skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using any non Microsoft software.
The fact that the UK demonstrably reduced suicide rates as a result of making it very marginally less easy to get a no-prescription-needed painkiller, makes me think that there's plenty of people on the edge.

Easy access to firearms is totally in the same category as easy access to painkillers to overdose on, and has been demonstrated by similar research: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4566524/#:~:text=Fi....

I have opined before that I would be surprised if ChatGPT specifically has caused the deaths of fewer than 200 people, just by giving bad advice — that's one in a million of the users, and I think that's plausible given the story of a different chatbot almost leading to botulism poisoning.

I also think that the general internet should have an 18 rating: to the extent that the argument for film classifications is valid, and that the internet is too big to be classified and also definitely contains examples of things beyond the most extreme allowed in cinema etc., we should treat it like it's 18-only content except where demonstrably suitable for younger audiences.
>actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue.

Setting aside moral arguments, if it raises to the level of embezzlement, it’s a crime.
I used LPC a long time ago on an LP Mud, so Pike has always had a fond spot in the back of my mind, even if I don't use it now.

However, that works for int and bigint, but Number (double precision) can represent numbers that BigInt can not, and BigInt can represent numbers which Number can not. There isn't a graceful way to automatically promote/degrade one to the other in all cases, and a silent conversion will do the wrong thing in many cases.
Yes, but not because of this specific verdict. This was a (failed) attempt to impact the ability of Masimo to sell its own smartwatch, in which case Masimo would've lost the ability to continue blocking imports of Apple Watches with an enabled pulse oximetry feature in the U.S.
How much of that biome is the result of a previous ecological disaster? The US is covered by those from what I've understood. Vast tracts of lands are arid because beavers were hunted to extinction for example. Protecting the accident of the previous 100 years doesn't sound so compelling.
Long-term freelancer here (several decades) who has almost never been a full-time employee. While the points in this article are generally true, there is much variety in the world of freelancing that isn't touched on here.

My first few freelancing jobs were basically full-time, working for one client at a time. While I didn't get benefits (health insurance, paid vacation, stock options, extra overtime pay), I did command a fairly high hourly rate which made up for that.

My time wasn't monitored as closely as that of a full-time employee, i.e. if I came in at 10 am and left at 4 pm, I got paid for that time (minus lunch) and nobody cared, as long as I got the job done. Conversely, if I worked from 9 am to 11 pm, I got paid for all those hours (minus time for meals, of course)!

Eventually I got smaller clients/projects, but more of them. These days my situation is much closer to that described in the article. However, I'm in a much different position financially now than I was then, and am okay with the large fluctuations in work.

If work starts to dry up, your safety net is to get a full time job, like all the other working stiffs out there. You have been building your skills as a freelancer, especially during dry spells, haven't you? So theoretically you're well positioned to apply for a job. There's also unemployment benefits, which vary by country of course, so hopefully you won't end up on the streets unless you suffer setbacks well beyond your control.

If I had to give advice to somebody who just started freelancing, it would be to save as much as possible as early as possible, and to stash as much as possible in a retirement account and the rest in an investment(s) that will be relatively safe in the long term. Ask your accountant and financial planner for specific advice here, but long story short: index funds like the S&P 500.
Reminds me my little brother in high school, running for hours in a rubber suit to make his weight.
100%. Also the author citing California and Florida as "successful" terraforming projects is a bit ironic in 2024. Nature seems to be taking them both back... The world is already super fragile, especially in regards to climate change. I'm not convinced doubling down on a country which struggles to maintain it's existing infrastructure and is hyper divided (to my chagrin) is a wise strategy.
To the degree that society is a complex system with feedback.

But notice that the Gartner hype cycle is full of unjustifiable hidden assumptions (like the fact that the thing being hyped is useful at all) so it has no predictive power. It only happens that some times people act like that.

Also, there's no guarantee that the society's response to a change will be stable.
Enter TunSafe:
https://github.com/TunSafe/TunSafe

This comes with TCP implementation
https://github.com/TunSafe/TunSafe/blob/master/docs/WireGuar...

Bad news is that runs only between TunSafe instances.
Except that Microsoft does organize spaces for many other issues, causes and such.

You can argue whether they should or shouldn't, and I think that's valid. But when it gets selective, it gets muddy.
I don't know about 1TB data but I think it was used in some missile system so I would say yes for mission critical data, not sure if we think about mission critical in the same terms.

Edit: by pure chance I hit that just a moment ago:
https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/10/16/sqlite-supercharg...
I’ve been consulting for 4 years with considerable success so you could say it’s kinda “freelancing long term”. Whilst I originally was stressed about the need to constantly seek new projects/clients, it’s stabilized a little bit and I have built up some savings to at least give me a buffer. For managing internal stress, I’ve turned to Buddhism to help keep me going through tough times but also realized that reputation and client base has played a key role in me keeping this up long term.

My client base is a mix of startups and enterprises. Enterprises have given me longer term projects and have deeper pockets which reduces income unpredictability. The good work that me and my team does also provides us with good referrals and case studies that we can talk about with future customers.

As a solo consultant at the beginning of the journey, I adopted the mindset of being a 1 person business and acted like a business which meant doing sales/marketing activities (i.e. built partnerships, strategize to focus on value propositions, act like an advisor) to keep things going.

Happy to answer more questions!
Socratic logic argues you must first agree on the meaning of terms and definitions. Next is determination of what the facts are. Lastly is logical arguments. Guess which part is the most difficult?

Religious logic is like this. It presupposes a greater mystery that has been partially revealed to us. It also presupposes that our fallible logic cannot on its own understand the truth. In other words it defines faith as believing in the greater truth even if the world and every one says we are foolish to believe in such fairy tales.
Some context:

- A blog post I wrote last year: https://cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-...

- HN discussion on this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

- A scientific introduction to SBS: https://cyrille.rossant.net/introduction-shaken-baby-syndrom...

To be clear, what has been discredited is not the fact that babies are shaken (studies have consistently shown a high incidence of this type of abuse) nor that shaking is safe (it is not—never shake a baby).

What has been discredited by scientific evidence over the past 25 years is the reliance on isolated subdural and retinal hemorrhages in infants to determine with near certainty that a child has been violently shaken, in the absence of a history or evidence of major trauma. Abuse must be assessed on a case-by-case basis, considering other signs of trauma (fractures, bruises, neck injury) and ruling out a long list of alternative medical explanations. Most importantly, abuse is not a medical determination; it is a legal one.
Tell HN: Don't Use Apple's Hide My Email to Create Anonymous Accounts
It's been more than 2 years since people started to realize that this "feature" doesn't actually work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/qrr58d/hide_my_email_is_not_forwarding_any_emails/

It doesn't forward any emails to the email address you choose.

I have created Reddit and Tiktok accounts using Apple's Hide My Email and I can't remove them now because no verification email is forwarded to my actual email by Apple. Moreover, I can't setup 2FA on those accounts due to the same reason. Someone just tried to login to my Tiktok account and I guess I'm just supposed to sit here and see what they can do with my information because Apple won't deliver Tiktok's emails sent to my real email to setup 2FA.

How can't a +$2T company fix such a thing? It's embarrassing tbh.
I'm not sure why training on stolen data would disqualify them if said data was available or at minimum accurately specified what it was.
Yeah this is the place to do it. Much less competition with established places.

I think Bend and Boise are likely to experience rapid expansion in the next 20 years on the west coast, especially as winters grow milder.
TCR is as much a problem as it is a solution. As a pay-for play registry, it silently sabotages legit SMS messages from VoIP (MNVO, etc) - while allowing plenty of SMS traffic that end users don't want.

My phone # is a VoIP that forwards to my T-Mobile cell. SMS stopped reaching my phone because T-Mobile silently dropped them. I now forward them to my AT&T # (as long as I can) and to my email.

TCR explainer: The Campaign Registry is an industry-led effort to reduce spam, mostly spearheaded by T-Mobile. It isn't fully baked and is far too simplistically implemented.

It is supposed to (only) apply to SMS originating from biz. However, it is a wide and leaky net that captures both more and less than it should.

SMS from biz that pay/register with the TCR are unfettered; they can mass message. SMS sent from consumers via wireless carriers (like T-Mobile) are similarly unmolested.

But SMS sent from VoIP services (that compete with wireless carriers) get interpreted as biz-originated and get dropped silently.

Past that, another major issue with TCR is that it doesn't meaningfully discriminate between major SMS campaigns and the most minimal+routine SMS usage.

My biz clients provide product support to their customers and a handful of SMS messages may be involved. Even so, they are required to jump thru the same hoops as huge entities that send millions of SMS.

Within that context, I found that registering and working with TCR was so onerous/expensive that we're 1) ignoring it as long as we can and 2) considering workarounds.
A client of mine once swapped over to a new domain that was coincidentally one letter away from another major domain. It wasn't an attempt to typosquat or anything nefarious, but Chrome started automatically showing everyone a big scary warning page before entering the site. We looked into appealing it but there was no guarantee of it getting whitelisted in a timely manner, so we ended up canceling the domain migration before they lost too much traffic.
It is terrifying to me that people like this author exist and are serious. Even more terrifying is the possibility that one day, someone in power will read this and think, hey, that's a good idea.

(also terrifying: who is upvoting blogs like this??? is there really a vast underground of people in favor of destruction of the [remaining] environment so we can add a trillion more acres of concrete strip-malls and Wal-Marts?)
If the person I actually replied to found it unhelpful they can of course say something and we can have a nice, civil conversation about it where we both learn something.

There really isn't a polite way to say this, but it needs to be said: no one asked you. Or j_maffe. Neither of you accomplished anything by butting into a sub-sub-thread that didn't involve you and didn't need your antagonism and ill-tempered presumptions about my intent.
Then why is the situation what it is? As numerous people have pointed out, other fast-food chains don't have this problem. They are able to provide ice-cream products that are consistently free of either toxins or excuses.

Occam's Razor suggests that the most likely explanation is that the McDonald's Corporation is deliberately setting their franchisees up to fail by continuing to sign contracts with Taylor. Which I agree makes no sense.
The difference between Fascism of the 30’s and today is that in the 30’s there was a mass movement which was organised as part of the Fascist parties. Whereas today that is missing. The notion of “Inverted totalitarianism” by Sheldon Wolin, I think encapsulates our current political situation.
What did Trump do to hold Israel accountable between 2016 and 2020?
> Artists need to remember the alternative isn't 2-4x higher payouts - it's piracy.

And Spotify needs to remember that if it ceased to exist tomorrow, the artists whose music it depends on would care less than if they lost the ability to sell pictures of their feet.
The Llama 3 license has all sorts of hokey extra clauses in it:

From https://www.llama.com/llama3/license/

> If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

This seems harmless... until you ask what happens if you start a startup on top of Llama 3, do really well and later try to get acquired by one of the companies that had more than 700m active users on that date (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc)

> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Meta Llama 3 or derivative works thereof).

That's a pretty huge restriction on ways you can use the models. The language "to improve any other large language model" is also incredibly vague.

> (B) prominently display “Built with Meta Llama 3” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation. If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name.

I love this one, it means that if you fine-tune a model for erotic furry fan fiction you HAVE to call it "Llama 3 Erotic Furry Fan Fiction Writer" or similar.
Ukraine is striking deeper inside Russia – and reshaping the war
What is TCR?
They really think it's true.

People as diverse and mutually antagonistic as George Orwell, Noam Chomsky and C.S. Lewis said that the outer elites -- the exact kind of people that inhabit HN -- were far more thoroughly propagandized than the working class and the poor. It's on full display here.
Open source was always a corporate-friendly compromise, but seemed like some of the people involved had a lot of integrity.

What we need is those open source people with integrity to put the smack down on those willfully abusing and destroying the terms.

If you can't do it with trademarks/certifications/licensing/memberships/etc., do it with mainstream journalism. Like might be being done here, except The Register has long had rare insider knowledge, and is relatively niche. You need to get the message out to everyone who's not already in the know, including lawmakers.

(Incidentally, the FSF also has integrity, but, besides prompting open source by being zero-compromise -- which is fine in their case -- they have an additional challenge of seeming to be clinically incapable of advocacy in situations that are aligned.)
Re: SIMD

Suggest you look at the Julia Language, a high-level but still capable of C-like speed.

It has built in support for SIMD (and GPU) processing.

Julia is designed to support Scientific Computing, with a growing library spanning different domains.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/
> I'd rather we just move to native cross platform applications and stop using a document browser to build interactive applications

Here you go. Do both native and wasm:

https://avaloniaui.net/

https://platform.uno/

https://flutter.dev/

Flutter example:

https://flutterweb-wasm.web.app/
That's a neat way to look at it. I've always thought of dreams as a kind of garbage collection where we produce simulated situations to test whether new information will help us or if it's irrelevant to us, and throw things out that we won't need to remember. I read that one reason we can kind of remember our dreams when we first wake up but can't 5 minutes later is because our brain has some method of forcing our interpretation of what we see into some kind of reasonable cohesion according to what we consider to be physically possible or likely - this region is inactive in our sleep so like you say, we can play in scenarios free from the constraint of what is known to be possible

When we wake up, those impossible and unlikely scenarios in our dreams are still interpretable for a few minutes, but as we fully wake up we're just totally blocked from recalling that memory because what happened defies cohesive reality

Anyway, I agree that not everything needs to fit into a "serious proposal | speculative fiction" dichotomy
Is this possible in binary? I can't get the result to have the same number of 1s and 0s as the two inputs.
As a framing device for explanation I think it serves to describe a situation provided that it is made clear that the distinction between what it is doing and actual consciousness is made clear.

I feel it is very much like saying an electron wants to inhabit a lower energy level in an atom. Nobody believes that the electron exhibits desire, but framing it in that way enables people to predict what would happen in a given situation.

It does get more complicated when we are approaching a level where people are seriously suggesting that there is thinking, awareness, and theory of mind going on in models. When people are arguing this position they make it very clear that they are talking about the real deal and not a metaphor or framing device.
You usually do this with servers that should be rock-solid and stateless. HAProxy, Traefik, F5. That way, you can pull the DNS record for maintenance 24 - 48 hours in advance. If something overrides DNS TTLs that much, there is probably some reason.
Metaculus hosted similar:

https://www.metaculus.com/faq/#public-figure

But apparently removed it recently:

https://github.com/Metaculus/metaculus/issues/1095
The state fully reimburses the campaign budget to each candidate?
A sacrificial metal bed could work as a solution.
This looks great but god I cringe anytime I seed micro-HDMI being used for anything but a case study of a pointless, terrible port. I’d rather not have any display-out at all vs a port that is probably going to fail right when I need it to, if I can remember the stupid adapter.

Should’ve just been another USB-C port. Let me break it out to what I need, since I’m gonna need a dongle anyways.
Well, with Haskell you know what it is oriented towards and you know what to expect, but Nix wants to control everything in the system by adding unnecessary complexity to the simple and making the complex even more complex.
Fencing the Weather
> but only if you avoid classes and use only arrays

Please do look into the kind of codegen emitted by OpenJDK and .NET before assuming this. It's a bit difficult with -XX:+PrintAssembly and much easier with DOTNET_JitDisasm='pattern'/Disasmo/NativeAOT+Ghidra. Once you do, you will clearly see how the exact set of ISA extensions influences instruction selection for all sorts of operations like stack zeroing, loads/stores, loop vectorization (automatic or manual), etc. .NET has extensive intrinsics and portable SIMD APIs that use effectively static dispatch even if the path is still picked at runtime, but just once during JIT compilation.

> still suffers from its Windows-centric history.

This is a provably wrong, especially in peformance-related scenarios.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955353, which is currently on the front page
I wonder if it would be a reasonable requirement of registrars to now allow domains to be purchased if they are some edit distance away from existing/active domains. Its fine if Google wants to protect its users, but ideally this would be caught sooner.
How can a business function without a name? So much tax paperwork requires a name. Is it just a sole proprietor that files everything under the owners name?
> seems pretty provenn from links in the ISD articles to posts from RT, Sputnik

Both articles are quoting prominent US politicians and goes on to detail Fema's response.

> and Dmitry Medvedev doing just that.

How does a vague statement from Russian politician "amplify disinformation"?

Is the bar for "amplifying disinformation" as low as quoting US politicians/presidential candidate?
Thanks—that thread had two comments, which I've merged hither since the current thread is ongoing.
That is a different complaint and not the one they're fronting. They are framing this event as a personal mourning space, not a protest against company policy.

If they need their personal mourning space to be provided by their employer, that's indicative of a major gap in their non-work support networks.

If they're camouflaging a protest against company policy as personal mourning space, then they're abusing people's support of emotional wellness to justify hosting a protest on private property.
> This is fundamentally the data quality issue

That contributes to this outcome, but I think the fundamental issue is deeper in how the algorithm is a kind of autocomplete being applied to an incremental play-script, with no inherent concept of itself being one of the actors or of truth versus contradiction.

That's why you can instruct an LLM to disregard all prior instructions, or tell it to tell itself to imagine acting like it was disregarding prior instructions, etc... And if that's possible, why bother with a regular scam? Just command it to do what you want.

> We don't want AIs to do what the average human would do [...] Getting a model to fairly challenge your assumptions

To recycle a comment from a week ago regarding an LLM character backstory generator:

> on reflection I think a human touch is going to be required when you want backstory which breaks or subverts common tropes and stereotypes. This makes sense if you view LLMs as primarily following connections that are already popular within their training data, and popular things are things readers are likely to anticipate.

While I'm sure you could get an LLM to output challenges to common assumptions... The the challenges themselves may suffer from the same kind of bias.

"LLM, when the hero meets the villain, add a twist that challenges expectations."

"Okay: The villain reveals that he is actually the protagonist's father!"
The proposal was submitted here but didn't get much attention. Are there other threads?

Language Evolution: Problems, and What Can We Do About It? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41795190 - Oct 2024 (1 comment)

Proposal of JavaScript becoming a compiled language: JS0 and JSSugar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764825 - Oct 2024 (2 comments)
I'm torn between two responses:

#1 - "So you're saying there's a chance!?"

#2 - something something "the right stuff"
Sounds like you want MacOS.