skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The courts have historically taken a dim view of the government's "chilling of free speech."
what was the implied threat?
As controversial as this might be, this type of regulation is going to be needed in the future. AI brings a lot of power and responsibility
You want me to verify that dang hasn't gotten a message from executive agencies? Don't attack me for that assertion, attack the person I responded to.

You want me to verify that there aren't coordinated disinformation campaigns festering all over this site? Well, I can read, so I'm fairly confident.
"dude who used a swear word"?

You left a bit out here. He is a representative of the government demanding that a private company censor speech supporting policies it opposes and speech about the president's family among other things.

"A February 2021 message in which Flaherty asked Twitter to remove a parody account related to Hunter Biden's daughter said, 'Cannot stress the degree to which this needs to be resolved immediately. Please remove this account immediately.'"
This is non-responsive to their point.
> it adds a visually appealing, highly intuitive UI/UX that almost anyone can sit down and immediately use

And yet, there were dozens of other applications doing exactly that (Slack is a list of channels on the left, and the text of the channel in the center).
Guaranteed anti-features from Facebook's playbook:

- Non-chronological home feed (to force-feed ads & gate-keep influence)

- Nerf users' reach to force them into buying ads

- Perpetual PII data-gobbling

- Draconian account control rules (to pad user numbers?...hmmn)
Also at the end, the fixed versions:

> These patches were subsequently backported to stable kernels (6.1.37, 6.3.11, and 6.4.1), effectively resolving the "Stack Rot" bug on July 1st.
This is discussed at ~12:10.
I talk in terms of an even simpler mental model that you might call the "Two-document model". All documentation really fits into two groups - "Reference level" documentation and "Guide level" documentation.

Reference level would be any API references, function explanations, data types, protocol specifications etc.. Guide level includes tutorials, conceptual explanations, how to guides, examples.

I find this to be a useful way of talking to people who need to produce some reasonable amount of documentation for something they're developing (or maybe some bare useful minimum). Often they will just write an API reference and think that they're done. By talking about "reference" and "guide" you can easily make it clear that they've got reference (kind of) covered, but they're missing and guides for how to get the SW built and then examples of how to use it.
Every politicized topic gathers dozens of comments from lunatics who are deliberately ignoring reality. This very week someone on HN told me black people are disproportionately not accepted to colleges because of "genetics." Perhaps HN is on its way.
Yep. I try to stay away from content made by people with oral diarrhea no matter how interesting it seems and actively diversify my sources. I do get back to it from time to time to sample and compare. Nowadays I am on an exploratory journey for obscure content makers, as there are so many interesting people out there the algo doesn’t show. But to each their own, some people actuply like being part of a large follwing group..
This gets at why I think this is fundamentally a terrible idea. I think it would be a legal and social minefield the likes of which I'm not sure the world has ever seen.

You know how community meetings and town halls are awful and fruitless because they're filled to the brim with the noisiest cranks and they can't be kicked out because they're still members of the public after all, and nobody else participates because it's maddening to be around all those noisy cranks? Like that, but web scale.

I'm sure the noisy cranks would love this, but I'm not interested in it.
Yeah I don't think a console has come close since, and this always makes launches feel very lackluster to me.
This is the fundamental and intrinsic reason for concepts of free speech.

The power to control what can and can't be shared between people corrupts just like any other power.
The link you’ve provided does not back up the assertion you’ve made.

> Twitter, along with Facebook, implemented measures to block its users from sharing links to the story, and Twitter further imposed a temporary lock on the accounts of the New York Post and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, citing violations of its rules against posting hacked content. The Washington Post reported that this was a result of the company's scenario-planning exercises to combat disinformation campaigns

> Musk tweeted that Twitter had acted "under orders from the government", though Taibbi reported that he found no evidence of government involvement in the laptop story,
I agree.

I also keep thinking: If ChatGPT (etc.) can write such content, and I'm interested in it, then why won't I just ask ChatGPT for the information directly rather than going to someone's bloated website?
Ask HN: Is Google changing navigation button ordering based on what you search?
I think I'm in an A/B test but I'm noticing that when I make a G search now, the familiar navigation items like "News", "Images", "Shopping", etc are now being replaced with contextually "relevant" words.

Example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Test+speed&uds=GyEA-I3UWq037NLJSXQMKMAMAuze-kMgoIoRGgUM5dKRm2HK_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiisd-vm_r_AhV6LTQIHRTEBdAQxKsJegQIDRAB&ictx=0&biw=2400&bih=1096&dpr=0.8

Anyone else seeing this, any way to disable it?
Moving the goalposts?
>All of this looks pretty bad for us, but at least Open AI and most others at the front of this do understand the arguments and don’t have the same dumb dismissals (LeCun excepted).

The OpenAI people have even worse reasoning than the ones being dismissive. They believe (or at least say they believe) in the omnipotence of a superintelligence, but then say that if you just give them enough money to throw at MIRI they can just solve the alignment problem and create the benevolent supergod. All while they keep cranking up the GPU clusters and pushing out the latest and greatest LLMs anyway. If I did take the risk seriously, I would be pretty mad at OpenAI.
I'm probably going to get the app just to annoy OpenAI once this takes their crown.
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lines up exactly.
Ain't nothing wrong with buying revenue (potential or actual), or a multiple bump ("we do VMs"->"we enable AI too!"). Go where the margin and demand is.
Litestream & LiteFS author here. I think single-node, easily-recoverable systems are great and it fits a lot of people's use cases. VPS providers are pretty reliable too so even using a regular hourly backup can be good enough for some people. We even have docs for a cron-based backup [1] on the Litestream docs site.

You're right that HA is one benefit of LiteFS. But I think another important difference is reducing geographic latency. It's possible to spin up read replicas & failovers for Postgres or MySQL and then run application servers for each one of those but it's a huge pain. Or you can pay a serverless database provider but that's expensive. One of the goals with LiteFS is to simply be able to add application nodes in different regions and automagically have faster read latency to people near those regions.

[1]: https://litestream.io/alternatives/cron/
I'm sad this was downvoted. It's a good question and worthy of discussion. It might be interesting to hear how other similar leaks have been received & treated by journalists in the past. Is there some pattern based on the age of the documents?
As an ABA member, I can assure you 90% of members couldn’t care less about their “qualified” list.
If weights are even protected by copyright at all...which would be a departure from current law.
Wait, you think that when a random official says something, it carries the weight of the US Government, but when _the president_ says it, it does not? I'm not sure that you've thought this through fully.
Is this not a form of mutation testing? With the added idea of treating anything you write to sanity-check the output as a test?
That is a gross misrepresentation of that parties position.
Isn't that what groups are for? Facebook has groups, right?

You and your mates create a private group for pics of each other acting stupid, and that's where you post them. How is the leakage risk different from using a different walled garden?
All 3 text-davinci models are available on openAI's api. including 3 (which is the GPT-3.5 gen). Code-davinci-002 is a code-tuned model, You can see a nice visual summary of the relationships between the openAI models at https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...

Or the official source is https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers
I find them interesting too because tech people tend to just all have the latest and greatest hardware, while a lot of non-tech people are getting by on bizarre clunkers and set-ups which have more novelty value.
The entitlement and audacity of people who consume open source blows me away. I've maintained a project for 12 years and recently someone wanted me to help them implement the software in their system. I politely told them that since this wasn't a bug, they would need to purchase a support package. They then accused me of trying to "sell open source software" and closed the issue. People are unbelievable. Fuck me for trying to make a living providing you personal development time, using my software that I've supported for free for over a decade.
It's issues with GDPR: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-...
New Twitter rival Threads attracts 10M users in hours
I worked with the DreamCast dev hardware for a time back then. The rendering hardware was definitely rather different than typical triangle-based approaches. IIRC, polygonal shapes were defined by means of multiple intersecting planes. I also seem to recall that it was capable of unusually high frame rates (for the time).
We can't trust individuals to distinguish misinformation from "I don't like it" or whatever else.

So we shouldn't. Route around the unsolvable problem. Find another way.
> An unprivileged local user...

Lots of hoops to jump through for a well-configured & internet connected box.

IOW, not a grave concern at first blush, yet warrants a 24H fix.
Because GPT 3.5 not very good compared to LLaMA 65b or even 33b finetunes, from my testing.

Also because 3.5 is not really available?
And if you need to scale your DB its price goes up, while the cloud storage price remains the same.
The distinction makes sense, but of course the counter-argument would be: what prevented someone, using earlier forms of technology, from documenting your presence at that public place and then publishing it ... say in written or illustrated form? We had newspapers, illustrators, journalists and printers well before photography, microphones and the Internet. Even if we remove those media, what is to prevent someone from communicating their observations verbally and having news of your presence spread by word of mouth? A conversation between two people at a coffee shop could be transcribed by pen & paper by an eaves dropper at an adjacent table. The wait staff or owner could report your presence to whomever they choose, including the media.

I'm a very private person and welcome more privacy protection, but I've always been swayed logically by the "no expectation of privacy in public" argument. As long as people can see you with your own two eyes and hear you with their own two ears, it seems to me like the existence of recorded media and more efficient distribution channels is moot.
If you really need to collaborate with other people, then you likely want something that implements GRANT and REVOKE.
It can be contextually useful advice.
Actually no. Those companies are the primary service providers to the advertising and marketing industry. But the industry itself predates them and exists (and would continue to exist) independently of them.
Exactly, I wasn't surprised that Meta would be exploiting the Twitter exodus with a barely beta-ready app to vacuum up more data, I was just a bit shocked by how totally brazen it is.
The gaming community also used Paperspace sometimes for PC game streaming. It allowed users to install Steam or other clients to tap into existing libraries.

I found about it in the reddit /r/cloudygamer sub and used it temporarily on vacation to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey and it worked pretty well.
This is how I feel about most "things I hate". Despite my strong feelings towards them, there's a reason why they are the way that they are. Almost always it comes down to my interests & priorities not aligning with reality/everyone else.
What types of publishers are vulnerable to conversational AI?
You must decide if you want your career path to be a manager or a technologist. In most cases, there is valid career growth in either path but they are different paths because there are fundamentally different skill sets and inclinations involved. It is important to take a brutally honest introspective look at yourself to determine what you enjoy about your career and what motivates you.

Then, if you still really want to change to the managerial path, you must again be brutally honest with yourself as you try to figure out why that has not yet been an option. Usually a technologist starts to get opportunities to make this choice at between 5 and 10 YOE. It might be that you unintentionally are signaling to your management that your preference is to be a technologist either because of personality characteristics (your objection to being managed by those younger than you is a potential problem area) or obviously deep focus on technology. Figure out what is blocking you and fix it.

I understand where you are coming from with regard to being managed by those younger than you but take it from a technologist with over 30 years of experience, being a manager is not a function of seniority but of talent. As I mentioned before, management involves a different set of skills. You must evaluate managers for their talent at the activity and remove your bias based on their age. You may find that working for a young manager sometimes gives you the opportunity to lead and mentor them and help them become a better manager.

As others have mentioned, if you really want to move to the management path, you must communicate to others that is what you want. You do this explicitly by telling them and you do this implicitly by demonstrating interest and focusing on your behaviors.

Finally, I’ve noticed that it is very common for people to think that a natural and expected career progression goes from low-level worker to worker to leader to manager to director, VP and CEO. In technology, this is not the only case. Senior technologists are valuable stores of information and capability and there is a valid career progression for them which goes: low-level worker to worker to leader to senior and principal technologist to fellow to CTO. You still get leadership responsibilities but you don’t have the administrative responsibilities. It is important to note that your authority, in this circumstance, comes from a reputation for being knowledgeable and smart (influence), not from position.
While I agree in principle, I have tried a couple times(admittedly not very hard) to learn how to use seL4 and it seems unready for prime time.

I don't think POSIX is the end-all-be-all, but it is what I and many others are familiar with, and seL4 has practically nothing in common with it.

The design is just too foreign to get going quickly, and the opportunity cost of learning their way to do things is too high in almost all cases.

One day I hope to have the time to dedicate to learning it properly!
The Exploring Series is brilliant and covers many different topics, mainly SCP but he's branched out to Warhammer 40k, creepypasta and real-life historical events.
Well, no but that's mainly because of asymmetric numbers.

If all reports of a manager complain to the managers manager, that manager will likely be reassigned or reprimanded in a similar manner to a manager and an IC.

Also I should note that in most of Europe (at least the parts I've worked in), a managers voice is just a louder voice in a room of other managers- and firing someone is something that is not done by an individual, it's a discussion with managers and HR.

It's not taken lightly to fire people, even in places that are "at will" (theoretically) like Denmark.
> I'd look at it the same as a police officer demanding things.

The Government cannot demand that political speech be censored without running afoul of the First Amendment.

If you recall, the courts didn't allow Trump to block critical accounts on Twitter.
From that exact Wiki article:

> Musk tweeted that Twitter had acted "under orders from the government", though Taibbi reported that he found no evidence of government involvement in the laptop story, tweeting, "Although several sources recalled hearing about a 'general' warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there's no evidence—that I've seen—of any government involvement in the laptop story."[22][27] His reporting seemed to undermine a key narrative promoted by Musk and Republicans that the FBI pressured social media companies to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop stories.[22][36]
Obviously it's his prerogative to choose who he and the Senate want, but then nobody should be outraged when the impartiality of his appointed judges is questioned.

edit: I'm rate-limited so can't reply, so here's my reply below:

It's a matter of degrees. For example, when Biden made it clear that he was hiring Ketanji Brown Jackson in part because she was a progressive black woman, she still had a massive amount of relevant experience and professional reputation. There's the understanding that while she obviously has a political bias, she's still a good judge. She had worked in district court, appeals court, she'd even worked as a public defender. She had an exceptionally long list of cases and legal opinions she could point to for her experience.

Meanwhile, contrast to Amy Coney Barrett, who had never been a judge before Trump appointed her into the Court of Appeals as a fast-track to the Supreme Court. She'd never tried a case all the way to verdict. She'd never argued an appeal. Her background was purely in academia.
Time to Take Laughter Seriously
I’ve noticed this as well - they don’t view software building as a form of engineering that can be learned from basic principles of computer science, but instead as magic.

So the go to for every solution is to find a third party library from a “real” witch or wizard, and follow its basic tutorial. Maybe try to customize it a bit at most.

If something breaks, just start randomly moving things around or copying and pasting more code from forums until it works.

I can’t live like that. I need to know why something’s not working, AND why it IS working. I like stepping through my code with a debugger just to make sure things look right, even when they’re working.

I think the craziest part, though, is just how much people with this “software is magic” mindset can actually get just by brute force cobbling things together.
The case against self-closing tags in HTML
Right, this is exactly what I mean. That screenshot is not a list of permissions.

That is a screenshot of the Privacy Labels. It's basically a structured form of the app's privacy policy, self-reported by Facebook. Them putting "Health and Fitness" in that list does not in any way grant their app access to any health data on your iPhone. The same is true for literally every other item on that list. It has no impact on what iOS lets the app do.

The reason all of that data is listed there is that Meta might already have it associated with your account, due to e.g. your use of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Quest, and they might make use of that data in this app too. Or possibly they want a single unified privacy policy for all their apps.
Math seems correct but US military also includes conglomerates and companies like Palantir and Anduril (main reason it is described as an industrial complex is because there is no clear distinction between corporations and how their activities are tied up with military spending and energy use).
This is like saying stop trying to make humans communicate with each other.
> So, having a 2B+ user base

If my impression of Instagram is representative then 80% of the 2B+ user base is bots.

The worst case here is Meta start automatically forcing Threads down Instagram user's throats if they don't get the levels of signup their revenue forecasts demand. That would be annoying, Twitter is a cesspool and I think Threads has the potential to be the the detritus of that.
Django is WSGI/ASGI framework not a webserver. What do they actually use to terminate HTTP?
Mastodon is ActivityPub, Threads will apparently implement ActivityPub, Bluesky has its own standard it wants others to implement, t2 seems to be a straight-up "let's make Twitter again" effort.

Honestly, at this stage I don't think the existence of two standards is all that bad?

(If in 10 years half the world is on ActivityPub and the other half is on the Bluesky thing, that might be annoying, granted, but this early on multiple standards is kind of expected)
When Trump complained about “Obama judges” he was rightly ridiculed. Why is ok to cast aspersions on judges nominated by Trump?
1080p makes it a total non-starter for me, that sort of resolution is over a decade out of date, even for small laptops. Not sure why people think it's an acceptable maximum.
I mean, if the goal is to keep it simple and wrong we can remove even more things then. JK. What Special Relativity was, is work in progress, General Relativity is the whole model, it makes sense together, it’s cohesive, and it’s cohesive because it has gravity in. Without it, this universe does not exist. Although it is slightly off-topic here, I would actually suggest that without gravity there is no time, but this is another story.
Revolutionizing AI Search with Weaviate: An Interview with CEO Bob van Luijt
This was a fun interview, maybe others like it too.
Huh. Didn't know that. Sounds fairly lost in the political ragebait sauce.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615325
Another one is https://workspaces.xyz , although it's more interesting to see the actual spaces where some people work. Some are hilariously clean and staged, while others look like they were taken mid escape with a go-bag. Unfortunately they're becoming more like a way of marketing tbh, but the sheer amount of posts on it are interesting nonetheless. (The number of people working in crypto is also hilarious.)
Five Startup Red Flags
But in practice, no one is running inference at FP16. int8 is more like the bare minimum.
To some extent hating stuff that frankly has no reason to exist is by definition temporal, it only lasts until the thing rightfully stops existing.

To really grind someone's gears they'd need to hate something that cannot simply go away.
What is it with France? At least under their Fifth Republic, the country seems utterly unable to elect a leader who has any clue whatever about the bottom ~90% of French society.
Just went into more detail on this in a different comment. Basically I think this would suck in the same ways that public meetings inevitably suck, but times a million.