skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They told me to pound sand, as I have to show that this stuff would hurt people.

What total nonsense. What the dentist did is actually _worse_ than just stealing the same amount of money from your wallet. I guess the only reasonable approach is to try to ruin the dentist’s reputation publicly. Or I guess to just move on since that dentist is just one in a million professional charlatans in modern American society.
That’s more of a stereotype which is really only accurate in some cities and even there usually only in the center areas/old town.

50-70%+ of all Europeans who live in urban areas commute by car*

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Greenwald also has became a russian media parrot.
You've just made an anti-argument to your own claim.

As people are people, real democracy would not be worse than the status quo as we're already ruled by people with lack of knowledge, reason, understanding and empathy.

But you can't for example corrupt the majority of all people. So real democracy would be at least in this point better.

By no means worse, but better in some regards is a clear win imho!

> lack of knowledge, reason, understanding and empathy.
Sounds like you expect him to die in Russia. To prove to an internet nobody that he’s loyal—very privileged take there.

I’m guessing you never risked anything in your life, ammirite?
I disagree with the author.

Requirements are a precursor to the spec, and are a list of MUSTS, SHOULDS, and WBNIS which need to go into the feature/product.

The Spec is a description of how these requirements are/will be met.

An example for the ‘ls’ command:

Requirement: “the user MUST be able to include or exclude hidden files”

Spec: “by default hidden files are not shown. Including the optional argument ‘-a’ will cause hidden files to be listed alongside non-hidden files”
Aside from your uncharitable interpretation: it is really not difficult or time-consuming to support this. It's just setting and checking a single boolean flag, in fact it may simply just be a few lines at startup if the tool already supports color options via cli args.
Used the same prompt. Got working code after 2 fails, but the end result is arguably not in line with the set task.

https://chat.openai.com/share/57209616-62d0-4b49-a539-f4dd8a...
Rather than a 400 error?
Quick workaround: GET /search?key=$hash(body)
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> At some point in one's career you hit a point where you say what you want to say.

Yes, this happens usually when you are a C-level executive, and not a software dev intern, like this guy. He hasn't even started his career...
Browsing HN, is that spying? Or just trying to find out what people are saying/doing in public? Framed another way, surveying the web could even be labeled "democratic".
We are already here. Modern sperm and egg banks are just the eugenics industrial complex with a few branding tweaks.
I suppose that's fair. Should have said being alive is not necessarily a requirement for doom. But all of us are giving our opinions here.
we fell for the 'big tech bad' narrative promulgated by the media (likely also infiltrated by natsec...) who manufactured consent for big government 'reign in silicon valley' without realising what that implied. Worst case scenario of super popular big tech, now indirectly controlled by big govt - a surveillance state - is here. Good job we have checks and balances etc
Back in the day I guess for me and my peers it was pretty normal to use some CGA to hercules utility to be able to play Accolades Test Drive on our amber or green monochrome screens with Hercules cards. I always wondered what CGA looked like. Turned out it is really low res and the 4 colors are ugly. Hercules was the much better choice, especially for productivity
> And also, in my mind, a decryption key is not copyrightable - it's a utility number.

This is not about copyright, this is about circumventing a copy protection. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number, which is also cited in the above video. Therefore, it also makes no difference from where this number actually comes from, "clean room approach" makes no difference here.
Do you mean for simple command line output, or also for actual TUIs, like htop and vim? If the latter, how does that even work? Presumably you'd have to configure it on a per-TUI basis, which is exactly the point of the parent -- it's not accessible out of the box, no matter what you do...right? Or can it be more clever than that?
I really, really, don't think the consumers care about that at all. They were never asked and they have no choice in it.
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On the other hand, I have aphantasia but my dreams have very good visuals.
Paywalled. But the conclusion is:

"To address these gaps, we conducted a two-wave study pairing surveys with ecologically valid measures of both exposure and engagement on Google Search during the 2018 and 2020 US elections. In both waves, we found more identity-congruent and unreliable news sources in participants’ engagement choices, both within Google Search and overall, than they were exposed to in their Google Search results. These results indicate that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices."

Seems sensible enough. Though, they don't seem to understand that people, in turn, drive engagement algorithms.
As another midwesterner also in the bay area, I have a lot of respect for rednecks. Talking to a colleague from Kentucky, I described an exceptionally high IQ friend of mine as a redneck. My colleague was initially offended, until I explained specifically what traits I meant. Then he agreed with me that my friend was a redneck, and that it was a compliment.

Tangentially related, I once told a coworker that he was a hobo. He was also offended, but I suggested he do a bit of research on the etymology. He realized that he was indeed a hobo.
moreso when you've lost a family member to glioblastoma. And II've lost other family members to other maladies, and when I read of causes discovered and treatments offered, the only sane thought is that new present-day cases will fare better.
Yes they do need one and the article is trash because it makes it look like includes all med exams. Colonoscopies, blood exams,blood pressure exams etc are absolutely necessary. It's just plain silly to think they are bad for you. Really dangerous.
That looks more of a documentation problem, rather than an HTTP problem.

You just document that that POST endpoint doesn't actually modify data.

A great example of this are OpenAI completions.
I know Microsoft tries their hardest to change this we barely see this on the destkop.
Maybe I've only worked in ass-backwards companies but it seems to me that for almost all stakeholders, including project managers, bosses and clients, the "requirement" abstraction really does mean:

> [This feature is] something that absolutely must be in the next release of the product

All this thinking is well and good for figuring out the implementation side of that abstraction. But all this thinking won't get you off the hook when you "fail to deliver." At the end of the day, the meaning of "fail", "deliver" and "requirements" is usually not up to you.
If banksy painted on my house I would paint over it, I really don’t give a rats ass about their art and I think vandalizing people’s home is distasteful.
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Because the article talks about med exams like it includes everything. It will make people skip their annual breast exams, colonoscopies, blood exams and so many other things that should be done annual and they said lives. Thus, the article is indirectly killing people. Yes the author. From his ignorance.
Does this comment include Southern Blacks and Hispanics or just the white ones?
Was there ever any doubt? Pantomimes of this sort - along with the catastrophizing by media - further erodes the public trust in institutions.
The other obvious missing part is African Americans, especially for tech roles. I'd be shocked if more than 1% of SDEs at FAANG are African Americans. The biggest social elevator of the past few decades and they're completely cut off from it.
> For every person who contracts pneumonia in the waiting room and dies(?) there have to be at least two people who get a hypertension diagnosis and go on meds that prevent an early heart attack. Probably a lot more than two.

Do you have any evidence for this claim?
I actually experienced this first hand on a random invoice that got lost after moving to another town.

As a company you file an official claim that goes through a court, usually the other party won't show up, and you're awarded a judgement in your favor. That judgment allows you to request recovery of the funds in many ways, including asking the person employer to pay you first before paying them, repossessing their godds, houses whatever the court allows you to do of there's no other option.

E.g. in NZ:
https://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/chapter-26-...

> lol

For people baffled by all of this, many countries will have stronger laws to protect lenders and service providers than just telling them "tough luck" when you refuse to pay for received goods/services.
So one language model lying to a human an sticking up for another (competing) language model.

It's starting people! ;)
I don’t know that I agree. At least personally, I think there is a big distinction between a bad reason and no reason. No reason means random. A bad reason you can at least seek to understand - what caused this person to make this decision? We’re they abused? Mentally ill? Etc etc.
fair point.

I think this is where DMCA has overreach imho. It's one of the worst pieces of legislations to have been created regarding copyright and intellectual property.
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It may be that the service provider (in this case, a doctor) realises that to price too many people out would be an optimisation that ignores that not all kinds of suffering are equal e.g. yes, optimise the pricing of Playstations and flight tickets and some people will miss out and feel bad, but the suffering of those priced out of a medical procedure is worse.

On the other hand, if we allowed a freer market in medicine (anywhere, no particular target country in mind), seeing doctors make more money treating something should spur on new trainees, thus more doctors in that specialism, and hence price drops and improvements in waiting times and possibly techniques, but that would require that freer market that so many seem against.
This is true, but in some polls the Geordie (northeast) accent was rated the most attractive in England. I have to agree, it sounds much more folksy and warm, and less grating than the posh accent. My friend who went to university in Belfast said you're better off in the tougher parts of Northern Ireland without a posh accent too, even if a northern accent is discriminated against in the London business scene. Everything has its benefits and drawbacks...
There is a lot more to it than that. At a bare minimum, you are also paying for the office rent, the administrative cost of billing through insurance, the administrative cost of the insurer, malpractice insurance, and the price of the doctor’s education.

All of these factors (except maybe rent) are higher or even unique to healthcare in the US. Capitalism isn’t even to blame for most of these. A free market would have price transparency, and would incentivize direct billing over billing through insurance due to lower overhead. Just because it’s the USA doesn’t mean it’s capitalism. That said, nationalized healthcare also seems to be able to solve some these problems through collective bargaining on drug prices, and reducing the billing overhead.
Moral standards does not apply to self righteous people. Since they are good people and only bad people do bad stuff.
This just does not happen if the donation was done with the correct contracts and paperwork. Gamete donation has been a multi billion dollar industry for many years would not exist if those donors, anonymous or otherwise, suddenly would be at risk of paying child support for anywhere from 3 to 300 children.
Those problems are solvable with a PTY. Like how ‘screen’ and ‘tmux’ work.

I already have some code in my own shell to wrap everything in a PTY (ironically to add colour: highlight stderr in red) but I could just as easily do the opposite and strip all colour escape sequences.
Yeah it feels like the issue is that the researchers expect the AI to be smart enough to solve nonsensical Python puzzles but not smart enough to figure out that they are nonsensical and do the sane thing instead.

Having said that, I did try telling ChatGPT explicitly it is a puzzle and not normal Python code, and every time it explained that it was a trick because the builtins were swapped... and then gave the wrong answer anyway.

Definitely an interesting case.
Personally I think there should be restricted access to these models to people who have passed a basic course on their use and behaviour.

(I know that will never ever happen)
> So what's the alternative? Just wait until something bad happens to come in? Seems a lot more unproductive.

Maybe it does seem less productive, but really it’s just a reminder that surprising results that contradict are intuition need not be wrong.
It's actually not obvious if one is browsing the web on a mobile device. I had to bookmark the Quanta article and checked the details of the bookmark to be reasonably sure that the HTML doc title is what was submitted here.
Yes please. Excessive use of colors, emojis and text in the terminal is one of the main reasons that I hate working with JS CLIs these days.
From the thread:

> Whether that's allowed by exception clauses for interoperability, whether that's allowed by some kind of fair use clause, whether Nintendo's broken DRM actually counts as an effective copyright protection measure, etc. -> only a lawsuit could decide that. Your guess is probably as good or as bad as anyone else's.

Sorry no, this is not a "could go either way" situation. There is ample precedence (see: DeCSS) on what counts as "copy protection", and there really is no question that a judge would see the Wii encryption as a copy protection mechanism and hence the DMCA would apply here. The intent that this is meant as a copy protection is what matters, not whether it is broken or not. (Just the messenger - don't shoot me.)
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In my experience spending time in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Cairns, Brisbane and Sydney, variations mainly come down to the relative density of curse words within a sentence. Anecdotally, the density trends upward with individual intelligence.
It was odd because the comment you were responding to does not make the point that you seem to be debating against.
This type of stereotyping is the exact reasoning that fuels the liberal paradise fallacy. In reality the rates of racial equity among what kind of teachers you see, and racial equity in home ownership rates, are better in the south than in a lot of "blue states". Racism exists up north, it's just got a different flavor that is far less publicized.
The classic work in this area is Polya's "How To Solve It"[0], but there are quite a lot of books and articles out there on problem and puzzle solving.

What searches have you tried? What articles or books have you read?

You can also try books of puzzles. Not things like Sudoku, but things like Martin Gardner. And don't just skim them, use them as a study resource ... try to understand the ideas and approaches being used in each puzzle.

Without knowing you better it's hard to make more specific suggestions or recommendations. but like learning a language, getting better at problem solving will take time and deliberate effort.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
Sample size of one, but I don't get any tests or exams of any kind. This thread makes me suspect that I should. Not really sure where to start.
> Electronic voting machines and vote counting machines are hackable.

Sure. And elections in general aren't malleable? In a lot of cases that's even simpler than hacking a distributed cryptographic system.

The problem with electronic voting is not the security. It's "just" the secrecy. That's the only hard problem.

> I wouldn't trust anything other than hand-counted paper ballots.

So you should stop trusting in any decision made in most parliaments on this planet. Almost all of them are made by primitive and completely nontransparent "press the button" electronic voting, which can be trivial hacked. But "voting" in parliaments is anyway just show for the dump masses. All the decisions are pre-made behind closed doors, of course.
> They often make extraordinary claims about how it works

I often hear X making wrong claims, but never seen anyone making it. Could you give any actual examples of someone making extraordinary claims? OpenAI is very clear that chatGPT could produce incorrect output.

I heavily utilize GPT 4 and copilot and while it helps me a lot, I am actually very aware its output needs to be verified. Same with Stackoverflow, where a lot of the answers are just plain wrong and it needs to be verified. Part of what I am beginning to understand the scenarios in which output could be trusted.
But the paper is bullshit. Their task is easily solved by GPT-4.

https://chat.openai.com/share/a28deca2-b989-4029-b042-b8434b...
It's talking about the Antikythera mechanism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Provided of course you trust the person counting those ballots.
Great if this forces Java upgrades.

Using Solr with Java 8 is still quite common.
I'm southern, and regardless of what we're seeing in this article from the studies, and how people want to argue about it, I have anecdotally seen bias against the southern accent with my own eyes, as well as southerners generally. Especially from people who move to the south for the robust job market but then fail to understand that our culture is just as valid as where they came from. The effects of that go far beyond just wage bias.
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Well, theres apkpure, apkmirror and aptoide. Guess that's what I'm working with from now on.

Does anyone have any idea what I should do about banking apps? Do banks keep downloadable APKs on their websites or something like that?
> If accessibility is something you care about, don't write TUI programs. The two concepts are irreconcilable.

They're not irreconcilable because accessibility is not binary. Not every user benefitting from accessibility features is blind. Sometimes people without any disability prefer e.g. high-contrast modes, some people just dislike rapidly flashing lights even if they don't get seizures from it, some may just see no benefit in terminal coloring except in some rare cases.

Many terminal programs already support various color output options, additionally checking an environment variable isn't a big deal and doesn't affect anyone not using it.
By adding the new verb, it implicitly formalizes that body in GET should not be used. Previously it was allowed, although not always expected.

This may be a good thing and it could also be a bad thing if middleware starts relying on this new expectation and break old applications that previously assumed get bodies to be passed through.

They should clarify the expected behavior of GET bodies more explicit, whether it is allowed or not doesn’t really matter, as long as it is crystal clear.
Contracts have lots of standard clauses or near standard variations of such, and as a consequence plenty of "dumb" template based generators already exists, and you may come across contracts that have just the occasional line manually written.

At least one company already integrates or is about to (not sure if it's in production yet) LLMs in theirs to do effectively smarter completions.

It won't be fully automated any time soon, but it will certainly eat into a lot of the simpler work.
I am away from the computer so I don’t recall the exact menu. But it’s easily accessible in a submenu. If I recall right, the menu item is called “Remove background”.
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http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...
This.

I’d also point out that Germany has its share of wild weather, including floods and storms. And yet they keep their grid up a lot more reliably than the US.
Another instance of "no, you cannot comprehend how the superrich live, it's just different"
"The winding road to his home was lined with black-suited, white-shirted, matching security guards, all equipped with matching sunglasses and earpieces." -- Do all super rich people live with this level of security?
I am happy to see that the guy has rejected the idea of renaming the project. I am judging him: he is just as arrogant as any other Googlers. I'm sorry I didn't wanted to judge him, or that I even implied it. He deserved all the judgement. Long live the new definition of Vanilla JavaScript!
Indeed, if one uses the termcap or terminfo libraries (or the likes of unibilium) to obtain the control sequences for colour from those databases, instead of hardwiring them into the source code of print statements, one gets the TERM=dumb convention implemented entirely for free.
"All the men are men, all the women are men, and all the children are FBI agents"
just invite local graffiti boys to paint the rest of the wall, call it a Museum and have entry tickets. After all your museum owns a bansky
This seems like a nothing hamburger article. FBI/Corporations agents posing as users in anonymous spaces is not exactly novel.
I suspect it would be influenced more by QML than React. Why jump to the conclusion that it's React?
Imho as transformative as encoding a DVD as DivX…

It's correct that OpenAI isn't publishing any of the "stolen" content directly. But they "stole" it to make their service possible in the first place. Not distributing it themself doesn't make much difference than.
ISBN is an interesting case as the publisher has leeway on how it's handled accross the lifetime of a book. In particular some books will get multiple ISBN for the same version, and some other books can keep the same ISBN through multiple minor revisions.
Even if we accept your premise, LLMs don't have to make you 10x in order to succeed. I think even 1.05x will do, considering their price point is 20 bucks a month.
To be fair our measuring instruments aren’t developed enough to make that conclusion. The universe could be full with life
I always wanted somebody to convert configure to using x11 style prewritten host requirements. Cake I think had that. I find the 26 gazillion --with and --without and the pkgconfig runs deeply unsatisfying.

99%+ of the system specific dependencies never change. The endless compile test cycles to confirm its little endian and has strrchr()
> but better if made to continuously reflect

With GPT-3.5 I've seen that asking the same question just gets different wrong answers. If one of them is eventually right, then the user needs to either know the right answer or be able to validate the answer. After a correct answer, if you ask again, you get more wrong answers.

Still, amazing tech, but there's a big usability gap around correctness.