skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why they redacted the Twitter handles in the screenshots if they believe these to be bots/propagandists.

In any case, you can easily find the accounts by searching for the tweeted texts. It's very unlikely that these are regular Twitter accounts. But I see little reason to think this is part of a camouflaged "CCP propaganda operation" to influence the US election. You need to at least make an attempt to masquerade as a "fellow American" to qualify as election interference, but many of these accounts have handles/names that are literally pinyin, or have Chinese profile pics, or regularly retweet/like tweets in Chinese.

It's also not clear to me just what claim the report is making. It says Spamouflage "is already pivoting to focus on [the election]". Then later it says "the bulk of the content appears aimed at creating a sense of dismay over the state of America without any clear partisan bent... These [the issues focused on] are not election-specific narratives and have been a significant feature of Spamouflage's content over several years." So Spamouflage is at once pivoting to focus on the election and mostly talking about issues that aren't election-specific; and it's at once trying to improperly influence the election outcome and doing so in a way 'without any clear partisan bent'...
Karpathy’s last stint was like a year.
But the bickering is bad. It's almost always a clique of mostly white, mostly upper middle class, who have a lot of time on their hands and that are more familiar with how to "play" the culture. Whenever I hear about a project with permanent COC bickering and enforcing and blablabla, I just know exactly the demographic that will be part of said project. It cannot be more off-putting for non western devs and contributors if they tried.
It wouldn’t be that bad if you are already substracting salaries right? Having a few years in which your earnings are zero due to purchase price is pretty doable if you start earning a cool 100k every year after (even better if it’s a growing business).
What is your take on ecommerce businesses that generate most revenue from a single platform, e.g. Amazon or Shein or TikTok?

It seems like a lot of concentrated risk, and scaling is a challenge, considering the number of Amazon roll-ups that were on fire 2020-2021 and are now on the ropes (See "Amazon aggregators fall on tough times", https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/amazon-aggregators-tough-ti...)
Still waiting for that cancer cure they promised on the campaign trail in 2020
Well yeah obviously
Civil/Continental Law jurisdictions AKA the actual world-wide (excl. Anglosphere) norm for legal systems, do not automatically follow precedent rulings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)#Origi...

They may consider precedent rulings as factors in the decision, but those earlier rulings themselves do not automatically become law for all future cases on the same subject.
> Sounds like a parallel to Tasmania: the tech level kept ratcheting down, as they lost tech like crops and had no way to regain them,

When did the Tasmanian pre colonial people have crops?

https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_histo...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tasmanian-Aboriginal-people

https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-War

They arrived by walking across the Bassian Plain (now the Bass Strait) to a land with highlands locked by ice.

There are many sources that discuss their gathering of plants, sea foods, hunting, etc.

Which sources talk about their agrarian crop planting? More to the point which sources discuss the loss of crop planting?

The big issue in pre colonial studies these recent years appears to be a lack of past recognition of any non "hunter gather" practices - the early settlers destroyed semi permanent infrastructures such as rock pool fish traps (some quite extensive that were blown up to allow river boats through), they didn't recognise non European land and plant tending practices, etc.

There's a lack of solid study on what practices were actually taking place in different parts of Australia, and a lot of "imagined" commentary.
Unlikely. The Chinese government has much more experience with top-down memetic control.
Not as the first language, but as a mandatory part of any respectable CS curriculum. Not unlike a software engineer that doesn't know (and doesn't learn) assembly, writing code with an AI producing output the human doesn't understand means that whole classes of bugs are un-debug-able. I have a little faith that AIs will be as reliable as modern compilers, but who knows what the future holds.
I'm concerned innovations in LLMs will silently replace human expertise in unverifiable and bitrot ways ultimately leading to widespread decline in mastery in many fields and possibly the loss of ability to teach, mentor, or maintain incomes of actual subject matter experts gradually to a point where no human SMEs can be found for critical technology or research necessary for organized civilization. Brave New World-Idiocracy with such incapable people in it. I'm betting climate change will also get us with hypercanes and famine affecting billions roughly at the same time.
What happened to the GMC dealer whose GPT chatbot was promising customers free trucks while claiming the contract was legally binding?
I was referring to external influences in democracies with few parties, like the US and the UK.
Python is great for prototyping...

Then you write it again in a better language...
Decoding the Void
No it’s actually terrible. Because then they will eventually abandon the project and you’re stuck with it in your stack. Now you become the maintainer.
Government should definitely be involved in investigating collectivity money to create value for everyone, and has a spending power that, frankly, is semi idiotic to compare to what a single guy can do “you should use your money” does not make practical sense
Yeah, RAG can't provide such guarantees. Moreover, even if the correct answer is printed somewhere, LLM+RAG still may produce wrong answer. Example from MS Copilot with GPT-4: https://sl.bing.net/ct6wwRjzkPc
It claims that OnePlus 6 has 6.4-inch display, but all linked pages actually claim that it's 6.28. Display resolution and aspect ratio are also wrong in the response.
If that is the case then it isn't a suggestion. It's just an extra cost on an invoice at the stage of building a home
"the author needed to grow a spine" cuts to my soul.

I was the technical cofounder of a startup. We spent a similar amount of money on a similar agency, on advisors to tell our designer he was doing a good job, and on content writers who were friends of my business founder. I was gentle in my contrary feedback.

On the engineering side, I let an early hire (a friend of mine) refactor our codebase to future-proof it against our inevitable scale. When I tried to call a meeting and redirect, another senior engineer expressed that he "liked" the new domain-driven approach, and that was that. I should have said "no."

Ultimately we shut down; my cofounder left the company and I didn't do anything that fixed it. The business didn't make sense in retrospect. I still feel a lot of guilt for lighting the VC money on fire.

The author should have grown a spine. I should grow a spine.
...until they wonder who's paying for it all.
How about no. More working hours won’t bring you happiness, it won’t fulfill your lack of XY, and most certainly it won’t make you wealthy either.
$50M/employee. Looks like a record. Can also be a sign how AI increases productivity and value of an employee.
What are you scraping for?
You get new options to prevent exactly this issue right?
Correct. A major cut and cover in downtown Dallas would be insane. Bringing a TBM to put in a tunnel for bikes in Springdale Arkansas would be insane.
I believe that is not how it works. I'll guess that the Investors did not even saw those demo, neither are they regular users of OpenAI's products.
The article doesn't say (imo an omission), but I assume the argument wasn't that level of stupid

More likely, they blamed a third party vendor that developed, configured, or hosts the bot

Which sounds like a similar situation to when your taxi breaks due to a mechanic's shoddy work: it's not the passenger's fault that your mechanic sucked, you were contracted to get them from A to B and may be on the hook if you stated you'd get them there on time. Here, it's not the user's fault that the chat bot was shoddy and stated something that they now don't want to fulfil. If AirCan wants to blame their vendor, they can go right ahead but this person has a right to this reduced flight price independently of whether AirCan gets the money from their vendor

But explaining all that instead of saying "haha they claimed the chat bot is an independent entity!" probably gets shared less (it's yesterday's top comment after all) and thus fewer conversions from website readers into subscribers
If you sue a company in small claims having an expensive legal team doesn't help them that much.
Reminds me of the parable chiding the fisherman relaxing at the beach to work hard, so he can later retire relaxing at the beach.
> I suspect that in order to mangle with election one should have elections in the first place

There are elections in China, and there have been for many decades.

There are other aspects of these elections that make them less likely to succumb to soft influence from the outside.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China
He already left a few days ago - said so on Twitter.
I laughed, this is a new one.

How many dollars would it take you to work for Musk?

How many dollars would it take if it involved space rockets?
Influencing an election can take the form of sowing confusion and apathy, instead of driving people to a specific candidate. This leads to people not voting or otherwise participating, which cedes the political landscape to the extremes, who then go on to destabilize the country. It can be done without broaching election-specific topics.
Isn't it the opposite? Technological progress has resulted in the ability to sustain a higher population
It is happening and big part of company's work in coming years.
Fresh out of school I started a job that involved updating some assembly code.

I came across:

#transfer the value from address 0x600 into R0

Mov &0x600, R0

... several lines later ...

#transfer the value in R0 to R1

Mov R1, R0

I puzzled over this while reading the rest of the program which had been similarly commented line for line and then eventually, there being no manuals, asked an older coworker to explain what was going on.

He looked at me with incredulity and said "what makes you think the comments have anything to do with the code?"

He explained "about 10 years ago the mechanical engineer finally got this program to work and his boss told him to explain what every line did, so he added the comments. The code has been updated for 10 years and no one's bothered to update the comments."

I have noticed that this is a truth throughout the rest of my career, although I have heard that NASA has someone whose job it is during code reviews specifically to make sure that the comments are kept up to date.

In just about every code base I have come across, 3/4 of the comments are wrong or unnecessary, and there is at least 1/4 of comments entirely missing to explain the inexplicable.
I haven't ever had a laptop USB ports last more then 3 years. In fact my last laptop, an XPS 13, had failing USB-C ports within 1.5 years. I admit I probably connect an USB device 5-10 times per day.
> AI is cool, but the spoils are going to go to staggeringly few people

They appear to mainly be going to Nvidia investors, which is basically anyone with a retirement account.
> sees what he wants to see

Most definitely. Though I do think (hope?) we humans can rise above our limitations to grasp the actual Truth quite a bit.

> The book Five Proofs is not the same set of five that Aquinas very briefly summarises

Alright I got the actual book now. To correct the mistake, I'll give the book a honest read and post my impressions here in a day or two. I hope you can be around to respond if I got something wrong. If not, nice talking to you!
Git aliases and addons that I use to make my life easier
In what way did WhatsApp bend over?
> Right — but there’s a broad question of if Congress can establish special courts. This is being asked about more than labor, including taxes and regulations.

The issue isn't with Congress establishing special courts – it is establishing these special courts as part of the executive branch instead of as part of the judicial branch.

If Congress was to establish a specialist Article III "United States Labor Relations Court", the constitutional argument being made here by Amazon/SpaceX/etc would not apply. Instead, Congress decided to establish a "National Labor Relations Board", which is not an Article III court, it is an Article I tribunal, [0] and the constitutional question being raised here is about the constitutionality of Article I tribunals.

(I doubt SCOTUS is going to find all Article I tribunals unconstitutional – military courts-martial are an example of an Article I tribunal which SCOTUS is highly unlikely to find to be unconstitutional – but it is plausible they may soon [1] rule against their use in regulatory matters such as labor or securities regulation.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tribunals_in_the_Unite...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._Jarkesy
Yes. iOS and default android are really doing a disservice by blocking call recording when in this day and age most real phone calls are done towards corporations or non private settings.
> A Google Drive link to a PDF didn't have my hopes up

Au contraire, it means motives are most likely pure. No ads, etc.
Our team went with a similar approach when refactoring Protobuf debug APIs (https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6405366705946624/fixing-d...). People were relying on debug output and trying to parse it, so in the new implementation we threw up big warning flags and made the output unstable so that you couldn't make the mistake.

The key lesson to take away is: if you want something to be an implementation detail, make sure to have multiple differing implementations :)
I was today years old when I found out about the .youtube domain!
This is quite reductive. 38% of democrats also oppose additional aid[0], are they literally pro-Putin? 100% (one hopes) of Americans would oppose a $100T aid package, are we all rootin' fer Putin? When I earned minimum wage, I steadfastly refused to donate to charity; was I literally pro-homelessness and suffering and all of societies ills?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/ind...
Yes, SWE as a paid profession will disappear within 2-3 years, probably not long after GPT-6 is out. But don’t feel bad about our field - this will happen to all professions, some sooner than others. I expect that within 5 years robots will do everything a human can do, only much better, much faster, and much cheaper.
I agree that Chinese elections don't matter. And you won't replace the general secretary in short notice, unlike the US President who changes every couple years. But Xi doesn't rule China alone, the CCP does. And by manipulating the reputation of CCP members you can influence who gets into positions of power and who stays irrelevant, just like in a democracy
Automation improvements increase employment/wages by increasing productivity. Conversely not doing it reduces them, because you become less competitive vs other countries that are doing it.
it's worth the least it will ever be worth starting now
> I would say that, from a user perspective, I do accidentally click on a lot of stuff on Reddit and Twitter. Almost every third post is an ad.

As a user, and not a person with advertising dollars to spend, try using reddit in firefox with ublock origin installed as a plugin. The experience is significantly better.

Also works well with firefox on android and ublock origin.
> The winning strategy for Russia in eastern Europe is a non-united United States, and if possible a non-united European Union.

> Classical propaganda is heavy drum-beating for how great your side is.

Isn't that a form of "classical propaganda" in itself? "We are perfect. There is nothing wrong with us. Only our enemies say we have problems."

or

"All our problems are caused by THEM"

or

"If you don't like America you MUST be a commie!" (one of the worst slurs in post-WW2 USA)
quite the technical feat I suppose, but the actual result is nightmare fuel -- legs swapping places, people walking into simulacrum of spaces -- just deeply unsettling uncanny valley stuff
I haven't had that experience for a single job that I ever applied to. Always sent in PDFs without any issues.
If you want to argue that licenses are picked randomly then OK. But in that case, people should pick the GPL; it is a better license for preserving the freedom of software users than the MIT license.

> ... ask Linus about...

Linus uses GPLv2. I personally see merit in the argument that v2 is better than v3. Neither is MIT.

If you want to use the GPL license and not associate with the FSF then cool. If Linus wants to do that, also cool. The issue is the license, not if you want to work with the FSF. The GPL also grants users freedom from the FSF.
I know that later in the article the language changes to “scarce” instead of “does not exist” but blue, though uncommon, is certainly a thing.

Most prominently in my garden, the Thai Butterfly Pea Flower [0] is blue, and the tea from it is blue ( though it goes purple when honey or lemon are added )

Honorable mentions include Bachelor’s Button, Borage and verbena, though I’m sure there are likely arguments about color in some of those.

[0] https://www.rareseeds.com/butterfly-pea-blue-queen
IIRC There's a (CppCon?) talk about this rollout where Hyrum is in the audience so that he can heckle each time they describe a change which "obviously" can't break anybody because of course Hyrum's Law did cause that to break at Google when they did it.

Maybe somebody who remembers better can link it and/or correct my memory of exactly what's going on.
> If they tell me x and come to find out the policy is actually y, I’m the one thats shit out of luck and should have done the due dilligence of thoroughly reading whatever legalese this is scrawled in.

Why are you saying this as a comment to an article where literally the opposite thing happened?
> Our business has a significant amount of cc spend because of ad networks that don't charge processing fees, and high CC limits acting as nearly free lines-of-credit. This generates something like ~$100k annually in points value for us.

Same for us. One of the business cards we use gives 5x rewards on online ad spend, which translated to lots of free flights and hotel rooms over the years.

During the early part of the pandemic when points were not usable, we converted them to cash or credited them to existing expenses (the card gave a 25% bonus to use this feature).
I thought this was a joke at first. He says he "feels great" but I can't help but be skeptical about that claim. Maybe I'm soft because I think a 40 is reasonable and prudent.
Imagine living to work. I sure hope its worth it to you.
This 100%, I have a similar experience.
Im curious what the orm misuse was because Python can obviously handle a lot higher loads than that. Perhaps the orm is to blame for offering some footgun. Or maybe the developer did something impossibly idiotic.
I am going to do the opposite of all of that advice to ensure I will never do something as stupid as voluntarily work 100 hours a week.
I am an owner if I can exercise control over the software at hand. That's entirely my point - there is open source that a rando like me can hop in and improve, sometimes requiring difficult discussions about how to go about it exactly, but always with the experience of the user as a priority. (User can be an end user, but also a developer who's using an open source library/framework.)

And then there's "open source" where the code is accessible but the user experience takes a backseat to corporate interests, CLA requirements provide a one-sided transfer of copyrights, hobbyist contributions are systematically steamrolled by optimizing build pipelines and development processes for internal company use, and large-scale directions are decided in a private meeting room without involving community contributors.

If an inventor reserves some rights to control their invention for their own benefit, I have no problem with that. There's plenty of commercial software out there, people are working hard to provide value to customers, and I've been part of this system too.

Where I take issue is when we ask for special treatment of "open source" whose main purpose is to benefit commercial entities in doing business. Companies should figure out on their own how to keep their mission-critical software alive, that's their business. If Django suffers because lots of profitable outfits can't figure out a way to finance what they build upon, let them eat dust. They'll figure it out eventually when their services start falling behind on all fronts.

As a charitable coder, I'm going to invest my time into providing value for end users, not companies. That's the kind of open source we as a community/society should focus on supporting and financing. Imho.
How do you mean?

If you're talking not stable as in it's rolling release, then yes that's true although it isn't unique to Guix.

But if you mean leaves your system vulnerable to breakages, large unwanted changes, system entropy, or inconsistencies, then surely Guix (and Nix) are more stable than virtually every other distro (and maybe even MacOS or Windows)?

I'm also not sure I would say Guix is particularly unpolished compared to other distros. The project is 10 years old at this point, has a very active (albeit not huge) community, and has some of the clearest/most extensive documentation I've read for a distro. Perhaps 5-ish years ago it had some rough edges, but I'd say now they're quite comparable to other mainstream distros.

As someone who has been using Guix as my primary OS for the past ~2 years on a <5 year old laptop (with a proprietary wifi card) for programming, media, web stuff, and light games, I'd say it's a great experience. Not that the learning curve is not large or that community resources couldn't be better, but if you're already using GNU/Linux I don't think it will feel any less stable/polished.
It goes through a process. It doesn't make metal or glass useless.

Biological Treatment: Organic waste, including food waste, is often separated either at the beginning of the process through manual sorting or through processes like anaerobic digestion. In some facilities, organic waste is processed separately to produce compost or biogas.
The janitor probably also backing up the truck
> But Xi doesn't rule China alone, the CCP does.

Xi has more power than the CCP.
> big business in South Africa in part because we have a pretty large "indian" population

No need to put in quotes. South Africa has an Indian population of around 1.6m. Durban is one of the largest Indian-populated cities outside of India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans
The “quotes” you gave are totally and utterly unrelated to anything GP said.
Not prevent. Many people get out of the hamster wheel eventually.
Nvidia has 26,000 employees and is worth 1.8 trillion which puts it at 69 million/employee.
Time for an excise tax on packaging material based on how long it takes on average to decay to base elements.
They don't have any wealth in the system you're projecting.

Wealth is the ability to trade with people. If there were somehow only 10 "employed" people in the world, then the economy is 10 people big, which means none of them are wealthy.

One way to see that this scenario is absurd is that it's literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged.