skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. One of my Pi-hole filters is blocking this page.
20+ years of non-stop war will do that. Every 18 year old thinking about service has known nothing but war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a handful of other place, most of which were abandoned and not won. For those with parents who serve, they saw extended and repeated wartime deployments.

Contrast that with my generation (late GenX). The single "big" war growing up was the first Iraq War. It was relatively popular and we "won" the war... the follow-on was no-fly enforcement, but minimal boots on the ground. And we grew up with parents deployed on a regular schedule to Germany or Korea, usually relatively comfortable places.
There is larger gallery of real life examples:

https://www.deceptive.design/

I, personally, dislike TrustArc https://www.deceptive.design/brands/trustarc
Show HN: Chrome extension to hide AI/GPT related submissions from HN
Hi All, since I am consistently overwhelmed with all the all the ai/gpt news on the hn front page I built this simple extension to filter out such articles and show them on the extension popup if I'm in the mood to read. I am interested in the topic but just tired of reading the similar discussions (local models, llama on mac, ai taking away our jobs, etc) all the time. Every few days I search for topics on hn.algolia.com and go over any exciting development.

Ironically, since this was the first time I built an extension chat-gpt helped build 90% of the extension since . Also once installed, this show hn will disappear from your feed too :)

Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-f...

Github : https://github.com/prashantkhurana/Hacker-News-Filter-AI
fwiw: declining third party cookies has to be as easy (by law!) as accepting them.

If there is no disagree to tracking or “only required cookies” option then you can notify the company and/or police.
Societal progress can be loosely tied to energy usage. Stop focusing on what the energy is being used for and focus on how it's being generated.
Anecdotally, I know and speak to dozens of Veterans a week and multiples more of young people in the target range, and the general consensus is "what are we fighting/training for, and why would I want to risk anything for an evil/corrupt/racist country". The idea that "America Bad" (however true or not) has permeated nearly everywhere in some form or another.
Eid Mubarak
> The kind of people who would look for someone to write their essays is also very likely to opt for the lowest friction method, and chatGPT is obviously that.

This is and isn't true. I made a living doing high-skill essay writing for a while - I specialized in upper-level undergraduate or graduate level papers with a 24-48 hour turn around time. I charged out the nose.

For the American students, you're right. For the foreign students at US universities (the majority of my clients), they had a ton of money to throw around, a lack of understanding of how the systems worked, and strong status incentives to get a degree by any means necessary. Most of them were also privileged enough to never have to learn planning and therefore left things to the last moment, which is where I came in. I'd expect LLMs to contribute to the bifurcation of the cheating market with domestic students making use of them but rich foreign students not so much.

(I did this because if I made too much I'd lose my healthcare and since I have a condition where my meds cost 300k+/yr + makes 40+ hour weeks difficult, the 'logical' thing to do was work the grey market since I could have healthcare and work the 20-30 hours/week that was comfortable for me. Now that I have healthcare that isn't in danger of being taken away if I'm too successful, I no longer engage in this.)
Very well written, I'm glad to see this topic getting attention. We're about to publish a similar work relating to dark patterns in the way companies respond to data protection requests (data deletion, access etc.): https://consciousdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dark...
> with that the royal family's estates revert to ownership by the people.

Umm...no. Why would you assume that. It is not the people's land. If the monarchy is dissolved then what happens to that land is a matter of negotiation and possible court battles. The monarchy allowed the people to self-govern in exchange for being allowed to continue to be monarchs. One common theme I have seen in this thread is that people think they live under "rule of the people" but we live under "rule of law" a contract cannot be made void simply by passing a law to void it, because then the contract had no real meaning to begin with if one side can just get up and say they don't want to fulfill their obligations.

Only if the monarchy abdicates their roles can the agreement over their estate be cleanly voided.
None of those things are inherently unsustainable. In fact, a smaller population that dies earlier is actually more sustainable than a large, long-living population.
If you are in the US better be careful or else you would charged with `malign influence campaign` by the land of the free government.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/18/us-charges-russians...
It's 2023, what are my thoughts on Flash?

It still doesn't work on mobile. That's my only thought. My phone is more powerful than my computer was when Flash died. Makes no sense.
Interesting, this SKU isnt even available yet: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platfor...

I'm afraid to even ponder how much it will cost...
I absolutely hate those cookie banners. A always click the accept button just to get rid of the damn thing.
Just like the resurgence of the Shelby GT500 in 2007.

If you were 12 in 1969 and dreamed of owning/driving one, in 2007 you were 50 with $$$ and nostalgia.
$10 bucks says this just uses the GPT4 API to go over gpt chat.
American Bar Association data breach hits 1.4M members
>> They are not interested in making it usable

I would suggest that they don't have the resources to make it usable. I suspect this move the GTK4 could help the performance on mac.
America has a lot of land with no ocean or nearby significant body of water. Meanwhile, the UK is an island and the British Empire was built on naval power. Swimming is a cultural imperative.
There's a nostalgia hit!

SNS: SPELL MRGHHSHFG.

Me: what?

SNS: SPELL FHJFRJEBRBDN.

Me: what ARE you saying!?

Bit of trivia: my uncle was the executive at TI that green-lit the Speak-N-Spell. I was a tad bit older than the target market, but got invited to be in one of the early focus groups they used to gage reaction to it. I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread and saved my pennies to buy a speech synthesizer for my 99/4 after seeing it.

But yes, it had a worse keyboard than even the original 99/4.
I becomes an issue in the global world and tolerance and intolerance...

EG Danish cartooons of religious figures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_carto...
It's great to see a real SIO port, as well as USB.

SIO always felt ahead of its time, particularly its ability to attach multiple devices to the bus.

Joe Decuir who did chipset design for the VCS and Amiga is well known for his work on SIO, USB, Fax Modems, ITU modem standards, Bluetooth. You could say his career has been a serial success! :)
It is very patronizing to think that these Kenyans have those kinds of opportunities, and have foolishly traded them in for a job writing essays. This is the best opportunity available to them at this time, and it is being taken away from them. If you think there were better opportunities they missed, then you are implicitly saying that they don't know what is best for themselves.

Having said all of that, let's not overstate the difficulty of writing college level essays, especially essays that are good enough for someone who isn't able to write such essays themselves.
In my recollection, individuals serving in the Korean Army often aspired to be part of the KATUSA due to the superior treatment and nourishment they received. It appears that there is a worldwide trend of relaxed standards for new military recruits, as evidenced by the reduction of mandatory Korean enlistment for the lower ranks from 21 to 18 months since 2021.

This shift in standards may suggest that modern warfare places less emphasis on physical labor and more on intellectual prowess, such as computing skills. As a result, countries that excel in these areas may be better equipped to handle modern military operations.

Furthermore, military readiness has become increasingly privatized, which may explain why current figures do not align with previous years. Despite this, it is likely that countries are more heavily armed than at any other point in history.
The four variables are:

a. Ukraine's will to resist

b. NATO's will to supply military arms

c. Russia's will to continue the operation

d. Russia's economy

Of those, I'd bet (d) fails first.

Nazi Germany (which was economically mobilized for total war) showed you can only keep the economic house of cards going for so long. And the Russian economy is not the German economy (then or now), nor has mobilized for wartime.

It looks like it's doing okay, and the Russians loudly claim so and point at the Chinese and Indians buying crude and gas, but we'll see how long the veneer of "okay" lasts.
“EV sales” includes plug in hybrids. I’m a big proponent of plug in hybrids as a good transition vehicle for those not willing / able to to full EV, but they should be reported separately.
My daughter is on a high school sports team with a number of Muslim girls and it was painful to watch these girls struggle through an after school practice with no access to water and no food all day.
Man, I love this ... Atari 800xl was my first machine ...

Thanks, bookmarked.
They will become cheap though. As manufacturers move downmarket and the used Ev market grows. Maybe even cheaper than gas in the end - simpler, more reliable etc
Yeah that midterm grading system was basically "you get an A if you agree with my political opinions, and you fail if you disagree". He's not even teaching at a tiny liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere, this is at George Mason University, a highly regarded research university.

It's fine if he explains his viewpoints in lecture occasionally, but not if passing a class is dependent on agreeing with the professor on everything. If that were the case, most economists would fail his midterm.
Company: yes.
Police: no.
Local Data Protection Authority: yes.
Yes, that's good advice. Be careful not to act on behalf of adversarial governments.
> denialist, it does nothing to help the discourse

When one party wins by default, they benefit from stalemate-seeking tactics. "Just Asking Questions" unfortunately works very well for this purpose. Dogma poisons the discourse, yes, but so does accidentally extending good faith to a bottomless well of bad faith questions, which has been the conservative playbook on climate change since forever. The counter-strategy is dogma.

In order to have a scientific discussion rather than a political discussion, we need to know your intentions, and that's extremely difficult on a pseudoanonymous internet forum. It sucks, but this is probably how it has to be.
There was a great documentary about this in 1987: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/
> No ‘Reject’ Button

This is one of the more annoying ones for me.

I'm probably navigating in a very goal-directed way, with various efficiency tricks, juggling tabs and windows and thoughts.

As soon as I see the "Accept Cookies" and "Manage Preferences" button pair, I assume one will let me see the page, and the other make me go through a pile of disingenuous, punitive nonsense.
Mosaic trained a 1B parameter model on 440 GPUs for 200B tokens
I don't understand why people are so concerned about these new automatic plagiarizers. It has always been in the best interests of bad or lazy students to plagiarize. Plagiarism is low-risk if the plagiarizer has half a brain (i.e. doesn't copy and paste and doesn't use a famous source). It saves a ton of effort. It lets even an awful student produce a decent paper. These new tools make plagiarism easier, less risky, and lower-quality, but these are just matters of degree.

Plagiarism is already rampant. These tools make existing plagiarists worse. I doubt they will create new plagiarists.

(P.S. I say it's low risk because plagiarism can be difficult to prove. It's very easy to catch a plagiarist. A poor student who never shows up to class all of a sudden handing in lengthy papers using terms never covered in class rings alarm bells for any teacher.)
“Mum why did you sell our family home at half the price it’s worth ?!?!, ChatGPT told me it was a good price son!!!”
The problem is that the desktop market is fundamentally dead from a commercial perspective. Without the embedding/automotive sector, Qt would have died more than 10 years ago; so it makes sense that they care for their actual source of revenue. You can have the best desktop tech in the world, if nobody wants to pay to do desktop development you're SOL.

The real target should be phones. QT should have been what Electron became. To be fair, they tried with QT, but it was a day late and a dollar short - as web-like as it is, it's not real web. If you want one codebase for web and mobile, at the moment you'd never pick QML.

What they could do is competing with Electron: provide a better, more featureful way to package advanced webapps. But it means stepping back a lot, and competing with free is hard. Or they could go back to QtWidgets, but it feels like that ship has sailed - apps these days don't even try to fit in with the phone's own native style.
A dwindling population eventually reaches 0
Valuable for what? If high-pressure, high-scrutiny situations are a normal occurrence that's a problem and a huge red flag.
> Maybe the smart Kenyans are themselves using ChatGPT to 5x their throughput and essay-writing business in the meantime.

Why in the world do you think a lazy US college student would go to the effort to arrange an international money transfer to get an essay written by ChatGPT and edited by someone, when they can just get it from ChatGPT directly and cut out the middle man? It's not like ChatGPT is obscure or unknown at this point.

This is just a Steven Pinker-esque attempt to sound clever while handwaving away hardship and not realizing what you are saying is utter nonsense.
This reminds of the web server that Netscape used to offer. You could write server-side JavaScript which was both radical and widely disparaged at the time.
Thanks! This is the second piece in the series about consent. If you like, you might appreciate our 1st entry here https://wideangle.co/blog/what-is-consent-under-gdpr
> Well, isn't it then peoples choice to do that?

No, you cannot have any freedom to be uselessly bothersome. That is basic in social rules. If you are missing that evidence, it is because societies have become extremely lax (especially in practical and mental effort. It's called a downfall).

> making more noise than the road noise

The topical noise is that which comes from the additional, artificial noises that are placed to warn the surrounding beings of the traffic, as a consequence of the fact that the vehicle would be less noisy because of the absence of the engine.

In a normal car you have the "natural" mechanical noises (hopefully muffled), whereas the lunatics have placed in a number of models a broadcast background sound that you could - if you never heard it - be assimilated to the starting sounds of operating systems in the nineties. Only, permanent during the running of the vehicle. The new noise is not "grey" as it was, but textured, like a chord of synthetic strings.

So, the prospect is of having streets full of running loudspeakers shouting their own unnatural chords. Which also means that even if you decided to live in an isolated spot of land you should not remain less then a few miles away from any street, if legislation and good un-common sense will not intervene.

> I've never heard

I have heard the scream from least two models from stellantis (probably from the same project); I am informed that the Bayern and others have researched sound textures of their own to promote the brand. I also have information that producers have contacted agencies to produce ringtones for their brand. Moreover, I have seen some implement beeps during parking operations - so your city will sound like a giant construction site.

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Update: some passed by and left a silent note. Confirming the root point! The downfall is restricting people's freedom practically and creates a problem with freedom deontically.
How have you used it to help people eliminate food waste?
Eid Mubarak!

> no food or water

But really no water? That doesn’t sound healthy. Of course you can easily make it through a day without fluids but…
Sadly bigger projects like GIMP or Inkscape didn't learn their lesson. Since version 3.0 GTK serves only GNOME and their particular demands for their severely limited desktop environment. The correct action would be to go back to GTK 2.0. It is far easier to continue to maintain GTK 2.0 than porting your app to a moving target like GTK3/4 with regular severe user and developer hostile regressions.
One has to imagine the poor perception of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have also harmed recruitment. Few people want to sign up when they think they'll just be shipped halfway across the world to die for the interests of an oil company.
Lack of fitness is the big national health problem, but the first part of the equation is the real stickler. A fat person who is forced to run and do pushups with a controlled diet can always lose weight: but an unwilling person will never join the military voluntarily. Why are so many people unwilling to join?

It's sort of crazy that the military is having trouble recruiting in down economic times: they're the one entity that is always able to hire lots of people regardless of how the economic climate is doing. IMO, the pool of people who would want to join the military would greatly expand if other things were done:

> The brass is doubling down on "woke messaging" for recruitment. You may or may not agree with this personally, but there's zero doubt that this is in conflict with the ideals of the kinds of people who traditionally want to join the military.

> The country's leadership seems to be dead set on, at the very least, a proxy war with Russia. Potentially risking your life to protect your family from real danger is one thing, but few sane people want to seek out unnecessary war for the benefit of the military industrial complex.

> Whether you think the Covid vaccines are good or bad risk-management assessments, there's no doubt that a significant fraction of the country do not see it that way and will not put themselves in a position to potentially take it. Many people don't think it's necessary and don't trust it, but the administration can't seem to let go of the other group of people they're simping for: Big Pharma.

PS: I welcome downvotes if you tell me why my analysis is incorrect, not simply because you disagree with it.
Elon Musk has had a wild week. Now he wants to start an AI company
In other words, the "Manage Preferences" dark pattern is a GDPR violation?
These are all your opinions and personal values. I agree with all of them on a personal level. Where I think we disagree is that this is some kind of "pro speech" vs. "anti speech" battle. I see it more as a global US led Imperium attempting to impose their opinions and personal values on people throughout the world regardless of what those citizens or governments think. I'm in the US, me and my countrypeople shouldn't get a say in what happens in Hong Kong. Just like China shouldn't get a say in what happens in the US. Why isn't that enough?
>Last I checked, Google was a search engine, an index of websites, not a judge of the contents of those websites.

Google is not an impartial index of websites. Google manipulates, removes, and selects the links they'd like to display, sometimes differently to each individual searcher. They are a publisher of work either way.
Ok my brain cannot stop reading this as Fail Whale.
Boot camp seems like it would be one of the better places to actually lose the weight. I've never been, so might be eating a boot, but:

- there's obviously a focus on PT. Maybe more so in the future if they expect more out of shape people

- a lot less daily distraction, with a schedule specifically for PT

- drill instructors who will make you work and push yourself vs. you needing the discipline in a gym yourself

- food is controlled somewhat?
In the DotCom era it wasn't unusual when the entire business was implemented inisde an Oracle database runining on a Sun server (including the web server;) How fun was to debug such a system?

Persistence Ignorance [1], also known as PI, is a principle that states that the classes used to model a software application's business domain should not be affected by the way they are stored.

This principle applies to traditional application stacks, except for certain Big Data stacks such as kdb+/q, or situations where optimizing the data layer for performance and integrity is necessary.

For instance, when using kdb+/q, a separate CI pipeline is utilized alongside the main application's CI pipeline, including separate tests, linters, code or query formatters, etc.

When it is necessary to use such systems, the best approach is to isolate them as a separate bounded context, such as a microservice.

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[1] https://deviq.com/principles/persistence-ignorance
My father has a story about this that I think involved driving straight down a frontage road for a couple of minutes and a bribe.
Most people do tons of health-negative choices, but eating too much food and subsequent obesity is only one singled out because it's pretty much only one visible, outside of very heavy drug use. People are doing weird moral judgements based on that.

>Yeah it is complicated etc but so are the reasons people smoke or drink but most people don’t give them a hug and a free pass.

No one cares about social drinking, and smoking is considered bad because smokers stink.
The French implementation of GDPR is very strict on this. It got google into court and they now comply with a single reject all button.
One big benefit of LLMs is that they should be able to parse the HTML page and detect dark patterns, and then re-write the UI to fix them.
You know some people used to use Google as a glorified spell checker? I use ChatGPT as a glorified stupidity checker. What I mean is I ask it the silliest of the doubts. Like how to set environment variable in Windows (because we are all used to EXPORT aren't we?), whether or not can we do X in K8S YAML in a given conversation.

Obviously I use it for other purposes as well, but it definitely has saved me a lot of hours getting the basics things right there in a prompt.
This is why I don't think AI will be as world changing as many believe. If it just replaces human thought more inexpensively, we already have a technology that does that called outsourcing, and it has mixed results.
ICE cars also have to often go out of their way to the fuel pump, while most EVs are charged at home/office.

There must be small impact of that as well to the CO2 calculations.
In fact, the 2022 report mentions that they were initially praised but over time more and more issues have been found.

Don't believe these reports? Just go to YouTube and search for Tesla quality issues...
Possibly while they're playing. But BMI impacts them as they age and retire. They need to be careful to change their diet, maintain exercise, and avoid getting fat - and after a lifetime of eating massive meals and lifting big, that's a really big lifestyle change that can be hard to make.