skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just let the community downvote inanity. Why does everything need moderators? Honestly moderators would kill an idea like this. Let people flag NSFW and downvote bad faith annotations.
Was thinking that when I wrote the comment. Unfortunately, spammers have gotten very good at gaming web of trust techniques (see amazon product reviews). This is a Hard Problem™.
This is one of my favorite pieces of software engineering because it took something difficult and tried to design something easy to understand as a main criteria for success. The PHD Thesis has a lot more info about this if anyone is curious, it is approachable and easy to read:

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/OngaroPhD.pd...

I think this was core to Raft’s success, and I strive to create systems like this with understandability as a first goal.
Let's let 8 year olds drive drunk. I'm more than capable of spotting them on the road and avoiding them.
The frontend part was already automated. We called it Dreamweaver and RAD tools.
You can't just dismiss a vuln as, "for the love of god, don't expose XXX to the internet."

It's not great to have an unauthenticated RCE on a machine that is _not_ accessible from the internet, either. Inside-the-network RCE is useful for lateral movement and privilege escalation. RCE that you can find by looking for an open UDP port - instead of a vuln scan on 80/443 - is even better.

Initial entry is an important vuln abuse case, but not the _only_ abuse case.
I wonder if a similar diary is being written right now, and will be published someday, documenting the ongoing genocide in Gaza Strip.
From Code Complete:

“The smaller part of the job of programming is writing a program so that the computer can read it; the larger part is writing it so that other humans can read it.” (P.733)

Has stayed with me for ~20 years.
I don't find this very compelling. Hardware is becoming more available and cheaper as production ramps up, and smaller models are constantly seeing dramatic improvements.
New UN report calls for UBI
Sorry to see this, she's been an absolute legend over the years. She was always great even when I didn't think I would love the show or movie.
totally, this is a feature I am working on. might even just do a report feature and remove anything that has been reported too many times by different people before doing true ranking.
Please donate to them if you want them to meet your expectations
What's the effective difference between exiting now and if it does achieve in your words "nearly infinite value" to him personally?

Either way he is set for life, truly being one of the most wealthy humans to have ever exist... literally.
> may be only a few thousand days out

This is actually quite clever phrasing. "A few thousand days" is about ten years, assuming normal usage of 'few' (ie usually a number between 3 and 6 inclusive).

Now, if you, as a tech company, say "X is ten years away", anyone who has been around for a while will entirely disregard your claim, because forward-looking statements in that range by tech companies are _always_ wrong; it's pretty much a cliche. But phrasing as a few thousand days may get past some peoples' defences.
The state I grew up in prohibited distilled spirits from being sold at non-State run stores.
Thanks for the condescending comment dad
I need both. Truly learning for me is learning core concepts, but examples are “known correct” cases I can test that understanding against. If something in the example is surprising, I know my model isn’t complete yet (or the example is wrong lol)
Why would there be more work left for you to do if AI can do it in seconds?

Ai is trending towards a point where it makes your employers productive such that they don’t need you.
Even if you can protect yourself from everything (which I would argue you cannot), not everyone is as smart and infallible as you.
My MEGA65 is finally here
"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about." - Agent Smith

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Dune
I agree with your sentiment - and I apologize, I've since revised my comment.

Hating on memory safety as a concept is pretty cognitively dissonant for a programmer (and in this case [& many others], cognitive dissonance is a sign of some underlying mental illness). Memory safety is something a programmer should strive to achieve 100%.

Not only that, but static typing is absolutely unrelated to memory safety. (How can you even compare these two concepts???)
Been on Brother for 10+ years. I think HP has a good hold on the big box buyer crowd (anecdotal: based on my needing to provide IT services for family), people who simply want a color printer but don't want to get into the research.
This is like posting a reaction video. Just post the actual source.
Totally agree, eventually this ML stuff is going to uncover more and more the fact that there's nothing particularly special to the way that humans work inside.

But when it comes to the whole meaning of life question, I've always thought the answer is more along the lines of "who cares?" People live, people die and we're here to enjoy things while we can. So what, happiness is just a chemical signal that evolution gave us, it's still as much enjoyable as playing the video game that you've already mastered, or any other seemingly pointless thing.
That's a people problem, not an AI problem.
> I have a difficult time seeing this becoming anything other than a cesspool of ads, 4chan-style joke links, and general inanity.

IMO this is the kind of content which made early 2000 internet fun. Not the bland, moderated to hell and back social media sites are. Just compare what happened with the million checkbox experience which got a secret ARG made by users having fun and reddit place which is... meh.
Yeah I have no idea what these people are talking about. The current gen of AI is qualitiatively different than previous attempts. For one, GPT et al are already useful without any kind of special prompting.

I'd also like to challenge people to actually consider how often humans are correct. In my experience, it's actually very rare to find a human that speaks factually correctly. Many professionals, including doctors (!), will happily and confidently deliver factually incorrect lies that sound correct. Even after obvious correction they will continue to spout them. Think how long it takes to correct basic myths that have established themselves in the culture. And we expect these models, which are just getting off the ground, to do better? The claim is they process information more similarly to how humans do. If that's true, then the fact they hallucinate is honestly a point in their favor. Because... in my experience, they hallucinate exactly the way I expect humans to.

Please try it, ask a few experts something and I guarantee you that further investigation into the topic will reveal that one or more of them are flat out incorrect.

Humans often simply ignore this and go based on what we believe to be correct. A lot of people do it silently. Those who don't are often labeled know-it-alls.
> regular citizen

Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan

Not that this takes away anything from what you wrote, I just happened to be in one of my pedantic moods :)
ReThink: Reveal the Threat of Electromagnetic Interference on Power Inverters
Which is why the work to improve the results of small models is so important. Running a 3B or even 1B model as typing assistant and reserving the 100B model for refactoring is a lot more viable.
Sure, but Grammarly and similar have existed far before the LLM boom.
We do have emplyoment problems arguably caused by tech, currently the bar of minimum viable productivity is higher than before in a lot of countries. In western welfare states there aren't jobs anymore for people who were doing groundskeeper ish things 50 years ago (apart from public sector subsidized employment programs).

We need to come up with ways of providing meaningful roles for the large percentage of people whose peg shape doesn't fit the median job hole.
You're implying that there is an absolute Truth and that people only need to do [what?] to check if something is True. But that's not True. We only have models of how reality works, and every model is wrong - but some are useful.

When dealing with almost everything you do day by day, you have to rely on the credibility of the source of the information you have. Otherwise how could you know that the can of tuna you're going to eat is actually tuna and not some venomous fish? How do you know that you should do what your doctor told you? Etc. etc.
I feel like these new tools have helped me get simple programming tasks done really quickly over the last 18 months. They seem like a faster, better and more accurate replacement for googling and Stackoverflow.

They seem very good at writing SQL for example. All the commas are in the right place and exactly the right amount of brackets square curly and round. But when they get it wrong, it really shows up the lack of intelligence. I hope the froth and bubble in the marketing of these tools matures into something with a little less hyperbole because they really are great just not intelligent.
America's dairy farms are down 95% since the 70s–milk price rules are one reason
> Which is in fact consistent with what self-driving skeptics were saying all the way back in 2010: deep learning could get you 95% of the way there but it will take many decades - probably centuries! - before we actually have real self-driving cars. The remote human operators will work for robotaxis and buses but not for Teslas.

If this is the end result, this is already a substantial business savings.
So I just discovered that Cloudfare now owns the trademark for Sun's "The Network is the Computer".

"Cloudflare serves the entire world — region: earth. Rather than asking developers to provision resources in specific regions, data centers and availability zones, we think “The Network is the Computer”. "

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-network-is-the-computer/
Sure there are good and bad doctors. But these anecdotes are no "proof" that doctors aren't to be trusted in general. Which is what I was alluding to.
Invite only networks were you're responsible for the people you invite à la what.cd : your invitee does something against the rules? They get banned and you get banned.
Ideally your court system does not permit AI testimony.
I recently upgraded my home-NAS from a Fractal Define R4 to a Define 7 XL. The R4 had the rubber grommets, but hot-swappable trays that were just held in by spring force. As such they rattled a lot.

The Define 7 has the same grommet system, but the trays can be fastened by screws to the support rails.

The difference in noise was significant. Even though I went from 6 to 10 disks it's much more quiet now.
It's like in the 1990s - (a) the internet will revolutionize commerce so (b) you should buy Webvan. One can be true without the other and (a) took a while. But a lot of people bought Webvan and similar back in the day.
My personal website definitely helped me get hired. Here's how.

Whenever I create something, either for work or personal, I add it to a "Featured" section on my website's homepage. Over time, it became such a nice and comprehensive list that I now use it every time when talking about past projects or whenever a "Can we see some examples of your past work or appearances?" comes up.

It has different types of work and is exhaustive enough that whoever asks, can find what they're looking for. I had a lot of positive comments from prospective employers about it.

What started as a mini project for me to collect all the scattered links for myself so that I don't forget or lose anything, became a great asset that keeps on giving.

Here's the link that I send when asked about "examples of your work": https://www.velvetshark.com/#featured
It's an anchor link of my homepage that scrolls straight to the Featured section.

Oh, just to clarify: the "Featured" section is not the only thing that people find interesting. Once they're on the page, they can browse around and find articles that are of interest to them. That helps too.
This sort of thing seems to be doomed to fail from the start as the web is so large that any attempt of building a user base will spread itself too thin to really take off imo.
I know. That’s why I’m not arguing that we actually try again. Plus I do enjoy drinking beer and other alcohol. But not all drugs are equal.

Many people can responsibly enjoy alcohol. Some can’t. But there are some drugs that are so effective it would be difficult for any human to responsibly use for any extended period of time. It becomes less about philosophy and more about physiology.
Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world
Because of this:

if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_the_Pig';
}
}
The some people win argument isn’t even really true for sports betting. Casinos just ban anyone that wins with any regularity.

Of course any individual bet can win but casinos stack the deck by only taking action from players they know will lose over the long run.
Because they have trouble wrapping their head around
public / private keys? Or something else?
> Sorry, but you are not considering that many (most?) hospitals are trying to optimize for profit,

And, in the grand scheme of things, hiring two doctors for 40 hours per week instead of one doctor for 80 hours a week does not change any bottom line. If they pursue the latter over the former, it is because finding any doctors at all to cover shifts is difficult... doctors are in short supply. By design.

I considered this, it just didn't matter.

> In that scenario increasing the number of medical doctors does not help to improve the working situation for them

Again with this nonsense. That wasn't what we were discussing. We didn't start off with "how can we make overworked Indian pilots' lives better". And we didn't end up in "how can we make overworked US medical doctors' lives better".

If there were a solution that made things safer (in either situation) while making the lives of those workers worse somehow, it would be worth discussing because their job performance affects many lives beyond their own.

> Preventing overlong shifts and too many work-hours per week requires regulation.

This is naive at best, but it's probably unintelligent. For essential work, where there is a small supply of workers qualified to perform the work, making sure that people don't work overlong shifts and endanger the public *actually requires expanding the pool of workers qualified to perform the work*. Unless, somehow, you think the supply is adequate and people with $300,000 in medical school debt have just decided to sit things out and do Uber because the hospital's too stressful. Do you somehow believe that? What evidence led you to believing that? Is your comprehension of economics so flimsy that you just assume that all supply of qualified, highly skilled workers in effectively infinite or at least indefinite in quantity?

I feel like I'm talking to a spider monkey or maybe a marmot or something. How is this not obvious to you? What cognitive defect do you suffer from?
Unfortunately scammers have an interest in automating down votes for anything that shows them bad, and automating increasing their own ranking. Note that otherwise legitimate companies often become scammers against their competition.
One of the most successful psyopps ever. The term, I believe is complete enshitification.
My point exactly! (Well not only being afraid of them, but also being a fan of them being objectified and generally being treated as less..)

In his case, being (mostly) straight (taken from his website) means being doomed from ever having a partner - if he dislikes the gender he's attracted the most to.
like a lot of libertarian experiments in the US, we seem to have done it in the worst possible way. implementation matters.

if it had been up to me, sports gambling should have been restricted to physical locations, and marketing prohibited or highly restricted (perhaps only print advertisements in local markets informing people where they can gamble). perhaps also allow an existing customer to place bets via a telephone call.

the way I think about it is, the main reason you want to legalize a vice is to prevent criminals from selling it.

so you want legal operators to have an easier time doing business than the criminals, so they can outcompete them -- but just barely.

app on your phone and unlimited marketing on the internet and primetime television goes way too far.
I've been paying attention to this drama, is this the correct timeline? Please correct any mistakes.

1. Wordpress.org is a not for profit blogging platform that's widely used, a crazy figure like 50% of websites are created using this platform. It was created in 2003 and Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder. It's community driven and developed and open source (meaning that the source code is freely available for anyone to modify and redistribute).

2. Wordpress.com is a for profit website which offers managed WordPress hosting. Wordpress.com is owned by Matt's company autoMATTic. Their main competitor is WPEngine.com which is not affiliated with Matt. Wordpress.com was created in 2005, WPEngine.com in 2010.

3. Matt used to be a major investor in WPEngine.com, but that's no longer the case. In 2024 Matt demands 8% of WPEngine.com's revenue for leveraging Wordpress.org (which is, as previously stated, free and open source software). He says the name WPEngine.com is confusing to customers, as they may confuse it with the non-profit Wordpress.org (his own for-profit website is Wordpress.com). What's more, instead of paying Wordpress.org they must pay autoMATTic, Matt's for-profit company.

4. When WPEngine refuse to pay, he delivers a speech at the main WordPress conference publicly shaming WPEngine, saying they don't give back. They frack the WordPress eco-system, and urges customers not to use their platform.

5. WPEngine issue a cease and desist letter to Matt. Matt sends one back demanding WPEngine stop using Wordpress.org due to trademark violation, and bans them from the platform.
If it is a form thing, it might be that the running shoes naturally encourage a poor form (a form that only works with them, vs a presumably more 'natural' form of running closer to barefoot).

Doesn't matter. The main thing is you are out and running. And if that "costs" a few hundred every few months, and if you can afford it, why not?

Optimize for joy.
White House agonizes over UN cybercrime treaty
Highly recommend watching The Americans, an incredible show about Soviet spies pretending to be a regular American family. Based somewhat on real people, and very well-researched.
Ah lovely, thank you for the links :)
It does seem a variant on annotation. I'd commend to the poster my analysis of the network utility of such systems I developed after pondering on them for quite a few years (I was interacting with them in the 1990s): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576213

I commend that to the author in the spirit of learning about the space and thinking through the implications, because I believe people are more likely to solve problems when they understand what they are, and think through them, and don't just try to blunder past them with hope and moxie.

That post was written about generalized text annotation and I stand by it in that context.

However, as you deviate from the system being analyzed, the analysis becomes less appropriate. One of the problems generalized annotation systems have is that there are an arbitrary amount of textual comments that can be added to a page. That is what turns the popular pages into a unpleasant cacophony. The range of links is somewhat more restrained. Plus, links are just... links. Textual comments are arguing and flames and generally tiring on any popular page. (Though I'd watch out for people learning how to turn "links" into arguments.)

It is possible that a shared cross-linking system might work, but I'd strenuously suggest thinking very very hard before adding in any sort of inline "conversation" system. It is very, very obvious and very, very tempting... and it immediately puts you back into the generalized web annotation space, which is strewn with corpses, many of them very very well funded. You can have a "community forum" where people can talk, and perhaps even should, but putting it inline on the page is basically a known-fail. If you think you've got a solution to that I'd try to be very sure that you've got a very strong proposition on exactly how yours is different than the previous attempts.

Anyhow, I would just generally suggest to the author that this is one of those "obvious ideas" that hasn't happened because in general they flame out so quickly that you don't even find out they existed before they've already collapsed, not because nobody has ever tried it. Be sure to consider what has happened in the past.

Also, as a hint from previous efforts: It looks like you may be trying to bind links to specific text on the page. As you've probably already discovered, that's harder than it looks, and however much code you've written for it, I guarantee you it's even harder than that. I'd strongly suggest considering just binding links to pages and not trying to bind it to text at all.
Or you know, maybe we're pissed about the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose nature of the current copyright regime.
I really agree with the backdrop painted by this article:

- Meta discovered the discovered internally.

- Meta fixed the issue without delay.

- Meta took steps to show "absence of evidence" of abuse. (Does not mean "evidence of absence" though.)

- The reuters article says "Issue was disclosed voluntarily to the regulator." but the actual source [1] announces a breach of GDPR Article 33(1), for failing to notify.

- Meta was still fined 91 M€ for failing to build "data protection by design and by default" (my understanding of the fine, Articles 5 and 32 of the GDPR).

This is a positive step for security: companies being fined for being sloppy about security, even if they dutifully clean up after they mess up.

[1] https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/D...
Oh yeah, I remember the old StumbleUpon browser extension from the early 2000s myself! Good times.
Are you responding to an 8 year old?
IAMNAL but there’s usually a clause to say that if some part of the agreement isn’t valid/can’t be enforced/etc then the rest of the agreement stands regardless. Who knows how well that stands up though (probably lawyers somewhere, but I doubt it is cited often).
Le bureau des légendes (French title) is an amazing show. Five seasons (the first three probably the superior ones).

The first season it's fun to watch and wrestle with whether you would want to be an agent or not. (Eventually I decided I would love to be an agent — but not the high-profile kind — I would want to be the Mémé or Pépé characters from the series — or one of the techies that work in the office).
Technology is the tool that magnifies both good and bad things. It's up to us to prevent bad things at the source, not ban the tool; it's the social media problem, really.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-elec...
Flare-On 2024 Binary Reversing challenge starts today
Some more information about the kind of challenges to expect: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ann...