skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO an audit should always report about how readable a codebase is, because it's a dependency for the quality of the audit. E.g when the 1st kubernetes audit pointed out that the (side-)effects of certains operations are too complex to understand, this gives some insight about the height of the possibility for uncaught bugs and the possibility to introduce new bugs.
The phrase the article used that I'd take to mean "fake it til you make it" was "business puffery." It's spouting vague BS no one could be expected to believe.
Legal protections are physical protections. They're designed to let officers kill people if they reasonably perceive a threat. That's why an officer with a gun is much more protected than I am with a gun, because they can shoot and kill in situations where I can't.

You keep dancing around the main point here, which is that cops get different rules based on the premise that their job is extremely dangerous, but it's not the most dangerous job, and we don't afford the same protections to others with similarly or more dangerous jobs.

We could also expand to different classes of people. Women in service industries are likely to experience multiple assaults over their careers. Queer youth are very likely to be assaulted. Immigrants (especially women and girls) from poor countries are very likely to be assaulted. What about people with known violent stalkers, people in witness protection, etc etc. Should we train, arm, and shield them from prosecution if they shoot people?

Or what if it's situational? Let's say I see a group of cops attempting to murder a Black man (recall any instances you've seen in the news), I protest and insist they stop, I think I see one of the officers reach for their weapon, I draw and fire first, killing them all and saving the man's life. Do I deserve the same legal protection? I was doing what the cops are supposed to be doing: I ran into a high risk situation in hopes of defusing it.

I think you have to face the fact that the standard just doesn't make any sense, which is why cops in other western countries have much stricter standards than those in the US.

I would also go further and say the prevalence of firearms in the US makes these situations way more dangerous than they need to be. You're right that a lot of the things officers do can be fatal, and that's because the odds of whomever they're dealing with having a firearm are pretty high. Your guess is as good as mine as to why most cops don't support tighter gun restrictions though.
> We use PySceneDetect to iden-
tify dynamic videos with a scene change and supply a new
reference frame at the point of the scene change.

> We adopt PSNR and MS-SSIM [44] for
evaluating video quality

This is a pet peeve of mine. The standard for the video ML community seems to be PSNR/MS-SSIM, PNG dumps and "basic" tools like pyscenedetect, but I have yet to see a single paper use something more performant and flexible like vapoursynth, and only a few seem to use butteraugli, vmaf, or even just newer SSIM variants.
In common American parlance, "nazi" is becoming a slur for any racist/sexist/*ist/*phobe, and doesn't refer specifically to those with interest or sympathy for/with Nazi Germany.
I’m guessing this works with GPT-4 if your API key has access to it. Is that correct? Going to check this out, currently I’m just using a CLI.
Looks like the model is trained using Supervised Fine-Tuning. Any idea when the RLHF models are out?
Did you know there is a reduction in staffing for the SSA office and that creating an application is becoming more difficult?

Also, applications are routinely denied upon first submission and then worked on as an appeal that can span years.

Ask me how I know, I have been assisting a friend with a disability (not COVID related) to get assistance for over a year now.

So either there are applications still being processed, in appeal, or people are frankly struggling to navigate the submission process, especially with fewer SSA employees to get assistance from.
Well, I don’t agree. Specifically on your point that this is a discussion about the meaning of words. It’s a discussion about the concepts and scenarios described by those words. We can call it anything we want, but those “concepts” we describe are not the same things. I do not care what word anyone wants to use to describe something — as long as it still ensures we’re talking about the same thing. I don’t run a philosophy or Latin class, it’s not about letters and words, at all. That’s entirely beside the point.
It may be a point worthy of discussion: Probably in the "old days", government agencies would pay for ads in print newspapers or magazines or for radio ads. Similarly, if the government (except for members of Congress) send mail via US Postal Service, the government has to pay the postage.

So it's not a totally crazy question to ask if a government agency should have to pay a fee to use a private service like Twitter.

Presumably the government agency would have to do a cost/benefit analysis on running their own service versus paying to outsource it.
>For this to be true, logically the tools to create smartphone programs would be fiercely protected and only available to the chosen few

In a way, they are. They are gatekept in a way that is transparent to you because you find yourself on the correct side of the gate. Apple's gatekeeping is overt, while Google's is more covert:

1) They require a desktop computer - a powerful one at that. Apple requires a Mac. It would be trivial to release an app builder that ran on the phone, but they don't. Apple even outright forbids such apps, or any kind of interpreted environment. Apple also forbids installing things on stock iPhones without passing through Apple servers, and they require you to pay $99 and be over 18 for that privilege. This completely kneecaps the development of any kind of "demoscene".

2) They are ridiculously baroque. I mean awful. Look at this[0] Hello World - "the simplest Android app". Note the wall of perplexing XML, and complex directory tree. Note the phrase "You don't need to understand this code fully." This is not irreducible complexity, this is the result of an attitude that the only people who should be developing apps are professionals with a lot of experience and patience.

There is 0 room for casual exploration in the app ecosystem. Hell, I enjoy programming, I can knock up a fun demo in LOVE in under a minute, I carry a smartphone everywhere, and yet I've never written a smartphone app. Not once. It's too much of a pain. You wrote BASIC programs for fun in school? So did I, on my calculator, at a rate of maybe 1 a day. Show me the kid who writes smartphone apps like that.

[0] https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-simplest-android-app...
“COVID causes a leaky gut and thus widespread vague symptoms” sure sounds like it falls in the unsupported side of things versus, say, celiac.
Original title starts with "2", which makes more sense.
They were simply pointing out the obvious political bias, and that this was an opinion piece, crafted explicitly to sway opinion, not to present neutral facts.
Hopefully, it may also reverse the trend that work tools a require higher IQs to effectively utilize.
Why the Rust Trademark Policy was such a problem
The source says the interpretation is bullshit. https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...
Why I’m using a keyboard phone in 2023
> When your whole political system depends on donations from large corporations,

Hmm, outrage sounding yet devoid of any meaning. No wonder populism is trendy. It invokes anger in people without viable solution.

Corruption exists all over the world regardless of political or economy system. If donation cannot be done legally, and documented, it will be done under the table. Qatargate is only a recent example, known because of its high profile, not because it being rare.

"Panzeri's group received payment in cash from Qatar, Morocco, Mauritania and possibly Saudi Arabia. The group are described as "shockingly amateurish", because they stored the money they received in bribes in their apartments, made hundreds of unencrypted telephone calls and held a "held a conspiratorial meeting in a hotel that was full of surveillance cameras". Nevertheless, they operated undetected for years. Green Party MEP Viola von Cramon-Taubadel said that Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia also "systematically purchased influence over an extended period"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_th...
Somewhat desirable, as it means you can get the reciprocal of any number without a loss of precision, right?
I don't buy the notion that Plantasia inspired anything personally, as much as I love it. They gave it away with plants and mattresses in America, how'd it end up in Koji Kondo's hands?
The cited study is misrepresented.

https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...

> Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation.
Shaped FTTH, 250/50 EUR30.

Hamburg, Germany, excellent peering and latency.

500/100 for EUR40 and 1000/250 for EUR50 would also be possible.

But I'm cheap, and the 100/40 I had from the same ISP was enough already.
They just did an upgrade I couldn't avoid, price didn't change, so be it :-)
Creating a super-intelligence that kills all of us?
I think there are different people working on each issue. There's no collective "they" that has to split their focus. The microbiologists and epidemiologists that could be studying long COVID aren't the same people that would be working on preventing youth suicide.
Damn Phone? I mean as much as I like to shit on Apple in the past 5- 6 years, I dont think you understand the impact of iPhone or Steve Jobs had to the industry.
Always take everything that politicians, corporate executives, Twitter talking heads, and other public figures say about macroeconomics at face value, especially if it sounds alarmist. Lately many of them have been saying that "the US is in decline," "the dollar's dominance is ending," "a new currency block is emerging," etc. Usually, like most people, they don't understand macroeconomics. They may be parroting something they read on the Web without realizing it.

If I may quote J. M. Keynes: "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."
On the other hand, MacOS is closed source, so governments and Apple most likely have backdoors. Spyware counts too, when discussing malware.
> spying on allies

That is one of the exact purposes those agencies exist for in almost every country of the world.

> possibly misleading the public about casualty numbers

The numbers given in the documents are consistent with the numbers publicly stated by the US military.

> demanding an investigation

For what? I don't see how he is a whistleblower when he hasn't exposed any illegal activity. It's pretty clear from what he friends said that he was doing this solely to impress his friends, which is pretty clearly illegal.
ehh i do dev on my phone sometimes (Termux and sometimes in-browser editors) and it's an ok experience imo
Even in terms of quality, the web beats most of those platforms. Especially now, and especially when compared to GTK or Wx. You'd actually have an easier time building a native-like app using web technology than GTK or Wx.

I guess that wasn't the case a decade back when the web for everything trend started, so your point about ease of use/bypassing stupid security policies is still right about how the shift started, I think. But that eventually led to a steady improvement.
Measuring inter-account variability in performance doesn't work for players who only play with cheats on that account
20 years ago there were recruiters at my school bribing us to join because they'd pay 100% of our college tuition. Assuming they're still doing that, with costs going up I can imagine more people taking them up on it despite their viewpoints.
So interestingly, you can actually have linear or exponential curves on your way from 0 to 100. And you completely ignored how the basic building blocks and algorithms are more or less the same. I think I'm done discussing with non-experts.
There is a universe of difference between "employee is allowed to download from the internet" and "something unintended from an unauthorized external party runs automatically"

come the fuck on
Sci-fi.

Worry about human beings being the one to kill us all because that's a threat that's existed for decades with nukes and biological warfare. If it isn't weapons, it'll be self-inflicted climate change, or an asteroid we haven't noticed. SkyNet isn't happening.

Six billion human beings of average intelligence are a greater threat than a single hypothetical superintelligence.
There are steps in solutions like this (I would imagine a first being all images are hashed / signed by a key stored on the camera itself, so the orignal raw image can be audited later - this is something that will help more jounralistically than artists but it's relevant)

But ultimately photography becomes a sport - yes it's possible to run faster / lift more if you take the drugs. But we ban that because of reasons, much like I suspect competitions will ban AI content and possibly so will newspapers.

(which is why the above signing of images might be a huge step forward)
I know the term creator has its genesis from the word create.

But no, most creators are not doing anything creative. One way to see this is to notice there are movies made a 100 years ago that people will still watch today. There are books written half a millennium ago people read today. There are pieces of music written 100s of years ago people listen to today.

There’s almost nothing created on Instagram or TikTok that people will want to watch even a few days after it is created.

To be fair Twitter might have some posts of value but that’s because of the idea that almost certainly came independently of Twitter. Twitter is just the avenue by which it’s spread.

I think YouTube still does encourage the generation of quality new content to some extent that people may want to watch years and maybe even decades down the line. But that’s pretty much the only “creator” app that does that. And that’s probably a result of the fact that YT was created well before social media and mobile phones came around, so the content standard set on YouTube was fairly high quality. Newer “creator” apps encourage short throwaway content that can go viral. Not quality, creative content that can stand the rest of time.
> Ultimately it's rooted in economics. People like free stuff, and the only way to give it to them is to monetize it indirectly via ads and surveillance.

It's more than economics - they actively attack privacy and user control. E.g. DRM anti-circumvention laws, the impossibility of buying a CPU without Intel Management Engine (or AMD equivalent) unless you're a government agency [1], forcing the Trusted Platform Module on users, the gradual vanishing of rootable-phones and proliferation of apps that require a non-rooted phone, no more non-smart TVs, etc. Countless cases where there are no freedom-respecting options available for commoners at any price.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Commer...
> I really love how young people don't give a damn about old tropes.

The vast majority of young people with access to secret information aren't leaking it. The inane, incredibly naive trend you are suggesting simply doesn't exist (thank goodness.) Most of them take their jobs seriously and have a lot more sense than you.
The whole point of "zero trust" networking is that running on the employee's machine is not much better than running it on any other machine. You can no more easily push unapproved code to Google's repo from an engineer's workstation than you could from wherever you are sitting right now.
Conjecture not well supported by evidence is not mutually exclusive with making an argument. In fact, that’s what people are saying: OP was making a bad argument [because it’s conjecture].
Honestly, if someone produced a book that said how to write win32 applications in a way portable enough that current distributions of wine would not have to do any special work to make them work, I would very strongly consider that option.
Almost every single programming language ever invented has to reinvent more or less the same ecosystem of libraries from scratch. What is the best estimate of how many hours of work that is per language?
Yup. The rule of thumb I learned was that at a FDA regulated facility, "anything that touches the product" is regulated just like it's the product. And when the FDA audits a facility, they focus primarily on software.
We open the story on the McGuffin case, and then go back in time to the 1950s, and then catch up with the story in 2010. He's just convicted the one time.
There is no widespread use of end-to-end encryption beyond 1:1 chats and small groups.

Discord, Telegram, and similar platforms do not use end to end encryption. So I would read this as "we need to get even better at monitoring literally all public or semi-public means of communication".
It also on Linux/UNIX does not create a directory listing itself, but calls an external program, provided by the operating system: ls. Where on a Lisp Machine it calls the Lisp function FS:DIRECTORY-LIST, which underneath is implemented in Lisp via its object system.
> The memory deallocation could be improved to not to contain secrets

Attacks against RAM are as old as time. The beauty of RAM is everything gets wiped when you power off, so secrets don't persist.
You could opt out of that and many people did. Opting out required contacting one entity once. In fact I seem to recall that they asked if you wanted your number listed when you got a phone line, at least in some places.

It requires a tremendous amount of technical skill and diligence to opt out of the everything-is-malware hellscape we (our industry) created.
I dunno. The enablers are VCs, and the people paying for it are the LPs. They're all big boys playing with risky investments. Unless the VCs are the ones committing fraud, I'm less concerned. All of these investments are limited to accredited investors for a reason: they're largely unregulated and lack supervision. That's what you're signing up for.
Cre-lox recombination is effectively payload-unlimited. Why create an artificial chromosome when inheritance is intended when you can just add to a current chromosome?

> perhaps by tethering against native chromosomes via zinc fingers, viral-encoded protein, or AT-hook motifs.

It sounds complex. Partition loci would be sufficient for inheritance in both offspring cells.
Tarkov is very questionable. The timing and unnanounced nature of gear, progress and character wipes was so user hostile, I stopped playing it entirely. My friend and I buddied up to get good at the game and clean out labs.

After six months we were just good enough to approach Labs and Nikita's team pulled a Wipe out of the blue, the very next day.

The cheaters are openly coddled. The 'famous' streamers are avoided by cheaters because of the unwanted attention, so they make the game look good by accident.

It's a damn shame that a mechanically fine game like Tarkov is ruined by Nikita and his pals playing cowboy with the game's management. Tarkov costs more than equivalent FPS's (2x the price) just to be treated like trash by the devs.

Anti-cheat can't fix bad management.
Ask HN: Who has deployed commercial features using GPT4?
I'd be curious to learn how effective has GPT4 been to enable product features and what it means for the things we might see in the future.

In particular, I have the following questions:

1. What was the product you were working on?

2. Were there any new software engineering challenges that came from working with GPT4 (e.g. output quality, testing, monitoring, etc.)?
…given a web browser that is logged in as a google developer, of course
How do you work in terminal having that hard pass feeling? There are numerous CLI utils written in scripting (usually interpreted) languages. They do their job so well that some of them are here for decades already. Actually quite a lot of people don't even realize that many of CLI things they use are shell, or Perl scripts.
I have a family member who works in tech, and he let me know!
"open-source" is the key phrase here -- the author finds that GPT 4 can detect C++ bugs:

"GPT 4: 0 false alarms in 15 good examples. Detects 13 of 13 bugs."
I almost exclusively use Faiss, so I can’t really say. Apologies. Maybe someone else can weigh in.
Sorry, but I don't understand and I am confused.

Did he submit his work in the contest and then refuse the prize ala Sokal [1] because it was generated using AI?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
But that's my point, WPF (the Vista-7 era primary toolkit), is not based on Win32. Neither is WinUI (the 8-11 era primary toolkit) calling Win32 or WPF.

Win32 is mostly used for legacy apps, you'll find some random usages still like pre-Win11 notepad or the services configuration menu.

WPF is the primary UI framework of Windows Vista/7 and still the framework which the majority of the OS is in for Windows 8/8.1. It doesn't call Win32, it implements its own widgets, something that would most often be exposed in differences in high-dpi support. These do generally try to align with the Win32 widgets from that Windows version visually, but there's plenty of discrepencies.

WinUI is the new framework which isn't even shipped with the OS as of the latest versions, but even if you're using the built in verison it's not calling Win32 widgets or WPF widgets, it's once again implemented a new set. The lower level APIs share some similarities with WPF as it basically started as a fork of WPF modified to implement Windows 8 UI patterns, but neither WinUI or WPF are implemented in terms of the other.
That’s kind of backwards isn’t it? If I am writing a banking app for both the web and mobile. My GUI development is going to be different. But I’m calling the same set of APIs. The backend isn’t “opening a dialog box” to the front end. The developers would be designing a native dialog and calling backend shared codex
00. pop "conspiracy theory"

10. "that's a conspiracy theory, that's a conspiracy theory"

20. mainstream media begins to ease their audiences into the new narrative

30. "we knew that all along, there's nothing to see here!"

40. goto 00
He's a physicist. What AI/ML credentials does he have?
> But on the web, it is damage.

I couldn't agree more.

> As a native app strategy I think it's fine.

It's fine in the sense that it doesn't damage open ecosystems in the same way that circumventing the web experience does.

It matters if you care about the customer experience. Companies like McDonald's would likely see a significant bump in use and user satisfaction if they replaced their Flutter app with native apps.
Newer android prompts before apps are allowed to do things like access location and files.
The parent comment was downvoted. I can only think of one reason.
Scammers find quirky exploit in OVpay system for free public transport rides
Few tactile experiences are more satisfying than turning the dial of a nice rotary phone. I feel bummed that most young people have missed on this little pleasure.
You could work with a whitelist or a build environment that is sandboxed somehow.
I thought they got rid of any game content policies a couple years ago. The line was, "everything is allowed except malware and obvious trolling".
IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known as the “Universal Monetary Unit”
Is there firm evidence that pain even exists? I don’t think there are any biomarkers, we just have to take the patients word for it.