skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late reply here but I wanted to point out that you still don’t get it. True empathy in the tech community would be e.g. having the courage to say that building HLAI of the kind we’re now approaching is guaranteed to cause tremendous amounts of suffering for ordinary people (who will not be able to respond elastically to so abrupt a tectonic shift), and therefore the whole enterprise is fundamentally evil.

Let’s get real concrete about what’s going to happen: people will lose their jobs, then their homes, they’ll become destitute, they’ll experience divorces, some will commit suicide, they will suffer desperately in myriad other ways due to economic disenfranchisement, kids will be deprived of a comfortable upbringing, etc.

How many in the tech industry are genuinely discussing the very real consequences of nonlinear degrees of automation for the kinds of ordinary people they barely interact with? How many are pretending that there isn’t something disgustingly immoral about having some of the most affluent and economically insulated people devise and inflict this reality upon countless millions?

I will maintain that this industry is morally bankrupt and nearly entirely devoid of empathy. These are not the people who should be in charge of our future.
Actually, I never did.
I use Gitmoji:

https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji
I just don't want to be hit with a wall of text every single time, it gets the point across with minimal padding (high signal to noise ratio), ChatGPT feels like it gets paid by the word and they do actually charge by token if you use the API.

As for the UI it's a take on the tried and true chat UI same as ChatGPT's, it spits the whole answer at once instead of feeding it to you one word at a time, it has an alternative drafts button, the Google it button is a nice touch and it feels quicker.
The piece lost me when it mentioned the LED flaking out with a dimmer. That's a well-known shortcoming of "average" LED bulbs (whose drivers cannot cope with the decreased peaks that come with a standard dimmer).

Most of it felt like what things would be like if you had frequent brownouts or just a bad electrical setup.

[edit]: tried again and stopped when it mentioned painting LED bulbs in amber varnish. I have RGBW LED strips, getting a "beautiful" tone is a solved problem.
Me too. Probably the way of the future. Each of us could run a little personal scraper, and the Twitter servers wouldn't know the difference.
An important point in the article is that CRI for LED bulbs does not meaningfully map to the light quality.
>Oh, but: Experts agree that the color-rendering index doesn’t really index how colors are rendered. Some bulbs with a 90 CRI make things look wan; some with an 80 are passable. There are better, more useful metrics, but you can’t have them. Nobody puts them on the packaging. One lighting professional — an LED advocate, no less — told me he sometimes calls up the manufacturer and asks to talk to an engineer to get the real specs.
I was struck by how many presenters at SRECon last week listed Mastadon handles instead of Twitter ones: well over half were on Mastadon, and I'd say around half didn't even list a Twitter username. Of course, that's a highly specific population.
Open a new terminal, find the pid and kill it? :-D
U.S. advocacy group asks FTC to stop new OpenAI GPT releases
They didn't get rich by spending money, full stop :D
Now do Amazon
See? You have nothing but hyperbole to offer.

Entry of Eastern Europe into NATO is now so far in the past that we have a good amount of memoirs and personal recollections in addition to all sorts of documented evidence like laws, policy papers, studies and assessments available from that time. Most of the people who were directly involved are still alive too. But the best you can offer to "prove" that countries were forced into NATO is a small number newspaper snippets blatantly taken out of context. The rest of your long posts is pure rhethorics without any factual substance.

You have made up an alternative reality, which is easy to do if you're on the other side of the globe and have no personal connection whatsoever with those events. But I lived through them and I remember everything very well. I remember the discussions about NATO membership, from the earliest ideas to fully formulated policies, as well as early doubts whether we have any hope of attaining that goal. I remember the stances different parties held in my country. I voted for parties that supported joining NATO, as most people did, and those parties got elected into the government and lead the very long and demanding accession talks that were ultimately fruitful. To say that we were dragged into NATO "kicking and screaming" is plain wrong without any wiggle room.

The memory of atrocities committed against us by Russians in the 20th century, as well as the Russian savagery in Chechen wars in 1990s and 2000s (that reminded us that nothing had changed) were top reasons why joining NATO had near-universal support.
And the current war has only cemented that support. NATO is the reason why Russians can't bomb our cities, can't rape our women, can't kidnap our children, can't take away our land like they are doing in Ukraine. The combined strength is too big for Russia to challenge. Even countries like Finland and Sweden that maintained large armies and neutrality for more than 200 years have re-evaluated their foreign policy and joined NATO to deepen mutual cooperation.
Wonder if SVB impacted this
The medium is important if it is artificially inserting itself to push narratives directed for malicious intent. They aren't banning phone calls from China, or preventing Chinese citizens from posting on American websites. They are banning a specific filter.
Last I looked Apple updates are delivered over HTTP using a CDN. The packages are signed and secured in alternate ways, but the goal was to make it easy to allow entities to proxy those connections (and or use DNS to replace the IP's) so they could keep a cache of packages on their local network rather than having to go upstream for them.

This worked really well when I did some work at a uni and we wanted to avoid the onslaught of Apple devices all downloading updates at the same time from overwhelming our network.
Ask HN: Can an AI headset prevent the mentally ill from being violent?
One could have a law that requires mentally ill people who are prone to violence to wear a brain augmentation AI headset to allow them to live in a way that does not threaten or harm others.

Such an AI could warn them whenever their behavior starts to become threatening to others and perhaps even contact the police automatically as a precaution.
IMC: A Classification of Identity Management Approaches
Gerald Ratner who described the products of his own jewellery company as ‘crap’

[edit] he actually said ‘total crap’ and lost £500m.
Nah, you're moving them.

> Yes. Elon Musk has killed more people with his AI than anyone else has with theirs.

That's "people" not "users".
Why Unicode is developed so irresponsibly?
I hope I won't be downvoted just because of the provocative title. As a guy who is somewhat obsessed with typography and so on, I really want to know.

Here is just one of the many cases that drive me nut. I've selected it because it is simple and concise and it is also cannot be justified by reasoning like "this is just Unicode is 35 years old".

| | Unicode number | Unicode block and range |
| - | -------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| ⇄ | U+21C4 | Arrows: Paired arrows and harpoons |
| ⇅ | U+21C5 | Arrows: Paired arrows and harpoons |
| ⇆ | U+21C6 | Arrows: Paired arrows and harpoons |
| ⇵ | U+21F5 | Arrows: Miscellaneous arrows | <-- Why?

Yes, I do know that 21F5 was added in Unicode version 3.2 and adding inevitably creates gaps between similar shapes.

But why it wasn't added at the same time with 21C4, 21C5, 21C6?

I really don't understand how it is possible that such a fundamental thing as Unicode is developed so irresponsibly.
They certainly don't seem to be valuing it enough to assign the quality/quantity of engineering necessary to maintain it.
I have reactivated my Mastodon server this week, and unlike when I last attempted in mid-2020, there are actually people I want to follow on there now.
My understanding - which may be wrong - was that long-life bulbs used more electricity to operate and that the efficiency gains of a 1,000/hr bulb reduced the overall cost.

So, making up numbers, a 2,500 hour bulb may cost $5 to replace and would incur $20 of electricical charges for a total cost of $25 or 1 Cent/hr. Meanwhile, 1,000 hour bulbs would cost $10 ($4 * 2.5) while incurring $10 of electrical charges for a cost $20 or 0.8 Cent/hr... even factoring in the cost of having to replace the bulbs.
>I’ve seen enough cases when saying “oh, I’m also from YC” didn’t move the needle.

When you're one of a thousand companies every year, why would it? Are YC particularly discerning, or are they optimizing getting as many through the "system" as possible?
There's a whole wave of innovation on baskets right now - holes all the way to the edge, hole sizes and cutting methods, reducing the amount of flex under pressure, etc. Check out Lance Hedrick's YouTube channel.
While not a daily driver, I have been running Focal on a Pinephone Pro for a few weeks now. It is beta, things are not working. The Kali Nethunter pro for the phone arguably works better.

But the UI of Ubuntu Touch is really nice. I don't even daily driver the thing and when I pull out my android phone, I am trying to do some the of the UT swipe gestures because they are so natural.

I hope this community continues to thrive!
He'll need to find a way for Twitter to get a lot of government subsidies or contracts for that future...
I'm super glad to hear that!
I wouldn't call malicious desinformation a speculative risk.

I bet that it's already a use case of tools like ChatGPT
Having used this approach in a few languages, I agree that it's (sometimes) (much) better for performance, but it tends to wreak havoc on readability.
After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programming in the mid 1990s, which may already have been after the truly beautiful age of programming. I say "listen to the young". They are looking at this craft and they see an industry. Here is some young man trying to recreate an aesthetic experience with the utilitarian tools of his world and the HN posse dogpiles like a pack of zombies. Predictable hot takes and prostration before the machine they worship.
Your criteria also all match for authoritarian regimes. Many of which love AI based surveillance solutions.
Show HN: UpTrain – A Practical Approach to Finetuning LLMs for Custom Use-Cases
To be fair to the academic, this just looks like a poor summary by the university's PR department.
I am married and I have kids. So are most of our friends living in this area. Almost everyone prefers an in-office or a hybrid setup. Barring one person, no one likes fully remote.

So no idea what your point is...
Rebecca Giblin on Chokepoint Capitalism
Can't wait to become a mini-expert in fucking LED lightbulbs just to have decent lighting in my house. I hate that the vast information of the internet has basically required us mere mortals to try and become experts in literally anything and everything just to be able to buy something that isn't awful. Computer? Better keep up to date on all of the CPU, GPU, etc. info. That doesn't even include the insanity of monitors. Cars? Better spend multiple weekends doing research before spending more weekends being ready to walk away from any dealership just to play the stupid negotiation game.

I feel like I can't just have a casual fun hobby anymore. You have to have all of the knowledge about the entire space just to be able to decide if something may or may not be garage.
There is no such thing as a pure red LED. Those are blue ones but with light
filters. If you don't see blue which is actually present and you see deep red which is actually absent then maybe consider yourself as brainwashed by marketologists.
Since the electricity they use is basically free, and there is (almost) no practical constraint on heat emissions, LEDs are generally too bright.

You could hire a lighting consultant, then buy expensive bespoke bulbs so that having them at 100% is the right choice, or you could spend an extra ~ $50 per room for a dimmer.
I think the rationale here is "be so good they can't ignore you". While advanced fundraising skills could potentially help someone to raise without first making a great product that people demonstrably want, nailing product and early growth sufficiently well makes fundraising achievable even for founders who are notably lacking in the charm and storytelling departments.
Prompt Engineering Tactics on Biological Intelligence
Temperature is the limiting factor for speed, I remember SR71 pilots on a panel saying the aircraft flew faster in winter than in the summer for that reason.
What shitty things are you talking about?
It's going to be hard to remain solvent if key services become unusable.
Your argument is a bit too philosophical.

But going by that definition (intangible construct) plenty of ideas have been banned before without issue.

I do think there is merit in understanding that TikTok can be a threat vector unlike Facebook which is also a distinct threat vector.

Just as there is merit in accepting that this bill is a threat.
Yes, I'm talking about events that have actually happened. You're talking about hypothetical future deaths.

I don't disagree that eventually, AI will lead to both direct and indirect deaths. But so far, the only direct deaths from AI have been from Tesla AI.
You can't own ideas, they got their own life-cycle.
Brands pulled out specifically because of it [0] [1]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advert...

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifi...
Isn't it more likely that he's just being consistent with his prior principles, and bytedance donated to him knowing that he'd be a reliable ally and thus wanting him to remain in Congress?
It's absolutely inheritance.

.animal {
font-weight: bold;
}
.animal.bear {
color: brown;
}

<div class="animal bear">...</div>
I'm not necessarily arguing against you, but "problematic" is too generic a term to be useful. Genocide is "problematic". Having to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes to blow my runny nose is "problematic". What do you actually mean?
> Becoming China is not how you compete against China.

This proposal is actually substantially worse than the Great Firewall of China. The Chinese government doesn't particularly care if you use VPN's to get around the firewall, because they know that most people won't, and that's enough to meet their main goal, protecting domestic tech companies from competing with established US tech companies. The US is definitely going to be prosecuting individuals for using VPNs to read TeleSUR or whatever, though, because it's about controlling the narrative, not about protecting local industry.
> The issue is that 95% of consumers will only choose the cheap bulbs, period.

The hardware stores near me, both big and small, stock only a single brand of bulb, as if they have some kind of exclusive deal.
The thing is that I think it doesn't have to be - its just the convenience of having an LLM trained on all your customer data that you can throw in wherever people would want to generate some text.
It’s not ass simple as dimmable or not dimmable. Not all dimmable leds work with all dimmers, some do and make a horrible hum but are still highly recommended in reviews by people who don’t have those issues. The situation is a nightmare for someone just wanting to go to a local store and buy a bunch of bulbs for the room where they eat.

Further, if you dare to mix bulbs you’ll often get different color/brightness behavior at different levels of dimming.
Attackers have better things to do than corrupt your builds
GPT-4 is an unreasonably effective autocomplete. It's not telling you "where you're wrong". CMD-F in Notes.app tells mhe where I'm wrong in the same sense, as long as I've written the right answer down before.
The point wasn’t that a junior writer would never make a mistake, it’s that’s junior writer would be trying their best for accuracy. However AI will happily hallucinate errors and keep on going with no shame.
This is from a blog by a student blogger for MIT Admissions, so it's explicitly meant to be MIT-centric, and probably the author hadn't seen it done anywhere else.
I think the underestimated fact is that Twitter has market share for people who matter. I don't believe the 'Twitter is dead' sentiment.

It's where I go for access to global establishment personal. The CEO's, the Presidents of nations, the boards of banks, etc...

I don't find them anywhere else. Twitter is my only choice for world business.
New Xen Guest Tools in Rust
The “I did it, therefore anyone can” line of reasoning is overly simplistic and entirely unhelpful when looking for solutions. I don’t have a predilection for alcohol and will never be an alcoholic. I don’t say to the drunkard, “Just stop drinking.” That is foolishness to think it works.
You need to read what a transaction is. Here is section 17 of the bill:

(17) TRANSACTION.—The term “transaction” means any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications technology product or service, including ongoing activities such as managed services, >>>data transmission<<<, software updates, repairs, or the provision of data hosting services, or a class of such transactions.

That means that transmitting data to a banned entity (for example, perhaps TikTok) would be a covered transaction, meaning that running a VPN would be illegal unless you also block websites yourself.

It's probably a good idea to read the entire thing before going on a tirade about how people are being played and falling for clickbait.
A Liquid Tree? Scientists in Serbia Make Innovation
> In the end, YC is an investor, an investor with a strong reputation, who is now sitting in a very comfortable chair and can select the best startups and invest in them at a meager price

Wait what? a ~$7m valuation, _pre product_, is considered meager these days?
Vatican Formally Repudiates ''Doctrine of Discovery''
Having the communication in cleartext also makes it much easier for attackers to interfere with!

Sure, they can't modify the .deb without failing signature verification, but they _can_ inject arbitrary delays in downloads or interfere with anything else which isn't signed (e.g. HTTP headers)

Plus, if a vulnerability was discovered in the signing tool which enabled signature verification bypass with a certain signature format, HTTP makes it easy for attackers to perform that attack.

TLS shouldn't be optional for installing packages today IMO - the extra guarantees it provides are worth it even with signature verification enabled.
Is that because they are “downscaling” (totally made up term, IDK electronics) the energy coming into them?
If you run a store, and a customer comes in and says "I bought this item on $x date; I don't have the receipt but this is how I know", you have two choices:

a) you can choose not to trust them

b) you can choose to trust them

For a $3 item, most retailers would pick #b every time.
So much of this seems to just be a misunderstanding of how venture capital works. Like, yes, obviously they want your pitch to minimize flashy and showy and maximize real numbers like customer count, average spend, and market size.

I may have a low opinion of venture capitalists but at the end of the day they're not complete idiots. They're operating with a known framework, they're trying to maximize their own returns, and the only way to know if that will happen is to know hard numbers (like how many customers you have, how much money you have in the bank, how quickly you spend money), all the hype and sales charisma is not going to help you, and if that's your entire presentation to investors they're going to tell _other_ investors not to waste their time talking to you.

The reason you're getting advice to minimize hype and showmanship and maximize hard numbers is because when you get into those investor meetings they're going to cut off hype and showmanship and ask you to just tell them the numbers. This isn't some "make life easier for YC and make every startup fit into a box" thing, it's just how investor pitches work.
People with millions of followers on Twitter probably do get a significant benefit from the service that is worth paying for.
> Not the sort of thing you can accidentally do with a slip of the tongue!

If your name is Elon Musk, you may convince yourself you can walk away unscathed, or with only a slap on the wrist (see the many SEC encounters).
The thing with social networks like Twitter or Facebook is that the people working there vastly overestimate their own specific value.

The value is: everyone is there. So many users are on it due to "soft peer pressure", not because they value a site like Twitter/Facebook specifically. People who want to "push their brand" are also on there because they have to mostly, not out of some special love for the site.

There is no shortage of others who would be able to replace Twitter if it actually went offline in an hour, the hard part for social media ist getting the majority of users.

In other words: why would anyone support Twitter now? After so many years of clearly establishing itself as something you simply use for free and registered on because you "have to".

Twitter is a big mass that has gained a lot of momentum over the years, and at this point it is very hard to change trajectory or the way anyone uses or perceives that site.

Twitter needs those people more than those people need Twitter.
I know you're trying to avoid footguns - but how do you handle workflows where up-to-date rebases are required? Several repos I've been in ask for commits to be rebased to the latest branch for new changes to be PR'd in, and those require the `-f` flag after rebasing to rewrite the local history AFAIK.

Also I'm not too sure about the default opted-in telemetry, I definitely believe a prompt on install would be better in its stead.

Otherwise this looks like a cool project, not something I'd use but very neatly made. Kudos to pulling this off on your first year of CS!
> Medication help, so is meditation, omega-3, better/more sleep, exercice and jobs that have movement and a lot of change and creativity.

This list is good. Also there are communities to learn from and therapy is really important.

A provider said to me “therapy without medication is okay, I wouldn’t do medication without therapy”.

Also it’s important to remember that people with ADHD excel in areas that neuro-average people do not. In an ideal team people work together to accentuate each other’s strengths and build systems that work for everyone.
I've had very good luck with the integrated fixtures. I have a number of them in my house and only one has failed (of maybe a dozen). This is a lot lower than the failure rate of LED bulbs. They are far brighter than the lights they replaced, and I personally like their lower profile. I also installed a number of the integrated fixtures in my father's house, and the increased brightness helps him quite a bit (he's 80).
I agree. Our society needs an overhaul. It is unhealthy in many respects.
I don't understand this obsession with solving everything with money. It doesn't event solve this problem, just because someone payed the fee doesn't mean their code is not spam. You can't keep the fee small enough and still dissuade spammers.
How would we keep it as low as 10-20%? 60% of employees in the US are knowledge workers. That number is similar for most wealthy nations.
https://archive.is/Qnbq8
A network of trust, backed by a social graph, which can be used to filter untrusted content.