skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ego. What's the point of success and mastery if you can't convert it to what you really care about which is status, even if it's lived vicariously through a pen name.

It's like organized crime people always having to buy cars with their money then the tax authority comes knocking. Beyond a certain point money is useless if you can't convert it to status and get those feel good chemicals flowing.
The first sentence of the article reads:

>*Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results*

This was never about articles, it is about books, though. You can't retroactively publish a book in 2021 if we're not in 2021.

It's bewildering to see how people here are so confident in their tone while arguing about things they think are said in the linked post, but don't know for sure because they never even opened it to read it.
I have not played many recent games but Scorched Earth was always one of my favorites. The economy allowed you to discover new weapons as you progressed in skill. I do agree as the number of combinations increases that seems like it would take away from the novelty of getting a new item. After all, novelty seeking is what we want, not mindless optimization.

Storyline is nice but if I want to watch a movie I'll pop in a DVD and get popcorn. Cutscenes get in the way after the first play through. Timeless games have some storyline but let you enjoy the game even if you skip the cutscenes.
>It creates the possibility of atrocity with no accountability.

As gross and unfortunate as it is, this is a selling feature to some governments.
Legalizing competition (Google Fiber, municipal broadband, etc.) would do more than any subsidy.
> I'm not sure how much it can be applied to just hobby reading

When I widen my aperture, what I see is this is a form of "keeping up with the joneses", or teenagers comparing themselves to others on Instagram, or chasing the latest buzzword in technology, etc.

FOMO (fear of missing out) vs JOMO (joy of missing out) is another riff on this age-old idea.
Release Notes for Linux 0.01
There must be a line somewhere between "pretty strong disinterest in finding reasons to distrust the machine" and "using the machine as plausible deniability for doing what you hoped to do anyway"; is there a relatively simple description of this line, or is it a fractal boundary?
Xi Jinping's misguided plan to escape economic stagnation
I repeat:

According to Neilsen's law, we should see 10G internet become more common than 1G internet is today within 10 years.

That's a cool thing. Let's look forward to it, and the rising tide that lifts all boats. The world will be a much more connected place 10 years from now, and the 10G target from CableLabs.com as well as DSCP packet tagging, L4S and other technologies will make the internet a lot better than it is today.

Why the negativity. Embrace the future :)
Especially at Apple. Although I've never worked for Apple, I did spend a year at a company that built internal software for Apple, my experience was that their teams are tightly coupled and very, very long-lived (hence they had external software shops building internal tooling for them).
Morality-washing was always going to be one of the first uses of AI, in hiring and in policing and in war (or ethnic cleansing).
RubyGems is not vulnerable to the xz/liblzma backdoor
“Is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?"- Bibi, probably.
Hey at least Palantir says their death machine is ethical because it shows you a flowchart of a bunch of widgets. Do other weapons have widgets?!? I didn't think so!
It's not a matter of "you have to do x dangerous thing to make it work".

That's the issue. To repeat the meme, if you are "doing git properly", you absolutely should not be doing anything dangerous at all. There are a few tools that do unintuitive things for historical reasons that you are recommended to use their replacements instead (prime example: using checkout to change or create branches) but the overwhelming majority of tools in the git suite don't have that issue. And for the tools that do have that issue (like checkout), you'll see that the docs consistently recommend users to use their replacements instead when performing operations.

But what you have is a ton of people who don't know how to safely work in a shop insisting you need to use tools improperly and often for the wrong purpose entirely. Things like "use a push block or push stick (even if it's just made from scrap) when feeding material through a table saw to keep yourself from getting injured", "don't try to use a miter gauge with a rip fence", or "for the love of god don't freehand pieces through the saw".

Just because you can use a tool wrong doesn't mean it's acceptable. There's a lot of standard practice in shops that you'd learn by reading the instructions but plenty of people just wing it either out of laziness or out of ignorance and then get hurt.

That doesn't make RTFM any less relevant, it only makes it more relevant.
This always makes me nervous - it's not a huge jump from "the government provides the service" to "the government decides what you can and can't say on the service". They regulated TV because the "airwaves" were public, and they didn't even provide those, they just licensed them.
We need better LLM evaluations
I've mostly used GPT-4 and Gemini Pro. For simple stuff, it can be correct, but it highly depends on the topic. I've found it very effective as a dictionary or thesaurus but for technical questions, even simple ones like small help with a Scheme macro, it's near useless. I imagine if I was asking it about, say, Python/Django APIs or basic HTML/webdev stuff, it would do better.
I’ve been thinking about this. We seem to be overfitting LLMs to benchmarks that represent “intelligence”, but I’m not sure that they represent the kinds of tasks that small business and enterprises want done. Is time for another Anon et al. that sets up a benchmark and council ala TPC? Hopefully, without the politics.
To end piracy, all creators must halt all creation.
Oh god, DivX.. I had almost forgotten.

Lets write a new video compression algorithm that is super efficient - great

this lets us compress movies so they can fit on cheap CD's, instead of DVDs. - great

We can now give those CD's away with movies on them - great
And then every time someone puts one in a DivX player they can pay us to watch/rent it, instead of having to drive to blockbuster - wait, what?

Its easy, we'll just use a phone line that everyone has right near their entertainment center in their living room to phone home at night and send the data of what movies you watched and how many times. - what are they smoking?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Alcohol is considered to be a known carcinogen fwiw

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
Accidentally revealing your intelligence gathering capability is a
famous trade-off problem. The Allies in WW2 occasionally had to let a
ship get sunk rather than make it obvious that the Enigma had been
cracked [0]. Plausible alternatives are usually assured to be in
place, for example radar in the above case, or parallel construction
in modern law enforcement.

Bigtech are likely increasingly careful about making it too obvious
that certain technologies (for de-anonymisation and correlation) are
in use. Most people will still believe in unlikely coincidences rather
than sophisticated behavioural analysis and covert monitoring of
audio systems etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
Ah, but how do you know it was published 3 years ago? Did you buy a copy then, or are you just relying on Amazon telling you so?
Thank god Microsoft and Google are on the case! I was thinking next, we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment.
Especially if you're a global company whose audience either might not be familiar with April fools, or is extremely cautious by nature (vpn subscribers, I'd assume are).
St. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their Savings
So he published a book using his own private email. It doesn’t seem like he was really trying to keep it a real secret.
What's horrifying to me is that the real Woods should have been appointed a defense attorney, and it seems that that attorney didn't believe him either or even make an effort to act as though they did. It should have been his defense attorney back during the trial who thought to hunt down the father and do a DNA test.
For those kind of applications zig can do a more close feel to C while removing some of the pains such as error handling, matching, null checks, slices, etc.
Of course people jumped on it, but will it last? They've effectively tried to offshore a bunch of positions to a digital world, but I don't think it's going to work out like they think it will.
Kubernetes is old and crusty technology at this point. It would be more like firing the senior developers to hire junior ones with a ChatGPT subscription and expecting big improvements in development speed.
I'm always surprised they didn't find somewhere else to put the people when this happens, though. Surely Apple has other projects that aren't cancelled?
> This created tragicomic situations, such as people posting anonymous reports of toxic companies in the comments of the blog and one that threatened to sue me if I didn’t take down the spreadsheet.

In the old times, I briefly worked in some industry and was co-admin in a blog about working-related issues in that field. It was a rather small, obscure blog, that did not have any real traction outside a certain political niche, until a post where we shared one of our readers' experience working in a certain company. That post totally blew up and it received insane amount of views and comments by people talking about their experience working there and elsewhere. The comment thread below was going on years after the blog was practically abandoned. I still enter from time to time to approve comments.

I miss the blog era, because a blog post like that is not ephemeral like social media or other similar modern platforms like reddit or this very site. This creates a more protracted, sustained and imo healthy engagement profile. It still needs to be discoverable, but it was no problem back then once of community of blogs was formed linking to each other. Social media, on the other hand, are a black hole, as it is much harder to find and even more engage with posts that are more than a few days at most old. And while everything is always hosted somewhere and nobody ensures that stuff like with geocities will never happen, platforms like wordpress blogs allow at least one to backup and scrap a site more easily, and the control of the hosting providers on the content is much less than that of the social media platforms.
Are you saying that the mechanism does not exist or are you saying that it's not pushed into critical regions all that often?

I have absolute no idea what you're talking about now.

everybody leaves except the terminally greedy

People that stay at their jobs are "terminally greedy"? They are going to die from greed?
I would agree but I definitely click on links in the comments that seem pertinent to the discussion (at least for high SNR places like HN)
Why would they do that? My assumption would be they'd want to give you this constant reminder that you have an audience on their platform, so should obviously run a profile there and why not pay for some ads while you're at it etc.
> started trimming fat

I really wish you and others would not equate layoffs with "trimming fat".
It's kind of disgusting, and especially when these huge corps are still full of others doing plenty of non-meaningful work. Plenty of layoffs are illogical and due to internal politics.
I enjoy riding on the Silver Comet Trail in Georgia. It's 62 miles long and then connects to another trail in Alabama. It's really nice.
Content Creators Ruined the Internet
Rainloop is an okay, simpler webmail client. It is lacking in a lot of features that Roundcube has, but sometimes you just want easy access to your email when you're away from your full-featured desktop client.

K-9 is good; it's going to be rebranded as Thunderbird for Android soon. FairEmail is also good. It has a different set of trade-offs from K-9, so better for some people, worse for others.
Google parent Alphabet weighs offer for HubSpot
I've had too many brilliant articles disappear so I save pdfs of several pages a day.
This is exactly the apples I’m talking about. Merchants eat much higher fees on behalf of the customer so they can hide the much longer settlement times from the customer and accept that they’ll also have to just eat the occasional fraudulent chargeback from the customer. They put up with all this hassle because “That’s just how it’s always been if you want to do business.”

And, yet people say crypto can’t work because the fees are too high (they’re lower) and the settlement times are too slow (they’re faster).

Dealing with merchant fraud is a legit call-out though. I don’t know what a good crypto solution to that is. I can imagine replacing that department with a smart contract. But, I’ve haven’t looked around to see what’s been tried.
My first Linux experience was Suse 6 that I got from the CD ROM of a PC magazine. KDE 1.x is permanently tattoed onto my brain. I wish there was a simple and straightforward way to make plasma look and act like classic KDE. Is Trinity any good?
I long ago came to the conclusion that utilities shouldn't be run by for-profit companies. Companies exist to maximize shareholder profit, everything else is consequential. Essential utilities (which arguably includes internet connectivity) run by companies typically lead to worse service and higher prices for customers. Even worse that most utilities are absolute or de facto monopolies, giving consumers no real choice to even pretend there's a market. This is especially bad when countries are pressured by institutions like the IMF to privatize their utilities as conditions for receiving international loans. Our current model of capitalism is failing in so many ways and the answer is not more capitalism and more ownership by companies.
The major challenge in fighting terrorists is distinguishing them from the general population. Killing innocent people is against international law and harms the country doing it. While killing terrorists is acceptable and even desirable to many people.

If a targeting system is more intelligent, it should be better at reducing the loss of innocent life while still delivering the same kill rate of actual terrorists.

Israel’s system, based on reporting, does the opposite.

So we can see that their use of an AI system to do this targeting reflects an insight not into the operational benefits of AI, but the cultural benefits.

By spending tons of money and time and calling it “artificial intelligence,” the targeting team has developed a far more flexible pretext for violence. “This incredibly advanced AI system said he’s a target” is now enough to go drop a bomb… even if the incredible AI system is simply set to have its filters wide open.

This is what YS means by “A team consisting of machines and investigators can blast the bottleneck wide open.” The humans build the machines to be extremely credulous, and then tell everyone else that the machine ID’d each target as a legitimate target.
FWIW yesterday we announced that WebSocket messages are now billed at 1/20 of a request, rather than a full request. It was kind of buried in this omnibus blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-production-safety
>but likely it’s a disgruntled Amazon employee who has a bone to pick with Jews

What a wild assumption. How on earth do you figure this is the "likely" situation?
Your clients control the number of messages they exchange with each other via the DO.

You still have to protect the DO through some sort of auth and/or rate limits.

Don’t see how any of these issues are unique to DOs.
People who are unable to distinguish reality from fiction, and take any mention of the slightest taboo topic with the highest offence, are probably the worst people to be around short of, well, actual fascists.
The 'About the Author' doesnt really try to hold info back either

> Brigadier General Y.S is an expert analyst, commander of an elite intelligence unit and technology manager with 20 years of experience working on national security issues and challenges threatening the State of Israel. His areas of expertise include cyber and data science. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for a new artificial intelligence based anti-terrorism project. He wrote his most recent book, The Human Machine Team, during his year of studying for a Master’s Degree at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Y.S also has written other books in Hebrew on the topics of intelligence, strategy, and Hezbollah. He holds a BA in Middle East Studies and another BA in Psychology and Sociology. He grew up in Haifa and currently lives with his family in the beautiful Galilee region of Israel.
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out
You feed fish during the day when the light is on. If you feed them 3 times a day and the light is on for a 12 hour period, that’s once every 4 hours 3 times followed by 12 hours of rest. What analog timer can do that?
Oh Microsoft has a security failure? Imagine that. Only 40 years of non stop security failures in its history. Why anyone would use Microsoft products is beyond me. You can only blame yourself. Fool me once shame on you, fool me for 40 years shame on me.
Ive played at really high levels.

I'd say 90-98% are really smart.

That is the interesting part, a few people arent. They are there for some other reason. I know someone who was inspiring but a dolt, I know someone who had their parents money, I know someone who bandwagon a winning candidate.

Who knows is this person is there on merit or not, but its pretty interesting how smart people get when you start moving up. Its the exceptions that are weird.
> It's better to assume positive intent until proven otherwise when people want to help out their communities.

That might work in places like Japan or Scandinavia where there's high social trust. People in other places are very suspicious when a rando wants to be around everyone's kids.
> This "mistake" provide his superiors with a pretext for his departure, all while sidestepping the events of October 7.

I am not convinced that the Mossad, a competent intelligence agency from what I have read, did not actually know what was going to happen. The October 7th attack gave a perfect political justification for wiping out as much of Gaza as possible.
This isn't "likely", this is a guess rooted in outlandish political discourse.
This is the lesson of the Luddites all over again. The Luddites were highly skilled workers who just wanted to share in the prosperity the auto loom would bring. Capitalist factory owners said no, the improved productivity belongs to us, not split between workers and owners.

So the Luddites wrecked the looms.
0). I see no good actors here.

1). You also set up a legal framework for punishing people for doing this.
To go full circle, before python had built-in async/await, it was emulated (in twisted applications for example) via yield.
> What is very true is that most social media users don’t like to click on links. They read the headline, look at the included image (if any), and assume they understand the whole story from that context. They jump to the discussion to comment about it or see what others are saying without leaving the site.

I also have been trained to avoid clicking on links if I can avoid it. It’s not that I don’t like it in principle or even that I want to stay in my social media wall. It’s that any time I click on a link to a website now I am all but guaranteed to
A.) Endure multiple seconds-long waits to load the page despite a gigabit connection
B.) See a modal asking me to sign up for a newsletter, often using annoying gimmicks to make me look to find the dismiss button
C.) Have the content I’m trying to read skip and jump all over the screen as random bits of external content load in
D.) Cookie banner

The web has turned into a user-hostile clusterfuck and ad-blockers only staunch a fraction of the problem. Bad design practices have led to a tragedy of the commons where everyone has contributed minor annoyances everywhere. It has sapped away all of people’s willingness to explore by introducing immeasurable amounts of cognitive friction to “surfing” the internet. And that’s all BEFORE we get to the floods of garbage content, SEO spam, and clickbait headlines that have made the upside potential of visiting a site or clicking a link lower than ever before.
I can't imagine the sort of people who design cars are going to have much to do elsewhere in Apple, unfortunately.
The NSA is probably a bad example, given its entire existence was denied for two decades by the US.
The person you're replying to can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what they were originally implying with "laying low" is that OpenAI has a history of trying to bury press by releasing fancy new features and remarkable improvements with impeccable timing.
Apologies for the language. I didn't intend it to come off that way. I was using the term in a generic way to mean "getting rid of stuff _they_ don't want". I didn't intend to refer to the actual staff as lesser.
For that matter it would be nice to expand any function call in place. That way you could view a full call stack in a single view.
Thanks for noting this.

While the article is overall good, there is a bunch of history that is not covered, or covered too briefly.
GP is grand parent. It refers to the post above the one you respond to. Your post is my parent post, the post you responded to is my GP post.
I'm talking about the comment I responded to??

> The difference between $1,000 in net worth and $0, or $10K and 0, is infinitesimal
Personally, i think they’ll be 30-40% of cars.

I think we’re entering a trough where the artificial incentives start to lose their effect and we really figure out what the market needs and navigate the FUD as we “digest” some of the lousy early cars.

We’re still early in the market and tech breakthroughs make it unpredictable — Tesla’s survival is probably tied to delivering those.
If there is going to be public investment it should result in municipalities owning the last mile. Maybe the only thing that governments have done better than the private sector (other than use of violence) are roads, plumbing and electric. Broadband seems similar enough to those that it would also be a good fit.

There is still a place for companies to build the internet backbone and maintain the big pipes connecting cities.
Given how unreliable LLM is in general usage with its tendency to "hallucinate" -- a grossly anthropomorphic term, when it's just an alogrithm with no sense of what's "actual" or "fictional" -- to use this in government and law is irresponsible and criminaly negligent.

To use it in war is abhorrent.
Right, I'm not trying to argue that std::variant is better than native language support. By definition, a language construct will always be easier to write and read.

All I'm saying is that the current state of std::variant makes it okay enough to use type safe discriminated unions.

Visit + overload is not that far away from pattern matching in terms of readability, clang does warn on non exhaustive switch cases, etc.
It is definitely qualified support.

Whether there is enough for you right now depends on your needs, plus the knowledge that the support will continue to mature as time goes on. A good indicator of what you can do with the open source tools right now is checking out this link [0] at Lushaylabs. It has a fantastic series of practical hands on and useful articles like making your own CPU and driving HUB75 panels. Plus "This series uses a completely open source toolchain which makes development open / fast and lightweight". There is also /r/GowinFPGA on Reddit.

https://learn.lushaylabs.com/tang-nano-series/