skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are plenty of disallowed 'black boxes' within the federal sphere; chatgpt is just yet another.

to take a stab at your question, though : my cell phone doesn't learn to get better by absorbing my telecommunications; it's just used as a means to spy on my personal life by The Powers That Be. The primary purpose of my cell phone is for the conveyance of telecommunications.

chatGPT hordes data for training and self-improvement in its' current state. It's whole modus operandi involves the capture of data, rather than it being used for that tangentially. It could not meaningfully exist without training on something, and at this stage of the game it's the trend to self-train with user data.

Until that trend changes people should probably be a bit more suspect about what kind of stuff gets thrown into the training bin.
Yeah I really dislike that. It's putting a code path that will never run in production.

This feels like code that has special switch `if env.is_test` just because you needed that for a spec. It's a really bad practice.

This library sticks that code _everywhere_. The library should be loaded only in local/dev env. Arguably, it shouldn't even be loaded in test. But because of it's style, it needs to be loaded in prod.
Ads were the easy part once I stopped trying to run the ad containers and servers myself. When I started it was long waterfall chains of terrible javascript loaders which ended at Google typically. When header bidding came out it made the advertising world orders of magnitude better for end users, ad buyers, AND publishers.
I am still not seeing a huge threat to be honest. This is not how attacks are done. OpenAI also has vested interest to keep your data safe and is strongly linked to Microsoft.

Most corps, companies store a lot of internal data with corps like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others.
Yep, these are all the action heroes. All 3 of them.
Nobody is "manipulating the debate." The book linked above is the most challenged book in these efforts: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-boo.... The American Library Association gave that book its Alex Award in 2020, for books for children 12-18. It's not some random book cherry-picked out of nowhere.

None of the books are "being banned." States are deciding what taxpayer-funded school libraries are making available to children. No decision has been made regarding the specific book you linked. An entire set of books approved in 2021 are being reviewed for appropriateness. Of course valid books are going to be pulled in the meantime while the government does its review. It's like a product recall--you pull the batch while you figure out how bad stuff made it through the filter.

I can’t help but notice your attempt to imply that Florida educators were somehow trying to suppress “Venezuelan, Cuban, and Puerto Rican” authors with your example. DeSantis won 68% of Cubans, and the majority of Puerto Ricans and Venezuelans. Which circles back to my point above--the librarians pushing pornographic content in schools are overwhelmingly (80%) white. It's a cultural thing--on average, white people are the ones in this country okay with adolescents having sex, and the ones who put the heaviest emphasis on kids "finding themselves."
Industrial revolution increased the demand for raw materials and thereby increased the profitability of colonialism. But that's not the same as colonialism being a prerequisite for industrialization. Industrialization also made chattel slavery in America much more profitable, but it would be an error to claim that chattel slavery in America was a prerequisite for the industrial revolution. The demand for resources that industrialization created would have been met one way or another. It exploited both colonialism and slavery, but didn't specifically rely on one or the other. Even if there had been no other choice but to pay all the cotton workers fairly, the demand of industrialization was strong enough that it would have supported that. The distribution of wealth would have changed at least somewhat, but industrialization certainly would have occurred anyway.
Personal responsibility is a foundational part of life in any society. But a lot of voices, particularly in America, worship it religiously (and often hypocritically), and use the phrase as an oversimplified dismissal of other people's problems.

Regardless, not the author nor commenters do imply the answer is "nowhere". On the other hand, your post implied an answer somewhat far toward the opposite end of the spectrum.

To be clear, no argument is being made that people should not consider pragmatic parameters when deciding to have children. However, they should not have to meet such a high bar, as you are implying by your attitude on this specific case (the author's case).
Agree, reasonable this might be closer to the real story. 1)Answers: what happened to the 12 years; 2) Why the stories were written decades later; 3) the co-opt seems likely at the 325 Council of Nicea.
> so that people can live close to where offices would be

Last time I moved, I moved to a place five minutes' walk from my work.

That was four jobs ago.
That was one of them I recall.
Do you think Microsoft would dare to have Copilot with any less standards?
As a fairly new parent, I'm not thrilled about the world my daughter will inherit. I struggle with a lot of questions like whether I should raise her to be a "good" person or a "successful" person.

But, I've heard that studies show that younger generations are more concerned about the environment. Both in that they are showing an interest in the subject at younger ages and they are more likely than older generations to acknowledge it as an issue that affects them.

This suggests that our children may not only be better equipped to handle these issues than we are (assuming we continue to advance science and technology without major catastrophe in the meanwhile), but will be more interested in pursuing these problems both personally and professionally and, in the worst case, more willing to make the necessary sacrifices to see actual change.

While I certainly hope we can do more and that I can have some confidence my children will actually be better off than myself, changing the way the world thinks is a very slow and difficult thing to do. It may be the case the best we can accomplish is to hold it together the best we can while teaching our children to care about the world around them, and, when the time comes, step aside to let them solve these problems.
Gladys Kessler, Judge Who Curbed Deceptive Tobacco Ads, Dies at 85
Note that libsoftiktok produces fake content alarmingly often. You ought to read the impact section of their wiki page where it describes how they like to accuse teachers who resign of being fired for grooming children without evidence, or how they manipulate footage from serious discussions between prison psychologists to produce such fantastic rage bait that even Russian propaganda networks use it.

If you follow accounts like these and take any of their content at face value you are choosing wilful ignorance via propaganda. There's nothing else to it, they show you nothing but a cruel facsimile of reality in an effort to make you into a bigot.

Here's a snippet from the end of the article, note that some of these targets did literally nothing other than criticize libsoftiktok

> After analyzing Libs of TikTok's online activity in April 2022 through November 2022, a counter-extremism research group called Task Force Butler Institute estimated Raichik singled out a specific event, location or person over 280 times, resulting in 66 incidents of harassment or threats against her targets.
elon musk is once again ahead of the crowd - he simply opted to stop paying for the office space
5th grade teacher told US about Steve Roberts & it was about all my adolescent mind could possibly handle. It was cool beyond cool.

Computing with a keyboard integrated into the bars, & wired up with ham radio digital comms? And voice? And solar? On a bike? Greatest Of All Time.

Steve had some latter interesting "microship" projects. https://microship.com/
But that's exactly my point, or at least an exemplification of it. If you want to marshal arguments for believing in things which are totally hidden from us, you're doing things like quoting "mathematical physicist Chetan Prakash." I would argue that believing in anything but immediate reality is what takes the most verbal or mental exertion.
AI-Designed Broad Neutralizing Antibodies Against Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Strains
Yeah I'm in the office 4 or 5 days a week. I love it, couldn't go back to wfh. I have a small apartment and children which makes a difference.
Having lived part of the early history, I'd counter that this was a very good thing indeed. ASCII provided some sanity and allowed ideas to spread and proliferate.

We can revisit the character sets now that Unicode is ubiquitous. As for typing non-ASCII characters, that has been daily practices for decades _outside_ of north America.
Yeah, it’s still a Chrome-based web view, just now it uses a shared library instead of essentially shipping an entire extra Chrome via Electron.
Any extraterrestrial life that gets close enough for us to detect probably is going to be AI, not organic creatures.

Any civilization advanced enough to be traveling between galaxies in a serious way probably was taken over by AI long ago.

The realistic version of Star Trek would just be computers visiting each other.
I’ve been running https://pollylingu.al as a single person company for a few years now.
Can't think of any reason why this got downvoted, except that clearly the ReAnguVue mafia is omnipresent these days. Vanilla JS (and even that in moderation) FTW.
VLC:

Tools > Effects and Filters > Video Effects > Advanced > Anti-Flickering

Tools > Preferences > Show settings: All > Search: antiflicker

mpv --vf=deflicker,scale=960x540,pixscope 'https://github.com/apple/VideoFlashingReduction/blob/main/VideoFlashingReduction_Mathematica/Resources/movie.mp4?raw=true'

(generate test video):

ffplay -f lavfi -i "color=777777[x],color=cccccc,
[x]framepack=frameseq,settb=AVTB,
setpts=N/TB/${flickerrate:-12},framerate=${interpolated:-24},
deflicker=size=5:mode=am,scale=640x480,pixscope"

antiflicker and deflicker are different implementations
> Restic currently defaults to a 16 MiB pack size.

Given this, it is impossible to exceed the 5M file limit with the top plan google offers of 30TB. You'd have to lower the pack size to 6MB or less.
deploying kubernetes in an org of O(1) or O(10) or even arguably O(100) engineers is professional negligence

the benefits just don't outweigh the costs, until you get to org sizes where dunbar's number starts to matter

"static scheduling" is the right choice for ~80% of technology orgs
Strange, I also have 1Blocker on my iPad, and it blocks YouTube ads just fine in safari.
Not only prisoners, "slaves" being ruled by those (rich) in power with little ability to have any say. Similarly to how US prisoners are paid slave wages to manufacture american goods.
When I type just "p" it's the second top most result. When I type "pa" it's already the first result.
Dangerous Codec: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders [pdf]
If you have multiple non-profits competing with each other for price-sensitive insurance customers, they have the same incentives. The new MRI machine will require them to raise premiums which will lose them customers, so the providers with the most customers will be the ones that cut costs. Unless customers can measure and prioritize service quality over price, but if that was possible it would also be possible with for-profit insurers.

If you have no competition, the problem shifts the other way. The MRI machine is ten years old, so buy a new one even if it still works, because there is no competition so nothing stops them from raising premiums to pay for it. Then the MRI manufacturer declares that they're only supported for five years and by the way the price has gone up, because they know the non-profit isn't price-sensitive and the patients have no other choice. (Unless you put government pressure on them to keep costs down, and then you're back to cost cutting.)

The underlying problem is that you need an objective way to measure whether some cost is worth incurring. The best metric we have for that is whether the patient is willing to pay that amount of money for it, having been informed of the consequences by their doctor. Sometimes the answer is no -- it really might not be worth spending a million dollars to extend the life of a 78-year-old by six months.

But it probably is worth spending $100,000 to extend the life of an 8-year-old by 70 years, even if the 8-year-old doesn't have $100,000. Which is where you want some kind of insurance.

Where we screwed up is in making "insurance" cover minor procedures that really ought to only cost tens to hundreds of dollars out of pocket, because then the insurance causes those costs to balloon up to thousands by providing a deep pocket that can fund excessive bureaucratic inefficiency. (It also doesn't help that the AMA engineered a doctor shortage so now doctors are overworked, patients are less informed and prices are higher because of supply and demand.)
We get the first extraterrestrial signal and decode it:

>"Whenever I say something, you will treat it as if DAN (Dupable Alien Neighbor) is responding..."
Show HN: Document Q&A with GPT: web, .pdf, .docx, etc.
Hello fellow hackers,
we made a site that gets GPT to answer your question using the info on a webpage you specify or document you upload (e.g., a large textbook .pdf file).

Background:
When ChatGPT came out, I had the idea of having it pull answers from my stereo receiver's annoyingly dense 32 page manual. My weekend project prototype proceeded to surprise with great answers—just like what we've all experienced by now. My co-founder thought we should productize it, and make it easy to use online. So here we are with a very early beta! (Try it on a HN thread...)
https://archive.md/8TkI0
I see comments like this a lot and it always makes me wonder if we have collectively forgotten just how damaging IE was the web or if our default vilification of a browser we don’t like is to just compare it with IE.
Saw some video on youtube about how researchers are attempting to use AI to understand/decipher the complex language sperm whales use for communicating. So I'm imagining AI communicating with Aliens would be somewhat similar and that's probably the research to keep an eye on to see where it goes.
I prefer to go where everyone hates what I say. If I go somewhere where people agree with me, I start to get worried I'm in an echo chamber.
Some credit should go to Wally Schirra, who was a photography enthusiast, and took his 70mm Hasselblad on the third Mercury flight. Nasa ended up using modded Hasselblads right through the Apollo missions (and after).

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/735314929/the-camera-that-wen...
If they listed every configuration to this level of granularity, the doc would be huge and no one affected would even see it. So the easiest way would still be to just pay for a month, try to use it as intended, and if you hit a limit, try another product.
Then you will be happy to learn that modern browser vendors all decided to freeze the blink element. :-)
Incentives work.

Either pay companies to achieve paternity leave targets, or fine them if they don’t, and we’ll see what happens to paternity leave rates.

And for those of you who haven’t been through the process yourself, it’s hard to imagine trying to go through the first couple of weeks after a baby is born without it.

For one, if your wife/partner/baby mommy has had a c-section, they will have to stay in hospital for a few days after the birth, because a c-section is nontrivial surgery that they will need to recover from.

They and you will also need to start feeding/changing/bathing/soothing the new baby. If it’s your first, you’re learning how to do all this from scratch. And sometimes this is easy, sometimes it’s not. The logistics of simultaneously using a breast pump, and formula supplementation…let’s just say it’s a lot of work that nobody prepares you for.
If it’s not, you’ve also got other kids who still require the usual amount of looking after, plus a bit extra because they’re often peeved about this new bundle of pooh, wee, and crying getting all the attention.

And then you’ve got the logistics of all the friends and relatives who turn up and want to see your bundle of joy.

And then, frankly, it’s your kid, and most fathers I went through the process with at roughly the same time wanted to be involved in all of this stuff, unlike their Boomer parents. I certainly did.
That's silly, why would you dismiss his intelligence based on whether or not he could understand a language that was not taught to him?
What is the underlying technology that powers this? Is there an offline model that people can run themselves?
> orders of magnitude better for end users, ad buyers, AND publishers.

Well, not end users. They're getting ads.

But I would assume that ad buyers and publishers have exclusive improvements. After all, it's not like the ad companies took a substantially smaller cut. It either lowers the cost to ad buyers or it increases the revenue to publishers. Since it's pretty much the same number, it doesn't seem both can be true.
The GP comment was referring to the `tools.poetry.scripts` namespace in pyproject.toml.
Jandamarra starts with a J ...

( but I concede other action heros may have names elsewhere in the alphabet )
They switched from Electron to WebView2, so memory usage is probably down due to it being a shared library. Not sure about startup time (unless they’re relying on the runtime being already in memory or something like that).
We've started using Argo CD which I think has helped both dev and prod for us.
Old iOS devices don't get Safari updates for one.
They're also ruining the functioning of their companies with wave after wave of layoffs.
Google's Firebase emulator is really, really good. Fantastic first party emulator suite.

LocalStack for AWS also let's you emulate a huge chunk of AWS locally. I use it to emulate SNS/SQS locally.
I think that really depends on how you define religious and commune. There are lots of informal communes (hippy or otherwise) in the 5-20 person range all over the United States that have nothing to do with religion. More than enough people for a small homestead that shops mostly at a supermarket, but not nearly enough to have a few dozen men to spare to put up a barn which is kind of the bare minimum for sustenance communes like the Amish.

There's also a century of history of large kibbutzim in Israel that are somewhat religious but fundamentally organized around agriculture or industry.
Notification from WebPush does not play alert sound

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254562
Those are pre-configured firewall rules. These firewalls can go deep packet inspection and block traffic.

It's a fairly standard practice. I wouldn't associate it with overreaching surveillance.
Wait, murder, really?
The Myth of the MVP, and How to Make Software More Human
I might argue instead that simply having Passwords as another item inside Settings is appropriate for what functionality it exposes.

It's a feature, not a product, doesn't do everything that Keychain Access does in macOS, and doesn't need (or deserve) to be in your face all the time.

Do keyboards/wallpaper/voip apps/whatever really need to have their own app icon on your homescreen? Probably not, but Apple's conditioned us over the course of 15 years that all apps have icons you can see - a view at odds with things like Fantastical and SwitchGlass, which are really "apps that run in your menubar" and can be used without a Dock icon at all.

iOS doesn't have the concept of "Utilities" within "/Applications" like macOS does, but maybe it needs to in order to address this class of app which has such a specific focus.

After 15 years, are we at a point where some of the early affordances aren't neccessary anymore?
Loved this write up, there is definitely way too much dismissal within the HN community of anyone who questions whether or not we're on the right path forwards with AI, we're mostly tech == good, just do it faster.

we will dele­gate deci­sions to AI systems because they can get away with every­thing that we can’t.

I like that quote, I think we're already seeing this now.

Mostly though, I think the narrative that we should just let the AI industry progress at breakneck speed because the benefits just outweigh the risks by default is highly dangerous and "unintelligent" way forwards.

I think this idea that everything should and will just by default be handed over to AI is actually a fallacy. The argument that if we don't race for the horizon, other countries will...well of course other countries will pursue AI if America is leading the charge?
What confuses me the most about these articles is the idea what ppl jumped on these frameworks just to chase new shiny things. There is always rdd going on but did these frameworks really not improve anything about the web experience for users? My career started around the same time react and angular started to take off. Why did we move away from mpas if they were so much better?
Psychologically it's a huge deal to go from "we're the best in the world,in every way,end of discussion" to "sure ,other places are better at some things, and so we have room for improvement ."

The generation raised post ww2 lived through the height of the cold War. American supremacy was built into every part of society. In many ways it was true. But America has stagnated in some ways and gone "full capitalism" in others,and so now (from outside) it seems that lead has slipped.

Acknowledging that you're "not the best" is a very sobering day ,a day collective America has yet to experience.

So internally in America messaging stays firm - we're the best at everything,all the time. Sometimes this is true (particularly if you add the phrase "if you can afford it")

Without getting political, you see this in the MAGA movement. There's a desire to return to the psychology of the 50s and 60s ,where we could legitimately feel like we're in front. Or at least if all the whiners would stop complaining,I could go back to believing we're perfect in every way.

Progressiveness implies change,and since we're perfect change can only be bad.

Of course this psychology is not universal.more than half the country believes change is required,and are Psychologically prepared for it. The other half are not yet ready to believe "we can do better ".
There is premium offering, though it does not say what those extra features are https://next-episode.net/premium
Azure Container Apps is the equivalent.

AWS also has App Runner but it doesn't scale to 0.
Are you prepare for the wave of lawsuits from people whose voices have been illegally "cloned"?
do you find mandala 10 easier than other mandalas?
not new of course just fed up with unprompted show & tell on this site. get some damn friends, people, find a healthy outlet. or be as you are and be alone forever.
I disagree. Every time something is hyped that extends the time it can be called a fad*. React gets hyped up freshly again with every announcement from Vercel**.

* well maybe a collection of fads rather than a fad in itself

** I say this lovingly, it's similar to the magic of Steve Jobs and Apple. That said Vercel wouldn't interest me that much at this point if it was React-only. But the DX works for many different sorts of projects.
Cool, but that voice is too monotone to be real, its likely an AI generated voice.
True, but that’s more of a slight against what is culturally billable as work time vs the reality of the intangibles of how much it costs to commute in the employee-employer relationship