skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your opinion. But making blanket statements to the effect that every preemptive use of nukes is evil is smallminded and laughable.

It's pretty simple: If State A peddles a religion that promotes the extermination of all non-believers of said religion, and if State A itself claims that State B has no right to exist and ought to be wiped off the face of the earth (and indeed that State B will do what it can to make sure that State A is wiped off the face of the earth) out of principle, then State B has every logical and reasonable right to take action against State A before State A can destroy State B. It's really quite simple. Mankind isn't one big brotherhood, and modern global civilisation is in many respects a zero sum affair. It is absolutely rational for stronger powers to eliminate weaker powers whose stated goals are to eventually destroy those stronger powers. It's really just a form of self-defence. The notion of 'innocent people dying' is something you've made up in your head as relevant when that just isn't part of contemplating an existential threat.

Obviously people like you might find that offensive, but that doesn't affect the calculus lol.

peace.
Scary Hasty
During my tests after initial installation it didn't prove to be very stable, unfortunately. But then again, it hasn't been advertised as being stable and is still very much work in progress.

This is a port of C based Netsurf ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) whose modular core allows it to be ported to other toolkits. According to the Netsuf website there are frontends for Amiga, Atari, BeOS, Framebuffer, GTK, RiscOS, and even Windows. Debian contains a GTK+ and a framebuffer variant of it in its repositories.

Websurf is thus not a new application written from the gound up in Objective-C but rather a port of Netsurf to the GNUstep GUI framework.
You have to consider costs. If it costs them $15/month to provide the service (just a made up number) then $10/month would not be reasonable. The Plus users also subsidize the Free users to a certain extent.

The other effect at work here is anchoring. OpenAI wants people to be prepared to pay more for AI. Setting a higher price anchors that price in people’s minds and makes it feel normal. This will serve them better in the future since the long-term objective is to provide services that replace employees, who are surely paid more than $20/month.
Not to speak of distinguishing all the remastered versions of albums.
Why are reddit and forums full of people asking how to make chatgpt code work, and are always downvoted?
Happy Deepawali folks
Well, as Lord Beaverbrook might have said, we've already established that we're all potential criminals. All we're haggling about now is the threshold that would cause us to commit a crime.

Without having lived the lives of others, you simply don't know if you would have committed the same (or worse) crimes in their situation. That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't punish crimes, but to imagine that you're a better person than most criminals is just self-flattery.
The data for English/Spanish isn't very good. My name (popular in the Anglosphere, given to me by spanish speaking parents) isn't there.
How does that work exactly? How does one end up with a tint amount for personal consumption if someone else couldn't legally allowed to have enough to sell?

Seems really strange that the government would have bothered decriminalizing consumption if the supply itself is illegal.
As I've matured in my career I've gone to SO less and less, to the point where I mostly avoid it now. I use tools, languages, and libraries with which I am now highly familiar--perhaps more so than the average SO answerer, although I guess it would be arrogant to say for sure--and so the bulk of my questions are edge cases in my knowledge which are more easily answered by reading source code or specs.

I suspect this is one of the differences between people that find GPT helpful and people that don't--it seems much more potentially helpful when you are in a less familiar environment. In my work, when I run into unexpected behavior, if I knew what question to ask then I would probably already know the answer too. Until the day I can feed in an entire codebase and ask "What's wrong with this? vaguely gestures at everything", I don't expect that to change significantly.
I wrote my thesis using Bookdown, an RMarkdown package. It might be useful if you require e.g. Latex notation rendering.

My pipeline went via a custom latex template which unlocks all the formatting power of latex without having to deal with it for the content.
This, in my opinion, illustrates the value in studying classics: a lot of modern society is based on the stories we have been telling each other for thousands of years. Not just the Bible, though: also the Ancient Greek and Roman texts, and (if you're being adventurous) the Talmud, and the Quran + Hadith to see how the West's sister cultures developed. The modern atheist would do well to study religion.
Yes - He features in a lot of different popular media and was first portrayed in H.P.Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (published 1928).

The mythology of Great Old Ones etc. is usually referred to as the Cthulhu Mythos, though Cthulhu is definitely not the most powerful being. (That honour would probably go to Azathoth - a blind, mad sleeping god who happened to create our universe as part of his dreams - don't wake him up!)
Even now that it has image generation via DALL-E 3, image comprehension via GPT-4V, and the Android app can hold a voice conversation with you, with unprecedented voice recognition accuracy?
You might have misunderstood what the list is for.
Font selection should be left up to the browser vendor, and ultimately, the user, and not be overwritten or otherwise dictated by the website.
Meanwhile when I wanted to release titles like “Track 191030”, my music distribution company at the time (dirtomusic.com) renamed that to “191030”, quoting their technical standards.

I get that I’m no Prince but this happened without as much as a heads up. I remember being surprised when I saw the change at Apple Music and other streaming services. One of the reasons why my music is now on bandcamp[1].

[1]: https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/
There is no "high" with cigars. It's just a matter of enjoying a particular aroma profile, just like eating barbecue, smelling a perfume, or burning some incense. Did you really go into smoking a cigar expecting some kind of drug experience?
> How do you do encapsulation without an mli?

In OCaml you can't. If I could I wouldn't care about interface files, because I wouldn't need them.
Agreed. My son and I have settled on a hybrid version : prepare the hunt, but don’t use ready made maps.

We use Flickr,Google, Invader spotter, and slowly build a map of a specific area. Some of them we will then find from said map, others we will find while walking around randomly. Preparing properly can take several hours, so it feels like playing.

This, and if I’m honest, my son loves the anticipation that comes with the prep (‘that one’s beautiful, I want to see it for real’), and so do I.
Sure, but saying someone is not guilty when obviously they are but a 10 year prison sentence is way out of proportion for what they did, that’s stupid too right? It means we expect juries to lie, on purpose, to prevent ruining someone’s life. It forces juries to pick between two bad extremes.

These kinds of laws remove the opportunity for juries (or judges where I live) to eg say “6 months of community service” when it’s more appropriate.
Neither remote attestation, decompilation of firmware blobs, reading the chip specification nor IOMMU are universal solutions to all security problems. They do however complement each other nicely.

Imagine connecting to a Jitsi or Etherpad service over HTTPS - all you get is some assurance that the remote system is operated by the owner of a specific DNS name. Now imagine the same situation, but you also have a browser extension that verifies that the boot chain of the remote system is reproducible and discoverable in a transparency log.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, System Transparency aims to make the reachable state space of a remote system discoverable. Imagine your web browser being able to verify whether you're connecting to a Jitsi server, or a Jitsi server which also records all meetings.

You're absolutely right that there are lots of limitations and things that can't be mathematically proven, but that goes for any defensive security technology.

For sure remote attestation can be used against the interests of the user, but it can also very much be used for the interests of the user. Imagine a world where you don't have to trust online services blindly.
Netsurf is not exactly new. The project started in 2002 (or earlier, as part of RISC OS?) and 1.0 was released in 2007 [1]. The last stable release is from 2020.

[1] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/news.html
It's an old Hebrew name, so anywhere Abraham, Josef, Sara or Rebekka appears, you may (rarely) run into it, too. A way to tell your neighbours, "I really know my obscure biblical characters".
That would be fun to fuzz-test.
Depends on where it sits on a spectrum between, say, a dumb Markov chain, and a human like you and me. GPT-4 is definitely closer to the latter than to the former.
AFAIK, they’re extremely difficult to find ( and expensive).
what would a ordinary person use all these for beyond curiosities?

I pay for but i only use it handful of times after i remind myself to use it .
Secure Boot also validates UEFI Option ROMs, not just bootloaders.
I've not looked at the source code, but if GP is correct, then absent JS rendering means there's little added value for me (a dude who scrapes a lot).

Real world example, I was looking at scraping unjobs.org for a friend the other day. The need for JS rendering turned the job from 15 minutes of requests and beautifulsoup into a full-blown session with selenium, geckodriver etc.

I'm not saying the linked framework isn't nice, I've not looked at it, but tools for simple scraping are plenty and easy to use.

There's a lot more that a new framework needs to do to distinguish itself. I'd love something that makes JS rendering, proxy-rotation and catchpa solving easier, in a nice package I can deploy myself.
AI assisted programming worked for me
As a computing hobbyist, with young children, it's difficult to find time to sink my teeth into a problem. Recently I tried using the paid version of ChatGPT to write a client and server for a friend's project. Although the generated code is not yet in its final form, it does work and I'm sharing it now. All of the code for both the client (dart) and server (rust) was generated by the AI, based on prompts I provided. It was a collaborative and iterative process, and really eye opening.

I'm thinking of live streaming an AI programming session, building a multi channel PID controller from scratch, if there's interest...
> It is nevertheless true that in aggregate for knowledge work, "worker + intern" is more economically productive than just "worker"

It can be true, but I don't think it is always or necessarily often true. The overall value proposition for interns (and apprentices etc) for society as a whole is that they will then go on to become the professional knowledge workers that they have learnt from. LLMs won't become that, so the value proposition is limited and localized. Remember the adage about garage mechanics, where the price goes up depending on how much 'help' the customer wants to give?
It still sounds like a good way to uniquely identify a person? How else would an institution confirm that it's talking about the same person?
Yes, but what do you use it for?
I agree to some extent, but "unless this happens war will be declared" might be an exception.
What menu? There is one on the page and app has its own menu as well.
What is a concrete situation where it is useful?
Thanks for the clarification. I guess he was still polishing his craft 50 years ago.
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
One of the article's key points is that violent crime does not mean "caused physical harm" and that entire categories of crime are considered violent by law, whether or not any violence was perpetrated during the commission.

"The fourth myth: By definition, “violent crime” involves physical harm

The distinction between “violent” and “nonviolent” crime means less than you might think; in fact, these terms are so widely misused that they are generally unhelpful in a policy context. In the public discourse about crime, people typically use “violent” and “nonviolent” as substitutes for serious versus nonserious criminal acts. That alone is a fallacy, but worse, these terms are also used as coded (often racialized) language to label individuals as inherently dangerous versus non-dangerous."
> GPT-4 is definitely closer to the latter than to the former.

That’s a seriously dubious statement.
The new model combined with the GPTs feature is incredible. I made 10 GPTs yesterday.

My favorite is Meme Machine, where you just specify a concept like "return to office, safari animals" and it generates an image with DALL-E and then composites text over it using Python:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17tb7rm/mememachin...

I noticed all my GPTs started working better yesterday, must have been the new model rollout.
I’m impressed that there are people who mix what I think is Visual Basic (right?) with UNIX command line tools. Hadn’t seen that one coming!
I'd see that as a separate issue and not be in favour of holding one good reform hostage by demanding another.
Why is that weird? You can have food, you can make food for yourself and your friend, but if you’re selling cooked food to strangers you need to have minimum standards of cleanliness etc.
How do you validate that you're on a machine running secure boot? How about when you connect remotely?
Additionally, because the Social Security Administration only issues an SSN if you are eligible to pay into and eventually receive Social Security, there are some legal temporary residents of the US that are not eligible and do not get an SSN.

While the government says that an SSN is not necessary to open a bank or credit card account, all the ones that I’ve encountered require it to proceed with the application, and the government doesn’t do any enforcement of that.
Yeah the punishments for the war on drugs has worked SO WELL. /s
You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
When you have a question, there's no answer on Google and you don't know who else to ask.
I'm not sure what you mean by limited reach, but for added context: Resist Bot is an automated service that can be used to contact elected officials in the U.S. Believe it or not, some elected officials actually pay attention to what their constituents say when writing to them.
I think you got the wrong guy!
Ring road entrances ! We went around the city in the tram, getting off at each stop
> Right but being overly generic makes them hard to understand.

Oh yes, I'm not arguing against that or your other points. I just wanted to express that the types being inferred as generic is not an error, but by design.
For me it’s a steal at 5x the price. Maybe 10x.
Could it be that HR/management part of the system is then at fault if a person is kept in a role where they do harm.
Most likely the system has been notified, but it has failed to react to the warnings.
> If the car breaks down, the driver still has several options:

The one option he doesn't have though: Continue running the car as-is. And that's the point I am making.

> and a programming language that purposely allows a library to do so as a design choice is also defective by design in my opinion.

You are entitled to your opinion of course, but I'm not going to agree, and it seems a lot of people are completely fine with that design decision: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/3

Again, the library isn't "crashing the program". The library meets a condition under which it can no longer function, no matter what the caller does, and can no longer function in a way that makes running the entire program infeasible. That is the point of panicking and not recovering it within the library.

And yes that is the libraries call to make. Yes, it needs to have a very good reason to make that call. Very few libraries panic in that way. And the ones that do, and are widely used, have very good reasons to. If libraries do so without a good reason, then people stop using them.
"The laws of the universe are constant" is not useful advice for learning anything.

Which subset of said laws is applicable for electrical engineering has changed immensely over the years, and studying old hardware will not prepare the student for modern design.
How do they, like, have ANYTHING then? That sounds like the paradox that you can keep dividing stuff by 2 forever and it will never be small enough to reach zero technically lol
I was thinking about networking ports from the title!
Yes and no

For Cybershow [0] we love to use AI images, from a variety of
generators, because it's nice to have quick, catchy iconic pictures
that help listeners remember/search the episodes visually.

Also most of the main cast channels now do great transcription, and
our audio is clear, so that's one more job that's automatically done
for us these days by "AI".

In the production and audio domain there's very little that "AI" can
do better than an experienced writer and editor, imho as a half-decent
writer/editor :).

A lot of editing is moment by moment decision making that just
requires a good ear. "AI" can't tell me if something a guest says is
ambiguous, or sounds a bit poorly evidenced etc.

Maybe one tool I'd maybe use if it existed is a "fluff remover" for
"ummmm, like, well... y'know, ummmmm, literally... like...."

But I wouldn't trust it not to butcher the audio and leave things in
an irrecoverable (no undo path) state that only gets spotted in the
mastering stage.

Otherwise, many "intelligent" plugins already have built in clever DSP
features these days, for things like noise reduction, silence removal,
level matching.

Scripting things is the key... and Audacity is a dream for this!

For planning/organisation I use emacs org-mode which is fine for
capturing notes, linking resources and pulling it all together into a
script or talking-points list for recording.

For an amateur show we don't need much more quality than this.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/
> FreeBSD Ports/packages are a great collection of software (~30000);

31969 per the "Statistics" sidebar at:

* https://www.freshports.org
I use several machines, all running on BSD or derivatives, albeit coincidentally. My main laptop is now an M1 MacBook Air, primarily used as a terminal + mail client + web browser. My former ThinkPad runs on NetBSD, starting from version 8, then 9, then 10-BETA, and currently on 10-RC1. It's a powerful laptop serving as a server and hypervisor with qemu-NVMM for amd64 VMs. The performance slightly lags behind qemu-KVM, and networking is not as convenient, but it gets the job done.

Finally, I use a NanoPi NEO3 with the Rockchip chip as a NAS. It was previously running on OpenBSD and will soon be updated to NetBSD with a cgd (block encrypted) USB drive.

As for your question, it's not harder to run than, say, Slackware, as it doesn't change much with time. This is the system you choose when you're very conservative with Unix systems and expect something simple, understandable, and predictable in the long run.

As for 'why', it's a matter of personal preference. NetBSD is about preserving the Unix heritage; you could still install it on a MicroVAX II, read filesystems from V7, or run SunOS 2 binaries if you wanted. It still feels much like using 4.3BSD on modern hardware. A good share of NetBSD developers purposefully use old and/or underpowered machines for both development and testing, which keeps the system clean, fast and minimal.

OpenBSD is a fine choice too, but it's relatively slow and lacking in software. For instance, vmd is pretty far behind bhyve and NVMM when you want to run anything more than Alpine VMs. This may have improved recently, though, I haven't checked.
Does anyone know if it has better speed or overall knowledge and reasoning capabilities?
I went for a walk and had a conversation about Rademacher complexity and VC-dimension of a classifier, then I asked it to quiz my understanding based on what we talked about. It's almost at the level on "Her" but you have a very knowledgeable tutor to ask who won't judge and is always available.
what an example of a question only chatgpt knows ?
This comment is everything.

Not to mention that due to understaffed and over budget facilities, rehabilitation programs are generally the first things to get cut.
forget about trump. Biden and his team keeps mentioning 'bidenomics' . what is it?
But therein lies the crucial question, does the actual business value of the service exceed the costs of running the service + reasonable profit margin? If not, then no amount of anchoring will help.
Not sure if it’s related or not but I noticed the UX has changed on the web interface and when I ask for code, it now defaults to running it through an interpreter with a hidden view by default. This is very annoying to me as I want to mostly read the code, not have it be executed without any context
"A City on Mars" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.
I don't work in tech and I use LLaMa. It is great for writing overviews of a subject which I use to make sure I have most of my bases covered (and helping me see which of my ideas are more original), getting more examples, along with other creative tasks. Getting it to compare two subjects to see what they have in common is usually quite helpful.
Oh, sorry.
I've read that as "non-lazy whitespace" ;)
It is difficult to ban something that has been an integral part of a culture for centuries.

But societal attitudes can change quite quickly. For example, homosexuality has gone from being illegal, to being tolerated and now (I think for a lot of people in the UK) pretty much a non-issue in 50 years.
Great collection of questions for a business with product market fit. Most of the questions focus on making existing operations more efficient.

One question that could be added to the first part: Customer & value props

Which pain of our customers does our product remove?
if the market (competition) is not forcing them, why would they spend all that on R&D?

the lack of (competent) competition is what's the problem, not that that there's return on capital. I don't like Apple, but I hardly can blame them, when they can make all this money by simply being the least shit generally okay-ish option.
Thats a pretty neat use of chatgpt. My sister is prepping for USMLE. Wonder if she can do something like this too.
Obscure command-line invocations, some specialist topic that's not discussed much online. Usually I Google something first and if I can't see any straightforward answer in a couple of minutes I'll ask ChatGPT.

For example I don't know much about electronics so I asked it how design a circuit for a problem I had and it came up with a useful answer.
On the bright side, in some cases at least it includes a test case, runs it, and if it fails then reads the error and tries to fix the code, all in a single run.