skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been approaching this from the same perspective and I'm wondering the same thing. It feels like there's a lot of spinning going on and I'm not sure people are aware of it.

This seems to be a common sticking point:

> to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person

where a covered transaction is

> (A) IN GENERAL.—The term “covered transaction” means a transaction in which an entity described in subparagraph (B) has any interest (including through an interest in a contract for the provision of the technology or service), or any class of such transactions.

> (B) COVERED ENTITIES.—The entities described in this subparagraph are:

> (i) a foreign adversary;

> (ii) an entity subject to the jurisdiction of, or organized under the laws of, a foreign adversary; and

> (iii) an entity owned, directed, or controlled by a person described in subparagraph (A) or (B).

I don't understand how you go from here to "banning VPNs for everybody". I've looked through the act and I don't see anything particularly egregious that supports the "THIS IS THE PATRIOT ACT 2.0!!!" take.

I want to see an analysis by law experts, not some techbros on HN or some random channel on YT. If I look at that channel, the description is "Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar is a fearless anti-establishment Youtube show and podcast." Uh ... okay. And I look at the rest of the videos they've made and it's just, yeah, this is a propaganda channel. Why are people taking this channel and the title of their video at face value? It feels like people are being played hard and we all need to take a step back from the sensationalism.
before ai, malicious content creation and malicious content quality were limiting factors.

for malicious content creation, large models like chatgpt are a game changer.
https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html - is a good place to start. After that consider “Mastering Dyalog APL” it’s a freely available book by Dyalog
This is absolutely true.

However, it's important to note that there has been a genuine and very significant polarization of actual American politics over the past ~30-40 years—the seeds were planted with the Reagan presidency, and then Newt Gingrich in the early '90s started pushing the idea that political wins were more important than governing.

It's also important to note that this has been driven primarily by the rapid rush of the Republican Party to the right, from a conservative party with some fairly serious problems with racism, but a willingness to compromise and an understanding of governance, to a radical reactionary party refusing to censure or otherwise rein in the parts of it that are, in some cases, openly and explicitly embracing (christo-)fascism and Nazism, and advocating for outright violence against marginalized people.
I don’t necessarily disagree but I have to say that in 10 years of working almost daily with sizeable node applications, this hasn’t been a problem for the past 7 or 8 years.

Maybe I shot myself in the foot enough times to have learned what not to do.
It would be interesting to see if they'd remain attractive to people if there was no engagement optimization and controversial-first ordering. If you don't get your daily dose of outrage because you've slept while the hot post was submitted and three hours later, it has been pushed down already -- do you not just move on at some point?
Man fears AGI

AGI fears Fabrice Bellard
> means you have less money to put into better service

Not really. It just means you're using taxes instead of fares. The cost doesn't go away. You only get less money for transit if the politicians holding the purse strings are not the ones deciding to make the transit free, which would be indicative of a very broken system.

Similarly, if the service is bad, you don't get riders, and you get less in fares. If you're relying on fares to improve service as you suggest, you end up with a negative feedback loop. It's simply not one or the other.

And on top of all of that, there's no positive feedback loop created by charging a fare. Transit in the US is almost never free for most people, and yet the service is still often bad. It's a weird argument to say fares are necessary for good service, and yet we have fares and no good service. Could it be worse? Sure, but there's no broad, obvious correlation between how transit is funded and the quality of service.
I have heard that newer LED Bulbs now have some kind of built in obsolescence. This is from someone I know who is an engineer working for the US military.

I told him I had bought some LEDs (started moving over 2 years ago) and that is when he mentioned that. I guess I will find out, so far so good.

I did stock up on 100 watt incandescent years ago and have a many left just in case. I found LEDs cause me eye strain, but I experimented and found if I use a Lamp Shade with a slight yellow tinge, I can deal with them.
> These AI tools cannot do things. They create text (or images or code or what-have-you) in response to prompts. And that's it!

You are correct, but that is just the interface we use, it says nothing about its internal structure or capabilities, and does not refute those concerns in the way you think it does.

Sufficient accuracy at predicting tokens, especially about novel concepts outside of the training set requires no less than a model of the universe that generated those tokens. This is what intelligence is. In my own experiments with Gpt-4, it can solve difficult novel problems and predict the outcomes of physical experiments unlike anything it was trained on. Have you seen the microsoft paper on its creative problem solving abilities, or tested them yourself? Your summary of its limitations implies that its real capabilities identified in a research environment are impossible.

Becoming an “agent” with “will” from being a sufficiently accurate text prediction model is trivial, it’s a property of how you access and configure use of the model, not of the model itself. It just needs to be given a prompt with a goal, and be able to call itself recursively and give itself commands, which it has already demonstrated an ability to do. It has coded a working framework for this just from a prompt asking it to.
Yup for sure, 100%. Pulling in a library every time you don't know how to do something is a choice. Only pulling in dependencies that have 10,000 Github stars or are in every react Youtube video without evaluating alternatives is also a choice. I learned to be way more discriminating about npm libraries from a tech lead a few years ago, and to be honest it's one of the best lessons I've learned in a while.
> Does the US need some sort of genocide program to counter the Uighur thing?

Another one? I'd hope the genocide against Native Americans should be sufficient for quite some time. Or is that too long ago now?
How JRR Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of 'The Rings of Power' (2022)
Your first sentence is wrong. Not charging for service does not necessarily mean less money for investing into better service. It’s possible for government to fund the service well enough that revenue from fares becomes insignificant. In effect, the fares would be paid by all taxpayers instead of just those who use the service. This is similar in concept to how public schools are funded. We don’t charge people at the point of service for using the public school system.
We are trying to save ourselves. Life will be just fine.
Organisms are already evolving to eat our garbage, deal with heat, etc.
Prediction, we'll actually innovate less because we'll all be trying to do things that are compatible with "the machine".

Coding will become more generic and less innovation solutions will be standard.
Just use WordPress. These other options like Jekyll or a headless CMS will be too complicated.
> don’t want to rebuild my system to update an app.

You don't have to do that - there's lots of other options. (Although the system shouldn't rebuild if you don't update your channels, so the premise is interesting/suspicious.)

You can build your app independently against a pinned nixpkgs version. You can build the app and export/import that closure on another system. You can build the app itself using nix-build without engaging the nixos switch.
Sorry but I would replace Doom with Wolfenstein: Is every FPS a Wolfenstein clone?
$10K from a company like Bloomberg making billions a year is like feeding leftover moulded crumbs to pigeons from the back garden of a palace.

Beggars can't be choosers, but better than nothing and will support the full time project maintainer for...another month.
yeah Bicycle and Ophelia are a few other U.S. suboxone telehealth startups that seem to be doing good work as well (if anyone is interested, it's worth checking each of these out as their coverage varies in terms of which states, last I checked)
Nearly every time I search a package name in Google, I'm trying to get to the npm page.

This is exactly the point I'm making. It's very rare that you want both NPM package pages and internet results. If NPM wasn't indexed it'd solve the spam problem, and the only cost would be people would need to think about what they're looking for and use NPM's search instead when they want the package page.
"The apartment-house tenant must have the freedom to lean out of his window and as far as his arms can reach transform the exterior of his dwelling space. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and as far as his arms can reach paint everything pink, so that from far away, from the street, everyone can see: there lives a man who distinguishes himself from his neighbours, the pent-up livestock! He must also be allowed to cut up the walls and make all kinds of changes, even if this disturbs the architectural harmony of a so-called masterwork, and he must be able to fill his room with mud or children's modelling clay.

But the lease prohibits this!"
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Since social contagion is part of the problem, that would already be an improvement.
Here it is, that tired old argument that’s also used to defend Trump: it’s the biased media. And just like Trump, I can look at Musk’s tweets too and see how obnoxious, narcissistic, petty, and disingenuous they are for myself. In fact, it’s hard to avoid now that he appears to have goosed the algorithm to shove his tweets down everyone’s throat.
> to meaningfully replace engineers

When engineers are producing any significant increase in productivity by use of any tool, this tool is statistically replacing engineers.

And, with what is currently happening in AI (going by the self reported numbers that I picked up) the former seems to be true to a wild degree.
What is the most effective method to teach children that drugs are bad?
> The OEMs want a 'good enough' PHEV to qualify for subsidies with minimal spend and allocate all the real resources to BEVs since they see the end of combustion.

I think a lot of this comes from seeing PHEV as "worse EV" rather than "better ICE". Car manufacturers see their business as building ICEs and EVs as a weird distraction that you have to throw money into as basically a PR expense (although this has started to change in the last couple years). The engineering cost here is expensive but not especially unique since it could pretty easily apply to the entire ICE fleet. The fact that the Prius has existed for 25 years, but most cars sold today don't have regenerative braking is kind of crazy. It's not like OEMs haven't put a ton of engineering into ICEs, they just haven't considered hybrids as "real engineering".
And Dyalog also has https://course.dyalog.com/
They must do a pretty good job of automating the removal of such packages because I get a 404 from that link.
The demo images look impressively realistic, congratulations. It would be interesting to see some fps figures, including both sides: maximal realism on "gamer PC" hardware… but also reduced detail compromise on average hardware, which is relatively low end.

That being said, I suspect that the following quote would be a major hindrance for a lot of developers looking for a rendering engine:

> "This code base will not work on MacOS. Linux and Windows should both be fine so long as the graphics driver supports OpenGL 4.6 (…)"

These days, most projects/developers looking for a 3D rendering engine - including those who, like me, don't have any sympathy left for Apple and their business practices - will need a wide cross-platform compatibility including MacOS and mobile (both android and iOS). So the point "Porting the renderer to Vulkan" that you list under "Future of StratusGFX" does indeed seem like a priority.

In that same vein, I'd point out that given the very large proportion of end users that have relatively weak hardware, especially on the GPU side, and even more so with the ongoing tendencial shift from desktop to mobile, it is crucially important to keep in mind that while maximal realism capabilities are indeed an important goal, the engine also needs to have good fallback compromise capabilities for less powerful hardware, i.e. cutting back on the most computationally expensive parts and details while still delivering a decent enough result at a good enough speed.
Tolerating an iceberg of bad habits under a surface of abstractions is a way to get up to speed on something fast, but you eventually have to invest time learning better ways to do things. Except in web development where it's normal to send multi-megabyte blobs to the browser.
I find these flippant comments rather annoying where it only seems that the poster has geniusely summarized the whole article with their acute senses
Ironically both Rove and Bush were fans of the show (according to Bruce Boxleitner’s wife who headed the actors guild at the time and met with them at the White House). JMS said he had to lie down for a while after hearing that. I love JMS but he did tend to view anyone to the right of Mao as reactionary. How him and Jerry Doyle (who was later a conservative talk show host) didn’t kill each other is a testament to how great the cast and crew were.

People forget now, but department of homeland security - with all its B5 connotations was originally a Democratic Party idea, which Bush resisted until he started getting beat up politically for not doing more to unify the intelligence and security functions post 9/11.

As for the telepaths - well that’s a different story..
Related: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
The irony of this article is that the author is suffering from “too much choice”. LEDs have so much more capability than fluorescent and halogen bulbs that the burden has fallen on the consumer to sort out what dimmability, temperature, and lumens they need. It used to be that you only had one option so you didn’t have to think about it.

Anyone who works in stage lighting or art knows that light is complicated. We should not fault the technology for now giving us too many options, but instead improve the branding and advertising.
This is nice, how would you go about as a performance noob? I can't imagine there's a line in the docs saying "this is slow!".
I thought it would be the opposite. People heavy on the soft skills and light on tech are more easily replaceable by a large language model. They seem the most promising for slide decks or fill in Excel sheets, or generate a meeting protocol for a pointless meeting.
ML experiment: Writing SQL is about to get a lot easier
I wonder how you are currently predicting a random api change, login flow change, business reorganisation change, inheriting and integrating a new microservice to the ecosystem of n existing other applications.
Coz you might want results not only from docs but stackoverflow and other places ?

Of course there is. I want docs, examples, and maybe opinions vs alternatives if I look to solve problem X with external dependency.

You don't need the link to the package in NPM to be in the results for either of these examples.
That problem is mostly already stopped. It is now much more difficult for doctors to prescribe opioid painkillers, to the extent that patients who legitimately have serious chronic pain are turning to buying illegal drugs because they can't get what they need through the healthcare system anymore.
And utilities are also rival, since water and electricity can run out and we've seen this.

By this definition next to nothing qualifies as public good because consumption of a thing usually… consumes it and there is not infinite amounts of things in the world.
From IP packets to HTTP: the many faces of our Oxy framework
But also only for sort of trivial applications. I run into real problems all the time. It's true that a lot of applications are trivial and often there is no budget for the interesting parts - and that's about to change. So perhaps this development is a good thing.
> The fact that Window's file system can't handle moving project directories (without deleting the node_modules)

Windows-based developer here. Don't use Windows node. Use the Linux x64 build in WSL.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Lvv1f5Qu4
A small fee on package creation/account creation would be better.
Could we at least get smart compilers first?
> But like most of the US' modern cultural issues we enjoy arguing about what could offer relief far more than we do finding a bipartisan way to address them.

Puzzling over how we reach bipartisan without ever getting to the agreement part.
> It is obviously bad and there is absolutely no good coming out of it.

arguably untrue. easy to list reasons, however the indomitable one is the breadth of its usage within a free market already qualifies its utility for the masses.
Might as well give up then, why bother if it won't singlehandedly save the city? If Batman wouldn't do it, neither will I. Incremental improvements are for idiots.
Why can't they understand this? Criminal enforcement and crime are apparently a major concern among voters.

They are just the victim of right wing propaganda
Dumb question - how much does the curl project need?

I see lots of people saying this is basically like crumbs for pigeons, but no idea what a fully funded curl project would be.
You can do it in the US as well. You can buy fentanyl test strips easily.

https://dancesafe.org/drug-checking/

That said, how many users actually test every single drug they purchase? Especially if they are addicted and using multiple times per day?
> the US can simply act under the principle of trade reciprocity by saying

This is basically a ban, because there is no world that China agrees to let their firewall down.

Or it's effectively nothing if China argues "they just have to follow our rules".

And then you have to implement the actual ban, which will lead to this exact situation all over again.
tell more
Yes and this is true of most use-cases of ChatGPT. It makes experts more productive but it cannot reliably produce expert quality work in the hands of a non-expert.
Someone is, or at least was, doing just this. Selling them as "heaters":

https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/1351242/selling-inc...
I think "immoral" is a reach as a description of spam, and to be crystal clear I'm not defending spam. How is spam any more immoral than ads in a web page? Both are inserting advertising into a channel that a user is accessing information through, as a way to raise revenue or change behavior. (Spam is not by definition phishing, any more than banner ads are innately phishing, though phishing can be served through both mediums.) If spam is _immoral_ then why is adtech in general not _immoral_?
Bingo.

I remember telling my mother in the 90s that my 'substance abuse' was a symptom, not the problem itself. I was self medicating. No one wanted to hear it.

In the time since, it often feels like we've gotten worse at recognizing this. Meanwhile, proper treatment for mental health issues continues to be difficult to find (many if not the majority of so-called professionals are anything but), as well as increasingly expensive and inconvenient. To say nothing of how much of psychiatry has devolved into pinning you to a DSM category and throwing drugs at you in as short of a session as possible-- "come back in 2 months and we'll just as quickly throw some different drugs at you if those aren't working"... rinse and repeat ad infinitum. Anyone struggling to get through each day is not going to be well served by this.

We need at least 10x more therapists willing to spend time with patients and address their many intertwined issues, using logical, rational, evidence based methods. Right now, I don't see how we even start to get there from here.

12 step can be a lifeline for people at the end of their rope who have no other options, but it also inevitably fails anyone who doesn't buy into the narrative about a higher power. [I would argue it fails even those who do, as it teaches powerlessness.] Some may benefit from such an extreme approach, but it is deeply, deeply flawed. The main strength it does have is connecting you with other people and being very accessible. But we can & should do better.
> Would you say humans conquering heaven is more or less likely than GPT-N conquering humanity?

It's difficult to say since we have ~'proof' of humanity but no proof of the "simulation" or "heaven."
It's been tough out there finding a job.

Here's a satire article about LinkedIn job postings.

"Candidates should know that we operate like a startup. “Startup” is a cool word that implies we might all get rich someday. What it actually means is we’re unorganized and hemorrhaging lots of money. Like, you’d be amazed by how much. Only 1 of our 6 products are profitable. Every single one of our patents has been rejected. My supervisor thinks “go-to market” is the bodega on the corner. But yeah, we’re a startup. We’ve been open for eight years in May."
Thank you! We agree, and we also understand not having feature parity with Airtable will be a big blocker for most people. We are working on it.
That's extremely difficult. I think it's better to make a good site for whatever region you live and know better, than a bad worldwide site.

Is there a way to flag answers? Perhaps user can tell you which answers are bad. Perhaps try to make a very good local site, but fix the very "wrong" answers for other cultures.
Germany already intercepts and decrypts all private messages?
Wait until spammers integrate with AI coding.
I'm not sure that's true any longer.

At one point, I've read, fare collection on toll roads used to chew up about 50% of the money paid. In general these days, payment for transit and roads is largely automated and self-service. It's not free to collect but I'm sure the economics have changed.
how would pihole block these though
Show HN: Visitor sign-in experience using your existing data and APIs
Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
The us state department has been warning for months that Americans should avoid traveling to Russia for any reason.
> ... SEO spam. That is - empty packages, with just a single README file (...) All the identified spam packages are currently live on npmjs.com

How is that possible? It seems it would be trivial to filter out spam based just on the observation above, why is it not done?

(I'm (obviously) not familiar with the process of submitting an NPM package, so I'm genuinely curious how this works).
Which resulted in humanity's best response to a pandemic thus far.
OpenAI faces complaint to FTC that seeks suspension of ChatGPT releases
Source: "trust me bro"
What I find interesting with NPM is that it pushed the boundries of the Unix philosophy (build a tool to do one thing well) and it turns out that this philosphy can suffer from even small amounts of narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy. people were able to compose and reason about large amounts of complexity with these simple modules but the devil was in the details (literally).
Are you kidding me? I've been using git for ~15 years, and I'm productive with it. But it's hardly easy to use and the incantations you have to remember to perform common operations are bizarre.
I came here to post this