skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1% chance that I'd go the same route just because of your comment.

I have a bsc. in psychology, so partially already there to become a licensed clinical psychologist.

It'd be one hell of a career switch though. I guess, so was yours :)

Edit: I just read your blog post about it. Damn! This is illuminating. It'll definitely help me in my journey. Thanks!

Also, definitely envious that you got to work with Bret Victor. A few years ago, I really wanted to but given I'm from the EU and he didn't seem to be looking, I never messaged him. I think I should have.

@haswell I read your comment. I'm happy to know that as well :)
Aside from the pictures of the insides of purses or completely blurry and incomprehensible ones, yeah, it's worth remembering, and it will help understand where we've come from if we can preserve it for the next few centuries. Especially since so much of it is time- and geo-tagged. That kind of dataset is an absolute gold mine for people studying history.

Seriously, talk to some people whose field this is, or at least look up some things by or about them.
DSN is interested in the round trip time - they're both right. How long does it take to ACK the data that was sent? 1.84 days. How old is the data that was sent? 0.92 days (22 hours).

Communication protocols at that distance are kind of interesting. Things like dropped data and delays can make it challenging.

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

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/techn...

https://ipnsig.org/tag/deep-space-network/

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/02/science/spacecraft-passes...
The site you refer to, ancient-origins.net, is not at all a reliable source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/bz0t7n/how...
A lot of them because they are making a virtue out of necessity (vegeterian food being cheaper). The cultural aspects on top are the dressing.
My husband did ketamine therapy last year and I think it saved his life. He had suffered from depression and PTSD since his time in the military, and no amount of medications and therapies could breakthrough. Ketemine saved him and we're 11 months out and he's still doing amazing.
This has got nothing to do with the technology. If you sell an "interview with Michael Schumacher" but it's actually your buddy in a boiler suit instead, you have probably committed a fraud. The tech here is just enabling the fraud to be more convincing.
Redis for ChatGPT
Of course that would be illegal, but that’s not even remotely similar to how these AI programs work.
> No, but it's the most effective one.

That's a perfectly valid opinion which is probably based on your experience, just as my opinion that macros aren't a good tradeoff is based on my experience.

I understand the initial joy of macros, and I'm well aware they're powerful for generating code. But in my experience, they are also not well encapsulated, and as a result, areas of code which use macros tend towards being write-only, where the code becomes hard to read and you're afraid to make changes lest the fragile pile of expansions you've created comes crashing down. In the short run, they seem great, but in the long run, the errors they create don't seem worth it.

I don't know why I've experienced this and you haven't, but I'm sure you have some different experience with macros that leads you to have a different feeling on macros than I do. If you disagree with me, I'd appreciate it if you approached that disagreement without making without assuming I'm an idiot with no experience, and without making arguments like "fewer characters = better" which even you don't believe.
You can assume that any comment on internet culture is from an American point of view. As a European, I only find a percent of a percent that resonates with my offline world - although the dominance of American internet companies still enforces their culture online.
That is absolutely true. I remember a while back an emulator developer that made the PS2 emulator for mobile phones got bullied out of developing it anymore, so once that stops working then we won't get to play PS2 games on phones anymore which, while not the worst thing ever, definitely sucks
"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance" - Shakespeare, on MDMA (whether he knew it or not)
Been talking my mom into putting her Facebook posts onto a blog… not quite the same, but similar
Syndicate usually doesn't mean just posting a link, it means actually posting all the content on other platforms. Cory Doctorow is a good example, every blog post is on his own site (pluralistic.net), but the full content is also posted on Twitter, Mastodon, Medium, and Tumblr. If you use one of those platforms you can read his stuff without ever visiting his site.
> Like every other Proton service, Proton Pass will be open source and publicly auditable upon launch, so anyone can independently verify our security features and their implementation.

I doubt its going to include sever side code like bitwarden.
But I pay for proton and I'm happy to switch if their product can fully compete.
Use the VPN from a VM. You can also configure Mullvad to use socks so that it can only be accessed from Firefox (which has OS independent socks settings)
It's hard to take it seriously when you invoke an XKCD comic in threat model documentation. It isn't cute.

Anybody receiving sensitive information via email is doing email wrong. Email in and of itself is not fit for purpose as anything but a means of notification that something needs their attention on x, hence banks tell you to login to read a sensitive notification, hence the government tell you to login to the web portal to read a message.
It might still last; Tumblr is still there, albeit in a lesser form. And as other posters mentioned, the pushback against NSFW content isn't just Imgur.
underlying societal factors

I'm glad you brought that up. I always found it amusing that the best medicine for depression is to go out, meet people, engage with the world around you, but depression keeps you from doing that. American culture is very individualistic and there's very little pushing communities together, which would seem to exacerbate depression once it takes its hold..
I have to wonder what would have happened had the same thing occurred in the US. I'm really struggling to think of a scenario where the police have a warrant that says "$THING is on computers at this company, go get them" and you have literally any chance of convincing them that $THING is not anywhere.

I could see them taking all the computers then six months later saying "here you can have them back now, come pick them up at the precinct and here's the storage bill."
> Religious edicts are inherently an expressions of morality

That seems to misconstrue the nature of law, and we're talking about religious law here (though the distinction between religious and secular law is made first by Christ in Matthew 22:21). There is nothing inherently wrong about eating a cheeseburger per se. The combination of meat and cheese isn't intrinsically evil. So you have to ask what the purpose of these various restrictions are. Naturally, all law has a moral good in mind. That's what law does: it determines the moral or natural law within the given circumstances for a certain end, so a prudential element is involved (and still further in its application).

One answer is that these dietary and clothing restrictions exist as a discipline that perfects its practitioners spiritually. For example, Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays not because it is intrinsically immoral to eat meat on Fridays, but because canon law includes this restriction as an act of penance that is binding on all Catholics. Same with fasting required by canonical law. The discipline of self-denial, of the care shown to meet the law's requirements, its sacrificial nature, point to a higher end for which something is sacrificed. I mentioned penance, which is very important here, but the development of temperance is another, where temperance is the virtue of moderation and spiritual order, which is to say true freedom from the irrational, destructive, and slavish indulgence of the appetites that human beings easily fall into. There is also the cultivation of right obedience that conforming oneself to such practices facilitates. Willfulness is opposed to reason and reasonable faith and trust in divine providence, and human beings are well-versed in acting willfully and even against what they know is right (which is the definition of sin).

Another function of, e.g., Jewish dietary law was to set the Jews apart from other people in preparation for some divinely chosen end.

In any case, the point is that these prohibitions and restrictions are not necessarily condemnations of some behavior or practice as such, considered in itself. They can involve restricting practices that in themselves are morally good as an instrument for some other end. Sacrifice works that way. We sacrifice lower goods for higher goods.
I was just thinking about this problem yesterday, in the context of polynomial vs exponential runtimes!
I think that there's JavaScript API for that. So for Chrome you'll just draw "Install me" button yourself and after user clicks on it, you call the API and Chrome will ask for confirmation.
Not sure what reputation you're talking about? It alters your capacity for empathy, not your sex drive.
> I don't know how accessible what archives there are as they went via Dejanews and then Google Groups.

And unfortunately Google has starting blocking some groups because of too much spam (that to some extent probably was enabled by Google itself in the first place), and unfortunately that means that the archives of those groups (pre-dating the current spam deluge) are inaccessible, too.
That's dope.
It’s posts like these that show the fallacious thinking behind most climate change policy. He’s taking the position of an overbearing parent telling the child to clean their plate, then explaining that it’s not enough “we need to do more.” No mentions of the relative climate impacts of food wastage. No mentions of the economic drivers behind food wastage - obviously producers would rather sell food than waste it and have a strong profit incentive. So food wastage must be caused by either subsidies (necessary for security reasons) or production ones (for instance it may be that processes creating some amount of spoilage consume fewer resources - and even less greenhouse gases- than ones that don’t).

I cannot take the author seriously.
While I recognize the absolute importance of them, I'll set politics completely aside.

Any idea how we could watch this with a dub? It sounds like a very interesting moment in film and I'd love to take a look.
If an app phones home at 11:00 AM and the illegal act is at 11:01 AM wouldn't it narrow down the list of suspects considerably?
> Proton Pass utilizes end-to-end encryption, so not even Proton can decrypt user data

… unless they decide they want to, in which case they can, because they serve the software, and can thereby easily exfiltrate the key.

I have to keep on saying it: first-party end-to-end encryption is snake oil. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+snake+oil&type=com...

It does resist casual or accidental leaking, and is even proof any form of disclosure if you have stopped using the service altogether, but is absolutely not robust against rogue employee, rogue company, legal compulsion, infiltrating attacker, &c. as long as you continue to use the service.

If you want actually valuable end-to-end encryption, start by getting your software and network services from different providers. (And avoid the web’s distribution model like the plague, and probably mobile app distribution models too.)
This is probably a good video for understanding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRzEZF3eZo
Why would it be in the interests of the current administration to apply such pressure and bail Fox News out of their predicament?
An occasional cheesesteak won't kill you.
I think it's more nuanced. If anything, MDMA therapy goes _hand in hand_ with dealing with the societal factors, because as an empathogen it enables you to deal with trauma in a loving and caring way.

This is not about "correcting" imbalances in the brain or brushing issues under the rug, it's about dealing with them directly.
> The article is from 2015, so, not this article.

I didn't mean this article specifically, but it can absolutely be done. Make the LLM the "reader" and have them retell the story like low-quality blogspam that still generates clicks and gets promoted by Google Now-type features.
Why would a government run by Democrats be predisposed to make life easy on Fox?
It would only be fraud if they claim it was real. But those magazines are masters in deceiving their lazy readers. They likely mentioned somewhere that it's not real, to avoid the law.
how to use mdma in medical way? does it requires obeying to some owner of some kind of medical license?
What you're saying may or may not be true, but it is orthogonal to the idea of exploring the role MDMA might have in improving the human condition and helping us understand existence.
I don't think the AI part really matters here. If the magazine had instead just written his answers themselves, would the legal questions be any different?

As I understand it, what they did was go to an online chatbot (probably character.ai), conduct the fake interview, publish it with a headline and cover that suggested it was real, and then admit only at the end of the article that it was from an AI website.

Presumably, the AI in question was just a generic LLM prompted to act like Schumacher - I would be surprised if it were specially trained on his words or anything. It feels like the only legal question is whether it was fraudulent to portray the interview as real, or whether the admission at the end is sufficient cover. I don't think this case would give us any real insight into the legal issues surrounding AI in particular.
Atlassian brings an AI assistant to Jira and Confluence
I agree that it's mostly the same problem...presenting something that wasn't an interview with him as being an interview with him, regardless of how it was done. But other sources do mention they used Character.ai to generate the interview answers.
I generally agree with the sentiment that American culture tends to over-prescribe medication. That said, I've had a lot of incredibly positive experiences with psychedelics and I think taking a substance under the supervision of a trained therapist is different than just handing out bottles of pills.

The other great thing about psychedelics is that they're typically only used temporarily as opposed to many other kinds of prescription antidepressants, which often need to be taken for extended periods or for life. The pharma industry has tended to favor solutions that incentivize the latter and I think we desperately need alternatives that don't require long-term intervention.
Well, Electron has all kinds of platform hooks that Chrome doesn't, so...
As a Proton Unlimited subscriber & general supporter of the company:

I don't care who it is hosting it, I don't want my password manager connected to the internet. There is cognitive dissonance when this community that distrusts IoT, call-home LLMs, URL bars that send data to Google and 5G-connected vehicles is willing to connect their most critical private data to a single, profit-seeking source-of-failure.

The password generation and encryption is an easy, solved problem that you can get for free! For any of these services, you're only paying for the UI, backup and internet connectivity. Companies have failed at this before and will fail again.
Haha I remember bumper stickers that said that.

There was a lot of “you are a bad person for leaving” during Covid, as if getting out of the locked down country wasn’t a logical move.
Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming
How is any of this relevant to a discussion of Huawei? "Yeah, but someone else is doing it, too" isn't a useful point to make.
You're probably thinking like a consequentialist[1], but they're thinking like deontologists[2]. They are two totally different philosophical viewpoints on how you determine what is ethical.

Consequentialism says you look at something's effects and work backward from there. Deontology says you do it by interpreting some moral code. (Usually one received by divine revelation from a source wiser than you, which is why you'd believe you should do it that way.)

Obviously you're free to reject deontological ethics, but It's more accurate to say "I disagree with how they do ethics" than to say "what they're doing is not ethics".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology
Google Login Acting Weird
I've noticed some weird issues with Google Login on web/desktop.

1. Firstly, all accounts get logged out when you close browser.

2. Secondly, it always returns incorrect password on your first try.

I've tested on multiple browsers, devices, different networks, VPN, and even on mobile browser with desktop mode on.

The URL is correct, certificate seems correct as well.

The issue is definitely on Google's side.

First noticed it yesterday on 19 Apr and it's still the case.

Can someone else confirm?
This is incorrect, the OSD doesn't require that the source code be public, just that it be available to the same people the compiled binaries of the software is available to.

https://opensource.org/osd
> In which world should fabricating an interview with someone be anything other than fraud and potentially libel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Have you tried the desktop application? (I haven't, but there is one, which is assumedly better)

If not, Bitwarden clients are open source, might be worth raising a feature request or offering someone a few bucks to implement what you want to see if you can't DIY.

With my particular use case, I don't auto-fill as that's a security vuln waiting to happen.
Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
I wonder how many of them would say the same thing if instead of Google being the aggregator of third party information it was Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion, the false third party information being published by the aggregator was that the person routinely failed to make bill and loan payments, and the consequences was their credit score was so low they have to use cash for everything and prepay all their utilities.

Would it be acceptable for the credit reporting agencies to tell them it is not the agency's problem and if they want to fix it they need to get the third parties the reported the false information to the agencies to fix it?
like everything in life...keep going. programming didn't make sense for all of us, but we stuck with it. keep building projects, and edit them to see how they react
> Commercial and industrial entities

That's kind of obfuscatory though. It's kinda like arguing that supermarkets are the ones responsible for bio-industry because they're the ones who buy so much meat from the farmers, while ignoring the demand created by their customers.
Rights aren’t limited by geographic distinctions, if you’re a human you have rights (or don’t, as is the case here).
I think that designing the TV layout is not the point, the point is opening yourself to new ideas and empathy, facilitating compromise
> there are plenty of vpn's who run on fake marketing that give the impression that they have certain values and do certain things while actually not doing it and they are way more successful than mullvad.

Yes, but Mullvad also doesn’t whore themselves out to any YouTuber that will accept a sponsorship agreement. I’ve never seen an ad for them. I’ve only heard of them from people who tell me they’re the best.

Of course we shouldn’t trust them 100%. Trust isn’t required them competent OpSec is implemented within a workflow. Trust is a vulnerability.
> Clean your plate?

An anecdote that I'm sure some here know well: you serve food of any amount to your kids and they eat some? Maybe a bite? Sometimes nothing. It's not clear why. So as a parent, you get used to gathering up that food and eating much of what's left as a way of reducing waste, but also maybe you're hungry too. Welcome to every evening in my house!

> The cultural dynamic in many places of serving more food than your guests can possibly eat–as a form of status or generosity–is persistent and wasteful. But it’s just a small part of a system that needs fixing.

I'm curious. How often do folks get served much more than they can eat? I rarely get served plates of food that overwhelm me at first glance. Maybe I have a big appetite. Instead, is this issue better phrased as "ordering or asking for more than you can eat" - that's what I see happen all the time.
You can't host something like Imgur for free. No technological advancement can get over the fact that even electricity still costs money. And at their volume, they have nontrivial expenses. I have no idea how or where they're hosted, but my hobbyist hosting budget tops out around $20 a month. Beyond that, either pay me or leave.
I think we're going to see a shift in developers expectations towards the cost of their tools, as a side-effect of Copilot & co. If you already pay $100/mo in subscriptions for IDE, its plugins, and services it integrates with, then forking additional $5 for a linter doesn't look as absurd as it used to...
That's a fair point. It's implied to be defamatory but not explicitly cited as legally defamatory. If that's so, then I completely agree with you.

I'm going to try to search around and see if there's more information about this. For example, did the man in question try to sue the website and get it removed? (I realize this isn't always possible.)
OK... wait, why is it illegal to sell hard drives to the government of China?
I am not blaming the tech, I am just cautious about how it's being used by the very same big businesses that you mention. If used right ai can be a powerful enabler. It has the potential to create opportunity by enabling vast numbers of people to perform blue collar jobs, or it can damage society by devastating said jobs and concentrating power in the hands of those who blatantly take what is not theirs. If those who generate the art that suddenly millions of people can use it to create their own products are paid then that's a win win. Similarly for any job that this insane marketing campaign claims will be replaced. Proper use of ai can lead to more independent work because everyone can be their own team.
I think you are misunderstanding what Poul Anderson was doing there. He was proposing that without the Normans, English would have drawn on the German lexicon. As the link in the sister comment argues, Old Norse had replaced German as an influence well before the 11th century. So Anderson's construction of hypothetical English vocabulary should have been based on Norse, not German.
What a great outcome. Glad to hear this and thanks for posting.
> As an outsider, that American obsession with prescripted medication seems maddening.

Totally sympathize with that viewpoint, but I'm not sure if this commenter knows that MDMA will not be a prescription medication — no one is prescribed or goes home with MDMA. The treatment in the trials is only 3 medication-assisted therapy sessions with normal preparation and integration therapy sessions before and after. After those 3 MDMA sessions, the patient doesn't take MDMA again.

It's been clear since the beginning that it's psychedelic-assisted therapy — not just psychedelics — that makes the treatment effective.
The success in these studies is largely short term. There are many drugs that will help - even cure - depression over the short term. The risk is that people will interpret the short term success as an excuse to always dose whenever they experience a hurdle. I remember well the claims of SSRI's when they first came out. It was nothing short of a wonder drug.

The article gives away perhaps the big underlying motivation to get these to market: its a potential billion dollar industry.
No but we can judge you for it, and you can't stop us.