skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a damning condemnation for the tech world? Can anyone think of another product that was so popular and then people started abandoning it for their own mental health? This sounds like drugs!

We created the most influential hardware device in the past 30 years (smartphone) and within 5 years it was used to weaponize human vulnerabilities (high jacking dopamine, porn, propaganda, etc...) and has had a huge negative impact on our young people so much so that social media* is now being compared to smoking. I think the takeaway is "Don't trust anything this industry makes because eventually they'll use it to extract profits and harm you in some sneaky way". Kinda like how most people rolled their eyes when tobacco companies push vapes as "safer".

Most of my non tech friends are starting to look at the tech industry like the oil industry. Greedy, hurting society for profits, and delusional. This is sad because most people I work with are amazing and great people who build fantastic products.

* I think social media would be a fraction of what it is today without the smartphone
When it comes to getting advice on where the EV market is going, I am definetly going to listen to the guy who is the leader of EVs in the US. Would I take relationship advice from him? Probably not, but we are talking about the EV market here.
Odd, the links seem to work for me. What error do you see? Can you try on a different network (e.g., mobile)?
Isn't the universe expanding exponentially since the Big Bang?
Follow up article: https://www.today.com/food/people/chili-crunch-brand-respond...
It's not like that money was stolen though, it was spent without any kind of controls. The Pentagon disappears far more than $20 billion, the fact it was cash and the logistics in getting it to Iraq and out of the hands of the military is the only interesting part.

And it's not really that surprising imo. If you need to pay translators, contractors, bribe local officials or collaborators, assets, etc in a country that doesn't have a functioning banking system you need cash. And it's quicker to deliver some pallets with a C-130 and have guys dump it into duffel bags for whatever they need then to ask Congress nicely to set up bank transfers.
who is my people
I think it's only academic FP that's currently interested in effect systems. most production FP still use the traditional monad error handling.

Rust's `Result` type does indeed have a `.map()` function, which works how you'd expect (and `Result`is an iterator, which give syntax for it).

Yeah, algebraic data types are very nice, and feel like such a free lunch. I cry every time i have to implement something that should have been a one-line sumtype definition as a class hierarchy.
I consider social media to be like a weapon; it is you who should decide what and how to do with it. However, nowadays, social intelligence is reaching a new low level among parents themselves. The person who should guide them in the right way is actually on the wrong path. I have seen my niece and nephew, and it's not their fault. When I visit them and interact with them; I never see them asking for a phone or laptop. However, my brother and sister-in-law are always busy, either with work, household chores, or on their phones, which creates a gap between child and parent. Consequently, I feel they find other ways to fill their time, eventually becoming addicted. Simply put, if we give them time, correct resources, and guidance, I don't think they will use it more than intended.
As a side comment to sibling comments with various approaches, there's a handy bit of intuition/technique to this that's useful for 5th to 105th graders - when you notice 'useful' angles in a plane geometry problem, make the thing they suggest out of them. So, 60 deg angle is a piece of an equilateral triangle - finish the whole triangle and see if you get any ideas. The unit circle sin/cos thing teaches you all sorts of stuff about right-angled triangles. See a problem without a right angled triangle? Draw a line to add one, etc.
Been so long I can't remember if I noticed back then -- was Mr Ng also the name of the guy with the robo-dogs...? Same guy? (And was he the representative of ex-territorial Hong Kong [or whatever it was] who sold Hiro a citizenship? Time for a re-read, it seems...)
During tokenization, the usernames became tokens... but before training the actual model, they removed stuff like that from the training data, so it was never trained on text which contains those tokens. As such, it ended up with tokens which weren't associated with anything; glitch tokens.
"not that impressed by gluing ChatGPT, elevenlabs, and Twilio together."

Guess it's Tomato Potato.

At one point in time just putting data in a grid was a pretty simple idea, and thus we have Excel dominating the world.

I'm not sure we can say that any 'obvious' idea right now wont turn out to be huge.

Seems like there is a tendency right now to crap on anything to do with AI, even if it is a nice little app, that really isn't a bad idea even if it doesn't deal with privacy issues.
> I want a small screen that I can reach the entire thing with one thumb

You mean just like the outer screen on foldables?
This is sound analysis sans ideological bs. The system lacks a self-correction mechanism.

The profit driven system is supposed to self-correct. We see this today, with Boeing for example (yes /s).

Now beyond snark, we can ask is the same thing happening to us that happened to the "commies" with the 'defense and national security' establishment raising troubling doppelgangers of "state industry" from the body of "market driven" neo-liberal capitalist societies?

So, we see issue is not really "ownership" but rather establishments ..
If You Can Learn Music, You Can Learn Anything
Cambyses II would be proud.

https://short-history.com/cats-caused-the-ancient-egyptians-...
>So would be much more useful if there were some effective mechanism to get rid of or correct entries that were answered incorrectly in the first place or have become incorrect or no longer relevant with time.

Sometimes, the community will "fix" that by having a newer answer get upvoted beyond the "accepted" answer. E.g. a Python 3.2 answer with more modern syntax in 2014 gets upvoted above the Python 3.1 accepted answer in 2010:

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2331592/why-does-datetim...

But that type of "correction" only happens on popular questions. The more obscure questions and answers that are wrong will remain wrong because there are not enough eyeballs and/or widespread expertise to fix them.
You Impersonate What You Think You Are
Have you ever managed a compagny-sized network ? No you didn't, or you'd know the bunch of real-world issue IPv6 solves.

Also, IPv4 has nothing to do with "identification", does not work like that, is not used like that, does not matter in any ways, nor does ipv6
Meta's AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence
1] best case it makes it look like a shitty marketing website trying to create fake urgency to sell you a subscription product

(I instinctively closed the website)

2] worst case it looks like they don’t have their shit together with scammers and need to shake the confidence of all users in the process

Not a fan of either.
I had a very inexpensive fix to my Ford Focus EV last year. Like less than $2k for being hit and spun, requiring repairs to 6-7 body panels.

EV manufacturers could make cars that are as durable as ICE ones but they choose not to - limited liability for such crashes is the way forward.
The unwritten laws of engineering at Stedi
Data Center Security Issues Widen
With all due respect, that’s just a dumb conclusion. Optimizing for hello world is dumb - if the primary use case of a given framework is larger scale, than it is more than right with such a size.
In my day we made (some parts of) a kernel on Motorola 68000-boxes - they were quite main stream at the time.
Voice assistants long predate ChatGPT, so it was probably designed to use (possibly a custom, in-house) one of those, but then GPT-4 (and probably 3.5 below it) probably blew away whatever they were working on, and they switched.
> It's such a huge problem that it really does warrant all of this attention.

It seems to be such a huge problem only for this particular service, then?
> One end of the building will
> be over 100km from the sea,

Well, that part's easy. You put the non-citizen service workers on that end, you didn't think MBS was planning to provide them with AC, did you? :-)

Talk about a disincentive to show up to work before sunrise and leave after dark.

> Also wouldn't this be like
> the elevator problem in tall
> buildings?

No, the vertical pipes in the building will branch off from the horizontal pipes running along it, the vertical height is trivial by comparison.

> The first few kilometers of the
> line will need to have pipes
> sized for the cooling water of
> the 165km behind it eating up
> interior volume.

Firstly you'd bury the pipe, if it's at a depth of just 10 meters the average soil temperature at depth really helps, even before insulating it.

Secondly, by having it run in a loop you'd drastically reduce the energy to pump it. It'll take no more energy to pump water up 10m or 1km, as long as your outlet pipe is also at the same depth.

> passing it through a heat
> exchanger [...] be more energy
> efficient than a AC?

The whole thing is obviously ridiculous, but cost-benefit analysis doesn't really enter into what's ultimately an ego project enacted by royal degree.

I was just pointing out that once you're willing to invest the sort of money Saudi Arabia has in upfront costs, there's no reason the end result (no matter how ridiculously expensive) can't be sustainable and passively cooled.
AI's bread and butter will be "customers who just want generic art for generic commercial use, any quality art, and pay as little as possible for it." It's probably never going to need to create the next Billie Jean hit.
How? They arbitrarily blocked new versions of macOS from being installed on older macs (even if they are perfectly capable of running it after you install it with a workaround).

Compared to MS they basically don't care about backwards compatibility at all. For instance, good luck running most moderately old games (e.g. even from the 2010s) even on Intel macs after they stopped working because they were using any 32bit libraries. Or you can not update (even if Apple lets you) but good luck running any recent software then.
You know, I recently bought a table saw. Reading this makes me terrified to use it.
Of course I know name "Daniel Stenberg". But at any moment there is no guarantee that next release published under his account was actually done by person named "Daniel Stenberg". Single person outside of organization is a huge weak point.

Let me explain by comparing curl with XZ (and it was not me who started this comparison). XZ was initially released in 2009 by Lasse Collin. But how would you know that "Lasse Collin" actually exists? Is it a single person or a group? Maybe some papers? (unlikely, for papers see Igor Pavlov's dissertation in LZMA[1]). Do we know his country? No, all that we know that Lasse was in some "hotel with limited internet connection" at the time of the incident (hello to Russian and Chinese prisons). Who would benefit from having an autobiography page, which nowadays can be made up in 5 seconds in ChatGPT?

> Or you blame him somehow for the fact that the US government never explained itself?

Not for that. In his "Administrative Purgatory" post he makes some assumptions on reasons of visa denial. But the whole picture he showed there is that he is just a dutiful developer of a popular opensource library. Also he owns a domain. And that was enough for the US to equate him with criminals. Then why didn't he take a lesson from this that in order to remain free (this applies to traveling as well), it's acceptable to separate hobbies for information security, cryptocurrency, export-restricted technologies like HPC, AI and quantum computing and other legally complex stuff under a separate profile?

Pseudonymity in open-source (as in any other charity) is long overdue to be accepted as the norm. Let's stop building security theater on autobiographies from other people's personal pages.

[1] https://primo.nlr.ru/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=07NLR_VU1...
I always assumed it was just giving names to the letters A, B and C, especially since a French cryptographer in a workshop told me that they use Amelie, Bernarde and Carole in French classes.
The author calls out hired PR. Hired to present to the public the exact things the author sees as moral. And finally, talks about billionaires who they feel are "moral". Moral because they do [nothing but] good, or moral because they hire a PR firm to project a particular image?

Billionaires have indeed done good things with their wealth. I applaud that wholeheartedly. I strive to that goal as well, sans the fortune part.

But a billionaire cannot succeed without being amoral to _become_ said billionaire. A moral person would see the ever-expanding disparity between what they have and the have-nots. Billionaires had to go through the process of becoming a millionaire, multi-millionaire, hundreds-of-millions millionaire, and finally billionaire. Each step becoming less moral than the previous. This ignores who they must have stepped on to climb the money ladder.

Perhaps what this comes down to is capitalism is amoral at best. When it comes to money, someone is getting stepped on directly or indirectly. How rich do you need to be to stop stepping on the backs of others and live the life of leisure most of us could only dream of? Only the individual can make that decision for themselves, while the rest of us look on in disgust.

Unless you're a temporarily embarrassed billionaire, of course.
> I’d make sure that I was always in a real three-way conversation with my fans.

OK, so your fans are... two?? :)
Depends a lot on what she does with it, doesn't it?

My friend with a 12 mini complains it's still too large and basically always needs to have a purse with her since it won't fit any of her pockets. Never complained about battery life and doesn't cart any external power source, either.

Different friend had one of those cases with integrated battery packs around her iphone pros. She spends her days on the phone, though...

As another data point, my iphone 7 had basically enough battery to last me through the day until last year. I changed it because the battery was bulging, and at the end the screen was hanging on to the body by next to nothing.
KernelEX it's your friend. And http://legacyupdate.net, but I think for Windows 2000 and up.

First update everything, then run KernelEX.
IME videos + examples (repo of various configs for many common and less common scenarios) are much more effective (if up to date) than classic guides, specially for on-screen usages, while books are far more effective for the printed world.

Producing books demand a significant effort, especially if it's a teaching book, not a mere reference and still cover enough, keeping it up to date in a modern project it's almost a nightmare, so videos and examples remain the quickest and easiest solution.

Personally the main issue I have with NixOS is:

- the Nix language, especially compared to Guix System

- the lack of quickly digestible AND still deep enough docs

I've using NixOS as my main desktop and homeserver since some years and I still have to know Nix enough to be really "confident enough"...
Interesting that they still use cold gas thrusters. Electric propulsion (FEEP) is much more efficient for this kind of maneuver.
Ask HN: How Would You Build Restrictions for Deployed Model Prompts/Answers?
I thought I would start a thread on here to discuss some of the challenges in Generative AI particularly with enforcing on-topic conversation and tone. It seems this poses substantial cost restrictions on deployment, as using on topic checks and classifiers for inference prompts does not scale well. It seems an O(N) problem that has high cost and low performance with inference. In addition, though embedding methods could be used to ensure on topic conversations, I want to specifically discuss the problem of combined context, where a predefined cluster is isolated, but combined alternative context in the prompt 'dilutes' the vector such that it no longer points to a defined cluster, or has a cosine similarity such that it does no trigger a match or non match decisively. As an example, consider the sentence. "I would like to discuss politics, and I also enjoy the stock market." Though sentence splitters and or inference topic modeling could be used, that seems it could get expensive. Consider also the problem of impersonation, where the model is instructed to act like a volatile character. Finally, I throw out there a stranger version of prompts meant to throw model results off, where perhaps the letters are switched in such as a way that when the model computes the answer by decoding the answer, it does not consider the final context (rotate the following letters by 1 forward: "GH", which would produce "HI"). I am least concerned about the third but I am simply pointing it out. I know there are a lot of bright minds on here and thought it might warrant a conversation of how people have overcome these challenges and what ideas people might have.
> It's how double-entry bookkeeping works.

Sorry, but no. I have no idea why you think double entry means 1 of the entries is in some other persons books that you don't have access to is somehow useful. Double entry is 100% local to a singular set of books.

The point of double entry accounting is to avoid many simple mistakes. If you can't access a 3rd parties books to check, what is the point of double entry accounting, when you only hold a single entry?

I literally have no idea how you think this even remotely makes sense.

> Money can neither be created nor destroyed.

Totally as an aside, money can indeed be created and destroyed, the govt and even banks do it all the time[0]. But I agree practically speaking from an accounting perspective in a singular person/organizations books money isn't created or destroyed it's just moved around. But for double entry accounting, it's 100% not useful to talk about money in some other person's books, it's irrelevant.

0: BOE, Money Creation in the Modern economy an introduction: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
I dunno, he burned a lot of cash on metaverse and wasn’t focused on FB. All the top talent was moved over to Metaverse and FB was treated as career killer. My impression is ads work is once again a good career play. People chase promo.
It's quite interesting how "install a one-time thing, get code, get access" turns out to be such a difficult and apparently unprofitable business.

TeamViewer has always been evil, due to their persistent-install-by-default policy, not to mention them clinging to 4-digits PINs for years after that ceased to be viable, and refusing to respond to security concerns with anything approaching transparency. I used to be a paid customer for many years, but had to abandon ship due to ever-increasing costs (yeah for mandatory viewer upgrades!) related to MSP features that I never asked for and were complicating even the most basic tasks.

Then, I turned to Splashtop, which was glorious for a while. Until they decided to assign me a "customer success representative" and wanted to do the same MSP upsell, even though I explicitly and repeatedly asked them to leave me alone.

Since then, I've mostly been using Windows QuickAssist, and it's OK: you still need to be on the phone with the party you support to guide them through various permission prompts, but that's probably unavoidable.

The list of failed products in this space is impressive, by the way! Anyone remember Fog Creek Copilot? Weird, because "I'll pay you $99.95 on an annual basis to do 2-3 remote sessions every month" sounds like it should be lucrative...
It can be done much more elegantly. E.g. when you’re trying to actually set up a connection and not on the front page for all of your users coming to the site, especially those with `Referer=news.ycombinator.com`
The whole point of the exercise was to make it secure though. If you don't care about MITM attackers then NTP works great.
Why did you use cold gas thrusters?
Ahh, yes - Mediacom decided they're not going to do it. Filing a complaint now.
South Africa Starts Issuing Crypto Licenses
What does trap mean here? I presumed crawlers had multiple (thousands of or more) instances. One being 'trapped' on this web farm won't have any impact
The expansion rate slowed down dramatically after the big bang and then sped up again, from Wikipedia:

> Cosmic expansion subsequently decelerated to much slower rates, until at around 9.8 billion years after the Big Bang (4 billion years ago) it began to gradually expand more quickly, and is still doing so.
Oh yeah, certainly agree. Especially since devices can use SNTP[1] to talk to a NTP server if they just want to know the current time and don't need all the complexity of NTP.

[1]: https://timetoolsltd.com/ntp/sntp-overview/
it's fun to imagine the prompt injection shenanigans students will get up to!
No you see: you are not allowed to talk about hings if other users think it's unproductive. Cease having fun immediately.
Urgent is a choice. The situations we get ourselves into lead from our choices. I take it as empowering rather than negative. In other words, if I've gotten myself into a situation where I don't have time for things that are actually important to me, it's on me to adjust that to match my own values. It's not something to dismiss.
It is a good idea to read the citation, at least in part. I am quoting from conclusion as that's the only part I am interested and read.

Today, I would argue that given the limitations of the existing literature we still have essentially no credible empirical evidence on the seemingly simple question of whether stronger patent rights – either longer patent terms or broader patent rights – encourage research investments into developing new technologies. While researchers have recently begun to make progress on the more limited question of how patents on existing technologies affect follow-on innovation (Galasso and Schankerman, 2015; Sampat and Williams, 2015), evidence on the overall effects of patents on research investments are needed as one input into optimal patent policy design.
I rarely ever watch videos on my PC so that's definitely not a concern. I do make videos from time to time though :shrug:
"The Death of Ivan Ilich": An Electronic Study Edition of the Russian Text
Nope, it's a huge problem for all of them, it has been a huge problem with TeamViewer for ages. However, putting these large banners up likely helps ensure that it's actually not a huge problem for Rustdesk. It's more likely to be a huge problem for services that don't put up these banners. That's exactly why you put up these banners, you don't really want to be a part of enabling these scams.
Not for me, I've NEVER had WA and I regularly tell anyone: "to reach me you have mails for long async stuff, phone calls for quick/urgent/important topics, with various VoIP numbers to match you country/phone plan, you do not need anything else".

People tray to force others on walled gardens must be LART-ed enough to understand.
There's something wrong with this person's setup. Mine is instantaneous on a 9900k from a few years ago.

That said, I think the search function for data is not helpful, but that's an incredibly hard problem to solve and there have been dozens of attempts over the years. Remember Copernic? X1?
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