skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fascinating. What sort of web requests are you doing stuff are you doing that it's not just easier to use requests? I use requests pathologically, though I use things in the stdlib when it comes to it. personally I'm more surprised that it isn't in the stdlib by this point.
I have asked dang to comment on this issue specifically in the context of this post/thread.

The “opposite policy” is sort of the current status quo, per dang:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

See this thread for my own reasoning on the issue (as well as dang’s), as it was raised recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937993

You’ll need showdead enabled on your profile to see the whole thread, which speaks to the controversial nature of this issue on HN.

I agree that your mention of “encouraging accusatory behavior” is a point well-taken, and in the absence of evidence, such accusations themselves would likely run afoul of the Guidelines, but it’s worth noting that dang has said that LLM output itself is generally against the Guidelines, which could lead to a feedback loop of disinterested parties posting LLM content, only to be confronted with interested parties posting uninteresting takedowns of said LLM content and posters of it.

No easy answers here, I’m afraid.
Well it helped me, I didn’t put two and two together.
Wastewater surveys pick up animal-to-animal or animal-to-human transmission strains too.
I'm fascinated by the fact that we study this 31 year old technology and are amazed by the complexity
> Unless people they knew in real life were dying

Many of them still don't blame not getting the vaccine.

The fault is instead with hospitals not prescribing hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.
The memory controller is probably configured by the Intel FSP binary blob so you can only tweak what it allows you to.

Firmware is specific to each motherboard but if you know what you're doing and have motherboard schematics you can modify Coreboot to support different motherboards that use already-supported chips.
I can only speak for myself, but if someone I trust wants to solve some of my problems for me, enabling me to be better at my job, I love that and will push for their recognition and promotion.

If I don't trust them to represent me and the team, then obviously that suggestion wouldn't work, but I'm trying to express the difference between someone pointing out a problem as if the problem is just yours or offering to help take responsibility for the problem as part of a team with you.

I've worked with people who made it a point of pride to always bring a concrete, workable suggestion whenever they brought me a problem. We didn't always go with their suggestion, but they were fantastic to work with.

Thankfully, I've never had to worry about keeping good people on my team down out of fear they'd take my job.
> high level positions

Typo: Meant high level positions in the Tech industry.

HBS tends to do pretty well in PE/HF but the overlap isn't significant with Harvard College.
> the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group

Trumpism has a very clear culture, using that definition.

But it seems like you're not using that definition. Perhaps you're using the second one in Merriam-Webster?

> enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training

People self-identifying as this type of "cultured" is just another example of the smugness I'm complaining about. There's also not much to argue about here, there's no way to falsify such a claim, it's just self-annointed "enlightenment and excellence". Some folks on Bluesky define "enlightenment and excellence" in ways that align with their attributes, some folks on X/Twitter define it differently to align with theirs. And they're all smug about it.
I agree there are likely cases not being detected, but there are lots of flying natural reservoirs who also poop in sewer watersheds (no one's keeping them sterile, after all). They may also be getting magnified by agricultural sources; California does a much better job of testing, but there are very likely positive farms that haven't been found yet.
IM software can be closed, too, and in a healthy company the expectations around IMs should not be that they are "instant", but more of an async medium like email.
I’d print and hang the ultraviolet one on my wall if it wasn't for the very rough edges. Dang.
i’m now wondering if the comment i was responding to was trolling.

is a network that can be bought able to be compared to one that can’t?
suppose the data were generated by a csprng with 256 bits of state. then in fact there are just slightly more than 256 bits of entropy there (prng state plus the length of the generated file). only, you'd have a snail's chance in hell of actually finding that seed
Unfortunately I am not familiar with this mod.

One thing to keep in mind is a lot of mods were frowned upon or flat out not allow at all, especially as you can imagine with playing competitive. Once PunkBuster did finally get release for Q3, there was also a bit of hesitation from ranked players on making any non-typical modifications to the game out of fear of being banned. That said, aimbot was a huge issue with Q3 and rarely did I witness PunkBuster do its job.

iD tends to be very tight lipped about things from my limited interactions with them, even in person at Quake Cons..but I do know they were all hanging out on the same forums and places the players were at - so my hunch is they were aware of it.
Nightscout GCM is free open source software that you host on your own server. Not sure what you're talking about.
I don't know about "inorganic", but something definitely happened.

I only tangentially heard of BlueSky and now suddenly it's everywhere.

I mean ... SiriusXM (hardly a forerunner of fashion) just had one of the DJs mention BlueSky.

Something is definitely up.
>the chopping block is all rocket R&D and forcing NASA to contract out that work.

Nearly everything NASA does outside of operating the missions themselves is contracted out, especially the SLS which is all of it:

* The main stage (aka core stage), essentially a repurposed Space Shuttle external fuel tank with engines bolted on, is contracted out to Boeing, with so far one launch and two completed production units in at least ten years of production.

* The main engines, which are refurbished SSMEs used as throwaways, are contracted out to Aerojet Rocketdyne.

* The SRBs are contracted out to Northrop Grumman, and the first eight launches will all be reusing the old Space Shuttle SRBs.

* The second stage, a repurposed Delta IV second stage, is contracted out to United Launch Alliance which is basically Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

* Finally, the Orion is contracted out to Lockheed Martin and Airbus. Incidentally, this is the only "new" component of the program.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)

>Only if you ignore the value of inspiring the next generation of scientists and explorers.

Unmanned programs like Hubble and the other Great Observatories, New Horizons, Spirit/Opportunity/Curiosity, and the two Voyagers inspire the people far more than manned programs.

There was value in manned programs before, we needed to figure out WTF human bodies will do in space. We figured that out at least 20 years ago. Now we need to keep contriving excuses to keep ISS flying and there's barely enough commercial interest in manned space utilization.

No, cut it all. Until we reach the next paradigm shift where we have to send men out into the black again to gain answers, robots can do everything a man could for cheaper, safer, longer, and faster.
Presumably the images were taken on the way to perihelion. The orbit isn't circular, it's both highly eccentric and inclined relative to the ecliptic to get a view of the solar poles. A plane change is really hard on delta-v, so they tilt the orbit up bit by bit with repeated Venusian gravity assists. In the main science phase of the mission there are 14 planned perihelion approaches.

There's a diagram here, but at least some of the information there seems preliminary as they eventually launched with a black "Solar Black" heat shield coating rather than white titanium dioxide because the latter wasn't sufficiently UV-stable.

https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/solar-orbiter-mi...
Russia can't choose anything by itself. It's the people in Kremlin who will decide, like it was when Stalin died.
Ultimately, it's because of how JavaScript models time.

In a browser, JavaScript has a single event queue, and events are delivered one at a time. Event delivery is supposed to be fast. Conceptually, handling one event can be seen as a single tick of a clock, and practically, it should be less than one animation frame, so the UI doesn't freeze. If something takes time, you need to split it up over multiple events, so that it spans multiple clock ticks.

An async function call is one that can return in a different clock tick. A "normal" JavaScript function call always returns in the same clock tick, and if it takes too long, it makes the clock tick take longer, holding everything up until it's done.

This is a logical consequence of JavaScript starting out single-threaded and being used to write UI event handlers. In other languages, there isn't this distinction. Assumptions about event handling aren't baked so deeply into the language, so normal function calls in other languages don't make this guarantee about happening atomically.
It's also been standard practice in war since pretty much forever. Not that that's a good thing—war is and always has been terrible—but Israel didn't invent the idea of targeting civilians, nor are there any countries in recent history who have suddenly become above that kind of warfare. There are some that like to talk the talk, but they either have managed to just avoid war (to be fair, good on them) or do the same thing.
I’m reminded of a disagreement here probably a decade ago. Someone felt debates were won with facts; I disagreed, and feel that facts are not nearly enough to determine a course of action.

Of course, political debates were more useful when we could come to some loose agreement on what the facts are. Even that seems impossible today.
I think not raising anyones hackles with your feedback applies pretty universally. It’s too much to expect senior leaders to not be human.
Only a disfunctional company would rely on the programmer who wrote the code.
Isn't this theft ?
> It's a fact of life that people shut down when approached with evidence that refutes their world view or choices.

I don't really agree with you. This is a basic quality of skilled leadership. You want people refuting your worldview with evidence! It lets you correct course and make things better.

Only insecure people shut down like this in my experience.
Fully agree.

A sort of “second order” expression I see of these problems is the sheer quantity of SaaS tools that exist to “fix” a problem, not solve it. These companies have zero interest in actually making anything better. Instead, they exist to sell a “less sharp edges” version of the problem and leech all the money they can. An actual improvement is completely antithetical to their existence, and I suspect most of them would act to destroy a true solution if the opportunity arose.
Law is hard!

In general, the de facto status quo is:

1. For whatever reason*, large swaths of LLM output copy-pasted is easily detectable.

2. If you're restrained, polite, with an accurate signal on this, you can indicate you see this, and won't get downvoted heavily. (ex. I'll post "my internal GPT detector went off, [1-2 sentence clipped version of why I think its wrong even if it wasn't GPT]")

3. People tend to downvote said content, as an ersatz vote.

In general, I don't think there needs to be a blanket ban against it, in the sense of I have absolutely no problem with LLM output per se, just lazy invocation of it, ex. large entry-level arguments that were copy-pasted.

i.e. I've used an LLM to sharpen my already-written rushed poor example, which didn't result in low-perplexity, standard-essay-formatted, content.

Additionally, IMHO it's not bad, per se, if someone invests in replying to an LLM. The fact they are replying indicates its an argument worth furthering with their own contribution.

* a strong indicator that a fundamental goal other than perplexity minimization may increase perceived quality
Addl. Context: Matt Mullenweg was invested in WP Engine before Silver Lake bought him out.
Typescript for me, although I only ever do the first few days. I don't have the time to spend on it after that.
Perhaps rr808 is referring to AI upscaling. As in, are these 139 proper megapixels or upreased to that size?
The Secure Custom Fields extension page [1] states this:

> Features
> - Millions of Users

And also states this in the sidebar:

> Active installations: Fewer than 10

That seems to support the accusations that this code is simply the nulled version of ACF's paid extension.

[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/secure-custom-fields/
Yup. They fucked up pretty bad. How many places do you think are worse than them?
But the legalities are the important part of this. You may as well say "Legalities aside, robbing your competitors at gunpoint is a good idea, if unethical". He's essentially setting up a system where if you ever make too much money off of his project, he's very willing to extort you and do plenty of unethical and likely illegal things to you. That's extremely important to the considerations of companies who may be interested in going into business with Wordpress.
Most Westerners have their ancestry in Syria, the Levant, Mesopotamia if you go back far enough. Not that that is the only criterion!
But you already learned the web stack--school kids haven't. Your mental model is what prepared you to use LLMs well to solve a problem. So if they're going to do as you did, they need to learn the subject first and then learn how to extend their reach with LLMs. Otherwise, they're just cheating in school.
Old schooler oils not find itself accept self modifying program. Yes it said it just change so to run in multiple environment so script, win binary … etc. or lie to the os what you really are.

Is that another name for virus / worm.

More gently, is it I just fat binary in a compact form. If so why not use label the source to cross compile so when Apple dump Intel, we do not need to carry that program.
Don’t hold it like that. It’s not a replacement for a disk. A simple fix is to ensure a single writer per object, e.g keyed by a unique node id. You can then merge objects on the backend using some aggregation process (if that is even necessary for your use case).
Besides, who wants to work with someone that’s only worked in these terminally dysfunctional workplaces. There must be something wrong with them.
People typically protest their own government to effect policy changes. In the case of Gaza, the US is sending billions of dollars to Israel on a regular basis. The Syrian government, meanwhile, has been sanctioned for more than a decade by these western countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_agai...
Or, “these people were going to die anyways”. I know someone whose father died and rather than admit that he exposed his own dad to something that may have killed him, he took this really odd position.
DOJ Suspends Controversial Airport Interdictions After Viral Footage
Do you not think the endgame of this is to funnel everyone to Automattic and then raise the rates now that he's exerted a monopoly over Wordpress hosting? Because at this point, I don't see what other exist he has here. This is pure "I own all of Wordpress and it's no longer open source and I can charge anything I want" or he's going to be bankrupted by the lawsuits.
What if we didn't even attempt to compress the file? Theoretically, there is a random number generator + seed combination that would output the same bytes as the source file.
Bluesky seems to be caching the DNS TXT result indefinitely
people with lots of good things to do in their lives have less time to post.

on platforms like twitter, this means that the posts are disproportionately made by people with unhappy and limited lives, who have too much invested in their status and image on social media, because that's who has time to post. this makes for an unpleasant environment and is also fertile ground for mobs, bullying etc.

after this most recent wave of migration, bluesky feels fairly pleasant, but that's not stable. lots of normal people just moved their accounts over and are still engaging. but they will become less active soon leaving only the "power users" who will make the site unpleasant again.

probably bluesky will once again become just as bad as pre-Elon Twitter was at its worst. however this would still be much better than the current situation on X, where at some point you will be exposed to people advocating rape and people celebrating the Holocaust, or other such horrible things, so I don't think people will move back to X the way they did last year.
That's one possibility for the harms it may cause.

I think there's a reasonable chance that someone who thinks the idea is laughable will, at some point, ask an AI to destroy the world specifically to demonstrate that it can't… actually, that part has already happened*, the questions are: (1) how competent does it have to be at following that instruction to actually do so? (2) What resources would someone have to allow it to access (deliberately or accidentally) to pull that off?

* someone has asked an AI to destroy the world, but I don't know their motivation.

Fortunately for everyone, this one was kinda dumb: https://community.openai.com/t/chaosgpt-an-ai-that-seeks-to-...
Its difficulty and uniqueness is why it just hasn't been 'engineerized' or 'engineerified' yet. It's still a craft, as opposed to an engineering discipline. As such, that means the quality of the software produced by any shop is going to vary according to the organization's standards, which is their combination of management and engineers. Sometimes management is very business-schooly in their perspective, sometimes more engineery. That boundary layer and how it is treated by the top of the hierarchy makes all the difference.

I was summer programming in an IT department in the late 80's; it was under the auspices of the comptroller, simply because the org didn't know where else to put it. Management was still figuring out which department would have the budget/cost stuff allocated to it. You can forget about engineering excellence or even semblance of IT knowledge.

Everything since then has been the (in)organic growth of IT in the situation that, for the vast majority of companies, IT is simply a cost whose benefit is hard to quantify, especially to the money guys, who are always the ones in charge.
> It would be nice to work with Americans/westerners for once and actually be able to speak up about something without getting fired.

In my experience Americans layer the “we’re all friends here” on too thickly to ever be described as blunt.
Neat idea but chances are the length of the seed is equal to the length of the original file.
I agree that bluntness is often mishandled, but the sort of language in this article just reads as wildly disingenuous. Obfuscating your actual point (and visceral, human feelings/opinions/experience!) to hopefully confuse your subject into compliance.
Makes me think of that brain-dead article a few years back about how you should dodge offering support in close personal relationships. “I don’t have capacity,” “I’m not paid to perform emotional labour” etc. Sad! Promote humanity!
From the thread with see this thread

> There are lot of grey areas; for example, your GP comment wasn't just generated—it came with an annotation that you're a lawyer and thought it was sound. That's better than a completely pasted comment. But it was probably still on the wrong side of the line. We want comments that the commenters actually write, as part of curious human conversation.

This doesn't leave much room for AI non-slop:

> We want comments that the commenters actually write, as part of curious human conversation.

I think HN is trying to be good at being HN, not just to provide the most utility to its users in general. So those wanting something like HN if it started in 2030, may want to try and build a new site.
Who says I’m not? I don’t understand your point at all.
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I've had a pretty similar experience in big tech. Some cultures do really seem to struggle with feedback (both giving and receiving). It can be a very painful work environment as a result - given I'm an incredibly direct person.

The best work culture I had was in a dutch firm. People just straight up called bullshit out all the time, and it got fixed fast. So refreshing. I've never been able to find another workplace like that.
Marty Makary is neither anti-vaccine nor a conspiracy theorist. He's a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, author of the paper that turned into the "checklist manifesto", as well as multiple NY Times best-selling books on medicine. Please stop.
Agreed completely, and you touch upon something very poignant.

Those living in poverty already fall short of fulfilling their hierarchy of needs in many ways. They certainly do not have the money to access film and media, so it's not like the production company is losing out on sales.

Do we really want to take the position of putting forth a monetary requirement for cultural enrichment (by condemning piracy)? It isn't like stealing someone's movie or concert ticket, where it deprives someone else of their enjoyment. It's a societal net-positive in all regards.

When it comes to mediums of knowledge such as books, the argument becomes even stronger. There are so many books that are either exorbitantly priced or just completely unavailable. We live in an age where we can send robots to other planets, create AIs that beat the Turing Test, and communicate with (almost) the entirety of the global population from a small rectangle in our pockets--but you're telling me I can't read this book because either I don't have $200 or because there's only 10 physical copies and they're all rented out? The hill that knowledge and information should be accessible to everyone is the hill I'm willing to die on.
Others who know that better than me and commented but... First time I read that, as a kid, here was I plugging my headphones into the input jack of my parents' soundsystem and, sure enough, it worked as mic (although at as super ultra low volume but I clearly remember it worked).
If Mike didn't want multiple files, he should have said no to multiple files. The fact that he wanted $100 per try shows that he just got outhustled at his own hustle. He should have been more particular about the rules, and upheld the ones he himself set.
Yes, I don't understand that point either as all UK Lecturer job positions I have interviewed for (quite a few!) required at least 40% of teaching.

A 40% teaching is the most research-intensive contract you can get at most universities.

Good departments will still let you enjoy a sane workload because they will allocate a realistic amount of that 40% for teaching preparation, marking duties, etc.
We won't again permit the economy and life in general to grind to a halt for months on end unless it's as dangerous as polio or the black plague.

So that's better.
> The language that I think actually go this right is modern Java. Project Loom in Java has coroutines and all the bells and whistles under the hood, but what it exposes to the developer is good old threads. There are virtual threads, which are mounted on carrier OS threads, and these virtual threads can travel from thread to thread. If you end up issuing a blocking call on a virtual thread, it yields to the scheduler.

I completely agree! They studied a lot of "bad" implementations and moved slow to get it right