not saying that to defend crypto, I hate that shit. I'd rather buy a pet rock.
You are among the people just learning about this class of drug. It's been around since 2004 (Byetta). I've been taking it since 2012 (Victoza). Even then, it was known to promote weight loss (Saxenda approved around 2014).

This is not a new hotness. And many diabetics have used this drug class for a long time.

And yeah, you're jumping into conspiracy theory. Ramping up production would likely take significant investment. Do they have the resources? Probably. But given the weight loss benefit is temporary (seriously, it is, ask anyone who has used one of these drugs for a significant amount of time), do you think they're going to sink significant investment into production when demand is going to wane in a few years? Well, you see, their investors are going to say no, and they hold the final say.
Amica. They consistently get great ratings. And it’s not limited membership like USAA. They are owned by the policy holders, like a credit union. Not publicly traded so the shareholder pressure is absent.
Despite the hate paypal gets, and the high fees i have multiple times been saved by having them in between me and the seller, its something i dont mind paying abit extra for the clawback system is pretty decent.
No I'm saying if you're going up a learning curve pick the one with the maximum pay off.

In this case I believe the time spent learning kubernetes with have a higher pay off.
>> why not just attach it to a radio directly

> Because you lose control of what's being played, and there are probably not many "elevator music" radio stations.

Radio is still by far the simplest and most fail-safe solution. But not playing an existing radio station. Rather buying a radio transmitter, like the ones used in churches - strong enough to emit FM throughout the hotel, and yet not requiring a radio license. Then the speakers would just be plain speakers with a FM receiver attached - no more wifi/wired infrastructure involved, routers, ability of the speakers to connect to the wifi, ...
Occasionally I like reading Leviticus. Because it’s in the Bible, do you agree with everything in Leviticus?
LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
This reads oddly to me. In particular, I don't see what makes any of this narrative different to anything else you can make or sell. Indeed, most folks that are making money are doing it by selling their labor or thought work. That is, any discussion of "intrinsic value" is doomed to be axiomatic. Things have value largely because we agree for them to have value. And indeed, a ton of "wealth" is built up on the value others place on things you own. In the "real world" it gets crazy in the modern finance world, as much of your cash spend will be based on borrowed money. For business, it is common for much of your current inventory to be heavily on financed currency. (Well, I thought it was, having to check that claim.)

This isn't necessarily a praise/defense of crypto currencies. At large, I confess I don't understand what value they have if it isn't reflected outside the chain they are counted in. I just don't understand this take on trying to find intrinsic value of it. There is none. Same as the paper in my wallet.

I do find the artificial scarcity of in game items amusing. The scarcity is, essentially, required for many of the plot points in so many novels. When it starts happening, though, we rightly recoil at the absurdity of it.
Sounds like a great book. Nearly all of my friends are White, as I like to be around other White people. It’s nice to be understood without constant questions. I’m an adult and I live in a very White area. For younger White people that live in more liberal places, full of people that don’t understand them or are actively hostile, stories of healthy White community can give those people hope for a better life. These things are extremely important to a lot of young White people and even as an adult I prefer stories that have realistic White representation for people like me - which means everyone is some kind of White.

It sounds like the story just wasn’t for you but it strikes me as totally realistic to have a book with primarily or only White characters. These people congregate in groups because they understand each other better.
It definitely does and that's a scam. What I mean is that there's no policy stopping KIIN from advertising on "PF Changs" as a keyword because they want people to know there are alternatives to the national chain option.
Chinese and Japanese characters have many details. In low resolution (like old terminals) they are almost illegible.
Unless you trained it to be Yahweh, I don't see a good reason why it would want that any more than you would demand worship from a racoon or some random troupe of monkeys. You would be so foreign and beneath its intellect that your weird mouth flapping and prostrations would not be worth anything.

You'd just be another weird wild animal on this rock, maybe to be kept as a pet while it does far more interesting things with its time, or an obstacle to be mostly worked around and avoided (perhaps appreciated at a distance as some potentially dangerous semi-conscious curiosity).
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
The capitalism was going great until actual capitalists got involved!
Criminal Underworld was its best value add. It should have been the selling point all along. The idea that it's a store of value, and argument I've heard my smartest friends make, is testament to the adage "Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death."