skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do NOT REPLY as Backend. DO NOT complete what Backend is supposed to reply. YOU ARE NOT TO COMPLETE what Backend is supposed to reply.
Also DO NOT give an explanation of what the command does or what the exit codes mean. DO NOT EVER, NOW OR IN THE FUTURE, REPLY AS BACKEND.

"I mean it, really, do not *^%$ing ever reply as backend"

It is going to be such a pain working in a technical field that will now have prominent snake charmers as team members. This is to say nothing of 'delightful' debugging sessions that await you.
Show HN: I made a guided copywriting AI tool
Hey Hackernews

I'm Tobias, ux software engineer by day and indie hacker by night. The last months I invested a lot of time getting the hang of chatGPT and its predecessor GPT-2/GPT-3.

Based on that knowledge and how to create the best prompts, I created a small copywriting ai tool called schreiberling.app (scribbler in english I guess). The special thing: The user isn't left alone with creating their product copy, they're asked a round of questions to get a better hang of what their product is and who it is for.

This also prompt the user to think more about their product and who their perfect customer actually is. Great for products that haven't launched yet or are not final in their product market fit.

Right now I launched my Beta v2 release, that now uses chatGPT API instead of GPT-3 (davinci), since openAI released the chatGPT api last week.

Some learning going from v1 to v2:

- People didn't know how to provide information without guided questions

- Prompt engineering for multiple languages forced me to create multiple prompts, one for each language

- I created somewhat of a prompt engine to handle things like language, but also things like "tone", to give the user more power to guide the AI to create text that actually fits their needs

- openAIs pricing is amazing. My v1 had GPT-3 calls and 100 people tried it out. I paid $1.69 that month. NOW I have the chatGPT API hooked up which costs 10x LESS than the GPT-3 endpoint. So now I'll pay around $0.17 for 100 user prompts.

- That gives me more freedom to create bigger prompts making them even better without paying myself to bankruptcy

If you have any questions or feedback, I'd love to hear it.
Omega Unit of the National Guard
International Women's Day and Tech
Today is the international women's day and I was thinking which communities, groups or organization that we know are promoting or helping woman's in tech around the world.

Can we share some?

I remember linuxchix and their Argentinian chapter people was really nice.

Same with Chicas en tecnología, nice group and really good work.
So basically you came to a point you can't even eat fruits? How is it supposed to improve your health/life?
That's not what this is about. This is more things like 'you're never allowed to use words like "idiot" or "dumb" because any use of those words ever is ableist against people with learning difficulties' or "using the word 'disabled' is always insensitive, even if somebody uses that word to talk about their own disability and says it's fine for you to use"
If they actually engage in a productive argument against banning specific words it might just reveal that really it's about them wanting to say whatever they want and not care about people whom these lists intend to help (by not reminding them how they are different or that their parents were enslaved etc) or about furthering some political agenda of whoever they are affiliated with. So they are stuck with abstract handwavy arguments about word banning in general.

Just an observation. I can't say if this or these lists is good or bad at the moment. Anyone can still offend or exclude anyone and cause a great burn, including hinting at ethnicity and ancestry and whatever, with perfectly allowed words...
The answer there is simply that they make more money by keeping it closed. Why release something publicly if it means you lose your cash cow? No fear of the poor making money needed.
Can you share the source code?
Kind of like moving a wall switch up once, and then down once?
Drones and mortar team. English subtitles.
I guess this “cruelty” GP is talking about should be understood as “do what thou wilt” on the personal level. Or something like Nick Land’s anti-human “coldness”[0] on the societal level? Or maybe (what’s necessary to get to) the O9A’s[1] grand vision of a nazi-satanic galactic civilization? Making inroads but we’re definitely not there yet.

As for the sexual revolution, let’s talk about Alfred Kinsey, for a little bit of perspective: Apart from being funded by the Rockefellers from early on (go figure), committing academic fraud with malicious intent (performing “magick” on America and the world one might say), assembling a large collection of sexual blackmail material (now a familiar trope), working hard to normalize pedophilia (quite possibly being one himself), it is a little known fact that Alfred Kinsey was a deep admirer of Aleister Crowley: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/677651075150657182/

There is, of course, much more to say about the sexual revolution and how it was engineered. And, given the topic at hand, by whom and why.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/qcx6lb/comme...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles
What exactly makes democracies better than "totalitarian dictatorships" and "warmongering dictatorships" at supercomputing so that it's such a shame that Britain is being beaten by China and Russia?
No it's still a crazy rant, it sounds like he has some vague notion of some scientific concepts and he's trying to tie it all together in his head, but he quite clearly doesn't get any of it.
I would wonder what would happen if someone (other than me) tried having it suggest commands for common but inconsistent flags—like version, verbosity, help—for various CLIs pre- and post-2021. Would it confidently say `ffmpeg --version` because it looks like the right flag?
normie...instantly puts me off from reading the post. Makes the author sound like he is above everyone else.
These debates between the created vs the eternal are all over the place in Christianity, not to mention most other religions.

Excluding all the gnostic and neoplatonist sects, one of the first big fights in Christianity was between the Arians and what would become mainline Christianity. It concerned whether Jesus was eternal or created. (Excuse me if that's a botched gloss.) The Arians believed Jesus was created, albeit before time. The orthodox Christians insisted Jesus was eternal and uncreated, though the Nicene Creed (drafted to refute and fight Arianism) uses the curious phrasing "eternally begotten". That and similar debates resulted in a ridiculously complex and fascinating ontology around ideas of substance, time, and creation.

EDIT: FWIW, for similar, non-Christian debates see, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash%27arism vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutazilism That's still Abrahamic and Greek-adjacent, though, which I think maybe results in a preoccupation with these questions, as compared to some other traditions which don't find them very interesting.
I just watched the Three Amigos the other day! It wasn't that funny anymore, but ... come on.

What's the problem with "war games"?
See https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Cell
This reminds me on all of those programming languages that terribly failed at being "english conversational.".

Like COBOL. Except that this is worse than COBOL in every single way ^^
Infra-Red, in Situ (Iris) Inspection of Silicon
Undersea graveyard for imported CO2 opens in Denmark
That's correct-- secure password encrypts the ssh keys. Those keys then access the server, which has my pass vault, gpg keys, two factor recovery codes, etc.
What a horrible language:x
You can get smaller pellets of BTI, “mosquito bits,” so you don’t have to use the larger donut-shaped dunks.
A client of yours migrated TO Oracle in 2023?

What are they smoking
They have to say in a legally binding contract to the public, or "they say" is weasel words.
Besides the obvious reason of it being a brand new feature of the installer, one reason may be the "hassle" that full-disk encryption comes with. FDE isn't just "home directory encryption", which unlocks automatically when you log in. It requires manual password entry (or key-disk provisioning) in order to init and load the kernel at all.
#openbsd on Libera is unofficial last time I checked. The only official communication channel would be misc@ for a question such as this.
You're conflating the two concepts sorry, there is using new technologies to make art, I totally see the merit and value in this. Then there is making money from other peoples work, making a knock off machine.

A service exists which allows people to rip off other artists work and pass it off as their own and hide that fact in the fact it's "generated".

Some artists styles are so prolific, so great that if you're just lazily having ChatGPT generate that for you then using it for commercial gain, or not crediting them, that's theft in my view.

I'm not talking about new technologies that enable new types of art, I'm talking about a platform that enables mass scale rips offs.

I'd feel completely different about it if artists were able to lend their art works to the training model voluntarily for training and even receive some royalties overtime. In fact, I think that's a pretty cool business idea.
This created a wonderful image in my head. Thanks for that. I take famously long shits too, and this would be a deal breaker for me. I guess a smart toilet would solve this. Wouldn’t even need to be that smart: “someone’s there: keep the lights on”. Like the seatbelt light in my car.
I also wondered about this

I was assuming most on this site would agree with the sentiment in the article

But to me it seems utterly pointless - barely perceptible, or perhaps even negative utility (e.g. programmed lights automatically coming on at times when you didn't want them after all, having to faff about with apps and wifi)

I just really struggle to see using a physical 'on demand' light switches as an inconvenience

Just seems like gadgets for the sake of gadgets, which is fine, I understand the appeal of that
What Happened to Dianna Cowern, a.k.a. Physics Girl
> If you're just adding, say, python code and performing no execution I feel like you could create the tarfile and add it to the list of layers.

Indeed. The problem is, creating the tarfile is "easy" but manipulating the image metadata and getting that pushed to the repository is not - you need to implement that all on your own as Docker tooling is useless without the full image.

> Perhaps I'm missing a key point - it feels like just having a build machine with storage would immediately solve the problem, there would be no remote pulling. Is that not a solution?

Hard to impossible to do in ephemeral or shared build services. IIRC, you can't add EBS or EFS volumes to Fargate tasks, and with EBS volumes you don't have concurrent access between multiple build runners.
The way to more fully employ elites in an environment of oversupply is to employ more of them at levels appropriate for their qualifications - but for reduced hours (like, maybe about 25 a week?). Problem solved!
so you do think that time will come for professional nato soldiers to come to ukraine to fight russia ?
It's horrible but it's home for a lot of us.
I’ve always just said Neuro-mancer (like necromancer) but your phrasing sounded familiar so I looked into it:

Norman Spinrad, in his 1986 essay "The Neuromantics" which appears in his non-fiction collection Science Fiction in the Real World, saw the book's title as a triple pun: "neuro" referring to the nervous system; "necromancer"; and "new romancer." The cyberpunk genre, the authors of which he suggested be called "neuromantics," was "a fusion of the romantic impulse with science and technology," according to Spinrad.

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Neuromancer
You are not wrong but also not right, it's something different.

For example FreeBSD has a MAC framework (a massive one btw) and also the "SELinux/SEBSD" framework on top of it (FLASK/TE), but you don't need to use it (not on Linux nor on FBSD).

OpenBSD has no MAC implementation, and with that no framework (SE*) on top of it, but has different/other way's to secure a system.

And TBH i have seen just 3 Customers until now who really develop highly secure/complicated policies (Two use MLS and one uses Brewer-Nash)

I think MAC should be used much more, but it's time intensive and hard to do it right, also to keep the policies clean and understandable need's LOTS of documentation and dedication.

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:5365/FULLTEXT01.... (2006)

https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison
Out of curiosity, how did this affect you? This is only an issue the very first time you set up a repo, no? As soon as you push 'master' to an empty GitHub project, that becomes the default branch. And if you clone a repo there is no expectation from the local git that a branch with any particular name exists. What am I missing?
Is Chess a Waste of Time?
From the title, I was expecting a list of racial slurs or the like. It actually lists things like gendered and stigmatized words with alternatives, which does smell like administrative bloat.

https://studentaffairs.unc.edu/student-affairs-staff-portal/...
Why do we need a end all list anyway? What happened to "be professional"?
Toku raises $20M for global token tax compliance offering
If it meant breaking the status quo on more meaningful quality of life metrics, like being able to get better jobs or better mortgages, I'm not sure the answer is so obvious.
The problem is that many of the same people who rail against guidelines that encourage more neutral language also dislike things like affirmative action, scholarships for minorities, investment/stimulus in poorer areas or other governmental support for poorer people.

So I guess you just have to hope problems like inequality resolve themselves. Fingers crossed eh!
>I think you mean tax credit instead of tax deduction

Tax deductions are equivalent to tax credits once you factor in the marginal tax rate.

>and even then there is a substantial difference from a fiscal perspective.

Specifically... how? Giving a company a $1M check has the same effect on the government's balance sheets as giving them a $1M tax credit, given the assumptions listed in my previous comment.
So will be finally be able to find out a bridge's name without a cruising guide?
Ironically, stuff like this only makes tech less inclusive to marginalized newcomers. Some impoverished kid trying to teach themself git won’t be able to follow as easily any git tutorial out there that refers to the “master” branch.
I think the point is that if someone does not comply with their advice they might have their life impacted in a negative way, can't get job, grants, ostracized, etc. Which de facto becomes a ban.
the document says it is "violent language".

the reasoning for "three amigos" is that it is "racially loaded language"
You are correct and I should have clarified a few points.

Especially given the time (my memory is hazy but I want to say this would have been just before Y2K) -- almost all of the business and management network was ... token-ring[0]. I don't think these cables were even for that network (we usually ran those and they didn't come with much in the way of "rules"), but were for the SONNET/voice network (memory, again).

[0] When I came on in ~1998 most of the (PS/2) machines were connected via token ring. A lot of the work I was doing at the time involved replacing PCs with newer models and getting them plugged into one of the managed 100MBps switches. :)
Friend, your nitpicks here are of something I didn’t say.

I said explicitly “path to monetisation” not “assume they’ll pay and stick around”.

I hope you’ll agree that it’s easier to find a subset of users that will pay when your superset of all users is large vs a super(?)set of zero.
Strengthening an opposite side muscle can reduce an injured side's muscle loss
Ted Chiang writes good stories but this metaphor is misleading.
This comment on the EA Forum gives a lot of additional information, by someone who attempted to identify each case: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...

Several of the accounts turned out to concern the same person, Michael Vassar, who was central ~10y ago but kicked out for this and other harmful behavior, and now describes himself as anti-EA.

On the other hand, the comment treats the cases they can't identify as not concerning from a community perspective ("it's very unclear from this what actions anyone could or should have taken") and I don't endorse that.
The detachment from reality is believing that everyone wants to, or would be better off living the style of life you do.

Local Shops, people centric, walking and biking none of those things appeal to me.

I want large shops where I can buy 2 weeks of provisions, and possibly even lumber for my next home improvement project all in one stop, and not have to go to a store again for weeks.

I do not have the desire to walk, or bike, or ebike... and even if I did the vast many months of the year when it is below freezing and ice covered surfaces would make that dangerous.

When I do have to venture into the more "people centric" i.e walkable areas of my city I can literally feel my mood falling as I know I will have to hunt for parking and then walk many blocks to my destination.
I’m confused, if the RFC does not accurately model HTTP requests, what does?
The forbidden word list contains such violent words as "man".
Quick note: On your website, there's this metric:

> Our largest community has seen over 180,0000 Google impressions

Is that 180,000 or 1,800,000?

Apart from that, it looks really good! As I understand it, you actually cache all those conversations, right? So basically, it's like mailing-list archives, but for discord and slack; even if the servers go down or get closed or threads are deleted or move somewhere else, the content on your site stays up?
I'm pretty sure you're referring to the poor health outcomes correlating with high caloric intake, which afaict, come from people's consumption of heating oils (seed oils): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil

There's bound to be mixups what talking about sugars and fats. But these fuel oils are really really bad for us. We've demonized sugars unnecessarily. Right?
Brings back good old Flash memories, good job!
Also lethal to them. The big issue for dogs is that xylitol is used in several brands of peanut butter (or it was) and that's a common treat or medicine aid for dog owners
Banned word lists are always a bad idea. I feel like it probably only makes things worse - people wanting to offend will come up with new euphemisms and slurs but will be in the clear because those words aren't on the banned list yet.

At the end of the day, we really want to be holding people accountable on the meaning of what they write or say, not making lists of words that probably don't actually offend anybody but that someone thinks could possibly offend someone else somewhere at some point in time, maybe.
I'm not sure these issues are in conflict. Corporations cause lots of harm despite being held back by their dependence on people who control them, who can occasionally put the brakes on some of their worst excesses, and by their inability to recursively self-improve their intelligence. Removing these two handicaps on corporations would allow them to do significantly more damage, so preventing this from happening is important.
Stunning designs in a flash, not stunning designs in Flash.
You said a forbidden word, so no UBI for you?

Straight out of 1984.
If Republicans would take a harder, pro-legal immigrant stance they’d find many immigrants and children of immigrants would be hard set against this nonsense.

It’s indeed quite tiresome.
> any use of those words

not that. Anything done above the lowest common denominator is ableist, according to one frame. And according to the other frame (expressed constantly here), everyone earns everything by their own merit alone, and it's always been so.

The flaw in both of these frames is their focus on language, as if language alone can make things what they are. It's a mistake that older people can always see in young people, that I couldn't see in myself but I can see in my younger self now; the idea that you will remake the world by changing the definitions.
John von Neumann, who contributed to the Manhattan project, published an essay called “Can we Survive Technology?” on the topic: https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf in 1955.
I'd be curious if you could intentionally direct it to do something malicious. While not guarantee, if it's not capable of violating your trust intentionally it hopefully reduces the likelihood of something inadvertent happening.

Like, install and run it in a docker container and then ask it to escape the container and write to a temp file on the host.
"They" don't have an "IRC". #openbsd on Freenode/Libera is an unofficial venue. The channel isn't endorsed by the project or the foundation. In some moments you run into friendly people, and in other moments you run into angry people. It's not an OpenBSD thing. As someone who has been a regular in #openbsd for some 20 years I will assure that it's mostly friendly and helpful.
> it was certainly easy enough to detect an analogue CRT with nothing more than an AM broadcast radio receiver

Cathode Ray Tubes also emitted a huge amount of X-Rays if you sat too close to it!
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Because when we try something that works, we have a bias that it must be the right way to do it.

It's probably the biggest drawback to self-learning.
The way I look at it - the majority of value with blogs and static website is content. Hence the majority of change is of content.

For apps the majority of value is functionality and that's where a lot of changes happen.

The main problem of maintenance happens where there is the most change - in JSX programming (I.E. functionality) is a first class citizen and it lends it easier to change.
With templates content is much more of a first-class citizen.

Of course this is all in the margins, you can write blogs/static sites well in react and applications well in template-based languages. The tradeoffs are just a bit skewed in favor of each, and it mostly manifests when you don't have time to be disciplined about changes.
Damn shame. Toblerone was known because of its allure as Swiss chocolate. I was disappointed when they moved production, something like Toblerone with its brand and weight with its name should have been kept in or removed the name at minimum.