skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a clear difference between Hustler and a graphic novel that contains some sexual representations.

You are employing an old and tired strategy: latching onto any lewd expression and then dismissing the rest of the work whole cloth as purely pornographic. This is exactly the same strategy as was used in e.g. the Howl obscenity trial [1].

Anyways, I reject the premise. These books aren't attacked because they contain pornographic scenes. These books are attacked because of the people, identities, and viewpoints they represent and affirm. It's about bigotry, not the kids. As evidenced by the fact that these comments even crop up on articles such as this one, where the article isn't even about school libraries [2].

Sex and sexuality are deeply important parts of being human and it's possible to have uncensored discussion of this part of humanity without reaching for Hustler or hentai. I'm saddened that there are apparently people who aren't able to distinguish between uncensored discussion and straight up porn. Who cannot read or think or talk about sex without their brains pulling up hentai and pin-up girl style pornography. What an impoverished experience of humanity these people must have. No wonder they are so angry all the time.

[1] https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Howl_Obscenity_T...

[2] See https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/LibraryDevelopment/FY22WebP... and https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/LibraryDevelopment/FY22WebP... $0.00 of the funds discussed in this article go to school libraries.
now the story changes: the war that putin started in 2014 is not the fault of Biden, but the fault of the foreign policy of everyone except the former guy?

instead of the dude who actually started it with the invading?

you also seem to misunderstand that Putin has been "touching Ukraine" since the war started in 2014, and the former guy did nothing to stop the war
By the same argument, shutting down all the public schools isn't depriving children of education.

Because any parents could pay for private school on their own dime.
Central in the Old Testament narrative.
> Let him who is without sin cast the first stone

So you're telling me that you've reviewed every line of every library you've ever used?
hopefully the lesson that enters our culture is "AI produces garbage", which then kills off the AI revolution

permanently
> How do you get America to have unions like those in Europe?

Easy. Allow the employee to pick the union - you can have more than one union per employer. Or no union at all if that's what the employee wants.

That's the only change needed.

If like, add a second change: It's not longer necessary to make an employer be a "union shop" any employer can have employees represented by unions, if that's what the employee wants.
I just performed that search in Google and the top two results are links to PyPI and Snyk packages for micropython-html.parser. The third result is a link to python.org documentation for html.parser (not micropython).

Bing returns the result for PyPI and the one for the non-micropython python.org result.

I don't see a big difference here (except maybe me learning about Snyk through google and not Bing?).
Hardware, I guess? ARM's moat is that you can buy a fairly RISC CPU today for a fairly cheap price. It won't stay that way forever though, and there are efforts underway with RISC-V to drain that moat.

The interesting part (to me) is speculating which parts of the market ARM will choose to focus on. Microcontrollers seem like a lost cause at their price point, but making a shift to higher-margin licensing might be part of a strategy to acknowledge that loss.
The supermarkets in the UK engage in price fixing so consumer can only decide so much when each supermarket has the same price and smaller shops are priced out of the market.

In the UK where big business dominate, the competition is illusory and regulators turn the blind eye.
Probably can't compete with the pricing of what it's imported for with the price of energy et al here.
‘Smart bandage’ with biosensors could help chronic wounds heal, study claims
> I thought that the whole point of LLMs was that you could just talk conversationally, though.

> If you have to carefully craft what you say in order to get the response you want, what's the point of using natural language to do it?

If you study communication, carefully crafting communication to the target audience and context is one of the most basic lessons in the use of natural language.

> Wouldn't it be better to use a more formalistic method that isn't as imprecise as natural language?

Well, yeah, that's why we keep inventing formal sublanguages and vocabularies for humans.
Probably because they launched ChatGPT as an experiment and didn't think it would blow up, needing full time SRE etc. I don't think it was designed for scale and reliability when they launched.
Use ChatGPT on any input box
A simple chrome extension to use ChatGPT on any input box on the web. No need to switch tabs anymore.
"Writing doesn’t just clarify your existing ideas; it generates more of them."

So true! Redrafting and self-editing involves so much more than just getting the commas in the right places. This is how we see new linkages that weren't obvious at first. It's how we become more discerning, so we can define the limits and strengths of our concepts more precisely. And it's one of the best ways of opening up new avenues of thought. (If A is valid, then B, C and D become possible.)
"there are few SREs for hire"

How do you figure? If you mean there are few SRE with several years of experience you might be right. SRE is a fairly new title so that's not too surprising.

However, my experience with a recent job search is that most companies aren't hiring SRE right now because they consider reliability a luxury. In fact, I was search of a new SRE position because I was laid off for that very reason.
Those aren't really exclusive. Different problems, different query types. (I wouldn't quite do the second example like that, but "where can I get food here" is fundamentally different problem than "I hope there is somewhere out there a bootleg copy of the datasheet for this very weird part and no I don't mean any of these 5 easily-confused other things", which is when the lack/ignoring of detailed modifiers drives you up the wall)
Ask HN: Will AI change core education?
With the ability to train models omitting certain parts of an education curriculum I would think it will become increasingly more objective how much some of the more controversial parts of our core educational system exists.

E.g, does a model trained with classical literature really outperform other models that omit it in things like creativity?
I'm still dreaming of a Cortana-like helmet or earpiece that I can verbally communicate with any time for any reason.
Might be wrong, but for a long time search results from Google and Bing in blind tests were basically equivalent. Google’s edge has been its brand recognition and consumer search habits.
If you installed it with pip, it doesn't; if you installed it with an OS package or snap, it does (although it also didn't in that case for about the first year and a half of its existence, I think).
That's unfair to altavista. Altavista never got evil, they just became irrelevant. (And even when they were irrelevant, they still had a search syntax that I miss. You could search for things like term_a NEAR term_b.)
Flashcarts on the 3DS aren't the same as flashcarts on older systems, where you just put in the cart and it acts like a normal game. It requires special software on the console itself to accept the fake cart, and they fell out of use so many years ago that I don't think the software is even compatible with any recent 3DS firmware.

The pure software approach available nowadays is much easier and more convenient, as long as whoever uses it after it's hacked can follow some basic instructions (how to install games, how to not update the firmware if nintendo releases an update without first updating the hack, etc)
Can be, sure.
At this point, I feel like people are rising prices because everyone else is rising prices because “inflation.” Literally my wife raised her prices for haircuts simply because everyone else was and she was getting comments that she was too inexpensive.
This is a case study for an undergrad statistics or responsible journalism class.

* for traffic see the small note "all values rebased to 100"
they are likely hiding the significance of the increase

* for the app downloads graph:
does the 30x gap say anything?
are there seasonal reasons that can explain why every Jan1--Feb4 has more DLs than Feb4--Mar11 ? e.g., new phones?
The biggest growth period in the Western world - after WWII - happened to coincide with enthusiastic social spending programs, aggressive government funding of new R&D, and very high tax rates.

In the US the rate peaked at 91% on earnings over $400k - which is about $4m adjusted.
Google's business model is entirely based off the fact that search is great for signaling intent, and that is great for selling ads.

A personalized AI assistant goes WAY beyond that. Whenever you talk to it, it can go into salesman mode to con you into buying shit you don't need.

Surely the economics will work out to still provide "free" searches.
Nothing prevents you from running the latest kernel, but the project is introducing new bugs with security implications all the time even as it is eradicating old bugs, which is why one guide recommends an LTS kernel as the better of two bad options (the other option's being a stable kernel):

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-harden...
the magic was that it was free, only OpenAI can afford to do it after selling out to Microsoft for near unlimited compute resources. Google was too afraid of negative PR to do it themselves at first, they should have spun their chat bot out into a startup that wouldn't hurt their core brand. Google had an internal ChatGPT equivalent for over a year
The graph showing the deviation from each search engine's 100% baseline is kinda telling considering Bing is all over the place with it actually seeing some traffic, and Google is a consistent up-and-down shape that doesn't seem affected at all by whatever is happening with Bing.
Thanks for explaining that. It's terrifying.
Case in point, the Washington post has 17 different ad trackers and 30 third party cookies...

https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.washingtonpost.com
Let's call them gpt-cyborgs. Some will be worse, some better off. Leveraging the "real" world would be in their advantage.

Here's an example - can't prove it's correct, but it could be measured.

Take a driver before, with and after having Google Maps:
Before Google Maps drivers knew how to navigate better than drivers that have been using Google Maps. I.e. After removing Google Maps some drivers will be lost.

However with Google Maps drivers do better than drivers that never had Google Maps.
It's also as if google decided to suicide themselves a bit earlier. Their results have really become crap lately. It keeps ignoring anything than 1-2 keywords. What's going on?
Have you ever been employed by someone poor? (And I don't mean a middle manager spending someone else' money)

The rich have historically funded the arts (e.g. patronage), public buildings, public institutions (e.g. Carnegie's libraries).

Useful businesses that require high capital are difficult to get going if no one has any capital.
Google should go back to being strictly links as the results, nothing else. At most 1 paid ad on the top or just below the fold.
America is fighting the wrong university wars
With all the talk of "quiet quitting", it seems like "they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work" is a potential failure mode of capitalism as well.
Safety, including healthcode safety, is a good thing. A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality, products for that market. Reviewing, streamlining, and creating easier for small businesses to follow guidelines about the regulations that exist in a given field also sounds like good ways of improving consumer choice and safety.
I just get results for https://pypi.org/project/micropython-html.parser/. Is this not what you want?
RISCV to the moooooon!
Some of the other replies have given the basic reasons; the original Let's Encrypt team was influenced by this paper, which stated some of those arguments more formally or academically:

https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/W2SP/2012/papers/w2sp12-fin...
I presume the $19 fee does not include a model? Do I need an API key to use this?
Also, until recently, Bing's UI was terrible.
Go, for one.

In my experience errors are more common (for both cultural and technological reasons) in Python than in Go.

I would guess something similar applies to Rust, though I don't have personal experience.

There's wide variation in C, but with careful discrimination, you can find very high-quality libraries or software (redis itself being an excellent example).

I don't have rigourous data to baack this stuff up, but I'm pretty convinced it's true, based on my own experience.
Converting from MeV to kcal is not nonsensical, both are units of energy. They are just conventionally used in different contexts.

For example, it is not 'nonsensical' to ask for the distance to the nearest shop in angstroms, but it would be unusual.
Suing to dispute the constitutionality of a law is also a reasonable thing to do. Cutting funding prior to the adjudication of the legal dispute seems like a legislative attempt to pre-empt the judicial process.

'FaFo' is shorthand for 'Fuck around and find out', yes? I'm not sure this internet tough guy approach is going to persuade anyone.
What an absurd thing to say. What's that got to do with GPs point? Should we ignore this criticism of congress because it's not allowed in China?
As usual on HN, I find the pragmatic response about 3 pages down in the replies to an extremely hyperbolic top-level comment.

I also don't want to diminish the concerns around Github or similar orgs losing control of a private key, but the far more realistic concern for the vast majority of threat models is often put to the wayside in favor of what amounts to a scary story. Rather than the straightforward key removal and replacement that this should be, I (and surely many others) have spent all morning combatting this specific FUD that cropped up on HN with leadership and many engineers. It's actually quite detrimental to quickly remediating the actual concerns introduced by this leak.

I understand that security inspires people to be as pedantic as possible - that's where some big exploits come from on occasion - but I really hope the average HN narrative changes toward "what is your actual, real-world threat model" vs. "here is a highly theoretical edge-case scenario, applicable to very few, that I'll state as a general fact so everyone will now wonder if they should spend months auditing their codebase and secrets". Put simply: this is why people just start ignoring security measures in the real world. Surely someone has already coined the term "security fatigue".

It's all just a bit unbalanced, and definitely becomes frustrating when those suggesting these "world is burning" scenarios didn't even take the available precautions that apparently would satisfy their threat model (i.e. commit sigs, as you suggested)

Ok, end rant :)
Is there a point somewhere in this comment?
lol yeah, there was a period of time where you could download the files directly from the official nintendo eShop CDN directly without paying
I don't know that I would classify what essentially comes down to group-think or even mob-mentality as humanity's biggest problem.
Who Keeps Cutting Taiwan’s Undersea Internet Cables?
But if certbot doesn't run on schedule, presumably it will never connect to ARI either.
> Apparently, Python split the difference and uses reference counting alongside garbage collection:

Splitting the difference between what? Both reference counting and generational garbage collection algorithms are garbage collection algorithms. The generational garbage collection algorithm is to handle issues with things like cyclic references (A->B, B->A) which would cause a pure reference counting garbage collector to retain the memory even if nothing else referenced A or B.
Or wrote its own plugins as needed.
Show HN: A compiler to turn natural language into code via GPT-4
> calling it a "book ban", when it demonstrably is not. It's removing certain (in some cases pornographic) material from school curricula and libraries.

Removing certain books from all the libraries is what we call "banning" those books. That's literally what the term means.

> you can just go actually read the text of these laws

Here, kid, no Judy Bloom for you, but you can read the law that prohibits her book? That's just sick.
Er, nope. You are mixing it up, I am sorry. Profit = revenue minus all expenses. So if prices are rising, revenue grows but profit stays the same as expenses are driven up too by inflated prices of the factors of production.

But it’s a typical observation I have whenever discussing economics with Europeans — economic illiteracy is rampant, here, unfortunately, because schools do not give much priority to basic economic facts.
I know this might be controversial but I believe SEO ruined search.
They don't have the stomach for the bad press, which is to say they don't have the stomach to be committed innovators.
I've used something to this effect before, and you can use child selectors on e.g images to effectively exclude elements.

Note that the cost of this lazy method is very poor performance (css filter over the entire document), and lack of control over dark colours (inverted colours don't necessarily work best, shifting hue can help but you probably don't want the same as uninverted colours because they tend to be too dark and lack sufficient contrast).
You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills
So what's the plan now? Let this thing run its course until there are food riots in the USA?
At this point, there's so much tech emitting radio waves in the average police car you'd need bespoke methods to detect most of it. The stack and operational procedures change every 5-10 years too. They used to (~20 years ago?) drive around with active radar engaged so they could pull over speeders without having to stop and use the handheld unit, but this would broadcast their proximity to everybody with a radar detector as they drove around. Easy to triangulate with consumer hardware.

With object-detection tech being commodity, it might be easier to just deploy RPi cameras and flag any vehicle with "POLICE" vinyls on the side. They out themselves there since no civilian is driving a similar vehicle.

Undercover cars are a different matter. You'd have a hard time disambiguating service vehicles from civilian-owned. Most of those even retain the side-view spotlight. You could safely ignore any with "PRIVATE" or "SECURITY" written on the side though; the cops out themselves again since most departments don't buy slick-tops and then slap "POLICE" vinyls on it (though I think Georgia departments are compelled to do this; I've seen black vinyl lettering on black undercover cars which I assume was meant to skirt some law).

Option B: most departments outsource maintenance of their vehicles to contracted civilian mechanics. Drive around town enough and you'll probably find a lot with a bunch of police cars parked there. Plant an ALPR camera facing the lot and record plates. Then you can use ALPR around town.
I personally use much less google since Bing Chat came out.

That being said it makes me worry a lot. Not that GPT is going to replace me or something, but how effectively it can serve ads to me if it wants. If MS decided to do evil with Bing Chat (which is almost inevitable), it would make today's Google look like a charity.
I just want to point out that pretty much every natural economic condition is beneficial for the rich. The thing about money is it’s very flexible. You can hoard it in deflationary cycles, spend it on assets in inflationary cycles, grow it in economically good times and buy cheap property and goods in economically bad times.
Now let's do the estimate for San Francisco.
Bing’s search product (ignoring the chatbot) is quite good and comparable with Google. I (and I assume, many people like me) would have never tried it if not for the Bing Chat hype. I find myself using Bing Search more than Google or Bing Chat now.
Wow thanks. I looked all over that page but couldn't get a rough idea of the dataset size for the event stream (not the commits).

Are we talking 1TB/year, 10TB/year, 100TB/year?
Startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off LA coast
Steve Jobs saved a long-time Mac developer from an early death
It's not even a leak, Zapier plugins were part of OpenAI's announcement of the plugins

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
I think that certain aspects of the design of some electronic devices, particularly phones and tablets, are a huge part of the reason why they're so addictive. I'm specifically thinking about the screen resolution, brightly colored displays, and interactivity. How many people have you ever met who feel they have an addictive relationship to their kindle? I think if phones were grayscale e-ink displays with limited interactivity and no ability to play videos they would be much less addictive. When I turn my phone to grayscale it's immediately much less compelling.

If someone developed a new form of paper and suddenly millions of people were hooked on books published on that particular paper — wildly different books and only books printed on that kind of paper — it would make sense to conclude that there might be something about the new form of paper that's contributing to the problem. I'm sure I'm not the only one who found social media less compelling when I could only access it on a desktop computer. In my opinion the design of smartphones and tablets is not something we can just ignore when thinking about how and why they might be addictive. The devices themselves are brain candy just like the apps that run on them.
While not a "PC", I have games in my Steam library and from GoG that I can't play on a modern mac anymore because they removed 32-bit support post Mojave, so I keep an increasingly-difficult-to-use MacBook Pro on Mojava.

So, Steam didn't save me :(
I think we talked about that before, but lmk if you need help with S0.

It takes some work, but it's possible to get to less than 0.5%/battery/hour, a fair benchmark as a battery reduced by >=5% after 10h of sleep is generally acceptable
People don’t decide to raise prices out of the blue… it isn’t quite this simple, but for the purpose of understanding the basic concept, you can think of it as the price goes up when you can easily sell your inventory at the current price… if your product sells out quickly, and you still have people eager to buy your product, you raise prices, and you keep raising them until you can just barely sell all your product (of course it is more complicated, because you are trying to maximize profit and not minimize inventory, but the basic idea is the same)

If you fix prices, it just means the product keeps selling out quickly and most people can’t get the product.

This is why prices go up when there is a supply shock (like with eggs and the bird flu). There are fewer eggs available, and raising prices reduces demand until it matches the supply (as people who only kinda like eggs switch to cheaper alternatives). While it sucks that eggs are more expensive, at least you can still buy them if you really like eggs. With price controls, it becomes a crapshoot on whether you can get them or not.
No, you are waiting in line because you want your stupid coffee the jew to be executed does not want to be executed, so no equivalence class here baby.