skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pinecil implementation is essentially a watchdog, it just operates proactively instead of reactively. The end result is the same but relies on simple hardware. See also: dead man's switch [1] used in trains and other safety critical infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
It’s through the floor compared to what you would have had to do to mint a PlayStation 2 title.
I watched Dune back to back with Pig (wherein Nic Cage is looking for his pet pig), and was startled by how I felt basically nothing watching Dune (it would make a good coffee table book) but was reduced to a blubbering mess by Pig.
I think this is actually a more astute analogy than you realize, because the only reason a coach would be asked that question in the first place is because there are questions about the player’s ability to perform—-as the sibling comment here notes.

Similarly, you don’t ask tech companies if they’re doing layoffs when the sector is booming.

That the question is even asked probably shoots the probability of benching/layoffs up to some ridiculous amount to begin with.
If you want to be the arbiter of justice, go ahead and add your judgement.

It's his problem. He will take the consequences. And it's not for everyone to be aware of.

We need to stop acting like schoolchildren where everyone is eager to know how the bad kid gets punished.
I'm done with politics using children as pawns for their agendas, the way they (and private corporations) use pornography and other vices to push censorship and ban content that the moral minority disapprove of. From now on if you claim "it's to protect the children" I'm just going to vote against it on principle. Children deserve real protection, but they're but gonna get it as long as they are a valuable political tool.
The alternative is assignment of space by government appointment. We all know the government is corrupt and the best spaces will go to the best connected people.

Purchasing the rights to the land in a free market is imperfect, but it's certainly an efficient and tamper resistant mechanism.
Doesn't the sheer cost of training create a moat on its own?
If you can speak to a person - that means that person has some documentation they can look at.

So why not put the documentation on the web for me to read?

Normally, it is because they want to obfuscate the price and use sales tricks to encourage me to buy.
Here, no. It's just a habit or common style guideline to always parenthesize macro parameters since so many macros can otherwise break.
Shopify to reduce workforce by 20 per cent and sell logistics business
/active is the real Hacker News front page IMO
except that pascal specified that strings of different lengths were actually different types.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas...
Gifs have limitations and limitations benefit art.
Its a crippled form of code generator in an era where compile time execution is suported by many modern system languages.

But I don't like any of them. I prefer to write my own code generators.
By your argument, should we do nothing to try and stop bank fraud?

We do lots, including tracking large transactions. Most people agree this is a reasonable thing to do. Most people are, I suspect, more upset by CSAM than by bank fraud.
You just took a simple and easily implementable idea and made it insanely difficult to realize. It seems worth trading a bit of theoretical "fairness" to have something that could actually work.
>Every programmer needs to know a language in the ALGOL family well. Once you do, then it’s worth branching out. Learning a new language that traces to an unfamiliar ur-language each year will pay dividends

I second this. I would consider myself an intermediate level programmer and learning Scheme (via the excellent book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs") took my programming to a new level and made me think of programming from a completely different angle.
Wired coming out swinging with an actual socialist/leftist/communist article? Color me impressed.

In the states, the Democrats are often mislabeled as a lefty party, or mislabeled as socialists. People will call CNN Marxist. They really, really aren't.

It's fascinating to see a major publisher going out on a limb to publish something like this.
The only plausible solution I can think of that doesnt change the way the web operates is to force all PII to be opt-in instead of opt-out
DO you publish any of this info anyplace?
It seems that cellulose nitrate film stock was phased out by the 1950s:

<https://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-leaflets/6...>

How widely it was used prior to that time, and what filmstock selection practices specific institutions followed I don't know, though I suspect these may have varied.

As for current polyester filmstock:

Black-and-white polyester film has a life expectancy of 500+ years under proper storage conditions.

(From the same source.)
What if the headline read like this?

> Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats an already/comparatively-to-history reduced/calibrated quarterly revenue estimates for the current economic landscape
Pseudo Marxism dressed in techno-elite clothing
It makes no sense in a world where collectives of people can make sane decisions in a timely manner.

We don't live in that world - for anything to get done, there must be a very small group of people with authority to decide what color to paint the bike shed. Land ownership is important exactly because it gives responsibility over what happens in a geographic area to a single entity, and excludes most people from providing paralyzing "input".
Unreachable is a quite important optimization hint (note how the 'blub()' function removes a range check because of the unreachable in the default branch):

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Ph8PY1drc
ChatGPT just destroyed a public company in 24 hours
> I don't need a study to tell me a hot stove burns. I've experienced the pain myself.

How is this in any way relevant? Touch stove -> get burned is an immediate and consistent causality chain. See porn -> get divorced is not an immediate response in almost all cases, nor is it even consistent.

Frankly the whole causality sounds a lot like people getting married before knowing important things about thier partner. (and yes if you are going to divorce someone over porn watching, it's an important thing to know about them going into the marriage, you should at least ask. On the other side, lying about it and trying to hide it are bad too - maybe honesty is a good idea in marriage situations... who knew?)
It should be easy to provide a high quality rebuttal then.
I never thought of ChatGPT like that but by Gods that makes a ton of sense
I don’t really agree that this somehow exposes those tools as bad. It more shows that they weren’t that well suited for this particular use case.
Is BlueSky the next Twitter, and if so would that be a good thing?
Will ChatGPT drag this downward even more?
Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't seem to be the case. When the OP was asked what why the post didn't mention the business' category, he/she said that

> This is more a function of the fact that I don't want my business to be identifiable from this post than that it's a sketchy business. You'll have to take my word for it, but it's exceedingly benign.
They’re not though, they’re selling it? To a company that presumably wants it and intends to grow it
As a teenager, I'm surprised that more of it isn't self-generated. Teens are real horny bastards.
Source for 500M kids? Is messenger for kids that popular?
I'm sorry, have you ever spoken to a historian? Are you under the impression that they study the past by finding "unemotional" texts written by subjects matter experts about the current affairs of their day? What era do you think was full of these "dispassionate recordings of facts" for historians to peruse? What decade do you think local newspapers stopped being peer-reviewed journals?

Also, how do you plan to make investment decisions without considering emotion? Are you betting on perfectly efficient markets?
I think the question is rather why American feminists see prostitution or selling your body as liberating and empowering?
Tangentially related, Musk now wants NPR to tweet again, under the threat of giving away NPR's handle for disuse, contrary to Twitter's inactive account guidelines.

To preempt "musk hate" arguments, I'm attributing this to Musk and not Twitter because the emails were sent directly from Musk to NPR.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-threatens-t...
"You'll own nothing and be happy." - Ida Auken
I am reminded of the saying:

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
This is just evidence that our absolutist classification of this is unhelpful—treating the nude selfies a 16-year-old texts to her boyfriend as no different from photos of a 6-year-old forced into it, especially when you find those texts on the phone of either the person who took it or the one who it was sent to, without any nonconsensual distribution, is preposterous.

Calling fully intentional, consensual nude selfies or even sex videos created by teenagers of themselves "child sexual abuse material" is so very clearly a misapplication of the term.

That said, if those selfies do, by whatever means, get distributed beyond where the subject originally intended them to go, they need to be treated as...well, at the very least as revenge porn, which is now (fortunately) banned in a number of jurisdictions. So I'm definitely not saying this is a black and white issue; quite the contrary, in fact.
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy?

Not saying everything FB does is ok but I think we are going too crazy with the government intervention. I don’t exactly see that FB was committing deliberate fraud based on this latest report (but a lot is redacted). It seems more like there were just some bugs? As a dev I worry about a world in which we expect perfection from all software.
Does anyone have any idea how this is handled from a technical perspective?

The data isn't sitting in some database somewhere, it's inside of a large lanaguage model. It's not like they can just execute a DELETE statement or do an entirely new training run.

Are they intercepting the outputs with something like a moderation server as a go-between? In that case, the data still would technically exist in the model, it just wouldn't be returned.

Maybe using fine-tuning?
Gotta love the Str255 used everywhere on Macs before OS X came around. That was how Pascal did things on Macs in the 1980s, and it’s not exactly modern—if you want something longer than 255 characters, it’s going to be cumbersome.

Been digging through old newsgroups, and it sounds like one of the big reasons C won out over Pascal was because it was easier to find good C compilers in the 1980s compared to good Pascal compilers.
Yeah, I'd have to go with Simula/Simula 67 as the OO ur-language.
>Companies would be motivated to adopt the voluntary guidelines in order to avoid a heap of legal liability, but this would only be a heap of liability by tech company standards and not by the standards of any other industry not protected by Section 230.

I think this really is the crux of the issue.

Whatever our various opinions, we can all seemingly agree that Section 230 gives internet publishers far too much cake that they also eat. And because the cake keeps being given out and eaten with no damns given to more finer attempts at reconciliation, we're moving on to responding with sledgehammers like this one.
The thing to understand about VALIS is that it's an adaptation of his own experiences. i.e., the events of 2-3-74 actually happened to PKD. He then fictionalizes a lot of the aspects around it (especially in the second half), but all the philosophical musings are things he actually struggled with in real life.

PKD likely suffered from a large variety of mental illnesses, and he frequently wondered if he was schizophrenic himself (although he had therapists give him a negative diagnosis). The events of 2-3-74 may have also been the result of a frontal lobe epilepsy.

He constantly was trying to figure out whether the things he experienced were the result of mental illness or something else entirely. Or trying to figure out whether there's any difference at all. The core theme of his work is "what is real?", and that became something that consumed his own personal reality in his last decade of life.

So I think a good way to read VALIS is knowing it's coming from a person who was deeply suffering, and trying to come to some explanation of what he experienced. And how that truly underlies Horselover Fat's deep fear that the universe is possibly guided by an "irrational mind". PKD wanted to know whether his suffering had any meaning, or was just the result of an irrational, and unknowable universe.
Isn’t the suggestion that the “active work” is very little and most of the time you’re just waiting?
> “Just save the private key”

A massive usability hurdle for any hope of mainstream adoption.

People say Mastodon is hard to join because you have to pick a server. It’s on another level if you also have to pick a service to hold your private key, and you can lose your account if you don’t do this.
> OS kernels

Many are, but Linux moved to C11 (well gnu11 I guess) since v5.18

Summary of discussion: https://lwn.net/Articles/885941/

Actual move https://git.kernel.org/linus/e8c07082a810fbb9db303a2b66b66b8...

Being able to replace

int i;
for (i = 0; i < foo; i++) { ... }

with

for (int i = 0; i < foo; i++) { ... }

makes it already worthwhile.

Linus thinks so too:

> I think the loop iterators are the biggest user-visible thing, but
> there might be others.

Also interesting:

> Of course, the C standard being the bunch of incompetents they are,
> they in the process apparently made left-shifts undefined (rather than
> implementation-defined). Christ, they keep on making the same mistakes
> over and over. What was the definition of insanity again?

-- https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wicJ0VxEmnpb8=TJfkSDyt...
What is described in article is a subset of Haskell: "...as long as one is writing mostly vanilla Haskell you can’t tell the difference."

And then it proceeds to tell us that you can't tail recurse.

Mu is different language which uses Haskell ecosystem.

What I am interested in and what article does not tell is how big the actual Mu compiler is. I think it is in the hundreds of thousands of lines of code, 200K SLOC or more.

And it is still a big code base and it's use of Haskell is success.
not for every park. permits for backpacking in glacier national park, which is one of the most coveted permits in the country, was first come first served this year.
Just rip off the band-aid. Your friends can't invite you to things on Facebook if your account is fully deleted, and they'll be forced to reach out in different ways. The first 6-12 months are hard, but if you can make it past that, you won't miss it. I setup a Discord server for my family, and we're enjoying a "semi-private" social network that way -- it works well, even for grandparents. I wrote a bot that let's them save photos posted in Discord to their digital picture frame in their living room, and they love it.
I agree and think that HUGE whistle blower awards including up to re-location as part of Witness Protection Program would help a lot. There are people in bad personal situations that feel "trapped" but have the knowledge that these crimes (and others like trafficking are happening).
We do not live in the wizarding world. There is a limit to how much your perception can influence your own body, or physical processes around you. That applies in both directions - belief alone can't move a mountain, but it also can't stop the excavators already moving one.
Feel free to cite studies supporting your claims (genuinely, not sarcasm, but making positive claims about factual matters can and should be supported by evidence).
To get around Python's limitations and complexity of C++, here is a Rust based DL framework we are developing, called Burn: https://github.com/burn-rs/burn. The super cool thing about Burn is that you can swap backends easily.
Microsoft shattered Gnome's unity with Windows 95 (2013)
He should have given no severances. That would have kept Q1 up. And he should have just kept it within the senior level to start laying off and let them decide. No sudden movements.
China's ruling and ruled classes have had an understanding for the last ~2300 years[1]: the legitimacy of leaders depends on the (real or perceived) performance of the leader. Under the CCP, China has had very significant (~8%) economic growth since 1978.

The CCP has not really had to deal with a serious and prolonged economic downturn in 45 years, it will be interesting to see what happens if something like real estate collapses and sends China into a extended down market. Uncharted waters.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven#The_right_to...
Huh I had no idea! Seems weird that it's not an error by default!
Odd. I have never enabled Javascript for archive.is, especially since with it enabled they have some resource link to mail.ru and since I block .ru on my DNS it times out. The lack of requiring Javascript is the reason I use that site. I have both uBlock and NoScript blocking javascript.
Music licensing is an absolute bitch, which is why many MANY church choirs all sing from the same book, because that book has been vetted and they have performance licenses.

The other option is to only sing music from before the turn of the last century.
> In New York City, 46 percent of a typical home’s value is just the cost of the land it’s built on. In San Francisco its 52 percent; in Los Angeles, 61 percent.

In my neighborhood, it's <10%...

> Similarly, on planet Earth at least, occupying space necessarily implies occupying land.

> The problem with the right to land is that it’s all been taken.

> Economists call this “rent seeking,” and most of us call it “immoral.”

This feels like it was written by a passionate 11th grader.
According to hacker news Facebook is dead, everyone deleted their account and only racist grandparents use it. And at the same time all the kids in the world are using it.
I was initially annoyed by the main character, but was loving it by the end. I think the weirdly neurotic narration was reflective of the character's bizarre split consciousness; the alternating stories between the main character and the End of the World were such a fascinating way to present this.
I don’t fully understand what this is supposed to mean. It’s unfortunately (disgustingly) easy to invite a child into taking explicit photos of themselves over encrypted messaging. The process of convincing a child to do this is known as grooming, which seems to be a now fairly well known term in the mainstream.

Edited to add: it also says in the report that the images are predominantly 11 to 13 year old girls. these are not horny 16-17 year olds sexting their partners.
It’s actually hilarious people still believe more political bureaucracy is the answer. Fortunately, US culture is taking over.

Companies are formed by shareholders to make money in some venture for the shareholders. People can pursue their social objectives through other types of organizations. Perhaps governments that impose regulations and taxes. I myself support moderate taxes and light regulations.

To the extent that companies focus on anything other than money for the owners, it is a failure by the owners to reign in the CEO. The CEO might want to get a fat paycheck for not much performance. The owners want to delegate everything to the CEO. After all, we’re all lazy humans.
Will it?

Could NYC or Tokyo change their names? Cities have been destroyed. It's certainly likely but likely not certain.
Microsoft is dropping a big set of updates to Bing Chat today
And play it at a professional level for years.
Isn't it already? If someone asks for PII you can just stop using the service.
My introduction to Shannon and information theory through this book [1], which talks briefly about language entropy, is what set me on the path to my career.

[1]. An Introduction to Information Theory, Symbols, Signals & Noise
By John Robinson Pierce · 1980
https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Introduction_to_Info...
Citation? The 13.1 change notes [1] indicate Solaris 11.3 has been dropped, because it has some things in it that make supporting it and 11.4 hard. [2]

I don't see anything about sparc generally, let alone sparc-solaris specifically[1]

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html

[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2022-December/240322.html
On the one hand, having complete separation of work and personal electronics is a best practice. On the other hand, most of us don't carry two phones or two laptops when we travel on business.

If I were a senior government official or in some other high profile/sensitive role I'd probably be more conservative but it's pretty common to use some combination of personal and business-issued devices for everything.
Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
https://archive.is/6EaU1
“And what this system did was it took people with just two months of experience and had them performing at the level of people with six months of experience," Brynjolfsson says. "So it got them up the learning curve a lot faster — and that led to very positive benefits for the company."

Literally the same story as every industrialization ever. Buckle up, we get to live through another industrial revolution.
> Lack of tree shaking will yield larger downloads

... assuming all other things kept equal. Observations show, however, that development practices most commonly associated with (and promoted by) the dev cohort that reflexively reach for this type of tooling just end up with ballooning app sizes anyway (and usually with more jank and less responsiveness on the user end, too). A tool/method/process that delivers a shrink in the range of 10% after 10x bloating still loses when more thoughtful tool/dependency use (or lack thereof) will tend to just sidestep those problems entirely.
In case you’re not already familiar with it, there’s a site called https://www.allsides.com/ that does exactly this. I believe the creator is on HN.
I think it’s a plausible argument. But shouldn’t we regulate the whole industry then instead of going after a single company?

Also there are clearly some benefits from social media so I wouldn’t want to get rid of all of it. For example messaging doesn’t seem so bad in terms of harm vs value. Or things like Facebook Groups that are more like discussion forums (even HN itself falls under this!)
> "All we're asking the tech giants like Facebook and Google to do is negotiate fair deals with news outlets when they profit from their work,"

Can anyone help me understand this statement?

Not sure if it's post lunch lethargy or need for caffeine, but I'm not grasping this argument.
Seconding pinball 1973
For most of human history, no one owned land. There are systems beyond individual ownership and central government ownership.
Yes, but so far we've seen universities, venture-backed open source outfits, and massive collections of hobbyists train all sorts of large models.
Probably going to get this banned from a lot of companies because the license isn't precise enough for them to ensure compliance with.
Yes, so why copy paste C++ into C?
It would be a far better movie if every scene with Jared Leto was deleted.

Interesting that the score makes the difference, the score from blade runner 1982 is really unique to me and inseparable from the movie. If I hear a single note from it I think about the movie and if I see a frame of the movie, I think about the music. I can't remember a single thing about the 2049 score, except that at the time I thought every interesting part was a shallow clone of the original mashed up with the main theme from Terminator 2 because someone thought it was about robots.
As it should be. Companies that abuse the public trust _should_ be regulated harshly.