skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU is becoming more clearily authoritarian with cases we only used to hear about in Russia, China and Iran
There purpose is to hide charges as longas possible to deceive or trick which is against a fully transparent process
I find the post confusing. The author notes two aspects of programming and then seems to conflate LLMs as doing both when they only do the second. It’s sort of like saying directing a movie isn’t art or creative because the director is not every actor in the movie?
Hey this is really cool! I love how sleek the interface is. We're doing something similar at WhoDB (https://github.com/clidey/whodb) and love seeing all the work happening in this space.

Congrats on the launch and happy building!

Disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounders of WhoDB.
Distribution of fictitious CSAM does create harm, despite not directly involving real children.
Thank you for saying this. It's always baffled me that people will decry ChangeX as unnatural and wrong when it happens in their lifetime, but happily build their lives upon NearlyIdenticalChangeY so long as it came before them.
This website is so cursed… on mobile it’s constantly layout shifting up and down by an entire screen height every ~0.3 seconds. I’m not sure how to feel.
how someone with a banhammer hanging overhead behaves is nowhere near as valuable an indicator, compared to behaviour when there are no perceived consequences.

[the thing that's really pushing me away from FB is the pure hate, agression and stupidity on display in the comments section of local groups] -- you are seeing what lurks inside, and what degree of personal refraint exists.
That interpretation was by the laboratory, described verbatim from the reports of the test results.

Abrahamson also reported that the XY chromosomes were depicted photographically. So we know it must have been a karyotype test because that's what those tests show.

Here's an example from Wikipedia: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHGRI_human_male_k...

We can see in this how the sex chromosomes make an asymmetrically sized pair, indicating XY. It's clear from the description of the lab reports that the same was observed for Khelif and Lin.
> 50-60k/pa for engineers

Is that, like, actual information, or just an educated guess based on some industry average.
I suppose I get where the sentiment is coming from and anybody can use whichever tools make them happy but I feel like the comparison doesn’t make too much sense to me. As programmers we leverage so many levels of abstraction that help us write better code. It feels similar to saying if you use some package or library you’re letting some library author do the painting for you. Or if you use a high level language instead of assembly you’re letting a compiler do the painting for you.
References for both?
There is a difference between those abstraction levels: with LLMs you are moving into the realm of management.
> it may be a reasonable expectation that a text-book would be 'correct', and so receiving updates would be appropriate[...] Of course this should be consensual

It is implicitly consensual—when the consumer chooses to buy/download the newest edition. Don't try to "change" what's an an ebook, though. (Not that it's even possible.) Make new editions available if you want and allow the reader to decide whether to go for them. Otherwise, it is not consensual.
Saying a compiler, and an "AI" hallucination model are even remotely the same is a pretty huge stretch.
I think of myself as a code artist too but definitely not leaving the productivity boost of an LLM behind. The thing just helps me write stuff that I was going to write anyways!
Which is not that bad honestly. As a power user, the command line and scripting should be easy to learn. That's how it works in Linux anyway.
While the base of your argument is true, it’s also a bit dishonest. LLMs are significantly different than any of these other abstractions because they can’t be reasoned about or meaningfully examined/debugged. They’re also the first of these advances which anyone has claimed would eliminate the need for programmers at all. I don’t believe the C compiler was meant to do my whole job for me.
Bleached paper is probably not a threat to testicles, but it's taking a toll on the environment they're living in. And it's for a frivolous reason: having snow white paper.
Um those black boxes have determinism.
So those people drove cars and got medical care and bank accounts all this time, many decades, without ever having to show ID? Are any of them collecting social security, disability, welfare? How the heck did they pull that off without ID?
This tiny but significant factor is also why masks, even surgical masks, are so helpful. They don't need to prevent 100% transmission, just reduce the viral load received or passed on.
> So your ballot isn't associated with your name but the envelope it came in is.

Is this accurate?

My absentee ballot has a unique barcode, and I assumed it matches the barcode on the envelope, which are all tied to my name at the township office.
We can argue the same thing for artists. Who wrote the algorithms for your favorite Photo/Image editor? Who created the image formats and standards, infrastructures for you to be able to push binary files to millions of people?
I remember watching videos about these maybe two decades ago on MSN TV (an early precursor to video streaming services)
A full day off might be necessary depending on how busy polling places are. I had to stand in line for 5 hours to vote in ‘08
LLMs are just aggressive auto-complete. Yes, overhyped naturally. But also still saving me keystrokes!
A long, long, long long journey.

Let's start with hash collisions. Find us hash collisions and "code-breaking" should be right down the road.
Comparing an LLM to an artist who can paint for you is giving it too much credit.
We've got Oracle over here. I'm guessing they did provide more value than they consumed in .. the 80s?
It is a judgemental piece because the writer is putting a value judgement on people who use LLMs to code and those who don't. Its right after the piece you quoted.

> please don’t take this as a judgemental piece to anyone that i am alluring to. it’s fine to not find programming enjoyable. it’s fine to just want things to work. i am just disappointed at how the ones who care appear to be an ever dying breed.

I'm not saying the author shouldn't write that, write whatever you want. But you should own what you write.
CO2 in terms of illness is merely a proxy for good air movement and exposure to the outside environment. It has its own impact on mental capacities of course.
SpaceX has been a military contractor since the day it was founded. It was credited for pioneering the use of venture capital (including from In-Q-Tel, owned by the CIA) to fund businesses that would otherwise be entirely funded with SBIR or DoD contracts.
https://inkscape.org/

https://grafana.com/

https://mattermost.com/

https://strapi.io/
And there I was hoping to find that Lidl had seen the light and started to sell some type of home server under one of their many 'brand names' - Medion (not only Lidl but still), Silvercrest, Parkside, etc. A solidly built box of hardware with a reliable power supply, some slots for storage. A pre-installed Linux distribution with Proxmox on top, a container with Nextcloud (all German companies so they´d probably be willing to participate in this project). Some optional extras which make the thing function as wireless AP and router, media player, IoT hub etc. A number of downloadable container images for running your own mail/XMPP/Torrent/Blog/Search/Media/etc. services. A distributed encrypted backup option were you get to use other's storage for your backup purposes just as long as you offer your own storage for that purpose. That would be true 'sovereign computing'.

Hm, maybe I should pitch this to them instead.
I still very much felt like I was creatively crafting this [0] project even though the entire approach used the Claude project feature. I had to hand-write some sections but for the most part I was just instructing, reading, refining, and then copying and pasting. I was the one who instructed the use of a bash parser and operating on the AST for translation between text and GUI. I was the one who instructed the use of a plugin architecture to enforce decoupling. I was the one who suggested every feature and the look of the GUI. The goal was to create an experimental UI for creating and analyzing bash pipelines. The goal was not to do a lot of typing!

These high level abstractions are where I find the most joy from programming. Perhaps for some there is still some modicum of enjoyment from writing a for loop but for most people twenty years into a career there's nothing but the feeling of grinding out the minutia.

There's still a lot of room for better abstractions when it comes to interfacing with computing devices. I'd love to write my own operating system, CLI interface, terminal, and scripting language, etc from scratch and to my own personal preferences. I don't imagine I could ever have the time to handcraft such a vast undertaking. I do imagine that within a few decades I will be able to guide a computing assistant through the entire process and with great joy!

[0] https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
The PROTECT act specifically does not cover fictional content. "no actual children were involved, it's just fiction/cartoon" is a valid defense.

> The PROTECT Act adjusted its language to meet the parameters of the Miller, Ferber, and Ashcroft decisions. The Act was careful to separate cases of virtual pornography depicting minors into two different categories of law: child pornography law and obscenity law. In regards to child pornography law, the Act modified the previous wording of "appears to be a minor" with "indistinguishable from that of a minor" phrasing. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.[127][128][129][130] Furthermore, there exists an affirmative defense to a child pornography charge that applies if the depiction was of a real person and the real person was an adult (18 or over) at the time the visual depiction was created, or if the visual depiction did not involve any actual minors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...
> one big upside is that you can theoretically avoid the rubber/microplastic particulate emission associated with tires and wheeled vehicles if you can make legged vehicles as good as wheeled ones.

How does keeping rough terrain rough help with that?
there's a strict contract between the programmer and the compiler (the language spec)
Not at all. See the cries for reproducible builds, exploits like Spectre etc.
It's amazing that this seems surprising to people after COVID.

Next up:

* Air purifiers in schools cut parent's sick days too (not just "I need to care for my kid" days - "parent is sick" and "childless coworker of parent is sick" sick days)

* Air purifiers in strategic locations (high density offices, public transit, schools, ...) cut sick days across the population.

I think this will be our generations "realizing that washing your hands before surgery makes patients die less", and it's quite embarrassing that with all the knowledge about viral transmission we couldn't figure this out before the pandemic, and even more embarrassing that we couldn't figure it out immediately after we tested many of these things at a large scale.
For me LLMs are like programming power tools. Use them wrong and you can hurt yourself. Use them right and you can accomplish far more in the same amount of time.

People that refuse to program with AI or intellisense or any other assistance are like carpenters who refuse to build furniture with power saws and power drills. Which is perfectly fine, but IMO that choice doesn't really affect the artistry of the final product
I've noticed this too. Like you, I hate expressing the idea that therapy is "over prescribed", lest someone with real issues put off not going... but man, people over complicate things.

Knew someone that went to therapy b/c they constantly thought the world would end any second. Why? Because they kept going on reddit/the internet where every top comment is "the world will end soon." They would talk about their "progress" and all sorts of techniques. Their life seemingly revolved around their new problem to the point you didn't want to hang out with them very long because it would come back to their issues. IMO, the "cure" to this problem is talking a long walk in a park or downtown and get the hell off the internet. Out of curiosity, I just checked and they're still posting... latest posts are about monkeypox and how it will kill hundreds of thousands... sad to see.
This is not "slippery sloping". This is analyzing what the proponents of said policies want to achieve, and have achieved in the past. Maybe it's not a conscious decision, but many of these proposed voting laws, or ones that are implemented seemingly effect specific demographics.

Factually and statically, these demographics don't vote in favor of the ones proposing these policies. Said demographics are often of lower income, working longer hours in physical labor jobs.

> ... nobody has suggested discriminating based on which IDs.

From this link https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/voter-identif...

"Missouri state Rep. John Simmons, a Republican who sponsored legislation requiring a state-issued photo ID, said that election fraud cases are low priority for prosecutors and that requirement is a “commonsense” way to prevent such cases."

I understand your wording wasn't precise, but requiring a photo ID is specifying "which" type of ID is required. Yes, it is still a vague category but it is narrowing what type is acceptable.

To tie it back to the demographic I mentioned, it may pose a more difficult challenge to acquire a photo id than one would imagine; from my understanding these photos must be taken at an approved institution like the post office. In many of these low income communities, a post office will not be nearby, and due to a lack of transportation it may be quite difficult to get to the place to take the photo.

Ontop of this, the jobs these people are working are far less forgiving with freetime, or taking breaks to do anything not work related when compared to a "cushy" engineering job; for these people, getting time off may be difficult (though I was under the impression that's illegal in many states, I thought an employer is required to), and the money they lose out on could mean not being to afford an important commodity/bill.
> Results showed increasing the CO2 concentration to just 800 ppm, a level identified as well ventilated, resulted in an increase in viral aerostability. After 40 minutes, when compared to clean air, around 10 times as much virus remained infectious when the air has a CO2 concentration similar to that of a crowded room (3,000 ppm).

> Dr Haddrell said: “This relationship sheds important light on why super spreader events may occur under certain conditions. The high pH of exhaled droplets containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus is likely a major driver of the loss of infectiousness. CO2 behaves as an acid when it interacts with droplets. This causes the pH of the droplets to become less alkaline, resulting in the virus within them being inactivated at a slower rate.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/virus.html

Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5
Well, AI models don't have to hallucinate.
Shouldn't gmail be closing as they know a percentage will be used for crime?
Yes, I read this already.

Although implementation is not easy, so I'd rather use somebody else's.
When I die, family and close friends will have access to all my data. They can choose what to do with it. Once I'm dead, I'll have no interest in my privacy.

This is also a nonsensical argument and I don't appreciate these bad faith "gotcha" arguments. While my data might be of some historical interest in the sense of understanding the average male in Western Europe in the early 21st century, it isn't nearly of the same significance as that of Orwell. Nobody is going to buy my data and lock it away in a vault. In addition, much of my presence, my "data" is available publicly online in my posts and comments on HN, Reddit and other social media. Orwell didn't post on Reddit, afaik, so somebody buying up Orwell's archive is a much more significant and impactful loss in multiple ways.

But you just wanted to "win" an argument, so I don't know why I'm wasting my time. Have you given any of this any thought at all? Like, really? This really isn't the place for trolling or just making noise. Reddit's more suited for that.
Blink Code Search: GUI indexed grep in Windows, Linux-source code indexing tool
I don't buy that you're actually examining compiled programs. Very few people do. Theoretically you could, but the whole point of the compiler is to find optimizations that you wouldn't think of yourself.
This is a highly relevant and accurate point. Let me explain how this happens in real life instead of breathless C-type hucksterism:

We have a project working on very large code-base in .NET Web Forms (and other old tech) that needs be updated to more modern tech so it can be in .NET 8 and run on linux to save hosting costs. I realize this is more complicated that just convert to later versions of Java, but it's roughly the same idea. The original estimate was for 5 devs for 5 years. C-types decide it's time to use LLMs to help this get done. We use both Co-Pilot and later others, Claude of which turned out to be the most useful. Senior devs create processes that offshore teams start using to convert code. Target tech can be varied based on updated requirements, so some went to Razor pages, some to JS with .NET API, some other stuff. Looks to be pretty good modernization at the start.

Then the Senior devs start trying to vet the changes. This turns out to be a monumental undertaking. Literally swamped code reviewing output from the offshore teams. Many, many subtle bugs were introduced. It was noted that the bugs were from the LLMs, not the offshore team.

A very real fatigue sets in among senior devs where all they're doing is vetting machine generate code. I can't tell you how mind numbing this becomes. You start to use the LLMs to help review, which seems good but really compounds the problem.

Due to the time this is taking, some parts of the code start to be vetted by just the offshore team, and only the "important things" get reviewed by Senior devs.

This works fine for exactly 5 weeks after the first live deploy. At that point the live system experiences a major meltdown and causes an outage affecting a large number of customers. All hands on deck, trying to find the problem. Days go by, system limps along on restarts and patches, until the actual primary culprit is found, which turns out to be a == for some reason being turned into a != in a particular gnarly set of boolean logic. There were other problems as well, but that particular one wreaked the most havoc.

Now they're back to formal, very careful code reviews, and I moved onto a different project on threat of leaving. If this is the future of programming, it's going to be a royal slog.
You're overestimating the fraction of the electorate who drive and have bank accounts. It's that simple.
Mail out ballots then require an ID when you turn it in. Make it easier to get an ID if that's a problem. It seems pretty simple to me. Not sure why anyone would be against this.
Current LLMs, we do not know that we cannot have future LLMs which can be almost formal. Think mathematics written in English and LaTeX
Yes: I like your way of describing this. I think it's because of this:

Bloom showed that students instructed 1 on 1 did about two sigma better than those learning in a classroom environment. There's a huge temptation here, to think that technology can claw some of those 2 standards back through individualization and differentiation. As a result, everyone wants to build systems that do instruction and try to directly improve outcomes.

But kids won't work hard for a computer's approval.
I spend a lot of time thinking about game design.

Sorry, I am not going to share notes about this unless I am making money for it.
Seeing luddism in programming is hilarious to me. Keep writing your machine code old man, we'll pick up the slack for you while you fade into obscurity.
You can learn how compilers work and understand how they do what they do. Nobody understands what’s in those billions of parameters, and no one ever will.
Every state that implemented voter id in the last couple years have also created a free id program. They do not advertise it and since most people get drivers licenses not a state id you won't get it for free.
(I'm not from US)

I do appreciate GP using the term "deaf relay", as this confirmed my understanding of the StackExchange post. The term "relay" is so broad that, without context, I'd assume "relay service" in telecom is whatever relays your call across vendor/state/national service borders, or something.
I don't see how you can maintain your privacy if it's possible you might believe some of the examples you listed. Certainly the state has to be sure you've never thought about those things. Privacy could thwart knowing.
Exactly my thoughts. It normalizes this messed up stuff.
All quants know pandas. beyond that their technical skills are often quite limited.

It makes sense to invest resources into something everyone knows how to use, even if it's suboptimal.
It does, but only on the sites which you've customised. If you're logged in, the question of fingerprinting is somewhat moot.
learned to code pretty easily. the rapid feedback was key vs math where you do a problem set and it might be days before the graded assignment is returned. I found mathacademy 2 months ago an its been a game changer for me. I just completed the first of their foundations course and it filled in a bunch of cracks in my foundational knowledge I didn't realize I had. the big advantage is that you do the problem and you get feedback immediately. They figured out how to close the loop on feedback to make learning it efficient.
“Beest” is a wild animal, or a savage being. It’s quite similar to English “beast”. “Beestje” is a diminutive that is affectionately applied to animals. “Dier” is neutral (not formal) “animal”.