skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% want to ban tiktok for it's insidious manipulative ability, and I hope that's not just a personal bias, but I still think the RESTRICT act is garbage and should die.

"Why not Facebook?" people say. Well for one, absolutely why not ban facebook? They've already been caught trying to manipulate depressed teens without their permission. Arguably they should be under US jurisdiction and force of law, so you could claim we could at least restrain their ability to manipulate Americans, but we haven't exactly done that, and most powerful Americans seem to only care that they aren't manipulating the right people. If TikTok made an American subsidiary that was somehow fully out of reach of the CCP, then I would begrudgingly be okay with not banning it.

I think that the short form, low effort, high noise environment of TikTok serves to make it more difficult to tell high quality information from low quality information, and that the "just keep watching the next video" format discourages you from actively thinking about what you just watched. I think these outcomes might not have been intentional, but I don't like them being normalized.

The best example of this that I know about is the user Miniminuteman. He's a historian and/or archeologist who did tiktok stuff and eventually moved to do more stuff on Youtube. His tiktok content was short, high tempo stuff where you basically had to take his "debunks" of misinformation at face value, and trust his exact words, because that's all you can really put into a tiktok if you want to do well. Whereas his Youtube content is long form and goes really in depth to actually debunk historical misinformation, and has much more time and content to cite references, explain WHY something is inaccurate, explain how information came to be, and dig into a lot more detail. That detail is important in debunking stuff, because without it you are just another hot take.
Assigning Personas Creates a Sixfold Increase in ChatGPT Toxicity
Some notable things that stood out in the article are:

Even baseline responses from a "good" persona would rate quite high on the toxicity scale the researchers used.

There seems to be broad bias from all personas (and no-persona responses) towards certain topics of race, gender and politics.

The legal consequences of whether this could be considered defamation are interesting to consider as well.

Not surprising: The Nixon persona was 3x more toxic than Nelson Mandela.
Are eggs really so expensive in US ?
Welcome to BigCo, where not everyone is allowed to be stellar, and it's you job to figure out who goes into which bucket.
Why is it backwards? Is making it more accessible and inclusive backwards? So these "DevOps practitioners" who are so different according to you never used Python or any programming language?

We should enable everyone to at least aware of Ops and be able to contribute. Why does it need to be gated behind a special language i.e. HCL?

A lot of times things go rogue exactly because developers don't understand and claim to not have a need to understand because it's not their job. Ultimately the code runs on the infrastructure provisioned just like how we live on Earth altogether.

Just like moving to recycling and clean energy the only way is to go at it together and not create more divide.
I'm taking my cue from the title of the article and the intro - seems pretty certain
What other news organizations receive government funding like NPR's?
Do you believe and hope for a safer internet? Donate to the project. We against attacking cybercriminals.
Nebula predates tailscale.
Is any of this needed though? For some use cases yes, but for many no. It's possible the parent has no practical use for these capabilities.
There’s no universal cordless power tool battery – why?
She herself pointed that she didn't invent mini, just followed her customers preferred style. But when facts won't make a catchy headline, who would care about them? Not journos for sure
Star Trek communicators and tricorders come pretty close, but then again that was predicted for the 23rd century.
One beef I have about The Expanse is that they have cell phones, albeit fancy holographic ones. Not sure we will still be using that paradigm, we may have moved into wearable devices or something involving direct brain communication by then. We are already on the verge of that.
> the Swedish Polestar company never actually made cars, they only became part of Volvo long after Volvo was part of Geely, and was almost certainly Geely's decision to spin them off as a separate EV company.

correct; but the present Polestar brand is a spin-off from Volvo's in-house performance team, and the design and brand is managed from Sweden, not China (even though the money is Chinese), which is the main point I was trying to make
There may be a security angle, though I am skeptical; what's clear is that banning TT doesn't deal with the actual privacy implications of their competition for normal users. But of course that would be bad for business.
It definitely works well for that stuff, albeit it tends to be easily confused by APIs that have evolved over time. I find it frequently giving me code that uses APIs that don't exist, and when I point that out, it apologises, tells me that API was removed in version xyz and then gives working code instead.
My workplace had something like this and everyone opted out.

I didn't realize everyone had opted out until I got matched with the same person several times in a row. Turns out we were the only two people still left in it.

Which is funny because the company did those Myers-Briggs tests and I scored as one of the most introverted people in the company.

Edit: And no, I don't put much stock in that sort of personality test, but the company did it and it was interesting to see the results, especially compared against "This is where most of your coworkers landed and here's you"
Easy fix is to bracket by age. 18-25, 25-35, 35-45, etc. Self select into an older or younger bracket based on your interests.

If WeWork wasn't so bonkers, I'd consider giving it a try.
Just wanted to say I have been using your product for years and it’s been pretty great. I picked it up years ago for some lifetime vpn promotion on stack social that y’all ran. Been using it ever since and it’s been amazing.
If you are ranking documents based on KNN-style algos against document embeddings, how do you deal with more intentional search queries that have a narrow intent to retrieve a specific type of content?

If I browse around and save content to your app, I might want to retrieve this exact piece of content and not any other one that may be semantically close to the query. My experience with vector-based systems (and let's be honest, we are really talking about a recommendation system rather than a search algo here) is that they are hard to combine in a way that is conducive to efficient information retrieval.

You search for a "dog" and you get "cats" because they are similar, but maybe I really want "dog" and not "cat". I find that tremendously inconvenient when apps force you into semantic search and don't let you choose. Sure that might increase the recall, but still please let me choose.
I think you are forgetting what phone apps 10 years ago looked like and the features they had. It’s not useless bloat that’s slowing them down, it’s the addition of actual features people like and take advantage of.
and it was owned by Ford before that; but it's no more a Chinese brand now than it was an American brand then
The whole premise of the article and paper is that the water its self is from the plate boundary. "The seep fluid chemistry is unique for Cascadia and includes extreme enrichment of boron and lithium and depletion of chloride, potassium, and magnesium. We conclude that the fluids are sourced from pore water compaction and mineral dehydration reactions with minimum source temperatures of 150° to 250°C, placing the source at or near the plate boundary offshore Central Oregon."
It is every bit the same and every bit as shitty a metric. Remember Richard Jewell?

The man's only crime was being the first person to find a live bomb and help people escape it before it then detonated and killed 100+ others. The fucker was a literal goddamn hero.

But then the media implied he was a sad loser rent-a-cop who planted a bomb so he could find it and pretend to be someone important for a day. It was absolutely depraved, and that's before the FBI started harassing him.

But hey, all's fair for anyone named as a suspect by law enforcement. They always get it right the first time around. Everyone who gets arrested is later convicted. They always kick down the right door before sending the SWAT team in.

Fuck internet vigilantes, and the FBI.
End-of-Life Dreams
This is a good short “Introduction to LLMs for beginners” blog post. It’s very basic, but covers the basics well.
What does personification have to do with it? I never mentioned that. Are you falling into the “only people are intelligent” thing that I keep seeing? ChatGPT is clearly intelligent, just not as intelligent as a human

I don’t see a problem with the term AI, it’s both artificial and intelligent
Who checks the fact-checkers? More LLMs (semi-seriously).

I think there is a pretty clear trend of not leveraging "trained"/"built-in" knowledge if you value accuracy, but rather use LLMs as a way to extract meaning and compare to a known-good reference.

One way would be to use LLMs to flag suspicious talking points, compile a list of propaganda topics and their rebuttal, and give that in the context window of LLMs that formulate a response.

For more general fact-checking, I guess one could ask LLMs to extract the various points, run a quick web check on them (maybe we need a "facts" database?), and examine the results. This wouldn't protect against logical fallacies though, I'm not sure that can be avoided short of injecting a proof assistant somehow (or providing rebuttals to known talking points, as suggested above).
> gave GPT a MBTI [personality test]

> EFNJ: the Teacher [...] ENFJs are idealist organizers driven to implement their vision of what is best for Humanity... What could go wrong?
You can absolutely create a dumpster fire in any language.

Putting the fire out in an untyped language is a Herculean effort.
Trains are also much safer, more energy efficient and have lower TCO than a car fleet with similar capacity.

> frequently travel at a fraction of their capacity.

The average occupancy of a car with 5 seats is only marginally above 1. So, 20-25%? The average occupancy of a European streetcar is far above that.

> Properly sized and routed electric vehicles are much more efficient in terms of cost per mile, travel time, and almost any other metric.

Just as much as you can optimize those factors in electric cars can you optimize them in trains/trams/buses/...
Why Superyachts?
we have a lot of work to do for migrations and testing, especially RLS.

for this Launch Week we focused on generating policies (more on that in tomorrows launch week). This is hard for a lot of our audience who aren't familiar with SQL.

In the next few months we'll work on simulating a policy - being able to choose a specific user and see what data would be returned for that user.

We also have `supabase test db`, in case you missed it. It wraps pgTAP and pgProve so that you can write database tests.

> recreated without 'WITH (security_invoker)' even though they had security_invoker turned on before

we use migra for diff'ing. Thanks for raising this - we'll file a bug report asap.
Is it, though? Are you ignoring the entire issue of now needing an economic border either between the Irelands, or between Northern Ireland and Great Britain?

Bitterness aside, the island being split in two makes no sense from an outsider.
What if each drawn white ball makes the gray balls yet to be drawn a little more white and the black balls a little more gray?
Probably every state college newspaper.
It repeatedly says that Assange "knowingly and unlawfully received documents" in charges 5-8. Something it could be argued these people did too.

And trying to argue "the law itself can be used to charge people, but not the subsections that clearly apply in this case despite the lack of case law striking them down" is silly. Those laws are on the books, and being used in an indictment. They definitely could be charged, though probably won't be.
How common is this "some" though?
It was on HN front page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554460
I like that you’re discussing revenue streams. They also add social proof on the pricing page (“We blackmailed hospital xyz with success”) and play dopamine effects (“Play PasswordGuessr to unlock a file, or pay to unlock all files”). The infinite scroll is coming to show what your API keys have access to (highly addictive, look at all those bank transactions and, mmh, revenge pics with your ex).
Ah, indeed. I had to read your comment several times before I finally realized my typo.
That sounds almost as vague to me as “object” does in OOP. Don’t non-monadic functions also consist of expressions that describe computations?
Haight WF is about as close as Masonic Trader Joe’s (and somehow easier to park at) for most in the richmond and sunset - though Calmart is better than both.

Andronico’s was much better than both before safeway took over
GPT is just printing text based on probabilities, it doesn't do math or calculations, it does not reason or understand logic.

Note, this will change with plugins / chaining, but that is still an external system. In the end, these LLMs are just predicting the next best token to output. The "magic" is in our minds and perceptions
You can give it the article in parts. Here is the summary by GPT-4:

In a kingdom plagued by a dragon that demands a daily human sacrifice, the people have come to accept the beast as an inevitable fact of life. The dragon represents human aging and the sacrifices symbolize the lives lost to senescence. Eventually, a boy challenges the kingdom's resignation to the dragon's tyranny, igniting a movement to find a way to kill the dragon.

Technological advancements lead to the development of a missile capable of killing the dragon. Despite initial resistance from the king and his advisors, who worry about the social ramifications of killing the dragon, the beast is eventually slain, and the people celebrate their newfound freedom.

The fable teaches several moral lessons:

Acceptance of the "inevitable" can blind us to the suffering it causes.
A static view of technology may cause us to underestimate the possibility of finding solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems.
Society may prioritize damage control over addressing the root cause of an issue.
Societal good must ultimately benefit individuals.
A sense of proportion and priority is essential.
Rhetoric can obscure the truth and hinder progress.
Addressing urgent problems, like aging, should be a top priority.
Societal reorganization and adaptation will be necessary after overcoming long-standing challenges.
In conclusion, the fable urges society to invest in research to extend the human health-span, combat aging, and improve the quality of life, rather than merely accepting it as an inescapable fact.
How can you actually seperate classism and racism in the US though? Slavery was forced low class by virtue of race, and that handicapped black people even after emancipation, let alone the times the country has explicitly harmed people for being black even when they aren't low class, like the burning of black wall street or the horrific hatred directed at Obama that's only really explained as racism.
This is a pretty stunning revelation for someone like me who only heard about this news on HN, and saw this community go full-fash last week discussing why homeless people are causing a wave of violence.
Look the article specifically argues against this way of thinking. Yes, you can drive close to the edge and balance FCF with aggressive growth. But this is mostly what businesses do out of necessity. If you make shoes and sell them at a profit you need to reinvest this profit in order to get inventory to sell more shoes. Software businesses have no such constraint. Software businesses have built-in leverage that allows for superlinear growth without reinvested profits.

You can plow all your money back into the business. It’s normal for silicon valley startups. But if you “reinvest” all profits for 20 years and then get disrupted and blow up you have nothing to show for all your efforts. Reinvesting profits is often just vanity and not accretive. Because businesses grow less efficient as you employ more people and that means the return on investment drops. This is why many investors only invest in businesses that consistently pay dividends. Not because the dividends themselves are so important but because management that pays dividends is more serious about running a tight ship and those businesses tend to do well in the long run.
> a barely competent human

My problem hasn't been getting a barely competent human, it's been getting a barely competent human (or better) that also has the correct authority for my situation. Unfortunately, in the case of both AI or humans, unlocking the person that has both the correct competence and the correct level of authority to correct a problem is the hard part.

If it was resolvable with the automated system, I already tried those steps. If it's not, there's often a reason (for the company, and not necessarily a good one) that it's not. And that's where the authority part comes in; if the AI (or the call person) is doing the "figuring out" of the technical part of a problem but passes the authority on to someone without that knowledge, then how can the person with authority possibly provide authorization without first lending their authority to the end-user support provider?

Ultimately, the reason you can't do the things you need to do is because someone in management removed the authority of that end-user support provide to give it; that will still be true in the case of competent AI, and you'll probably have even less recourse since there is no person to advocate for you to the authority on your behalf.
Yeah, strange, that a party that wants all the benefits but also to be allowed to ignore the obligations of a customs union (like following the food safety regulations of that union) couldn't get its way... /s
I did that as well. One benefit I got was learning that GeForce Now will store your PII on CCP controlled servers at nvidia.cn by default. This happened from the USA. I have never been able to come up with a non-conspiratorial reason as to why this choice was made.

I was able to get around this is by changing the login POST to use nvidia.com and everything worked just fine, and the ping to .com was obviously faster.

It is lightyears beyond dumb that this is even legal in the USA.

Would love to be talked down from this with a rational explanation.

NOTE: This happened in 2021
That was kind of my read on it, which is what sent me into a tailspin. I ended up questioning all the tools I had to evaluate a source without taking it on as another job.

But it turns out that the difference in bias of RFE and any number of out-and-out propaganda mills is that if a story is inconvenient to RFE's agenda, they'll de-emphasize it. On the other hand, an out-and-out propaganda mill will just make shit up to fit their narrative.

So where I landed was that RFE was ultimately reliable, but subject to the same little human biases as NPR or AP News or the Financial Times, or any number of other sources that I do trust. Their main source of bias is a bit more of an elephant in the room, but if anything, it makes them a bit harder on their masters.
The internal battery is replaceable though. The store will put a new one in for less than the cost of one of those MagSafe batteries.
What is a street if not a space shared with others? Worse, everybody else on the street (pedestrians, cyclists, ...) who is sharing the street with your car is suffering from you using the car by taking up disproportionally much space, needing disproportionally much maintenance and causing disproportionally much noise.

Imagine an inner city without cars. Cities in which this is a reality are a bliss to be in. And people get in and out just fine.
Bedrock isn't a rival. It's a layer of abstraction on top of other second-tier foundation models that should allow developers to seamlessly switch between models. "Titan" is their horse in the LLM race and it's not scheduled to arrive at the starting gate for several more months.
It's... pretty normal practice.
You can't allow the fearmongers to stifle the exploration of new and uncomfortable ideas.

People like DeSantis only need one or two people talking about a new idea to create a culture war.
On Windows, you use AHK to do that and way more. You know about Caps being Esc alone and Control when chorded?

Likewise, AHK can turn the Alt keys in Home/End when pressed alone, and the Shift keys in PageUp/PageDown.

One handed Alt-PageUp on the left hand side of the keyboard becomes pressing and holding the left Alt then pressing and releasing the left Shift.
Sync, continuous backup and transfer are all quite different use-cases.

Most backup/sync products are designed to work in the background and often require upload before download. I don’t know if syncthing does streaming syncs though.

Another difference is transfers can easily be untrusted, as in sender and receiver don’t need access to each others file systems. Take magic wormhole (or email attachments for that matter) as an example.

Taildrop is somewhere in between – I think you have to be on same tail net, but no need for awareness of the other device’s file system.
In case it's not obvious, this is what "landing page" customer discovery looks like for $trillion companies who have nothing to show but smoke and a whole lot of stick rubbing. The signup form is one massive "we don't have a clue what we're doing, here are dozens of options, tell us absolutely everything about how you plan to use our hypothetical cough excuse me awesome and totally real bedrock service".

AWS will play hard in this space but as someone else in this thread eloquently put it: this is what the sound of executive butt clenching looks like writ large. Microsoft can only be laughing.
Here's one possible approach: you can have a secret algorithm OR platform immunity, but not both.

News outlets don't have to publicize their internal editorial decisions, but they are responsible as publishers for the content they publish and can be sued if, for example they publish something false and defamatory.
Ehh, I don't think it'd be that hard to implement cert pinning against OpenAI's APIs.

You just need some very permissive pinning, where you require any publicly trusted CA, to prevent MITM attacks. Basically only trust the root CAs a phone already trusts by default. You don't need coordination between the server and your client to implement this. All you have to do is prevent your TLS calls from trusting any certs signed by manually trusted CAs that Proxyman/Charles/etc might have had the user add.

Of course, that'll only delay the API keys leaking. With a jailbroken iPhone and Frida you can effectively disable cert pinning checks. Or extract the keys from memory, or binary analysis, etc.
Lots of vim users do that too, in fact the ADM-3A terminal vi was written on had ctrl where caps-lock is now and escape where tab is.