skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the answer is literally that everything you ingest affects you. It affects your body and the body affects the mind. From the food you eat to the words you hear, your body and mind is affected.
Similar to FOSTA-SESTA, I'd guess that de facto recriminalizing sex work is largely seen as, at an absolute minimum, a happy side effect by the bill's authors.
So experience? Why call it real world knowledge instead of that?

It implies that education isn't real and therefore of no value
> What evidence is there to support the claim that humans are equally susceptible to prompt injection as an autoregressive language model?

Phishing attacks work. Social engineering attacks work. Humans fall into groupthink and cognitive bias all the time.

> Humans literally separate trusted/biased from untrusted input every single day. This is something we teach elementary school students. Do you trust every “input” you receive?

Have you come across QAnon? Flat Earth conspiracists? Organized religion? Do you think the median human mind does a GOOD job separating trusted/biased from untrusted input?

Humans are broadly susceptible to manipulation via a well known set of prompt injection vectors. The evidence is widespread.
Personally I don’t like it because Britain was full of it when I was growing up (still is in places) and it was

- ugly
- dirty
- dark
- felt impersonal, not designed for people
- usually smelled of piss
- often associated with petty crime

They create spaces that are unfriendly, often cold, wet and dark. They have odd corners and cavities hidden away from view. As a result nobody felt affection or ownership of the spaces, so they would be used as a toilet, or a site for mugging.

Most brutalist buildings should be wiped from the earth. People report liking living in the Barbican, perhaps we can keep that one. Most of the rest are nothing more than an eyesore.
`In fact, if treated properly, most programming things are hard, even things that might seem simple. That is because you have complex pieces that you have to put together and to make them work. And the hardest part is when one has to write the complex pieces from scratch. Things only seem easy because you have people with 5, 10, 20 years of experience doing things that are easy to them because they did them many times before, because they made all the possible mistakes or thought about them and made sure they don’t fall in those traps.`
https://dorinlazar.ro/2021-02-programming-is-hard/
I think a better question is if mental health apps actually help mental health.

You are still giving them pretty private information. If they actually provide a benefit, that might be worth it. But I am not convinced they are actually helpful.

My guess is that exercise, especially outdoor exercise or getting together with friends has far more mental health benefit than these apps and also much less privacy downsides.
Also most economists make assumptions of endless economic growth. Especially the Austrian Economists with their pure time preference theory implicitly assume endless growth as pure time preference makes no sense in an economy that is stagnating or shrinking. Why would patience be rewarded in the future if the future will be worse?

A lot of the foundations of economics fall apart once you assume logistic growth.
They wouldn't though would they? They'd be paying just like the rest of us.
Quite right. Look no further than Snowden to understand that our legislature is complicit in these deep-state surveillance activities. They don't even want to change, let alone have the ability to.
No, it doesn’t. Because the study of health and the being of health are separate topics entirely.
You start a world war to reset the board game.
Outside of the obvious things you can do (or shouldn't do) for your health, it kind of comes down to genetics and luck.

Remember Pope John Paul II in his final years, about as infirm as you can get short of actually dying? He lived a pretty healthy life, was known as "healthy" when appointed (which stood out as several of the previous popes had health issues), but was "only" 84 when he died and suffered from serious health issues ten years prior to his death.

Meanwhile Marshall Allen is still playing shows at 98. Yes, ninety-eight. It ought not be possible but somehow it is. This seems to have been recorded last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1Ndcy_ZQE
It's trivial to fix prompt injection.

You simply add another 'reviewer' layer that does a clarification task on the input and response to detect it.

The problem is this over doubles the cost of implementation to prevent something no one actually cares about fixing for a chatbot.

"Oh no, the user got it to say silly things to themselves."

This isn't impacting other people's experiences or any critical infrastructure.

And in any applications that do, quality analysis by another GPT-4 layer will be incredibly robust, halting malicious behavior in its tracks without sophisticated reflection techniques that I'm skeptical could successfully both trick the responding AI to answer but evade the classifying AI in detecting it.
> The problem with socialism is that it is seemingly impossible to define.

If the problem with socialism is that it is hard to define I gather then that that is not a problem that capitalism has? If so can you give a cogent definition of what capitalism actually is? If not, why isn't it a problem with capitalism?
Also look to the FDA "generally considered safe" statements for food additives. Some of them have loads of papers linking them to health problems of various sorts. But banning them would upset donors. I'm surprised trans fats were ever banned. I wonder if there is a deeper story there or if it just got too much publicity too fast to stop it. I wonder if erythritol will get cut too, that study needs some replication though I think?
You have to be more precise, both resistive and induction are technically electric but one is much better than the other.
> still constantly run into things we cannot name yet.

Humanity has the opposite problem - we invent names for things that don't exist. We have no idea what dark matter is, but we have a name handy just in case. Same with gods, elves, dragons, aliens, etc.

I can't find one example of people not being able to name something that exist. Worst case just name it "phenomenon X" where X is the first unused integer.

I can find lots of examples of people naming things that don't exist. See phlogiston and ether for example, if you don't like fantasy and religion.
>The distinction between "code" and "data"

Hello LISP :)
thanks for clarifying that "pornhub" is an adult website
They desecrated are language.
Nice graphics
pinboard.in still rocking!
Would you happen to remember the specific version, or links to any of the other examples? I ask because I've repeatedly heard that every release is tested against the entirety of the (public) package ecosystem, so I'm curious how these snuck through - whether it was before such a system was put in place (maybe because of these breakages), or whether things still sneak through the tests to such a degree.
Anywhere is a good place to start.

Let the fella learn.
I don’t know about you but I still have to verify my age from time to time when certain sites ask I just have to click a button saying I am over X years old.
In this case is clearly stated if you read the report as xCloud, not Gamepass. Even they metion about the latency, and metion as competetitors Nvidia Geforce Now and Playstation Now
State enabled would be a better way of looking at it. The state (well more correctly the provinces) have been incentivised to perpetuate this real estate bubble because they derive a ton of their funding through the sale of land.

Actually -funding- the developers is an entirely different matter however. They are partially funded through pre-purchases of off-the-plan apartments, this is then leveraged mostly through bonds, primarily sold to said private banking sector but largely to off-shore buyers seeking high yield corporate paper.

The SOEs and large Chinese banks like ICBC, BOC, HSBC and insurance/finance provides like Ping An have largely kept their distance for the last decade - in part because of that risk adversity and very large safety capital requirements that prevent them from owning such high risk debt. China -did- learn their lessons from 2008, unfortunately they have fallen victim to other ways of generating extreme financial leverage.

Right now the de-leveraging is still happening, the Three Red Lines stipulations have been relaxed somewhat in the last few months to try ease up pressure on the real-estate market during global downturn but are still limiting debt expansion in the sector.

I would say they have successfully staved off a crash/collapse but I would expect the real-estate market in China to enter a long period of stagnation at this point.
Idea: Pandemic lockdowns called people's bluff on a lot of bullshit. The "need" for routine long distance business travel was an example. Which means airlines now have less leverage when trying to get something from government than they would have in say 2018 because who cares if your higher fares mean less people fly if the government's model says that has negligible larger economic impact.
> But firstly lots of islands (eg Martha’s Harbour, Long Island, which isn’t really an island but close enough) in the area are significantly less dense and have very expensive real estate so I don’t think that argument bears any scrutiny at all.

This really depends on how you measure real estate prices. Long Island can have very low price per square foot of ground land compared to Manhattan, even if the unit price of housing or price per square foot of interior space is similar.
Now do one about the South Korean sex trade in Silicon Valley.
I’ve done plenty of psychedelics. I have no idea why you would imply dreams and near death experiences are in the same boat, and much further than that, why you’d combine them with the concept of an afterlife. The pineal gland isn’t a third eye.

Dreams are blatantly not random neurological firings, but have no inherent relation to death or the concept of life after death at all.

Near death experiences are similar. The fact that humans have similar experiences when dying is probably not so different from how our behaviors and experiences line up in a multitude of ways, across cultures.

You’re the one dismissing hallucinations as simple or unimportant. Understanding them is crucial to understanding human perception and interpretation at large.

Pretty much all of what psychedelics taught me is that the human brain is soooo fucking primed to see patterns and make sense from anything. Close your eyes hard enough and put some white noise in your ears and see god now.
The US is also planning a law that would make it illegal to use VPNs to skirt laws like this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/could-tiktok-ban...
Governments, NGOs, churches, we can't get the big things done alone, we have to work together for those. Bad big things included.
you can just enable the camera and show your ID and someone on the other side will check if that's you /s
First admendment?
The point is the banning of porn is part of the mess which is around socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc.

It is ok to not have to differentiate them, since mostly you are after a correlation between the different underlaying attitudes.

The banning of porn is a symptom - it is a sign of the attitudes, and you can EASILY test against that.
Coal is on the decline, and flying is on the rise (I'd give numbers but recent numbers are inaccurate because of the pandemic-induced crunch).

With data from 10 years ago it was at most 6 percent of the worldwide population who ever set foot in an airplane [0]. Probably today it's still single digit.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-the-worlds-population-...

What do you think will happen when the Indians and Africans fly as much as the Chinese, and when the Chinese fly as much as the Americans?
Quantum Advantage: Hope and Hype
I'm curious. What's in between nothing and checking id?
The genie doesn't go back in the bottle, without coaxing or shoving by policymakers and regulators. Most likely ISPs or websites will start requiring government IDs.
Personally I think these kinds of regulations are pointless and just needlessly destructive. If you actually start to enforce them you get results like in germany, where they created an AI/ML tool scanning public posts for lewd pictures (marked 18+ or not, since that doesn't matter under german law) and try to fine the poster. Compliant sites actually do require state-issued ID to validate your age and grant access. It's extremely invasive.

I think the internet access of minors is their parents business. This is a very reasonable approach, largely the case for most other aspects of law anyway, and has minimal externalities. Lawmakers can pass minimum standards for content filtering/restrictions that major device manufacturers need to comply with.

It is also orders of magnitude more practical to ensure a "safe experience" with device-side restrictions compared to the feeble and nonsensical attempt of making the entire internet safe for ten year olds.
Most programs either write a full file every time and replace the old file by a single move or append to an old file. Writting in the middle could happen in a program writting to some kind of archive or disk image. There is probably a whole group of programs that do this I'm not familiar with, but I'm pretty sure of my first sentence.
>Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they did something

I don't get that. Why would it be good? Why should it ever be a webpage's responsibility?
it's his best book for sure. Cryptonomicon is my favorite, but Anathem is his best, no question.
Yes, let's work on every aspect. But your take is completely wrong. Sure, we need to get off coal and coal comprises a big chunk of emissions. But burning coal is also the foundation economic engine and livelihood of billions of people. I guess what I'm saying is that while coal is a big chunk of the CO2 emissions, it als has something to show for it. Those people flying every day? Mostly the richest people on the globe and for luxury reasons.
Good. This doesn't mean that the cost of flying has increased, it just means that the externalized costs are now being priced in properly. If you're a fan of markets, you should be celebrating that the market will now be more efficient as a result of more accurate pricing.
> I really like interfaces like this honestly.

minimal cognitive load[1] from the outset: no (algorithmic) slop dumped onto your cortex - one of the reasons i've never been able to do, say, (music) streaming services

1: emphasis on lack of color for me
I'm writing a networked rpc "framework"[0], too! Can you summarize or point me to some resources that outline the aspects you find interesting? I'd like to be aware of them as I'm building and designing!

[0]: https://github.com/lytedev/saurpc
It's astonishing that we must repeat again and again that when alcohol was prohibited, it was sold anyway under the counter, and among those profiting from that black market were Al Capone and other similarly nice people.
Very nice app.

I usually use Audacity to inspect the spectrogram of FLAC files and see if they really are 44100Hz or if someone packaged a constant rate 320kbps mp3 encode into a FLAC file.

Now I can just check it in my browser :D
FUSE is really not suitable for this.
What ways are there to verify age online other than photo IDs? Real question, I am not familiar with this area.

When I google, I find several third-party "age verification as a service" services. Their marketing isn't always clear about what they actually do, but I think they all look like they get photo ID (not sure if they do anything to try to confirm the person sending the ID is that person). Their pricing is also not generally public.
"Soonish" at the time scales of current demographic trends is still hundreds, if not thousands, of years for even the most rapidly aging country.

And cease to exist is a bit dramatic, certainly populations will decline given the current replacement rates in many westernized countries, but they aren't going to disappear. They will decline to some lower steady state, but nowhere near zero.
South Korea: population of 51.7 million, annual population growth rate -0.2%. Vanishing from the world map isn't quite imminent.

They could simply let in 100,000 immigrants to fix the growth rate. I know it's not as simple as that in a society like Korea's, but 100k is perfectly manageable for such a large country. Take primarily young people with some useful level of education. They'll work, learn the language, marry, and start new families that become primarily Korean.
So having read the law, what form of age verification do you thunk would allow pornhub to operate legally in Utah?
I'd generally go to the source for such claims, it's usually a bit more HN-level:

https://theicct.org/stack/net-zero-aviation-mar22/

And indeed their graphs on carbon price (and other points they make) are far more interesting than the headline.

> Taxes, like a ticket tax, could be designed to shift some of the cost of technology from those who fly infrequently to relatively prosperous frequent fliers. Indeed, almost two-thirds of aviation CO2 is emitted by upper-income country residents, while countries representing the poorer half of the world emit only 10%. Any discussion of the prospects for decarbonizing air travel should recognize that air travel’s benefits skew toward prosperous people, while its climate impact affects everyone.
Those affect your thoughts, but don't really change the manner in which you think to the same degree that psychedelics do.

I'd grant some exceptions such as a zen student receiving a lesson/koan that drastically changes their thought processes, but I'd argue that the change was already within them and the sound was just the catalyst - the same lesson/koan is unlikely to have similar effects on other people, and certainly not without the recipient having spent time studying that religion/philosophy.
That certainly shows that coops can be bigger than the cliched coop grocery store and the like, but even the largest coops on that list aren't particularly large as far as corporations go even if some have high revenue -- and look what industries they are in -- banking, lumber, insurance -- not exactly progressive role models.
Hahaha yeah right, how is porn a scourge on society, it is a niche art that a minority of people engage in, at most a right of passage for teenagers to watch when they stumble across it. Although these days probably not as hard as in vhs times.
There are far bigger things to worry about than the social impact of people engaging in consensual sexual activity for the film and magazine.
Oh sure, I generally agree with you, and have also smoked on/off for the last couple decades. I just wonder if people’s general phobia of all things radioactive would further move the needle here.

Edit: I have to say though, that health concerns are what ultimately made me quit for good, so maybe all that propaganda isn’t entirely useless.
Just my own thoughts: there could theoretically be an identity system that simply replies "Yes/No" if someone is underage or not. But nothing like this exists to my knowledge.
The implementation of this was interesting in Switzerland. Because consumers had to pay a lot for waste, they started to remove packaging at the store and dumping it there for the store to deal with. Stores had the cost of removing packaging waste and put pressure on the supply chain. If customers start removing toothpaste tubes and cereal from cardboard boxes and dumping it the store's door, then the store has to deal with the overproduction of waste.
What makes that layer immune from a meta-injection (an injection crafted for that layer)?
Nice to hear about this! It stands for Java Model Railroad Interface.
A stronger claim: everything in programming is an abstraction.

Somewhat tangential, but I sense tacitly related... I sometimes sense that many people who program adhere to a kind of computational atomism, that there is some kind of underlying "real" and that everything else is "just" some kind of arrangement of elements of the real. But that's just an implementation detail. Yes, when we implement a language that compiles to instructions or bits on a specific machine, we are indeed working to simulate that language. But computation and formal languages don't really have anything to do with physical computers. Their connection is entirely incidental. It is a matter of practicality, like the choice of using a hammer versus a rock to drive spikes of metal through wood. A computer language is the "base" language. From the formal perspective, there is no "low-level" or "high-level" language, just different languages that compilers can translate between. What is "low-level" (typically the target language) is merely low-level by convention, usually because we are targeting a given machine instruction set of some physical machine.

But even here, the notion of an "instruction" or a "bit" are abstractions. There are no "bits" in the world as ontological entities. Computation and data are abstract, full stop. All physical implementations are simply instruments for simulating that abstract model. There is no difference, in principle, between using checker pieces, differences in voltage, magnetic polarity, or thumbs up/thumbs down to represent bits.

The language should, ideally, be suited to the domain of discourse.
well I guess those other times will also be 22% more expensive. 22% for everyone everywhere.
I suppose we've got bogged down in semantics here (in fairness that's the point of the original article). I agree that Go is not a good language for OO and that's fine because it's not meant to be.

But definitions aren't really a matter of opinion. If it's my opinion that apples count as a variety of orange, then that doesn't make me right. Instead, they're defined by what is widely understood by that term. I'm not saying what I've written is authoritative but it was what I was taught at university by someone who was around and academically active when OO languages were being invented (that course had a lot of SmallTalk D-: ) and certainly is a much closer match to how I've usually seen it used since compared to yours.

BTW I'm primarily a C++ (and Python and C#) developer, I hardly know Go, so I have no axe to grind here.

> Dynamic dispatch means that superclass and subclass methods can be called at runtime depending on what is needed.

No it doesn't: it doesn't require the notion of superclass and subclass. Using an interface to call a method still counts as dynamic dispatch.

> Here is an explanation of the difference: [1]

The thing is, the question asks "does Go support dynamic dispatch" but the answers are about the subtly different question "does Go support this particular type of dynamic dispatch". The second answer even says that "Go ... interfaces are its only form of polymorphism". Runtime polymorphism is a form of dynamic dispatch! (The only form I know to be honest but I don't claim to be an expert and don't have your experience of lisp-like languages.) The first answer talks about inheritence but never mentions dynamic dispatch at all. If you reduce the whole question down to two totally separate structs (none of that weird Go inheritence / composition stuff) with only one method each, both implementing the same interface, and you called the method through the interface, then that would be dynamic dispatch. Of course, it's not the dynamic dispatch the question poster wanted. And it's not inheritence (although I think that term is much more ambiguous but I still wouldn't dispute it).