skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't "tech awakened" at this time, so I simply didn't know which programs were used.

What I can say is that plenty of spammers would have one or two posts on Newsgroups, before the mods would catch them and ban their email address.

Depending on the Newsgroup, I'm sometimes "new users" would have all of their posts reviewed before their posts were forwarded to everyone else. But after being added to some kind of whitelist, they could say whatever they wanted (well, until a flamewar caused them to go over the line and get banned).

So similar tools as moderators use today on Reddit / IRC / whatever. Or at least, it felt like that to me. Maybe it differed in implementation, but the overall effect was the same.
> That seems like a lot doesn't it?

Not really?

I mean, it's a music streaming platform with global presence (and to my experience, with no downtime), dealing with the regulatory environment, record labels, payment processing, and taxation across all different jurisdictions. Also needs to have customer service support in all languages it operates.

If you ask me, 8k doesn't sound absurd at all. Maybe a bit on the high end of what I would have guessed, but I'm possibly not accounting for new things they might be developing as well.
For as long as LLMs are a blackbox prompt injection will never be fully solved. Prompt injection is an alignment problem.
Lightning is not needed at all and is used by non legitimate actors. LN is also not widely adopted worldwide and doesn't solve any problem that is better than what already exists with credit cards.

Especially with no dispute mechanism either.

So no thanks to crypto at all.
> What risk is being alleged?

Have we already forgotten FTX?
You joke, but I already see claims being made on various subreddits to the effect that we are, indeed, being discriminatory against artificial intelligence. Usually this is related to the safety / alignment debate, viz. that we shouldn't seek to place any limits on machine intelligence because it would be tantamount to penalizing thought crimes. If you respond that current AI implementations don't "think" in any way analogous to human thought, the responses you'll get are on the crazy side, depending on idiosyncratic private definitions of concepts such as "sentience" and "imagination".

It's amusing but a little irritating as well.
and because of the nonuniformity difference that you mention, for anything but the most basic macros you gonna find that level of comparability with lisp decrease pretty exponentialy

btw, the other poster didnt mention elixir macros. they mentioned optional syntax which frankly terrifies me :)
Yeah, it's a "make the victims feel like they got some justice" money but not anywhere near enough to actually solve the problem or to repay the damages.

They're basically getting off scott free, and they made tens of billions of dollars in profit for only having to pay 1 billion in damages.
One reason people give 5 star ratings is because they are asked to explain why if they rate lower. If companies made '3' the normal rating and asked for an explanation for higher OR lower ratings, that might normalize the ratings better.
That's a different problem: that simply convert a pointer to float to an uint32 (probably truncating it). What the post mentions is 'uint32_t my_int = *(uint32_t*)&my_float;

(Of course you had it right, and HN ate your formatting, but it is funnier this way)
I came to a similar conclusion about how some people strive to reduce what they call "visual noise" on their programming languages, by removing things like semicolons, parentheses, curly braces, etc. and others, like myself, who like the punctuation.

I think I read code visually. I understand its literal 2D-visual shape first, and use punctuation as visual markers to help me along. Then I backfill the gaps in the structure with the actual "content" of the code.

For the longest time I was baffled by the other camp's attempts to get rid of punctuation. What are they thinking? I now believe what they're thinking is of code as linear text. If you read the code linearly first, as text, and build the structure in your head as you go then yeah, all; of(that) seems {kinda} pointless && annoying.

Now guess which camp is more likely to write blog posts about how theirs is the One True Way? Ah, the humanity.
I have been curating list of PaaS, kubernetes abstractions etc. in Awesome PaaS [1].

PS. This space is super competitive. One of the things I have noticed is that the life of an organisation using a platform like this is very short. For example, a startup might use this right away to become compliant and stuff, but once they mature and hire devops engineers, which they will when they hit PMF, they will plan a migration out of your platform.

I am wondering how you are planning to counter this behavior.

[1] https://github.com/debarshibasak/awesome-paas
Fun fact. Max Zorn was at Indiana University when I was a grad student there in the '80s. He hated to be known for Zorn's Lemma instead of the other work he did. He thought that was just a fairly trivial observation.
Understanding the Tech Right
Why? Copyrighted content piracy is rampant, but it's somewhat limited on professional media. Likewise, one could imagine that user-generated AI content is everywhere on the internet, but news outlets or professionals such as lawyers or educators stay clear of it or label it properly.
If a kid were to learn Lisp purely for the joy of recreational programming, with no intentions of ever building production software with it, what Lisp would they pick?
Laws and regulations against censorship technically only apply to government agencies.

The great twitter blocking debacle for instance actually came down to the interpretation of blocking as telling someone to “shut up.”

Ordinary people, and non government bodies may tell anyone they want to shut up. These entities may even sanction or remove communications in so far as these relate to their platform or properties (as long as not destroying evidence of a crime.)

Governing bodies however may not, excepting those circumstances which constitute harassment or other disorderly conduct.

To elaborate a bit more on your comment regarding “hackers”, while these may well be hypocritical, one must be wary of stereotyping. Are these same persons advocating free speech the exact same ones interfering?

Not everyone has to listen, though no one has the right to harass others.
It's not just Linux users. I'm using Orion on macOS and I got stuck at the "Cloudflare needs to check the security of your connection…" prompt this morning. I didn't even get a Captcha. It just hung there. (And by the way, that prompt makes no sense.)
As HN's success shows, there's a significant niche for text-only forums.
I haven't been there in a while, but last I recall, they sort of ran out of land. It's very hilly, the airport basically ends at a cliff. A lot of the land is government controlled and fenced off to provide buffer for secure areas.

A lot of land around that is national park/BLM land, and not accessible. So you've got like, white rock, espanola or Santa Fe to commute in from. I did know a guy who had a light plane and would commute from the east side of Albuquerque to Los alamos by plane.

So, sort of like local zoning, but more like DC. an act of congress to free up some of that land, not as straightforward as visiting some city council meetings.
The only reason to use text-davinci-003 nowadays is when the ChatGPT API is overloaded and breaks, especially given the lower cost of the ChatGPT API.
Officer efficiency ratings in the US Military have been that way for a long time--there are WW II novels (_The Caine Mutiny_) that refer to that.
> Naughty Dog only switched because they were bought out by Sony who then demanded that they change languages.

To reuse a larger code-base, instead of working on their own new platforms for the next systems.

> In any case, Common Lisp is hardly “unproven Tech”.

Common Lisp is a language. Software is running on implementations and SBCL was relatively new then (2005).

They used SBCL which at that time was not used to implement such websites.

Naughty Dog used Allegro CL, which was already used in a bunch of 3d/OpenGL applications. Their own runtime was custom build and required real deep expertise in implementing a GC-less Scheme for an embedded platform.
> But where does that leave us as a society?

Not our problem. exec + mgmt creates the incentives set and reaps nearly all the rewards for it. Don't take personal loss for something you do not have meaningful equity in (ie you will not participate in the rewards). And btw the vast majority of equity plans are not meaningful equity. Compare your compensation to exec layer and decide if you're getting a proportional share, I'd argue unless your C suite compensation is around 10x the lower paid folks (it's usually closer to 100x) then no, you're not equitably participating.

Now, if you own a meaningful part of the rewards, go HAM.
Yes, complexity-wise, it was the start of the big bang. But it was also a badly needed update and C++ would have probably died if it had continued on that path. Pre C++11, I remember having to include Boost, which is huge, just so I could replace the manual delete calls with smart pointer equivalents and use the thread and file system API.

Maybe the additions could have been managed better, but I don't think there's an easy answer as to how. Hopefully, this is something that can be improved. We'll see.
The allegation is that customer funds were inappropriately used/commingled by Binance entities, putting customers at risk of loss. That's the primary risk they're talking about.

People getting scammed by inappropriate marketing of unregulated securities is a secondary risk.

People losing money due to market abuse is a tertiary risk.
I don't love either one of these but....

My mom took my grandma and I to her favorite store

My grandma and I went to my mom's favorite store with her
i have known cats make all sorts of weird noises, but sounding like a chainsaw? no. also, babies don't sound like chainsaws.
The article I posted covers this (the section called Scale). When put into context, the destruction of Hiroshima just wasn't that impressive. We had already leveled 66 Japanese cities with conventional bombs. Hiroshima may have been a technical / scientific feat, but the end result paled in comparison to what we had already done before.
Opening a hyperlink has never required a double click in browsers. Not from Mosaic forward.
Yes this totally changes the dynamic, it's pretty normal for executives associated with big flops to get sacked.
95% of people don’t have a bank account in the US.
Split the syntax into whether it 1) emits no code (compiler-facing); 2) emits weakly-related code (eg., macros, etc.); 3) emits code close to what's written abstractly (eg., value operations); 4) emits code close to what the machine needs (eg., unsafe code) -- etc.

And you'll find about "4 languages" all mixed together.
systemd-nspawn is also worth looking into
Previous discussion on designing a programming language by AI:

GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language (March 2023) https://lukebechtel.com/blog/gpt4-generating-code

And here is the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35177857
Google was pretty much considered the "good guys" back then. It only started with AdWords a year earlier and was barely breaking even at the time. Loong way from "corporate overlords".
Same issue for me. Message is clear: be relevant to be indexed. And everything indexed is relevant.
How's it even hugged while being behind Cloudflare?
Whatever Happened to the Internet of Things?
I used to run an Internet of Things conference, which is what prompted this article: https://kconfs.com/iotfuse/
Aviation and Space has a lot of challenges, but also a lot of flexibility.

Planes, for example, can share the same geographic location -- just at different altitudes; e.g. 25000 ft vs 33000 ft vs 45000 ft., etc. After a certain altitude there isn't anything. No clouds, no birds, just air; set your auto-pilot and go. Takeoff and Landing can be hairy, and you gotta worry about mountains, but that's about it. A basic radar makes it easy to see, and not hard to broadcast by radio.

Same basic idea for space. Gotta get out of orbit and not get cooked by radiation, but otherwise there is a whole lotta empty, and it's not hard to see what's going on with things like radar.

On the ground it ain't so simple. Someone stuck on a rail, avalances, bridge collapses, hills vs inclines, snow / ice / rain / high-winds, and no ability to multiplex, so scheduling gets even harder since there are only so many ways into or out of a location. Trains full of high explosives or toxic chems drive right through downtown areas, often multiple times a day. From a crime and security perspective, airports are locked down pretty hard, while most people could probably just drive to a siding near them and fuck around; you can derail a train with a $400 block of steel you can order online. Communication and signal loss is also way more complicated, esp. if you're going through a mountainous or remote area.
Some systems I’ve worked in have entire root filesystems that are merely twice the size of that one binary. And in those cases sending an extra 40 megabytes over the network connection is a big imposition. So there are still places where executable size matters and that’s why we’d want crun and not runc. If someone wrote an alternative in Rust I’d be interested but golang is just too piggy.
The quest for the era of personalised medicine
I'm the OP of the Twitter thread – I've had the exact same experience: unrealistically low risk scores for most fraudulent transactions. There were plenty of red flags for each of them (400+ cards and 40+ names under one single IP, most payments got already flagged for credit card testing fraud early on before succeeding after many tries...) Even dumb heuristics would have blocked 90% of the fraudulent payments. I appreciate Stripe is fixing this quickly after making it public and refunding fees, but something is definitely wrong with their risk calculation algorithm.
It is probably the same mechanism by which people still tip generously even when they are not completely satisfied with the service.

People don't want to be seen as rude and they are afraid of spoiling a probably long-term relationship.

Others maybe are afraid that not giving a 5-star rating will have a disproportionate effect on the seller's reputation, and while they are not 100% satisfied, they don't want to feel guilty about bringing some stranger to potential bankruptcy and potentially making other strangers unemployed.

More tech-savvy and thus more affluent people tend not to feel so strongly about this kind of thing, and at the beginning of online commercial services, they made up the bulk of the customers. Rich people can get away with being hyper-critical in their commercial relations and yet continue to be welcomed by shops. Also, as they don't get so much of this treatment, it is usual for them not to develop this kind of empathy. Someone who has never been laid off or had to wonder how they would pay the rent if they lost their job is not triggered on an emotional level wondering what would happen to other people if the business they work in floundered as a result of bad reviews.
Not OP.

Here is evidence for screen time being dose dependent after more than 1 hour, but it is old so none of the kids in that study had grown up with smartphones https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283687526_Dose-resp...

This is a summary article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012622/ you will find the dose dependt point is the first paragraph under the heading "Key Points".
Clear communication with high signal to noise is better, who would have thought...
Armed F16 Supersonic Intercept of Unresponsive Cessna
Again ?
Are the same aliens like in Rosswell ? /s
As long as other people have similar conversations but praise correct answers, this will likely not work.
I think you're conflating different things.

This is about how to represent a null values in memory (for a columnar data structure), not how null values are expressed and accessed in a particular language's type system. However null values are represented in memory, you'd want an appropriate language binding/reppresentation.
Ya you could be the top performer and then just like that 20 years later they might fire you.
Microsoft 365 down for thousands of users
QNAP QSW-M7308r switch – 4x 100GBe and 8x 25GBe
We're going to automatically refund the transactions and fees, but also support any write-ins if you feel we missed any. (We have some ways to identify the transactions after they happen).

I agree with you, it's very counter-intuitive why these transactions are getting through Radar. We're iterating on some fixes right now that should stop this going forward by addressing this type of attack.
Los Alamos is on a mesa, with cliffs on one side and Jemez mountains on the other.

There were some local controversies related to zoning when I was there (namely, commercial real estate), but the issue is much broader and long-standing.

I used to work for a PI who, during his internship days in the ~1980s, lived in a tent in the mountains the whole summer (he was a delightfully quirky person though).
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197712
doesn't a "tips and tricks" document feel kind of weird for a software product?
I'm not convinced you're putting the blame in the right place. Looking at the last decade or so, most of the original films — Inside Out, Coco, Luca, Turning Red, etc — have ranged from "great" to "incredible". It's the sequels and spinoffs like Cars 3, Toy Story 4 and Lightyear that have fallen flat. I don't know where in the Disney org chart people start worrying about revenue, but from where I sit Pixar still has plenty of spark.
Yes, you'd need to specify the subject of the sentence as you did in your second example.

My rule for students is basically, "If you have the option to be re-specify the thing you're talking about, do it." That's a solid rule for standardized tests, and usually applies to everyday writing (I'll caveat that this rule clashes with "the simplest answer is the right answer", so it is dependent on the actual sentence rather than an "all-or-nothing" rule).

Other common mistakes are those you hear about in middle-school (that's not a knock on anyone; rather, I say that to prove how long-ago it was that most of us ever reviewed common grammar and writing rules):

"Let's eat, Grandma!" vs. "Let's eat Grandma!"

Tying this back to GPT, I've read (and seen) folks write without any punctuation whatsoever. I can't speak to how GPT truly handles that, but if it's anything like "normal writing" and understanding, then punctuation is hugely important.
The reddit link is just an empty page with another link. It would be better to use https://openlsr.org/sail-7b
For an easy example -- how many of the largest [non-political] subreddits are openly political? By that I mean they either have participation rules or auto-moderators that explicitly tell you that you will be banned for non-conformance? You think only moderators are getting burned out?

I'd suggest that Reddit is devolving into a place where the users and moderators willing to stick around completely deserve one another. On neither side do normal, sane people want to participate.
Previous Reddit controversies have mostly been about Reddit banning abhorrent content. This lead to clones which were, more or less from the start, just full of the worst people you can imagine. This limited their general attractiveness; normal people probably won’t want to use a Reddit clone which is populated mostly by Nazis, or by people who are creepily fixated on moaning about fat people, or by the upskirt people, or what have you.

This would potentially be rather different, in that the group being driven away is more _normal_.
This massive nose sniffs things then prints a description of the smell
Another thing, I noticed: a weird prioritization of certain sources. E.g., I've a website that is now up for 24 years (there's even some content older than this, which has moved there), it has my name on it and my name is in the meta data, and – quite naturally – it used to be the top result, when you googled me.

Recently, I discovered that the top results are now some university pages that are not maintained, or even have never been set up. Which really undermines the purpose of the site. (Notably, the site has quite a high number of reported Google search hits, has rather perfect Lighthouse scores, and SEO ratings are high enough that I get SEO related requests – which are happily ignored – on a rather regular basis. It scores about rank 60K in the "Majestic Million". And the site enjoys a few updates/fresh content a few times a year. So this is not a case of obscurity.)
> I think Reddit charging $2.5/month for API access is more than fair

I don't. I agree with you on the lifetime Apollo access. That was dumb. But $2.5/user/month is crazy for Reddit. Facebook incurs around $2/user/month in costs. I'm sorry, but there's just no comparison in terms of the platform features, stability, performance, and infrastructure. With 430 million monthly active users, either Reddit is valuing their cost at $12.9 billion annually (pro rata), or they're adding a very healthy profit margin to that charge. It's clearly the latter.
*"write clearly and provide ample information."

... but if you provide too much information your counterpart might lose interest and forget what you said first.
Sure, I mean naive-wrt-semantics; not naive-wrt-statistics.

The naive statistical approach fails, the regularisation approach succeeds.

I'd say this does need explanation, but the paper really omits exactly what needs explaining... it isnt so much the introduction of regularisation...

Rather, it's why-it-should-be that our data generating processes encode metadata which can be capture by such regularisation

Phrased like this, i htink the answer is somewhat obviuos
> a reliable trope is "I'm just getting into <genre> -- what are some good artists I should check out?"

I enjoy trolling those users by posting circlejerk answers in the unironic subreddits.
I find the claim about image-based development being required for macros somewhat unfounded.

The most trivial counterexample is an interpreter - it can simply evaluate the macros just like ordinary functions.

A step up in complexity is a compiler that - during compilation - compiles macro definitions by emitting code and dynamically loading it (Goo does this http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/goo/goo.htm , and I have also put a toy implementation of this together using dlopen, and there are probably many other impls that do this.)
I bet that Hardware Engineers have nothing on PhD students :)
>> I like Bitcoin for storing value against inflation, but its not a great currency.

>Why

> The number of bitcoins needed to pay for shawarmas, groceries, gas, and housing is up 73.1 per cent compared with 5.2 per cent annual inflation measured in Canadian dollars.

So its not a good currency, but its a good store of value. No Bitcoin holder is gauging the value in segments of 1 year.
Totally agreed on social media and endless youtube, but in the case of a medical need you can lock the phone down with screen time locks.
Having never run into Cloudflare issues despite almost exclusively using Linux, I do wonder what's going on here.

I can never pinpoint what makes these prompts and problems show up constantly for some but almost never for me.

Are you behind CGNAT by any chance? I have my suspicions that CGNAT networks are more likely to trigger these robot detection flags than others (because their users share an external IP address with many others). I can imagine a website/user with only IPv4 set up ending up getting grouped together with the countless automated Chromium installs that may also ruin your IP address' reputation with spam prevention tools.