skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s much the same as the US’s drone strike program in the Middle East - after so many times, it would take either incredible bias or actual irrationality to believe that these strikes were not approved with the knowledge that they would kill civilians, and potentially mostly kill civilians.

Maybe if it were just the first few dozen times, but it gets harder and harder to be charitable about their intentions…
pulse the thrusters to disintegrate any form of lice form.
I click. How else I'm supposed to know what's this all about? When there were headlines, I "knew" without clicking anything.
> The near collapse of democracy in the United States, the various nasty impacts of social media, the death of professional journalism, the emergence of automated propaganda bots, etc are all negative impacts of open internet that are destroying society.

So which of these is a walled-garden internet going to fix?

Actually which of these are even a consequence of the internet being open in the first place?

Pretty sure the answer to both is: none. These (perceived) issues are completely tangential and have absolutely nothing to do with the internet being open or closed.

This sounds a lot to me like: "People I don't like are using this thing, so let's ruin it for everyone."

You're still not going to like these people afterwards, nor are going to change them for the better by antagonizing everyone.
Autocorrect got me- I meant to type piracy. Updated my comment :)
For the youngins, in the mid 2000s they branded a very similar service as “Google Web Accelerator” by saying their servers would deal with TCP slow-start for you faster than your home connection. The goal of course was to get you to tunnel all your traffic through their tracking/stalking engine.
They are, see the international cooperations on CSAM. Literally every state with a barely functioning government agrees that this kind of conduct is inacceptable.
Yes we killed orcas like they were pests, with machine guns and depth charges. We did it for food and fishnets.
https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/naval-war-declared-again...
To the comments about this being easy to defeat: when it comes to detecting whether a person submitted a document containing LLM generated text (whether a law document, school essay, work document etc) the real value in a technique like this is high precision, not necessarily high recall.

Yes many people can circumvent this simple watermark technique but for those who don't, it is essentially guaranteed that they used a LLM if their text has clearly atypical unicode marks (Whether U+2004, ligatures, or variant selectors). Thus an organization can feel confident in taking action against the individual who submitted the document.

Whereas right now there are a bunch of dubious "LLM detector" models that output a confidence score that may or may not correspond to whether the person used an LLM. This low precision technique leads to people getting incorrectly accused of using LLM content.

So in my opinion, a world of high precision (but potentially low recall) LLM watermarks using simple techniques is way better than this current high-noise low precision black box world of low quality "LLM detector models"
<i>Text watermarking is becoming increasingly important with the advent of Large Language Models (LLM). LLMs can generate texts that cannot be distinguished from human-written texts.</i>

If they cannot be distinguished, then there is no need to distinguish them. Seriously.

Worried about someone having an LLM do their work? Why? Ad long as the work us good, does it matter?

Teachers worried that students will have LLMs do their assignments? You need different assignments and better tests.

LLMs are a tool. There were typewriters, then word processors, then spelling and grammar checkers. Now we have LLMs. Progress is great!
> Is there value in moving there for an individual who’s an employed swe, but trying to break into AI?

Yes. If you’ve never experienced the value of an industrial cluster, it’s exhilarating. You still have to hustle. But the payoff on a single day well executed is exponential; meetings beget introductions and actions are decided on handshakes.
The popular alternative (many paywalled articles will even have a top comment with this generated already) is to use the fabulous service https://archive.ph
> That seems like a massive waste of time for no benefit to anyone.

Right, we're talking about HR, so ...

;-)
Putting meaning behind the data can be tough. One thing to consider: are there fewer killings because we save more victims? https://unintendedconsequenc.es/is-the-world-getting-safer/
I think what we desparately need is a way to move between abstraction layers easily.

For example, right now, when you pick a framework, you're kinda stuck with it. Even if you could in theory move to a lower abstraction layer (by modifying the framework's source code itself), nobody does this in practice. So you're kinda locked into that layer of abstraction.

Imagine how amazing it would be if it didn't matter what level of abstraction you start on. You could seamlessly move between layers and modify wherever seems reasonable.

I don't yet see how we could achieve this. But I think this would require abandoning our current notion of abstraction entirely, or at least introducing some major constraints on it.

If anyone has any thoughts on this at all, I'd love to hear them.
Who said anything about climate change? Winter came early in my area. Contrary to a forecasted warmer than average winter, mine is currently colder than average. That speaks nothing about climate, just local weather patterns not always following larger trends.
It's impressive what Rust is able to do with the guarantees that it provides. Generators and coroutines seem like more ways to take advantage of async which allows for non stack-based control flow. Without those guarantees, innovating on async would be very dangerous without resorting to GC or dynamic typing.
> And how would anyone act on a violator? Would the police have access to a universal blocklist in all ISPs?

Another user suggested that there should be an organization that issues or revokes the cryptographic signatures after verifying website's content. The site displays the signature proving that it was checked to be safe, in HTTP headers.
> The near collapse of democracy in the United States,

Banning anonymous speech would make it more dangerous to advocate against current policy, and speed up this collapse you're worried about.
I often use stars to pick out which projects to evaluate and only start looking at very-low-star repos if none of the highest-star ones look decent.

Evaluating each repo does happen as you wrote, though.
> Furthermore, if one of Google's proxy servers is compromised, the threat actor can see and manipulate the traffic going through it.
> To mitigate this, Google is considering requiring users of the feature to authenticate with the proxy, preventing proxies from linking web requests to particular accounts, and introducing rate-limiting to prevent DDoS attacks.

Who are the "users of the feature" here? The users of the Chrome browser?
How will they authenticate? Using their Google accounts?
When I get a resume for someone I've been asked to interview, I'll certainly look at any github profiles, and if there's something relevant there, I'll often use their project as a basis for whatever coding exercise we do, such as extend this class to add X functionality. Or use it as a basis for design questions.
Nvidia Jensen Huang says nobody in their right mind would start a company
AFAICR the GDPR is far better written than people claimed, you don't have to believe you are a data controller to be fined. So I view their statements as similar to Nixon's "I am not a crook".
I would like to store, then retrieve exactly 1234567890123456789 apples instead of 1.070816993713379 × 2⁶⁰ = 1234567939550609408. Unfortunately due to IEEE-754 conversions I can only do this up to 7-8 digits or so. This is a number, just not one that can be represented as a Number without loss of precision towards the end.
This previous discussion may assist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645
There’s definitely a lot of friction there but I think it also hits the cost shifting aspect pretty hard: it wouldn’t be that hard for, say, Slack to use a native Mac app which embeds WebKit but they want to save money by only supporting Electron. For a small startup that makes sense but given the collective petabytes of RAM and power used, it feels like the balance should have shifted at some point.
Re: cheap pcs for support employees - that’s true everywhere; but it feels like only in the US is this 2nd hand market open to everyone.
And when sites outside of the jurisdictions that can take legal action put "safe-content: very yes" on whatever non-safe content?
Thanks for writing this. I cringe every time I see someone drop the phrase “there’s no direct English translation” as if it means there is some unique insight only able to be expressed in that language. Words aren’t isomorphic between languages, but that doesn’t tell us anything about the range of ideas that are available.

Surely no one believes a native English speaker only experienced schadenfreude after that word was imported from German?
Think of the children! Fuck Google and their inverted totalitarianism imposing regulator capture and Big Mommy.
Shouldn't pilots, as a matter of course, have to undergo regular emotional checkips to ensure they're emotionally stable?
> Government has legislature and litigation focused on big tech right now on multiple fronts.

If corporation gets a fine that's lower than their profits from breaking the law, then it's not a punishment but government getting its cut. Prosecuting few low hanging fruits doesn't make this administration any less neoliberal than previous ones, also remember that they will get prosecuted mostly for stealing from richer.
I again was never suggesting societal support for veterinary care. I was suggesting we fix our broken educational system. You mention that offloading responsibility to the government has real drawbacks. We are already experiencing those drawbacks. Again empowering people to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars of uncle sams money distorts the educational market and massive debt beyond what is profitable is hurting our supply of vets which is directly bearing on the cost of service.

If food could only be purchased with food stamps and there was societal pressure to offer more and more money indefinitely even if for all the best reasons one would soon find that a can of corn cost $12. Any complaints about regulating grocery stores in such a broken market entirely miss the point. There was never a functional market in that instance to protect. We should either stop pouring in billions or we should put stipulations on performance and price. Doing nothing until the can of corn is $15 doesn't seem tenable.
Safe content header is a relatively weak solution. Strongest solution is either Microsoft or Apple stepping up to develop a child designed device from the ground up. It would have access to a limited walled garden of the Internet. The device itself is marketed specifically to children and has no advertising allowed on it. It also incorporates health guidelines and screen time limits, etc. that cannot be changed by the device owner or user, only by Apple/Microsoft. It is essentially a fascist phone. Admittedly, this would make an adult, unlocked smart phone a hot item on the youth black market, but hopefully most kids will be too lazy to save up the money needed to buy a black market unlocked phone before they're ready to watch porn and be inundated with endless advertising and doomscrolls.
Just location. And I don’t get logs or anything. We’re part of an iCloud family with location sharing enabled, so I can open “Find My…” on my phone and it shows me on a map where my iPad, MacBook, etc. is, as well as where my daughter’s watch is, as of the last time it was pinged by a cell tower.
> The near collapse of democracy in the United States

So you propose a controlled demolition? That's what abolishing the right or opportunity to speak anonymously amounts to. Professional journalists don't need to be protected from anonymous jeers, if anything is killing their industry it's their failure to monetize and maybe you can blame adblockers for that, but not anonymous speech. And frankly, professional journalists have always predominantly been the mouthpieces of wealthy. Need I remind you that professional journalists working for the likes of William Randolph Hearst cynically provoked the Spanish-American War for profit? The glory days of journalism are an illusion that appears when you look back at the past through rose-tinted glasses. Whatever the answer is, it isn't to silence those who already have the least power, those who can only speak anonymously without corporate apparatuses to back them up.
For anyone who wishes this post was, in fact, about a plan by data guru William Cleveland, I'm with you.
Yes it’s free speech, I think the issue here is that companies care what their employees say about politics outside of work, enough to fire them if they find out.

Not really in the spirit of free speech.
The first layer is unacceptable to me, so I guess I just wouldn't access that at all. If the second layer goes, then that's the whole game. The internet would be closed off to me entirely.
wasn't there an attack a while ago that used hidden characters to break compilers? i'll see if i can dig it up. maybe something like that could be used for github. you'd have to have a pre commit and pull hook that would encode / decode the malicious characters
> all artists with genai tools easily outclass a non artist fiddling around

Personally, I find today's music utter shit. Must be an age thing.
The author admits this is an ideal - to be a bit more pragmatic - I would argue we can reduce problems to one of three failure categories and thus have a solution based upon one of those three.

Failures are either expected, unexpected, or unknown. Wear and Tear is expected. Unexpected failures are physical damage or misuse. The unknown failure won't report a failure nor be predictable.

Code readability does not apply to user level. The user is concerned about error messages - these should be written in a way that is understandable to the human.

http for example has 3 digits - easy enough as learning 404 is easy.
Microsoft and the 0x000..... is nonsense and useless.

Generally problems exist in three possible realms.

Let's use a human infant as an example - one of life's most wonderful creations yet lacks a manual, proper logging, and useful errors yet require a Severity 1 response time.

The infant is crying because of one of the three: need, want, unknown. If the kid is clean, fed, rested - move onto want. If the child isn't bored or able to be satisfied, move onto addressing the unknown. This of course takes more effort, inspection, etc. That can be split into wait, advice, and emergency response.

With this level of abstraction I have helped new parents with addressing their child's needs. The details are not as important.
Your goal in endurance conditions is to maximize the aerobic pathway, which means maximizing the number of active mitochondria. Recruiting more total mitochondria from more total muscle fiber will give you greater aerobic power output.
Could be a whole lot better. After 6 months, finally accepted an offer for IT Automation Engineer at a bad rate, 45k. Love the work, hoping to push the pay up quickly.
The status quo is acceptable. Some of the younger people here alarmists. Not every problem needs to be solved. Negative impacts can be tolerated.
Wouldn't you just need to write a bunch of bad code?
I kind of at least partly agree with Chrome. My problem with it is that web apps are missing a lot of features you would want in a non-cloud environment for offline use.

But if something is proprietary and cloud linked anyway I would much rather it all go through the web. That way open platforms still have a chance.

If banking apps and and Google payments and proprietary IoT devices controllers were all on the web, then a Linux phone might actually be viable!
I've not done anything too interesting with Rust, but I've had sort of mixed opinions of Generators. They can obviously be very cool, but it also does kind of feel annoying how much my code can just jump around in ways that, in my opinion, are a bit difficult to predict.

That said, when used right they can do a lot to decouple logic, so maybe this is just some of my old bad habits being throughly unwilling to die.
That inspired me to copy your comment as a prompt in ChatGPT:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact various aspects of the commercial real estate industry, but it may not have the ability to save or prevent a commercial real estate bubble on its own. The state of the commercial real estate market is influenced by a complex interplay of economic, financial, and market forces, and the rise or fall of a bubble is typically tied to broader economic conditions.

Here are some ways in which AI can be relevant to the commercial real estate industry:

1. Data Analysis: AI can help analyze large volumes of real estate data, such as property values, rental rates, and market trends, to provide insights to investors, developers, and property managers. This data analysis can inform decision-making and help identify investment opportunities.

2. Predictive Analytics: AI algorithms can be used to make predictions about future trends in the real estate market, which can aid in making informed investment decisions and risk assessments.

3. Automation: AI can automate various aspects of property management and maintenance, potentially reducing operational costs and increasing efficiency for property owners.

4. Risk Assessment: AI can assist in assessing the creditworthiness of tenants and help in the underwriting process for commercial real estate loans.

5. Virtual Tours and Visualization: AI-driven technologies can enhance property marketing by creating virtual property tours and realistic visualizations of properties.

While AI can provide valuable tools and insights, it cannot single-handedly save a commercial real estate bubble. The rise or fall of a real estate bubble typically involves a combination of factors such as interest rates, economic conditions, supply and demand dynamics, and investor sentiment.

To address issues related to a potential real estate bubble, it often requires a combination of government policy, prudent lending practices, and regulatory oversight. AI can be a part of the solution, but it is just one component of a complex ecosystem in the real estate industry.
Generations are only 15 years. Boomers generally gave birth to millennials, Gen X raised Gen Z, etc. Skips a generation (loosely speaking, assuming average parent age at birth of 30).
>NASA engineers are working on a software patch that will order the Voyagers to fire their thrusters less often but for longer periods to maintain their attitude

Anyone got any detailed info on what CPU, software and programming language is used on the Voyager that can support something as "advanced" as OTA software patches?

It was launched in 1977 and since aerospace uses tech older than consumer tech, it probably isn't running anything remotely as advanced as a Z80, 6800 or 6502 which came out only a few years before Voyager was launched.

Any info I found point to a custom 18 bit CPU built out of discrete TTL 7400 series parts which would be period correct, but not much details on how the SW, programming and OTA updates work.

I assume NASA has the full HW-SW stack, compiler, toolchain, version control, plus HW and SW simulators for it so making some of them public would be really cool considering the source code of the moon lander is already public. What do they have to loose?
found it. here's the paper https://trojansource.codes/trojan-source.pdf
Wow, it seems to do exactly what i wanted to build for me personally, so i can save the time, that i loose when doomscrolling the news.

i'd put in the questions, that i am really interested in, and have the news on that question on a daily basis or more often.

An E-Mail service to that questions would be good, too, so i'd not even have to visit the browser. An rss-feed on my questions would be great.

So, yes, i could build it myself, but i didn't find the time for it for now. Great achievement! But be cautious and rate-limit the site, because someone could drive up your openai-bills, or whatever AI you are currently using.

I think this would be great for individuals and self-hosted.
I always joked with my friend that if the internet was created today, it would be a walled garden. Jokes on me cause that's happening anyways.
Painfully, as I understand it, it is the other way around. Pilots can’t see psychiatrists/therapists because if they get diagnosed with anything they lose their license.
Spamming this everywhere in this thread does nothing to strengthen your argument (which has a number of weaknesses you've neglected to address).
I found it hard to read as well, and confirmed reader view in Firefox helped a lot.
Apologies in advance for a low-effort hot take:

Its growing abundantly clear that the tipping point is well in the past.

Decarbonization must proceed, of course, but if we can't feasibly remove carbon from the system at scale, we're well and truly fucked.
The usual movie: Google pushes its monopoly with shenanigans, they get sued, and if they lose they pay a random fine that is a drop in the ocean.
Nothing changes and shenanigans continue.
This website is cool and shows all the accoutrements of <big airline>. As I don't play Roblox, I have no idea what this is for. But it is AWESOME.