skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is absolutely nothing in their README to suggest that you are using the word "cult" properly.
I find unwaged labour to be a better term, since it does not imply in the same way that it is socially necessary and opens the discoursive, utopian possibility of a society without work.
I asked chatgpt o1 to "Rewrite the following article without the AI fluff", and it mostly failed.
Okay, this method works as follows: create some positive and negative rules, (called as a group a "constitution"), use a "helpful-only" LLM to generate synthetic data, then conduct preference training on a smaller model that will sit between the OG model and the final output and flag stuff that is "anti-constitutional" (my words). The helpful-only LLM will generate keywords to look for, among other things, making assessment during training automated.

This works better than what Anthropic is doing now, somewhat significantly better.

That's the paper. Here's what EVERYONE should be pestering the Anthropics of the world on:

* Can I read this constitution? Where? Can you demonstrate the stated constitution is the real one?

* Can I select piecemeal constitutions?

* Which groups do you deem allowed to have access to the "helpful-only LLM"?

Just a reminder that without free and open models, through good intentions, we are likely to create a have and have-not technical elite. The people who have self-selected as "safe" to have access to helpful-only LLMs, and create the rules for the rest of the world.

This is not a good thing.
Based in the UK, some of these answers are absolutely wild. It's probably 20 years since I've written a cheque - certainly we don't routinely have chequebooks any more.

Pretty much everything is done through electronic transfers - either Direct Debits, which occur on a regular (usually monthly) basis, or ad-hoc payments a straightforward transfer which are rated to go through within a few hours, but which usually happens within 1 minute.

Does anyone know what conditions need to be in place for this level of convenience to take place?

It does mean we're liable to pesky IT issues though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qzg92g72o
Using a TUN device for this is a really cool idea! And the "How it was made" section is one of the best things I've read in a Github README.

I'm building something called Subtrace [1] but it can intercept both incoming and outgoing requests automatically. Looks like we converged on the same interface for starting the program too lol [2]. Subtrace's purpose is kinda different from httptap's though (more observability / monitoring for cloud backend services, hence the emphasis on both incoming and outgoing). Also, it uses a different approach -- using Seccomp BPF to intercept the socket, connect, listen, accept, and ~10 other syscalls, all TCP connections get proxied through Subtrace. We then parse the HTTP requests out of the TCP stream and then show it to the user in the Chrome DevTools Network tab, which we repurposed to work in the browser like a regular webapp.

Any fun stories there from running programs under httptap? Who phones home the most?

[1] https://github.com/subtrace/subtrace

[2] https://docs.subtrace.dev/quickstart
> We'd never hire someone who just makes stuff up

We do all the time - of course we do, all the time.
I don't really see how this relates to what the OP said. They are just saying different members of the relationship might have different standards, not so much that they have complementary standards that cancel out in some way. I think it's a different point than the "it's not just feminine stuff" point.
Also, no chance it's unbreakable.
What really happens inside a dating app
> Could his father not have identified him?

Probably. That assumes that the father was still alive and of sound mind. Also assumes that the father had much contact with the son.

If they have become strangers to each other a long time ago he might not even be able to tell who is his real son, but his DNA still can provide evidence.
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"I apologise for writing such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write a short one."The quote, " is generally credited to Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher.
In his work "Lettres Provinciales" (Provincial Letters), published in 1657, Pascal wrote in French: "Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte," which translates to, "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."
There aren't a whole lot of RISC-V processors that abide by the strictest definition of "fully open source" that are that interesting. There's GPU silicon, encode/decode, sometimes a DSP, maybe even random elements like a memory interface that aren't open source. Strip those out and it's just kind of a text mode only computer or micro controller.
no, that's a good point but it would need some recognition, a name etc
DeepSeek R1 speed benchmark across different providers
$5 says CRC32
Seizing web servers is coming next, as per the recent UK laws forum hosting is responsible for "evil" content. It does not need to be illegal. This has been discussed in the HN as well.

Software industry that defines bad is called compliance-industrial complex.

Defining bad is a big business. Here is a good book about pre-crime society we are starting to live:

https://www.amazon.com/Compliance-Industrial-Complex-Operati...
this is also a good argument. the anti cheat is impossible to implement in usermode, but you can hardly trust developerd with kernel mode drivers that trace all things.

im not sure if a gaming os would help there.

it would be helpful if OSes wouldnt allow things like malicious drivers but this is an extremely hard problem in light of people loading known vulnerable drivers and exploiting those...

you could argue that a lot of drivers could live in ring 1 or 2 rather than ring0, but that no OS implements.

working on an OS to try and think of solutions to this types of issues, but u know... if u can wait like 40 years maybe it will be done (and likely it will be vulnerable in different ways :(( )
Do you know if it's possible to get this working on macos? I believe Tailscale uses gvisor's tcp/ip lib (as their netstack lib) on macos for certain things.
You're spot on noticing the fundamental problem, but perhaps describing the dynamic in terms of a solution that people are understandably allergic to. There were ways to have managed the societal change of women entering the workforce and having fulfilling careers without having to end up at the current oversubscribed catastrophe we have now. But instead, the surplus was gobbled up by the financial treadmill and made it so that two full time incomes is just the new normal while the system-illegible work mostly gets neglected.
"easily avoidable areas" as if criminals don't have cars?
Hot take: Yet another case of wrongdoing that could have been prevented if the U.S. (or its states) held a canonical registry of people.

If you couldn’t take out an ID card using a birth certificate and proof of residence (electricity bill etc weak measures), maybe this con would never have begun in the first place.

Almost every developed nation in the world has this problem solved.
I am decidedly opposed to this, but since you didn't get an answer, I'll try to steelman one.

It gives him the ability to excise unwise spending. He can figure out where the money is going, and if it's being spent badly, he can stop it (possibly directly, possibly through pre-existing channels). It avoids getting caught up in the bureaucracy, which cannot fix itself but needs to be replaced from outside.

I'm fairly certain that this is not in fact what is going to happen, and that the real goal is to gather data on his enemies and harass them. But we'll see who's right soon enough.
Now image all the things that their partner does in the relationship, things they perhaps would rather not, but do so anyway. And do it without spewing a bitter screed onto the internet about it.
These are all good ideas, particularly the last 5 which are mostly technical. The first 2 are often influenced by things beyond developers' control. For example, developers might be pushed on a schedule that encourages accumulation of technical debt, leading to the inevitable bug bankruptcy and ground-up rewrite.

I think every developer should strive to do the right thing, and also be flexible when the right outcome didn't happen.
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A very precise word or phrase may over time get broadened in usage to the point of incoherence. I have seen "gaslighting" broadened to include "having a contrary opinion" and "emotional labor" broadened to include "writing items on the grocery list."
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> But then whenever there’s a sale or a positive comment, I get another small jolt of motivation and I can build a bit again.

There's your solution. Positivity regarding your productivity, which is imperfectly normal, fuck your mental health.

No sale, no comment, no problem. Find something that rewards your productivity or tech savvy.

Put your projects on git, you'll get forks and stars (maybe). Maybe pieces will get adopted elsewhere. Talk about how you did what. Grow, help others. Do the opposite, hack something, for example, or reverse engineer something that'll be rewarding by itself: "holy shit, thatt's how they did it?".

If you don't have "it" internally, get it from elsewhere.
Right, Garmin doesn't support simultaneous recording on multiple devices. But if you've got a bike computer then there's nothing to be gained by also recording on your watch, you won't get any more data.

There's another related defect if you use one of their chest straps that records and stores heart rate data for later download (this is mainly for swimming activities where radio can't be used). If you record an activity on your watch and it syncs to Garmin Connect before downloading heart rate data, then after the watch downloads from the chest strap it will create a duplicate activity in Garmin Connect instead of updating the existing activity. Customers have been complaining about this for years but Garmin doesn't care.
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For people from most places outside the US, I bet such stories from US's medical system sound totally crazy. It is crazy for a medical system to function like this charging somebody for being involuntarily treated, and even more for no medical cause.

What would have happened, to the hospital's part, if they had declared that you were not intoxicated and you should not have been brought to the hospital, and sent you on your way? Would the police have had to justify dragging you to the hospital, and pay for your examination? I suspect that going along with the police may have been the decision with the simplest and most profitable outcome for everybody (apart from you) and that the hospital side was incetivised to go along with police's story rather than against, but I am not sure how things there typically work in such cases.
Regardless of what the upstream rebuttal is (i.e., Unicode's mission as you explained), I think it makes sense for the downstream entity (i.e., Windows) to simply indicate inheritance from upstream as a rebuttal to any pressure.
> force and strength

The problem is that the USA is capable of far more force and strength than Canada is. It's like an abusive relationship, but one where due to geography, Canada cannot simply leave.
I’d never heard of that… do you have an article about it so I can read up?
The capitalist class is probably the laziest class in the US, one of the loudest capitalist critics of so lazism even has a self-made 20 season documentary on how she does nothing all day.
Well, zero criticism IS a form of criticism so I don't blame the author for not being motivated after the fact. I'd even say its the worst kind of criticism because it leaves you with nothing to build next.

But I think they are highlighting an important thing here that most of us struggle with...building is fun, progress is discrete and clear, the feedback loop is very tight. Selling and marketing to people sucks, its clunky, the feedback loops are variable, and if you're inclined more to being an introvert it is very exhausting.

I'm not sure the author is conditioned to fail as much as they are just more inclined to build.
We did this. Hail damage. There wasn't no damage. We'd had a hail storm. But... we've had them before. The root was 17 years old at that point, and... the last storm sort of tipped things over to the "needs repair" side of things. We may have been able to leave it a while longer, but do we wait until it's leaking, causing more damage? Insurance company sent an inspector, took pics, etc. Interestingly, they denied the claims of many of our neighbors, but ours was 'bad enough' to justify replacement. This still cost us several thousand of of pocket - it wasn't like it was 'free roof!' time.
I second, third and fourth this
See my comments above. The reality, I believe, is that this is largely driven by idealistic west coast gen-z and younger millenials who feel certain that their world-view is righteous, to the extent that they feel they are only helping by implementing these tools.

I think, unfortunately, they will learn too late that building censorship and thought-shifting tools into their LLMs will ultimately put them at the mercy of larger forces, and they may not like the results.

I'd like to hear from Anthropic safety folks on whether or not their constitutional approach might be used to implement redirection or "safety stops" on, say, chats where young women in sub-saharan Africa look for advice about avoiding genital mutilation. (https://www.unfpa.org/resources/female-genital-mutilation-fg... for much more on this sad topic).

Government officials and thought leaders in these countries, male and female, are convinced that FGM is right and appropriate. What is, in fact, right, and who decides? This, in my opinion, is going to be the second "bitter lesson" for AI. It's a lesson the Facebooks of the world learned over the last 20 years -- there is absolutely no way to properly 'moderate' the world's content to some global standard of norms. Norms vary hugely. Putting yourself in the position of censoring / redirecting is putting yourself in the position of being a villain, and ultimately harming people.
I did get depressed for a while, which is a common comorbidity. Drugs helped somewhat. Ultimately sleep, diet, family, friends and sport helped more.

I am less hard on myself. My therapist helped me realize that some of the things I was blaming myself for were actually not my fault. I have some techniques to help me with some of my everyday struggles. I sometimes are able to aim my hyperfocus instead of just letting it point to whatever random thing crosses my mind - the trick there is realizing that almost anything worth knowing has some interesting nuggets, you just have to dig for them sometimes.

My son was diagnosed at an appropriate age (he has hyperactivity so it has been visible for a while).
They switched it from SLC to MLC? I wouldn't expect 2 bits per cell to cause problems... how bad was the flash?

Unless you're saying the switch corrupted the existing data, in which case wow what a screwup.
you may believe it is a puff piece, and that's subjective, it's fine to think so. but saying it's paid for is a serious accusation and very different from "puff". big time news outlets like the NYT don't do paid content like that - if they have any sponsored content it will be prominently labeled or placed in the Opinion/Editorial section.
Depends, it might take a very long time.
Yes, list the malicious ones too.
Rule of law, mate, rule of law. Lose that and you lose everything.
I would say that Toddlers are mostly not given agency.

Toddlers want things and they don't want other things. Their parents don't permit much agency, because.

I'm probably agreeing with you but I wasn't sure of your implication.
The first time I stood in line for a hoagie, I was intimidated by the 15 options on the menu. Five minutes in line couldn't help me, and the counter person said "well stand aside and let the guy behind you order then".

I can empathize that someone from a place where everyone is politely addressed as "Sir" or "Ma'am" might find interactions jarring if they don't begin with a "hello, how are you doing today?"

she placed my accent correctly, asking if I was taking the train to New York "like all the other young kids with backpacks". I bellyached about the humidity in July and she let out a deep laugh. she wrapped the sandwich in halves since it would be easier to carry when I already had so much.

I still think about that interaction. I think that the Northeast has a charm to it developed by centuries of their communities existing in such tight quarters (albeit ones with a history of bitter sentiments and actions against Black people like Boston, South Philly, etc.). I wish strangers talked to each other more, because maybe that takes the edge off of directness.
So, I still think this is a cool tool for search reasons, but otherwise the tendency to hallucinate makes it questionable as a researcher.

Hypothetically speaking, if the time you saved is now spent verifying the statements of your AI researcher, then did you really save any time at all?

If the answers aren't important enough to verify, then was it ever even important enough to actually research to begin with?