skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crunchyroll app, which I am a subscriber of by the way, has “mature content” setting - like that, add a setting. Or label the version like they do for different releases. They have lots of options.

Again, this discussion thread has nothing to do with Crunchyroll and everything to do with charging people who want and expect to be able to see an unaltered version - as discriminating against disabled viewers.

And finally, quote directly from the article:

“Over 2500 fans signed a change.org petition asking Crunchyroll to take down this edited, safe, version of the series and instead upload an unedited version that was true to the original vision—even if it had the potential to cause seizures.”

If we are going to discuss the article - we should both read it.
A compromise solution to this could be to block creation of new resources if their monthly cost would exceed the monthly limit, unless the customer increases the limit.

It wouldn’t solve the problem for usage-based billing, but it would have solved the problem here.
I would be very surprised if there aren't any serious efforts on this already underway.
Here we go again.

Choose boring technology aka pick the technologies I think are the best.
> Backdealing, lobbying, money laundering. I don't rememeber Mexican banks laundering hundreds of bilions etc. Mexican car manufactures cheating for years on car emissions.

EU politicians caught backdealing are being prosecuted. Bank money laundering wasn't done by the government's banks. Car emissions cheating also wasn't the government.

Bribing police is government corruption.
To my knowledge you can still download all offline installers without needing to ever use their launcher.

That being said, their launcher, GOG Galaxy[0] is amazing, and allows you to get a full overview of your games library across several services like GOG, Steam, Epic, etc. all in one place.

[0]: https://www.gog.com/galaxy
People were saying the same exact think about the Pure Food and Drug Act, and babies were actively dying by drinking milk with formaldehyde in it so that it lasted longer for sale.
Hi! As someone who spent the last month pouring myself into the ARC challenge (which has been lots of fun, thanks so much for creating it), I'm happy to see it made harder, but please make it harder by requiring more reasoning, not by requiring more human-like visual perception! ARC is almost perfect as a benchmark for analogical reasoning, except for the need for lots of image processing as well. [Edit: however, I've realised that perception is representation, so requiring it is a good thing.]

Any plan for more validation data to match the new harder testset?
Between Zoom (not the whole time, but just by having it in the background), Slack and Crowdstrike's Falcon agent, I usually can't make more than 5 or 6 hours away of a wall outlet with my MacBook Pro M2 Max...

I hate corporate software.
I’d argue for many Americans in 1960 the existing system was an actual net negative, and for others it was close. There was ~100,000 young men risking prison for homosexual relationships, about to be sent to Vietnam, treated like dirt for being black, and under significant threat of nuclear war all at the same time. That’s being rather uniquely shat on by a system setup to benefit others.

I don’t expect random environmentalist to have a well reasoned stance, but holding activist groups to a higher standard feels reasonable to me. I get just as pissed when nuclear advocates conflate the cost of uranium ore as fuel cost when reactors are using vastly more expensive enriched uranium fuel rods. (Possibly because the fuel bit works.)

> I’d trade away much of that stability to get a good shot at change that could make society more pleasant.

I used to feel that way, but the more I learned about how the world works the more I understood just how delicate these systems are. Gerrymandering isn’t just a free way to political power, it erodes people’s trust in democracy. Elections dependent on swing states and us vs them ideology fed by Ecco chambers isn’t heading to a healthy place. At the other end, the amount of havoc just a single person damaging fuel pipelines and electrical transmission infrastructure could cause is shocking.

Now imagine a few thousand motivated people intelligently trying to damage the US.
When a commenter doesn't know how to even spell the word "steganography", it's quite safe to assume that they don't possess deeper level knowledge and are not making any deeper point about it.
To be precise: you don't need to be in the sudo group, but in the lpadmin group. I'm not familiar with how Ubuntu groups are set up, but I guess it's likely that lpadmin is only granted to administrators by default.

That said, I'm guessing people aren't expecting lpadmin to mean a full privilege escalation to root.

There are two bugs here: one in cups, which allows it to chmod anything 777 (doesn't properly check for symlinks, or for the failure of bind), and one in wpa_supplicant, which lets it load arbitrary .so files as root. However, I suspect that even if these bugs are fixed, having access to lpadmin will still be a powerful enough primitive to escalate to root given the rather sizable attack surface of cups.
To me ultimately all of these are "labels". It doesn't necessarily matter how you label something. I can tell you with high certainty that when I was a teenager, it wouldn't have made any practical difference whether I thought the piece about "Vegan meat being as good as the real meat" was an ad or it was an opinion. Neither of those would've been "the truth" for me. Even if it it's an ad, it is still an opinion. And if it's an opinion, it could just be opinion from a vegan propagandist.
I may have marked it as opinion just because I have no good way to tell for sure that it's paid for, based on that screenshot, unless I know exactly what the terms above mean and I'm familiar with. I assume I wouldn't have been able to Google during the survey. All of these survey questions are about how you label something, while ignoring common sense completely. And you could orchestrate any sorts of metrics results depending on what content you provide and how you form the question. Whether the above is an ad or an opinion, I wouldn't as teen have believed that vegan meat was as good as the real thing unless I've tried it myself.

The label doesn't matter, what matters is what do you start to take as fact or belief based on the content given. The correct question should've been "To what extent does this article change your belief/opinion about vegan meat being as good as the real thing?".

If you want to test the true thing, ask questions where answers to those questions actually matter in implicating certain beliefs, not just how good people are knowing at exact definition of certain labels. That's anti common sense and literacy.

> I would caution against arbitrarily discounting information because you don't like its "vibe."

I mean I looked at the questions and tried to figure out how I would've approached them as a teen, and what I would've answered. I did it on the basis of a skeptical vibe, because of the initial titles and everything was trying to portray a certain narrative which is not very scientific. So then of course I was biased to play devil's advocate, but none the less, I believe that these results don't carry much meaning and the conclusions that are made, is not something that can really be made from this particular data. It would be harmful to consider an AD an actual factual news report, but this is what very few did. Also considering opinion as a factual news report would've been bad, but again only very few did. If you look at harmful vs harmless labelling then the stats don't look that bad at all. Someone considering the piece about elections and Taylor Swift an entertainment instead of opinion. This is pretty harmless.

I do still remember what I was like as a teen, I remember my thought process, and I can still relate to myself at that point.
At least in our org security let us know when it's time to patch various components and it's typically just a devops chore to bump a helm chart version and merge..

I don't really understand your point; You're trying to say managing a single helm release for istio is more effort than (in my case, for example) manually managing around 40 TLS certificates (and yes, we have an in-house PKI with our own CA that issues via ACME/certbot etc also) and the services that use them? It's clearly not?

Just templating out the config files for e.g Cassandra or ES, or Redis or whatever component takes multiple x the effort of ./helm install istio.
> Modern metal is amazing compared to the stuff from the 90s though.

Eh, I've still got a lot of time for 80s/early 90s thrash. Megadeth mostly, it must be said.
> (...) autogenerate captions (...) is fast but not always accurate and often misspells common words. (...) There’s also no way to stylize your captions

Nowadays, whisper models also run on device, put tend to handle this pretty well. I'm wondering why they had to go for their own (lesser) model.

Do anyone know if they auto-detect the language in the video and also generate captions for other languages? (just like whisper models do).
Thank you for your work. In the substack write-up, you said: "There was more work to be done: we needed a reliable reproduction, and a concrete process." Could you elaborate on the process for unlocking?
Nowhere (serious) does billing limits work like this

There's always a dunning period and multiple alerts
I’d say it’s more being deliberate about how much new tech you incorporate into new projects. One small and ideally isolated new piece in each project is a good idea else you’ll stagnate
It seems clear that the current crop of "white nationalists (verging on fringe(?) neo-nazi) protestors and rioters" were treated with kid gloves in comparison to the treatment of "other race" protestors in the Brixton riots.

The current claim that current "other race" UK protestors are (oranges to oranges in same circumstances) better treated than white protestors is subjective, it's not suprise that such a claim is being made by Farage and Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon .. it's very much their schtick.
Hard spend limits are an anti-feature for enterprise customers, who are the core customer of AWS. Almost no level of accidental spend is worth creating downtime or data loss in a critical application.

Even having the option of a hard spend limit would be hazardous, because accounting teams might push the use of such tools, and thereby risk data loss incidents when problems happen.

Hard spend limits might make sense for indie / SME focused cloud vendors though.
what?

Governments have a systematic pressure, at least in sane countries, to be at least partially responsible towards customers - their citizens and voters.

Corporations do not. especially in businesses with high barriers to entry, and where they can vendor lock you.
It's been a bumper week for interesting podcast interviews with an AI theme!

In addition to this, there are Lex Fridman's series of interviews with various key people from Anthropic [0], and a long discussion between Stephen Wolfram and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the theme of AI risk [1].

0. https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4

1. https://youtu.be/xjH2B_sE_RQ
It is certainly possible to download and store 1.5 GB in browsers these days.
The promise of WebAssembly is bringing actual large scale applications to the browser.

To be clear, it is possible to build large apps with technologies like TypeScript, with VSCode being probably the standard bearer of this approach, but at Leaning Technologies we don't believe this solution to be viable for everybody.

We strongly believe that more "traditional" languages are required instead to work at scale, especially C++ and Java, and we offer products dedicated to these languages as well: Cheerp and CheerpJ respectively.

Although these languages might not be the most exciting ones, they have a proven track record for delivering large scale applications used by millions of people. Billions of people if the Operating Systems we all use are taken into account.

Thanks to WebAssembly these robust and scalable languages can be used to build Web apps. My own personal metric for the success of WebAssembly is seeing AAA games delivering playable demos as Web apps by cross-compiling (a portion of) the game to the browser.
Using llm blindly will lead to poor results in complex tasks so I'm not sure how much of a problem it might be. I feel like students using it blindly won't get far but I might be wrong.

> One of the most pernicious I have noticed is users who turn to AI for the initial idea without reflecting about the problem first
I've been doing that and it usually doesn't work. How can you ask an ai to solve a problem you don't understand at all ? More often than not, when you do that the ai throws a dumb response and you get back to thinking about how to present the problem in a clear way which makes you understand it better.

So you still end up learning to analyze a problem and solving it. But I can't tell if the solution comes up faster or not nor if it helps learning or not.
Show HN: I Made an Mkdocs Gherkin Results Plugin
Hello, I have developed a small mkdocs plugin that will parse the results of your Gherkin / Cucumber tests and will inject the results back into your documentation.

This is very useful since Cucumber supports markdown now and we can easily create a true "living documentation" using mkdocs and cucumber.

Comments and feedback are very welcome !
S3 is around since 2006 and is the default choice for object storage for many people. It's as boring as it gets.
I guess not. I think the problem here is a bit more fundamental: people (read, at least 1 from a sample of 1 - me) think that the '% CPU' column in Activity Monitor shows how much of the total processing power the computer has is being used by the process, when actually it's a much more complicated story. I don't think it's a bad thing that people learn more about what the metric actually means.

I at least found the article interesting, and learned something useful from it.
Things matter for their niche. Populations respect Paretian distribution - the worth typically leans on one side -, hence niches matter, hence do their practices.
It's still a license, just more lenient and more customer friendly.

Would like to know what their income stream percentage is, for being an sink for third party platform game keys from Prime Gaming (vs Epic store, Steam being suspiciously absent).

Seems like the only time I visit GOG these days regularily.

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... “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User...
Bureaucracies are certainly impersonal, but you'd be at a loss to find one that's genuinely rule based and meritocratic. To the extent that they become remain rule based they are no longer effective and get routed around. To the extent that they're meritocratic, the same thing happens with networks of influence. Once you get high enough, or decentralised enough bureaucracies work like any other human tribes. Bureaucracies may sometimes be effective ways to cut down on nepotism (although they manifestly fail at that in my country), but they're machines for manifesting cronyism.
I don’t believe Gwern lives as frugally as he’s described in this (if this even actually is the real Gwern). I’m 100% sure that he has a persona he likes to portray and being perceived as frugal is a part of that persona.
When it comes to answering the question “who is gwern?” I reckon Gwern’s a plant a seed in people’s mind type of guy, and let them come up with the rest of the story.

Still, I like a lot of his writing. Especially the weird and niche stuff that most people don’t even stop to think about.
And thanks to Gwern’s essay on the sunk costs fallacy, I ended up not getting a tattoo that I had changed my mind about. I almost got it because I had paid a deposit, but I genuinely decided I hated the idea of what I was going to get… and almost got it, but the week before I went to get the tattoo, I read that essay, and decided if small children and animals don’t fall victim to sunk costs, then neither should I!
Literally - Gwern saved the skin on my back with his writing. Haha.
www.gwern.net

Something I've noticed in spending time online is that there's a "core group" of a few dozen people who seem to turn up everywhere there are interesting discussions. Gwern (who also posts here) is probably at the top of that list.
I can run a package manager command for update manually when I need it. Or I can enable periodic update checks. Computer should do what I order, so sending telemetry without my permission is not ok.

In Linux you (or package manager) typically don't send requests for an update; you download a package list, see which packages are updated and download and install them. The request should not include any identifiers like installation id or software version. You can also download from a mirror in a selected country or even self-hosted mirror (which is useful for some companies).

This is what distinguishes open software from commercial software: you can choose a provider for network-based services or become a provider yourself.

> By painting telemetry as bad

Bad is doing things with user's computer or data without explicit permission/request to do it.
This might be classic "that's not a bug, it's a feature", territory.

I love the idea that somebody could just get something working - it is fantastic that was possible, and a shame that we've lost it a bit.

The fact that a professional might look at the code produced and die a little inside is where a lot of bad rep comes from, but hey, working software is better than no software, particularly in the days when that software probably is running on a single machine that is not connected to the internet, and when it is, it's only connected a couple of hours a day via dial-up modem.
How we're using confirmation bias to credit one out of 8 billion people with special skills.
Safety in an Unsafe World
Prohibiting time traveling UB in all cases is proposed by P3352
(https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p33...).
> What value do they add for anyone?

What about the example at the head of this comment chain?

I think news sites did lose something without feedback. I can accept a chess pool with a single good comment to make up for it. So it does provide value for me and I disagree with the "lessons learned". Also, the legal risks of showing user content should be scraped for anything that is not explicitly illegal.

We have information bubbles now that are way worse than the occasional comment in bad taste.
But the presence of a feature does not mean it has to be used?
> > I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision

> omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country.

No, it sounds like how most successful organizations work.
This is a Laravel module, so it integrates transparently in an existing project.
That! Moving your legs to avoid sitting all day seems fine but putting yourself in an unergonomic position like on a road bike seems counter productive. Your neck and lower back will probably tighten up badly over time.
My personal takeaway in a broader context is that Go code is pretty boring, predictable and repetitive as opposed to clever and customised, therefore in theory LLMs can more easily predict and generate said code. It's a tradeoff, Go can be more verbose because it's not as expressive, but using the right tooling, that labor/toil is reduced.
Is that true? All of my Internet and mobile telephone service is post-paid with automatic billing. I know one can get prepaid plans from some providers, but how are you arriving at "usually"?
I trust the government in a democracy more than I trust a corporation, yes.

Do I absolutely trust each government in every democracy to make the right decisions for any problem? Of course not!

But I still trust them way more than corporations or the "invisible hand of the market"
I never go to IMDb directly as both it and its search function are noticeably slower than Google’s. So I just tend to Google “<movie name> IMDb” and click the first result.
> Do you think that this is trivial at AWS scale?

What a ridiculous point. AWS achieves non-trivial things at scale all the time, and brag about it too.

So many smart engineers with high salaries and they can't figure out a solution like "shut down instances so costs don't continue to grow, but keep the data so nothing critical is lost, at least for a limited time"?

Disingenuous is what you are writing - oh no, it's a hard problem, they can't be expected to even try to solve it.
Cool, have an "I know what I'm doing, opt me out!" button.
Meanwhile, I'm in a brand new project where it's layers (nodejs) upon layers (pnpm) upon layers (nx), and that's just the project setup / runtime.
> Even having the option of a hard spend limit would be hazardous, because accounting teams might push the use of such tools, and thereby risk data loss incidents when problems happen.

"Hazardous" feels like the wrong word here - if your customer decides to enact a spend limit it should not be up to you to decide whether that's good for them or not.
>Wait if you’re doing $900-1000/month and you’re sustaining yourself on that, that must mean you’re sustaining yourself on less than $12,000 a year. What is your lifestyle like at $12K?"

>I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't travel much, or eat out, or have health insurance, or anything like that. I cook my own food. I use a free gym. There was this time when the floor of my bedroom began collapsing. It was so old that the humidity had decayed the wood. We just got a bunch of scrap wood and a joist and propped it up. If it lets in some bugs, oh well! I live like a grad student, but with better ramen. I don't mind it much since I spend all my time reading anyway.

Not sure what to think of that. On one hand, it's so impressive that gwern cares only about the intellectual pursuit. On the other hand, it's sad that society does not reward it as much as excel sheet work.
there are also $1 houses in Japan, it is definitely leading in such affordability race.
> Hard spend limits are an anti-feature for enterprise customers, who are the core customer of AWS. Almost no level of accidental spend is worth creating downtime or data loss in a critical application.

Great, so they don’t have to use the feature?

That excuse was a great excuse when AWS was an MVP for someone. 20+ years later… there is no excuse.
I disabled safe browsing in about: config but it still connects to google's servers.
That sounds like the inverted world though, as in, AI is imperfect and makes mistakes, let's try and work with and around those mistakes instead of making AI better.
Real estate agents have no business being in the mortgage industry.

Charitably rereading your comment - this agent sounds like they were a buying agent. Which should 100% be a real thing; but nothing like a real estate agent and more like a family lawyer / family financial adviser / family hostage negotiator all rolled into one.
Why Bluesky Isn't the Alternative to X and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

Small organizations define efficiency based on time to make number go up/down. Meanwhile, if something bad happens at 2am and no one wakes up - whatever there we’re likely no customers impacted.

Larger organizations are really efficient at ensuring the p10 (ie worst) hires are not able to cause any real damage. Every other thing about the org is set up to most cost effectively ensure least damage. Meanwhile, numbers should also go up is a secondary priority.