skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grandparent comment asked whether a website owner would ever be unjustified in deciding who can use their website.

From a legal viewpoint, the answer is dependent on the complexity of state laws[1]. What a website owner can do with a website in one country obviously differs from what they could do in another country. Most countries have very weak anti-discrimination laws, and if they do exist, they typically only apply for very specific purposes such as employment discrimination based on age. These limited laws tend to be near impossible to enforce short of someone self-incriminating themselves. In some countries however, an example being Norway, laws against discrimination can be very strict and routinely enforced to the level of requiring all website owners to implement WCAG 2.0 at AA level[2].

From an ethical viewpoint, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[3] states in Article 2:

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty."

And numerous other articles are relevant, including Article 19:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-discrimination_ac...

[2] https://www.uutilsynet.no/english/about-us/903

[3] https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/...
You can use the modules you want.

If you only want the invoicing module, I think it's free in the cloud.
It's not clickbait if the actual Signal people claim the anarchist label, like m0xie does. Despite all my political and technical disagreements with him, i must recognize he is an anarchist and it's nice to see for once a press article not trying to wash his political engagement away.
Personally ChatGPT generally gives me a quicker, better, simpler and ad-free result for the snippet (At least with GPT4).

Plus I can ask follow-up questions in a context-driven way ("Can I do this without importing a library?").

I'm aware that different people will have different feelings on this though and personal tastes will differ, but while search engines stagnate I suspect the needle will continue to shift towards AI.
I am on mastodon, but the volume, quality and diversity of interactions are disappointing me.

Also, there is not really a sense of community.

I've yet to see mastodon related memes in my feed, nobody made me smile with some rando IT stuff after years being on it, and the discussions I had were quite short.

I still have better exchanges here, on twitter or reddit. But reddit and twitter are sliding away slowly.
Not particularly. Almost every browser out there other than Firefox and Safari are using Chromium, Including Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi, so there's a large enough base that a fork could conceivably be created and maintained if needed.
No, there is little evidence suggesting it was created in a lab. There is evidence that it may have "leaked" from a lab that studies coronaviruses, but that doesn't mean it was engineered. The leading lab leak theory states that it could have been a sample collected from the wild, e.g. a bat colony, that was taken to the lab, and then someone at the lab was exposed.

US intelligence agencies have clearly stated that they do not believe that SARS-CoV2 was created by the Chinese government and that it should not be considered a biological weapon. While I understand why people doubt US intelligence sometimes, I can't see what incentive they would have to go easy on China in this case.

I also have no idea how you intend to hold a sovereign nation, let alone a borderline superpower, accountable for something that can't even be proved.
Yes, you can :)

It all depends on the properties of the signal and the noise. In photography you can combine multiple noisy images to increase the signal to noise ratio. This works because the signal increases O(N) with the number of images but the noise only increases O(sqrt(N)). The result is that while both signal and noise are increasing, the signal is increasing faster.

I have no idea if this idea could be used for AI detection, but it is possible to combine 2 noisy signals and get better SNR.
Thanks for the shout-out! We have a free API as well for generating invoice PDFs: https://invoice-generator.com/developers
I'm looking forward to the martial arts combat between Musk and Nadella now.
I have been working full time remote since Sept 2021 (correction, 2020, just before pandemic).

It's not even that I don't value the face-to-face conversations and human interaction, I absolutely do. It just doesn't come close to the immense value I gain by WFH.

A side benefit: I was able to move closer to my church community, so my "human interaction" need is being fulfilled richer than ever now.

(One of the most frustrating things in all the WFH vs RTO discourse is that there is this false dichotomy being presented. It's either extroverted people who are energized by others, or introverts who'd rather be in the dark closet by themselves. I am as extroverted as they come, and I thrived in the office environment. Still wouldn't trade WFH for the world.)
But the relative variation might still carry some information , right ?
"on HN"
It has come to this. Asking real scientific questions is trolling.
We're talking about the same Apple that's currently threatening to yank some of its most popular products from the UK rather than disable e2e encryption? The same Google that reacted to the Snowden memos by putting the entire engineering division in an encryption Code Red, such that inter-dc links were almost fully encrypted just a few weeks later?

And that's for morally ambiguous cases where the justification is popular and well established things like crime fighting, child porn and so on.

We don't know what will happen in future, but given the story so far, the chances of these companies saying to governments, sure, have 500,000 free accounts so you can spam our users with incompetent political propaganda, is virtually zero.
just curious, why the downvote? I like remote and I only do remote, that does not mean 60% is a fact, and fact matters.
Sam Altman is rapidly climbing the list of villainous rich people.

He seems to be actively working to bring about a very dystopian future in a way that Zuckerberg or Gates never did.
Having worked adjacent to some of these kinds of projects, can't upvote this enough. Not to mention that business doesn't take the suggested 1-2 years to simply document and define test cases for the old/new system to ensure such a new system works, and simply start working on the new system based on what the business/da types drew up. Missing literally tens of thousands of legal edge cases defined in the legacy codebase.
Almost boils down to my approach: write a few lines, test. Never write more than a few lines without making sure it still compiles, runs, and does what you intended. I almost never use a debugger. Just a terminal or log file output, an editor, and a Makefile.
For me, it's a few things (some of them also identified in other comments here)

* Keeping my finger on tech and its changes

* A tech community

* Off-the-wall things to read

* Ideas for side projects - e.g. implementing lisps interpreters

All of these have got more valuable now that I'm retired and not surrounded by tech peers
Work Slack channels now (we even have a mechanical keyboards channel!!), random YouTube video comment sections from level1techs/level1linux :)?
Yes, you can make folders and put the tabs in there. Those will now function like bookmarks.
You don't need state of the art. We had supercomputers in our pockets a decade ago.
I left the bay area to a fairly rural location thanks to being able to work remotely. I actually prefer the office or hybrid, but in the grand scheme of things, living here makes me the happiest. So I am very happy that remote is (hopefully) going to stick around.
> If Covid was created in a lab, this de-facto means that Covid is a biological weapon.

That's not even remotely true. I agree that lab-leak is something like 60-70% likely, but even the lab-leakers are in unanimous agreement that it was an accidental release of GoF research, not a biological weapon. However poorly justified this research was, it's not the same thing as a bioweapon agent.

> Can someone explain to me why there isn't an extremely aggressive campaign to pin down: a. Where it came from b. All parties involved in it's funding and creating c. Passing laws and sanctions to eliminate further continuation of said research.

Because this would make China really, really angry, and for better or worse, that's considered not an acceptable cost for the benefit. But note that, very quietly, there have been some tacit admissions that lab leak is probably real. The Biden administration recently cut all funding to the WIV, for instance, which I don't think can be read any other way, so you actually are getting the c) you asked for. I think in the long run GoF research is very much on the chopping block as well; that seems to be the way the discourse is trending.
Note that the word "privacy" doesn't appear once on that page. Not surprised coming from yet another chromium browser.
I tried it on the Oculus and found it to be a horrible experience with tons of young children. I guess the Oculus version is limited?
The second sentence seems to contradict the first.
The Video Toaster is what gave me clarity on what I wanted to do when I grew up. I was "programming" on C64 by typing in programs from the back of magazines. In high school, I was doing Pascal and AutoCAD. I had also been part of the AV group for the local church my mom drug me to each week. The church replaced 90% of the equipment with the Video Toaster at the end of my junior year in school. I was mesmerized and knew that somehow computer based video would be my career path. That summer, I spent every day learning everything I could. By the end of the summer, I was switching for 3 cameras, running 1 playback deck, 1 record deck, punching lower 3rds all by my lonesome. By the time I graduated, I could have run the 10 o'clock news for a small TV station. Right place, right time, sheer luck gave me an opportunity that I was not going to pass up. I'm glad I didn't, and the Toaster will always have a special place in my heart.
I'd personally be OK with hybrid or (near) full-time back in the office if housing wasn't so expensive near cities.

WFH has worked well for me but I can tell some of my coworkers really need to go back into the office now and then to help them focus. lol
I'm kind of one of those people. I'm a medical layman and saying "long covid" is kind of a meme/joke. I know it's not real long covid as some people are battling much harsher consequences from having had covid.

But, what I'm trying to say in my layman way is, I feel like I get sick differently after having covid. It's more frequent and lasts way longer. I'm currently at the tail end of a ~4 week long "cold" during which it felt like I'd improve/regress each week and it varied from my being completely functional to having fairly bedridden days. It was all just a "common cold", I think; who knows I might have had covid again (I'm not getting tested each time I get sick any more). These "colds" have been happening roughly every 3-6 months the last couple years since I got covid. Prior to that, I'd get sick only about once a year and sometimes 2-3 times without getting sick. Duration of sickness previously was typically 3-5 days, very rarely ever >1 week. Not sure if it's related, but the time of year is off too. I almost never got sick in the summer months before. Where I live it's been above 100F most of the past several weeks and typically I get sick in shoulder season months (Nov-Dec / Feb-Mar for my locale).
War on Drugs, Charles Manson, Nancy Reagan.
Some clues:

The mk paper (and Unix man page) doesn't mention rc.

Plan 9 existed since the mid-80s.

This sentence in the Unix rc(1) sure makes it seem like rc was Plan 9-first:

Environment entries for variables are kludgy for UNIX compatibility.
It has ended dozens if not hundreds of elite athlete careers but also Olympians.

Newspapers and specialty websites are full of these stories over the past few years but the public is either willfully ignorant or feel like denial is some kind of superpower.

Has nothing to do with lack of fitness, anyone can get it.

One big risk factor though to be clear is not the ONLY risk factor is literally genetics so that much is unavoidable.

* https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02269-2
I've been using this browser all through the waitlist period and it's great!

Some of the decisions I don't like (my Bitwarden button is hidden by default which makes password filling hard - I don't have it fill automatically on page load), but overall I've enjoyed using it. My favourite features:

- split tabs (I prefer this over tiling in the WM)

- little arc

- PiP works very well for video calls

- I have a bunch of apps pinned (ChatGPT / Gmail / Calendar / Github) and a bunch of tabs below that

- I like the single action bar on Cmd-T

Overall, big fan, and I'd pay some amount for it probably.
It's a bit sad that a "daytime hacker, night time musician" from Sweden sees "internet anarchists" as something of a slur. I guess punk really is dead.

Besides, it's not about being excited as much as trying to find silver linings in a rapidly deteriorating environment.
Normally the wide clap takes that into account
I've also noticed that ChatGPT tends to respond to short prompts, especially questions, in a predictable format. There are a few characteristics.

First, it tends to print a five-paragraph essay, with an introduction, three main points, and a conclusion.

Second, it signposts really well. Each of the body paragraphs is marked with either a bullet point or a number or something else that says "I'm starting a new point."

Third, it always reads like a WikiHow article. There's never any subtle humour or self-deprecation or ironic understatement. It's very straightforward, like an infographic.

It's definitely easy to recognize a ChatGPT response to a simple prompt if the author hasn't taken any measures to disguise it. The conclusion usually has a generic reminder that your mileage may vary and that you should always be careful.
Why is this comment being downvoted?

OpenAI can internally keep a "hash" or a "signature" of every output it ever generated.

Given a piece of text, they should then be able to trace back to either a specific session (or a set of sessions) through which this text was generated in.

Depending on the hit rate and the hashing methods used, they may be able to indicate the likelihood of a piece of text being generated by AI.
In the context of Lemmy: https://fedidb.org/software/Lemmy

User count from a year ago is 30k to 48k.

Post count is from 181k to 241k

The content on the site is memes and jokes with occasional world news.

https://lemmy.ml/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active
https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active

I don't see this as sustained growth.

Mastodon is doing quite well. Lemmy... not so much.
Exciting news. Next frontier is 4DWW - Four Day Work Week!

Achieve a work-life balance you never thought you could have ;)
> that can not be possibly true, there are some remote positions but they're definitely not 60%

Have you based your job search exclusively on HN's "Who is hiring"? If not, I'm not sure how you can make such strong assertions about the distribution of remote jobs on that specific job board. The article doesn't make any claims about the job market outside that data set.
"It's free money!" People are insane. We're just giving everything away.
I'm in the SEO game and I've spoken with some 'heavy players' who believe a "Google Ai Update" is in the works. As it currently stands, the search engine results will be completely overtaken by Ai content in the near future without this.

From my understanding, this is a fools play in the long run, but there are current Ai Classifier Detectors that can successfully detect ChatGPT and other models (Originality.ai being a big one) on longish content.

Their process is fairly simple, they create a classification model after generating tons of examples from all the major models (ChatGPT, GPT4, Laama, etc).

One obvious downside to their strategy is the implementation of Finetuning and how that changes the stylistic output. This same 'heavy hitter' has successfully bypassed Originalities detector using his specified finetuning method (which he said took months of testing and thousands of dollars).
I learnt the power of frontend minimalism, in how it helps make websites fast and resilient :-)
Last time I saw, Google gets much more revenue from ads on search than from the entire 3rd party ecosystem.
The biggest impact on my life has been Code Interpreter. Much of my job as a CEO involves analyzing data to make strategic decisions - “which of several options is best based on the evidence?”

Code Interpreter lets me upload data in a multitude of formats and play with it without wasting hours futzing around in Google Sheets or pulling my hair out with Pandas confusion. I know basic statistics concepts and I studied engineering so I know about signals and systems. But putting that knowledge into practice using data analysis tools is time consuming. Code Interpreter automates the time consuming parts and lets me focus on the exploration, delivering insights I never even had access to before.
My biggest issue is still that i cannot export all the data in case i want to switch to something else or they fail. Apart from this the UI concept is really what we need to move browsers forward and the new approach to tabs vs windows vs bookmarks is genius.
The infamous FTP top answer on the Dropbox launch is what led me to open source a solution to the Dropbox problem [1] after spending a bit too much time on the drawing board trying to understand the limit of FTP and why we couldn't have a Dropbox solution based on FTP. From that reflection I then made it work with every possible file transfer protocol you could think of.

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
If only we could get ByteDance or Tencent to buy into this. Not that it would improve it, but the CPC association would be the kiss of death.
> But signing necessarily is happening on the user's device...

No, there is signing from a third party server in the chain too. If iPhone A visits website B, then A must provide to B a token signed by Apple in order for it to be trusted.

It also depends on hardware tamper-protected keys that the user can't get to without destroying the device (or at least the keys) in the process.
What risk do you perceive from being vaccinated that makes it at least as risky as covid and long covid? You feel like shit for a day, true.
> Sept 2021 (just before pandemic)

Are you in Tonga or something?
Yeah, the hiring process is often 6+ months long for half the pay of private sector jobs, and 1/5 the pay of the consulting companies they bring in to do the bulk of the work anyway.
How I made my playbook to hit GitHub Trending consistently
I second this. Being a farmer with a huge interest in electronics and programming, I don't get to hang around like-minded people (generally, I barely to get to hang with people that have a decent grasp of their mother tongue, thus I just work and listen to podcasts and some audiobooks).
The hn comment section and some of the blogs I read here make the tech world something tangible, rather than something only happening in some far away land.
69,828 Monthly Active Users is not what I would call a take off of something which will conquer the world, beat the capital and liberate the world from the evil of their control. It just this years hyped nerdspace. For example, it seems even significant smaller than this space here.
That's a good story, but is there any evidence for it?

We know simple building blocks can be created, in low concentrations, with large amounts of other components that don't end up in life. The concentration of any given chemical in this mix is exponentially dependent on its complexity. The "once a short chain is formed, it will (slowly) replicate" is entirely unsupported by experiment. Indeed, it's difficult to see how it could work, when it's replicating in a soup loaded with junk monomers.
Not seeing a reason to use this over Firefox. Sorry.
> A tool that gives incorrect and inconsistent results shouldn’t have any part of a decision making process.

It can be used for some decision (i.e. not critical ones), but it should NOT be used to accused someone of academic misconduct unless the tool meets a very robust quality standard.

> this tool is as reliable as a magic 8-ball

Citation needed
> "HN, by itself, is not a business"

Who said HN is a business? I never said that, you seem to be reading between lines, words I didn't write. To reiterate, you asked if HN is funded by ads. I responded that HN is an ad (an ad, not a business), and furthermore often contains overt ads. And I never said anything about Twitter/Facebook/Reddit at all.

Anyway, if you want to argue with the version of me that exists in your imagination, you obviously don't need the real me here for it. So peace out.
> It unfortunately requires an account to use the browser at all.

It does? Well, that's a showstopper right there. At least I know I can safely ignore this browser from here on out, though. Thank you!
Rhodes Wildfires
It's written in D, and it's used to host the D forums, but it's open source, so you can run your own and pick the topics you like.
I'm in the top 4% this year based on a Q/A I wrote in 2021 which it gathers a few votes a month. The ranking is an indicator of how pointless SO has become if I'm globally in the top 4% this year having posted nothing.

For me, there's no incentive to answer questions. It takes too long to get an answer, and the reply is usually some snide comment because too many assume it's an XY problem. It's generally worse than asking ChatGPT even when the AI gets it horribly wrong.

As for answering questions, I'd rather do that on my blog. Posting to SO is a time investment with zero return.
> Does far-right just mean non-progressive and conservative?

It depends how far you go. Does far-left just mean non-conservative and progressive? There's of course a subjective element to the answer, but there's objective arguments to be had as well, but in a specific context and timeframe.

For example, being opposed to abortion rights was once considered normal except in far-left circles where anarchists such as Emma Goldman or Émilie Lamotte organized clandestine courses and workshops. Half a century ago, it could have been considered mildly conservative to be against abortion rights. Nowadays, with many conservative right-wing voices standing for abortion rights, being against would place you immediately on the far-right ultra-conservative spectrum.
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Back when I was doing a lot of full time dev, my approach was to figure out how to build Hello World (usually the device driver equivalent) and then debug it and then start for real. But always started with how to build it and debug it.
I never said they were good or considerate drivers. They're just less bad for mostly selfish reasons. Ignorance of the law is still universal for US drivers.
I'm not sure what the guide would really be about? Take Unity, export as a Linux standalone game, transfer to the Steam Deck and run it, literally double-click on the executable and it'll run just like on a Linux computer.

I'm guessing the lack of guides for this specific thing is because it's trivial to do.