skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hasn’t really been true for years. Most new editors have experienced like this:

They see an article that needs correction or a small expansion so they create the account and do the work.

Their work is immediately reverted by an editor.

A few hours later the editor adds their work back, but under their own name.
Sounds like our entire civilization in microcosm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

Think of how an LLM is trained, should we assume that humans are necessarily different, even if it goes against their scientific principles? If the principles are not in the cognitive context window, then they essentially do not exist. If you try to inject them, the emotional centre is typically invoked (some form of fight or flight I'd think), disallowing the addition.

Human cognition is very strange if you watch it carefully with pure curiosity.
Elon Musk and Sandy Munro Discuss the Cybertruck [video]
If that graph was your annual income would you feel the same? I'd be very very worried, upset and considering drastic action.
Is my intuition correct that non startup big tech is setting up shop in other cities ? Pune & Hyd in particular.

Bangalore is such a waste of a good city. If they'd scaled up public transportation when they needed to, a lot of the city's problems wouldnt have existed.

My experience is that other than a few nice neighborhoods, Bangalore feels a little too slummy for a metro city.
> It's not about your skills really, it's about who you know

I've been hearing people give this advice my entire life, which is about a half century now. It's never been true for me. Roughly half the jobs I've had in my life I've gotten through a referral and the other half I've gotten "cold" by just applying to an open req and being the best candidate that applied.

By FAR the best jobs I've had were the ones where I got in on the strength of my abilities. Every job I've ever worked that I was referred into ended up being a nightmare that I couldn't get out of fast enough.
Doesn't matter what language you use when your architecture is wrong for the problem you're trying to solve.
SuperDuperDB allows you to integrate AI models and APIs. In this case we use the OpenAI API as an example. You can switch for other supported APIs, or models, and even bring your own models and APIs.
If iOS allowed other browsers on the device (and I mean allow other browsers to run their own engines and not have to use Safari's engine under the hood - be first class citizens, just like Safari) then I doubt Safari would have such high numbers.
> Once you accept, the RAID AI will keep monitoring your stream for the presence of MTN DEW, if you remove your DEW, you’ll be prompted to bring it back on camera

This has to be directly inspired by that "drink verification can" 4chan post.
How many similar practices actually get discovered? In a way this is the "right" thing to do in a capitalist society. We are incentivising this behaviour by making it profitable. An honest company cannot compete with a company doing this, unless very rigorous regulations and enforcement of them. This gets harder and harder as tech gets more opaque.
Adding more regulation, auditing, hoping that _all_ entrepreneurs are honest, are crutches trying to patch a fundamentally broken economical system.

If capitalism were a software, we would call practices like this code smell. We can try patching it up with some specific legislation and (costly) enforcement by e.g. code auditing in this case. But the real issue is that our economy is not optimizing for global (national) utility, it is optimizing for profits of individual business owners.
The talk tab generally has more interesting stuff than the main article these days.
doesn't seem like the project is in active development anymore, but there's gitFS: https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs
It would be so easy to get away with this kind of extortion at my work. Nobody reads my code that carefully, or cares if I don't get it reviewed and just merge it. Only one other person could understand it if he tried, and he has no interest or involvement in it. It could easily look like just a bit of incompetence on my part that requires some additional consulting from me after I have moved on.

That's not how I roll ... or sleep well, so my employer is in no danger from me. But there are many short-term devs who come through here, and I don't have the time to police them in detail.

But conceivably an LLM could do it. It could be just another step in a build pipeline. But, when LLMs can do this well, they can also write most of the code going into the pipeline.
It's already happening.
See this DHS memo issues on August 8th - page 3.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/23_0913_mgmt...

Fortunately the DHS has put together an expert team of non-partisan, honest, Americans to spearhead the effort to protect our democracy. Thank you James Clapper and John Brennan- for stepping up to the task.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/19/secretary-mayorkas-annou...

And just in time for election season in the US
AI is going to be employed to fight disinformation- for our protection of course.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/08/31/ussocom-ai-disinfo...
You just follow those users at their @user@pixelfed.social or @user@tube.jenna.net handle. Depending on the service you are using there can be caveats (I think pixelfed only tracks new content from mastodon after you follow the user) but otherwise it "just works".

caveat: This only works as long as your instance hasn't de-federated those instances.
Looking at the user profile, it even looks like user "TempleOSV2" was Terry.
Researchers look to the human eye to boost computer vision efficiency
By definition a Markov chain does everything step by step already, no need to ask!
The sad part is that it only got really really broken when it got digitised, i.e. IP telephony. Preventing number spoofing was trivial and a solved problem back when the phone system was still "antiquated". These design flaws were added surprisingly recently.
It’s not being addressed at all. I don’t believe he’s charged with anything and in fact, it might not even be illegal.
It's great to see the two leading and most respected technology firms form an AI alliance. I can't think of any firms I would trust more than Meta and IBM.
The N95 had a traditional phone keypad and no touchscreen. There’s not really very much you can do with a 3D accelerated GUI under those constraints. For example, they had a WebKit browser years before Apple, but the navigation was stuck with arrow keys because of Nokia hardware.

I don’t disagree with you, but the problem here wasn’t just the software not taking full advantage of the hardware. It was a more fundamental disconnect between hardware and software design. At Nokia, there was practically no innovation where these two were advanced together. Everything was incremental on one side or the other.
We use PyLance for performing searches in databases which do not have a vector-comparison engine. However we use the primary database as the store of vectors and model outputs.
We found aporia to be really useful for production observability and monitoring. Fits easily with our Vertex infrastructure, but I think they can be deployed all over.
It doesn't, we are just in 90's security mindset. We even have the typical idiot here chiming in, "it doesn't have to be perfect". Meanwhile in adult software engineer world, we know we can just not send the state of the entire world to every player and that would also save costs.
3B1B is incredible. I loved his video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k) using Fourier series to make epicycle animations. I worked through the details to make my own: https://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/
Beeper Mini for Android sends and receives iMessages, no Mac server required
I have never heard of a definition of farmer that refers to hired labourers. Perhaps you are thinking of farmhand?
You can change the language in the top right corner of the page in case that the website loads in German language. The video is without spoken commentary and there are only a few German text overlays saying things like "Half of a module is completed" which you might understand anyway.
Oh how I wish today was April 1st. Instead, seems like this is real and we indeed live in a clown world.

What’s stopping me from having a “MTN DEW makes you obese” banner on my channel?
That would resolve the spying cost, but not the punishment cost. My go-to example here is heroin: class A drug in the UK, 7 years for possession and life for supply, so far as I can see nobody has anything good to say about it, and it has around three times as many users in the UK as the entire UK prison population.

Could implement punishment for that specific crime, at huge cost, but you can't expand that to all crimes. Well, I suppose you could try feudalism mark 2 where most of the population is determined to be criminal and therefore spends their life "having to work of their debt to society", but then you have to find out the hard way why we stopped doing feudalism mark 1.
Yes, but showing people which trace to cut is a federal felony under Section 1201.
Yeah. Although I'm not trying to discount what others experience, I'm always confused to hear that Firefox is slow, because it seems just as fast as Chromium on my computer.
The article links to this[1] article which mentions pwn being used on BBSes in the 80s.

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/pwned-meaning-definition-orig...
Since when do you get to define the criteria?

I'm a happy user, I consider that a success in my book.
This definitely has a "How do you do fellow kids" vibe to it.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids

I am seeing more potential for downside than for upside for this campaign.
Is facil.io maintained? Last commit was 2 years ago, which is a bit concerning for something written in C that handles a bunch of security-sensitive things including a from-scratch JSON parser.
This is totally valid. Lifetimes can be an optimization you go back and add later as needed; in structs, especially, they require a ton of code changes to add and a ton of code changes to change your mind about later, so they should be used judiciously

Other things I would add to this list:

- For structs that don't own anything on the heap, derive Copy. Then you can just pass them around willy-nilly without explicit clone()s

- Using a functional style where it makes sense to helps a lot; it can be really easy to pass things by reference when they only need to be temporarily, immutably used by that one function. And if you make Copyable structs, you can pass owned structs and return owned structs and not worry about any of it
She is a woman.
I guess I'm feeling a bit philosophical today, but in some sense, aren't we all part of a shared data structure given that we are all somewhat related? While there a few bits that make us individuals, there is much that is shared to the point that privacy doesn't seem truly possible.
Obviously then it won’t. It’s like asking how is a YouTube video going to work if YouTube the entity stops hosting it.

Honestly, the peer tube method of storing media is actually kinda nice. Not everything needs to live forever, and it brings back a semblance of privacy.

On the other hand of this, larger companies can pin smaller videos on other instances while supplementing with their own ad supported videos.
Hi! I'm Lexi. I'm 17, and one of the things I'm interested in right now is gaining a deeper understanding of how computers work and showing that in new ways.

A few months ago I published https://cpu.land (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062422). After cpu.land, I felt a lot of pressure to make another Big Giant Thing but didn't really have anything compelling. So I just hacked away on personal projects and, through some coincidental learning on how the Internet works, ended up hacking together a traceroute program that could live stream to a website from scratch!

I realized I had never seen this sort of thing on the web before, and it was actually a kind of cool and novel way of visualizing the structure of the Internet, so I polished it up and built a pretty site around it. In the process, I learned some really interesting things about how BGP and the structure of The Internet, so I melted the traceroute tool with an article sharing that knowledge.

I'm still hacking on this and I'm sure my code will manage to break somehow, so please let me know if you have any suggestions! :)

(Side note: why Rust? I don’t think programming language choice matters that much, but I wanted to quickly write a very dependable low-level program, and I really like Rust’s error handling primitives.
Why do you care about this?)
What is so bad about the board? Besides not reigning in the CEO compensation.
Humans existed under religious nonsense, and other forms of nonsense (sure, sure legal racism and sexism up until the last 30-40 years and obviously politically contrived social norms means the “right people won” free market capitalism)

What’s one more form of BS hallucination foisted upon the meat based cassettes we exist as?
I was born in Humenne but my grandparents are from along Cirocha river to the east.

There's many flavors to rusyns/ruthenians, they can't even agree on the same language so it's possible that they don't relate to other rusyns or they are afraid to admit they are rusyns because they used to be oppressed for it in the past.

If you understand the language I recommend the website rusyn.sk, especially the jokes[0], they are a bit different flavor, sometimes not politically correct and my friends love it.

PS: looking for the link to the jokes I found [1] that specifically talks about rusyn vs ukrainian identity - it's in standard Slovak language so google translate should deal with it fine if you can't read Slovak.

[0] https://www.rusyn.sk/ujko-vasyl/

[1] https://www.rusyn.sk/nemozes-rusinom-hovorit-ze-su-ukrajinci...
Yes, they're essentially optimizing for separate things: https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard

SVG naturally spends a lot of time and resources tessellating paths into triangle strips, which requires mitering and sorting and other not easily parallelizable (read: slow for GPU) algorithms.
Data Breach at 23andMe Affects 6.9M Profiles
I compare a paper on a GPT-4 prompt to a tutorial on how to use Photoshop. It's not science IMO.
You always have to /s here. I figure there are enough people reading HN who have different backgrounds in how they understand English that it's necessary.

Also important to label jokes.
This stopped to soon.

What happened next?
Pardon my ignorance but I thought that it will let me question my data without using anything else
The biggest difference is a catch-all phrase vs feature-specific booleans. So rather than have one place for everything, you have multiple of booleans.

I agree that if there was at least one boolean to always show the "continue anyways" button, that'd be acceptable to me as well.
The procedure of multiple weights being calibrated against a single standard is _predicated_ on anticipated mass divergence.

The mystery being discussed is that, even after the obvious sources of error are allowed for, there is still a discrepancy, and it's not easy to determine how much of that discrepancy is with the weights being recalibrated vs the test standard they're being calibrated to. None of which is shocking to anyone involved, just puzzling.
The point is that less and less people use Firefox, so there seems to be a problem with success in that area, even if you are someone who still uses it (as am I).
I think they mean more why it wasn't called something like "haveibeenowned.com" or "hacked.com". Not that they invented the term "pwned".
'A matter of survival': India's unstoppable need for air conditioners
Great article, but what about open-source LLMs? Results will be the same?
Never in the history of humanity has such powerful privacy tech existed for anyone who wants to use it.

Using common off the shelf, open source, heavily audited tools, it's trivial today, even for a non-technical 10 year old, to create a new identity and collaborate with anyone anywhere in the world. They can do research, get paid, make payments, and contribute to private communities in such a way that no existing surveillance infrastructure can positively link that identity to their government identity. Every day privacy tech is improving and adding new capabilities.
I thought technical people on HN would know the difference. Of course, my complaint is about technical people not knowing the difference and more evidence is here in the comments.
Do you have a source for a more accurate picture of Firefox' market share? Every single report I've seen shows the same thing: long downward trend and a tiny fraction of the usage of Chrome and Safari.
New York's Millionaire Class Is Growing. Other People Are Leaving
Not just past 10k node limit - it's also because the k8s design has unsaid assumption about being used to arrange physical sets of machines, similar to how Borg paper would talk about cluster being equivalent to an aisle in datacenter.
I feel like the author of this tweet wasn’t saying step-by-step isn’t worthy, he was saying that non-reproducible results are not science. He emphasizes this twice in that tweet:

> one experiment on one data set with seed picking is not worthy reporting

> Additionally, we all need to understand this is just one good empirical result, now we need to make it useful…
2080 graduates of Machine Psychology will look back on this post and smile.
I love that you have posted this. I am also old and I think about this from time to time.

Nothing makes me feel so old as observing the phenomenon of people (mostly younger) habitually ordering food through these platforms, paying $5 to $10 in platform and delivery fees per meal. All this against the economic reality that wages have not kept up with the rising cost of, well, everything and it just looks a lot like rent-seeking on the part of these platforms. I do appreciate how the platforms have brought near-universal delivery to the suburbs, but I've lived in the suburbs my whole life and I simply do not use these services due to the cost. Same goes for ride-sharing. My only usage of these platforms is when I'm traveling.
What really moved me away from Firefox was using Brave search. I had been using DuckDuckGo since the Snowden leaks. When DuckDuckGo announced they would derank results if they thought it was Russian propaganda or disinformation, I moved to Brave search. A week or so later, I decided that Mozilla was too woke for my liking, and started using Brave's browser, too.
Because self hosting is a big commitment, costly in time and resources, and just generally a skill that the vast majority of users simply don't have (and they'd be well advised not to bother). There are a few managed mastodon services for this that I've been eyeing for corporate usage as I can see the moment coming that we'd might to be on mastodon at least as Twitter/X has been imploding a bit lately. I could probably figure out self hosting but I have more urgent things to do.
You use your mastodon account to tell your mastodon instance to follow a user on the pixelfed.social instance. Your mastodon instance starts getting a feed of all the posts by that user from the pixelfed.social instance and displaying them to you in your mastodon timeline as if they were mastodon posts.

This works because while pixelfed and mastodon and tube.jenna.net display things differently, the things they are displaying are in fact very very similar. Posts by users, consisting of maybe a video, maybe an image, maybe a reference to a post they're replying to, and some text. Ultimately it will be up to the individual implementation what to do with posts that are different enough that they can't figure out a reasonable way to display them.
I stopped using ff when it stopped being a browser and became some weird political tool.
maybe not exactely what you're looking for (not open source and not non profit) but there is some solutions out there like this one: https://elest.io/
The way match/tournament rules work, when you have an infinite loop you can pick any number of iterations, but it has to be a number, not "infinity". Which means that the interaction of two infinite combos comes down to which one occurs with priority over which other.

If the elf deck can gain "infinite life" at instant speed, then they'd win over a goblin deck that can deal infinite damage at sorcery speed, because whatever number the goblin player picks, the elf deck can pick that number squared, for instance.

If both players can combo at instant speed then it's an impasse and they have to jockey for who can put their opponent in a position where they're tapped out, etc.
Yeah, the github repo is a much better link for this, as it explains what it is. https://github.com/alexlenail/NN-SVG
The problem with that is that laws depend on each other. If you take a good law from a different system without refactoring your system - you are more likely than not to cause unintended consequences.

For example sentences in criminal code must be proportional to other sentences (if you punish rape worse than murder you increase the number of rape victims that are immediately murdered for one example). There's also different systems, in some you add up sentences, in others you only serve the longest sentence. In some you can be punished for the same crime in 2 different aspects, in others you only get one of them prosecuted. There's a lot of details and interdependencies, and even the cultural assumptions and demographics play a big role. Some laws that work in a country with uniformly wealthy population won't work in a country with big inequalities.

TL;DR: you can't copy-paste laws between countries without their dependencies :)
> Farmers are the epitome of the upper to upper-middle class

This must be why in the 1950’s large swathes of Europe saw so many farmers fleeing their land to go live in the city and take up those new fangled factory jobs. Same for Britain in the 1850’s. Or China in the 2000’s.

Usually when people talk about “farmers” in the context of social class migrations, they mean subsistence farmers eeking out a living from the land. Not the modern American or European industrial farmer who in effect owns and runs a multimillion dollar business. Although I hear margins are razor thin even for those.
Think about it this way.

Every service has access to the IPs you've used to log on, most services require an email, phone number some debit/credit cards and or similar personal info. Link that with government databases on addresses/real names/ISP customers and you basically can get most peoples accounts, on virtually any service they use.

We then also have things such as the patriot act in effect, the government could if they wanted run a system to do this automatically, where every message is scanned by an AI that catalogues them.

I have believed for some time now that we are extremely close to a complete dystopia.
Then that.
Private foundation is the default status for a 501(c)(3), you have to do extra work to qualify as a public non-profit.

> https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/eo-operational-req...

The rules are different, so which you view as more restrictive dependa on your perspective.

In this case, the context is discussion of this claim:

> I thought the tax-benefits of a non-profit were supposed to be tied to some governance requirements and operating in pursuit of some mission other than profit

Thr greater tax benefits of public charities are indeed tied to governance requirements (specifically rules that restrict the board makeup of public charities) and mission alignment.