skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What else should we depend on, vibes?

Well the purpose of public policy is to serve the will and preferences of the people, so I’d suggest we should rely on our democratic processes to have the final say on all matters of public policy.

> Even the claim "scientific findings aren't reliable" is a claim that can only be confirmed through science.

This is complete nonsense. Anybody can point out the flaws in any claim made by science, or demonstrate a reason for why something might be false. Even a freshman CompSci student with a side interest in journalism. Perhaps scientists will only accept their findings being falsified by appropriately qualified people who follow whatever formal procedures they deem appropriate, but who cares? If I were to read a study that made some wild claims that were barely supported at all by the data gathered from their clearly flawed experiments, then I’m welcome to draw my own opinion that “that study seems like bs to me”, and it’s not necessary for me to have that opinion validated by any scientific process or institution.

> Science isn't an exclusive institution, everyone is welcome to participate.

This is also nonsense. Public discussions on science are extensively gatekept to only allowing the views of “the experts” and people who agree with “the experts”. A non-expert challenging the claims made by an expert is misinformation, and should be fact-checked and flagged with a disclaimer, or removed from the discussion entirely.
Let's not forget this phase of the space program was in the context of the Vietnam War, and well as other social issues (e.g., poverty). Even MLK was shifting focus to the injustice of income inequality. Going to the moon was, in that context, seen as another foolish government effort. Few, and for good reason (at the time), were willing to get behind another bloated government idea.

If there was no war, the perception and support shifts. If there was also less other social unrest, the perception and support shift again.
I think they could have improved the effect if they'd had Gibbs start moving the mouse around and clicking when he first stepped up.
I like this terminal and have used it frequently, but it should be noted that it is a fantasy representation of how these old displays actually looked. You may be able to tone down a lot of the settings but you still wont be able to achieve that similar of a look to original displays. The monochrome displays of the time had quite clear quality. I have an Apple ii monitor from the early 80s on my desk, and the similarities are more akin to an exaggerated caricature of a celebrity. But maybe my experience doesn't go far back enough
Ever heard of cash?

I can buy an icecream anywhere in the world without anybody tracking me. Even with the "wrong" political opinion (even if I would be a trucker in Canada during certain protests).

I cannot do that with CBDC.

No. CBDC (aka: the ultimate totalitarian's dream) is not the same as the current banking system, despite the current banking system also being very horrible for privacy.

* All of the above assuming that cash will be banned and CBDC will be mandatory for everybody.
Not really sure what organic content you expect to find for that query.

Maybe you'll find a blog post from someone who bought a gaming laptop and found it pretty good? Or an old forum thread like this one[1]

Not a lot of actual human beings sitting around buying and comparing various gaming laptops. It's much more likely the content you'll find is from some content mill.

[1] https://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61296
Nearly everything you mentioned automatically files paperwork with the IRS anyway. I'm not sure why you think that they could not be part of a pre-filled return.
The Big Dig was also a horrific pain when it was going on. (Oh, and Boston traffic is also still horrific.) Nonetheless, once done, it was a nice transfer payment to Boston that the Speaker of the House (Tip O'Neill) arranged for the rest of the country to make that reversed the also horrifying neighborhood-splitting overhead highway decision. Boston is better for it.
Again, I'm not arguing in favor of this law, quite the opposite. I don't require you to persuade me of an opinion I already hold.
> When people focus on productivity, they end up focusing on being busy.

I think this is a common behavior by inexperienced people in new spaces, but is quickly thinned out as people move up in skill. The most consistent sign of an expert seems to be a cool “smoothness” to their choices that achieves good results with the least effort possible.
There's a pretty strong case to be made that the American Revolution was just a British civil war.
Is "LLM Whisperer" or whatever people were calling it no longer the hot trophy job?
Space skeptics came in two flavors: the first being the classic "the money could have been better spent elsewhere" variety, but second was "If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they $PETPEEVE". Frankly I miss the days of "Why can't they" vs the trend of vocal minorities simply decrying any and all science, because at least the critics acknowledged the space program actually happened.

These days unfortunately the conspiracy theorists of the world have made their own discoveries like internet forums and Twitter which just help propagate their points of view far more than a mimeograph of dense text and filled with arrows and diagrams stapled to a telephone pole ever did.
OK, well, the network needs an app, so...
Thanks for the feedback! All your UI suggestions/fixes make sense and will definitely be brought into the the tool soon! Also I like the idea of using some 'fake' legal document for the demo.

Regarding the iframe - i've been thinking about creating an npm package for better integration with the host app - but maybe giving an option to use iframe should be available as well for companies that don't have developers to implement a better integration with the npm package.
Question: Can this be used by a consumer to more conveniently and securely, and without 3rd party fees, sell things online or in-person?

Example 1: Sell a graphics to someone on /r/hardwareswap. Currently using PayPal.

Example 2: Sell car in-person. Currently go to bank and have buyer hand over cash to deposit in bank.
Canada's GDP is pulled up by the USA being right over the border but is still quite a lot lower per capita than that of the US. We lag far behind the US in wealth per capita - our economic performance is more on par with the nicer EU countries than with the US.
There was some inscrutable code that had sleep 10 [seconds] in the middle.

It took several hours to figure it out, but the sleep was there in case a file had not finished downloading
I was shocked that wasn't mentioned in the article. It's still as biting today. It definitely moved me, and has influenced my perspective on and choice of work.

If you don't know it you should listen to to that link of Gil Scott-Heron reading it, but here are the words if you prefer not to youtube:

A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the Moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the Moon)
Ten years from now I'll be paying still.
(while Whitey's on the Moon)
Sounds like a ChatGPT trained for journalist use cases? I don't think the goal is to auto populate people's feed with some generative contents. Google probably doesn't want to be legally liable with all those machine generated articles...
China, notably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China#Anti-metaphy...

While not an outright ban on religion per se, there is continued state pressure against religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antireligious_campaigns_of_the...
Yup, that's a hate crime description. And depending on what state or the ripple of pop culture and social media, lies the inequality.

But really what it is, another tax law onto the rats nest.

You have more than enough laws to render reasonable justice. The people that hate crime laws try to protect would be served with better lawyers to advocate for the people caught between and around the criminal justice system.
> The British administration of Canada was surely informed by the experiences of the 1770s.

The British administration of Canada was different to begin with because Britain acquired Canada from conquering New France and so had a completely separate culture. And the way France ran then-New France / now-Canada was completely different to how the British 'ran' the colonies ('ran' is used loosely, as there was minimal oversight since they were each basically commercial ventures).

For some interesting research on how the administration differences resulted in the cultural differences (even though the countries are right next to each other), see the book The origins of Canadian and American political differences:

* https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674031364

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3286270-the-origins-of-c...
Can you explain why monitoring user-specific behavior and reporting that to unknown, foreign locations outside of your jurisdiction (for most people) should be allowed in the first place?
> As a European immigrant

Could you be more specific? There are many countries in Europe, of course.

> I would never take the flip side of my move

I wasn't talking about moving; I was talking about having UK-style health care here in the US.

> you can rest easy knowing you have that option

Which option?

> If you don’t know people who have expatriated to some degree out of the US, invest in widening your social circle.

What was the purpose of this sentence?
The FBI stole my dog and threatened to steal my cat too if I didn’t keep quiet about it.
Under CISA pressure, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free
I share some skepticism, but I suspect some basic stuff may be supported (out of the gate or soon) - IRA/401k info may not be too difficult, at least with data from major players (vanguard/fidelity/etc).

I bought and sold two houses, moved between states, and our family had two businesses as well as W2 income - all this over an 18 month period. I went to an HR Block ('big name, offices in multiple states, etc') and they made a lot of mistakes, took about 2 years to unwind the mess.
When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws have privacy.
And you pointed out exactly what the problem with the current system is.

The rich can pay someone to do the work for them. This saves them time, stress, energy, etc. The poor cannot. They have to do all this themselves and then they’re open to the risk of actually getting something wrong. And the impact of getting something wrong is highly imbalanced. If they get something wrong and end up paying more tax than they need to there will never be a second thought given to it. But if they mess up and pay less taxes than they should they will be hit with a penalty, interest, and even maybe an audit.

And the idea that everyone should be reasonably competent in taxes seems a little ridiculous to be honest especially when no one is taught how to do taxes in any point in their lives.

An alternative might be to teach how to do taxes in school, but at that point the cost of teaching taxation would far exceed the cost of developing this software, never mind the human hours that are wasted.
Sometimes there is value to having someone else write the first draft that you can then edit.

Personally I think this is going to put a lot of journalists out of work. Many of them aren’t investigative journalists and do mostly write, and their days are numbered.
* Microsoft announced on Wednesday it would provide all customers free access to cloud security logs – a service usually reserved for premium clients – within weeks of a reveal that government officials' cloud-based emails were targets of an alleged China-based hack.*
It is. And should make you double think before you do the same photoshopping.

They are watching us.
My understanding is that there will be a new authority, Ofcom, that will regulate the community of messaging application vendors. One of there powers will be to enforce the scanning of messages for CSAM or terrorism related content and Ofcom can force them to use an "accredited" service to scan for the illegal content.

I suspect the scanning of this content will be handled solely by accredited services, these likely will have close communication with one or more government entities who supply information on what content is or is not illegal. At this point there isn't really end-to-end encryption anymore: every message will be submitted to one (or more) accredited services. Even if it's encrypted, each message now has the government's blessed service as a recipient.

It's important to remember that we're talking about text messages as well as images, a system that compares only hashes will not be sufficient. The bit about terrorism related information is also worrisome as we know the list of what is and isn't terrorism related is a very political debate.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/uk-osb-csam-scanning/
https://archive.is/MvpK3
It was something about someone getting annoyed over an alarm from a refrigerator and deciding to pull the plug.
How do we know for sure that it isn't a hallucinated system prompt?
With the more and more sales automations and LLMs this sequence going cheaper to build.
Luckily more and more organizations are moving to bottom-up and PLG models that make it less noisy to the customer.
The EU just should have said "if you don't respect DNT, go directly to jail and don't pass Go".
I think the abdication was more about her having been married before
> The way our product works, we need to have access to the raw signature specimen at various stages of the signing process because we have a document generation feature that dynamically inserts the specimens into the appropriate fields. Put differently, we don't show the documents until we first have a signature (and initials) specimen collected from the e-sign participant. This is basically the exact opposite of how most vendors work, but our customers really like it this way.

Can you elaborate on this? Why people would want to have the signature first before showing the document?
> I suspect the semi-conductor industry thinks it was worth it.

That was the USAF, which at one time was the largest purchaser of semiconductors.
They pushed the technology. Especially on the reliability side. The USAF was into naming and shaming vendors. They had a reliability unit which would take failed transistors apart down to the microscopic level and publish pictures of flaws in Aviation Week.

Some USAF generals were rather annoyed when, in the 1980s, commercial uses and technology passed military ones and the semiconductor industry stopped catering to the USAF.[1]
Ironically, it would probably be harder for minors to get weed if weed were legal. The fact that it's already illegal leads to people not caring if they sell to minors. They don't give drug dealers additional time in jail for selling to minors for example. If weed were legal for 18+ and you had a strong ID requirement for sale it would be harder for minors to get weed. You have a far smaller illegal market when you have a regulated legal market.
I know this is really just get the model stop saying "since you've told me that you're an accountant from Peoria" in every reply, but "this feature is irrelevant 99% of the time" is not really selling me on the value of custom instructions.
https://archive.is/psOw9
> Legality is not the issue here.

It's is in the sense that through Valve Nintendo effectively circumvented the legal protections targets of DMCA take down notices have.

So while this is not using law it has everything to do with circumventing law.
Vegan diet cuts environmental damage, study shows
Thanks for the reply. So am I misunderstanding their data security overview page?[0]

>For additional privacy and security, 14 data categories — including Health and passwords in iCloud Keychain — are end-to-end encrypted. Apple doesn't have the encryption keys for these categories, and we can't help you recover this data if you lose access to your account. The table below includes a list of data categories that are always protected by end-to-end encryption.

The table includes Messages in iCloud with the caveat that the key is stored in iCloud backups if enabled, but the e2e key is still private, no?

[0]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
DSPM: Control Your Data to Prevent Issues Later
Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries
Congratulations on being the exception that proves the rule, or rather, the minority situation that is being used to preemptively make claims about a technology that are not yet (and may never be) true.

I tried it on my/our project 600K LOC (C++), all open source and almost certainly in the training set. Not only could it not explain the questions I asked it correctly, its answers and generated code were absolute jibberish, the sort of thing that would lead to you likely firing the person who gave them to you.
If you really want to make a stance it is probably much better to keep your pages on Google but put up a "browser wall" that doesn't allow any Chomium-based browsers.

"Using chromium based-browsers is harmful to the openness of the internet. See [link] for examples of harmful APIs that Chrome is pushing. Browser diversity is important to an open and user-friendly internet. Please use Firefox, Safari or any other non-Chromium browser to view this site"
The 7X multiplier was what we used when I worked in a university's advancement office to justify funding alumni events. Seems to be very common with justifying sports stadiums, festivals, and many other things that require public spending.
Sorry, that doesn't work.

You would have had to run 10k every day for 100 days to burn 80.000 kcals, which according TFA only gets you 10kg of fat.
Tens of thousands of people saw the launches in person. As one of the astronauts said "Where do you think we went?"
Nintendo has absolutely modified open source emulators for certain things

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/nintendo_accused_o...

There has been accusations that some "in house" emulators are also open source ones with superficial changes

They have also been found to use ROMs dumped by end users and posted on the normal ROM sites for their "play an old game" products.
Right-to-Work Laws and Corporate Innovation
We've had the last few years of one party demonizing the IRS, insisting they're "coming after" the little guy. I suspect trust in something like this is already starting on shaky ground before it's even rolled out, which may contribute to "it's such a waste - no one uses it!". Even if a substantial of people that need this the most (people least able to afford any filing fees), this will continue to be fought. :/
You make it sound like they're obsolete. The number of applicants per role has increased dramatically since the pandemic. A recruiter who can sift through thousands of those applicants and accurately identify who's worth talking to and who's a ChatGPT bot is worth their weight in gold.
> This is a categorically false premise. The kind of statement that only makes sense when you're in a deep bubble and entirely removed from the average person's use of the internet.

I mean no harm by this comment, but I think you're the one living in a bubble. Do you watch high school students using the internet? Where do they go for information? Reddit is the first place they look. Then they look for a Discord server. Google is a last resort, but since they know it's probably just going to return crappy SEO spam articles, they may give up entirely without even trying Google.

Your answer is technically accurate, but only in the sense that it disproves the "nobody" part of the statement because of the population of users age 45+. Google has lost their place as the site to use when you want to find information.
I see a missed opportunity to remove the math and instead give people a prompt, and one pixel to shade, and then refine with each next pass.

Human generative reverse-diffusion AI.
Recently read the argument that monuments are less about glory and more about keeping the unwashed masses busy with work, so they don't have time or energy to overthrown the ruling class.
Some people are generally good and end up living with Guilt.

Most sad stories do NOT have a healing resolution like this. The few times it does happen, then good for them.
Just because it's true doesn't fireproof their pants. They already operate a service that is not free to build operate, and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt costs taxpayers needless additional billions of dollars.

So then why would the taxpayers not want to invest an alternative that could spend "needless billions" to save additional needless billions?
Cool, thanks for this welcomed break from work today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7CXt1zXDU
Nothing half baked about it

I have regular ongoing relationships with the employees at the Giant (Grocery store) near my house and know their names and who they are as people and they know me and my kids and it's great.

To the extent where together, myself, Sandi (Night Manager), the Asst Manager and some of the staff all worked together to help get a wonderful man back on his feet that was struggling and begging and living outside nearby. (edit:In this case he was begging, and I sat and talked with him about his situation and getting him what he needed for that day. Then I recruited the staff to watch for him and I would leave a bag of food every week but they needed to give it to him, so that's what they did. He ended up moving in with family and I saw him again (at that same Giant) but instead he was shopping with his family and he told me that we all collectively saved his life.)

So yes building community is important and you can do so with the individual people that work within these corporate systems to great effect and for the tangible and measurable benefit of human flourishing today right now.

edit:I can't reply to comments on this for some reason
Sounds similar to my idea but limited to one prompt
https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1661946591622692867
Prompt length shouldn't influence creation time, at least it didn't in any of the implementations I used.

What is the resolution of your images and number of steps?
Original Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w
https://archive.is/aDcH5
Seems like there an opening for a new type of software, DaaS, or Disaster as a Service.

MBAs at your company sweating because they can’t infinitely grow their revenue? Hire my company, who will create fake stories about an earthquake in a country no one has heard about and use that to justify increasing prices.
It could have, yes. Would it?

This is why historians are leery of counter-factuals; unless you have very strong evidence that it would have happened, you have nothing but a "could have" hypothesis.
If I was OpenAI, I'd implement two sets of system prompts, a public one and the actual one.

If any chat returns the actual one (could be detected via a starting token like "AAB" or something), start returning the fake public one.

Then people who think they actually extracted the system prompt get happy because they fooled the system, but in reality they're getting a neutered one, and the real one that is actually being used doesn't leak.
You can demonstrate this to folks with a very recent change in government: Abortion and LGBT rights.

How much do you want to bet states like Texas or Florida will use government surveillance to prosecute folks seeking medical care?

I give it a month before we hear about someone being charged with some form of conspiracy to leave the state before their poor kids are taken. "Exhibit A will show the defendants intent to move their children across state lines..."
> Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, asking not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. Two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.

Google engineers: I'm I so out of touch?

[ beat ]

Ge: No, surely it is the users who are wrong.