skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you walk me through how adding more javascript on top somehow solves the problem of making a website compatible with a screen reader?

I didn't say to add javascript to make the page more accessible. I said that a static HTML page is most accessible and should be strongly preferred over any dynamic content regardless of how it's rendered. Screen readers can misannounce dynamic elements and leave the user confused about the state of the page.

But when dynamic elements do need to be reannounced due to an event, refreshing the page would be a terrible experience since the screen reader loses focus and starts back from the top of the page. Aria alerts also require javascript. It makes perfect sense that if you're pushing out an aria alert with js already that all that rendering logic should also go on the client side.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

As for SEO, I'm specifically talking about good metadata in the head tag, a static page that's comprehensible, and a sitemap. Static pages are better than SSR for this because SSR doesn't always respond with the same page for the same URL.
These "uncensored" models are themselves chat-tuned derivatives of the base models. There is no censorship-caused lobotomization to reverse in this case.

Although, chat tuning in general, censored or uncensored, also decreases performance in many domains. LLMs are better used as well-prompted completion engines than idiot-proof chatbots.

For that reason, I stick to the base models as much as possible. (Rest in peace, code-davinci-002, you will be missed.)
DC has benefited from continuously increasing government spending, for sure. But it is not immune to downturns. The last was probably in the early to mid 90's when defense spending dropped (at least for certain industries). I've warned friends there who were investing in residential real estate for years that it could happen again, but at this point I sound like Chicken Little.
This is an honest question, please treat it as such. What is toxic about the notion that some things just aren't for everyone and that's probably ok? Is there a moral or ethical requirement to pitch to the lowest common denominator and if so why?
Can I generate a reading by someone if I have a lot of their voice samples with this? Or is there a better tool for doing such a thing?
Should I Start a YouTube Channel? (in 2023)
Energy usage and passenger bandwidth could be a reason
Have you thought about spoofing the EDNS to (a less truncated version of) the nearest Cloudflare edge node's IP? This would be no more of a privacy leak than traffic from your edge to origin servers, while providing generally enough geographic information to keep latency low on the source. This is at the very least compliant with the spirit of the RFC, no?

EDIT: another comment, though somewhat hearsay, suggests that Cloudflare's caching could make this difficult to implement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650
Aside: I sometimes see stuff like "employees are 10% less productive from home." [0]

However that's somewhat misleading, the "productivity" does NOT mean physics-style efficiency of human effort to create value and fight entropy... No, it's based on what employers had to spend. So slaves that only produce a quarter as much per day are technically "more productive."

This matters because employers that require unnecessary time/fuel for commutes typically don't pay for it. Out of tradition and negotiating-power, those costs are usually shoved off onto employees and are not being tracked.

If commuting to the office was compensated, the "productivity" differences with work-from-home would be dramatically flipped.

[0] Example: https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/remote-workers-less-productiv...
> there's nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage

Your implied solution is to have the person sweep the floor by hand before the sweeping robot makes a second pass in half the time. How will that help the person feel any better? If the machines supass us, forcing people to do busy work will not make them feel better.
Love how you explain it.
Consciousness is not a continuous stream at all, the fact you fall asleep or can be given medication to turn it off is an obvious example.

Nova/PBS recently did a number of episodes on the number of tricks your brain is playing on your at anytime. Once you start seeing the shortcuts the brain takes in action the entire process is far less magical.
I'm perfectly content not having Linux on my M1 MacBook.

That said, I don't want that to stop someone else from having it!
Worked as the catch-all systems/CI/infrastructure/software engineer for an ecommerce company last year. This sort of stuff was so common. I'd spend at least one day a week trying to determine the newest pattern and prevent it. They were using our system to validate credit cards.

Eventually I stopped more or less all attacks on our cart/checkout. But the requests were still coming. Eventually while trolling logs for an unrelated PHP problem one of the software engineers mentioned there was a huge amount of traffic hitting our page to save a payment for later. The platform would issue a $1.00 charge to verify that the CC was real and they'd moved to using that to "churn" cards.

These CC thieves are very resourceful.
I am happy to answer any questions HN users may have; I’ve been working on Glo for the past year. I myself am a pretty heavy crypto skeptic. That being said, I am very strong believer in cash transfers as a method of providing economic security and believe Glo provides a way to scale funding for UBI that current charities simply cannot match, while governments seem to not be moving quickly enough to leverage the benefits of UBI for eliminating extreme poverty.
> because they trained with data derived from chatGPT

Can you expand on this (genuinely curious)? Did Facebook use ChatGPT during the fine-tuning process for llama, or are you referring to independent developers doing their own fine-tuning of the models?
wikidata [1] [2] has "few" species with links to many other databases like

* plazi.org list taxonomic treatment (~ species description) found in journals, papers using OCR when needed.

* gbif.org list specimens (and other things) using normalized datasets provided by various institutions (including Plazi).

one process among many others : some algorithms run by GBIF find potential matches between species and specimens, with some human curation, we can link between a specimen and the related papers.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309337
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106254624
> They’re legal, but society and government have successfully campaigned to publicize their negative effects, to shame smokers and to praise quitters.

I dunno, seems to me the effective thing wasn’t “shame”, but:

(1) Making it progressively more difficult for tobacco companies to recruit new customers by prohibiting many forms of advertising/marketing and forcing countermarketing about harms to be included in what marketing (including product packaging) is allowed, and

(2) Driving up costs with targeted taxes, and

(3) Prohibiting smoking in most workplaces and other public places, limiting environmental exposure to the addictive substances for people not actively choosing to participate and narrowing the contexts where people who do choose to partake are permitted to do so.
Yeah, this seems very possible—it will be interesting to see where this goes if the cost of RLHF decreases or, even better, people can choose from a number of RLHF datasets and composably apply them to get their preferred model.

And true that objectionable content doesn't arise often while coding, but the model also becomes less likely to say "I can't help you with this," which is definitely useful.
Hey are you running in dev mode or prod mode I just tried the counter in prod mode and it was 340.1 KB compressed?
You do need to know. That discovery likely happened without you being aware of it.

At some point you may need to buy a new washing machine. If you knew nothing about washing machines, you might have no information to work from.

However, maybe you saw an LG commercial at some point. So now when you walk into the store and see an LG washing machine, that recognition leads you to consider it. Maybe because of that commercial, you saw a feature. Now when you look at the Samsung washing machine and it doesn't have that feature, you consider that model to be lacking over the LG machine.

A personal anecdote here: Amazon now has so many different brands and sellers with product lines I've never heard of before. Their ratings have long since lost meaning. I often find it very difficult to decide on even simple purchases because I don't have enough information to know what is good.
Then you probably haven't seen the biggest grinds yet... There is a huge amount of progression, yes, but some of it takes literally years
"when they got their hands on it".

The transistor was a big deal when people could use it to solve problems. When an ecosystem around it existed.

But it wasn't going to revolutionise anything if it was kept a secret like is being implied with superconductors like the topic title is asking.

I could've been more precise in my language, but the point was that the big revolution of transistorized technology - the game changing stuff - came much further down the line then the original invention.

A small supply of secret transistors wasn't going to give anyone a massive technological advantage.
> given that you’re trying to lock out Linux users

I had that issue with cloudflare bot captcha when trying to access a web novel website. It would infinitely loop into the "please click the checkmark to confirm you're human" thingamagic.

Initially I thought it was because I was a linux user, but I tried to browse the same website on Google Chrome and the issue went away. They were not discriminating against linux, but against Firefox, which is just as bad, if not worse.

I tried everything on FF: deleting all cookies/storage/history, disabling addons etc. It would still do this on a pristine FF. Ultimately, I admit, not being able to access websites did manage to encourage me to uninstall FF, despite it not being FF's fault, I'm tired of dealing with this kind of cr*p.
Aside: nice to know Harpers has secured that paywalled 'subscriber only' pdf content there...heh
I also wish the HomePod supported wired networking in some constellation. It's powered via USB-C but only uses it for power, whereas you could totally use some USB-C + Ethernet dock. It's not like iOS (which HomePods are kinda based on anyway) doesn't support those.
You really think companies employ people for fun? There may be perverse incentives and inefficiencies but this is rubbish.
"One of the issues with Autism is a total refusal to eat certain healthy foods"

I have to disagree because "total refusal to eat healthy foods" is another one of the many subjective observations that muddies the definition of autism, which is as loose of a definition as you can get in my opinion.

Are they autistic because they don't eat right or do they not eat right because they are autistic?
Can you explain the soul breaking part ?
Musk/Twitter and Trump are the go-tos for pageviews. It's pitiful how some of the "articles" sites like the Verge cobble together are outdated by the time they reach the promotional cycle, because Musk did a sharp U-turn on whatever decision they're reporting on.
I agree:

- caring about your investments aligning with your values is good

- investment firms violating civil rights laws and promoting fashionable bigotry using retirement funds to coerce companies into self-destructive behavior is bad
The CS Rep told him to create a new Apple ID. I am wondering what would happen to my iCloud with previous ID?
I think just changing the title from 'CodeCov is now Open Source' to 'Source code of CodeCov is now available', it conveys the same spirit and meaning, without any misleading parts
His claim at least isn’t a blatant lie while yours clearly is
I hate hate hate how pollution has been reduced to co2 and nothing else. Don't have to worry about global warming if contaminated water and soil kill us all first.
On the other side of the globe? I guess that wouldn't cross my mind.

I do like the idea that there are well paid jobs that don't require many years of schooling. Seems good for social mobility.
I saw them as demos rather than finished products. Kinda like, "Look, you can chat tune these if you want to."
Oh shit. Gotta nope out of that as long as I'm still playing Evolve.
More along the lines of giving you control to allow brands you trust to know more about you. Imperfect markets exist because of the unbalance of information, which is why adtech with its information is in demand.

This is already happening with Whole Foods / Amazon, REI, and other loyalty programs.
Have a look at the FIRE community and see how difficult it can be to create meaning and a fulfilling life.

Also, the COVID lockdowns gave us a glimpse at "nothing to do". Finding meaning is pretty hard for many people, especially if you can drown any form of boredom in endless consumption of shows, video games and social media.
I actually prefer going to work. Being out of the house for 5 days a week really helps to reduce the utility bill.

Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there.
How is it horrifying? The world could do with less of us parasites.

Every time I read articles like these, taking about obesity death rates and such, I think: so? We overconsume. There are limits.
Within SF there's tons of single family housing neighborhoods along muni lines in the Richmond and Sunset that could be densified. Arlington is a suburb - the analogs are Daly City along BART, South San Francisco, and Milbrae/San Mateo along Caltrain. There's plenty of underutilized land around transit in those suburbs too.
The people building it know it isn't AI, the people selling it call it that.
> What's offensive about it?

You don't know what's offensive in showing every HN user who is not a moderator they can't view this website because they visit HN?

"Offensive" - "Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment"

"Resentment" - "feeling of having been wronged"

Majority here did nothing wrong. Quite a bit probably downvoted/flagged comments in question. Their worst offense was reading HN. Many will get resentment (see above) therefore the thing is offensive by definition.
If they don't want to, that's fine with me. Just offering some options for people (like me) who still want a meaningful way to contribute to society, in a world where robots do most of our current jobs.
An Introduction to Exploit Reliability
> the EC/ECB had not imposed such measures before

Greece had not asked them for a bailout before.

Those measures were a condition of the Troika (IMF/EC/ECB) bailout. And the IMF has a long history of imposing similar conditions, dating back to at least the 1970s. The conditions where straight out of their playbook.

There was an IMF intervention in Portugal in the 1970s, and here [1] is what they had to say about conditionality. Sounds familiar?

> it was accepted that the stabilization program would need to include quantitative limits on domestic credit expansion and on increases in credit to the Government, if it was to be supported by a stand-by arrangement. These limits would, it was hoped, make certain that total expenditure would be kept within the overall resource constraint. Policy changes strong enough to give reasonable assurance that the public sector deficit would be reduced had to be put in place.

[1] https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/022/0018/003/arti...
Do these count?

As the weekend wound down

Back-handed compliment
Dr Seuss's Yertle the Turtle is a metaphor for Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_St...

>Seuss has stated that the titular character Yertle represented Adolf Hitler, with Yertle's despotic rule of the pond and takeover of the surrounding area parallel to Hitler's regime in Germany and invasion of various parts of Europe.[3][4] Though Seuss made a point of not beginning the writing of his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off", he was not against writing about issues; he said "there's an inherent moral in any story" and remarked that he was "subversive as hell".[5][6] "Yertle the Turtle" has variously been described as "autocratic rule overturned",[7] "a reaction against the fascism of World War II",[8] and "subversive of authoritarian rule".[9]
It did actually, I'm a dev in the crypto space but remember vehemently disliking this project on its premise, feels very sketch to put it lightly. They claimed at one point IIRC they hold the data and will remove it "later" (trust us bro), but I definitely could be remembering that incorrectly. The fact that they started in low income regions and that they're harvesting iris data for a dystopian dream is crazy, I can't believe this crap is still going. Easily one of the most evil projects I've seen in my life.
> Its fucking wild that folks are advocating shame as a method for dealing with drug addiction in the year 2023.

It's also extremely divorced from reality. Even if you've never met an addict and seen how many want to get off the drugs (maybe you've met someone who is addicted to something else, like food, alcohol, or bad habits), but that the very fact that people don't flaunt it is proof of that shame. Now maybe some are unabashed now, especially in big cities, but similarly if you call someone "a fatty" enough they'll either: fix themselves (lol), hide their eating while trying to show effort or justify their weight, or just stop giving a fuck.

> people got hooked on legal prescription drugs

I want to address this, not because I think you're making this argument (your wording suggests not), but because it can be common. Many people set up the situation as if there are one of two directional graphs. Drugs -> homelessness or homelessness -> drugs (with variations on paths and some other nodes). But the effect in reality is coupled. Both can be true. It's a clique to drink your sorrows away and everyone knows the call of a stiff drink after a hard breakup or the call to eat a tub of ice cream. Of course losing your livelihood and having difficulties putting it back together can lead to that kind of addiction. But similarly we've seen people go off the deepend and take a bender too far, so of course that can lead to losing your livelihood. Most things in the world are not DAGs. There's lots of complex and coupled phenomena with feedback loops and many paths to reach certain steady state solutions. The danger is oversimplifying it and pretending these are trivial to avoid or trivial to escape. But the nature of their existence is proof of the lack of triviality, while a single counter example is not proof that they are.

Similarly it boggles my mind that a comment about shame is the solution. As if the Victorian times were well known for their safety and high prosperity. As if highly religious cultures have demonstrated exceptional prosperity (Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or whatever). That we're seeing similar comments about punishment, as if North Korea, Russia, and Iran are pinnacles of prosperity, wealth, and morality. How people are unabashedly hand waving away any nuance and pretending that the solutions are simple. But if they were then the examples before would be utopias, and that we'd speak of the many historical draconian eras in high regard.
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which society would benefit from a lot more of

Definitely! I’ve spent a good amount of time volunteering with kids, teaching them to read and helping them with homework.

But demographics are against us on this one. Children and elderly people are very much in the minority on any population distribution plot. I have personally been in situations where the number of adult volunteers greatly outnumbered the kids they were there to work with. It’s funny and a bit awkward but you get through it, usually by shifting over to board games and other large group activities.

It would be a totally different story if everyone was looking to do this stuff. A hundred volunteers with half a dozen kids or elderly folks is just not going to work. Most will be sent home.

I think it’s the same story with any group who might benefit from this. It could work if we doubled or tripled the number of people available to help out, but 10x or 20x (or more) would be unworkable.

You might say that a large number of people already volunteer for this work, but a handful of hours per week. There’s no way we could absorb millions of new volunteers for 40 hours per week each, that would be excessive.

The last thing I would add is that there are tons of people who are simply unsuitable for this kind of care work. They’re naturally disagreeable people. They may also be restless and easily bored. They would much rather be outside working or messing around.
In my opinion, the Free Software Foundation, ironically, since they invented the movement, with open source starting out as a tacky rip-off with the ethics stripped out. After decades, open source converged on free software.

More popular opinion is OSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative

They were founded by the persons who (claimed to have) invented the term in order to steward it. It's the same definition as the FSF.
First time I've heard of `ollama` but having tried it now for a bit I'm super impressed! This is what I've always wanted playing with LLMs locally to be, just pull weights like you would packages. It all just works. Really nice work :)
> liquidating

Yikes. Posting like this will get you banned here. No more of this please.

In addition, I need to ask you to stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments generally, because your account has unfortunately been doing a lot of that. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Additionally, Apple's always¹ been insanely great at power management even pre-Apple Silicon by virtue of (1) prioritizing it more highly than other vendors, and (2) implementing it in a way that takes advantage of the complete hardware and software stack.

¹ https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-does-windows-have-terrible...
It kind of sounds like the "censoring" (practically lobotomization) is not intentional, here -- that it's essentially a compression artifact of the interaction with ChatGPT's refusals. Does that make sense?
I concur. It's just like any other tool, it's only as good as the person using it. I just can't understand the resistance of people in this field. I was a naysayer on a number of things like Docker when it first came out because it didn't solve any of my problems at the time. Then, k8s came out and Docker was a pivotal part of that solution, and k8s solves many problems.

ChatGPT writing code so you don't have to, I just can't conceptualize how that's not an instant win for just about everyone.
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