skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN has completely failed their mandate and needs to be destroyed and replaced.
In the rare occasion I'm desperate enough to ask a question, I dread seeing the red inbox notification. I think I've abandoned the last three questions I asked because I couldn't stomach facing the drama I expected.

The cultural norms of internet forums should never have been allowed to take root on a Q&A site. There is nothing "professional" (or even helpful) about answering questions with out-of-scope proscriptions.

Your plumber doesn't show up asking why you want your toilet fixed, nor does he tell you your house is messy, give you dietary advice and passive-aggressively insinuate you need to fix your roof. SO responders are mini-spouse syndrome incarnate.
At that point some people will physically revolt, I know I will. We’re not that far away from said physical AI-related revolt anyway, and I do feel for the computer programmers here who will be the target of that physical violence, hopefully they knew what they were getting into.
They are emergent in the sense that there is nothing in the pre-training dataset that would show the LLM by example how to, for example, compare and contrast any given pairing of fruit, technologies, or fictional settings, while thinking with the mindset of a doctor that hates both options, and on top of that make sure that this ends up formatted as a stream-of-consciousness. It can learn all these aspects from the source data individually in isolation, but there's no way there are examples that show how to combine it all (awareness of world information + knowledge of how to use it) into a single answer. That's probably a very clumsy example - others online have supplied more rigorous ones that I recommend checking out.

Strictly speaking, it might be "stochastic parroting". But really, if you want to be a great and supremely effective stochastic parrot, you have to learn an internal representation of certain things so that you can predict them. And there are hints that this is exactly what a sufficiently-large large language model is doing.
Except there's also, you know, building coherent theories and using those theories to predict the system behavior.
BGP looking glasses are very fun, although a bit of a different concept.

And WOAH, that's really interesting about TTLs. Thanks for sharing! That's awesome and terrifying!
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It makes me wonder what other random system utilities I could hook up to an API and be like “look! wow! netstat from another computer!”
I did, went from working for a small non profit in the sustainable transport/urbanism sector to management in the telco industry. Sallary jumped almost 10x.
It’s still a substantial upgrade over SMS or unencrypted (non-Google) RCS, where anybody can snoop on conversations with little effort.
+1, love it
Tech world forms AI Alliance to promote open and responsible AI
I would agree with the premise that there's reduced number of editors. I would agree wikipedia should try to figure out why.

It's not immediately obvious to me, from OP, who are leaving but I have a pretty strong understanding who.

It's also quite impossible to survey the people who left. When you survey those who remain, you're getting the complete incorrect cohort.

>automated toxicity detection

They never really define what is a toxic comment. Their sources seem to suggest the gender gap, task related disagreements, harassment survey from 2015, and something about arabic wikipedia.

All the while there are clear rules against things like personal attacks. So you have to kind of find rather subjective examples and you somehow automated it? That seems frought with inaccuracy. Yet they seem to find some correlation? Oh wait they don't provide those numbers. I bet it's pretty bad for them to hide them. Perhaps it's my mistake and I failed to find them.

>voluntary opt-in survey of the 3,845 Wikipedians conducted in 2015

All data prior to the actual problem occuring will be a red herring at best. Again, wrong cohort. This is like surveying non-cancer patients and making conclusions about cancer patients.

>The automatic detection of offensive language in online communities has been an active area of research since at least 2010

Offensiveness is subjective and clearly 2010 is too early of data.

What I see from this study, is cherry picked data from at least ~7 years ago. Why are they even doing this? Are they trying their best to find an explanation while being intentionally blind to the problem?

I'll just throw down. How about the better explanation? Wikipedia became biased and can't really be trusted anymore? Why contribute to something because has become a political tool?

I could point at John Stossel's work on showing wikipedia's bias. I could offer wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger's blog on wikipedia's bias. There has even been countless live examples where influencers modify wikipedia for greater truth. Provable on live video that the facts were incorrect. They then edit wikipedia and then it's near instantly reversed.

How about wikipedia's own curated 'reliable sources' which reads like a they only accept sources with only 1 type source; a particular establishment left wing viewpoint.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-wikipedia-decided-to-stop-ca...

Whether or not fox news is reliable, it's not, it was practically the only source from a differing viewpoint. They purged all the rest.

Why is the reduced numbers of editors? People left wikipedia because it's not reliable and trustworthy anymore. People aren't leaving because someone on the internet hurt their feelings.

Wikipedia is absolutely free to continue in this path, but they will be in decline for doing so.
Except it's not just that, is it? They have more than one product. They have the desktop app, the web app, iOS app, Android app, apps for smart TVs, apps for smart speakers, internal admin apps, apps for artists, apps for venues, apps for labels.

Even if you narrow down to focusing on just one of those like the desktop app. There are so many sub-features. Playlist management, playback management, search, audiobooks, podcasts, merch, event ticketing, groups, collaborative playlists, local files, upsells from free to paid, notifications. I could go on.
The reactor keeps tripping for me before I'm out of the first "setup".
The amazing part is that so many large scale cyber attacks happened meanwhile that were 1:1 fiction in the series back then.

The Solarwinds incident, for example, was the identical attack and deployment strategy that was the Rylatech hack in the series. From execution to even the parties involved. It's like some foreign state leaders saw those episodes and said "yep that's a good idea, let's do that".
https://archive.is/c5i0X
That's the problem with this kind of logical fallacy. It distracts from the discussion, often by introducing a well-settled issue that's hard to disagree with. A company can do two things at once, and it should be possible to discuss one without discussing both. This is especially true when the alternative topic is (paraphrased) that Firefox could be a better browser. Do we really want to steal from a rare chance to talk about Common Voice and overwhelm it with a thread with everyone's pet peeve about their web browser?
I interpreted that as "pulling a list of all streams, then comparing it to the list of participants, and watching only those".

They could certainly be more clear about it.
Interesting video, thank you.
I've been using beeper for a long time for Linux, and it has been a delight to use. The updates are regular and they seem to constantly be working on improving performance and staying ahead of various breaking changes forced upon them by the messaging services.
Can you explain more about the suspected CFAA violation?
Let me challenge the findings of that scientific study with my highly specific anecdote which portrays me in good light.
My prediction is that Apple will start to use attestation (device check) to lock down iMessage. The problem is that this would require a software update for older devices.
Or www.ing
So what do you care about more? Mozilla CEO making too much or Chrome getting to dictate the web?

Unfortunately there will always be things to complain about and no system is perfect. But we have to make choices like this and these are the results. You cannot complain about Google's control/dominance over the web and refuse to turn away from their products to use reasonable alternatives (when they exist). Firefox is by no means a bad browser and it is easy to switch over. You can also still use firefox and complain about Baker's salary but is this really a killer issue?
Thanks for the response! I don't think I phrased my question properly, since they were mostly concerned about what kind of access the beeper.com matrix server has. If I set up my own bridge, it will still send all of my messages to e.g. @dabluecaboose:beeper.com, right? Their concern was what's happening in the Matrix server that's hosting my account, not as much the bridge.
Did anyone else notice that the top of the page says "gett.ing a new domain", but the domain they decided to use instead was "get.ing"? I imagine that whoever picked it expected people to pronounce it "get dot ing", but it just looks like "geting" to me, and I don't even know what that means.

I've heard advice that when trying to name a product, it's a good idea to check Urban dictionary before finalizing a name to make sure you don't accidentally pick something crude. It looks like "gete" is mostly okay though, so they may have gotten lucky here.

(edited "get.ting" to "get.ing" because even when this is what I wanted to talk about I apparently subconsciously refuse to type "geting" as a domain)
> I don't know how to obtain a plausible number

A popular search engine like Google, or a less popular and freer, user privacy respecting search engine like DuckDuckGo, if you prefer not to use Google might help you get to stats other people have reported their websites getting, which is a rough approximation of plausible numbers. Those numbers will show you, without you having to use "snoop-phones" how many, approximately, people use Firefox. Which is about 2%.
Firefox being “heavily advertised (or astroturfed)” on social media isn’t something I personally have ever seen in the last decade. (Unless one includes Mastodon as social media, even though its userbase is nowhere near representative of the general public.) And today a substantial number of internet users are mainly using smartphones, and the default browser on that smartphone, and the very idea that one can use a different browser has faded from the culture compared to the early millennium.
A visual reference [1] that shows what I'm thinking of. Pay attention especially to how they light the actors. They light from several angles so that there are no shadows, which flattens their faces. They also use a strong backlight or a rim light on them to give a shiny look around their head and shoulders to separate them from the background. That's what all interpolated video looks like to me.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eLHmLRSq0&list=PL7N8vg4EqC...
I'm really surprised people will go to so much effort for a blue bubble.
ICMP isn't as reliable for trace routes. ICMP typically flows through the management plane instead of the data plane. The management plane is often driven by low-power MIPS processors, which can appear as additional latency in the traceroute results.

When a network device is busy, ICMP may be dropped entirely.

ICMP is a great tool to establish baseline connectivity, assuming the device responds to it. TCP will provide more accurate results (or UDP given the device responds to UDP packets) if you know a specific port is open.

traceroute uses UDP by default. tracert.exe only uses ICMP.
Now I'm making bank. My anual sallary is around what mozilla CEO makes in two workdays.
Ok, but you can change yours, yes? Just like Signal isn’t installed by default on your phone and if you want what it offers you can use it.
> A lot of money spent for nothing.

Unfortunately, noth.ing appears to be taken.
Doesn't academia incentivise quantity over quality anyways?
Ooh, that's compelling. I wonder how that would work for an actual traceroute.
They're really good at removing features that used to work, though. Or just partially breaking them.
Can confirm, have used bubble sort in a production game engine to keep transparent objects mostly sorted.

You do the compare-and-swap when you're iterating over the objects to do some other render pass, so it adds almost nothing to the CPU time.
> it's not feasible to spy on every person to monitor them for wrongdoing currently

Sure it is! That's the whole point of search being the previous big technical hurdle. YouTube monitors every single video posted in real time for copyright infringement. We've had the capability to do this kind of monitoring for huge swaths of crimes for a decade and it hasn't turned into anything. We could for example catch every driver in real time for all across the country for speeding but we don't.

Mass is the opposite of targeted surveillance. If you need to be targeted and get a warrant to look at the data then it's not mass. And AI isn't going to change the system that prevents it right now which is the rules governing our law enforcement bodies.
Great job!

I was reminded of working at a company in 1996... we had windows 95(!) with Trumpet WinSock and a dial-up modem (24k, IIRC). I was just learning how all this stuff worked and fit together. I stumbled on a traceroute screen that would slowly drip out each hop and... it was magical to me. Suddenly realizing the idea of 'a big global network' I'd read about was actually... right at my fingertips, and I could see which computers my traffic was being routed through... that kept me up at night for a while. Not sure I'll say it was life-changing, but it sort of felt like it for a bit at that time :)
Nuclear is the only energy source that has demonstrated that it can displace fossil fuels.

Look at what happens to the % of fossil fuels when nuclear energy mix shrinks over time even as solar and wind increase drastically: https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

Looks like maybe solar/wind are able to take market share from coal (likely because regulations and popular opinions have made less profitable), a decrease in nuclear is directly correlated with an increase in natural gas usage. That’s pretty telling to me.

Also, nuclear is the only energy source that can generate enough energy to make carbon recapture possible and doesn’t come with unsolved energy storage requirements for the grid.
Trying to use this an I am stuck at the AppleID login screen (I don't have an AppleID).

However from your message it seems that it should not be required:

>No Apple ID is required
Working with pure pre-trained models is quite hard, and takes some practice. The key part is that "let's think step by step" is a technique that is used by humans also, and therefore (I think) would be somewhat represented in the pre-training corpus. It would be somewhat harder to "activate" this mode of thinking than a "let's think step by step" would in a fine-tuned model, but it would be possible with some elbow grease.
You don’t need AI for that. It was probably possible to do something like that when personal computers first came out.
Coreboot (which System76 and Framework use): Exists

Love the GNU mentality though, but you don't need FUD to promote your ideas. Lots of problems would just disappear if most things went open-source, and the value proposition might shift but would still be there. The most valuable part of code is the people that create, understand and maintain it; not the code itself. The code itself is ephemeral. (I hate to admit this. Us coders love our brain-babies.)

Note: I own a System76 Thelio Major and have a Framework laptop on order, so I am not just a non-participating bystander in my beliefs here
That's approximately what the EU forced to happen - third party repair shops were approved and allowed access to the service documentation. But that means nothing when the manufacturer decides to sabotage the trains in firmware and even install an Internet-connected hardware backdoor.
What browser do you use? Afaik there is no good suckless browser
I was just thinking about Humdog (aka Carmen Hermosillo.) Humdog wrote one of the first "well reasoned" critiques of cyberspace. Worth a read if you haven't seen it before. Browse the wikipedia page for context and then read Pandora's Vox from the archived link below:

https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/pandoras-vox-on-comm...
> "That is in addition to generating our own energy off grid (so no smart meter data to monitor), thanks to the low cost of solar panels as well."

Terence Eden is in the UK: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/solar-update/

This says his house uses 13kWh/day and you can see from the graph by dividing the monthly amount by 31 days that the solar panels on the roof generate around 29/day during summer and 2.25/day in winter. They would need five or six rooves of solar panels to generate enough to be off-grid. And that's not practical or low cost.
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526277
Looks like it wasn't on their list, although I'm happy for India's achievement.
... sold out to chrome to become the crop instead of the farmer.
"It also benefits you because you'll learn new skills rapidly."

Only if those skills are in wide demand. Moving companies can be risky and complicated depending on one's personal and family issues.
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agreed, though note that you can click "skip."
I think there's several things at play. Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing any of these arguments, just restating them.

There's resistance towards "creaming" elite students out of classrooms, as it can increase a teacher's workload: all the students who require zero assistance and could possibly assist their peers are now removed from class, and replaced with different students who will require more of the teacher's attention, reducing individual attention on students who need help.

There's also some equity concerns, where there's reluctance to invest additional personnel and administrative overhead on students who are "going to be fine no matter what" and would rather see those additional resources towards students who are struggling - lots of this is based on the belief that low-SES students are less likely to be part of any gifted/honors program compared to high-SES students.

Edit: And finally, there's the cynical data-driven reason that underscores this, where if you need to maximize the number of students who demonstrate reading/math proficiency, you need to pull as many students as possible over the line - once they're over the line you can "ignore" them and focus on getting others over the line. Schools unfortunately aren't measured by how they serve their most dedicated students.
<j>I don't know, I think only a real human advertiser would have the required lack of shame or self-awareness necessary to tell streamers that instead of being compensated, they were instead going to be given the opportunity to "supe" their viewers. We have to assume that even jailbroken ChatGPT would still have refused to write something quite that cringey.</j>
This appears to be a Mexican publication talking primarily about jobs involving physical labour. That's a far cry from the desk jobs we have.

It sounds like you enjoyed your path, that's a good thing and it seems like you've been really successful. Most people aren't Jamie Zawinski however (thank god), and don't embrace such overwork. If someone demanded that of me, I'd quit on the spot.
In a society with private property and freedom of movement, gentrification can't really be stopped.
It's funny how often I see people make bring up the "did you know" tidbit about software engineering not being "real" engineering in a traditional sense, which seems to go very uncontroversially.

But prompt engineering is still a pressure point for some people, despite being wildly more simple and accessible (literally tell the thing to do a thing, and if it doesn't do the thing right, reword)

It feels as though we're getting to the technological equivalent of "what IS art anyways", and questions like if non traditional forms like video games are art (I'm thinking all the way up the chain to even say, Madden games)

And in my experience, when something is under constant questioning of whether or not it even counts as X, Y or Z, it usually can technically qualify, but...

If people are constantly debating whether or not it's even X, it's probably just not impressing people who don't engage in it, as opposed to "traditional" concepts of engineering and art, and part of the impression made comes from the investment and irreplaceable skillsets, things few, if anyone else at the time could have done.

This is why taping a banana on the wall is definitely technically art, but not many outside the art community that tapes bananas to walls really think much of it. It's so mundane and accessible a feat that it doesn't garner much merit to passerbys. It's art by the loosest technical definition, and is giving a lot of credit for a small amount of effort anyone could've done.

Admittedly "prompt engineering" is definitely less accessible than a roll of duct tape and a banana but I think we used to just call it "writing/communication", but I guess those who feel capable at that, often just do it manually anyways.
Germany is still using Lignite, Hard Coal, and Natural gas to generate 50GW vs. 4.1 GW of nuclear. How is too much nuclear and exporting it a problem?

Europe is heavily reliant on natural gas which is generally produced by Russia, (transacting through India or China ultimately does not change that).
A true libertarian wouldn't support corporations at all. They are as bad as tyrannical governments. Proprietorships and partnerships would limit exposure to tyranny of the corporation. They focus the responsibility of the business on the owner and not some protected class of employee.
Yeah, I should have. I'm too old and have too many family issues to do that now.
It seems that at least the push notification registration part uses a "leaked/extracted" FairPlay private key [1]. As far as I understand, FairPlay certificates/keys should be unique to each iDevice. Couldn't Apple trivially ban all subscriptions originating from this fake device? The comment says you know how to generate more; does Beeper Mini generate one for each install? Why would Apple believe those certificates are authentic?

P.S.: the source repo mentioned in the comment (https://github.com/MiUnlockCode/albertsimlockapple) is 404.

[1] https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/main/albert.py#L16
The folks working on it right now are a pretty small group, so we are definitely looking for help adding and maintaining app packages.

At a glance, probably the biggest pain point for Baserow would be that apparently they decided to "deprecate" installing it with anything except Docker[1]. Presumably between the deprecated guide and the Dockerfile, one could figure out how to do it anyways, but it would probably be a pretty significant amount of work.

[1] https://baserow.io/docs/installation%2Fold-install-on-ubuntu
It's not even true. Just a piece of modern Ukrainian propaganda.