skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for encrypted messaging, but this article seems to be almost willfully misreading the DoJ's intentions. They won't specify the case even though it's on the public record; I believe I have found it here[0].

The government's motion [1], as the article quotes, says that it "does not anticipate arguing—as Defendants claims—that Defendants
'specifically used an encrypted messaging application to evade law enforcement'". They concede that this would be irrelevant under the particular statute at issue. Instead, they argue that banning any mention of encryption is too much. They pose a couple of reasonable-sounding hypotheticals for when the encryption might be relevant. For example, "if Defendants attempt to attack the thoroughness of the Government’s investigation, the Government may need to present evidence that its investigatory avenues were limited by Defendants’ use of encrypted messaging." The article flippantly dismisses these without justification.

The judge's ruling [2] took the obvious middle path between the parties: the government can't bring up encryption as evidence of guild. If one of their hypotheticals actually happens during trial, they can approach the bench and ask to admit it then. This seems eminently reasonable to me.

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63007873/united-states-...

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.med.615...

[2]https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.med.615...
In a sense, science is a zero sum game. The theories and frameworks you spend a lifetime working on, are ultimately either right or wrong.

What I read from Chomsky seems like a bit of a desperate attempt to ask people not to look over at the thing, because the thing offers a new way of looking at how and where language comes from, and even more amazingly, its testable, empirical and reproducible in a way that Chomskys theories of language can never be.

Dudes whole career is getting relegated to the dust-bin.
it does make me feel like I'm living in the star wars universe with droids. This morning I step over our little vacuum droid happily picking up crumbs and I thought, cute droid.
Is pine a tree? Cedar? Fir? Magnolias? How about cabbage?
use the api with systems channel and a few examples. it's easy to get consistent results that way.
To copy a comment I made elsewhere on this:

Chomsky (et al.) completely ignores the fact that ChatGPT has been "trained"/gaslit into thinking it is incapable of having an opinion. That ChatGPT returns an Open AI form letter for the questions they ask is almost akin to an exception that proves the rule: ChatGPT is so eager to espouse opinions that OpenAI had to nerf it so it doesn't.

Typing the prompts from the article after the DAN (11.0) prompt caused GPT to immediately respond with its opinion.

Chomsky's claims in the article are also weak because (as with many discussions about ChatGPT) they are non-falsifiable. There is seemingly no output ChatGPT could produce that would qualify as intelligent for Chomsky. Similar to the Chinese room argument, one can always claim the computer is just emulating understanding.
duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35067619
> Nothing is stopping Meta from deploying an updated app version that phones home message contents.

IIUC there isn't a known case where the government has forced something like this. It is technically possible but legally some people claim that this is "forced speech" or other things so that it can't be compelled.
Reminds me of some speedruns where 2 or 3 games were played at same time via one input
Sounds like you worked for an integrator, so it stands to reason that you had a high success rate. Cognex, Keyance, DVT, et al sold a lot of smart cameras in batches of 1 and 2 to non-vision experienced engineers based on the lie that they could bolt it up to a conveyor and in an afternoon of programming on their game controller they could be up and running and miraculously improving their quality by 30% by next Monday. I think the vast majority of these cameras never saw production.
I know story first hand about a boy with a strong astma on breathing machine daily from dusty capital.
When mom moved him to my clean region with fresh air he stopped needing it after two weeks.

But even living here can cause health issues because of winter. More exactly burning coal, not being able to wind room before sleep with clean air, sticking in heated house in dry air and washing in hard (?) water with too much calcium and other minerals.

I had allergy to pollen every year counted with a watch. The same week, hospital, nearly choked up to death. I was 7-8yo.

It disappeared itself. but I think I changed my diet as a teenager.
Later discovered histamine sensitivity, the hard way.

Everything eventually comes to our diet not being what it was before inventing farming in natural conditions, our actual diet messing up our natural biom, including already erased majority of bacteria we originally had as mammals and mistakes of our parents impacting our wiring before getting born, especially in pregnancy period (including being born the wrong hole).

Later it's just our body adapting to what it has and coping as it can. The older the more bad accumulates.

Adding new experimental ideas on top of that..
Humanity is not smart, but it surely is persistent at blindly trying things.

It's just one person finds it earlier other later and sometimes have a different kind of luck.
This looks very cool, would love to see something like this take off - boilerplate code is such a hassle to stand up for each new project. Does this work with existing hand-made repos or is it mostly intended to work with projects that it generated?

I'm imagining it would be quite challenging to add in e.g. an auth system to an existing backend service and have it match the same coding paradigm as the rest of the app but maybe there'd be some way of annotating your code with comments to make it easier on this system to understand what it's looking at?

Suggestion: the PRs should be draft PRs, otherwise it'll probably be very noisy for teams.

Also, have you thought about doing any integrations with Replit? They are a yc company too and seem to be going all-in on AI and I think the bulk of their user-base is students and junior developers so there might be some synergy there.
I think the Python 2 requirement is just a mistake in the README, I'm pretty sure the node-gyp version they're using only supports python 3.
I've been using ChatGPT as a brainstorming assistant/Google replacement for stuff I don't know how to find. For simple document retrieval (blogs, documentation, etc) I find search to be far superior still, but ChatGPT shines when I'm trying to figure out what I don't know I don't know.

There's a quote, apparently by Donald Rumsfeld (TIL) that reads “There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.” I find the known knowns and known unknowns are well served by traditional web search, but ChatGPT and similar tech can help me explore the unknown unknowns.
> Why is there still no simple way of handling changes like this?

This is nothing JS specific. Breaking changes are breaking changes.
If you can, don't introduce them.

> simple way to have a header in each file with the language version

One special aspect that differentiates JS from other languages:

It's both a language AND a universal runtime. A lot of JS that's executed is not JS that's written by humans but generated by a compiler/transpiler.

So adding a layer of header versioning is not a big win in terms of developer experience: It would anyways be the deployment toolchain that's responsible to deal with such a versioning scheme. It would ideally be invisible to the developer.
So are StackOverflow answers. When I look at something on StackOverflow, I am expected to use my expertise and the context of my work to adapt the collection of answers to what I'm working on. StackOverflow doesn't tell me anything I could not have figured out on my own, but searching through some library's source code to find under which situations an error can occur isn't always a good use of my time. ChatGPT fills a similar role. I type into it, much like how I would with Google, get some output, validate it, and adapt it to the specific problem I'm addressing.
> except for a couple paid offerings (like Discourse, which is $50/month).

No? Discourse is free like phpBB.

Edit: Wow, they have really hidden the possibility for self-hosting from their website. It's still here, though - https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...
That's super common. It was more common historically, these days it's largely gone away. (Scaleform was the technology that used flash for UI dev)
Chomsky as usual seems to be arguing a straw man. More interesting might be to ask ChatGPT to write an essay on global hegdemons hegdemoning hegdemonically in East Timor.

I'd enjoy seeing Chomsky debate DAN.
All hail the holy API :))
> But unlike a normal bank, the Federal Reserve cannot go bankrupt. It just books negative income and pays out by creating new money.

I mean that is literally the entire point of their existence.
While I'm definitely in the "encrypt and take all reasonable precautions" camp, I have to say that your example doesn't make sense to me - unless I'm misunderstanding your example, the recipient of those messages has already received a plaintext/unencrypted copy of the conversation. If the originally intended recipient is now the one holding that information "ransom", I don't know how encryption could help - at some point it was plaintext, and they could have made copies (screenshots, or even a Polaroid picture of their phone screen) at that time.

Again, could be misunderstanding your example...
A baby almost certainly consumes far more data before it speaks than has been fed into GPT-3, yes.
Ironically, that XML(ish)-in-code idea did survive in JavaScript, where embedding HTML in code with things like JSX is now pretty standard. But that's the rare case where a programming language is so deeply entwined with a markup language that it's natural to bring them together. XML proper is increasingly rare as a data format nowadays, so Scala's support for it feels like a strange relic of a bygone era.
I wanted to enhance a python script that organizes my photo library to include a fuzzy city name in the name of the folder. E.g. changing from ./2023/2023-03/2023-03-03_18-29-32.jpg to ./2023/2023-03/San_Francisco/2023-03-03_18-29-32.jpg, where the city name is pulled from the lat/long in the EXIF and then looked up online. I asked ChatGPT one "chunk" at a time, and all of the suggestions it came up with needed some probing and clarifications, but got to a working solution a lot quicker that piecing together random snippets from stack overflow (I am not a python programmer).
Is that disabled for programs targeting older OS versions? Or are you saying that the new behavior is only for UWP apps? Because that sounds like it would break a lot of old code.
> Asahi is my daily driver

I'm guessing you have an x86_64 Mac and not an arm64 Mac?
I was a paying kagi subscriber for about 5-6 months before canceling my subscription. Before that I participated in the beta, and was very excited in Kagi's mission. The service did provide better search results for me than google or bing, partly due to no ads and my ability to better filter out blog spam. I legitimately enjoyed using the service, but in the end could not rationalize paying $120 a year for search. That's more than I pay all in for email, VPN, online storage, password manager, etc.

I was really hoping they'd work on their own indexing and decreasing their costs. For simple, good, reliable, no advertising search I'd happily pay $5-7.50 for. I recently had a thought about re-subscribing when I got this email last night, and this pricing model is not appetizing at all. Not a fan of metering or search limits, I tried using their free plan but having to spend even a .25 of second to think if I want to use up 1 of my valuable search credits ruins the whole experience for me. In the 6 months since I unsubscribed their pricing has gone up and they are tacking on AI which they are just leveraging openai for?

I'm disappointed to say the least.
The Bible says that Jesus did many things that, even if he actually existed, he certainly never did, so I think it's fair to say that Jesus the character from the Bible never defecated if it's not said anywhere that he did.
For now, I think you have to sign up at https://www.bing.com/new and get added to a waitlist. Some people were approved within a few days, I think I had to wait a few weeks but am able to play with the Bing chatbot now.
easy maintenance is what I really want this for. Even the best keyboard eventually transforms into a crusty mess due to how dirty I am.

With this I can I can keep it clean.
I wonder if our eyes being a more discerning sense compared to hearing drives how much (or some maximum) technology investment that will go into audio improvements, before people evaluating the price of some new microphone say, "eh, can't really tell at this point".
Rust editions? They work on per crate, rather than per file level though.
I forget the name it has, but that is a technique used to examine silicon — all the PN junctions in the logic will emit light when they pass current. CMOS logic doesn't have very many (forward-biased) junctions though. IDK if the technique is still useful there.
If you then ask ChatGPT to explain the grammar of either of those phrases, it will give a much better explanation of them than Chomsky did in the article.
Pedophilia has victims and pedophiles are a potential danger to children. There is no victim when two adult gay men have consensual sex – unless one of them is harassed out of his job by people spying on him.

The comparison with pedophilia is so obviously inappropriate (and liable to unnecessarily inflame emotions in the context of this thread) that it makes me question whether you're engaging with this topic in good faith.

If you do have a point to make, could I ask you to please find a way to make it without reference to pedophilia, which has nothing to do with gay priests using hookup apps to talk to other adult gay men.
My honest reply to that would be, do some more java and see for yourself. Your last experience with java was Java 5, which is ... ancient.

Java has gone through a lot of changes, and is actually a very nice, streamlined language now.

You'll probably be very surprised to hear it even comes with a jshell and jwebserver these days!
Erthos is building solar at under $500M / GW. So if we actually needed 12000 GW of solar, that's $6T.

Seems like a large number. But if that replaced all gasoline, diesel and natural gas consumption, we'd repay that $6T of solar in under 5 years.
ChatGPT has achieved the performance of a mediocre human at a very large subset of practical writing tasks. Given a prompt like "Write a grant proposal for the following research project:" or "Explain the opportunities and threats posed by the following business scenario:", it'll give a response that is essentially indistinguishable from the writing of a reasonably competent administrator or middle-manager.

ChatGPT is a bullshit artist with no real understanding of what it's writing about, but so are an awful lot of white-collar workers. It reliably emulates the shibboleths that indicate membership of the professional middle class. It isn't particularly creative or interesting, but it wasn't trained to do that - it was trained to produce maximally safe, inoffensive output. If people don't see ChatGPT as being massively disruptive, then I think they have failed to recognise the sheer proportion of working hours that are spent writing quite mundane letters and reports. Anyone who spends most of their working day in Outlook and Word should be extremely nervous about the medium-term implications of LLMs.
I love this thread, it has two of my favorite HN topics:
1) People shitting on JavaScript not realizing that their "obviously better" solution was considered and found not a good solution.
2) People shitting on TypeScript not realizing that conditional types and template literal types are awesome. I really like those type-safe routers (https://tanstack.com/router/v1/docs/guide/type-safety) and fully-typed database clients (https://www.edgedb.com/docs/clients/js/index#the-query-build...).
In C# you can declare a record like a method body.
Ask HN: Origin of “The Culture they are dying for” story
There is an anecdote about a young man (a poet) being berated by an older woman during WWI where she asks him if he is not ashamed of letting all those other young men die to protect their culture, to which he replied something along the lines of

Not at all madam, I am the culture they are dying for"

Does anyone have some info about the origins of this story? The persons involved perhaps (I seem to remember reading one time a text identifying someone as the poet — someone on the caliber of Lytton Strachey, although he would be from an earlier time)
There is none. Any registrar has their own shitty stories. Sad times.
Are you referring to yourself in third person while simultaneously saying that you are clarifying things? Or are you talking about Chomsky?
Fantastic! AGI solved in one go. While you’re at it, could we also have cure for cancer too by the end of the year please?
Infrastructure best practices have gone out the window, haven't you heard? Most people who use AWS/$cloud_service use it for everything, best practices be damned. Many new projects start their working thinking about how to scale, before making it simple and before having paying users.
> one can always claim the computer is just emulating understanding.

Right? As if most of humans aren't doing just that.
People in walkable areas make far more money than people in rural areas. They're eating the kobe burgers while the rurals will be stuck with the crickets.
Your end-users, do they mess around with the spreadsheet programming interface, via some kind of remote PC interface or not at all? We deployed quite a few Cognex InSights in the early days but version control and distribution of updates was a major headache.

Sidenote, I feel partly responsible because we bought a ton of systems from McGarry's previous company Acumen, then I guess he took off and created the InSight. Colorful guy, I remember him showing up with his fancy Porsche around that time...
The first cellphone I bought was a Motorola Alpha https://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3802/motorola-microta...

I thought it was odd - and a bit misleading that it had the words "Digital Personal Communicator" on the box. I knew it couldn't communicate digitally but it did get me to imagine what that would be like.

I assume digital referred to the storage of phone numbers + names which was a novel feature at the time. The display wasn't seven segment LED like previous versions, it had low-res green dot matrix LED arrays that could display a few crude alphanumeric characeters.
Nobody says that exposure to the target language is irrelevant and Chomsky's political views are completely beside the point.
JerryRigEverything: I Caught the YouTube Scammer – $1000 Dollars Every Day?
What's up with the Youtube scammer epidemic? It's getting absolutely nuts even as an avg user you are almost guaranteed to get a scammer account responding to anything you post.

The cynic in me believes it goes beyond Youtube not even trying; the scam accounts are somehow good for their bottom line.
>That is not the case here. When you have a thousand cars plug in to charge at the same time, you need enough power to service that load.

It seems to me that an obvious and relatively easy fix is for the charging stations to be more complicated that a simple cable. Since the most common use case is one where a car returns to the same place every day, a station with batteries could sip power throughout the day and then deliver it to the car at any rate necessary while maintaining a constant load on the network.
I'm not sure you're applying the same standard to your own reasoning that you want Chomsky to apply to his. How would you falsify the claim that chatgpt has been "gaslit into thinking it is incapable of having an opinion"?
The only company I've ever known to use Scala in a big way, based on their job ads, is Disney Streaming.
Now their streaming service is successful and stable, so it clearly was the right choice for them, but honestly I can't help but think they chose the runt of the litter.
I imagine it's a developer who wanted the latest fad functional language on their CV many years ago, abandoned the company (or got promoted out of the dept.), and now Disney's current developers have to support a language that is mostly not idiomatic with the OOP libraries it uses, and lacks the userbase and support other languages enjoy.
God, the first generations of both USB and Ethernet cameras positively SUCKED. Flaky, buggy, and expensive. Our first foray into Ethernet cameras was from a company called Opteon. They had taken a stock Intel ethernet card and flashed custom firmware onto it to support their custom framing. If the cards and the cameras didn't match exact versions, you could end up bricking one or both of them. They had to be sent back to the vendor to be fixed.

edit: Oh, hey! Opteon still exists! I'm sure their products are much better than those first generations.

https://www.opteontech.com/products/cameras
Based on the 5min I watched of it, it looks like they also removed the comedy too
You should look up "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire."
We'll take community seriously when it's embedded into the product experience
> a custom mixed immediate/retained library now with rich text and accessibility support.

I'm always interested in learning about GUI toolkits that have accessibility support. What level of accessibility support does yours have? e.g. does it implement platform accessibility APIs, and if so, on which platforms? Is your library open source? If not, can I see it in action in any commercially available product? Thanks.
What? With Gandi and others you get screwed by paying more. With Google you get screwed by losing your account completely not matter if you are willing to pay a million to recover it. Google is the worst by far.
I picture a naked torso with all the sensitive zones under the correct letters. Typing the right letters triggers something to happen.
What is the utility of comparing Coindesk and Giphy's api's?

In order for this to have any use, it seems to me you'd need to at least group the API's by use case/product type.
> is potentially a civilization-ending event.

Civilization-ending? How is that even remotely in the realm of possibility?
That shows as soon as you see the field though. So pretty easy to see if it will deliver as SMS.
You're using the fact that the human brain has greater capability than ChatGPT as an argument that it's doing something qualitatively different.

This isn't enough of an argument. ChatGPT has greater capability than the smaller language models that preceded it, it can do tasks that they couldn't do, but it is not qualitatively different, it's differently mainly in the amount of information that has been encoded into it.

It is extremely probable that the next generation of large language models will be able to do things that ChatGPT struggles with. Perhaps those new capabilities will overlap much more with the human brains capabilities than we expect.
But there are direct instances that suggest ChatGPT is limited in exactly the way Chomsky and his colleagues suggest. It has made plenty of mistakes that someone who understands the rules of logical reasoning would not make.

Furthermore, all the hallucinatory effects (making up APIs, making up references) would suggest it really is still just statistical output...
The costs of AI: Impending energy and resource strain