skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You conveniently ignore the changed reality: since the 90ies, the number of active internet users, malware, services, goods sold, and customer expectations have skyrocketed.

Now our printers, cars, and soon fridges are DRM-locked and doing surveillance.

And they can stop working at any time if the manufacturer goes bankrupt or simply stop supporting them.
Upvoted =)

I'm the founder of revision.ai - which turns slides into quizzes to make learning fun!

Going to try feeding on your presentations in and see what happens - great to see
> And in order to compete with the other channels, news started becoming more and more sensationalist.

I fear the same pattern repeating with Patreon-powered journalism and Substack.
You have to use gpt-4 for this stuff man.

Direct Response from gpt-4:

The T-800 figured out that John's foster parents were dead based on the exchange because when it asked about "Wolfie" (a made-up name for the dog), the T-1000, impersonating Janelle, did not correct the name and instead went along with it, saying "Wolfie's fine." If the real Janelle had been on the phone, she would have corrected the T-800 by stating that the dog's name is actually Max. This indicated to the T-800 that the person on the other end of the line was not John's real foster parent, and thus, they were likely dead.

EDIT- Tried again after changing anything that would point to the Terminator franchise. Still nailed it.

Ron figured out the foster parents are dead based on the exchange because when he impersonated Harvey and mentioned the dog's name as "Rovy" instead of "Bingey," R-658 (impersonating Janine) did not correct him or question the name. This indicated that R-658 didn't actually know the dog's real name and was likely trying to deceive them. This deception, along with the concern about their whereabouts, led Ron to deduce that the foster parents were probably dead.
I wonder how much of the negative aspects of social media are due to the gamification of it as well as the algorithms that boost certain types of content.

For example, if Twitter had no algorithm, didn't show you the number of views on your post, didn't show you the number of likes on your posts or retweets, and you just used it to post funny memes, interesting articles, and life updates to your followers if it would still have the same negative impacts that it does today.

I also wonder what a social media site would look like if the only way to follow someone, was if they gave you a QR code that was generated on their phone. That way most of the people that followed you would only be people you've met in real life. The QR code could expire in like 5 minutes to prevent people from just posting it somewhere to get follows. It would be much more private, and much slower paced, and people couldn't see any of your posts without following you.
> A hacker is a kind of engineer.

I've always found the term "hacker" pretty eye-rolly.
The Mechanics of the Soviet Banking System
Linked from the home page:

https://www.ory.sh/comparisons/
> ...the flaws that led to Denver's death were the work of the builder, and had nothing to do with Burt Rutan [the original designer]. These flaws led from the builder's sincere desire to improve on Rutan's work, a goal that could actually be said to have been accomplished from an engineering perspective, even if it did kill the pilot.

> We in the PC and web worlds have a lot to learn from this, too. We have a lot of bad design floating around that is just as perverse as fuel valves that face the wrong way, hidden behind firewalls...

I agree that we have a lot of bad design in the PC and Web worlds, but I don't think that's the conclusion I'd draw at the end of the article. It seems like this a lesson about an engineer changing the design during implementation without understanding (or while misunderstanding) the original design. Chesterton's fuel valve.
So that's why it feels clunky when interacting with the UI.
I guess physical.org also uses ChatGPT to generate random headlines..
people who got checks from the equifax data breach also got about $6 or $7 each person.
> In my opinion, the solution lies in better content curation tools. None of this would be a problem if search engines surfaced quality content once in a while.

Agreed!

Unsurprisingly, search engines funded by advertisers surface content which is effective at serving ads, rather than quality content. Do you see how this might be a problem?

> Affiliate marketing is a deal with the devil, but it's still a deal worth making. They let me work full time on building a useful resource and offering it for free. I can work with dignity, without having to beg for money, and still without selling out.

My guy, what do you think "selling out" means?
Competition and diversity is good for innovation. Many of the features in whatever browser you're using now come from the one you've never heard of.
I personally hate the TS bindings.
That's one of the reasons that drove me to create Phero: https://phero.dev
No, there isn't.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/19/sec-chair-gensler...
I'm just saying how it is in the U.S. in practice.

Regardless ending nuclear power in Germany is a popular enough position that Merkel was re-elected. Probably not just on that issue but she listened to what her people wanted and she kept getting elected because of it (as far as I know; I'm not German).
Click the help icon, you can get to a support person through Messenger there.
Misery Index
Not Far off ? GPT-4 already gets it.

Response after pasting in the scene:
The T-800 figured out that John's foster parents were dead based on the exchange because when it asked about "Wolfie" (a made-up name for the dog), the T-1000, impersonating Janelle, did not correct the name and instead went along with it, saying "Wolfie's fine." If the real Janelle had been on the phone, she would have corrected the T-800 by stating that the dog's name is actually Max. This indicated to the T-800 that the person on the other end of the line was not John's real foster parent, and thus, they were likely dead.

EDIT- Tried again after changing anything that would point to the Terminator franchise. Still nailed it.

Ron figured out the foster parents are dead based on the exchange because when he impersonated Harvey and mentioned the dog's name as "Rovy" instead of "Bingey," R-658 (impersonating Janine) did not correct him or question the name. This indicated that R-658 didn't actually know the dog's real name and was likely trying to deceive them. This deception, along with the concern about their whereabouts, led Ron to deduce that the foster parents were probably dead.
His point was that being at the spatial center does not automatically imply the sort of bias you and others seem to impute. Indeed, it would have been considered idolatrous and prideful to put Man at the center (who should prefer to reign in Hell rather than serve in Heaven?). God is at the center, in the ancient world but especially during the Medieval period. Someone once remarked that the spatial centrality of the earth was commonly understood as a kind of centrality within the lowest order of reality (Man himself is, in Catholic tradition, the lowest of the intellectual beings). This actually sheds some light on why the Incarnation is such a big deal. Compare this with the Jewish and Muslim rejection of the notion that God would lower Himself by entering and uniting with Creation in such an intimate way.

If anything, it is the Enlightenment that dethrones God and installs Man at the center of concern. Modernism is in this sense a kind of worship of Man, and what is worship if not putting something at the center?

I think people attach too much significance to the historical belief in geocentrism. It is a very reasonable default position to take given what is observable. Much of the mythology surrounding heliocentrism and how supposedly theologically disastrous it was is fabrication and Enlightenment propaganda.
Yes, but you see you must make allowances for the fact that the guy is an idiot. As is pretty much everybody else responsible for that particular debacle.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted, you're absolutely correct. There are so many pieces to how biological neurons work, we barely understand it. Even electrophysiological studies are missing out on a ton of info
This is true until they need something from the outside world. Having no money is a problem if you need a doctor.
I think that when people are angry, they are more open to suggestion if you do it right. So this is a way to make people more receptive to buying a particular product or subscription, or to supporting a political cause, etc., if you don't make them angry about something first and do nothing else different, you get less conversions. And of all the different ways to improve in this kind of metric, the make-people-angry method one is relatively easy and requires relatively less competence.
DIY Neurotech: Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal into a maker’s world
https://arc.net/ ? If I didn't already knew about it, looks like vaporware. No download, only a link that brings you to a form asking bunch of random personal questions, no screenshots (the ones that exists are censored? What).
It also assumes that quality can not be archieved with chat gpt via quantity. Like "Make me 20 webpages with this topic", then let them test & evaluate by amazon clickwork, then regenerate with the base of the best 3 till quality goal is reached.
The problem here is authenticating that you are talking to a human and not an AI. Certificates don't help with that.

Criminals will register temporary businesses and obtain certificates for them with no problem.
Be careful about wishing people were valued independently of economic output, because the value judgement might not go the way you think. It could easily be concluded that most people are a net negative to the world, and that we should discourage more of them from being created. This could mean forced sterilization in order to qualify for UBI or welfare programs, etc (which is hardly a bad idea, but one that the masses may object to).
But I think it's the primary way the state finds out what we are doing, so it then can exercise it's violence, if it finds us doing something that it doesn't like.

The first thing police do nowadays is check social media accounts when there's a crime, whether it's a thought crime or not? So by reducing our reliance on online services, we can diminish the ability of the state to police our lives?

Or maybe I'm wrong here (tired, and need a rest, so I don't end up spamming HN)?
> [Bourne shell is] not broken (certainly not for interactive use), so it's not in a need for fixing.

From the perspective of writing command-line utilities, it’s kind of broken though?

Builtin or forked pagers gated on isatty(), similar situation with syntax highlighting, a dozen line editors (from the readline juggernaut to whatever less has inside it), most programs rolling their own command systems rather than reuse the shell—all of that stinks of wrong factoring at the terminal layer.

(To be clear, I’ve used Emacs, Acme, and the Plan 9 not-a-terminal; they served to point out some of these problems, but I don’t believe any of them counts as a full solution.)

Move away from the terminal, and you still see individual programs being much larger that they need to be, up to and including plugin systems and embedded scripting. Because—and I hate to say it—moving structured data across the process boundary is a pain!

It’s certainly possible; if you dumb it down enough and resign yourself to writing bad half-parsers, you can get qbe or noweb or perhaps even roff (although that one’s got a scripting language inside it). But most probably you’ll turn each part into a library, link everything into a hulking monolith and call it good design. Maybe it is! But it’s working around the environment instead of taking advantage of it. Which means the environment is not doing so great.

I think the table stakes should be ls. Can the proposed model make ls simple, but allow the user to easily do most of the things that the current humongous ls is forced to have inside (at the very least, table layout, multicolumn display, colouring, ls -l, ls -t, ls -R)? PowerShell can, admittedly, but it’ll make my fingers bleed in the process. And it’ll still, as far as I know, throw up its hands at stitching together (not as a single program!) something like lstree or ncdu, let alone wget -r.

I don’t mean to say any of this is simple. A full solution would probably end up saying interesting things about hypertext, component systems, incremental programming, and other theoretically nifty things people have tried and mostly failed to make work. But I don’t see progress towards a solution, either, and if what we have is the best possible option, it still sucks.
This was illustrated by comparing his written argument, which was compelling, to the ChatGPT transcripts, which were insipid and bland, even when given the germ of an interesting point.

Maybe in a year ChatGPT will be retrained on a million AI thinkpieces and it will be able to construct an essay with some interesting points. But humans need to come up with and communicate those interesting points first.
Suicide rates do go up the lower the population density. I can't say it's attributable to this dynamic, though.

> suicide rates increase as population density decreases and an area becomes more rural.

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/disparities-in-suicide.htm...
I just let my computer run all the time. Disable all sleep functionality except monitor sleep. Then it always works when I need it to.

My life is way too short to fool around with stuff like this to save $5 in electricity and have to deal with the inevitiable "won't wake up" or "wakes up in a brain-damaged state" situations.
I got a $40 check from the Plaid settlement
Because maximizing ROI hurts their business long term? Only CEO's on a short stint of 2-3 years, with compensation based on stock market valuations go for maximizing ROI...

Reducing R&D investment is maximizing ROI in a way...
Haidt considers safe spaces to be a step too far beyond "don't throw them to the lions". You can disagree with that, but please do understand and represent his position accurately.
StableLM: A new open-source language model
> You're conflating something being bad by definition, in an inexcusable fashion, with simply not liking it

I would love to know what this by-definition version of "bad" is. That's a remarkable finding.
And the federalists were correct about the Bill of Rights too
There was one settlement in Illinois, I think it was Facebook as well, where each person who filled it out got $395.
Someone is going to have to extract gDNA from whatever sample you provide, saliva or blood usually.

Then you need to perform a search for various genes or SNPs.

There are a few different assays to do this, but most require molecular biology reagents and special equipment.

You may even need to do some sequencing.

All of these services are provided by private companies but you can't be sure of the fate of your genetic information.

Doing it yourself is possible but would cost a few grand for bare essentials.
> Takes a few weeks to learn.

As I said, there’s more of a issue of wanting to maintain your infra than knowing how to.
AI is going just great...

...and it also is certainly not going to be just an enormous grift to fuel the race to the bottom and replacing artists, musicians, engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants etc and we will all be taking off in planes without any pilots soon since we have perfect AI pilots around the corner. /s
Very cool! Hopefully we can all use these in the future for commercial and open source projects.
I have submitted my data, but while doing so, I wondered if I trust these guys any more with the data. This ends up as a CSV on some lawyer's laptop Downloads folder eventually.
And then the government will get hacked and the data leaked.
> The younger generation were raised with media that spread obvious untruths such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscience

Except that talk radio is way older than that, and it was the same kind of content.
Can anybody explain to me why stealing my data and illegally getting paid for sharing it with third parties means they only have to pay me $6?

Or why fines never include at least the profit (let alone income) from illegal activities PLUS a fine?
And sometimes, things can be too gezellig. Like hanging out in a karaoke bar. Or going to a Dutch music festival (Piratenfestival). Not really my cup of tea, way "te gezellig".
Stability AI Launches StableLM: A New Open-Source Language Model
I'm an American that's fed up with the continued support of sanctions and this useless war in Ukraine. We have flushed billions of dollars into this conflict and enacted pain on the world for zero gain. It's time for the west to admit failure on this and push Ukraine to bargain for a cease fire, even if it costs them contested territory like Crimea or Donbas. The history of conflict in those regions is quite complicated and zero concern for the US--we have far bigger problems at home to worry about.
I have seen several situations where this would be desirable - notably bleeding startups with vc money. There is plenty of window dressing to capitalise expenses and show a better EBITDA.

What this will do is immediately reclassify large chunks of people out of "R&D" into operational resources. Just enough to balance between nice looking EBITDA and low real profit (= low tax)
> If (as you imply) SW developers are critical to this year’s revenue (vs. building for future years revenue), then why don’t they go in COGS?

Ok, so we're on the same page! Salaries should be expensed!

Unfortunately, the page that you and I are on is NOT the page that United States Government is on. Which... is the point.

You said in a parent comment

> So this most affects companies that have a relatively large R&D org

This has nothing to do with R&D orgs. We're talking about software developer salaries, not R&D. According to the new change, all software developer expenses must be amortized over 5 years, which you and I both agree seems like a silly idea.

I think you're arguing for a common sense approach of not categorizing them as R&D, which I would highly encourage you to run past your CPA before you accidentally commit tax evasion.
I get your point, and I partly agree with you. I think this class of incident is at least a little relevant because people are rushing into the AI tool space without thinking about user privacy or security, and also because some of them use AI tooling to develop apps as quickly as possible, without knowing about even basic privacy or security considerations.
Yeah, that seems completely absurd. If the experiments are rigorous enough, and the p value is low enough, you should be able to trust the results, no matter how small the effect is.

If, for example, research shows that social media use increases one's risk of depression by, say, between 32% and 34%, with p < 0.000001, they're going to discount a result that only has a 1-in-a-million chance of being a fluke simply because it can only show a 1/3 rise in risk, rather than a 3x rise?

That's not skepticism. That's dogma.
We are talking about American slavery, no?
I fully agree and came here to post something very similar. Advanced (or even non-trivial) prolog requires such a deep understanding of what prolog is doing under the hood that, at that point, you should be able to implement whatever you're trying to solve just as easily in your favorite non-prolog programming language.

What makes this problem really bad is that everything about your problem that isn't directly related to logic programming is much harder to do in pure prolog. Just reading in a list of facts from a CSV file is non-trivial in prolog.

In the end Prolog makes trivial but hard problems easy, while non-trivial hard problems remain hard to solve, and easy problems, even some trivial ones, also remain hard.

I still love Prolog as well because it really does change the way you think about programming, but it is very far from even Haskell in allowing you to extend these new ways of thinking to solving real world problems.
The word "evolve" does not have such a narrow meaning outside of a specific technical context. From the paper:

The ability to selectively express different glue protein genes and/or to extrude their products at different rates provides a faster mechanism to evolve material properties than sequence evolution alone.
Classic "works on my machine". Operating systems are complex beasties. Bugs happen. I have an Asus laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 and it worked fine. Then one day, any time it comes back from sleep, the screen stays black. Can't find and workarounds and probably need to reimage. I have to do this about once a year cause something inevitably borks.
Yup! Not just Vercel. The entire industry is on the GB-s billing model, which doesn't make sense if you're just waiting for requests to come back and forth.
Agreed! Sadly, lean GUI apps are mostly a thing of the past now.
When I read that my first thought was "I bet most car fires are electrical or exhaust related, not from a random gas line leak."
Motivation, passion, and fun are some things make great things happen. So find those.
Go build it. See how many people discover yourGitHub repository without so much as a coherent explanation of what problem your code solves. (And, yes, that's marketing.)

If I had a nickel for every website I opened up and then closed because after 5 minutes I had no idea what the company or product did or why I should care, I'd be rich. Might be something really clever. Dunno. I just know it's 5 minutes of my life I'm not getting back because some techie thought their genius would be obvious to all.
measuring degrees doesn't seem useful anyways, because it is not the rotating speed that is impressive but the speed against the ground at the outer edge.
Notch made many small games before he did Minecraft.
Why would "the world" have any moral obligations? And why would the citizens of EU&UK have to suffer more than say those of US, AU, NZ, SK and so on?
So, if I apply for this, Facebook will know my real name and address. I have not used it for years. But I think it is worth the $5 USD I will get to keep that information out of Facebook's hand.
Is there any way for a webmaster to block ClosedAI scrapers?
A ton of common pwsh commands have built-in short aliases, sometimes even two-letter ones. They're intended for interactive use, with the verbose forms expected in scripts.

New-Item -> ni
Set-Location -> sl
Get-ChildItem -> gci
Invoke-WebRequest -> iwr
Get-Help -> help
Select-Object -> select
> - runtime knows how put processes to sleep until the message they listen to arrives. This means all functions are re-entrant. Well, any process is put to sleep after a cretain number of reductions so that no process takes away time from other processes.

This paragraph seems confused. Re-entrancy doesn't have a lot to do with sleeping. Do you perhaps mean to say something about preemption? BEAM/ERTS is not really preemptive, a process can only be suspended at specific places, but one of those places is function calls (aka reductions) and BEAM languages don't offer looping constructs other than recursion, so it's hard to go for very long without calling a function, so it's effectively/semanticaly preemptive, unless there's naughty things in NIFs you brought, or the native code provided by ERTS.

Processes being descheduled after a while doesn't mean they didn't take away time from other processes: if you have one cpu and one process running an infinite loop, adding a second one takes cpu time away from the first, but they both will get some time (if they're both set to the same priority)
I see what you mean but… think of a conventional security issue around an AI like you would a chemical spill. Even though the failure may have been something boring like a bad seal, we could still call it a “hazardous chemical incident” or such.
Should go into COGS, yes. Unfortunately, that is now called "tax evasion."