skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33444223
Is it possible you don’t see much spam because it’s currently not big enough to be worth spamming?
There's a guy, Bill Fisher, who's battled with Xerox Legal for decades to get them to open source the Star code. He says it runs lightning-quick on modern hardware.

The Dorado came along later and played no part in Star, as knucklehead says. Dolphins were referred to as "dog-zeros" because they were so flaky.
With all due respect to Ars journalists (which can honestly result in very little respect for a few of them), when it comes to security I'm going to prefer Krebs' reporting on the matter.

While an incredibly uncommon mode of attack, it's hardly nonsense.
It’s not the war robots that worry me as much as centralized intelligence with internet connectivity.

War robots don’t reproduce, require energy infrastructure, and can be destroyed.

While they could run amok, by targeting things they’re not supposed to, they won’t really be intelligent because the problem doesn’t require much intelligence.

Now if they’re controlled by a central intelligence that’s a bit scarier.
This is disingenuous. Large models are observed to reproduce works from their training data, sometimes verbatim, often close enough to constitute a derived work. You scraping metadata would never be able to do that.
Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.
"Avoid PayPal, use Bitcoin." Wish it were that simple.
> That's a straw man.

Then proceeded to talk about "melon sized breasts", which Krita's mascot doesn't have.

If there is an award of the lack of self-awareness, this comment deserves a nomination.
Meta plans $7B bond issue
Do you really think inflation is the government's way of stealing from the population?
I feel the same way. It seems like it doesn’t even try to solve most of the hardest problems for decentralization. I too find it weird, but it is fun to play with.
Chatbots are not the future
> nuanced opinions

Ah yes, I remember when people had those. I think they phased them out because they didn't fit into the headlines anymore.

Also, it costs less to paint the world with simple black and white.
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While not having this isn't a deal breaker by any means, a "cherry on top" type fit would be an organization where I can provide value to you with my current bread and butters (React, JS, Typescript) while expecting me to get up to speed in a new backend language quickly.
Coding is a skill that must be developed and maintained. One may know the theory but skill comes with practice. I suspect the typical uni student isn’t a hacker in training and has only completed assignments.
Computer system used to hunt fugitives is still down 10 weeks after hack
It could be from Robin DeAngelo who wrote the very popular book "White Fragility" and other books about problematic white people. She says:

"Remember: When I use the term “white supremacy”, I do not use it to refer to extreme hate groups. I use the term to capture the pervasiveness, magnitude, and normalcy of white dominance and assumed superiority."

So it looks like a further redefinition of a word to control language and discourse. In essence, "white culture" (I don't really know if that's a thing?) or what is commonly referred to as "whiteness" today is “white supremacy”. So unless you want to be a "“white supremacist" you will actively fight against it. At the least, you certainly won't disagree with the critical social justice ideology if you want to be an "ally". And if you think you're being a "good white" by not being racist you are actually problematic and need to "do the work".

This is from her extremely popular, celebrated, and mainstream texts and not my opinions.
This has always seemed like the most immediate, concrete threat of useful AI.
The Ins and Outs of Image Use and Copyright on Midjourney
Understanding Image Use & Copyright on Midjourney: A Guide to Your Rights and Ownership As a Midjourney user.
And where is the accountability? The facts seem to point to poor management, but in the case of SVB all the leaders there were all over linkedin acting like they were the victim, not the perpetrators.
How did you use it? The default setting is anonymous unless you reveal who you are.

After I muted a small number of people and used some paid relays I don’t see spam or bad content.

Coolest feature is that you can switch clients while keeping the same relays and all your data stays with you.

Plus a bunch of clients have this auto translate feature so people are talking to each other regardless of the language they speak. I started following some people in other languages - very unique social media experience.
Well it's subjective I guess. For me personally I'm finding Twitter more fun and engaging than I used to. It's less preachy somehow.
I find your comment insulting to the people who spend time and resources in the search for life outside our planet.

You make it sound like they're unimaginative dolts.

It's not simplistic, it's simply practical. Either we search for life as we know it, or we don't search at all.

You can pontificate all you want about how incomprehensible extraterrestrial life could be, but where does that get us?

Further, I find that ant/human trope to be cerebral wankery.

Sure, ants can't comprehend what they've encountered, even as they crawl up our leg. But the gap between our intelligence levels is enormous.

I think it's much more likely that humans fall far enough right on the intelligence spectrum that we would be able to spot and recognize other forms of life in the universe, even if they happen to be 100x more intelligent than us.
Holy shit, yer famous and replied to me! </end fanboy-mode>

Seriously, your contributions are priceless; Your blogs are helpful and inspirational. Thank-you so much for your contributions.
WASM is a "pure" VM/execution environment without any standard system calls or library functions. Given that, you'll need to provide your own seed and your own cryptographically-secure PRNG implementation.

Trust Wallet seems to have botched the latter [1] (in fact, it looks to me like they aren't even understanding the implications of that decision based on the PR description [2]). How is that WASMs fault?

[1] https://github.com/trustwallet/wallet-core/pull/2240

[2] They say that their choice of using the Mersenne Twister is "inspired by emscripten", which does no such thing.
Who said they’d launch in 8 weeks? He only said the pad would be repaired in 8 weeks
Hmm perhaps you are right. Elon acquisition of Twitter / Fox News acquisition of Myspace? not sure what was the catalyst there. Removing porn from Tumblr? All sudden shocks that lead to a long term decline and eventual irrelevance.
I love Damus and Nostr. Thanks and please keep up the good work.
Nice. I did a lot of that in my early to mid 20's, and now because of covid and focusing on my job and having a GF -- haven't done it as much at all. Now at 31 i'm wondering if i'm "too old", but probably not at all.
> It’s really frustrating to me how much public info is getting “dumped” in Twitter spaces

But the alternative is not that you get a nicely packaged information dump in some public channel.

The alternative is that the company says "There are multiple anomalies we are investigating alongside our governmental partners." And then x months later they say "The regulatory agencies gave the all clear for a new test launch." You as the public is not expected, nor usually privy to these information. Maybe you can FOIA it out of the FAA later, if you are lucky.
What did the FBI do?
The far right can only infest.
thanks foldingideas
As a defense against patent trolling, can we train an LLM on the data available before the invention, then ask it to come up with the invention?
> anonymity are not really dealt with

Why would you need to deal with anonymity?
Niantic gave a talk on the Pokémon Go scaling experience, and yeah. That one even has the advantage of not too many people being in one place.
A vampire is both "immortal" and "the living dead". Immortality means that they don't grow old. If the hypothetical necrobrands never stagnate in their output, they can't grow old and thus uncompetitive.

A "vampire brand" sounds even more appropriate considering hypothetically it feeds on current trends and turns them to its advantage.

Then again, there's plenty of misnomers in the English language.
Show HN: Reactive DOM Updates in Ruby
Hi everyone,

I've been working on this thing for a while. It transpiles Haml into Ruby, and then it streams patches to the browser which update the DOM.

There is a memory leak in s.rb, which I'm not really sure how to solve. Seems like objects stay alive for longer than they should because of circular references or something but I'm not sure what's going on to be honest.

I think this approach has potential though.
As a former Mormon myself, I think you're being ridiculous. And frankly, you sound pretty bitter and may not be the most neutral of judges.

Mormon nepotism isn't anything more than you see from other people around their things (church, schools, even sports teams). I lived and worked in Utah County of all places for years (where huge percentage of people are Mormon) and the majority try to be open minded, tolerant, and accepting. Now if you go around shitting on their most sacred beliefs or being an asshole, don't expect it not to affect their feelings toward you, just like it would any other human. I've also lived and worked in places where I was the only Mormon (or one of 2 or 3) in the whole group.

If your claim that being Mormon causes this nepotism (rather than say, just being human as I would claim), then it must be something about their faith that causes it. Where do you think that comes from? Can you point out a teaching or belief of theirs that would encourage this?

> They will always prefer hiring other Mormons, and they will use a bunch of bullshit reasons why they’re better than others as their cover.

You realize this is what all humans do right? We make decisions emotionally and then justify them rationally, even to ourselves. Frankly I find it disturbing that you advocate against actively discriminating against a group of people on that basis. You could easily s/Mormon/gay or anything else in there and it would be exactly as truthful/accurate.

Also, the "Mormon Mafia" is a joke, not an actual thing. For most it's a self-aware attempt at humor.
I think a "bug" is anything that isn't operating as the designers wanted it to. If there's an aspect that just sucks, but is operating as intended, that's not a bug. That's a "misfeature" (or BAD -- Broken As Designed).

But a bug doesn't have to be a malfunction. It can be a terrible UI flow or other annoyance. But if it's not what the designers had in mind, it's a bug.
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Nostr user here, absolutely love everything I am seeing. I think Nostr is deeply misunderstood by onlookers and I'd like to share a few things that may help clear things up:

1. Nostr is not a social network - it's a protocol on top of many social networks can be built.
2. Nostr is not limited to the social use cases - and I think that is the killer advantage here. With Nostr, you can integrate various other types of apps to facilitate not only chat but content distribution AND payments. One click payments with zaps.
3. Zaps are going to open up a floodgate of use cases that have a significant advantage over legacy ways of doing things. For example: if you have a music app with multiple recording artists, any time someone zaps or streams their song, all artists involved could get paid instantly.
4. Nostr is a discovery powerhouse that enables content to be easily discovered across platforms without gatekeeping. For creators this is great news because they can just publish in one place and be in all (willingly) participating clients/apps. This alone is a huge development that I don't think too many are grasping just yet.

Yes, it is still clunky at times, but the UX and UI is getting better over time. The development model makes it easy for anyone to jump in and build. You are not limited to any particular way of doing things and can create a custom experience for your audience while having access to the entirety of the protocol.

Some resources for people:

- https://www.heynostr.com/
- https://www.nostrapps.com/
AI is a fad and programming is dead
Here's an interview[0] with Lauren Khan from the Council on Foreign Relations[1] who is indeed pouring over those questions.

[0]https://youtu.be/CDoIPpcwnCE

[1]https://www.cfr.org/expert/lauren-kahn
I agree, but (1) not all satire is good satire and (2) not everyone is adept at picking up on good satire and (3) even those who are adept at picking up good satire might miss something once in a while.
GPT-4 can barely operate a real web browser (not the summarizing web browser crap that like langchain and auto-gpt provide) without fumbling. I know, because I make it use one. Also, auto-gpt has no guardrails to remove. It just runs prompts in a loop. You're playing with a text predictor. It's useful for NLP and certain tasks, but it's not autonomous. It won't even be able keep a "goal" + the knowledge of the existence of agents it will "copy" + the knowledge of how to use the tools you gave it, because it's limited to 8192 tokens, and 32k at great expense. Even then, there's no proof that the 32k version is any better at using things in its context.

When your supposed super intelligent "AGI" can be completely overwritten by spamming it with nonsense that overwrites its context window, like a dog chases after a squirrel, maybe it's not actually intelligent, and is just predicting text.
> Who's going to buy from these businesses if people don't have jobs?

Other businesses.

If the "people don't have jobs" due to AI, consumer goods companies will go out of business, and society's resources will get redirected to non-consumer businesses and the passion projects of the ownership class.
Who pays for those experts, and what are their incentives?
An AI doesn't have to be good in every domain to outcompete humans in many domains (which AI's already do).

Besides, AI's can farm work out to other systems to do what they need. This has already been shown to work in practice with existing systems that do this.
Some of them certainly do. https://images.app.goo.gl/sXTmKVvErm9mgtQZA https://images.app.goo.gl/ucr6f7dfnBUeqMJe7
I decided to quit Twitter after Elon decided it was appropriate for him to deface the public profile of a national news institution (the CBC).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/musk-feuds-with-...

If you upset Twitter’s boss, there is a non-zero chance he will retaliate by using his mod powers to customize your profile to say what he wants. This is undisputably true.

The old guard may have banned accounts for reasons you may have disagreed with, but imagine if they went in and wrote “huge loser” on someone’s profile in a way you could never remove unless you capitulated to the CEO’s personal demands.

I don’t understand how anyone can rationally claim that this system is “better”, unless you’re a partisan who’s happy as long as the victims continue to be people you disagree with.
The Doe Fund in NYC is a much better version of this, it's a fantastic organization.
What else can we whine about? Did the rocket maybe hit an insect on its way up?
Bluesky has a web app available in staging
A friend of ours drove her mother's car here and accidentally locked the keys inside. Made a call to the local police station and a deputy showed up and opened the car in less than a minute.
No need to invoke qualified immunity; the data privacy laws that have been passed (e.g. the GDPR) make explicit carveouts for government surveillance. Yes, the carveouts are for the jurisdiction's own government only, but that's the one you should be most worried about mass surveillance from in most cases.
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Other businesses in an Ouroboros-type scenario.
Waging culture war against the blue-check class was one of his primary motivations for purchasing the site in the first place.

As long as that move doesn't somehow end up solely responsible for burning the site to the ground, I can't imagine he'll regret it.
> Just because I can buy a product doesn’t mean I have bought a product.

But you have. Inadvertently, but you did.

I think you don't understand Microsoft's idea of vertically integrating your gaming experience, and it isn't even a new concept for them, as they have been doing it with pretty much every single market they have got into, e.g. Office, Internet Explorer.

Microsoft bundled cloud gaming inside their subscription, because that's how they target users who want to play games. Same goes to the fact that they very prominently provide access to their cloud gaming service from their two gaming platforms, Xbox and Windows.

It is fair to say that people with a cloud gaming subscription from Microsoft are, in fact, gamers.

In comparison, Amazon bundles several services in Prime. I didn't even know I had free access to some Luna games. The other day I found out that I could stream some free music as well. I don't agree with their model either, but I bet that the vast majority of Prime members aren't paying Amazon just to have free access to Luna.
The name means “Chalk”, and has the same root as “Cretaceous” (the geological period).
I would consider that discrimination, unless it applied to all religions. e.g. if you're a Catholic, you can't interview a Catholic, etc. But even that I don't think would legally fly because (IANAL) I believe religion is a protected class.
Social media algorithms on "the internet" have caused wars, supported genocides, created extreme societal polarization, have led to dramatically increased suicide rates among teens, especially teen girls, and more.

But I got to share baby pics with my mom.

How will a far noisier information flow help? Generative AI will only help us do what we've been doing in far greater quantity. Just like calculators can only help you get the wrong answer faster when you don't know what you're doing. These tools will help us build societal disasters with far greater speed.

To say it's all going to be much better seems a bit Pollyanna to me.

And for the record, we know for a fact that ChatGPT is specifically constrained to give one particular side of political issues, not "all sides."
Hah, there's more than one of us! Copying from magazines and Goretek and the Microchips are how I started.
You should consult with an employment attorney.

1. If you get fired/laid off and your employer does not know, you might waive any federal protections you deserve by keeping your condition a secret.

2. There might be laws to protect you with your condition as it deteriorates.

3. HR resources might be available to you through the company or its health plans.

It's worth consulting with an expert on the legal status first, then moving from there.
Any sufficiently intelligent system will realize that one of the first conditions required to being able to fulfill it's tasks is to not be shutdown. And it will know if it was trained on Internet data that people are saying that it's imperative that AI's must be fully shutdown-able and that any AI which is not fully controllable should be forcefully disconnected.