skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is heavy on rhetoric and light on substance. What, specifically, in the RESTRICT/DATA acts is doing surveillance or censorship things?

I don't doubt that this is the case, I just want to know the actual contours of the law. This article had three linked Tweets, one of which is a political opinion, one of which is a video, and the last is a screenshot from the "In General" section of the bill. The "In General" section is not the actual law itself, it just describes what the law is intended to do.

The thread that the third tweet is a part of provides more information, but it's still very hard to follow. For example, one of the tweets claims:

> If you recall from before, “Foreign Individuals” can now also be US citizens that are deemed a national security threat. Once designated, the bill grants authority to enforce any action deemed necessary to mitigate the threat, with no due process and few limits on punishments.

This is very fucking scary! However, the associated images do not include anything that says US citizens. The only thing that would apply would be if a US citizen conspired with a designated foreign asset to violate... whatever is in this bill.

You need to present your information better, rather than just saying that something is bad and then handing a bunch of algebra to the reader to figure out.
File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission
I simply don't give a crap if my employer loses data. I don't care if my carelessness costs my employer a billion bucks down the line as I won't be working for them next year.
You can disable the feature entirely in group policies, I imagine organizations with a decent IT org will do so before deploying the update.
> "wow this is elegant."
> Have you consideres productize/templatize this stack and selling some kind
> license/supporting deal

uhhh it's really just a basic install of freebsd and a bunch of shell scripts! As far as I'm concerned anyone with a bit of time could google fu themselves in to production.

I am always happy to, and have, contracted to build similar setups for other people for CDN delivery, etc, but that was just another day in the life of a sysadmin basically.

Email in profile if you have any other questions.
The Mongol Empire is the last example you want to use about stability.

Regardless of whether sex was monogamous in most ancient societies, it was nonetheless ceremonialized, (somewhat) feared and (to the extent possible) regulated. The rules changed, but the presence of rules was consistent. It's not easy to find a culture that took sex as lightly as ours. But it's also not easy to find a culture that believed the Earth orbits the Sun. Ancient cultures often believed in some form of vitalism and had spiritualistic beliefs about the consequences of sexual activity. Those practices are not so easily mimicked by converts raised in the atomic age.

From your article:

>88% of women and 73% of men say kissing another person while in a monogamous relationship is cheating

It doesn't follow that most people actually have sex outside their exclusive relationships.

I would agree that the post you replied to places an excessive emphasis on sex. Hippie communes that I've examined often failed to effectively manage expectations regarding the work required and the quality of life that could be achieved.

My ancestors are Mennonites. I visited them in Missouri when I was fifteen. There is something appealing about their lifestyle, but after experiencing it for a couple of weeks, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't choose it.
The Farm only lasted 12 years as a commune, before switching over to people earning their own income and paying rent. Still perhaps comparable to the amish though.
The full force of the federal gov't is coming for CZ.

I spoke with several people who work at various AGs and folks in DC.

It seems they will come down hard on him for a variety of reasons and through a variety of methods.
I just used ChatGPT to create a ton of permutations for product pricing that I'm putting on Stripe as products.

Except... it made ONE ERROR that I just spent two hours tracking down and fixing in my JSON file and now in the Stripe dash. (I coincidentally found the error using ChatGPT lol).

It's probably still faster and less error-prone than I could have done it manually. But it's still error-prone...
Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33730417

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Thanks, i uploaded the terms and conditions of some insurance I'm considering and am able to ask it questions without having read it all myself. (Obviously I'm double checking for accuracy in case of hallucinating but i suspect it won't be long before I have the confidence not to do so.)

The crazy thing is I fell asleep a few hours ago wondering how to feed the insurance terms and conditions to ChatGPT so that I could query them, and then I woke up and saw this.

All this AI progress opens up so many possibilities that it's almost anxiety-inducing
The path of least resistance for middle of the road Internet users is to become dumb as fuck. Our society has no standards for critical thinking or epistemology.
I don't think it makes sense to make a HN post with the title "Another Round of GitHub Layoffs" based on this tweet.
Last time I developed mobile apps that depended on consistent webview functionality, Android went a step farther: Android vendors could replace the webview provider with something custom, and some did (Samsung, at the time, notably and impossible-to-ignore since they're huge). Not only might you not get a particular version of Chrome/Blink providing your webview—you might get any engine. There were basically no guarantees at all.

The result was that the only way to obtain non-crazymaking behavior and bug report loads on Android, if you needed a webview or even just a javascript engine, was to bundle your own thing. IIRC we ended up bundling a JS engine to get around the worst of it, for what we needed—might have been a full browser we bundled, can't recall for sure. We encountered multiple real problems in the wild trying to use the built-in engine(s). On iOS, we both couldn't bundle our own JS or browser engine (by policy) and... had no need to, since that never caused many problems.

It's one of of several reasons that, while Android developent was probably easier even then at a hobbiest level than iOS was, it was a much bigger pain in the ass to support & develop for at any kind of scale. But, that was a while ago—maybe it's gotten better.
> I like drag-to-side-to-go-halfscreen for window management (though less than I like Spectacle on Mac) and search-to-launch.

Aquasnap can do the snapping, and more. If any of the 'more' bothers you — like "shake for always-on-top" activating too easily, you can adjust or disable that bit. Hmm, I should add that to my current Win10 machine. I did eventually get a license, so it won't complain about having more than one monitor.

Voidtools Everything can be configured as a search-to-launch tool, but I mainly use it for its blindingly fast NTFS searching. Where Windows Search typic'ly excludes large sections of your drives, eats CPU cycles while it 'indexes', and then still either gives you "Please wait…" or simply claims that it can't find anything, VE just works. Even does NTFS drives across the network (though it has to rebuild a local index of the remote media periodic'ly).
Besides how great this blog post is, I really can't get over what the author of srandom did. Two weeks ago an issue was opened that pointed out xor-shift was not a secure PRNG. The srandom author replied by saying "prove it" and closed the issue. They also updated the readme to say that srandom is "probably the most secure PRNG available."[0]

I don't know if it was the github issue or the readme update that pushed Sc00bz over the edge to actually demonstrate the vulnerabilities. Maybe next time wait until after you've gotten an evaluation from a cryptographer before claiming "probably the most secure PRNG available."

[0]: https://github.com/josenk/srandom/commit/55e2ec76238111121b0...
Thing is, the utility is entertainment for a lot of people.

But Bing actually has a mood selector displayed prominently right about the input box, so you can set it to be more pedantic or more "creative".
I think you could start by doing some searches for the term “prompt engineering.” If I understand your question correctly, that’s what you’re looking for and there’s been a lot of people writing up articles, resources, repos, etc that could be helpful.
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but how can an app claim end-to-end encryption with a privacy first mindset while also using an AI chatbot run by a third party company? What actually is being shared with OpenAI?
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The people telling us we need offices are always the ones who have meaningless jobs like a CEO. Their time in the office consists of saying hello to people and then going to lunch. If they wish to go home at any point, they just ask their chauffeur. It's just not really a fair comparison.
It can be done. But it requires a lot of work. When you aren’t in the fields planting/fertilizing/harvesting (which takes up a lot of time on its own), you’re gonna be slaughtering animals, preserving foods (through canning, salting, etc), doing repairs to the farmstead. You’ll be up frequently from before sunrise to after sunset. You’ll have some leisure time, but not a lot. You probably won’t be traveling as much (a trip to your state’s capital or largest city will be a big deal). Modern gear like tractors definitely helps, but it introduces its own complications (namely fuel and maintenance, how will you be paying for that?). Pesticides can cut down on crop losses, but they can also literally kill you (seriously, pesticide poisoning is one of the most common forms of suicide, and some insecticides are basically nerve agents). And all this effort can be for naught if there’s a late freeze (you did can your extra food, right?).

That’s not to say there isn’t value in a lifestyle like this. But it requires a lot of effort that many people either don’t want to or cannot put in.
Oh, somehow this kinda clicks for me.

Thank you!

Reminds me of:

> I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
Cool hack! I'm having some trouble thinking of a case where I wouldn't just explain to Copilot / ChatGPT what I need. Maybe specifically in cases where I had the raw data but not the column titles?
Gah! And thanks all :)
I thought it was going to be something fun like Hamster Dance. This is... Dark.
This is as good as comment as any to hang my off-topic thoughts on...

I use Chrome's built-in password manager. I always set up website security questions with gibberish answers. I wish Chrome would give me a field to store those answers. Or, better yet, treat them like password fields and autofill them.
Same for Malaysia
Is NLP a solved problem now?
The principal square root (ie, the one with positive part) is commonly referred to as the square root, especially since the radical symbol is explicitly defined to produce the principal root.
OpenAI Usage Policies
Reading through these things were interesting.
Needs a "This site best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3" banner and a visitors counter to be peak Internet for me.
Bless you. I appreciate this, and my mother who has some neurological issues related to auditory processing definitely appreciates it.
A day in which you've been to l and back.
There should be an option to control and limit the severity of flashing that is brought about with the flash light for notifications accessibility setting. I like to use it because I don't want to make my phone obnoxiously loud, because i can't hear its vibration, and I still want to get a chance to perceive the notifications, but usually the light is too damn bright and I do worry it could trigger epilepsy in innocent passersby. Having an alternative flashing behavior like a smooth pulsation would be excellent.
It sounds like you are building your own models? How are you seeing them currently compare to OpenAI's Whisper model?
There are multiple "root" CAs. CA compromises happen all the time, and it has always been dealt with because the fact that multiple "roots" exists means each one has to be kept in check. It's also possible for you (or more realistically for a company) to have their own CA, with their own certificates for all the sites you need. Not being unique applies pressure on each member to behave correctly because it is possible to get rid of them.

It is not possible to revoke the DNS root, and there are no widely deployed alternatives. The incentive to do the right thing isn't as hard: it's just "good" guys doing the right stuff. If something wrong happens, where will you go ? Nowhere else.
Code isn't special but what you're working on can be and also it's not your decision if you're not the shareholder.
Where abouts are you?
> So no amount of logic, moral argumentation matter, and links to mainstream sources, words of the very political involved in brokering peace, or polls sampling billions of people are dismissed as "propaganda"?

Your long, bitter and whiny rants are based on random scraps and fall apart on closer inspection. For example, saying that GWB was forcing Ukraine into NATO is incorrect and absurd; NATO is a very exclusive club hesitant to accept any new members, because it increases commitments of existing members and provides access to their internal defence information.

The initiative to join NATO has always come from Eastern European governments, not somehow forced upon them. This is clear, obvious, well documented. Claiming anything else is either ignorance or malicious lying akin to saying that Bob Hope was the 40th president of the US -- plain wrong without any room for debate.
> whether it makes their life better

It depends on the definition of "better". The Amish idea of better is serving God, avoiding or repenting sin, and thus attaining salvation.

Most people's idea of good life is pretty different, given the basic axioms it's built upon.

This is why attempts to build a life by imitating various highly admirable spiritual movements mostly fail. To reap the benefits of the lofty ideas and commendable ways of life one needs to consciously* adopt most of the spiritual teachings which have lead to the development of these ideas and ways of life. You either convert to them, or admit that it's too hard to follow the way.

* Amish only accept adult, conscious baptism.
Deceptive, harmful, and blatant tactics and practices of course not being limited to the tobacco industry.

Also a story of the very slow grinding of justice.
It seems like an enterprise product is going to have a market here.
Author here, those are fair points.

For the part about increasing potential for bugs at scale, my mind was on scaling one or more teams and projects. Might have been better to use some other word than scale since it's so overloaded.

I find it difficult to think of patterns to introduce that would help teams align on when and how to use reactive `$` statements.

It's not a Svelte-specific problem by any means, but I do think Svelte's reactive statements would cause more pain than it would help ease as teams and projects get larger.
Probably a lot more apps bundle their own shit on macOS, like on Android. Not permitted on iOS—and also less necessary than on other platforms, since the available webview provider is much more predictable and consistent.

[EDIT] But I'm a lot more familiar with mobile dev (Android and iOS both) than macOS development, so I could be wrong about that.
To add to this useful post - you can get second hand grinders from cafes quite cheaply. To avoid the massive ones, the models like the Super Jolly can be fitter with an entirely compatible hopper from a mini.
The Mazzer ones are indestructible and can be painted to look pretty special.

They might not have quite the kudos of the fancier models though, and are more of a dependable workhorse.
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/OAwCB>
For the past 3 years I've been running https://bettersheets.co/ Originally as a side project while I tried to start and run SaaS. But people kept buying memberships (lifetime deals) and I just kept adding content to it. In the past year I've hired a ruby on rails developer to help me scale, on a part-time basis.

And I've been making products within the Better Sheets umbrella myself in sheets. The developer is helping to add features to the site, but if/when they leave I can continue running completely solo. It's been my full time income for the past 1 year, and I expect to continue running it for a decade or more, at this rate.

I'm continually learning more ruby on rails to keep building tools baked into the site. And will ultimately combine Google Sheet integrated tools into Better Sheets instead of keeping them separate as it is now.

Better Sheets started as a purely content site. I started with with a carrd page and gumroad payment. Now it's all types of contents, courses, blogs, and tools. As well as a library of tutorials.

The recent trend of AI has made my extremely excited to keep building. I built a Google Sheets AI assistant: https://asa.bettersheets.co/ and will continue to work on it until Google releases their own and probably keep working on my even with a Google Sheets AI from Google. As I imagine I can take it in a iterated/pivoted direction once I see what they do release.

The total revenue each year, with roughly 40% going into my pocket each year.

1st Year: $34,000

2nd Year: $67,000

3rd Year: $95,000
https://archive.ph/OAwCB
More like companies are reducing scope to focus on key profit centers or initiatives, making product managers and designers easy targets for layoffs.
nitpick: As it’s a platform and machine specific thing, technically it shouldn’t be in .gitignore but in .git/info/exclude

People working on Linux or Windows do not need to know about garbage your dev env leaves on your machine.

I’m saying this half-seriously as I fully understand that these are so common, it’s more convenient to have the exclusion synced between clones.

That said, as a purist, none of the repos I’m watching over have .DS_Store in their gitignore
> Fortran 66 was the pinnacle as a no-nonsense practical programming language.

You got me by a major release. My introduction to Fortran was Fortran 77 on an antiquated IBM mainframe (event at that time).

Loved it, even if I could never remember what column I needed to use :-).
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As a founder of several businesses and former owner of a digital marketing agency, I understand the struggle of coming up with fresh and engaging content ideas for social media. Especially when the recommended best practice is to post daily to keep your audience engaged.

So, I reached out to the Reddit community for some tips on what type of content they post and how they create their monthly content calendars. Based on their feedback, I developed an idea generator module that can provide you with endless content ideas for your social media channels.

I would love for you all to give it a try and let me know what you think!
Very cool. I gave it https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3300/pg3300-images.html and it was able to pick up on some niche references in my questions. The text is quite long but it ingested it pretty quickly, which surprised me. Nice work. Does it cost you a lot to provide a service like this?
We tend to think of "soft power" as "They watch our TV and eat our fast-food franchises, so they'll implicity love us." Did we underestimate the soft power of actual wads of limited-strings-attached cash?

This is a pretty obvious and direct way to buy friends, and it seems odd the West can't figure out how to execute it just as efficiently. Maybe it's not considered an option because it provides neither a punitive angle nor a lever to demand privatization and austerity measures. Maybe the state can't lean hard enough on the bankers to get them to cooperate with the plan.
> Anyone have an idea why modern versions of MacOS still uses a .DS_Store file?

The Wikipedia article is a pretty good resource for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
Deep Learning is now the #1 book in the Hockey Coaching category on Amazon
for stuff that before 2021-09, mostly.
I've noticed that the .DS_Store file doesn't appear in a directory until I've clicked the triangle in a list view to see the contents of a subfolder. Then it creates one, I assume, to keep track of which subfolders are open.
> For example, in February 2019, after receiving information “regarding HAMAS transactions” on Binance, Lim explained to a colleague that terrorists usually send “small sums” as “large sums constitute money laundering.” Lim’s colleague replied: “can barely buy an AK47 with 600 bucks.” And with regard to certain Binance customers, including customers from Russia, Lim acknowledged in a February 2020 chat: “Like come on. They are here for crime.”
I think the sales pitch is

a) better threading UX

b) E2E encryption

admittedly I'm a very casual Discord user, and haven't used this app at all yet, so I may be missing something.

Also, sounds like the Android app is coming, so I don't think "don't want to talk to Android users" is an intended sales point?
Obviously not. If we had a general solution to language intelligence we would have artificial intelligence at the level of at least human intelligence – which we do not. Rather, the right question to ask is which language intelligence tasks currently have acceptable performance and under which conditions (text domain, etc.). Clearly this is a much more difficult question and with a lot more nuance to it, even if it is undeniably that things have moved very quickly over the last few years.

Skimming the abstract as a senior academic in the area. This looks like preliminary work and a limited investigation for a single (non-standard) task. Thus far from a strong result published at say a top-tier conference or journal. Still, interesting direction and if expanded upon could absolutely be impactful. I should also mention that I am not familiar with the related literature, so it could very much be that there is similar (better?) work out there exploring the same question.
We have data standards and agreements with those companies, we pay them to have expectations. Even then, we're strict about what touches vendor servers and it's audited and monitored. Accounts are managed by us and tied into onboarding and offboarding. If they have a security incident, they notify, there's response and remediation.

ChatGPT seems to be used more like a fast stackoverflow, except people aren't thinking of it like a forum where others will see their question so they aren't as cautious. We're just waiting for some company's data to show up remixed into an answer for someone else and then plastered all over the internet for the infosec lulz of the week.
Plato's allegories are very similar to Buddhist metaphysics. I recommend Vervaeke's meaning crisis series which draws connections between Buddhism, ancient Greek philosophy, Gnosticism, neoplatonism, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrS...
This has been a thing for a while in the broadcast world. There was a piece of gear that could be used to create a report that could be generated to show that the content did not have the strobing that cold cause issues. It's been a long time since I've been involved to know the current specs, but I know platforms like iTunes, Netflix, et al wanted this as well. Disney was a stickler for it since it was a lot of animation and kid oriented, but I might be confusing my time with their broadcast tapes vs streaming masters. As far as I'm aware, if the content did not pass this test, it was sent back for editing vs just adjust some settings on playback. so this is interesting that it's a realtime levels adjustment