skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at music. There was a fleeting moment between the invention of recording and Napster where distributors could rent seek by controlling how recordings are used. The creative music industry has not suffered at all now that copying and sharing is free, and people still make stuff. Why would it be different for "AI" scraping content for training data? Some people may lose out but it won't be creators.
Working for me in Intellij. I write a method name and it guesses from the name of the method what the code should be.
I was wondering the same thing. These leaks were briefings for the Joint Chiefs, right? He worked in intelligence, I could see him having some level of access, but I can't imagine him being read in on daily executive briefings
> The concept that you simply cannot watch a show or movie if you haven't paid for it is genuinely foreign to many people, but it is the only reality that results in those shows in the first place.

If you're genuinely curious why this view tends to be "so negatively moderated", it's this ridiculous notion.

Lots of people want to listen to good music, watch good shows, and read good books. Some people are capable of producing those things. Supply, meet demand. You think that without IP everybody is just going to give up on making art happen? Even expensive, large scale art? It's absurd, and it's propaganda.

Technological advancement has made this the best time in history for patronage of the arts. Subscription services would be perfect for this. Subscribe to get a vote on what gets made; subscribe to have your review of it count after it's done. Subscribe for ease of access.

I don't know if these industries shrink (or even grow) with the elimination of IP. But the notion that any product people enjoy today just stops getting made at all is crazy.
In US, and it is a laptop anyway.
Indeed, and I was saddened to see how many from the list (on Wikipedia) had been demolished after a few short decades.

The hollywood one was demolished twice, had arson, and moved.
Release the weights too?
Major props for Tim Hunkin.

He is self-publishing on YouTube these days but in the past was broadcasting similar things on UK national TV: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines

Both the old and recent stuff is great.
It's not abnormal. There have been a number of big quakes on that fault line but should there be one like we recently saw in Turkey, much of the west coast of the US and Canada would be devastated. 6+ can be a precursor to such an event. That's why I suggest it could be a nothing-burger or something to keep an eye on. If there are more quakes along that line then people should probably be ready to get to higher ground with the understanding that roads will quickly turn into parking lots.
Bullshit Jobs isn’t about people doing nothing all day.
I don't understand why Miami is ln your list. It seems clean and thriving.
In France where I work an offer letter is binding to hire. After that if you are fired you are entitled to strong compensation if there is no proof you failed at your job. On top of that there is significant unemployment benefits to support you during looking for a new job for years.

This seems like a normal societies way to secure the transition between jobs. I’m thankful I don’t live in any of these crazy places that make changing jobs seem like a severe stress way beyond what it should be.
This xkcd blog covers one-handed typing techniques, may be relevant to you: https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-ke...
I think this is really missing the point. The essay from Drew DeVault didn't say "the FSF is dying, and good riddance", or "help me kill the FSF", or anything like that. I read it as aligned with their goals, wanting them to be realized... and saying the FSF is doing a bad job at achieving them, with suggestions for how to improve. This whole response is defending against an imaginary attack that wasn't made.
Show HN: Guess the Majority's Opinion in a GPT-4-Powered Daily iPhone Game
Plura is an iPhone game where you compete with users from around the world to get to the top of the leaderboard. Every day, you'll receive three light-hearted, opinion-based questions generated by GPT-4. Your goal is to choose the answers that you think the majority of players will also pick.

The game is not only about intuition but also speed. While you earn points based on your ability to align with the majority, you lose points for taking too long to answer. The quicker you answer, the more points you can earn.

In addition to competing with users from around the world on the global leaderboard, Plura offers the ability to create and join groups. Groups enable you to compare your daily, weekly, monthly, and all time scores with your friends.

Plura is available for download for free from the App Store. I look forward to hearing what the HN community thinks of my game!
Maybe? I've never really used it, I sold my Mac years ago.
The key distinction for reporters is that conspiring with someone before the fact to remove classified material is a crime. This includes giving advice to someone considering leaking on how to circumvent access controls.

Reporting on it after the fact when you had nothing to do with the removal of classified material in the first place is not.
Show HN: Playtext – Read at the Speed of Light
Wow how many countries are you licensed to practice law in?
Refining Large Language Model Prompts with Mot Juste
Correct, cheating is basically normalized among men in east and south east Asia. Western mens liberalism and lower rates of cheating are among the many reasons why westerners are popular there.
Leader of group that leaked documents reportedly is Air National Guard member
Abstracting over the physical reality of the machine is part of the point. The physical reality of the machine isn't the focus in programming language design or theory, and it certainly isn't the focus of making maintainable code with properties like referential transparency, type correctness, and parallelizability. Abstractions, in short, allow us to make anything worth making.

The machine has no types. The machine has no variables. The machine has no functions, procedures, scoping, or information hiding. The machine has no assembly language. The machine has no machine code. The machine, ignoring the physical reality and focusing on an abstraction which could still potentially be in the realm of software and not physics, has a certain number of bits in flip-flops perturbed by other bits coming in on pins.

> Haskell's power users famously don't actually make anything with it (modulo pandoc and jekyll)

Self-contradiction is self-negation. You've destroyed your own argument, such as it was.
His intuition is supported by sober experience and understanding of the data. Equating that to your intuition is exactly why so many folks here(and on twitter) got this wrong.
That's my base assumption, but I figured my message would be more likely to create a dialog to clear up the nonsense.
Yeah it's not that concerning to me. At some point people realized that any photo could be photoshopped and started defaulting to that belief if something seemed off. That is starting to happen with video and audio.

There will always be people saying how crazy that photo of bigfoot is and how that video of aliens is proof but most people will eventually start to realize just about anything you see online might be doctored.
I think it’s a boon for privacy. If fake images/videos/sound can easily be generated indistinguishable from actual footage, if there’s something embarrassing out there you can quite legitimately just claim it’s an AI hit piece by a hater.
I guess I'm seeing the opposite:

I hate clickbait titles but after railing a bit I've come to the conclusion that HN moderation policies and guidelines encourages and likes them that way. I guess it boosts engagement.
Yes, that's the Yggdrasil project; you can use any port of Shen to create code in Shen bringing type checking to Python or JavaScript for example.

Does Gerbil really have a lot of real-world projects vs. Shen?

I am trying to use Shen for safety related control systems. It is more formal and verifiable than Gerbil. I started in SPARK2014 and I am just playing with Shen to see if it goes better.

The videos I linked to in another post in this thread show how you can use Shen to program front end stuff with the JavaScript port of Shen.
Speaking personally, oftentimes I truly want something but am afraid to fail and look stupid in the process. Laboring under a false sense of indifference is terrible, though. It’s inauthentic. Living like that is uncomfortable.

So for the author, and whomever else, I'd ask, are you being honest with yourself or are you turning away from fear?

Either something is worth the risk, galvanizing yourself, and taking your shot whatever the results, or it’s not. If it’s the later, let it go and move on. If you can’t move on, why not? Are you being honest with yourself? Deep down, you know the answer, because it’s a feeling. An intuition.

Ambivalence. Living in between these two states is painful. You’re attached to something but scared to reach out for it. It’s life under tension.

At a certain point, you can't resolve this tension by sitting in place and thinking deeply. You're not just a mind. You have to use your body, too.
(note you may also be interested to learn from that table that knives are used ~5x more frequently than all rifles in homicide)
GPT4 is a snitch, ChatGPT isn't
exploring prompt injections inside of GPT4 compressions.
> Immortality becoming a possibility is also an opportunity for changing our social structures. There's nothing wrong with Bezos or Gates living forever, as long as their social and financial dominance isn't also guaranteed to live forever.

While that moment may provide an opportunity, my view is that a ossification will set in more broadly in the long term.

> Stagnation follows from an assumption that neuroplasticity is zero. That is one of the problems that need solving for immortality anyway, but I don't see why it's unsolvable. If some technique rejuvenates at the cellular level, it could also work on neurons.

Possessing the capability for change is not the same as possessing the desire to see that change through. Those with power seek to hold on to it. An extreme example would be that of dictatorships and monarchies. Death ultimately limits the harm those people can cause while also providing a moment of instability which may be seized to alter the system.

Unless practical immortality coincides with fundamental and extreme shifts in our society and economy, it'd be a catastrophe.
The UK is a good example of a generally* similarly free country without guaranteed public access to arrest records. This balances the potential benefit to the public from knowing against the definite harm to the accused.

(*There are definitely significant ways each is less free than the other and there's no rigorous way to say which is worse)
Also Thorium: https://thorium.rocks/
I don't think he was scared of the normal extradition process in Sweden, but instead how in the past Sweden has just straight up assisted CIA operatives in kidnapping Swedish residents, contrary to their own legal system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...

The UK at least follows their own legal system for such matters.
Ars Technica ranks every starship Enterprise
> While slightly silly, I think in future people might start to take internet way less serious when you can literally make things up.

LOL. Uhuh.

Go read up on the raft of cognitive biases that humans are subject to.

People won't take the internet less seriously, they'll just keep doing what they do now: only believe the stuff that confirms what they already think. The only difference is the tsunami of fake information will make it impossible for even well-meaning people to be able to tell the difference between truth and lies.

Back in 2016 folks coined the idea that we were transitioning to a post-truth era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth

We're now transitioning to a post-fact era.

Buckle up. It's gonna be interesting...
I used to, and I probably would if I had to work with remote files more often. But in my experience I found it faster to just build emacs on the remote server and run it as a daemon there, since all the machines I was working on remotely had /home on an NFS mount. TRAMP took just a little too long to load remote directories for my liking.

But in case I am plopped in front of an unknown terminal/have to do something on someone else's machine ... at least I can rely on using the default vim to do basic editing.
How about 'folding'? I've settled on that kind of name for looping/recursing helper functions.

Scheme has a bit of syntactic sugar called "named let" which makes this internal-helper pattern more concise/direct.
[I am not a founder]

Social media login is a dependency.

When social media login breaks, users contact the app maker for support not the social media company.

An app maker doesn't have control over the timing or reasons that social media login might break.

Those reasons can range from a user having their account banned to the platform deprecating an API.

Basically, another company has control of your app's availability and access. Your users may not be able to recover their accounts.

And you take the loss of goodwill.
This all started because there was a big data leak and OpenAI did not follow the laws related to that. I think they need to investigate if the existing laws related to privacy and children are respected.
fair. kandinsky is open source though
Since when has the FSF been about software? It's about freedom.
If you're a k8s fan but don't consider it reliable enough to do anything even next to but independent from safety critical systems then that's not exactly a glowing recommendation.
at this point this is now a great metric to measure originality by - if people can’t distinguish the real you from generative AI you it just means you’ve fallen into a Rut or never had much nee to say anyway.
It depends on how schools adopt it. Python would never have been so popular, hadn't the CS departments started using it as a tool for teaching the basics (to non-CS students). Now it's ubiquitous. People build web servers in Python. They need 64 processors to keep the response time acceptable, but since nobody blinks an eye when the AWS bill comes in, I don't expect Go to challenge Python any time soon.

I haven't seen wide-spread adoption of rust, and frankly, it's not an easy language to write performant, algorithmically dense code in. I tried sharing trees in a parser once, and it drove me crazy. The only solution was to wrap everything in Rc<Cell<T>> or to use numbers to index each node. I see rust settling in the low-level niche, but don't expect it to grow rapidly. People still program IoT devices in C, so it looks as if rust is pearls for swines.

Anyway, Go can take up a good position in the lower layers of backend code. But the architect guild is not likely to wean off their dependency on ORM frameworks and other semi-magical stuff that Java offers, and Go doesn't, so for the coming 10 years, I don't see it making much inroad in enterprise software.
Not everyone needs to know for habeas corpus to work. Narrow lamplight can be just as efficacious.
Pentagon leaks: US air national guardsman, 21, identified as suspect
Interesting that our technology is a significant source of both pleasure and pain, currently. I wonder - what is a blanket solution to reduce that pain?

> The rise of AI art has created widespread anxiety in China’s video game art industry.

> “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination,” Xu Yingying, illustrator at an independent game art studio in Chongqing[.]

> NetEase’s Naraka: Bladepoint, an action-adventure battle royale game, rolled out a temporary feature in March that allowed players to create new “skins” for avatars using the company’s in-house AI program.

> Artists joke that they should switch careers to peddling rice noodles on the street instead[.]

Government regulation is focusing on Copyright, only, so far. Not on new-AI-art displacing existing workforces' wages.

EDIT: The AI-Caution game mentioned in the article https://store.steampowered.com/app/1930420/_/ is pretty freaky. (Unmute the video.)
A Korean movie was making the rounds at film festivals over a decade ago called Castaway on the Moon.

The setup: office drone gets fired, has debts, tries to jump off a bridge. He washes up on a river island, can’t get off, and decides to become a hermit. Somehow befriends a shut-in woman (she can see him from her window with a telephoto lens).

This thread reminds me of that movie (might still be on YouTube) and that this has been a known problem for some time.
Until "Artificial Intelligence" actually exists, we should use a different word. I understand the distaste for "bot", but something like "system" or "computer" or "network" would be fine.

We really need to stop personifying every project that has the categorical goal of AI, but not the result.
It was reported in the news today that the USA is looking to tighten access to classified material as, currently, about one million US citizens have a top secret clearance.
What Is Science? (2013)
You seem to be knowing a thing or two about this. Do you see movements among those men similar to what's happening in western societies with "incel" movements and the like, i.e. radicalization online?
Here's the murder weapon statistics for 2019 from the FBI[1]. This only includes homicides for which the weapon is known. We'll assume that the rest match the distribution, though I suspect if you can't identify the weapon, there probably aren't bullet holes.

Summing total homicides gives 13,927. Summing total firearm homicides gives 10,258. 10,258/13,927 = 77.15%. I admit I did not do initially do that work and instead summed percentages from this infographic[2], arriving at 26.3% non-firearm homicide. I can't explain the discrepancy, as they point to the same data. The total homicide count is 5 higher on the FBI site, so possibly the page was updated later on. I point this out to clarify that I rounded the percentage down, which is why I felt comfortable with .25 * 7 ~= 2, though the answer with the new percentage is 1.59. I'd round to 1.5 if I did it again.

If you want a source for Europe's homicide rate being 1/7 that of the US, you'll have to ask the person I was replying to. Wikipedia[3] says Europe's murder rate is 3.0 and the US is 6.5, but I expect the person here was restricting it to the EU or something else along those lines (also various sources differ, and it's something that changes over time). I don't think the restriction changes either of our points, as long as the 7x number does really exist.

I can't recall ever having seen an NRA ad but I don't imagine my comment sounds anything like one. If the NRA really does say in their ads that they're not making a case against gun control and that it could save 15,000 lives a year, I don't have a problem sounding like them.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[2] https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/we...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Paying for DDoS protection sucks then CloudFlare comes along and provides it for free (within reason).
https://archive.ph/YMuvr
Threats another great idea that would be better at achieving their desired goals than just giving them individually money… heavy subsidies for relationship matchmaking services (with appropriate performance metrics and tracking of results) specifically excluding dating sites in order to foster face to face interactions.

It’s got a bias a little bit off the “isolated and not engaging” demographic they are aiming at since people who engage the services of these people tend to be trying to engage… but by heavily subsidising it they may be able to expand the audience for the services and get more of target demographic to make use of the subsidised services.
this doesn't seem like a lot tbh. What is it afterwards? Is it expected that the woman abandons her job and only cares for the child? There are a lot of costs involved
There's a lot of sites leaking OpenAI keys on the frontend as well, including some projects posted here on HN. I contacted one such dev back in February, they said they would fix it ASAP, and it's still not fixed.
I take my kids there all the time as well. There are so many fun kids things to do - Exploratorium, GG Park, Cal Academy, Tunnel Tops park, Presidio, Crissy Field, GG bridge, Ocean Beach etc. etc. Stop falling for nonsense tropes
My father did an car maintenance course in the 90s with his Mini City (like this one[1]), which involved taking the car apart and reassembling much like in the OP's video course. He said it was a very valuable experience, and that the Mini was the perfect car to learn on as all the parts were easily accessible and uncomplicated in design.

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mini_city_registered...
if its not labeled, as a satire, or an example supportive of context, there is great potential for amplification of misinformation.

generally HN users have pretty good BS detection system, however this is an uncommon trait at large.

many people have reflex thought or triggers, its almost a social duty for people like us, to take care of these people when they stray from critical media consumption.
> i'd like to see subsidies for people to start families

Why?
> Though if I were to go back to my original point there's certainly an inherent violence in white nationalism that is unacceptable and being tolerant of this is paradoxical.

I don't think it does any more than any other form of nationalism does. Are the Baltic countries violent in your eyes? Their nationalism necessarily is hard to distinguish from ethnic nationalism, because they're very homogeneous. All they'd need to do to be white nationalists is to declare so openly. They're a pretty peaceful bunch, unless you invade them (like the Soviets found out in the Winter War).

Communism on the other hand, is necessarily violent, it cannot function without violently suppressing those who do not believe in it, and it will, always and without fail, go on an eradication trip to do so.
I am aware such a result is possible, but as far as I am aware (I am not a lawyer) punitive liquidated damages being substituted occurs due to a general legal theory of unconscionability that such terms are imposed against a weaker party and are sufficiently unfair.

That is not the case here as this is the clearly strong party, being the entity drafting the contract of adhesion, uniformly adding it to contracts where they have complete control over the terms where it harms themselves for the benefit of the weaker party. I find it highly unlikely that a clause with such facts would be struck down in existing precedent or in the future, though I could be wrong. If I am wrong, then I need to come up with a new idea.
It's also not all that different from dating apps. We currently rely on an external third party to show us our matches, we just assume they're providing us with a complete picture of who is around so it feels less "invasive". Creating similar, but maybe more structured isn't all that far fetched.
Who is we here?
Saturn cars are incredible. I had a 92 SL2. Drove it for 14 years and 350k miles. Sold it to a guy who delivered newspapers and saw it still running two years later. That plastic body that didn't rust was incredible. Sucks that GM just killed that car line.
Erlang but language independent is actually a solid pitch.
I wouldn’t take “performing worse” as a given without in-depth testing. I could see enterprises making calls like that based on things like the security checks or attribution for OSS over support for more languages.
Same label as Chinese and Russian state media? This was not was an apolitical decision based on facts.