skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that many linters are excessively pedantic, require workarounds that are just silly, and if we ask "does it actually improve things?" then ... often not really, not in a substantial way. Once you agree on the "big basics" like brace style or whatever makes sense for your language, you quickly get diminishing (often miniscule) returns.

This also ties in to what I call the "linter fallacy"; which goes something like:

"This code passes 56 linters"

"Therefore, it's good code"

And the related:

"Our code is a mess"

"I spent a week adding 56 linters and rewriting it all to pass"

"Therefore, now our code is good"

What really matters is "can I read this code naturally?" And if the answer to that is "yes" then it may be good code. Obsessing over whether it should be written with some small differences that don't really matter is just not useful for anyone.
Going back and looking at my code — with over 30 years of hindsight — I want to refactor it, simplify the common crap you had to do like responding to window events, etc....

Never mind making wrapper functions for dealing with Handles and such.

To your point though, wow, how much simpler the Toolbox was compared to a modern OS. It does indeed feel fun to try some retro development again.
I only read the abstract; “Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true.”

True vs false seems like a very crude metric, no?

Perhaps this paper’s research claim is also false.
Thank you for writing up the details of your impactful work. I hope Meta pick this up gives you all tons of exposure.
>Danbury is only "in the Boston area" by the most generous of measures. Hell, Danbury's probably closer to Philadelphia than Boston.

Perhaps by a small margin, but I don't think so.

That said, Danbury is ~150 miles from Boston and ~70 miles from New York City. And even less from New Haven or Hartford.
Where is the invention? He forked b2/cafelog and continued work on it when the original project faded out. He had no choice but to give it away unless he wanted the only WordPress install in the world. Another fork like b2evolution or any of the billion blogging tools at the time would have taken the spot WordPress did instead.
Huh. It never occurred to me that the word chipset was the descendent of a set of chips. That's nifty
It's not clear that Github's ToS can do such a thing, is it? What gives them the right to overrule the license from Winamp to me?
So if we lived in a perfect hacker paradise where there are no company profits or private property, what would be reasonable operating costs for maintaining an instant planetary payment system – including fraud insurance? Assuming the same amount of transactions as today?
Thats definitely how the article from the times reads. What is the point of higher learning, it's a gross mutation for it to become an ever tightening noose of status scarcity
I haven’t read the article but a town without cars implies that I’ll have to live in close proximity to a lot of people. Which means it’s apartment and condo living or living with no significant backyards. Both of these would be immediate dealbreakers for me.
Being guilty and having no reasonable out, while using the justic system procedures as a hail Mary so that you might escape on a technicality should be punished. If you have no remorse you are a clear danger to society.
> Okay. Very cool manifesto. [...] Please don’t let your particularly extreme position in this culture war cloud your actual professional judgement. It’s embarrassing. [...] You can’t just scream “word-association machines!” til the cows come home. It’s unintelligent.

Hmmm, you seem to be taking this not-that-extreme criticism of an inanimate algorithm-category / SaaS-product-category awfully personally.

Anyway, onward to the more-substantive parts:

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> Displaying links or images is the behaviour of whatever is parsing the output, which isn’t an LLM.

That's like arguing a vending-machine which can be tricked into dispensing booby-trapped boxes is perfectly safe because it's your own dang fault for opening the box to see what's inside. The most common use of LLMs these days involves summarization/search, and when the system says "More information is at {url}", it's totally reasonable to expect that users will follow the link.

It's the same class of problem as a conventional search engine which is vulnerable to code-injection when indexing a malicious page, causing the server to emit result-URLs that redirect through the attacker's site while dumping the user's search history. The fault there does not lie in the browser/presentation-layer.

> If an LLM saying “a cop should shoot first” is materially consequential

It sounds like you're claiming it's not really a problem because some existing bureaucratic system will serve as a safety-check for that particular example. I don't trust in cops/sheriffs/vigilantes quite that much, but OK, so how about cases where formal bureaucracy is unlikely to be involved before damage is done?

Suppose someone crafts an incantation which is inordinately influential on the LLM, so that its main topic of conversation regarding {Your Real Name Here} involves the subject being a registered sex-offender that molested an unnamed minor in some other jurisdiction. (One with databases that aren't easy to independently check.) As a bonus, it believes your personal phone number is a phone-sex line and vice-versa.

Would you still pooh-pooh the exploit as acktually being just a classical misuse of data, a non-issue, a sad failure of your credulous neighbors who should have carefully done their own research? I don't think so, in fact I would hope you'd fire off a cease-and-desist letter while reconsidering the merit of their algorithm.

Finally, none of this has to be a targeted personal attack either, those examples are just easier for most people to empathize with. The same kind of attack could theoretically replace official banking URL results with phishing ones, or allow an oppressive regime to discover which of their citizens visit external pro-democracy sites.
Maybe jpegtran [1] is what you're looking for?

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/jpegtran
>(1) I don't think you can have an ad hominem against an idea?

You've tried your best.

>(2) I'm not opposed to any ideas in this paper. I think the paper stands on its own merits.

You're just preemptively setting a limit to how much thinking we can do. After all you made a post in this very thread:

>>So I guess maybe less "conspiracy theory" and more "recklessly dangerous" or "abandonment of the Hippocratic oath".

Which is odd, since medical research has no Hippocratic oath or recklessly dangerous caveats. After all, they were doing gain of function research on coronaviruses in the very city where covid-19 started. Unless geography is now a reckless pseudo science which we must sensor for the good of all.
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I think you're fighting a culture war I'm out of the loop on.
Anybody know whether this would preclude patches that contain none of the project's own source code?
How about if you're publicly saying things that offend a whole community, take personal responsibility for that and accept whatever offensive things they say about you in response. People have this dumb idea that everyone else should respect them for what they say in public but they have the right to disrespect others. If you can't handle that, stop saying inflammatory things to the whole world.
> I find it ironic that on a technology forum people are so quick to jump to “agents aren’t worth it” with so many people think the same thing about software developers and/or their quotes for building software.

This isn't exactly an honest comparison. The vast majority of software engineers do not make a percentage of the earnings of the product they're developing. If I work for a company making 150k/year, I don't suddenly start making 300k/year if the company sells my software for twice as much. Likewise, I can't charge twice as much for consulting just because the company I'm consulting for makes twice as much money.

An agent makes a commission based only on the value of the house, which incentivizes them to sell more expensive houses. When I purchased my house, I did most of the work (found the house, hired a home inspector, found my own mortgage, used my own lawyer) - the agent existed because it was basically required, and made 11k for roughly 15 hours of work. If I was wealthier, and could have afforded a more expensive house, they could have made 20k for 15 hours of work. In both cases, they did the exact same amount of work (minimal); why did they make more in the second scenario?

Now that I know how the system works, I will be avoiding agents if at all possible when I sell my current house and buy my next. They're about as useful as used car salesmen, but somehow have convinced the entire continent that the housing market will fall apart without them.
still happening in China in 2024

Foreigner caught a Chinese couple scooping up gutter oil
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1eo2wmy/...
It sounds like he needs to get the victim to ask ChatGPT to visit the malicious website. So there is one extra step needed to exploit this

> All a target needed to do was instruct the LLM to view a web link that hosted a malicious image. From then on, all input and output to and from ChatGP
You can try to justify it all you want, but we all know if you were genuinely offered that deal, you'd take it.
I don’t think ‘skimmed’ still works? Chip and tap must respond.
He could have feigned remorse, admitted guilt and flipped it on her.
Verdi an AI GPT-4o platform for e-commerce
Russian rulers alternate between Bald and Hairy
SBF on the other hand...is cell mates with Puff Daddy.
How do these compare in price to the threaded steel pipes you get at home depot?

(the kind people do make desks and shelves out of)
Unless they allow the reply but hide it from others (ie, shadowban).
I'm a licensed agent in CA and am particularly interested in the answer to this question.

There's very strict regulation around unlicensed individuals performing activities requiring a license (negotiating, showing property, etc). Thus I would be surprised if they have AI doing this for a client!
Interesting that Japanese companies sometimes help competitors, such as Sharp helping Busicom in the article. I also think Yamaha helped Korg in their early years [1].

[1] https://www.soundonsound.com/series/history-korg
We have to work on the scaling. There is lots of web scraping and LLM calls that we need to make sure works under load. I'm sure there will be quality improvements as well.
Only fully losslessly if the image dimensions are a multiple of the MCU (usually 8x8px or 16x16px, I can't recall/depends)
any pixels part of a DCT block on the edges are cropped when rendered, so jpegtran will drop those blocks when transforming the image since the alternative is introducing artifacts, since jpeg only supports cropping DCT blocks on the right and bottom edges.

I modified jpegtran to work as a dll and wrote a python wrapper for it for a project so I could use it in a small-image compression pipeline (due to several limitations with calling the binary). I needed to save a few hundred million 100x100 jpegs, so I overwrite the height/width to trick the decoder into thinking the edge blocks are full, then I stitch them into ~10x10 mega-images with my jpegtran wrapper, requantize with mozjpeg, then recompress with dropbox lepton, it saves about 20-30% overall, with each step saving about 10% each (the stitching benefits the lepton step).
https://i.imgur.com/6PV5WDM.jpeg
There are 1.4 billion people in China. You’re showing me a couple of people doing who knows what in a clip of unknowable provenance. This is not the hill to die on, my man
A lot of the time those look like bot comments that don't really say anything and could work for any video. Still much better than the bots that just copy a comment from someone else.
I disagree with you on the human rights thing, that is definitely on the table for discussion.

I connect the erosion of bodily autonomy in America to the Democratic mandates for health insurance purchase with Obamacare and then certainly the federal mandate for employees of large corporations to receive the experimental EUA Covid vaccine.

In the arena of basic human rights, any political party that demands I show my private medical information as proof of vaccination in order that I may continue to work in a 100% remote job has lost the thread and there's no way back to good graces.

The "my body my choice" and workers rights Democratic party locked me down on home detention as a non-essential worker for over a year and finally got me RIF'd from my fancy job because I refused to show my papers well after the crisis had ended. Would you call that fascism or authoritarianism?

And that erosion of bodily autonomy at the federal level led to the _easy_ overturning of Roe v Wade! At the time the federal vaccine mandates were announced, I called it that they were weakening Roe. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The Democratic party needs to end and something new needs to grow to replace all the corruption. There's not one good policy for humanity coming from them and certainly far too much optional war and needless killing.
A stand-up is "here is what I worked on, here is what I'm going to work on, and here is what I had or am having trouble with". And if I can help you out with something or want to discuss more for any other reason, then I say "John, I can help you with that; I'll hit you up after the meet", and you say "k" and that's the end of it.

Or at least, that's how it should be. But half the people tell long shaggy dog stories because they fear "I worked on feature X, it's going well" or some such is too short or basic, but it's not. Or they turn into long protracted debug sessions that's only really of interest to two people but 7 others are watching. That should be done after the standup.

It's really just intended to 1) give everyone a basic idea of what people are working on, and 2) a moment to check in and ask for help, and/or offer help.
I think with X’s current audience it makes sense

Since it’s only ragebait accounts now, sometimes they falsely post that someone has deleted their account in response to the ragebaiters post about them

Its just a UX problem, rage baiters actually believe it because X makes it look like the account is gone

Just inaccurate UX
Mostly the blockee. Although I think it also devalues the service for some/many blockers.
It's kind of the opposite of this quote from Christian Bale: If you have a problem with me, text me. And if you don't have my number, you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me.
Fine if you are young, able-bodied, don't need medical care, and don't mind living with the sights, sounds, and smells of a lot of other people. Not to mention the algorithmic rent hikes and whatever restrictions the landlord imposes.
California AB 1836: Use of likeness: digital replica
Thanks for the detail! This is a use case we plan to support, and it will be configurable (for when you don’t want it). Some of our customers run into this when different users ask a similar query - “NY-based consumer founders” vs “consumer founders in NY”.
California AB 2602: personal or professional services: digital replicas
He published an estimate of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in Santa Clara county, claiming a signal from a positivity rate that was within the 95% CI for the false-positive rate for the test. Recruitment was also highly non-random.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...

Such careless use of statistics is hardly uncommon; but it's funny to see that he succumbed too, perhaps blinded by the same factors he identifies in this paper.

Beyond that, he sometimes advocated for a less restrictive response on the basis of predictions (of deaths, infections, etc.) that turned out to be incorrect. I don't think that's a conspiracy theory, though. Are the scientists who advocated for school closures now "conspiracy theorists" too, because they failed to predict the learning loss and social harm we now observe in those children? Any pandemic response comes with immense harms, which are near-impossible to predict or even articulate fully, let alone trade off in an unquestionably optimal way.
> If they have a suspected neck injury there can be significant risks.

Not entirely unreasonable to consider, but if they need defibrillation and are unconscious / unable to roll themselves over, they might have bigger problems. Just the movement of properly executed CPR is going to be considerable.
Reddit works the same way. Blocking is so stupid anyway.
Alternatively, let me choose the font sizes and weights and such independently. I don’t need to look at the same point size for two fonts, I need to look at two fonts where I set the size and whatever to be how I would set them in my code editor.
I still don't understand why they did it. SBF came from a period as a successful trader. He didn't need to defraud people to be successful. The same thought came to me when watching the Netflix show about Madoff: his pyramid scheme was only a sideline to a successful market-making business, he could have shut it down before his losses became too great, and the losses were only going to get bigger as time went on.
It's possible to get slightly better compression by losslessly rearranging data in a JPEG (DC components are compressed row by row, and prefer fewer horizontal color changes).

However, here the author seems to accidentally fully recompress the images, and falls into the classic trap of "looks almost the same but the file is much smaller!"

That's what every lossy format does every time. They're designed to lose data that is hardest to see with the naked eye.

At the top end of the quality range, file sizes grow exponentially in proportion to quality (it's natural consequence of allowing less and less data to be lost, and approaching lossless compression that has a hard limit on how effective it can be).

But conversely this means that going from very high quality to still-pretty-high quality moves the file size along the exponential curve and seems to give dramatic reduction in file size. This isn't any trick, that's how it works.

File size change is easy to measure, but visual quality change is difficult to quantify, so people disregard the visual change. In reality they're just moving a point along a curve, and recompression gets a worse curve (less quality for the same file size) than the quality-to-file-size ratio of compressing the file at the lower quality from the start.
>Throw a few million at charity and you will be a celebrated and respected member of society. You will get more respect than most people who work a regular job without breaking laws.

Yep. cf. Michael Milken[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken
For me it was hackers (1995) but after I got triggered Matrix had a huge influence in my mindset.
FedNow will not become an alternative to consumer payment cards anytime soon, if ever. Visa & Mastercard work very well for payments between strangers.
Something I didn't know that according to wikipedia, hpux is still being developed. I thought it had stopped with the pa-risc machines being killed off. Anyone here still using it?

Also, apparently, OpenVMS releases are still rolling out as well.

I'm glad these things are still happening but I can't imagine they're profitable. Am I missing something?
Thankfully research is not guided by notions like "what makes money in the current economy"; otherwise we'd be stuck with faster calculators instead of, well, all of modern computer science.
Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison, ordered to forfeit $11B
Can someone explain the economics of this to me?

As I understand it, battery storage isn't cheaper than just base load generation (nuclear, combined cycle). However, it sounds like natural gas peaker plants are significantly more expensive. Can that be quantified? ~80% more, or more than $.03kwh difference? Are the levelized costs of battery storage, including financing, now less than this? Are incentives a part of it?

I'm guessing the solar aspect plays into this as well, as a large plant like that likely produces at times when prices are relatively cheap. It'd be really to see it all quantified.
Except that US commerce dwarfs pretty much all other countries. Visa & Mastercard arguably play a major role in such dominance.
I just asked chatGPT for the url of Wikipedia and it gave it. Should no LLM output any URL? It seems like that would be a significant reduction in usefulness -- references are critical. The transfer of responsibility to a parser would either have to exclude all URLs or be smart enough to know when a URL is required vs not and whether the request is a prompt injection or not. This is way outside the ability of any LLM, parser, and most humans.
It isn’t fully AOT, but support for AOT modules is excellent.
Have you ever dealt with harassment? Do you think someone should take responsibility for posts that cause them to be harassed?
Ah you misread, I'm saying anyone reading the comment who was active in startups during that time would know about those events.
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A lot of offline stores have website with prices.
You are all history majors now, regardless of what the diploma says
Maybe they'd lose more cases if they had to try their cases.
No one cars about the speed in most payments. FedNow is as complicated as ACH and has even fewer protections.
Well hang on I mean we're also excluding option 3 here: they just straight up broke the service which provided that feature somewhere between haphazardly decommissioning a data center without planning, and the mass layoffs based on code commit printouts, and now no one knows how to fix it.
We essentially did follow his policy and we have a sense of the impact.

The Lancet estimated that about 40% of US covid deaths could have been avoided if the administration had better policies. That's a bit over 400,000 deaths. That's about the same number of Americans lost during WWII.

Not all of that can be directly attributed to John Ioannidis's advocacy against lockdowns, but it at least gives us a sense of how big a blunder it was.
My last question is higher effort than a copy pasted link to a wikipedia page...

This approach seems bizarre frankly, it can only be to your detriment because it implies you are putting in even less than 'minimal effort'.
It's been infiltrated by rogue SEO content for at least a decade.
Before we had cars, we had cities with general stores and stores for every need. Later when cars were in use trucks carried goods to Walmart and other big box stores that put the smaller stores out of business.
Peoplemover like Walt Disney and vision with Epcot and the original design
Depends on the scenario. In a threaded query, or multiple queries from the same user - you’d want different outputs. If 20 different users are looking for the same result - a cache would return the right answer immediately for no marginal cost.
Yeah this place again. I mean kudos on trying something new, but it's basically condos/apartments with no parking, and surrounded by rest of Tempe, AZ. It's puffing this up to be something it's not.
That's my big problem with youtube premium.

I don't mind creators asking people to support them on patreon, etc. But paying $X per month and still seeing sponsored content, is kind of annoying.

At least mark the sponsored content and allow premium members to skip the video when it comes on.

Worse is when the video is targeted to the hobbyist, but is sponsored by some large customer that charges thousands of dollars for a product or service. So e.g. Altium Designer costs thousands per year. But you can only get a free 90 day subscription, at which point the license cost kicks in.
You can't pay with cash on the Internet, though.