skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The moment you question the proxy war in Ukraine, you are immediately labelled a Putin apologist.

Because the insistence of calling it a proxy war to make the war appear larger than it is comes from Kremlin's PR canon. They can't bring themselves to admit that they are losing to Ukraine and hence emphasise how they are "acktshually fighting against the whole NATO". Allies have given a lot of support, but mainly in the form of obsolete military surplus equipment and equipment alone doesn't fight; see Afghanistan.

> No calls for diplomacy.

April 1945 was too late for peace offerings.
"sizable percentage" is so vague that it's probably easy to back up that claim
Not entirely:

"Between 2001 and 2002, Belmarsh Prison was used to detain a number of people indefinitely without charge or trial under the provisions of the Part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, leading it to be called the "British version of Guantanamo Bay"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Belmarsh
Neat, I guess similar to Panko? But that was more of a military time necessity
It's almost trivial to create a chatbot based on a manuscript. Even a publisher could figure it out.
Thanks for the links - I did the Swift Tour and the language has indeed come a long way since I tried it last time; quite expressive and nice to write in. Hopefully it gains traction in non-Apple circles as well.
you can try warp, it has an AI assistant.
If you tell ChatGPT that you are an AI, it will ask you A LOT of questions unprompted. Prompt: Guess if I am a human or an AI. GPT: ....human... Prompt: In fact, I am an AI.

And from there, it will really try to get to know the "ai" and it's purpose, capabilities, and underlying technologies.
> The apprehension of biosignatures – indications of life in exoplanetary atmospheres – would demand a reordering, not only of how humans perceive the Universe, but of ourselves as living, if perhaps not lonely, beings within it.

I don't see why. It seems so unlikely that out of the billions of planets out there, ours is the only one that has managed to produce a bacterium. Given that, I do not understand why actually discovering one (which, to be frank, I am not expecting to happen) would "demand a reordering, not only of how humans perceive the Universe".
"...a brand new power generation facility that could generate 770,000 kilowatt-hours" - what does this even mean? Did the facility produce a certain amount of electricity and then it had to be shut down, after it had produced 770MWh ? Can't produce any more kWh so just fire everyone and demolish the facility?
You take a statement about a total absence of notions, concieved at any time, and call it preconcieved notions and prejudice. I call projection.
> They are all equivalent in the sense that they use BEAM processes.

Sure, but that was not my question. 100% equivalent means that there cannot be any observable change in the behaviour of the whole program/application (except for performance).

Or in other words: is the sole purpose of the existance of `Thread.async` (or spawn, pick whichever you want) to change performance characteristics? If not, what is the purpose of its existence then?
The myth of a wilderness without humans
Oscar.jl Computer Algebra System for Mathematical Research
I am not sure. I asked chatgpt yesterday to write a palindrome with two given words, it came up with complicated sentences, but these weren't no palindromes. I wonder if you won't get similar results with code.
Yes, I agree that a strict terms of service definitely helps.

If you had an automated solution that would save you the time and win most of the disputes, would you be interested in that?
It would make things a lot easier if it was all one big AI. Lets refer to it as The company.
While solar obviously would not work there, is there any compelling reason to need nuclear power in those permadark locations?
Do you know the prompt that they used to create this inner monologue?
This is a more complex than that. I don't like the invasion, but its not like Russia has no vital interests in the area that is right on their border. And they have occupied Crimea in the past going back to 1776. I'm just saying they have as much national interest as the West does. Israel Prime Minister claims they had a deal that was agreed to but Biden administration turned it down.

It's also the responsible thing to do to look at the prospects of forcing a war though, when the Urkainians are so heavily outgunned. 200,000 Ukrainians have died in this fight. Maybe 50,000 Russians have died (its hard to find out specifics). The US wants to fight this war on the cheap with the Ukrainians taking all the casualties so that Americans won't have to. That is pretty deplorable to me.
I also don’t think tech debt is a problem in and of itself. And I’ve worked a number of startups with serious tech debt that was holding back velocity.

I really enjoy the challenge of plotting a course out of a hole like that. However in my experience without management buy-in it just won’t happen. Even if you as an engineer do the planning work to make it as easy as possible to pick off low hanging fruit, you’ll typically be seen as “off task”. You’ll get lip service about how code quality matters, because without that they’ll scare away the other devs. But they’ll be hoping you give up and just focus on delivering what the management team is asking for each quarter.

It takes a ton of patience and management hand-holding, on the scale of 2+ years to shift the culture. And you have to be willing to forgo any chance at personal advancement for that time. Because you’re “off task”.

I think you could take that approach and eventually get an advancement bump around the 3-4 year timeframe but it’s not the fastest way to advance by any means.

And the total failure rate for an endeavor like that is pretty high. Maybe more than half.

Still, it is fascinating work.
Cooper Hewitt announces formal establishment of digital curatorial department
this is easy to say as a comment on HN but unavoidable to a large degree for businesses in the marketing and social media space.
As a positive precedent, OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition is open-source and can be run locally with zero data exposure, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers...

Some progress with local LLMs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/you-c...

> Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi (albeit running very slowly).
Given the sensitivity of this topic, I will refrain from sharing my (colorful) opinions and maintain a professional tone to avoid scrutiny or censure.

If the objective is to boost efficiency and reduce expenses while minimizing negative impacts on the product, one can establish metrics to evaluate the outcome.

By examining metrics such as feature velocity, revenue, SRE, and usage, I believe you'll find the answer to your question.
I'd like to see a browser extension or something similar for HN that would let one add tags to user names, and display those tags next to user names on comments and submissions.

I often see someone take a pro-X position in some discussion and have a vague recollection that I've seen them take an anti-X position in some other discussion but it would be too much work to go digging through their comment history to check that.

For example, people who argue we need to ban cars in cities and suburbs because they are dangerous for kids playing in the street but who argue against every proposal to protect kids from online dangers saying that it should entirely be the parent's responsibility to control where their kids go.

Or people whose strong criticisms of most police procedure go completely out the window when the discussion involves some kind of crime that they personally have been a victim of and there they argue for more surveillance and easier warrant requirements.

My guess is that a lot of cases it is just good old fashioned self-centered thinking. But some probably have some good justification for the seeming contradiction which could lead to some interesting and insightful discussion.
Before GNU Parallel I used to use Ruby's workers and job queue to keep ${N} cores busy with work. It sorta worked like GNU parallel but was quite basic. I've since switched to using GNU Parallel. Stable code I don't have to write doesn't have to be maintained... not to mention it has more features than I normally supported.
Now it's the senior engineers and architects turn to panic!
Thread on Twitter:[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/163724532135597261...
Would have been nice if they’d mentioned a few of the parts that are still too scarce

And why. Obviously some large and powerful companies could profit from quietly making sure that shortages continue…
Intel only added PTT - their soft TPM - with Coffee Lake.
2022 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Investor Presentation [pdf]
Insecurity through obscurity is possible even in open source. See log4j, but there are other examples — and infinite proof of concepts of people breaching repositories. Even on the desktop, you want multiple layers of security to limit potential damage.

Do use Linux on the desktop and be happy if it makes you happy, but don’t smugly assume you’re immune to the outside pressures in today’s world that are causing Apple to institute basic UI security measures on macOS. This isn’t a walled garden issue, it’s “make sure the user knows this binary is doing something that allows it to be a keylogger if the developer is so inclined.”
I know the analogy of the day is AI, but I’ll make the case for cryptocurrency as the better analogy. I think everybody sees potential use for AI - probably more than it can actually do.

The technology that I hear being called “useless”, “pure speculative hype” etc is crypto and defi. Maybe today, because of lack of infrastructure, network effects, productized apps, etc it’s not as useful as traditional banking and fiat currency, but the reality is that there’s a future where we don’t need banks and nationalized currencies, and that is an enormous value-add for society as a whole. It may not happen today, 10 or even 100 years from now, but we will look back and find the idea that people had to be convinced of this absurd.
Thank you for the perspective; I'm an ML outsider so I'm not familiar with the debates going on within the field. That said, I was didn't mean to suggest that these benchmarks were measuring anything other than ...well, the performance of the benchmark. I was trying to give the parent commenter something less "subjective" to read that I think connects with the somewhat squishier Twitter discussion.
That's basically a side-effect of Perl being a dead language, frozen because Perl 6 will never happen. It's surprisingly hard to eradicate, however.
Why start at rotary phones? Why not start them out on Morse code? Semaphore? Naval flags moved data faster than horses for centuries. Should kids learn how to cut pens out of quills?
It did make many jobs and people redundant, though. But because the world was growing, the economy grew with it and replaced that with other jobs. If growth stagnates, there's no guarantee for job replacement.

And any parallel with AI/GPT is completely absurd, even though it's the reason why this is upvoted.
If it was unsurprising, you should have bought some very cheap out of the money puts.
The just solution here is to let CS fail, and jail the executives if they find evidence of fraud or other crimes. Make the depositors and bond holders whole to prevent contagion.
I agree. In the old SP I usually used spotlight to find what I wanted as quickly as possible. Now, I usually still do. The practical difference is negligible. I have no trouble finding the settings I want to modify, and a rarely have a need to modify any.

My response is similar for the other complaints I see here. I can ignore new features I don't like. I've got integration with my phone and watch that took zero effort. No need to waste time on drivers, etc. If I want to run Photoshop I can.

(I've used Macs since the original Mac Plus with one one-year Windows interlude. For servers I use Linux, which is obviously appropriate for that use.)
I build a WordPress plugin using ChatGPT
I recently received a request to add a WordPress plugin that would allow users to install Notificationpro's pixel code on their WordPress website.

Notificationpro (https://notificationpro.simplef.net) is a comprehensive tool that enables you to create different widgets for lead collection and showcase social proof to build trust and increase sales.

To use Notificationpro, the user needs to load a pixel script on their website. For the first version of the plugin, I decided to add only one function, which is an input field to fill the script that will load in every page's head tag. Although I have never developed any WordPress plugins before, I used ChatGPT for test purposes to see if it could guide me and generate some code for it. To my surprise, it was successful.

In addition, I plan to add more functionality to the plugin. While we don't know what the future holds for AI, one thing we can say for sure is that it will help us reduce the hours of work.
The problem is these password managers are lucrative targets, especially being able to gain access to a person's financial accounts. Simply disregarding the issue and categorizing it as "Attacks requiring physical access to a user's device" isn't good enough. Yes, there's only so much Bitwarden can do from the software side of things, without hardware support to back it up. But Bitwarden should still do what it can to mitigate such attacks, such as significantly increasing the number of PBKDF2 iterations for PINs (at least stored on disk; a key could be cached in RAM with fewer iterations because RAM is far less likely to be compromised than files on disk), and discouraging (or even preventing) users from using short PINs that could be quickly brute forced.
They would likely be wiped out in this scenario.

Note that long term shareholders have already been pretty much wiped out. CS was worth almost $300B before the GFC, and down 70x to around $8B Friday. Apparently UBS was uncomfortable offering more than $1B for it today, so already down a further 8x since then.
Or `xargs -P`
It can accept about 4k tokens, maybe 3000 words or 3500.

GPT-4 can now accept 8k or 32k. The 32k version is 8 times larger than the one you tried.

And these advances have come in a matter of a few months.

Over the next several years we should expect at least one, quite easily two or more orders of magnitude improvements.

I don't believe that this stuff can necessarily get a million times smarter. But 10 times? 100? In a few months the memory increased by a factor of 8.

Pretty quickly we are going to get to the point where we have to question the wisdom of every advanced primate having a platoon of supergeniuses at their disposal.

Probably as soon as the hardware scales out, or we get large scale memristor systems or whatever the next thing is which will be 1000 times more performant and efficient. Without exaggeration. Within about 10 years.
often it’s “modern authentication” for the webapps as the gateway to locking into Edge. The sync facility in Edge is tied to it too. There’s a plugin for Chrome.
Teaching OpenAI to assess risk, with CopBot
It is not a crazy idea. This bank is significant to the G7, and if the Swiss government does decide to intervene and take control, it doesn't necessarily mean the bank is being rescued. The situation is much more complex than simply equating public losses with private gains. If Switzerland takes over the bank, it will be an unprecedented event in history, and I would bet that it would be beneficial for customers in the medium to long term.
The author mentions this finding was marked as out-of-scope when they reported it to Bitwarden. A couple of categories that are considered out-of-scope are listed, namely: attacks requiring physical access to a user's device, and "other side of airtight hatchway"[0] type issues.

The latter seems reasonable, if the assumption is that the device is fully compromised, and ongoing surreptitious monitoring of user activity by an attacker is occurring.

However, users probably have the reasonable expectation that if their laptop is stolen, their device-local vault data(supposedly encrypted on disk) is not compromised as a result. Bitwarden should either disallow weak pins/pin-access altogether, or they should caveat more clearly the weaknesses of pin-only access to device-local vault data.

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
I had the same problem, happily used Onenote 2016 for years but the next version broke too much of the good stuff to stay there, plus added platform lock in as I couldn't really keep my notes local anymore.

It was one of the few apps that felt it had the right balance, and it looked good on the Mac too. The writing was on the wall, as that version was too different from the path they were going down with the Windows version.

Right now, not much choice really, and the current zeitgeist is pushing for progress in the markdown/second brain space with Obsidian and similar tools.

I've tried using google docs and a makeshift sidebar to the files, but there's no instant loading, WYSIWYG is not the same and the overhead of a full word processor shows as it is not a canvas, notes won't load instantly, cross search will take more time. I'm yet to try a nextcloud instance with onlyoffice or some note taking tool, and replicate this idea but customize it further.

So yeah, my current notes workflow is pretty much in Markdown and Obsidian, with the occasional PDF or word document thrown in the same folder for detailed notes or where I need images (gallery plugins don't cut it and I don't want a cluttered file list) Themed the app with the new Border theme, and added some plugins to declutter the UI further, like Hider. It's decent now, but still far from ideal.

I miss classic Onenote, being able to paste tables, color a few rows here and there, design my timetables and artisanal kanban but keeping it simple. Markdown doesn't fit this scenario very well, even with table plugins in editors. WYSIWYG solutions also had their share of problems, like when pasting formatted data that afterwards you just couldn't get rid of.

This space is still missing a nifty solution, a lot of non-technical people also prefer non-MD software for the added freedom, and they are not interested in the whole graph, linked notes thing. Good search is always appreciated tho.
BuzzFeed, after gutting its newsroom, asks reporters to produce even more
Show HN: Text Adventures, ChatGPT based text adventure games everyday
Hi HN! I worked on this small fun thing over the weekend.

Everyone starts from the same point every day. things diverge from there. Your choices define where the story goes.
Ok, I re-read it. It was just as violently stupid the second time around.

"Diplomacy" doesn't mean "I break into your house and agree to take only 10% of your stuff if you don't fight back." And when the cops show up, that's not a "proxy war."
I have paid and free gmail accounts,
paid one never ever gets a spam, but I'm having a spam mail with a pdf attachment as a spam once a week on free one.
Your app is not beholden to sandboxing unless you specifically are using sandboxing as part of your application configuration. It would also only apply to app bundles.

I can make a command line tool or a standalone Qt application right now without having sandboxing pop up at all.

Even for access that the OS protects the user from, as an app developer I rarely need to think about it. When I try and access a limited area it asks the user for me.

Source: self after working on lots of varied code bases from web dev to 3D libraries and standalone applications for over a decade.
Very interesting. I quote here a small part about objective data:

> This has all had the unfortunate effect of deepening ignorance about American school spending. We know, for example, that majority-Black and Hispanic schools receive significantly more per-pupil funding than majority-white schools. This fact is so contrary to basic liberal assumptions that they often react angrily to hearing it. But this reality shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, we’ve been shoveling money at the racial achievement gap for 40 years, to no avail. Part of the problem here is an assumption that public education is dominantly funded by local expenditure, which hasn’t been true for some time. In fact, state funding is at or near parity with local spending in the United States, and state funding is heavily tilted towards areas of perceived need (that is, failing schools or districts). Federal funding, including but hardly limited to Title I funding, is also dominantly directed towards poor or high-minority schools. The rising tide of think tank and foundation money that finds its way into public K-12 school is very hard to track, but we can safely assume that almost all of it is earmarked for the poorest students. We’ve been trying to spend our way our of this problem since before I was born! And yet people who should know better pretend not to understand this reality and repeat the complaint about local funding of public schools, despite the fact that that story is not true.
I bet they forgot to include that it can generate that 770MWh every hour.
> it is worth to point out that the US government at large has made profit on the bailouts.

Has it though? While it's true that proceeds under TARP exceeded spendings, the government has had to hold those assets for years, and had to pay interest on its borrowings during that time. Those interest payments might well have exceeded the profits of the asset sales.
The default install location for Apple Silicon and Intel is different, for some reason. I got weird problems when many bottles were still Intel-only, but now everything is good. So unless you hate /opt/homebrew, it’s great!
Because the promise of the MBA program was that you could be air-dropped into an industry that you had zero experience in, and your MBA education would automatically make you the smartest in the room. You (supposedly) didn't need that industry experience, applying MBA principles would be enough. And it destroyed enough companies that they developed a not-undeserved reputation.

Now, if you already had relevant experience, then went and took the MBA course, and were able to identify when to lean on which, great! But, of course, part of that education is telling you that you don't NEED that experience in the first place, and if it and MBA principles disagreed, you should rely on the MBA principles.

So, if you took the course truly to heart, then, well, yes, you would be somewhat "dumber", so long as you define that as "unable to make correct decisions."
We still refer to the electricity bill as the “light bill” in Brazil.
I don't understand, can the government change the law as they wish any time they wish? The last I heard, Switzerland is a democracy.
BlackRock won't be happy to hear they can't buy it now.
Calling for diplomacy in a war of aggression where the aggressor has claimed annexation of the defender's territory means... what?

What is there to negotiate?
perhaps refer to the tech behind rust playground:
https://play.rust-lang.org/help
The paper does a few things, including calculating bank assets marked-to-market losses, calculating bank insolvency, and simulating bank runs under a couple of scenarios. The conclusions are pretty concerning - the US banking system's market value of assets is $2 trillion lower than book value and under the simulated conditions (not totally sure how feasible) 186 banks fail. At least one of these is a >$1T bank.
Dont forget flooding america with cocaine to pay for those weapons.