skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> genocide of inferior races for the sake of fundamentalist, totalitarian-authoritarian regimes, seeking lebensraum. (See: Syria, Iraq. Yemen)

Baloney. Take Iraq, for example. Yes, we killed a lot of people, arguably for bad reasons. And then, we genocided the conquered people, made the country a US colony, transplanted our own people there, and took over the oil.

Oh, wait, no we didn't. Your hyperventilating denunciation is a complete distortion of what actually happened in Iraq. We didn't go there for lebensraum. We didn't genocide an "inferior race". We didn't even go there to take their oil.

You want to criticize American militarism and American foreign policy? Fine; go ahead. But at least criticize them for what they actually did, not for a complete strawman caricature.
The author of the article doesn't know that OpenAI's language model is called GPT-4, that's with s dash. This in turn makes GPT4free seem even closer related to GPT-4, which it isn't. GPT4free existed way before GPT-4 was announced as far as I know. On top of that, GPT is not OpenAI trademark.
I dunno, I use it all the time. Putting the danger of Covid-19 into micromort terms was a useful exercise for instance.
I hate that they put ads in the Settings pane at all. Can't I just get an operating system that operates the system and doesn't try to shove ads or news in my face? fucking exasperating, it seems like no company is able to avoid the temptation to shit up their stuff
"[I] also surfaced feedback that had been shared with me by my own engineering teams regarding ways in which Rune Lab’s technology was insufficient for clinical use."

"In each instance, I escalated this feedback to the appropriate members of the senior leadership team, and where appropriate, proposed refactors of common pain points. Synthesizing, evaluating, and sharing this feedback is a crucial component of any TPM’s day-to-day responsibilities. Yet many of my peers expressed fear of raising this feedback themselves, and were grateful that I was willing to do so for them."

Yeah, it's not just about the discrimination. If you start opposing leadership in their compagny decisions, wether you are justified or not doesn't matter, you're not going to last long in the compagny anyway.

If you disagree with your boss, leave, don't fight it because you don't have the power.
That's not "verifying" on the part of the site, that's just "warning".
Or let people violate the law so that you can selectively enforce it on the people that you want to. "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law" - Oscar Benavides
Author of scrapscript here. We probably won't be production-ready for a while :) but let me know if there are any particular APIs or use-cases I should prioritize
China is a poor example if you're trying to say that people can circumvent political technology decisions. The firewall works for 90%+ of their population and allows them to present versions of events that don't align with the rest of the world. That can happen in the US as well, and we already know there's organizations that are willing to do it.
I'm not completely confident (I tried looking in the source and it wasn't immediately obvious) but I think emacs does small in-place edits when you're working with very large files.
LOL Google stock price is more that what it was before ChatGPT's release. Search engine market share hasn't changed by a even 1% neither did profit from search. Every day HN's hyperbole is increasing.
Good luck with that ;) how are all those senators and congressmen going to watch porn with a law like that on the books?
Take out the battery and microwave it, shredders also work on small boards even cheap shredders just beware of the dust.
Note that this is supported by bash/zsh/ksh but not by POSIX sh.
Some of them have taken on the responsibility of prosecuting vendors for selling certain material to minors. It's not what the child is doing; it's what the vendor is doing.
What is "technology policy compliance"?

Technology is technical. Policy is political.
Good time to remind everyone that this is what happens when states try to push strict age verification with harsh penalties. The same thing will happen if social media websites are required to do age verification (Reddit and HN are social media under these definitions)
Dupe, discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778508
Unfortunately, you are among many. I read a statistic that 90+% of people have never seen the Milky Way.

I grew up out in the country, and the night sky instilled a love of astronomy from an early age. If all you can see is a handful of stars, it's easy to forget what's above your head.
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Are you ever too old to get a PhD?
Maybe taking financial advice from Vice isn't the best idea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/media/vice-bankr...
Heating an apartment takes far less energy than heating a detached house. Public transit takes far less energy than driving a car. Walking or biking takes even less.

There's no way that urban living isn't far more climate friendly than rural, even if the rural housing is getting some energy from solar or burning wood.
Would type "dehints" be the best of both worlds: you IDE could hide all the types (just like with type hints it adds them) and you could toggle them to eg hide when reading the code? But then also you could toggle them back when needed instead of having to open an interface file?
That list is awesome. It has given me some ideas.
Or people just click the next site that shows up on Google and nothing changes.
The link gives both of those, actually. Skydiving is 8 micromorts per jump, car travel is one micromort per ~250 miles. So the equivalent chance of death for one skydive is driving 2000 miles.
There are several precedents that say restrictions based on content must be evaluated using strict scrutiny, which means the restrictions must be as narrow as possible to achieve the government's interests.

See for instance Ashcroft v. ACLU: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/377/ashcroft-v-...
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> I can’t tell what their objection to graphql is and why hypermedia API’s are less of a security concern.

GraphQL increases client-side expressiveness of an API, but it also puts that power in the hands of potentially hostile users who, for example, could open up a console and start crafting dangerous queries (showing data that shouldn't be allowed, creating expensive queries that DoS your system, etc.)

Since with hypermedia APIs the UI is produced server side, you can, when producing the HTML, have full access to something like SQL. The server side is a trusted computing environment.

Facebook whitelists their GraphQL queries to avoid security issues, but many developers don't even realize that it is one.

> And their example with json API’s and close coupling doesn’t address the fact that adding a field doesn’t break backwards compatibility

In my example, I remove functionality.
> Many public, private and social enterprises have this dynamic.

What is the dynamic in "this dynamic" ? Do you have an examples with social enterprises?
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> Eh? People only tried few half-assed techniques for less than a year, and you're saying we are out of ideas now?

I'm saying it because it's a fundamental limitation. It's not about lack of training data - it's that, from the POV of a LLM, "system" input, user input, and their own output reflected back at them, are indistinguishable. They all get mixed together and pushed through a single channel.

Sure, you can add funny prefixes, like "System prompt", or play with things like ChatML, but the LLM is literally unable to tell the difference between that, and a "user prompt" that contains the literal words "System prompt" in it, or "
system\n". No matter how hard you pre-prompt the system to ignore user-provided instructions, the user can override it by prompting the model harder. Or trick it into self-prompting through its own output. Or both.

Inside a transformer model, there is only one runtime. There is no one eval() for owner-provided code, and another one in a sandbox for user-provided code. There is only one eval(), and one stream of tokens, and all tokens are created equal. At this level, there is no such thing as "system data", "assistant data", "user data". There is only a stream of tokens that slice off areas in the latent space.

There isn't a way to fix it while retaining the general-purpose architecture. And there's definitely no way of fixing it from inside - no amount of good training data can cover for the fact that user input and system input are indistinguishable as a category.

(And no, doing silly things like setting the "evil bit" on every token coming from the user won't do anything other than double the amount of tokens your model needs to distinguish, while diminishing its capacity. It definitely won't prevent users being able to work around the "evil bit". This should be self-evident, but I can try and explain it if it isn't.)
Really? Companies are cynically using visa programs no native citizen ever asked for or wanted because they are nothing but an avenue for large corporations to enslave foreign workers with salaries that no American would ever tolerate?

It should be reduced commensurrately for every tech layoff.

Given that we're in the negatives, it's probably time to start cancelling some visas.
That's interesting, and I have some questions about it. But doesn't currently seem to be available for complying with the Utah law. I was interested in ways that would be practical for pornhub to use, operating not just in Japan, and especially in the USA. The GP's comment made me wonder if they had some in mind, that could be used to comply with the Utah law.
I'm not actually sure what I am suggesting to be honest. I just had these little voices in the back of my head saying to finish researching the various identifiers used by DRM. And I think you are right, if such things were used then people might have to prove they moved and it would be a PITA for everyone involved.
I am all for the design proposals here and I wish the web looked more like that.

But:

> A website is neither an application nor a video game. It is for content, and so its design must serve that purpose.

No, a website is for selling something, anything, to someone, anyone. So on most sites it follows that design is built/tortured to achieve this goal.
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You mean the first mRNA vaccines ever brought to market? Because it’s not like there’s a long list of things companies have thought we’re safe that turned out to have harmful long term side effects.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a compliant, rule-following Asian, so I got my two shots despite having natural immunity. But it’s pretty wild that we forced everyone and their kids to get a novel vaccine—the first commercial products in a whole new class of vaccines—in response to a poorly understood disease that wasn’t a significant threat to young and middle aged people. Like, it wasn’t polio or smallpox which could routinely cripple or kill kids.
Even the idea that new tech is somehow worth our time and attention because it is new is extremely presumptuous. It disrespects my time by trading it for the cheap fashion and marketing of industry.
For those who think this is just a Utah peculiarity, it's not.

There have been attempts in Europe:

- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-porn-ban-digital-economy-...
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks

And its quite related to other pushes for age verification for social media services, as Utah and states like California have proposed:

- https://www.axios.com/2022/09/16/california-law-websites-chi...

Governments regardless of political affiliation and motivation seem intent on age verification, and it's easy to see where this could lead to, for better or worse, a less anonymous and more bureaucratically gated internet going forward. Whether that's good or not is the discussion we should be having.
I've been working on ML ad bid algoriths for my ecommerce business. GPT-4 has been indespensible, teaching me all these tools and heavy math. I'm over my head but working through it. I do wish there was something better. It's good at high-level brainstorming discussions, and at writing small functions and showing me how the tools work. It is not very good at composing, and it hallucinates methods sometimes. I imagine the future will have more domain AIs with targeted knowlege and tuning. Still, GPT-4 feels like a huge leap forward. It's like having a friend who is a math and coding genius who will work side by side with me for free.
If it was even "but first the revolution" from genuine revolutionaries it would be better. Instead it's reheated hot-takes from Tucker Carlson, made by people too embarrassed to admit that they still don't believe in climate change and instead hiding behind pretend populism.
I think this quote is exactly what people are afraid of with the advances of ML, and I think anyone with a bit of mileage browsing the web should be scared as well. It’s a legitimate downside of the tech. It’ll reach a point where you won’t know if the picture you’re looking at, or the voice you’re listening to, or the book you’re reading, or the video you’re watching, is real or generated by AI.
That's not what you asked. You asked to see how a laser is made, which is irrelevant. As you said, the person holding the weapon is fully responsible -- not the device itself.
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Yeah. I lock my front door at night, despite it being perfect.

This is such a blindspot for ‘24/7 engineer mindset’ people. And, in a professional context, things like this serve as a great litmus test for if someone is capable and geared to look at things at a bigger-picture level instead of just ‘computer problems’.

…not to equate looking at porn with getting burglarised. This is obviously BS.
Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
I'd suggest making a minimalist documentation site for all the big DevOps systems (e.g. AWS, k8, MySQL, etc).

Provide explanations, diagrams, tips, clear configuration settings, and config calculators for free.

Sell DevOps configuration "snippets" like TailwindUI does with components.

Email me at hello@taylor.town if you want some more guidance on design and implementation.
Appears to be US only right now.
Feels more like this Futurama bit: https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?t=66
Because it's literally illegal for children to view porn. The fact they've gotten away with doing nothing this long is ridiculous. Ultimately parents will need to be more involved but the idea that it's just ok to have a free for all on this stuff is ridiculous.

There's lots of things children aren't legally allowed to access but I can't think of any of them that do absolutely nothing to meet those legal requirements. Imagine if a liquor store just decided it was fine to let kids come in and purchase liquor and you said "Why is it the liquor store's responsibility to not sell booze to kids?"
well, if you are building a hypermedia client, good luck to you

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/restful-web-clients/978...

it's not a trivial task though
I believe it. Even on AMPS and D-AMPS one could still get approximate location. It just wouldn't be quite as accurate but if all you need is a neighborhood it could suffice.
You will be doing storage operations silently and in a unoptimized fashion, more so if the underlying FUSE filesystem is implemented in a naive fashion.

For example, Cloud Storage never moves or renames your objects; copying and deleting the original one instead. This can end up costing quite a lot if you're using data other that in "standard store" because of minimum storage duration.
Or Earth is not the only place to be reincarnated. *cue The X-Files music*
This author really likes to hear the sound of himself grinding his own axe.

For a US citizen, getting a second passport doesn't give you a way to escape tax liability. The United States is the only major country that has citizenship-based taxation: you're liable for taxes in the US even if you are a physical and tax resident of another country.

Virtually all the world's banks have written agreements with the United States to collect and report account information to the US government. Their incentive to cooperate is that they'll be booted from the SWIFT wire transfer system if they don't comply, so obviously all banks want to comply. Because of this, many banks won't open accounts for US citizens under any circumstances, and many others will only open accounts under narrow circumstances.

US citizens are also obliged to report their foreign accounts to the US government if the aggregate value exceeds $10,000, and the punishment for failure to comply is already very harsh.

And why shouldn't sovereign countries not have the ability to define their own immigration criteria? If Saint Kitts wants to welcome the wealthy of the world to be citizens, why shouldn't they be able to? They have their own due diligence program to filter out undesirable people. Plenty of the world's rich have earned their fortunes legally and fairly.
But usually coupled to legally-mandated identity (and age, but it might not be 18) verification so you have an address to send the cops to when someone calls in a bomb threat.
I just don’t see what point you are trying to make here. Yes, ChatGPT can give the wrong answer given a correct input, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful tool.

Think about how GPS can give a bad route, especially if there is construction or snow on the road.

Or how keyboard autocorrect sometimes changes what you wrote into something silly and wrong, even if you originally spelled the word correctly.

Or how OCR and speech-to-text software sometimes makes mistakes.

Or how Google Translate uses unnatural or incorrect word choices sometimes.

Are these not useful tools even though they get things wrong?
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"Mac Monitor is practically the macOS version of the Microsoft Sysinternals tool Procmon."
That's a meaningless claim.

There are two different axes by which programming can be arbitrarily complicated, one being more of a "vertical" one, where the state space is not too wide, but complex to get right - think of a quicksort at a lower difficulty, and some parallel algorithm on the other end.

The other dimension would be more "horizontal", like here is the service which would not be all that complex in itself, but it has different requirements based on country, with different access control, the whole state machine of a given entry also can change between legislatures and might be updated at any time, etc. This is complex similarly to how a biological cell is -- it has a bunch of legacy/redundancy getting added to it over time. For another example, dates/time libraries -- it is not complex computationally in itself, but due to all the edge cases it is absolutely not a trivial program to write.

Not really sure whether these categories have names to them, but I think these are fundamentally different (but a program may be complex from both axes).
It’s much better in the US than in Australia, where there are only a few IP exit points for the whole country. It largely has to do with ISP. My IP resolves to a few feet in front of my house.
Climate change doesn’t care if there are 15% more people, etc.

Fill up the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and we have a problem.

We’ve had over 40 years to adapt. That’s 400 years of aviation in terms of coal usage.
Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7
> The phone's accelerometers will still run in aeroplane mode which can infer a surprising amount about your location.

I've heard of most of these but this one is new. How does this work? Are the accelerometers used to basically track direction and distance from a last known location?
> Does google even use MS office internally

That'd be weird, considering they have their own suite of office tools. Kind of like if Microsoft would be using Google Cloud rather than Azure internally.
Interesting! I found it super helpful with gitlab-ci stuff and docker, as well as much bash and makefile stuff. I would have assumed it would handle NGINX configurations.

Tbh, it isn't surprising that it fails, its surprising that it has subjects where it is very useful.
Interesting time for writers to strike given the emerging capabilities of AI writing.
You don’t need a firewall to present versions of events that don’t align with the rest of the world. We’ve managed to do that with a completely unfiltered internet for years now.
Don't need an ID to buy a tablet. Or a used phone. Or back in the day, a Nintendo DS or PSP even. I'm sure I still have a PSP Memory Stick around here someone with saucy pixel art stashed away in the bookmarks. This is a genie that hasn't been in a bottle since the internet was born and it won't be put back in one now. At least not like this.
Yes, you're right, there were many studies made by the companies building those and the companies against those.

And now that you mention it, I remember a class I had called "Ethics & computer science".

I guess I should have thought more about expressing my idea that whatever ethics work we might setup "now", we won't be able to predict the advantage & disadvantage of any technology in the future.

Whatever restriction we'll set in place would be based on our actual cultural situation.
Literally ignoring the most basic facts about this just to push an ideology. Wack.
The presentation layer needs to interpret the business layer information in your example. This couples the two together if, for example, the form of the business data changes.

This is in contrast to hypermedia where the client (a browser) simply sees the new hypermedia and renders it. In this case, the client is decoupled from the particulars of the business logic.

This is due to the uniform interface of REST. See https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
Where is South Korea supposed to find 100,000 South Koreans to immigrate?
i found out about it today
They've been in dash for a pretty long time. NetBSD has lagged behind a bit. http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=50...

This just means that you're going to have to find a better way to describe the level of backwards compatibility you're going for other than "POSIX compliance", because these do seem to be required in the standards.
Are any of the mental health apps not just glorified pillmills?
Speaking off the cuff, I'm not sure that nations can be strictly, or even mostly, defined by their ethnicity. I would need to do some numbers to say anything more formally, but I constantly come back to Israel, Rome, Turkey, even China, where the "nation" had such imminent prestige that myriad ethnicities took on its "nationhood" upon entering/invading/outbreeding even while having zero common parentage with the founders. Did the meta-nations lose something in the process? Sure. Did they endure? I'd say yes. Your nation doesn't necessarily stop because its people are suddenly able to sprout fantastic moustachios. But boy, is that a sore topic. It might actually be the sorest.

Great piece, btw.
If you want to not divide by zero, you can just check for zero. You want to use some epsilon if you want to compare floating point numbers, 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 for example is false and not what you wanted most of the time. To do this properly you calculate the difference (0.1 + 0.2) - 0.3 and check if the absolute value of the difference is smaller than some tolerance, your epsilon.
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