skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious about PowerShell misbehaving there. Care to share any details? Typically you never want to handle paths to files as strings, or at least resolve them to File/DirectoryInfo objects as soon as possible. But the only real blunder regarding paths in PowerShell I'm aware of is the Path parameter to various cmdlets and having [] in file names (which is why LiteralPath always exists alongside Path parameters).
>In most countries (5) is some variation of "earned income", that is you've earned that money and they have to pay you out when your employment ceases. In many countries sick leave is also earned income and must also be paid out. Hence (5) is unnecessary.

Yes, but if they let you have a "last working day" and then take vacation, you're getting both your salary and your benefits (like healthcare) for that time. Depending on the circumstances--i.e. retiring or taking time off between jobs anyway--this may be the better deal. Even if they say no, you still get the money.
I guess it's only OK when Americans get to censor what the rest of the world sees.
Reading this I thought it was satire... but reading more comments, most of the folks were actually quite real.
In Russia, for instance, NGOs need to be registered as a foreign agent.
> prohibit official use of minority languages on the eastern part of the country

No, they did the same for all languages. Romanians have lived in Northern Bucovina for centuries, yet you don't see us invading Ukraine. But what you're saying is fair because they should only have prohibited Russian since they are the people who genocided Ukrainians so they have no right to occupy Ukraine.
> Say you, for whatever incomprehensible reason, need to access a file named .., which would normally be resolved to the parent directory during normalisation, you can do so via a literal device path.

Oh no. No. Windows allows files to be named `..`?!
Show me one country where free speech has ever been absolute. At a minimum "fighting words" and libel/slander usually have criminal or civil penalties against them. Then there's stuff like IP law where reproducing certain speech can have civil or even criminal penalties.

Statements like "free speech must be absolute" are basically zero content because they don't engage with the nuance of the debate, but they sure sound good.
Ask HN: ChatGPT and Product Liability
To narrow it down and generalize: AI-generated code and potential product liability.

This, as far as I know, is a domain that has not been tested in the courts.

The scenario would start with a product liability lawsuit, say, for a piece of industrial machinery, self driving car, aircraft, etc.

During discovery the lawyers learn that code snippets where generated using AI coding tools. Yes, the code was analyzed by a human and tested. However, court cases are not necessarily decided on the basis of logic or scientific analysis. All you have to do is convince twelve people of something, anything, that will get you a guilty verdict.

That's where we face the reality of a general population that is deficient in the requisite knowledge and understanding as well as all the fear mongering permeating the AI conversation today.

I posit it would not be too difficult to convince a jury that the AI-generated code is evidence enough of negligence and skewer the accused with a guilty decision.

I would think that if they can identify a single section of AI-generated code they might be able to convince the jury that there is no way to know just how much of the codebase was generated using these tools (which could be a fair assumption).

Thoughts?

Any attorneys with legal opinion on this?
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Answer to your puzzle: because as soon as sideloading is allowed, sideloading will become required by the most popular apps.

And then suddenly I lose all the protections afforded to me by the Apple Store, such as easy cancellations of subscriptions, easy refunds of apps that don't work, a layer of protection against malware, and so forth. It also just makes my phone that much harder to use, as finding and installing apps becomes that much harder.

If everybody gets sideloading, that absolutely will impact me directly, and negatively. Does that make sense?
hahaha, welcome to feeling what it's like living in "the rest of the world".

Since the inception of the internet and social media, what is and isn't acceptable to post online has been governed by American culture standards. Murder and violence? Absolutely fine. My wife showing partial nipple on a picture of her breastfeeding on Facebook? Instant ban!

Personally, I think the only way for social media companies to play this and not lose, is to hand over the reigns of censorship to each country, to govern for themselves.

If India wants to ban some content; cool, Facebook gives them an API/dashboard, and they can remove that content themselves.

An American state wants to ban nipples and LGBT content? Cool. Florida government can dedicate some headcount to combating that, Reddit/FB/Google just give them some tools for self service.

Of course, the effect of that censorship is only applied to requests coming from IP addresses within that region, and doesn't affect the rest of the world.

Social media companies; stop letting random governments of the world hold you accountable for censorship. Put the onus on them, provide them the tools, and blame them for their own failing strategy that they can't enforce.
But training to update a single fact isn't slow and costly. finetuning for just a few facts could be done in a matter of seconds with just a few text examples of the correct answer.
That's what your lawyer would say is the case is the impression I got. Or, more seriously, perhaps that could be a toggle. Similar to how if you hit the panic button on iphones it no longer takes biometrics until you give it the code? That might solve for ease of use.
Agreed. I think it is correct to say that Ramadan fasting is intermittent but intermittent fasting is not Ramadan fasting, except the subset of fasting that is Muslims fasting during Ramadan.

I also think some others, among them Christians, fast completely.

Personally I am Christian but when I fast, the vast majority of the times it has been because I was bored or needed to focus, and I didn't punish myself by breaking fast once a day but just went without food a day or two or three until I became bored of that too or family demanded I ate.
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software
For essays certainly would be good, could even be better If multiple people read it and give independent feedback.
You can be held in contempt for leaving your job in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/thedacare-lawsuit-wisc...
> It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at $20/month, it was such a no-brainer, that I had to do it.

Yup. I bought accounts for everyone here. We are using it as what I have been calling a "force multiplier". We are not and cannot use it for coding, yet, things like presentations, analyzing logs, creating lists of things, researching topics, etc. It's a great time saver.

Also, for a lot of things ChatGPT is a much better search engine than Google. It gets you great answers and almost always the first time you ask.

In case the question comes up: We don't use it for coding because of potential liability concerns. At this point I feel that is a space that has not been explored at all. I have no interest in being a pioneer in a lawsuit that claims negligence due to the use of AI-generated code, even if it is reviewed by a human. The combination of fear-mongering and tech-challenged juries could make for very expensive outcomes.

I posed a question about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35655521
Both of those choices put us in the latter situation.
Absolutely not. Source code is the multi-file project you have where you call webpack or a modern variant of it.

The thing people ship on their sites is compiled.
I love the "it was a mistake" "we're looking into it" "not sure what happened..." responses.

Not even just in this context, but in the context of everything. Corporate America is absolutely about deception and politics now, it isn't about working at all.
Yes, that's likely exactly what happened. Volvo pioneered that trick, it makes good sense as long as everything works but if it ever breaks you're done. The big plus is obviously that the loom is very well protected but insulation tends to lose its plasticity over time and in case it gets pinched anywhere you're in trouble. The only feasible option is probably to route an alternative loom through the cabin somehow and to leave the old one in place but non-functional. Even that would be a pretty tall order because there is simply no way to do this without fairly structural changes to the car in order to make room for the new loom in such a way that it is protected from mechanical wear.

On classic cars you can do this sort of thing easily enough, there the chassis was made first and then the wiring loom was put in place but on these modern vehicles you're sore out of luck. And EVs will likely be worse still, what with all the HV DC cabling to motors, batteries and charge ports.
Wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to lock down a particular device with the unlocking step tied to another phone ? Like let's say I buy a phone for my kid and I lock it down using my iphone. For installing any app on my kids phone they require some form of authentication from my device. With more people in the loop I feel social engineering becomes more difficult
Given how willing people are to believe that [russia|china|insert other boogey man] are behind every bump in the night, that leaves you only one "person familiar with the matter" away from serious trouble.

E.g. Elliekelly's comment had all the classic earmarks of russian disinformation campaigns, said an unnamed expert familiar with the matter.
Disagree with this on several levels.

One specific challenge comes as tech companies push more and more compensation to bonuses and other must-be-present-to-win approaches (RSUs, etc). If you leave shortly before a trigger date, you've essentially been working the entire previous year at a discount, since your contractual bonus for the time you worked will never be paid. If you continue significantly past a cliff, then your transition time is being worked at a discount.

If you give significant notice, one of two things can happen. If you give notice before the cliff, planning to depart after the cliff (that is, maximizing the percentage of the time worked where the company actually pays you what they agreed you were worth), the company can accelerate the departure schedule and avoid paying out; if you give notice after the cliff, you're inherently volunteering for discount work for a company you didn't even want to work for at full price!

In practice, I think at this point that companies that choose to put a large amount of compensation behind a cliff this way are responsible for understanding the consequences of that choice. If you pay 30% or my annual comp, and that of all my peers, on Monthuary 15th, then you should assume that you will get a cluster of resignations on Monthuary 16th each year, that those departures will happen in the standard two weeks, and that because they are clustered you will be unlikely to hand off as easily and fully as if they were scattered. But hey, you managed to screw some of my coworkers who had to leave mid-year for family reasons out of a few bucks!
Related to this issue, an article in Harper's Magazine, from 2015, discussed the threat China poses to the United States, via the American businesses who have interests over there:

"The New China syndrome: How Beijing shakes down foreign businesses"

https://archive.harpers.org/2015/11/pdf/HarpersMagazine-2015...

The article focuses on the idea of indirect lobbying: namely, China pressuring U.S. businesses to lobby in favor of China's interests, or risk losing the privilege of doing business in China. (Length: 6 pages)
> Status quo is active oppression everywhere all the time of certain groups

In America in the year 2023, this is a wild statement that amounts to a matter of faith. There is no sensible way to prove or disprove it with evidence, except the obvious fact that any statement that includes the phrase “everywhere all the time” is not reflective of reality and an dismissal of viewpoint and nuance. It’s part of why so many people call wokeness a religion.
I’ve worked on a codebase that had 300K lines of pl/sql and I didn’t find it all that fun to work with. The problem is that you are working in a very constrained environment, starved of language features and libraries, and with a deployment model that is deeply tied to the data and therefore more cumbersome. The IDE’s helped but didn’t matter that much. Also, oracle has per-cpu licenses, so the more code runs in the database the more expensive it becomes.

I think the best design is an API in a language designed for building API’s, on top of a dumb database, with all access gated through the API.
Someone has to design and test this stuff though
The most important thing is not to give a lot of notice when you quit, or to give a crap about how much notice you give them at all. It's when. If at all possible, you should give notice at or slightly beyond the first of the month. That way, when you leave, you will most likely retain your benefits through the rest of the month.

If your last day is say, the 28th, and you don't start a new job til the 2nd, then you're gonna be without benefits for the entire month.
GPT is a specific instantiation of a transformer, and doing next token prediction was an openAI thing. Transformers were a big part of it, but GPT was def proposed but openAI
Why have authorities decided to release this manifesto, but not the one from the other recent shooter in Nashville?
Do you have any plans in ingest trace/span data in future?
Their authoritarian government doesn't ask them about how they want to live.
Or one of the Foenix systems, like:

https://c256foenix.com/16bits-new-retro-computers/?v=7516fd4...
Opus wideband is the highest priority codec now in most VoIP apps.
Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat and Drought Grips Europe
They are car manufacturers and known to lock down their systems as much as possible.

Have you ever tried to explain the Qt licensing system to the legal department of an automotive, medical, or aerospace manufacturer? I have.

If you can get them to understand it, their faces turn white at the idea of the end customer sideloading new libraries into the device. The conversation pretty much stops there.
Never thought about it this way, but makes a lot of sense. I gave 4 weeks notice one time because I had an especially large amount of knowledge-transfer to do, and it worked out about like described. And the "fun"/QOL aspects probably are reproducible at the right companies, now that I think about it
Even with those protections, we still had apps like LinkedIn Intro which was designed to man-in-the-middle all email connections. And these are supposedly legitimate companies.

I can’t wait to see what apps try to do when there are no restrictions.
You are calling it a «meme», the judges recognized it as «fraudulent actions cross[ing] a line into criminality». The color does not count.
> as soon as sideloading is allowed, sideloading will become required by the most popular apps

Bingo. Chiefly worried about Facebook and my folks. As well as compliance deciding everyones' personal phones need antivirus spyware.

That said, I think Apple has the playbook with SIP on Macs: make it scary to disable and clearly in power user territory.
There's a few other reasons - Midjourney uses Discord because it's a free CDN but also because they take care of legal stuff (CSAM and copyright notices.)
What ChatGPT Is Not
Project Valhalla: A look inside Java's epic refactor
This was my first computer. Not the first one in my house, but the first one that was mine.
It's probably a misguided fear based on how bad things are even with the App Store, but I'm worried about each company moving its software to its own sites and requiring a more complicated, frustrating, or more privacy-invasive process to use the software over the requirements set by the App Store.
Search Twitter for “as an AI language model”
Twitter removes all government affiliation labels for media organizations
Teachers and the Right
Bijan Robinson, a generational NFL draft talent in the wrong generation
One of the early stupid annoying teenager programs I wrote was a tool that would spam your desktop with CON.001, CON.002, and so on through the \\?\ trick.

Windows explorer could not delete the file. You have to specify the \\?\ path to get the delete call to work, but that didn't work well with cmd.exe's `del` command.

I've since used these files to create directories that can't be deleted by automated cleanups and such, like a special folder in %TEMP% that one program needed but didn't create on its own.
nice, missed that on the bard site.
At least it doesn't seem like the law in question was specifically about enforcing Ramadan, rather a sinister abuse of the general "Blasphamy law"[1] which exists in some non-muslim countries too.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171211105140/http://freethough...
When I was highly engaged with Imply (Druid) a few years ago, S3 was also used as a backing storage. Is this not the case anymore?
What happens in Europe if you're supposed to work out 3 months notice and you stop showing up:

- you stop getting paid.
- you probably will have a hard time dealing with your former employers if you need something from them.
- they think you're a dick, and tell other people, if asked, what an asshole you are.
- potentially if they have nothing better to do, they get a lawyer to write you a threatening letter, then do nothing.
DuckDB for Swift
> it was hard work and he had to be there the whole time to answer questions about what he meant by a sentence. I don't consider that work to be illegitimate; he gave me fully-written essays that I did not change the content of, only the grammar, so that his actual thought could reach his prof in a clear way.

That's called tutoring.

Not only is it legal, but a lot of institutions encourage it and even run official services to offer it. Language proficiency for foreign students is often a pretty big barrier to their success. Your student learned from you, and I'm sure he wasn't ashamed back home to tell his parents that he hired a tutor to sharpen his skills.

What these people are doing is different, they are sending in the assignment and expecting a completed paper at the end. They may or may not use it to further their understanding or skills, but they will definitely submit it as their own.

> white-presenting Canadian

What does that even mean?
Apple has stuffed their consumer hardware with high-end chips - that are completely under-utilised by themselves and restricted for third-party apps…
This is absolutely crazy! (And that's the best compliment I know.)

You could have spent your time studying for the CISSP exam, but instead you did something that made the world a more beautiful place.
I'm tired of this ludicrous insinuation that a free and independent press either doesn't exist or if it does it should never be trusted. I regularly read opposing viewpoints or even self criticism in the established media. Your claims are wild and impossible to disprove.
The one you are forgetting is probably the most important one : control of the financial system.

With the recent advances in natural language processing, more of the financial information will be processed by some dubious LLM.

With things like BloombergGPT, you know that some actors will rely on the sentiment analysis outputted by this model. Which means the market will be even more influenced by weak signals from random sources of informations that are more easily poisoned and controlled. Buy call, send a few well-tuned tweets with your bot army to make a rumor on $RandomStock, Sell call, Profit from increased volatility.

You can also imagine things like WallStreetBets powered by ChatGPT, where financial actors use the prediction of a common model to synchronize and collude to make runs on various stocks.

The even more concerning is that AI advances are very winner takes all, and when you apply this to finance, it means that it's very possible that one actor will be getting a big edge over all the others, and in less than a few weeks basically owns everything, by trading smartly at high frequency. Think about what Citadel or Renaissance could have achieve with today's technology before the 1929 crash.
That's funny because one of my friends did a contract for them and never sent the machine back, and they never sent him a box or said anything.
India at least seems to be attempting to homegrow multiple industries that the West typically specializes in (eg. Cars, heavy industry, tech at the lower levels of the stack). A country of their size with all that going for it probably wont be entirely screwed. I say this as someone whos parents came from Pakistan, at least you got some things going for you. I worry about the future of Pakistan: seems less certain...
> Except for the hot reloading (which you mention twice btw) the tooling for the popular languages has everything in the list, and most can be achieved with GDB and Wireshark alone, in any language that GDB supports.

"Can be achieved" with some additional tools. I doubt you can easily expect the structure of the app, how it repaints, see all the relevant network requests, and also introspect and query the running app, emulate various hardware, inspect and debug animations etc. in most languages.

Yes, there are collections of tools that may give you all that in aggregate, but frankly, it's not close to an "out-of-the-box" experience.

> there's no point exaggerating.

It's not really exaggeration.
Beaver ponds with deeper sediments store more nitrogen, simple mapping reveals
Yes! However, I assume web-search wont disappear and perhaps AI can handle some sort of filtering (like maybe AI-enhanced Spam filtering?).

Just guessing.

For example, despite unsubscribing from emails daily and constantly junking, I still get a ton of spam. I assume simply telling a model "never show me a marketing e-mail again" probably works pretty well.
I just got veri and did my first 2 weeks -- same experience. Much cheaper than some of the competitors.
If you can get your hands on the book they published about it (titled "Rekursiv") you should give it a read. It's written in a fun style and is actually quite interesting
I think the point is: should we really be enforcing religious laws in our societies? Seems deeply coercive and unethical
> The sophisticated relay attack requires two thieves working together — one near the owner and one near the car
The arxiv publishing model does not do peer review, though. The papers on there aren't validated beyond a very cursory look into whether it is basically spam or not.
To be fair, this is Wisconsin. The judge is probably the guy that runs the hospital's brother-in-law.
You're absolutely correct. It's very common to see players balloon and go overweight once they stop with the activities
Yes, these kinds of “second-order effects” are real, and common. There is probably a good summarization of it in game theory, or economics.
Just a reminder that Mohammed raped a nine-year-old girl, and women and girls under Islam are still suffering to this day under this perverse, misogynistic belief system. Eid Mubarak.