skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't any views I want to exclude from public discourse. Moderating so that they are expressed w/o all-caps profanity is one thing, but the views themselves ought to be protected. As far as false facts go, it can become treacherous to draw an exact distinction between the false and the disputed for many subject areas. X's "Community Notes" are not perfect but in practice have been surprisingly helpful and accurate in my experience.
Some of it was Kremlin propaganda.

They supported anti nuclear stuff , anti renewables stuff and anti fossil fuel extraction stuff.

The end effect being people in Europe would be dependent on buying natural gas from Russia.
If false positives are too high though, people start ignoring warnings. I think tornado prediction suffers a lot from this.
> I clearly stated they had another three months at that point. Nothing changed, so they got the boot three months later.

Yes, and I clearly stated your mind was already made up so that didn’t matter. It was impossible for them to change your mind.

> What the heck do you expect? Another two years?

Your job as a manager is to address these issues before they become fireable. You know, to manage.

> At this point I have to assume malice from your side.

This is an internet forum, relax. What does it even mean to be malicious in an internet comment? I’m not taking away your livelihood.

> I guess you're just one of these people yourself.

“These people”? Is this still a thread about you not being racist?

> Blame everyone and everything but yourself.

Go look in a mirror.

Much like a blameless root cause analysis I believe a firing is a failure of the organization. How did this person get hired in the first place? How did you fail to coach them? What did the organization learn to avoid a repeat?
It heavily inspired us for https://srcbook.com (a TypeScript notebook)
We’ve been running our company’s friends and family newsletter on buttondown for more than a year and love it! Congrats on the domain purchase.
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Ask HN: Are there any decent LLM-based web application scanners?
I'm looking for LLM-based web application scanners capable of finding vulnerabilities that aren't typically detected by traditional scanners like in Burp Pro. Even though LLMs are prone to errors and, in my opinion, don't truly understand what they are saying or doing, I still believe they could be useful for detecting issues like broken access control or business logic errors, or for navigating complex web applications with a little more "thought" while looking for vulnerabilities. I tried googling for solutions, preferably with a trustworthy team and with on-premise deployment, but I didn't find many that met those criteria. Can anyone here recommend something or is working on such a product? Thanks!
Which right now is all about AI, not gaming.
The thing is, these services are exactly that. Services.

What the consumer wants from those services is "free speech", but with restrictions. They want "uncensored" content with the objectionable bits removed. For some people "objectionable" means spam and pornography, for others it includes certain types of political discourse or content from certain classes of person. If people really wanted uncensored content, the dark web would be far more popular.

The only way these companies can give people both uncensored "free speech" and content moderation is to build these bubbles where freedom of speech is only freedom of one type of speech.

They're stuck in a catch-22, and I can't help but feel like they actually ARE providing the service that we demand from them to the best of their abilities.
> More that because IQ isn't genetically determined any data that makes it look like certain ethnic groups are smarter or stupider than other ethnic groups must be wrong.

Why must it be wrong? The data is quite clear that a person of a given ethic group is most likely to associate with other people of the same ethnic group. If we are to assume that intelligence is determined by environmental factors, it is quite likely that intelligence will vary by ethnic group due to ethnic groups tending to group around different environments.

> such as that group being descended from people who were enslaved or who practiced polygamy or who don't prevent first cousins from marrying.

For those who believe that intelligence is heritable, isn't that exactly what they are talking about? I don't see how it is missed.
Sorry the one I'm thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#Criti...

I misremembered World Economic Forum as a part of the UN but it's a separate agency.

But many reports have that bias. For example a report on gender inequality in European Union makes no mention of multiple EU countries conscripting only men.
If the government does not wish to be subject to corporate content moderation perhaps they should publish their social posts on their own platform.

I still think it is ridiculous that public safety notices are frequently distributed exclusively on Twitter now. During the pandemic my city was publishing curfew announcements solely on Twitter - not being a Twitter user, I only heard of them through word of mouth.
>> 4. Start my own business ...

> This is just fantasy.

Are you saying starting your own business is an unrealistic fantasy? (On HN?) Or which part of it is fantasy? If starting a company is fantasy, it strengthens my point.

> here are world class engineers all over the place making 7 figures a year very easily. They aren't working 80 hours a week, they aren't working for soul sucking corps on boring problems, etc.

They're not "all over the place", they're in Silicon Valley. No software engineers outside of the valley make 7 figures as an employee. Maybe in New York at the Staff level. Maybe.

And if they're not working for soul sucking corps on boring problems, what are they doing? Where are the fruits of their labor? Because the majority of the software coming out of these companies gets used by approximately nobody and then thrown away, and the majority of the rest is user-hostile trash.

> I suspect you also aren't accurately measuring your own skill relative to these people.

"You're not accomplishing things because you're bad" -- maybe. That'd certainly be an easy resolution to this paradox. As an internet stranger you have no reason to believe that I'm as good as I say. But you should realize that this is completely circular logic: you're assuming that everyone who is poor is dumb and everyone who has not found fulfillment in life is bad; everyone who is successful is skilled. That doesn't match reality. Like, at all.
This all seems very easy to deal with. Pay employees cash not equity. Founders can negotiate with investors to take enough cash compensation at each round to cover their tax bill. Investors can use financial instruments to hedge their risk.
How does this premise:

> I can guarantee you that way more men applied to Caltech than women did.

lead to this conclusion:

>That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.
> funny to see MAGA people all of a sudden embracing Chad Zuckerberg, as though this represents some sort of organic character development on his part

Honestly, it's refreshingly pragmatic to see American politics ditching the ideological purity tests that defined our recent history. I disagree completely with MAGA politics. But allies don't have to be friends--if someone's on your side, that's really what counts.
Given the inevitable enshittification cycle for most successful products, this is a really solid approach.

Solid core offering with long term vision and continuous improvement, sufficient profit for a small team, no VC money and entanglement.
Well said. Imagine if the Nazi regime had a "no politics" clause that they used to censor things that went against them. This is what is happening here.
> Seemed pretty dumb, but the wreckage stumbles forward anyway.

the momentum in the org will continue its course, but without those long time employees who have the deep domain knowledge built up over the years, there's no way to steer nor alter course. So it's luck that a company continues on, because this momentum can't do anything else but continue on the current course.

It's why start ups can beat a behemoth.
This only works in geologically inactive regions. It's like Solar Roadways but for nuclear.
The internet used to be primarily used by geekier, smarter, tech people, and it used to not be a good propaganda/manipulation target since only a subset of the population used it. Media/newspapers were still the primary propaganda channel.

Now that the entire population uses it, the average IQ involved has plummeted, and the political and social payoff for manipulating it with inauthentic content is huge.
>on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all, yet we all mostly got by

boys did. the girls left those spaces (and the internet more generally, until social media became mainstream) because all the public spaces were disgusting, and all the boys sat around posting vulgarity, laughing, and wondering why there were no girls in our online spaces.

Those spaces were/are absolutely appalling sausage fests and while I don't think they should be shut down, saying "we all mostly got by" is some kind of selection or survivorship bias. YOU didn't mind. YOU got by. Polite company DID mind, and there wasn't a space online for them. You just didn't notice.
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In other words she's not really powerful, because she's ultimately beholden to the electorate/political machine and has little leeway to affect change in anything she believes in.
It's not even true in a facile way for non-base-models, since the systems are further trained with RLHF -- i.e., the models are trained not just to produce the most likely token, but also to produce "good" responses, as determined by the RLHF model, which was itself trained on human data.

Of course, even just within the regime of "next token prediction", the choice of which training data you use will influence what is learned, and to do a good job of predicting the next token, a rich internal understanding of the world (described by the training set) will necessarily be created in the model.

See e.g. the fascinating report on golden gate claude (1).

Another way to think about this is let's say your a human that doesn't speak any french, and you are kidnapped and held in a cell and subjected to repeated "predict the next word" tests in french. You would not be able to get good at these tests, I submit, without also learning french.

(1) https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude
> but you have no way to see what that really means in it's totality. I think people would push back a lot if they could see that somehow.

I’ve watched enough Mark Dice videos to know how bad it is, and I regret not taking the blue pill sometimes. He’s shown just about every notable case of it happening (with proof). Though he knows how to game the system to resist being taken offline and you could say it’s part of his brand.

You could say that it wouldn’t be worth the risk for others to call it out like he does because it wouldn’t add to the content, and they could slip up.

You can disagree with his politics or personality but you probably wont find a leftist channel that covers that kind of censorship. I wish the videos were more categorized, though he doesn’t do it and uses generic video titles because apparently that makes it less likely to get censored.
Do you like using Node in Jupyter? Are there any downsides / problems that you find with it?

We're trying to build a TypeScript notebook and I'm very interested in what people's current tooling for this looks like today.
> What on earth would the "average" developer's knowledge and skills in cyber security have anything to do with it?

I may be wrong, but I think the development of an "industry" would depend on the foundation of related education and its popularity in the population. Like if football is not taught in the school and people generally don't play it in a country, it's unlikely to have a team to win in olympics even if the government wants it.
I hope we soon start judging other drugs like ethanol in same way. Banning use inside homes and near buildings were people live would help lot with noise pollution.
"Directly", perhaps. But hydro is still responsible for far fewer deaths than gas, oil, or coal: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Jupyter is a decent REPL.

I use it when I want to try a new language. Or when solving adventofcode.

If I had the desire to learn Ruby, i would probably start by downloading a docker image of jupyter with a Ruby kernel.
This renders better for me straight from Github than it does on nbviewer.org:

https://github.com/SciRuby/sciruby-notebooks/blob/master/get...
Korea's birth rate drive struggles to sway 'YOLO' generation
He probably hates how expensive it was/is to now support government requests, and how many governments are big enough to bully "his" platform into giving the same support other governments have gotten.
IME, it's based off of "performance", not performance. So what happens is someone 4 levels above you on the org chart has a google sheet of all their underlings, their most recent grade - erm I mean performance review result - and their total comp.

They sort by total comp, then go down the list and figure out a reason to let that person go. Was there literally anything in your performance review summary they can ding you for? Yes? Phew, that was easy. No? Well, keep looking. "Strategic mismatch for skillset" "too junior, want senior" "too senior, want junior" "role eliminated due to headcount allocated to team being reduced" etc.

So, in the layoff I was privy to, somehow everyone who still had the large lucrative 4-year stock-denominated grants was suddenly gone, and the people who had the newer cash-denominated grants were still there. Meanwhile, several cheaper employees who were perennially underperforming were retained.

Honestly it really soured me on equity grants. It's a game of "heads I win (my company didn't grow and i got to pay you peanuts), tails you lose (my company grew and now i can just fire you and re-hire someone with a cheaper grant so you can't vest those now-very-lucrative appreciated shares)".
While that's horrifying, the dam doesn't bleed radioactive particles into the atmosphere or water which sparks conversations about global catastrophic disaster
It's simple... the BitGrid[1,3].

Take a simple FPGA fabric, and rip out all of the routing hardware, and specialized modules. This gets you down to a cartesian array of Look Up Tables. (Simulator for one LUT/Cell here[2])

Add a delay after each one, so that you can use the magic of graph coloring to clock them in 2 phases, and eliminate all race conditions. This simultaneously makes it a horrible FPGA, in terms of latency, and the easiest FPGA ever, in terms of general purpose, secure, computing.

Most computing problems can be broken down to a directed graph of bitwise operations. Executing all of the graph in lockstep means that you can simply flow data through it. You could get FFTs that window data, then output results at the same rate as the input. For Radar processing, this might be useful.

Ideally, you could flow GPT4 tokens through, the latency for a given stream would be horrible, but you could have millions of parallel streams.

To do this, you have to map the directed graph to hardware. In an FPGA this can take days because of the special modules, etc. This makes programming a nightmare. With a BitGrid, you can just use a greedy mapping algorithm, and Bob's your Uncle.

Because every cell is essentially the worlds smallest Excel Sheet cell, it's easy to know all of the dependencies for any given cell. You can move cells, rotate them, flip and mirror them if you need to maximize the utilization of hardware, or want to wall off a given graph inside walls for isolation.

Until recently, I've always thought of it as a chip, but recently I've come to see that you could just as well take a farm of RP2040 chips and have them all running slow simulators of a fairly huge BitGrid chips, and network them through their I/O pins to make an arbitrary size array, cheap!

The BitGrid topology thus becomes a universal computing solvent. Scaling anything that can be expressed as the directed graph can be run very slowly on a CPU with a lot of RAM/Disk, or quickly on silicon, with identical results. I think this could scale to PetaFlops quite cheaply (a few runs through TinyTapeOut then scaling up)

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[2] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html

[3] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
Filtering content about topic that was polticialy motivated and driven by goverment is basically a definition of an censorship.
>That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.

Prove it.
> if more affluent people lose their jobs we might finally get UBI.

i dont follow why this has to be the case.

Affluent people who lose their economic value will just cease to remain affluent. They have no power to compell ubi.
I really like the direction of System76/Pop/COSMOS is going with this. You have free floating windows along with tiling and multi-application tab views. Add in app location pinning and you've pretty much got all the bases covered.

I'm not sure about their light/dark + accent color(s) though, I do hope they (re)generate the icon suite for the color though, at least for system directories and primary apps. I'm also slightly concerned with tray icons/apps, which hae a few different API/formats already.
What? There are a lot more 19 year olds that understand Galois theory today than when Galois was around.
I think they're arguing from the statistical "spread" of capabilities in a group of women as compared to a group of men. Not sure if it's a valid conclusion but that's how I read it.
> A: People across the world say, "It's the best-tasting rice in the world, so why isn't more of it being exported?" Japanese agricultural officials often comment, "We can't compete with cheap rice produced in Thailand and elsewhere," but that's not the case. Just like you have luxury and standard cars, there are different kinds of rice. Luxury cars won't lose out to ordinary ones even if the price is higher.

Totally not the point of this, but is Japanese rice really "the best-tasting"? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy California-produced Japanese-style short-grained varieties (I'm not sure whether I've bought actual Japanese-grown rice) -- in some applications. But sometimes you want a jasmine or a basmati or something else, and it seems like that's a matter of preference and what you're used to and what other food you're eating it with, more than "better" or "luxury".
I'm sure you can produce a link to that Orwellian metric's definition somewhere, right?
That article reads a lot like a press release. It also includes things like:

> The only category of exposure that showed a trend toward increased risk was living in the same house with a smoker for 30 years or more. In that group, the hazard ratio for developing lung cancer was 1.61, but the confidence interval included 1.00, making the finding of only borderline statistical significance.

"Well, it could cause a 61% increase in cancer cases, but our error bars are so wide that there's really no way of knowing, so it's probably fine."
One common mistake people unfamiliar with how SO works make is confusing "accepted answer" with "best answer". They're often different; accepted just means the person who posted the question found it useful.

>There should probably be some way to roll these up into a higher level article/topic to cover variants of problems, related cases, etc. This could start to act as pillars or knowledge-hubs within SO to get to a place of more canonical information or a more "tacit/practical wikipedia".

There was an attempt to do something like that with the Collectives project but it doesn't seem to have gotten any real momentum going.
I think it's closer to giving you a diagram of the vanillin molecule and then asking you how many hydrogen atoms you see.
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box64 is getting too advanced lol
Hacker News is far worse in terms of disallowed content. Must be full of the most vile and twisted minds on the internet!
And what generates revenue is exactly what I described: what we want and value and thus are willing to pay for.

I don't see what's naive there. On the contrary this is absolute realism. And furthermore this goes hand in hand with individual liberty. Alternatives have been tried, and they failed...
I'm an engineer at company that injection molds parts for medical and industrial devices. This seems extremely promising.

Can your scene generator handle things like custom tooling? For example if I were to place a part to be inspected on a clear acrylic jig, could the model be trained to look through the acrylic?

We're currently already using a vision system to measure certain features on the parts, can your models be applied to generic images, or does it require integration with the camera?

How does the customer communicate the types and probable locations of potential defects? Or do you perform some sort of mold simulation to predict them? Likewise how does the customer communicate where defects are critical versus non-critical?

Finally how does pricing work? Does it scale based on part size, or does the customer select how many variations or do you do some analysis ahead of time and generate a custom quote? Is it a one time cost or is it an ongoing subscription? Could you ballpark a price range for generating a model for a part roughly 3.5 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches tall with moderate complexity?

Feel free to reach out to the email in my profile if you'd like to discuss a little more in depth.
>and more about "don't add any assembly programmer conveniences or other such cleverness, rely on compilers instead of frontend silicon when possible"

What are the advantages of that?
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a coalition that contains RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk are now far right?
Beyond the edge of your capability to do perfectly is what is meant, because there's little point to practicing something you can do perfectly (other than to warm up for other practice for example).
> if your building is up to code?

Aren't you worried about the reach of code as well?
I'm surprised that your takeaway from my venting was that I want to be rich. There are much easier ways to get rich than becoming an expert at something. Out of the four options, I've chosen the one that makes the least money (#4 arguable I suppose).

The reason I became an expert was to do useful things in the world. It does not feel like that's possible beyond a tiny hour-by-hour contribution to a single client at a time.
Unless the pool of females applying was significantly more qualified than the males, it is almost certainly true. Just a matter of statistics.
Not in US, but my reasoning in similar situation is following. If I keep voting for a party that is getting worse and worse for a long time, that will enable people at the top to keep doing the same.

Why would I vote against my interest looking long term? Why should I enable people I don’t like?
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510(k) summaries are always a negotiation between FDA (which wants as much data as possible in them) and manufacturers (which want as little data as possible, as it is priceless competitive intelligence)