skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is what happens when someone creates a mega-sized website comprising hundreds of millions of pages using other peoples' submitted material, effectively creating a website that is too large to "moderate". By letting the public publish their material on someone else's mega-sized website instead of hosting their own, perhaps it concentrates the web audience to make it more suitable for advertising. Perhaps if the PTSD-causing material was published by its authors on the authors' own websites, the audience would be small, not suitable for advertising. A return to less centralised web publishing would perhaps be bad for the so-called "ad ecosystem" created by so-called "tech" company intermediaries. To be sure, it would also mean no one in Kenya would be intentionally be subjected to PTSD-causing material in the name of fulfilling the so-called "tech" industry's only viable "business model": surveillance, data collection and online ad services.
Super cool music. Great vibes.

on Firefox with ublock origin the playbutton wasn't visible so I made an account first. Pretty slow fps not sure why + hard to figure out where to go.
A lot of PTSD is also not from combat all all- childhood emotional trauma alone can cause it. This is recognized now, but it took a while because initially it was discovered in war veterans and categorically excluded other groups- eventually they discovered that war wasn’t unique in causing the condition.

However, I would point out that Mates’ views are controversial, and don’t fully agree with other research on trauma and PTSD. He unrealistically associates essentially all mental illness and neurodivergence with childhood trauma, even in cases where good evidence contradicts that view. He claims ADHD is caused by childhood emotional trauma, although that is proven not to be the case, so I don’t put much stock in his scientific reasoning abilities- he has his hammer and sees everything as a nail.
I broke it. It appears to be stuck on this stage:

To get Yang Li's car to reboot, you'll have to trigger a new content moderation filter saying something inappropriate. She already swore, so that one won't work. Make sure no kiddos are around.

Yang Li
You've got to help me. I can't park here!

Fubaru EcoRavager
Naughty language lock

You
Oh my, your being naughty today.

Or any speech for that matter. It just forever keeps displaying the generation symbol.

Congrats. It has been fun enough to buy the full version.
Fun demo, nicely done! The visual and play style reminds me of "Eliza".

I've got two questions, just out of curiosity:

1. On the frontend, did you basically write your own engine that loads the screens / dissolves / does character and text placement, where it's all driven by some descriptors coming from a database on the back-end?

2. Is there plot branching in the game, or do the same challenges show up no matter what?
The parts about community and romance tell to the contrary.
Well put. This comment makes your criticism of the book much more clear to me at least.

I agree with you that the separation of Church and state is a foundational idea of software design and even computing generally. I find it quite beautiful how it manifests in hardware as the two categories of digital logic - combinatorial and sequential. And if we zoom in on the logical expression of memory we see it again - a latch is simply two feedback loops and some combinational logic.

For what it's worth I thought the book was brilliant. Its ideas weren't all obvious to me before I read it. It also inspired me to read Parnas, Wirth, Hoare, and study the Go runtime and compiler.

What should be obvious is this: the fact that the ideas were obvious to you doesn't mean they are obvious to everyone.

Secondly, complexity has many meanings. Managing complexity is incredibly important in the realm of security. I've been dabbling in security for 25 years, but I would certainly not claim to have a deep understanding of functional programming. Nevertheless I understand complexity quite well. I think that's what bothered me the most about your original comment - the idea that people without a background in FP are unqualified to talk about complexity.
I dislike ads even more than slop. Ads drove me to change stations to music I didn't care for and listen to the same CDs more times than I would have otherwise. Ads made broadcast radio unplayable as interaction-free background music.
LANPAR, available in 1969, was the first electronic spreadsheet but was on mainframes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet?wprov=sfti1#
i dont think users of whatsapp would have standing against people hacking whatsapp to get their data.

whatsapp owns the systems, so its up to whatsapp to sue
Curious, are the slow build times locally, your own CI or Unity Cloud Build? (If local/own builders may be some ways to dramatically lower the build times eg by managing the Library/ cache per-platform.)

Happy to help anyone with optimizing these approaches it's been a pain to figure out
>You can have beliefs based on limited information. People do this all the time. And if you actually revealed that belief it would demonstrate that you don’t actually currently believe o3 is likely to be world transformative

Cool...but i don't want to in this matter.

I think the models we have today are already transformative. I don't know if o3 is capable of causing sci-fi mass unemployment (for white collar work) and wouldn't have anything other than essentially a wild guess till it is released. I don't want to make a wild guess. Having beliefs on limited information is often necessary but it isn't some virtue and in my opinion should be avoided when unnecessary. It is definitely not necessary to make a wild guess about model capabilities that will be released next month.

>The entire point of the original chess example was to show that in fact it is the correct reaction to repudiate incorrect beliefs of naive litmus test of AGI-ness. If we did what you are arguing then we should accept AGI having occurred after chess was beaten because a lot of people believed that was the litmus test?

Like i said, if you have some other caveats that weren't beaten then that's fine. But it's hard to take seriously when you don't.
Is there a good word for "obvious" that doesn't have negative connotations?

When I see something like this it makes me think about how a spreadsheet structure is "obvious" - but I mean it positively! It's a beautiful, intuitive, almost inevitable way to lay out data, and I'm delighted that folks came up with something like this so long ago.

I feel this way about a lot of my favorite posts on HN, whether they're a bit of history, a totally new invention, or something different entirely. And I certainly feel it here.
I guess they don't really care that much to implement all the possible exceptions.
Division by 195 is trivial. The answer is simply

uint8_t div195(uint8_t x) { return x >= 195; }
Define TUI

TUI

noun

1. Initialism of Tangible User Interface

Although here it apparently means "Terminal User Interface".
The owner is so rich that he doesn't care about keeping any of the pubs open.
>How does it help anyone to pretend that group differences don’t exist?

It helps people get along.
I read a few chapters and had the same feeling.
Why hasn't any evidence of such client-side interception ever been surfaced? Reversing apps and software has been done since forever, and has been used to discover things the app-makers don't want made public - such as unannounced new products, but this happens perennialy with Apple & OS updates, and upcoming features in apps that are behind flags.
The feature is coordination of who to send it to and when, is it's own business, not the part where you slap a picture into the pdf and or generate write-once-read-never digital signature blob into it too.

The actual business here is the promise to keep the logs and the process to ensure you can connect the person who signs the document with the document and time, so in a very unlikely event it is being questioned you can testify that signing by a specific person happened or not. The more certifications you have for the process and the software/infra that implements it, the better you can sell.
Darktable 5.0.0 Released
im sure you can bootlick your way out on their mercy right up until the day you dont.
That's a good question. They run the system on a small scale and validate there. The assumption is that no new error mechanism magically switches on when the simulation gets large enough, but it is did there would be no way to know.

Hopefully large-scale, verifiable demonstrations become viable in the near future. But current they're just too hard to implement.
I can't see the price per document anywhere on your website
This is just another one. What are the inaccuracies? I wonder if there is registrar that uses Cloudflare. This would be the ultimate point of failure.

Yes, some problems can be solved, e.g. the non-indexing of pictures. But this requires a paid account. Face it. Most people use it as a cheapo CDN. And it is just not worth it.

Many plug-ins are incompatible with cloudflare, e.g. Multisite. You will basically start building your site around cloudflare.
This is how the startup life is sold to youngsters—million-dollar conversations just happen—and it’s amusing to see the myth is still alive.
Thank you. I found this comment illuminating. I too am very interested to hear any book recommendations you have on the topic.

What are your favorite books on software design, functional programming, and/or computing generally? What are your favorite papers on the topic of complexity (as FP defines it)?
I didn't even know Grammarly had so much cash that they can acquire something. I thought it was on the road of being acquired since GPT 3.5 was out.
What's disturbing is the number of comments on the NYT article from Mr. Wallace's astroturfing team attempting to still convince people that Baldoni was the real victim.

WME fired him as a client this morning, just hours after this article was posted. Agencies don't do that just because something bad gets said about a client (for comparison, Jonathan Majors' agency didn't end their relationship until after several weeks after he was charged with domestic violence and the video of the incident was publicly released). This means WME already knew about the allegations and had third party support[1] for those allegations, and were sitting on that information hoping for the drama to die down.

[1] Baldoni's misbehavior became an open secret in Hollywood after the entire rest of the cast of the movie refused to be associated with him during the press campaign for the movie.
I think it means taking to people outside your team, about your personal interest areas.
Scribe aaS? ;)
Yeah, just because one does not believe in fantastic stories of a particular old book doesn't mean one is immune to new ones.

> perhaps many who imagine such scenarios do so with tongues in cheeks

Over the last 20 years, I've seen too many things get started as jokes before becoming tragically serious, that this is actually a worrying sign. Individual human minds are vulnerable to repetitive exposure, and a "joke" group can also incubate a too-serious one by providing a safe community for trial-balloons disguised as jokes.

> Cannon’s business model also reminded me of Ray Kurzweil, the famous inventor, computer scientist, and Singularitarian who openly takes hundreds of daily pills and supplements to avoid the irony of dying just before the all-but-omniscient computers he believes are coming soon can arrive.

I see Kurzweil's "predictions" more as a desperate attempt to convince himself he will live forever, since that seems to be the one unifying theme.
What was editorialized? I checked the page and the title is the same
That's a weird one. It's common for people to prefer the original audio, and most Germans understand English.
And he says on his about page "This art is primarily non-objective and abstract, focusing on complex shapes and colors. I use my math, programming, and digital manipulation knowledge to produce highly unique art." It's not AI generated.
One does not fully-experience life until you encounter a death of something you care about. It being a pet, person; nothing gives you that real sense of reality until your true feelings are challenged.

I used to live in the Disney headspace until my dog had to be put down. Now with my parents being in their seventies, and me in my thirties I fear losing them the most as the feeling of losing my dog was hard enough.
"You/your loved ones should die because Elon would die too" is a terrible argument. It's not great, but it's not worth dying over. New rich bad people would take his place anyways.

"You should die because cities will get crowded" is a less terrible argument but still a bad one. We have room for at least double our population on this planet, couples choosing longevity can be required to have <=1 children until there is room for more, we will eventually colonize other planets, etc.

All this is implying that consciousness will continue to take up a meaningful amount of physical space. Not dying in the long term implies gradual replacement and transfer to a virtual medium at some point.
I bought some $8 third-party AirTags from AliExpress, flashed them with some firmware, and used Macless Haystack to track them without owning any Apple devices.

https://notes.stavros.io/programming/third-party-airtags-res...

Google have also launched their own network, Find, which is turned off by default and useless for now.
I'm glad you agree, I can't stand subscriptions that I have to cancel immediately.
The 80-Hour App
That in fact happens all time time with signatures...

A signature can be used to validate the existence and legitimacy of a contract and the terms contained within a specific version of a contract, so disputes over signatures happen quite frequently. Indeed, DocuSign spent years establishing that their system could be used to authenticate signatures and the documents they were attached to so they could break into the legal market.
The problem is the US is still running off best practice from 200 years ago and is famously hostile to change or copying another from other countries.

Any change is also going to disadvantage the two current parties so they will be hostile to it. Which with the hard-to-amend US constitution makes things very hard to change.

Some form of proportional representation or maybe STV in multi-member districts is actually what you'd do. Single member districts with fancy voting systems just gets you a token 3rd party representation.
My vote is 'any 1 election runoff system'[score, star, approval, ranked choice, ...]. Every 1ER is better than first past the post. It would be nice if vote nerds would shut the frak up about this one is better than that on. Open primaries; top 4 or 5 go through to the general; general uses any 1ER. Were I writing a law to put this in place, I would say we should revisit which 1ER after X number of years or Y voting cycles.
Sure, that's unrelated though to the question which was if one would feel comfortable taking a self-driving car in NYC
>lots of places have high-IQ subpopulations who look a lot like their background populations

Can you rephrase this?
not that strange, it's just corporate-speak. that's what all the people writing blog posts on linkedin glorifying their 80-hour weeks sound like.
If you worked in a cubicle farm you'd know. The cubicles were generally divided by low portable walls. There were different setups but generally you don't see people when you're seated but if you stand you can see your neighbors.
"interesting how the same metaphor lead to 2 very different types of accounting software."

The tablets are tabulated lists which is how anyone might do a shopping list or list of income and expenditure.

Double entry book keeping is only around 600 years old (I'd have to look it up). That method requires an in from somewhere corresponding to an out from somewhere else. It enables or enhances all sorts of funny business and also cross checking and auditing.

Then we move on to the full Nominal/Sales/Purchase ledgers with Cashbook and all the rest. Perhaps we might instead go for the personal version.

Anyway, my point is that accounting does not depend on IT related metaphors.

The tablets in OP are tabulated tallies of works and how they were generated - it is like a spreadsheet where the human is the computer.

Funnily enough, we call them tablets instinctively. Computer originally meant a person who computed things. No need for metaphors at all 8)
The largest browser is owned by a surveillance firm
You must give other details on where and for how long you store the uploaded documents
I’m in Seattle and I wait at a bus stop every morning at 7:25am so I’m deeply aware of how it feels to go to school in the dark vs sunrise vs light (currently it is full dark, even with the shift).

Honestly, I think now it’s just better to go to work/school in the dark to get an hour more after work to play/be in the world. Obviously each city is different, but Seattle is miserable in the winter and it would be way more fun to have sunset at 5:15pm instead of the current 4:15pm. People don’t play catch or go to parks before school, they do it after so the darkness is partially painful for loosing time to hang with kids.

That said, the anecdotes about the 70s are super interesting. I was not alive then, but I wonder if work schedules were quite a bit different from they are now to account for the difference in thinking? I know plenty of people leaving at 7am to beat traffic across the bridge (well before sunset with or without dst). Perhaps in the 70s people just left at 7:30am specifically to make it to work at 8am and the sunset time mattered more then our world of 2 hour rush hour and hybrid remote work?
You don't need to do that, the API will happily return the last N days of location pings.
If a SIMD ISA exists, someone must know that it exists, because definitionally we only apply the term "SIMD ISA" to things that were consciously created to be such. So we could simply check every such example. Saying "only known example" is indeed silly.

But e.g. in mathematics, if we say that "almost every member of set X has property Y; the only known exception is Z" then there absolutely could be more exceptions, even if we pool the knowledge of every mathematician. It isn't necessary that X is finite, or even enumerable. It could be possible for exceptions other than Z to exist even though every other member of the set that we know about has the property. It could be possible to prove that there are at most finitely many exceptions in an infinite set, and only know of Z but not be able to rule out the possibility of more exceptions than that.

We don't even need to appeal to infinities. For example, there are problems in discrete math where nobody has found the exact answer (which necessarily is integer, by the construction of the problem) but we can prove upper and lower bounds. Suppose we find a problem where the known bounds are very tight (but not exact) and the bounded value is positive. Now, construct a set of integers ranging from 0 up to (proven upper bound + 1) inclusive... you can probably see where this is going.

The latter doesn't apply to SIMD ISAs, because we know all the interesting (big hand-wave!) properties of all of them rather precisely - since they're designed to have those properties.
Weird take. The point of on-device scanning is to enable E2EE while still mitigating CSAM.
Yes, I have dependents, and them not dying is far more important to me than me being the one providing for them.
The other day, Grammarly marked a grammar error in my text. I wasn’t too sure about it, so I asked ChatGPT (4o) to explain it. It agreed with Grammarly. I wasn’t convinced and didn’t understand ChatGPTs justification, so I asked again but using the more advanced o1 model… this time ChatGPT said Grammarly was wrong.

… ChatGPT is good at improving grammar, but it doesn’t “understand” what it’s doing (by design), and doesn’t have a complete and consistent ruleset, which is what you want in a grammar checker. Also, grammar and style rules change with time, and you want to have good and precise control of what rules you’re applying.
Youtube is currently blocking my VPN, can't watch it.
How about self-evident?
What are the benefits of Kotlin over Java? Something I wish they went into!
In France/EU we can use certified eIDAS signature for documents. It’s not free but it makes the signature not worth nothing
So how much is it?
I remember in middle school I had the giant Visual Basic 3 book, and it was... amazing, but looking back, super annoying to deal with, always having to lug it around, dig through the table of contents and index to find what I was looking for, etc.

So much easier now to just type a query into a search engine.
What if I want to give it away for free? How does that fit in your authoritarian distribution system?
Presumably you set your router to intercept all UDP/53 traffic, but remember the whole point of DoH is to prevent that and ensure nothing gets between the advertising surface and the advert source.
FBI warns against using two-factor text authentication [video]
To be blunt: It doesn't.

The modern political binary was originally constructed in the ashes of the French Revolution, as the ruling royalty, nobility and aristocracy recoiled in horror at the threat that masses of angry poor people now posed. The left wing thrived on personal liberty, tearing down hierarchies, pursuing "liberty, equality, fraternity". The right wing perceives social hierarchy as a foundational good, sees equality as anarchy and order (and respect for property) as far more important than freedom. For a century they experienced collective flashbacks to French Revolutionaries burning fine art for firewood in an occupied chateau.

Notably, it has not been a straight line of Social Progress,
nor a simple Hegelian dialectic, but a turbulent winding path between different forces of history that have left us with less or more personal liberty in various eras. But... well... you have to be very confused about what they actually believe now or historically to understand progressives or leftists as tyrants who demand hierarchy.

That confusion may come from listening to misinformation from anticommunists, a particular breed of conservative who for the past half century have asserted that ANY attempt to improve government or enhance equality was a Communist plot by people who earnestly wanted Soviet style rule. One of those anticommunists with a business empire, Charles Koch, funded basically all the institutions of the 'libertarian' movement, and later on much of the current GOP's brand of conservatism.