skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
poor logic. there is a contradiction between your second and fourth sentences. can you even see it? i doubt it, since you are the one who wrote it.

go attend logic 101 somewhere, pass it successfully, only then come back to talk. if you fail, don't come back.
> And it is delusional to think that kids/teenagers watch that for morbid reasons

Most don't, but there's apparently a very small subgroup that feeds on this kind of content. Algorithms can detect that of course and feed them even more of these videos, getting them even deeper into the rabbit hole.

You can't blame it all on the algorithms either, if you build an algorithm that finds relationships like "a likes x, b likes x and y, recommend y to a", this is what you get in some pathological cases, along with pedophiles seeing family videos of kids in swimming pools.
Thirded! CCRMA and its people are awesome (way more so than the rest of Stanford.)
As I said in other comments, I agree with this but the issue is that whatboutism is still being used as a shield when the other side does something. My original comment was a bit sarcastic, I was just pointing out that this would be seen as whatboutism in any thread about say, Russian media control
how is hegel and his science of logic not in this?
> This extended to decisions that involved spending money, not just should you pick language X or language Y for your next software project.

Just want to point out, the choice to pick language X or language Y is very much about money. Training, triage, getting into production, scaling, testing, etc. Most bigger picture technical decisions are in fact, economic ones.
[dupe]

Actual article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/technology/openai-hack.ht...

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887619
Here's a collage of some of my favourite bits. (I've inlined some functions, but this is nearly as readable as the actual code.)

open Option Parse Scan;
(maybe embedded --| minus -- name >> (fn arg => ((if ! testing then #2 arg |> Output.writeln else (); #1 #> curry getOpt) arg (implode [])))) -- command_name "supply" >> (op ^)

What does this say?
btw fwiw my passwd in chatgpt is all lowercase lol
EGL Eye: OpenGL visualization without an X Server (2016)
Yep I don't think there's a practical way to use qtwidgets on mobile, so it's not like Qt is treating pyside differently. It's just that the ecosystem doesn't really follow. I wonder if that's different on the c++ side. Is QML more prevalent in the c++ qt ecosystem?
> but rather the package manager ("npm" or "pip" or similar) should do so on a system-wide basis.

I basically agree with this. With the caveat that programs should not use any system search paths and packages should be hardlinked into the project directory structure from a centralized cache. This also means that a dev version looks identical to a centralized version - both are just directories within the project.
Secret Government Searches and Digital Civil Liberties
With that phrasing? No way.
I wonder if it's self-hosting.
What do you mean by "more sophisticated diagnoses"?
Multiplication and division by 2 and 5 correspond to each other. Multiplication by 11 is shift-and-add. There are many such tricks.
jqjq seems to be an academic or "because we can" project. fq from the same author has practical use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175000 It's shortly mentioned in the jqjq README, but maybe someone overlooked the 2 characters...
Very cool. I've used PD a lot in the past, but I didn't know about his book!
I think the example from the history of astronomy the author provides can by turned against him. It was the accumulation of astronomical observations and the refinement of ever and ever exacter measurements that provided the basis for the transition in ther scientific community from the heliocentric to the geocentric system, that took between one and two hundred years, depending when on lets it start (Copernicus or a predecessor) and end (Galileo, Kepler or Newton).

If we look for example at the career of Kepler, we see that he had to accumulate expert knowledge of both systems and that he arrived at his later so-called laws not by a sudden insight, but through tireless work, trying again and again over several years to make sense out of series of measurements that did not really make sense in either the Ptolemaic or Copernican system.

It was not the epicycles that worried the late medieval astronomers, but the fact that according to their geocentric theory the earth was not really exactly in the center of the deferent. Correspondingly, however, the sun was not really at the center of the Copernican system either. Both systems lacked elegance, and both systems were more or less equaly in accordance with the observational data. To solve this debate and to make progress, the strategy of the most famous astronomer of his time, Tycho Brahe, was to collect better measurements. And it were these accumulated measurements that enabled his pupil Kepler to develop a solution. In a sort, he was lucky. Only the data for the planet Mars, which he considered first, was exact enough to match an ellipsis. His data for Jupiter or Saturn would not have allowed him to come up with one.

Accumulated knowledge was not an obstacle, but the basis for Keplers insights. That we might get a different impression is a result of simplifications that happen after a scientific community reaches a conclusion. At that stage such a theory becomes textbook knowledge: a student needs no longer acquire the accumulate knowledge of the previous period, but only the successful doctrine. These doctrines appear and are all too often presented as ingenious insights from geniuses, instead of cumulation points of a collective work of generations of scientists and scholars.
Seven laws of sane personal computing (2010)
Do not waste your energy thinking that companies like this will be “consistently candid”. That’s not what they’re here for, and it’s clear from other events in their history that they have no interest in this.
> Indeed, neuro-symbolic language models materialize thought mechanisms without associating any feeling of existence with them.

How do they know this?
> if you write digitally you can look stuff up as you write

is that supposed to be a good thing? if the goal is developing ideas, i would wager that it's not.
> It's hard enough to report issues to OpenAI.

Not at all. OpenAI follows basic accepted standards for security reporting. This is like complaining that you can't find if a website doesn't want specific directories crawled because you don't know about the existence of a robots.txt.

Specifically, OpenAI has a security.txt [0], which is:

> an accepted standard for website security information that allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities easily [1]

Whenever attempting to find where to report a security issue, the easiest thing to do is always check if the website has a security.txt file.

[0] https://openai.com/security.txt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security.txt

Here's their security.txt:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

#
# .d88888b.
# .8P" "9bd888b.
# .8P .d8P" `"988.
# .8888 .d8P" , 98.
# .8P" 88 8" .d98b. 88
# .8P 88 8 .d8P" "98b. 88
# 88 88 8P" `"8b. "98.
# 88. 88 8 8"8b. 88
# 88 "98.8 8 88 "88
# `8b. "98., .d8 88 88
# 88 "98b. .d8P" 8 88 d8"
# 88 "98bP" .8 88 .d8"
# "8b ` .d8P" 8888"
# "88b., .d8P" d8"
# "9888P98b. .d8"
# "988888P"
#
Contact: https://bugcrowd.com/openai
Acknowledgments: https://bugcrowd.com/openai/hall-of-fame
Policy: https://openai.com/policies/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-policy
Hiring: https://openai.com/careers/search?c=security
Canonical: https://openai.com/.well-known/security.txt
Encryption: https://cdn.openai.com/security/disclosure.asc.pub

# You may also email us directly.
Contact: mailto:disclosure@openai.com
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anywhere there is a rainbow flag really, I don't know that anyone could argue against intersectionality and post-colonialism as being examples of the marxist movements that the CIA fought the cold war against. it's not even critical to say it's all very explicitly marxist, right down to "white," being defined negatively as whatever is not "red," and revolutionary, or "of-color" today. it's maoism with american characteristics.

what appears to have changed judging by the number of officials mugging for cable news shows is the intelligence community apparently sees itself as the elite in a post-national technocracy, and they are happily dismantling the confining limits of their host nations. the words for most of these sentiments are officially suppressed, but everybody knows. it's why they're afraid of memes. knowing what great artists, comedians, and writers are capable of, I'm optimistic and not entirely demoralized to read that some pseudo-intellectual sellouts sold out to some sellouts and are only remembered in the new yorker for that.
I've worked with/for a lot of org over the past few decades, and personal experience proves there are a _lot_ of incidents that go unreported.

The usual is that if there's no logs saying something bad actually happened, there's certainly nothing to say that it did, even though some terribly guessable credentials were used for ages on something publicly exposed. I know, they know, but told in no uncertain terms to drop it.

Nothing to see here, move along. Work to be done, money to be made.
Are We Already in Recession?
overuse of long words

also, how about use of an emergency button to contact relatives, carers and emergency services
I agree with you, though my thought is the frequency I buy the local "good stuff" is as often as we would have bought ______ at all when I was a child (in a family with tight budget). So maybe the issue is real/local inflation has increased a lot more than products brought in from cheaper/poorer countries.
> Doing this requires that you solve the problem, not that you get some tool to do it.

Ideally, yes. But this reveals the problem at the heart of busywork assignments and standardized testing; there is more than one way to skin a cat. You're still graded by an objective set of qualities that can be gamed and manipulated to make yourself stand out against more competent students. You probably shouldn't just copy a calculator or the circle of fifths for your homework assignment; but if it fulfills the demands of the question, you might as well.

You have to award points for what you want to see. If you grade for completion, you will get minimum-effort work back from your students. If you award points for writing out computation by-hand, you'll get more procedure-oriented students. Testing fails students because it inherently forces them to look at their grade from a results-oriented perspective.
Yeah, maybe a few hundred grams of (visible) native gold, at best. Most of it was in the form of mid to high grade ore intruding into the quartz which combined with the exposed native flakes to make very pretty rocks. It'd be worth extracting for an active mine that uses gold cyanidation to leach it out of the rock, but not for some half-drunk rock hounds having fun in the Sierras.

They're a lot more valuable as display quality specimens. Not quite museum grade, but close enough. We spent years giving them away as gifts when we didn't know what else to give someone for their birthday.
I agree with everything you said but I really doubt Reagan is to blame for the degree factories. That was more of a Clinton push.

We have many social ills delivered by Reagan and some you mentioned.
Exploits such as the ones who just needed you to receive a specially crafted message already happened, it's not that simple.
I wonder with the advent of generative-AI, whether or not we'll re-enter an era of privacy when images can no longer be trusted. Perhaps I'm being too hopeful.

There are some places that are extremely restrictive of public photography, like the UAE. It is comforting about when your picture can't be taken without permission. Of course, this doesn't stop their government from taking pictures, and that's a big problem when you have no way to effectively provide your own video or photographic evidence without having violated the law.
Ask HN: What's the best SaaS boilerplate/all in one solution to build a PoC/MVP?
I often want to try out some products ideas, and setting up a whole project is always a real PITA: auth, payments, db, hosting, analytics, support etc...

I'm wondering if there is any good software (whether it's open source or on a freemium/per usage pricing), that allows you to just work on your features and nothing else, basically copy/paste a few API keys, write an API route, a react form and a view, and you have a working product.

I tried some open source boilerplates on github, but they weren't up to the task, either outdated and bugged or way too complex and badly written and it was a pain to add anything.

I'm mostly looking for something made with typescript/node or that is language agnostic
"there are most likely more systemic, societal-wide issues at play."

One might even use the word "structural".
Most of the article is uninformative. They switched to 100% ryegrass, it's more resilient and grows straighter making for a more even court which endures.

Wimbledon has a lot of rest time. Other pitches fare worse, have more varied and heavy use year round.

A lot of modern stadium grass pitches have invested heavily in removable central sections, so cricket can have a chance to share the ground with rugby. And, carefully constructed gravel and sand underbed for optimal drainage. Fans wax lyrical about hallowed turf and its possible for sentiment reasons they keep a few corms of the original turf but honestly? Modern grass is probably better than the old sward, sports-wise. They can cover it with flooring for an Adele concert and be back in usable state for play in under a month.

Doing cricket commentary for TV South African born but English captain Tony Greig used to hack at the cracks in the 22 yards with his car keys. The groundsmen would have hated him. Sorry Caw-Kies.
Third parties voice concern about difficulty disclosing security vulns to OpenAI
As a sibling comment mentions, this is true for pretty much all animals. It's a well-known, old problem. Darwin even mentions it in the Origin of Species and says that "species" is really just a term of convenience applied somewhat arbitrarily according to the different tastes of different naturalists.

Now we understand even better that, like GP said, there are no discrete groupings we can label as a species. It's a useful abstraction at a 5000ft level but it breaks down when you zoom in.
This is brilliant and psychotic.
i feel like this isn't even the worst of it
The 12-month average has been negative since January of 2023. Their zoom on mobile doesn't work very well, I earlier missed a similar year or so of negative 12-month averages around 2016, but in general going back to the late 80s the adjustments seem to have heavily favored the side of adjusting up rather than down.

Its not a huge indicator and I didn't imply anything should be read into it, but it is an interesting change in the long-term pattern worth looking into.
Because the essay radiates techbro tone, with minor adjustments for 2007. The author is an unapologetic believer in SV exceptionalism.

"Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. [...] Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley"

"Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house."
There are actually many - almost every serious (IE 100k+) wood router is ethercat.

Centroid (known for the Acorn board) released Hickory, which does ethercat servo drives but not full ethercat support. It runs the same CNC software as Acorn/et al.

Vital Systems makes an ethercat motion controller that interfaces with Mach4.
They let you use any ethercat device you have an ESI file for, and map the inputs/encoders/output types to Mach4 data of various sorts (digital inputs, analog inputs, encoders, etc).

MachMotion also has an interface to Mach4, theirs is a soft realtime motion controller based on RSI's (very well known/used for robotics) motion planning.

Those are the more standard ones.

Twincat also has an NC interface that supports gcode but you'd have to make your own UI.

LinuxCNC can do ethercat, but i've never considered it :)

There are also more standard hardware solutions. Syntec's hardware controller can do ethercat, etc.
Different strokes. For some people, the desire to “build stuff” extends to building (improving? refactoring?) the organisation. For some people, tech problems that are just tech problems is, creativity wise, like eating meatloaf through a straw. Myself included.
You're perfectly right. It is indeed perfectly logical then. It could be reformulated like this: if f(A) > f(not A) then f(not A) is not maximal.

f: a function indicating how complete the thoughts are.

A: writing about thoughts.
Japan has the Hikikomori. China has problems. So does
Russia. It's all over.
For what it's worth, I definitely want to automate my job. If I'm not writing code that is supposed to put me yesterday out of a job, it doesn't matter whether I'm wasting my employer's money; I'm wasting my one finite shot at this planet.
This is great. At some point in time I realized how much I was using the terminal and spending a bit of time to learn the basics is a great investment of time. I used a similar rouge-like to learn (this one I think: https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl), and it really did help to nail in the basics. Would definitely recommend spending the time on one of these games for anyone who wants to learn.
Great point. Solipsism is a natural starting point for philosophy, but it shouldn't be enshrined as an axiom.
Jon Landau, Oscar-Winning 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' Producer, Dies at 63
If you have management failing to communicate business needs they'll make everyone beneath them look just as bad if not worse.

At the end of the day there's nothing naive about doing a good job. If you have any employees focusing too much on metrics, but especially your management, they're incompetent dead weight.

Doing a good job is simply less work for everyone, but it starts from the top down.
useful version of this information at https://gwern.net/dnb-faq
> I see no reason that a language model couldn't do iterative science in the same way humans have been with the resources available to it (APIs) using the composition of current technologies.

I think this belies a common refrain from people in non-tech feeling like people in tech tend to oversimplify their fields and claim they can "fix any problem" without any actual specific knowledge in that field. This just feels like the next iteration of that.
I think his linguistics background helped him push the boundaries of what people expected from computer programming languages rather; being able to break out of the PL design mindset is part of what made Perl groundbreaking. If I recall correctly, the syntax and semantics of Perl are intertwined to the point that parsing Perl without also evaluating is provably undecidable. From a purely academic standpoint, that sounds like a nightmare, but it's hard to argue that Perl didn't have a significant impact. Many people can learn all the rules and conventional wisdom in a field, but being able to understand the underlying principles well enough to ignore some of them and produce something of value is much more rare.
You cannot live in a capital society without capital. There is not nor has there ever been an education system disconnected from industry until government subsidy and "support" did it. This is because once there is free money there is no longer a natural market effect and organizational failure is acceptable and funded.
I think most of them just choose stripe unless they get a very good deal at another provider or if they need to support a particular payment method that stripe does not support.

Then they might look into something else than stripe if they have a terrible problem with stripe like having their funds locked for weeks or if they think they charge too much fees.
Zolzer’s book is the best out there on the topic that I know of.
Calculating when a planet will appear to move backwards
This is a radical reframe that seems to split the atom for organizational theory.

A century of “we just need to care about this enough” not solving the problem explained in a blog post. Well done.
Your units are wrong, kw not kwh. And your decimal place is wrong, the going rate is around $3 per watt.

And I'm not sure how you were trying to relate that to battery storage.
I was under the impression that the title wanted to emphasize how this GMO seed has made it to market and can be grown freely by anyone.
Tesla won't free up use of its batteries (standards-based remote control)
I'm using the baked-in free Outlook client right now (not the paid Office version) with both a free Outlook.com email and a Zoho email. The free Outlook.com email does show ads. The Exchange synced Zoho email isn't showing any ads.
Which council?
Gump and Co
If looking up helps you catch a misconception or missunderstanding about the real world, it's great.

I find it very hard for external sources to support my thinking (if they do I don't read them but save for later comparison). If anything they prove me wrong when I am on the wrong path.
Eh, the real issue is companies are being hacked, or they sell data to criminals
Yeah, they thought they controlled the eyeballs, and it turns out they did not.
Hey I have been curating some good one's that's worth considering, you can check them on techajob.com
I've had migraines twice in my life, both preceded by chronic lack of sleep (thesis writing!). Auras preceded painful headaches in both cases. I cannot imagine having chronic migraines. Perhaps research like this will prompt us not search for the cure to migraines per se but the underlying cause.
Sometimes they aren't zero-sum. For example, trans-identifying people being protected from employment discrimination. This takes nothing away from anyone else, but makes this group's lives easier.

But sometimes they are zero-sum. The right of women and girls to have female-only spaces, for example. If a subset of males are given the right to use such spaces, they cease to be female-only spaces. By doing so, this right is taken away from women and girls.

As another example, we can see this principle very starkly in women's and girls' sports competitions. There can only be one winner. If that winner is male, or is a team that includes males, this takes this prize away from female athletes. There are also a limited number of competition spots in most sports. Any of those taken by males denies a female athlete the opportunity to compete. This is a zero-sum game.

Regarding prisons, the expectation is that penal authorities work towards the goal of no sexual violence in prisons. Policies that demonstrably make this worse are of course going to be protested. In this case, removing the most important safeguarding measure for inmate housing: segregation by sex. The motivation is actually the safety of women prisoners. It's not an isolated case either, this was the first of many.
IDK, I think it's kinda important for LLMs to get the simple stuff correct in order to justify looking into the rest of the hallucinations.

Like, if you can't tell me "what day is it today?" (actual failed prompt I have seen) then there's no world where I'm going to have a more complicated follow-up conversation with you. It's just not worth my time or yours.
Optimizing the Tablebase Server
Crypto graphic provenance will be needed. We are working on it.
Ammonia as a Sustainable Fuel for the Maritime Industry
I think DOS is closer to a "library OS" or unikernel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel

OS virtualization can overcome some of these drawbacks on commodity hardware.

...and that's exactly what Windows/386 and later did.