skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious where would social media sites that are used sometimes for pornographic purposes fall under this? Obviously something like PHub only serves to distribute porn. But things like Twitter, Reddit, etc. are well known for their “secondary” purposes.

For example there are many chat apps aimed towards teenagers that are prolifically used for exchanging videos and pictures between adults and minors (at least de facto, even if de jure it is against terms). Of course there’s a big difference between a porn production company versus an individual, but often social platforms are conduits for more “black hat” behavior.
I made an account around the time ChatGPT API (GPT-3.5) access was released to follow all the LLM news. The account is now getting aggressively rate limited that I cannot even see new tweets for 2-3 minutes.
Ah, there it is: "if bad things happen to you, it's your fault for not working hard enough!"

Amazing that someone can still hold that opinion, when all the evidence overwhelmingly contradicts that little nugget of pyrite.
My experience is similar. It’s a multiplier. The more capable you already are, the more you can get out of it. Perhaps not surprising in that all tools work this way.
Stupid question: is it impractical to "lift" the entire island or just buildings and roads by like 3-5 ft? Similar to the raising of chicago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago#:~:text=D....

If Tuvalu can't afford it then maybe they can demand for a climate relief loan from big polluting nations with 0 interest.
That's always such a silly argument, IMO. Yes, anyone can fork anything OSS, it doesn't mean anyone is going to, or it's going to make sense to do it.

And sure, no one is forcing the maintainers to adopt a different view, but we can judge them for having a bad or incorrect view, and point out issues that arise from that.

And maintainers are not being asked to focus on security above all else, just to treat security vulnerabilities like vulnerabilities instead of just bugs.
top-to-bottom integration and fully open-source, basically. That's a pretty good value proposition, though it does depend on how much premium you pay for it.
Playing 5 dimensional chess with that poison pill huh?
The benefits of IT and computation went to capital instead, and everyone just kept working a traditional 40 hour workweek? I thought this was a known and agreed upon answer, but didn't see any mention of it in the article.
> there is no engineering solution for this and you're not going to be able to successfully sue companies for scraping Twitter

There absolutely is, if you try instead of whining on internet. People at Vercel have already developed new anti-bot + fingerprinting + rate limiting techniques which look quite promising. I dare say within a year, new tools will be powerful enough to do this easily.
And speaking of having no gotcha but just being gotten, if you have showdead=true you can see one of Musk's biggest stans trevioustrouble rolling out their very best most deep and thoughtful arguments in support of Musk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556393

>trevioustrouble 1 hour ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

>It’s just a feed, and needs to be rate-limited for unregistered users. No need to pull out your philosophy-degree. The people that were fired from Twitter were fired for good reason and if you think you’d do a better job than Elon with Twitter, you wouldnt.

>* PS: Dislike my comment fags

And then they sum up their politics and best arguments and what the Twitter they're fighting so hard for and what Musk they worship so much is all about, in just one word:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556423

>trevioustrouble 1 hour ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

>fag

And that's the best they've got.

It really makes Musk's apologists so angry and frustrated to see everyone laughing their asses off at Musk explosively and bloodily sharting himself in public like that, because now they have to follow behind the elephant and wipe up all the mess.
I don't want planes falling out of the sky, but currently lead is falling out of the sky instead, and I don't want that, either :/
Do you have some reference for “simple swipe on B”? Doesn’t work for me (not that simple I guess?)
face it, the youtube offering is just kinda shitty. its like with piracy of music, movies and such, it is a distribution problem. Does it make it legal in the case of music/movies? probably not. Is it legal to adblock? in most places, yes.

could one make an argument of it not being morally justified? maybe.

does youtube, in the way google/alphabet wants to run it suck? most definitely. Is it possible to easily work around some of the biggest stuff here? yes.

well this is what a great many people choose to do, and youtube had better accept reality and deal with it. If they make it impossible to block ads, that is probably within their rights (assuming they implement some technical solution themselves), but that will come with some consequences
I agree with almost every comment in this thread, except that few seem to appreciate that "It should be one big fediverse, which instance I use should be completely transparent and irrelevant." is impossible without decentralized permissionless consensus: yes, blockchains. This is the thing they've been calling "web3", as much as HN seems to hate it.

web1 -> peer-to-peer decentralized networks without built-in consensus or economics; end up de facto centralized; SMTP, Nostr, RSS, etc.

web2 -> corporate owned networks; from iMessage to Tiktok to Reddit, this is most major networks today

web3 -> networks whose decentralization is enforced by cryptography and economics; Ethereum being one such example of a programmable network/computer

If you don't have cryptographic and economic mechanisms to encourage decentralization and resist centralization, we will just end up with a federated/fragmented system or a centralized one. We will keep repeating this loop over and over again until we fully appreciate that networks need built-in economics or someone else will build it and control them (see git/Github; RSS/Twitter; SMTP/Gmail; many others).
Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (2011)
There is absolutely a need, and it is inevitable licensing/certification will happen at some point.

If software engineers screw up code for say a pacemaker, or an airplane, or a self-driving car, they should be held to the same standards as a civil engineer who was negligent in a bridge design which led to deaths.
Why would a _ be harder to type than a * on a screen keyboard?
If you're going to be a vocal Libertarian you should be vocal about open borders for for jobs.
The Super Connector Who Built Sam Bankman-Fried’s Celebrity World
Requiring a blank line before a sublist just looks wrong.
If your old code doesn't make sense, you better sit down, engage the code and figure it out.

Otherwise you have to concede that you're getting dumber. Someone better than you wrote code you don't understand, and it happened to be your younger self.
Or they're just people trying to earn their pay. Why must everything be a political divide these days...
..and using exponential back-off, if not limiting the number of retries.

Though it’s hard to know for sure what really went down. Could be a number of things. Including a lack of subject matter experts (Elon recently admitted to laying off some people they shouldn’t have).
I agree with deportation being force.

Consider if you employ a person to mow your lawn. If you no longer want his services, you can force him to leave your property.

If you're a guest in a country, any country, and do not comply with the terms of your visa, they'll deport you.

Twitter cannot deport anyone. Your beef is not with Twitter.
The issue isn’t “using lambda functions”.

The issue is using them poorly, and in particular stringing them together into a sort of pipeline.
So, "fake reviews" are not constitutionally protected free speech, but lies by politicians are?
I agree. I admit, I still /do this/ for emphasis, and have always wondered why Markdown didn't follow suit.
HN was mocking Facebook's slogan even a decade ago after their numerous outages back then.

They had to change it to "Move Fast and Build Stable Infra" for a reason.
You might be thinking of finetuning, you should checkout alpaca-lora documentation.

Embeddings are just floating point array representation of the underlying text, where 'tokens' that are often used together are numbers close in proximity. You can generate vector representation of any text very easily using the openai apis, or frameworks like langchain https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

Similarity means your text gets turned into an array of numbers and the vector database finds the closest matches, potentially across a huge database of text documents. Vector databases are often used in conjunction to LLMs, for example to pull out all the snippets of relevant text, then feed it within the prompt with your question.
Sure, and machine learning isn't a new field either. And networks were around before the internet. :)

But there's a certain combination of events that makes things more important than the individual old things that feed into them.
Porphyrios: The whale that sank ships of the Byzantine Empire for 50 years
This looks pretty interesting! But the landing page has only one sentence : Understand and implement research papers faster, followed by a get in touch button. Care to extrapolate more? The blog button doesn't work as well?
Where is the post doing that? Where it lists the people impacted? Where it implies (but doesn't explicitly assert) that the disruption is enough to impact their ability to meet deadlines?
> How do you know this?

It says so on the military's audit report.

They observed network connections during the compilation of the voting machine software. Software libraries that have not been audited are downloaded and linked.

> I thought it was all inauditable!

I never said that. I only ever claimed the audits were insufficient. Especially TSE's limited "pen and paper" audits. I even gave you an example of an audit I personally would deem sufficient.

> Also, what does it matter if "the build system links" whatever libraries, if said libraries are not used by the program?

If you link malicious code to your binary, it's pretty much game over. Of course it matters. Are you saying the libraries aren't linked to the voting machine program? How do you know that?

> Or do you admit that the source code would in fact show that usage?

I admit nothing of the sort. I state that it's precisely the opposite. You can have perfectly good source code and still end up with a malicious result. Earliest example of such a thing is of course the famous text Reflections on Trusting Trust. More recently, there are numerous examples open source software libraries with malicious code shipped to package managers like npm and pypi. Supply chain attacks that have compromised people from this very site. One of the reasons reproducible builds exist is to mitigate exactly that attack, it works by establishing cryptographic relation between the compiled binary and the source code used to build it.

> I've already seen plenty of your behaviour on this website and it's mostly of the "enraged Facebook/WhatsApp uncle" / "old man shouts at clouds" / "someone is wrong on the Internet" type.

Look who's prejudiced now.

If you don't want to reply to me because you don't like me or what I think, I'm okay with that. It's not acceptable for you to paint me as some unthinking moron though. Perhaps I came across as "uncivil" in my words because of my disgust for the status quo but I never did anything of the sort to you. My hatred is reserved for the brazilian institutions which I perceive as total failures. So either refute what I said or leave it be but don't accuse me of being some "enraged WhatsApp uncle".
I think the bigger problem there is that RFK could win the debate but that still wouldn't make vaccines cause autism.
If you ever end up in the distant future, go to Svalbard and look for the Arctic World Archive. They have microfilm copies of a huge amount of data. They have Wikipedia pages in microfilm format, so all you need is a magnifying glass to get started. You can then look for the Github Code Vault slides that explain how to restart technology from scratch and run the code in the git repository archives.

https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/GUIDE....

https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTec...

https://arcticworldarchive.org/
You put the directory somewhere (eg. usb drive) and hope someone enters the directory and executes a git command.
>I don’t think women are as bothered by this and you can see this in the student loan data. 2/3 of distressed student loans in the US are owed by women.

Fun fact. Student Loan Debts are considered marital property in community property states. So her debt is now our debt and may become your debt in a divorce.
In fact there’s a giant list of reasons to assume bad faith with anything Musk says. https://elonmusk.today/
I wonder if you might have found it more fulfilling if you had received some psychological help with all the harshness on yourself.
Yeah cynically this is jezebel for our demographic.

Live,laugh love. It’s wine o’clock. Do great work.
That’s what they meant about H1B.

https://www.google.com/search?q=h1b+visa
Sure, but healthcare isn't special (for 18 months). It's the same as food and rent; you get it if your pay.
It doesn’t really come up. Most of my family isn’t active on social media, and the ones who are know the rule and don’t mind.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this has no back off or limit at all. 10 RPS is fast enough that it may simply be sequential.
I agree about healthcare. Employees in the United States over-perform because we can't risk losing health insurance and ending up in financial ruin.

H1-B, now, as much as I am sympathetic to that (an immigrant coming from extreme poverty myself), I don't understand why HN treats losing a work visa as a death sentence.

The tragedy here is what exactly? That you get to go home to your family and a country with a safety net and free healthcare, as bad as it might be? Before you apply for a new job? Is that really worse than some narcissistic rich douche shaving the years off your life by working you into the ground like this?
What are Russians if not Westerners?

I read that the name of the country comes from Rus', originally used for Scandinavians or Vikings or something like that.
The worst thing is that it works, I've been rejected at interviews because I didn't have micro-service experience.
Instead of that `xml` library and format, many people use the SXML format defined by Oleg Kiselyov:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml-intro/

SXML became the de facto standard in the Scheme community after Oleg and others developed some powerful libraries for it, starting with Oleg's SSAX parser. SXML is also better-suited to efficient manipulation of large HTML/XML when using immutable lists.

Also, if you're looking at code examples in TFA, and thinking that, even when composing HTML using lists rather than strings, it's still susceptible to injection programming errors, then one SXML-ish improvement is:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-template/

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rws-html-template/
For the people who work at the company and want to continue.

They don't get paid after the company dies.
>Is there some emerging practice on how to determine how close is close "enough" between multiple vectors for the purpose of similarity searches?

IMO you can't avoid empirically evaluating what threshold is close enough or not. Two phrases or encoded entities may have .98 similarity with one embedding model and .59 with another. It is entirely determined by the weights and model you are using.
Self evaluating in this way really can push someone to the next level in a skill they are trying to learn! It seems especially effective when learning an instrument.
For sure, a hygrometer to go with the thermometer! Humidity is great to know if you’re at a mold risk (too high) or wood flooring damage risk (too low).

A barometric sensor would be neat (with a corresponding indicator for rising/falling), but probably less useful for most people.

The other popular air quality sensors (CO2, CO, VOC, PM2.5, etc.) are a little harder to QC, but the airgradient.com folks seem to have sourcing sussed out for at least some of those.
China Has $3T of ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves, Setser Says
I would expect most of those cloud deployments to be VMs not containers.
Devil's advocate here: did we consider that any such exponential back off goes out the window when users, faced with a non-working site, will just refresh the page therefor reseting the whole process?
Right tool for the job as always...sometimes that's serverless, sometimes that's monoliths.
The issue is that they, for their own mix of reasons, decided they most preferred to work in the US on an H1B, and are now losing that.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a charity. Twitter is a for-profit social network. These are not particularly comparable.
information, communication and fabrication (see the huge influx of fab labs)
Considering that you are so pedantic about definitions, in which dictionary does "forced to stay" equal to "forced labor"?

More generally your interpretation of "forced" seems to be extremely narrow. How would you interpret a statement like "today at work I was forced to attend two completely useless meetings", which IMO is perfectly common use of the word "forced", but certainly does not imply that security was standing in front of the door monitoring who goes in and out.
And bring “Internet permission” that I can turn off. Because I wouldn’t want a dialer or call recorder app to even look towards the Internet, let alone access it.

But since we were on iCloud. You know what I would want more than data transfer from iCloud? An ability to use iCloud alternatives. Better file access to apps, yes with stricter permissions, but better access and preferential treatment to its own shitty apps.
> It's a great strategy if you want to be backed by Republicans

And why would he want to do that? As a Yale graduate and lawyer, the easiest thing in the world for Thomas to do would have been to appeal to liberal whites—who make up 90% of his peers. They are the ones who run nearly all law firms, every law school, etc. What I’m earth do you think he gets out of being the favorite Supreme Court justice of plumbers in Iowa?

> You can find them in every minority group that are, let's call it disfavored, by the Republicans.

Given that 40% of Hispanics and Asians voted GOP in 2022, and black men are slowly but increasingly doing so, that’s a lot of “pick mes.” Or, maybe, as actual racism in society decreases, people are voting more with their values and less by their skin color.

> Ingratiating yourself to your oppressors has never stopped the oppression.

Who are the “oppressors?” Where do you think the profits from slavery and segregation went? They went to Wall Street banks (who are the limited partners that bankroll Silicon Valley), Harvard’s endowment, etc. The “oppressors” are not plumbers in Iowa.

> I could care less about his political views

If you’re going to accuse someone of being a “pick me,” his political views matter, don’t they? Otherwise you’re just criticizing him for voting along with the party that reflects the stuff he believes.

> Oh come on, this is a joke right? You really don't see Thomas as exactly what you're describing? He's the black Republican figurehead.

How is that different from minorities who reject their parents’ values to ingratiate themselves to white liberals? I see woke, white-assimilated asians supporting discrimination against themselves in order to ingratiate themselves to the white liberals around them. Meanwhile, my first-generation parents (who are democrats) emailed me the minute SFFA came out to tell me what a relief it was. White liberals made intersectional activists like Ilhan Omar the face of Islam in American. Meanwhile, among actual Muslim Americans: https://news.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-repu...

> He literally overturned the case that protected interracial marriage and then half-heartedly tried to carve it out for himself.

The white paternalism is blinding. What you’re saying is that white liberals are right about everything, and it’s more important for black people to support them than to represent the range of views that actually exist in the black community: https://news.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-repu....
Why is the FTC doing Amazons job for them? Fine Amazon until they fix this shit.
Yes. I have read it and agree.
George Costanza said "it's not a lie of you believe it."

Is it a lie if you don't know or even care if it's true or what it means? That's where we are with Elon Musk.
Somewhat related, Kevin Gross and Carl T Bergstrom just put up this preprint on risk aversion in science: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13816

> incentives to motivate effort clash with incentives to motivate risk-taking, because a failed project may be evidence of a risky undertaking but could also be the result of simple sloth. As a result, the incentives needed to encourage effort actively discourage risk-taking. Scientists respond by working on safe projects that generate evidence of effort but that don't move science forward as rapidly as riskier projects would.
Based on the components I’d say that’s the build cost not price!
That is not what anyone agreed to. You can read the "The US-Russia-Ukraine Trilateral Statement and Annex" of 1994 yourself:

https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/deterrence...
The older I get the more I think this is fine, and more or less the way of the world.

Let the young ones expend their energy and drive trying to do all kinds of weird, pointless and occassionally very useful shit while we keep the world running.
There are a lot of laws in the US that force me to do something. Twitter cannot force me to do anything. The only thing any of my employers could force me to do was leave the premises if they didn't want me anymore.

As for Visa issues, your complaint should be with the US government, not Twitter.
There are quite a number of people not familiar with git who are unaware of the security risk of cloning a repo. My guess is this repo is trying to spread awareness.