skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word is commonly used to mean abuse of power, The original usage of the word in this conversation clearly meant that usage of the word:

> Modi is corrupt. The guy does not have the interest of the country at heart, he just cares about the Ambanis and increasing the wealth of his political allies.

Deciding whether Modi is corrupt or not based on technical differences between political gains and personal gains seems purely motivated to keep his image "squeaky clean".
When did layoffs stop being a thing?
Wikipedia has protections against this. it is not trivial. Each change by random ip also has to be accepted by editor with permissions, and getting these permissions is not easy. It might be possible to bypass all abuse counter measures, but it takes a lot of effort and is not trivial
Happy to help! iOS has a few built-in ways of translating text that generally involve long pressing and hitting translate from the menu or selecting the text, tapping the selected text, and hitting translate in the menu. If you select measurements, unit conversion is also in this menu.

However, every way involves the text being [selectable] text and not something like an image (unless you use your method). And you said button, and I am not positive if a long-press will trigger the press event.
Not sure if the following cases offer precedents. Obviously, the Federal Govt enjoys additional legal powers, but these cases offer the circumstances where a party sued their derivatives trader (the opposite of the questions you raise).

Procter & Gamble v. Bankers Trust [1]

P&G sued BT for losses incurred in derivatives contracts that should not have been sold by BT. This article [2] provides some more detail:

> In another high-profile case, Procter & Gamble Co. is suing Bankers Trust, its derivatives dealer, blaming it for a loss of dollars 195 million on two interest-rate contracts the company claims it should not have been sold.

> Procter & Gamble recently upped the stakes dramatically, claiming triple damages under U.S. civil racketeering legislation. In a related development, a shareholder has sued Procter & Gamble for financial irresponsibility.

The outcome of the case is that Bankers Trust settled with P&G as per this article [3].

The same article [2] also mentions the Orange County bankruptcy where OC sued its derivatives broker. At the time, this was one of the largest financial failures.

> Orange County is suing both its main derivatives broker, Merrill Lynch, and the accounting firm Peat Marwick

Merrill Lynch paid OC $437 M to settle as per this article [4].

[1]: https://casetext.com/case/procter-gamble-v-bankers-trust/cas...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/13/your-money/IHT-moneyloser...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/10/business/bankers-trust-se...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ending-suit-merr...
The craziest thing is it's working. I live in Brazil (unfortunately, I guess) and yet the only place I even see discussion about this is on Hacker News of all places. The Telegram block is pretty good tech-wise, it's not just DNS-level like some other countries do, to circumvent it you _have_ to use a proxy.

It's also crazy this is happening almost at the same time the US has the EARN IT act back. The west has some serious threats to digital freedom right now, and the solution (for now) is not more technology, it's protest and democracy (if that's even a thing nowadays).

Anyway, it's a good time to teach friends and family how to use tor, VPNs, Fediverse, maybe even crypto (if your currency completely collapsing is possible).

We, as an industry, should have from the start built the internet to be decentralized, secure, private, by default. It's too late for that now, the boat has sailed, but there's still time to prevent it from getting even worse.

Oh yeah, and if you're reading this from anywhere in the world where this kind of thing is not a worry right now, please consider:

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

https://support.torproject.org/
Governments have basically subsidized energy so that it is as close as possible to free for generations now. Tons of industrial processes rely on super cheap energy, one reason China has such a powerful steel industry is because of how cheap energy is over there.

Energy is one of many inputs into industrial systems, and it is a fairly commoditized one at that.

Free energy doesn't mean you don't need tons of infrastructure still in place, tons of parts and labor to install that infrastructure, factories to make the parts of that infrastructure. And then when it comes to using that energy, large capital expenditures are still needed to get up and running, which means the rich will keep getting richer.

Or to put it another way, electric cars + solar panels are totally a thing you can do right now, and at no point was anyone's life put at risk to bring these about.

Odds are the first country to get free energy would see obscene economic growth, all sorts of absurd things become possible. For start, salt water + energy => fresh water, solving the droughts that our farmlands are facing.

All metal processing uses tons of energy.

Meanwhile, my local electric co, Puget Sound Energy doesn't even make a billion a year in profits. The nation's largest energy company, Exelon, barely clears 2 billion in profits per year.

Microsoft makes more profit in a week than the nation's largest energy company does in a year.
I think this is one of the most fundamental things a person can learn about software engineering: there is no magic. If something happens, it was part of the operation of written code and an exchange of data somewhere.

My daughter is starting to get to an age where she’s inquisitive about how magical things work, and I usually respond by asking “how _could_ it work?” And we talk a lot about what actually does what.
Show HN: Pick Your Paranoia
It seems to me that everyone is paranoid about something in 2023 (for me, it's AI)

So it bothered me that there's no high-quality, artisanal "this is fine" meme generator, that is animated and has fire effects.

So here we are, and here is my over-engineered meme generator site LOL.
A Github PAT being exposed to Github is not the problem. That is, in fact, intended behaviour. A Github PAT being exposed to the internet is something else entirely, and likely to be an accident in most cases. That's what thd protection's for.
Generally it's low. I say the "exhausted other options" bit because the personality archetype prevalent in tech will generally view the institutional approach as the ultimate method (which is just fine, please get help where you need it). The problem is if that doesn't work, they don't see other options as viable. To them, suggesting philosophy is like suggesting herbal tea after the strongest antibiotic failed. In a sense that's right, but there are problems that herbal tea solves that antibiotics do not.
Bard is not live though.

> Bard isn't currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

It has been months…
I don't use windows daily but was trying to add an additional keyboard layout (US English) to a family member's windows 10 PC today.

Searching for such a simple thing in the control panel was infuriating to say the least. I finally found it, random clicking in every potential places and it was in the most unintuitive place you could think of.

You would expect "keyboard layout" search to bring helpful results but it does not.
To a point—potentially, to some extent, maybe.

Depending on what you've lacked, for how long, your age—these are all variables. The younger you are, the lower the chances of reversing it as kids need a decent diet, period. How long you've been subsisting of off crap is the important one.

There was one highly publicized case about a kid who had gone deaf and blind from bad diet: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/03/health/poor-diet-blindnes...

With all the above said, one of my born-blind friends has started going deaf due to bad diet, and whilst changing his diet hasn't improved his hearing, it has massively improved his overall health and importantly halted the hearing loss at the rate it was going, so it's not been a pointless exercise to make a lifestyle change that'll benefit him in the years to come.

Wishing anyone reading this good health for them and theirs.
It’s a bespoke scanning setup designed to deal with GitHub’s scale, minimise false positives, and scan fast enough to be in the `git push` request/response cycle. Under the hood it’s using Intel’s hyperscan as the regex engine.

https://github.com/intel/hyperscan
Does it help road construction workers if we accept lower conditions ?

It's not a zero sum game, and I totally side with other professions to fight for decent working compensations.
This is two totally different things. Not preparing for a presentation means you deliver a mediocre-to-bad presentation; you can't cheat by looking up the answer somewhere.

So if delivering a lousy presentation is good enough for whoever wanted the presentation, why go to the effort of making a great presentation? Are the rewards for that effort worth the expenditure? Probably not, which is why people are "spitballing" it.
Also: lets not forget one very important and under-rated side-effect of PHP -- it lets you write server-side code that can leverage a 'public' address. You might think 'well, doesn't everything let me do that?' Not quite. On 'free' VPS servers they usually have 'ephemeral' IPs or IPs that change. So while you get free bandwidth and compute -- it's hard to actually do anything useful with it like run a service if you don't have a public address. With PHP it's assumed it will be accessed from the web so if you run it on free shared hosting you get that accessibility built in.

PHP is very good for writing services that cost literally nothing because you can run it on free hosts like 000webhost that give you everything you need to host complex services (upload, database, sub-domains, and more.) It's perfect for budget devs or maybe devs that want to make their infrastructure more resilient to ah... financial upsets...
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They're $1100 if you subscribe to Google's phone plan
> commensurate with employee expectations too

Expectations are surely based on what the market will bear. So if tech companies are all trying to cut costs and hence limit pay rises, it would be irrational for an employee to expect more.
From the article on PNAS[0]:

> Despite the progress in our approach to achieve HC regeneration in the adult cochlea in vitro and in vivo, major challenges remain before potential clinical applications. First, regenerated HCs need to be terminally differentiated and fully mature, and to be located in the sensory epithelial region such that their stereocilia contact the tectorial membrane to mediate the mechanoelectrical transduction, as well as be able to survive long term. The current regenerated HC-like cells are immature and the time frame we used is not ideal to determine their long-term survival. One potential reason for the lack of terminal differentiation is the continuous Atoh1 expression mediated by adenovirus, which is known to impact HC maturation and is detrimental to HC survival (9, 56). Future studies to express Atoh1 transiently in the reprogrammed SCs could address the issue. Second, the surgical procedure of “cochleostomy” in the adult cochlea severely damages the microenvironment of the cochlea including extensive OHC death around the injection site. Future studies using an alternative delivery vehicle with a minimally invasive surgical procedure such as an AAV with round window injection could significantly improve HC regeneration efficiency without causing trauma to the inner ear. Third, major efforts should be made to identify/create new AAVs or novel delivery vehicles such as nanoparticles capable of targeting adult cochlear SCs for reprogramming. Finally, the restoration of hearing in adult deaf animal models significantly and reliably by HC regeneration will elevate the field of HC regeneration to a clinically relevant stage.

It sounds like the authors have found a more effective way to trigger generation of immature Hair Cells than was already known, but they're several large steps away from "restoration of hearing in adult deaf animal models".

However, the submitted article (from hms.harvard.edu) summarizes the findings as:

> [Authors] reported creating a drug-like cocktail of different molecules that successfully regenerated hair cells in a mouse model by reprogramming a series of genetic pathways within the inner ear.

While it's not outright false, the "successfully regenerated" isn't the way I'd interpret the PNAS paper. Perhaps I misread the paper.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215253120
It’s not about poor or rich engineers, it’s about fairness. When people at the top do that, people at other organisations take a page out of their book at rinse and repeat. It’s corporate version of monkey see monkey do. And the worst affected will be on the lower side of salary scales.
I have a client that handle peaks of 7k requests/s using php-fpm + nginx + MySQL. Using their own custom framework in PHP.

It all sits in a single 5 year old machine with 8 cores and 16GB RAM. Their bottleneck is actually MySQL but they have room to spare so no need for upgrades right now.
I think you're reinforcing my point, not disagreeing with it.

You cite examples where the law forbids something, but a judicial opinion allows it. So one easy way to avoid doing something illegal in all of your examples is to simply follow the law as written.

Sure, maybe with legal counsel you could push things a little further, get your nunchuck possession charge dismissed because you were pulled over two hundred yards past the Yuba county line or whatever, but that's different from someone who wants to avoid getting in trouble in the first place.
:shrug: Quite frankly, I'm doubtful that Youtube is ultimately going to do anything that will threaten their monopoly regardless. If enough people are blocking ads that it's seriously hurting Youtube's revenue, Youtube is not going to risk those users going somewhere else -- because the point isn't just to make money, it's to cement a monopoly position over video hosting. That means being a dependable place where when a video is hosted, uploaders can be confident it'll be viewable.

I could very well be wrong about their internal calculations about that, it depends on whether Youtube sees an actual risk of users going elsewhere (and whether there are enough people blocking ads in the first place for them to care one way or another). It'll be interesting to see what Youtube ultimately does.

> except reduced costs.

This in particular is funny though. I would not hold my breath that Youtube premium is going to get cheaper. That's not going to be a thing :)

Youtube premium is not priced around the cost that it takes to keep Youtube running. It's priced around what the market will bear, just like every product is. The only thing that's ever going to make Youtube's pricing or payout model change is competition. That is the only thing that ever makes price go down.

If Twitch starts offering better hosting options than it currently does, or Nebula somehow manages to take off, or there's some completely random mass-migration to Peertube (unlikely), then maybe you'll see prices go down.
I use Stylus for injecting CSS: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

From the OP, there's also StyleBot: https://stylebot.dev/
As a contributor to deck.gl, I’m super excited to use this! Contributors added a TerrainExtension [0] to drape or offset 2D data onto 3D surfaces in 8.9, which is huge for 3D visualization in general since common 2D layers would often be occluded by anything 3D. It’s great to see Google using open standards and openly governed projects for rendering too. Carto developed a story map [1] to showcase the new features, and played a big role in the integrations and extensions. Documentation has been updated, so it’s all ready to use. Happy mapping!

[0] https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/extensions/terrain-extens...
[1] https://3dtiles.carto.com/
I have a domain hack of my name so I use firstname@firstnamelastna.me

I wish I could get just lastna.me or lastname.com but I share the name with someone who's worked at icann, google and the white house at various points. I never had a shot.
This whole anti-IQ meme is intellectually bankrupt. IQ is just a measure of relative intelligence on a specific scale. We know that some people are higher than others on this scale. We know that the scale falls on a normal distribution. We call one standard deviation 15 points.

By definition, 1 in 30,000 people will have an IQ of 160 or higher, which is simply 4 standard deviations above the mean.
Democracy doesn't equal liberty. Current government was democratically elected, so Brazil still has democracy, it is just a totalitarian democracy.
This. Wondering how easily people make things so simplistic (as the other commenters are doing).
Live streaming is very different than recorded video - but yes its relatively expensive.

But that is very different from early youtube days where there basically wasn't off the shelf solution. That is a huge difference.
Can someone explain like I’m in non AP high school physics?

This is demonstrating information "traveling" faster than light by using entangled qbits. Correct?
It's been a long time since I had to deal with Laravel, but that code snippet looks very similar to the Laravel version I had to work with ~6 years ago.

I hated it (Laravel) for those reasons, along with the madness that was the DI container. Guess I'm just not "web artisan" enough.
How much is ChatGPT replacing human writing?

It still seems to me like most of the articles on HN are human-written, and I heard CNBC tried replacing writers with ChatGPT and it went terribly. But I've also heard anecdotes of freelance writers getting replaced [1] [2] [3], and every once in a while I spot or hear about something ChatGPT-written in the wild. I'm sure ChatGPT replaces boilerplate writing (e.g. legal documents, mandatory code documentation, technical specifications, formal communication) but what about "real" writing (articles, papers, slogans, and books)?

ChatGPT (including GPT4) has a distinctive writing style (neutral-helpful tone, verbose), and in my own experiments and observations I can still recognize it even when it's prompted to write differently. But this is selection bias: when ChatGPT writes something I can't spot, I just don't notice and assume it's human-written. And I know for a fact I can't recognize ChatGPT's writing in isolated paragraphs (I took the quizzes), so it's clear some writings slip past my radar.

This is an important thing to track. Idk how we'd track it in a way that's even remotely accurate; perhaps by taking small samples where you know for sure whether each article was written by GPT or human (if your subjects disclose, or if they have edit history turned on). But we can't say how much ChatGPT is replacing human writing, and how it's affecting human thinking, until we have actual evidence this is happening at a large scale.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/139o1q6/lost_all_m...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/138clv9/spent_5_ye...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/i...)
That's like ... your opinion. It isn't the government's responsibility to make sure there isn't lead in the food you eat, but we have the FDA. Ditto usury laws, medicine laws etc.
Grocery stores don't have a monopoly on selling food, so they can't arbitrarily raise prices.
GPT-2 training cost 10s of thousands

GPT-3 training cost millions

GPT-4 training cost over a hundred million [1]

GPT-4 inferencing is slower than GPT-3 or GPT-3.5

OpenAI has billions of dollars in funding

OpenAI has the backing of Microsoft and their entire Azure infra at cost

There is no way GPT-4 is the same size as GPT-3. Is it 1T parameters? I don't know. No one knows. But I think it is clear GPT-4 is significantly larger than GPT-3.

For fun, if we plot the number of parameters vs training cost we can see a clear trend and I imagine, very roughly predict the amount of parameters GPT-4 has

https://i.imgur.com/rejigr5.png

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/lqwsmmnngc

[1]

> At the MIT event, Altman was asked if training GPT-4 cost $100 million; he replied, “It’s more than that.”

http://web.archive.org/web/20230417152518/https://www.wired....
Or just download a large file, choose save as on a drive other than the C drive because it is too big, and watch IE proceed to fill up the temp dir on the C drive, completely ignoring the fact you asked to save on another drive.

Or if you had enough space, still waste minutes copying the deleting the file...
newrelic js-agent appeared when I clicked on the VSCode icon
> sign of where we are heading

Where are we heading?
Sometimes it’s hard to remember that the only reason meat is delicious is because we evolved to think meat is delicious.
> To stop secret info from slipping out, Apple silos its employees, giving them information only on a need-to-know basis.

Annoying internal secrecy, open plan offices, and paying part of your salary in prestige (rather than dollars) are all things that make working at certain companies less attractive to me.
For PAT ok but surely this also scans for aws credentials etc, or is it really just about PATs?
is it worth it? (let me work it -- missy elliot)

I use uMatrix and selectively adding in js domains did not improve the login situation all the way down to the wire, and I decided to give up
Are you describing American compensation? If so, how do they retain engineers after the cliff?
> One can construct advertising which is harder to fault morally, but because its less effective its generally outbid by things further over on the brainwashing spectrum.

I think there exists a solution, but it is a hard sell.

Ads by themselves are not inherently immoral. On the contrary, paid promotions performed by the person who is doing the show are part of the show, and, if done in good faith by a well-known and trusted person, can be considered a credible endorsement of the products being promoted. A relevant and creative promotion will not be skipped over even when there is such choice.

There are people who make mediocre/misleading/fraudulent/infected/immoral ads - this is one root of the evil, and the second root lies in creators willingly giving up part of the screen time to the content that they have no control over and that, realistically, no human other than the potentially-malicious advertisement author has approved for airing.

You are right that good ads are generally outbid by things further over on the brainwashing spectrum. So, it's bidding on ads that were not reviewed by relevant humans that's the problem.

Idea of a solution: make creators that want to profit from ads watch these ads and approve the best ones for their audience. Don't run unapproved ads no matter how high they bid.

The place where this fails is the extra amount of work shifted onto creators: it's too much work to watch let's say 50 ads that the algorithm thinks are relevant, in order to select the best 5, so that only they are rotated.
Except for the fact that if the Fed is taken to court for dishonoring a paymrnt order, the impact on the confidence of the dollar as a reserve currency and the psyche of all dollar bond-holders' faith in the redemption value of their bonds will drop.

It is difficult to predict the impact of this. But it is more than likely to be severe financial collapse.
Google could also integrate their translation service into their consumer AR product that's coming out in 2024 to do live translations, directions, and other real-time image "AI" analysis stuff. A ChatGPT type assistant built into your day-to-day life could be interesting. If not for Q&A other use cases we don't yet know about.

https://www.techradar.com/features/google-glass-2-everything...

Apple is apparently announcing their AR glasses in June

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-02/when-i...