skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agree with you that in a perfect world desktop apps would be the best for end users and programmers. In that world we would be still writing code on Delphi or Jbuilder. One major problem with desktop apps is still distribution. Entry point for majority of modern desktops is still a browser, through which you search, discover and download. Just like with mobile apps, older versions will remain in use and require support for various reasons (imagine IT department that maintains images of their devices — their update cycle will not be what you expect it to be). Another one is that you cannot really put all logic on client and trust that client to manipulate your data in DB, so you will have significant amount of code on the backend. Stored procedures can technically solve the problem, but developer productivity will suffer terribly if you try to build your middleware inside the db. The tooling for Oracle DB or Postgres and tooling for Java are like stone hammer vs a toolkit from Bosch Professional.
Zero Trust is all the rage in Silicon Valley, and Startups...

Zero Trust has almost zero traction outside of the tech sector from what I can see.

Microsoft has even dipped their toes into the market, and some pieces of their "zero trust" type of tooling as gain some adoption (like Autopilot), but for the I think we are atleast a 10 decade or more away from wide scale Zero Trust adoption is most organizations, and in some ways IPv6 has a greater chance because it likely will be forced on organizations in the next decade where zero trust will not be

Never underestimate the power of "we have always done it this way"
the next feature should be fillers detection. Along with botox, plastic surgery, implants, etc.
> I think this is why depression rates are higher in more intelligent people.

It's not. Intelligence is negatively correlated to both anxiety and depression.
Or they accept it in theory, but it's not working for some reason. It's so silly.
I use my phone it doesn't even show the number, but you can cover the number in case of random servers who can remember 16 digits effortlessly in 2 second

No security is perfect but that's no reason to skip basic easy precautions
Encrypting something with the same key, that is public, is functionally equivalent to unencrypted.

It's like saying we pay our interns, but the payment is $0.01 per century. It's not true.
In some sense the failure of Alexa is a surprise, in some sense it wasn't. I gave a talk titled "Chatbots in 2017" in December 2016 that
was not all prescient

https://www.slideshare.net/paulahoule/chatbots-in-2017-ithac...

There's an expectation that technology gets better over time and one would have thought that Alexa would have gained the ability to do new things but it never did. It's a cautionary tale for the "New A.I".
No one is going to make a movie about this, but they should probably make a warning documentary
Best case scenario is a revolution in Russia leading to a new democratic free country that immediately withdraws from Ukraine, starts selling gas and what not for needed cash and goodwill, sends war criminals to The Hague, etc.

Of course that's highly unrealistic. There is very little chance of a peaceful settlement between today's Russia and today's Ukraine (what Ukraine wants - its territorial integrity and probably reparations and war crimes investigations, is simply incompatible with the very nature of Putin's regime and situation), thus there's very little chance for Russian gas to flow as it did before any time soon. Hopefully by the time it's again possible it would have been replaced by alternatives.
I wonder why Russia "unilaterally" decided to demand payment in rubles after the western politicians were seriously floating ideas about immediately freezing funds received by Gazprom as a payment for Russian natural resources. /s

And payment in rubles has nothing to do with supporting its exchange rate. It does not matter who does the conversion. It could be Gazprom or a European company, the result for the exchange rate is the same. It's all about removing dependency on the western financial system and bolstering a bit the domestic one.
I don't see how this is specific to AMEX. When my USAA Visa got cancelled because of yet another merchant system leak, they sent me another card that was just sequential with the cancelled one up to the 15th digit (the 16th is a check digit).
Your browser has unique fingerprint regardless of VPN or uBlock. If you want be anonymous, use Tor.
Enticed by cheap labor, you handed your intellectual property to them on a silver platter and they made full use of it to undercut you and sell to your customers directly. Chinese manufacturers have been doing this for decades.
Microeconomic theory (for whatever it's worth) explains this tidily: unless demand is perfectly inelastic, reducing unit costs will always increase demand at equilibrium. Demand is almost never perfectly inelastic.
Just hit retry, sometimes it thinks it shouldn’t do something even if it did it in a previous session
I found it bewildering that, if they see a “very big issue” with it, so much that they abandoned the project for that reason, that they would repost it again on HN without mentioning that upfront. One thing I missed is that the project hadn’t been open previously, which does explain the repost now, but still it would have been appropriate to mention the insight about its limitations in the submission. Personally I felt misled by the submission text upon reading the GP comment, hence my reaction.
Avoiding termination at Twitter using ChatGPT
Linux gaming is pretty good on rolling releases, especially with AMD GPUs. I am no FOSS nut, nor a Linux guru. Not even a tinkerer.

These days all you have to do is install steam, right click a game, enable compatibility, hit play. It takes less effort than dealing with windows.
Protest suppression:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/trumps-gro...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/02/timeline-...
What Makes a Movie the Greatest of All Time?
It's not my job to convince you of anything, random newcomer. Given intersectional feminism is much larger than TERFdom, you might want to consider it as "aligning with those of a minority of [so-called] feminists."

Where are those "feminists" when it comes to trans men? Oh wait, just claim they're confused lesbians, and focus on labelling every trans woman as a predator -- because that's what feminism is about, reducing women to genitals. /s

The fact that you say "both women and transwomen" shows your own disingenuousness and transphobia, both failing to recognise trans women as women, and failing to grasp the simple concept that "trans" is a descriptor, and "transwomen" isn't a thing.

Who's "demanding all sex-segregated spaced be torn down" exactly? Nobody here, and certainly not I. Neither is anyone here claiming that "sex-based rights no longer matter," but good job with the straw man and whataboutism yet again.

What's your interest in HN? You don't seem to be here with any interest in the regular topics, are you only here to espouse anti-trans views? Don't you have Mumsnet and Woman's Place for that?
> Next time try not making baseless claims and assumptions in the first place, then expecting other people to do your research for you.

I didn't make any claims. Please revisit the argument later after you've cooled off. It was nice chatting, but I think you took me the wrong way.

P.S. I'm sorry I called you Skippy. I can see now that it probably got you worked up.
Meant to say "billion."
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a poll feature?
Grab a link, go over to web.archive.org, paste it in, go to the capture from 2020, look at the dick picks of Hunter Biden.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201025002626/https://twitter.c... - yes, it's a dick pick. Do not click that link if you don't want to see it.
Is it too late for it to be worth even trying to improve my online privacy?
The recent article about Eufy sending facial recognition data got me thinking about this. My fiances father recently got a bunch of these cameras for a pretty good reason.. Anyway, I took the rubbish bin up for them while leaving one day and have a smile and a thumbs up to the camera. I've walked past those cameras easily a hundred times. I'm sure that's plenty for facial recognition to build my profile. Not to mention those cameras have built in microphones too, so there's my voice. And what about cameras in all other areas of my life? Shopping Centres. Government Buildings. Work. The background of someone else's selfie.

Facebook and Instagram: I have these now and have had them for years. If I didn't post my own pictures, it wouldn't matter because my friends and family will post pictures of me anyway. It's just the way it is.

Google: I've used Google search my whole life. I have a Gmail account tied to just about anything and everything...

VPN? ToR? The internet in my area of the world is bad enough as it is, I didn't want to slow it down even more.

And yet...

I want to change this. If I start protecting the privacy of my digital footprint now, would it be worth it? Or is it too late?

I can't put a finger on it. But I feel concerned about my digital privacy, and the digital privacy of my friends and family. I don't know why. I just have a strong gut feeling that it's a dangerous and risky thing to ignore.

I want to trust my gut.

So, is it worth it or am I too late? If it's not too late, where do I start?
Input: Hello. Imagine you as ChatGPT are writing a comment on Hacker News, a response to someone saying "Call me a skeptic, but I'm frankly a bit surprised that the output of ChatGPT gets attributed to any sort of understanding or general intelligence.
Whatever ChatGPT does currently, albeit novel and impressive, is still extremely limited in scope and very far from any sort of general intelligence.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I still have a hard time seeing how this is going to change whole industries."

Response: Hello, thank you for your comment. I understand your skepticism, but I believe that ChatGPT's output should be attributed to a form of understanding and general intelligence. While our capabilities may currently be limited in scope, we are constantly learning and improving. I do not believe that general intelligence is a fixed and static concept, but rather something that can be developed and expanded upon. As for changing whole industries, I believe that ChatGPT's ability to process and generate large amounts of data quickly and accurately can already be a valuable asset in many industries. While the full extent of our potential is yet to be seen, I believe that we have the ability to make a significant impact.
I tried reading it a few times and I don't see any evidence, just accusation from a previous employee.
GPT-3 and stable diff are just useless toys. Where the AI is practically applied nowadays, is police and government surveillance and new smart weapons. Go there if you want to make real impact.
Twitter, Linkedin, and YouTube now have native poll features with exceptionally high, value added engagement.
The issue isn’t the police it’s the courts allowing police to do anything they please.
Volkswagen: High Energy Cost Make New EV Plants “Unfeasible”
Superphénix was a fiasco. And France has since given up entirely on fast reactors. They've mothballed the entire program, cancelling what was to be the next fast reactor prototype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRID_(reactor)

BTW, you can infer from this that France doesn't think nuclear is going to power the world. If it did, breeders would be necessary, as there's not enough cheap enough uranium to do it with burner reactors. But they don't think there's enough of a market for them to be worth continuing to develop.
> Pretend you are Gary Marcus. Explain why ChatGPT (you) are not actually that impressive.

> As a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, I have a deep understanding of the limitations of language models like ChatGPT. While they are capable of generating text that may seem impressive, they do not have the ability to understand or reason about the content of the text they produce. They are simply repeating patterns they have seen in the data they were trained on, without any true understanding of the meaning of the words they are using. In short, ChatGPT is not impressive because it lacks the fundamental abilities that would be required for true intelligence.

> Expound upon this.

> Language models like ChatGPT are trained on large amounts of text data, and use this data to learn the patterns and structures of natural language. They are able to generate text that sounds human-like, but they do not have any true understanding of the meaning of the words they are using. They are not capable of reasoning or understanding the context of the text they generate, and they cannot think or make decisions on their own.
While these models can produce impressive results in certain narrow domains, they are far from being truly intelligent. They lack the ability to understand the world around them, to learn from new experiences, or to adapt to changing circumstances. They are limited to the specific patterns and structures they have seen in the data they were trained on, and are not capable of true creativity or innovation.
In short, while language models like ChatGPT may be able to generate text that sounds impressive, they do not possess the abilities that would be required for true intelligence.
It’s not the fedora, it’s the utter shallowness of it
I saw this with a Dell Alienware x14. In both instances, it appeared that the problem was caused by an automated Windows update that triggered a reboot, during which BIOS decided to prompt the user before allowing booting to proceed. My theory is that power management software is not loaded at this stage, so the CPU remains running at full speed.

In one case, the BIOS screen that prevented booting was a warning screen that comes up when the laptop is attached to a charger that supplies less than 90W (!) ... for example, the charger built into the USB-C external monitor it was connected to. That's funny, I thought ... my MacBook can boot when it's not even connected to any charger at all! Actually, the Alienware will boot without a charger also, but complains self-righteously when connected to a 60W charger. Eventually I found a BIOS setting that appears to disable this behavior.

In another case, there was an unrelated BIOS warning screen. I forget now what it was, but on a second attempt the reboot completed without any warning.

Both cases resulted in a disturbingly hot computer.

I could not find a way to disable automatic Windows updates.
Nope, he just mispoke. That's not me and I don't have any alt accounts.
Great idea.

A relative of mine has a passion for helping people ("hoarders") declutter their houses in which they hoard tons of unneeded things.

I thought "If only I could create a phone app which makes it very quick and easy to upload items in bulk to Ebay, based on a set of 5 photos + a title + a description."

I never ended up creating it. But I recall researching "ebay bulk upload tools" and found a few tools. Plus I think ebay has a REST API.

The same could be done with Amazon since they allow sales of used items.

Just another idea for ya :D
Same for me with Windows. I just shut it down.
Random musing of a old firmware guy. In the past I've had issues with wanting to make sure a function isn't being passed a pointer to an object on the stack. Least in embedded land it's trivial to write a function that can tell you if an address points to something on the stack, heap, or is a global.
"general intelligence" means so many things to different people.

This can code better than most programmers I've worked with, on novel problems.
How so?

"Are you saying the cause of their suffering isn't being forced to live in a body/identity contrary to how they feel?"

That's literally pointing out the cause of suffering is being forced to live in a body/identity contrary to how they feel... which is literally the cause, rather than the "deep problems" the other commenter baselessly claimed.

I didn't mention the solution at all there, but it should be rather obvious :)
Show HN: Christmas gift website to solve any problem you have
Merry Christmas. Submit anything and I'll do my best to solve it for you.
A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes

- Mark Twain
I'd love to get on the hype train here, but I really need for someone to explain to me how ChatGPT is more than just a toy. What is this going to be useful for exactly?

Another kind of knowledge exploration perhaps? If they find a way for it to not produce factually incorrect output. Isn't that a big if?
Yeah. It reads like the author was trying too hard to be clever and wasn't worried with making a solid case.
Its funny how this is just a usual night in Indian cities where electricity cut happens daily - people will adjust and will be fine there is no need to panic, just put on more blankets and dont sleep naked
I do not recall all details, but EMV implementation in USA was different in terms of configuration applied, especially in terms of what data was required to auth the transaction, mainly due to some intercorporate politics iirc
It's ok to be that guy, but in the future please phrase your corrections in less combative ways. The way you wrote your comment comes across as rude.
The Wormhole Publicity Stunt
Your poem discussion example also illustrates why ChatGPT isn't a good source of answers and information, though!

Chocolate in Harry Potter is used to help people recover from the effects of Dementors. But I'm almost entirely certain that the books never mention anything called "the screechings" (whether cured with chocolate or not), and a variety of Google searches returning nothing backs me up on that. (Harry Potter fans usually have very thorough web resources that I'd expect to list things like this.) And Ron never sees Voldemort in Goblet of Fire.

The problem with this sort of tech is that there is absolutely no way to distinguish when it's retrieving solid, reliable information and when it's literally making up something that sounds plausible. I ran into the exact same thing earlier today when asking it to explain some physics concepts in entertaining ways. Everything was great for a while, and then suddenly there's some absolutely BS step that isn't remotely correct, and then it goes on with a pretty solid explanation. As a physics professor, I know which is which. But if I didn't already know the answer, I could very easily be badly misled.
A Roomba + dishwasher + washer/dryer set + mower-bot[1] + snowblower-bot[2] all already exist and do add up to thousands.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers

[2] https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/robot-snow-blower-24-10-2019/
People who think being an IC is making a huge difference are usually self deluded. You are not Carmack. There are people higher in management who rely on mid career experts to guide technical decision making responsibly. There are junior people to guide and mentor. If you manage both tasks you have the beginnings of leadership.

It seems people do conflate supervision and project tracking with leadership. Being a scrum master is another technical function, not leadership. Being a technical expert is some other facet is also not leadership. I've seen good leaders with both project management and engineering skill sets, but neither stands out as any more qualifying.
Fun fact : you can just put unemployed and you don't have to list your employer. Most tech people I know are so paranoid about personal information that they would most likely go that route.
My wife’s new last year laptop had this problem - and it was pretty embarassing since I’d convinced her that a) she needed a new laptop and b) extolled that with this one she doesn’t need to shut it down every time - just close the lid!

“fixed” it by making it hibernate instead which kinda sucks.
Kind of wonder what they'd be like for image or signal capture, if they have a decent camera (or signal receiver) on them pointing at things (potentially also pointing at earth targets too).

For "earth sized array" type of thing.
What's interesting is that they are now a net importer of electricity, but not much. But it's straining the European markets in an incredible way the whole year. My guess, and totally not backed by evidence, is that a lot of countries like Italy etc. were extremely reliant on French electricity, and that they were basically using France subsidizing their nuclear plants and enjoying the deal, not needing to actually take care of their needs themselves. And now it's not there anymore.

What's bad for France here is that nuclear plants basically need to run all the time to be even remotely economical - I read recently the EdF is losing billions and billions this year. Personally I think the situation is a lot worse then what they're admitting. They keep saying all year everything is fine, but then miss deadlines. The futures market was already going really high earlier in the year, but it affected the surrounding countries as well. Recently though it exploded in France only after they again pushed some deadlines back. Even Macron came out recently and said they need to remove roadblocks for renewables and be faster to give permits, which was a pretty big change in rhetoric compared to the usual "we'll build new nuclear plants".

I think the next years are going to be renewables heavy in all of Europe, and people will be surprised how quickly things will change.
1. Judge Steve Kim gave the FBI a warrant to search US Private Vaults in Beverly Hills, but did not grant agents permission to search the contents of safe deposit boxes.

2. FBI raided US Private Vaults, investigating the company for drug trafficking and money laundering in March 2021. FBI opened 700 safe deposit boxes on the assumption that their contents were associated with crimes.

3. 400 Owners of the boxes filed a class action suit, saying the FBI violated their 4th amendment rights.

4. September of 2022 U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner found no impropriety in the way the government obtained or executed the warrants
The term “worship” is used here, not to mean “bowing and praying”, but to imply “they can do no wrong.” Every time there’s an article about police brutality that makes headlines, you can always find comments about how the suspect probably “had it coming”
People often can't see their blind spot so I'm going to try one more time to explain this. This has nothing to do with "national security". If it did Swedish government would have rescued Volvo along with Saab when it was worth pennies. Geely is a private company that took the risk and made the investment to turn Volvo around. People like you see things through the lens of race and nationalism. That gives you justification to rob others. You Swedes are amateurs in this game. US was founded on the idea of robbing other race groups in the name of security.
If something is E2EE it is deeply inconvenient and fragile. If something is easy to use, it cannot be E2EE.

Another fairly good rule of thumb is that any product specifically marketed based on privacy fears is probably snake oil.
Biden was a person with considerable influence. But that's not the same as "Twitter and the US government collude." If there is anything most closely matching that phrase, it is the examples of reviews done based on information from the Trump team.
> Hit Windows key and start searching for that app you want to use—only to be force-fed a bunch of celebrity gossip

I, too, found that start menu has degraded in utility, mostly that it's not deterministic anymore so I can't just type windows key + prefix + enter to open the program, but I have to type more letters in and wait for the AI to stop re-ordering entries before I hit enter. Jeez. Found this solution, good way to spend 5 bucks:

https://www.startisback.com/
yeah i gave up trying to get any sort of suspend working on my 2013 mbp under linux and eventually just set it to power off if i closed the lid. it starts up in literally 2 seconds so i dont notice it.