skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>these social media companies are employing behavioral scientists

Companies have employed behavioral scientists for at least a century now. Cigarette companies never got in trouble for hiring psychologists to devise their advertising (addiction triggers), but for the damage their products did. They could invent a new rule against exploiting human psychology but that does not have a precedent of illegality.
If the drug is distributed by, controlled by, the American govt using its tech companies, such a drug is fine. The moment, the control goes to Chinese, yes, it is a big NO :)
That might be too low(?) resolution. It would be learning encodings instead of features of the thing that is being encoded. Like training it on terabytes of zip files and expecting it to reproduce from the files contained in the archives.
I think you're right. For example, I think Android apps written in Java/Kotlin are better than apps written in web technologies
If you want to get the most out of your addiction, condense the information and your thoughts in a Zettelkasten system.
The way I understood it in my head (though I don’t know if the article actually says this) is that process that figured out the box size was probably ignoring the new line and just assuming it was the same width as a space.

The process that actually laid out the text was using the specified width of the new line, so it came up with a longer width and had to break the line.
The second half of that explanation is completely wrong though, isn’t it? There is no active signal being sent from your GPS antenna, no two-way communication.
I agree, Beef tartare is delicious as is many kinds of raw fish.

> associated with global warming

But that’s just wordplay. Eating a diet of raw meat results in a dramatically lower life expectancy. Knowing your sources doesn’t particularly help here it’s just a form of conformation bias because most of the time raw meat isn’t a problem. Unfortunately, a lifetime consistent of a vary large number of meals so low risks are still meaningful.

That said, if uncooked meat is your only source of vitamin C then it’s better than dying. Traditional Eskimos diet was almost completely meat for months, but included such things as chewing on raw blubber.

So, sure a carnivore diet is possible. But simply eating nothing but cooked stakes will fairly quickly kill you, this isn’t a contradiction. Healthy animal and water only diets are extremely difficult to achieve.

PS: I also standby what I said about your view of that study. There’s actual evidence and wishful thinking the difference is critical.
I've turned it off entirely. I'd rather have a typo of the correct word than the wrong word entirely when communicating with people.
Tipping has been weird ever since it ceased to be voluntary. This is the root cause. Everything else is a side effect.

But there's another side to tipping I've not seen anyone bring up. It gives people a means to employ discrimination. If you don't like a person's background, you can choose to tip them less than others. There's a reason we have anti-discriminatory clauses in labour laws pretty much universally. Individuals simply cannot be entrusted to act in good faith when it comes to the matter of discrimination. But tipping, moves the source of income from an employer who is beholden to regulations, to the absolute whim of individuals who don't have to answer anyone. It's crazy to think we are okay to leave people's earnings and livelihood to individual fancies. I wager that if there're any studies made on this, we will see differences in making tips depending on a person's background.
Won't help. Most large hospitals are odd conglomerations of buildings constructed at different times to different codes; the sixth floor of an old one may be smoothly connected to the fifth floor of a new one, with stairs between the two on floors three and four (accessibility is maintained by having elevators in the new wing have rear entrances to the "old" side, but you sort of have to know whether you want 4 or 4R). The stairs do not necessarily connect to all floors. Etc. If you spend a long time in one, you will eventually learn most of the tricks, but even then there are likely to be some surprises out there. Floors that only one or two elevators out of a large bank will go to, for example.
I wasn't familiar with the acronym RBAC (but certainly familiar with the concept) until web searching for it. First link was from solarwinds.. nope, found an okta link.. yep! Thanks for the well thought out list this was helpful
Did ChatGPT come up with this, or just rip it off from some place(s) without attribution?
> What if the warrant canary is from the developers of the encryption software?

That seems useful. Thanks!
reminds me of when i said 'my girlfrind won't replace my wife' ... whoops!
Well it certainly wasn’t mandatory and no records were kept of who did and who didn’t, and there was no stigma or recourse if someone opted out.

However it was definitely effectively in decreasing the number of employees who took sick time during flu season though. Just the convenience of running down to the break room to get it vs going to a clinic increased the number of employees who would get the seasonal shot.
Resolution isn't important in small sensors, and the JPEG processing can't be compared to what phones do. A 2007 P&S isn't going to turn a grey overcast sky blue because it thinks skies should be blue like an iphone does.
The trick is to get it to show its work first and then calculate the answer. If it guesses the wrong answer first and then writes out the steps, it won't correct it.

This works: "Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4. Don't calculate the result until the end."
> Whiteout conditions

Man, you just gave me one of the most nostalgic feelings ever bringing me back to 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOOZ0dksRU
I should really use my digital camera. It's not even that old. But it is free of all the AI bs that is invading phone cameras. All that doesn't sit right with me. An example is the magic eraser stuff. Outdoor photos where you can erase all bystanders? idk something about a world where that's the norm skeeves me out.
I hate touch screens for anything else but settings or entering navigation.

Mazda hit the sweet spot for me
Personally I don't care for phone photos, they always suck for me. I use my phone camera to do stuff like send photo of a document when needed, or take a photo of a package as proof it arrived intact or something like that.

The reason is that phones for years been screwing the photos no matter what you do, at one point both me and my dad bought a Motorola phone where they promised it would have an "eco-system" of accessories, with existing ones including more advanced cameras, game controllers and so on. We went to a place full of beautiful animals, took a ton of photos, but when we checked his photos, all of them were horribly screwed, like everything was pink, or even literally sheared, I found out the reason is that when you use the viewfinder, the phone skips some processing, as soon you take the photo, it mandatorily does some processing, in Motorola's case with a very buggy chip that would inevitably ruin your photos. Poking in the photo files it looked like the algorithm was managing to misalign the file in memory before doing the calculations. Something similar to mixing endianess.
I had a right laugh with this one. Taking sweet shots in the moonlight, that sort of ethereal white blue glow over everything.

Phone took 5 seconds or so to take each picture and it came out looking like it was just daylight. The only way you could tell I took it at night was the creation time of the file. The photo had things visible that I couldn't even see with my naked eye!

Technologically impressive, sure. What I was taking a picture of? Not at all.
Address Poisoning Attack, a Continuing Threat
Flu shot efficacy is 50% in a good year. Many years, the flu shot is much less effective than 50%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Effectivenes...

Good odds the flu shot did nothing at all for you.
The secret is that American school doesn’t really bother itself with that much teaching. Nobody teaches children how to hold pens properly, cursive writing, etc.
As long as the service stops when the 'Free Trial' expires and until payment then that would be the definition of "Free Trial".

If people don't pay, they may not like it, use it or it's too expensive for them.
I sign up to see if I like a product/service and have to fight to remove the card so it doesn't charge me as most products/services aren't what I'm looking for.
This. My laptop runs Windows (for non-programming reasons). It would feel like a prison except that WSL is really good--far more convenient than messing around with MacOS workarounds like brew. If you can't run Linux directly, Windows is the way to go.
To some degree there is no such thing as the true image. However many devices, especially some smartphones are really going past "representing reality" and into enhancing what the viewer wants.
I'm a bit anxious about the coming summer.
I think Zig's defer and errdefer make this pattern slightly more tolerable, but proper RAII is indeed best

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#defer

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#errdefer
I tried to use some of software that takes "RAW" photo and downconvert to JPEG. It is painfully slow.
As someone who (so very excitedly) upgraded from an iPhone X to an iPhone 14 Pro, I was and still am so disappointed sometimes by how artificial the photos on the new phone looks. I thought it was just me, now I see why it's a more general thing.
AI assisted graphics for Point and Click adventures
Actually outdated as the judge in question, Ronnie Abrams, recused herself. Her husband's law firm advised SBF/FTX: https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/judge-in-bankman-fried-case-re...

Edit: the title just raises a small part of the long interview with Martin. The interview also speaks about the prison system, Martin's tips to SBF to prison life, etc etc.
I have been a CTO/founder in few b2b saas services for maybe 15-20 years (one was scandinavian market leader with 100k+ users).

Anyway

Most important thing is simply: find a problem a business is willing to pay for to solve (i.e. it costs them money and time). Set up a simple MVP if that's possible and grow from there.

Do NOT listen to soc/iso talk on this thread, they are an distraction and you will have a lot of time to do them later. Security audits, certificates etc. Might be important LATER when big accounts will ask for them but not at the beginning (unless you are doing fintech etc).
> It might be legal to state "The FBI has never asked for our data", it might not, this hasn't been tested in court.

My opinion (beware, IANAL): by itself, stating this once, or as many times as one wants, is definitely legal. What's not tested is whether it's legal to give the promise to make such statements in the future with predictable periodicity.
Brazil has one of the lowest population densities on earth, less than half of the world average. Even so, sugar cane farming in Brazil is not exactly known for being sustainable. If anything, this example proves the author's point about dedicated biomass being unsustainable at large scale.
Maybe you are interested in this paper:

> Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention

Biological systems perceive the world by simultaneously processing high dimensional inputs from modalities as diverse as vision, audition, touch, proprioception, etc. Perceiver is a deep learning model that can process multiple modalities, such as images, point clouds, audio, and video, simultaneously. It is based on the transformer architecture and uses an asymmetric attention mechanism to distill a large number of inputs into a smaller latent bottleneck. This allows it to scale to handle very large inputs and outperform specialized models on classification tasks across various modalities.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03206
Just wondering if vegans are more or less likely to be murderers compared to non-vegans, because perhaps vegans are more ideological and less flexible, maybe there's a correlation
The answer to the question appears to be in comment 13; the width of the newline character is used at one point but then assumed to be the same as the width of a space later on:

> I think I see. There's a block at the bottom of RenderText::computePreferredLogicalWidths() which is only hit if wordLen == 0 and !isNewline (which is the case here) which measures the width of the one character at index i and adds it to currMaxWidth. In our situation, that's the leading newline character.

> Then, later, we subtract it out like this: "widths.max -= font.width(RenderBlock::constructTextRun(&space, 1, style));". This expects that the width of this initial character is equal to the width of a space.
These numbers were compiled by a mathhead who knows nothing about renewable agriculture meets new technologies. To be clear I'm not saying growing crops to turn them into biofuels is a good idea, but there are plenty opportunities to render the calculations based on arable land and energy output irrelevant.
Why does private equity get to play make-believe with prices?
Very true, they already have different sections in the results pages. There's no reason why they can't have one more. They can also use the box as a way to improve accuracy by having user vote on the quality of the result.
I used (still use) Wolfram Alpha for the longest time. Back in the day, I was amazed that it could calculate a bunch of things that were way out of range for Google, etc. - and I always envisioned future search engines to be sort of hybrids, you'll get linked to the correct websites, but you can also ask them for whatever you want.

I don't need ChatGPT or similar models to replace search engines, I just want to use them in parallel.

I'm excited to see what Google does with their LaMDA model, now that Bing will incorporate ChatGPT.
We don't even really have an agreed-upon definition of life, so the question is basically non-sensical. Alive are the things we say are alive, which is mostly stuff like us: some type of metabolism, growth, response to stimuli. By that definition we would certainly recognize it, at least up close.

If we're willing to expand the definition of life, e.g. to accept some type of self-aware computer as alive, then we'd have to tweak the definition, such as it is, and then we're no longer talking about "life" as we think of the word today.

I guess people often wonder about other biochemistries. As far as I know, from a semester of undergrad astrobiology, we don't currently consider those very likely. Silicate chemistries were speculated for decades, but the chemical dynamics just don't tend to work out. The other main idea was ammonia as solvent, but that'd be hardly exotic, and the current thinking is that biochemistry would be entirely too slow at the temperatures where ammonia is liquid.

The wilder ideas, like high energy chemistries on the surface of neutron stars only ever appear in science fiction. (Excepting the odd paper from the seventies, but that was a strange time.)

Maybe people will accuse me of a lack of imagination, but I think it's telling that these threads are almost always mainly the home of comments shouting the word "quantum" like it means something, or getting their information from Mass Effect.

I do think it's an interesting question whether we'd be able to recognize other types of intelligence, but I am pretty sure we'd be able to recognize other types of life.

(By the way, the article seems to be mostly about whether we'd recognize alien life seen through a telescope, but that hasn't deterred speculation about other kinds of life in the thread.)

Source: I actually studied this in college, for a bit.
I wasn't trying to be a conspiracy theorist. I was mainly wanting to point out that what is being passed off here as evidence and proof is completely circumstantial (and therefore not that hard to "fake" since the bar seems so low). It's hardly, as presented "air tight" (i.e., anyone reasonable would have obvious doubts).

I don't see anything CT about it. The "facts" here are "thin" at best. If I'm surprised at anything, it's that they didn't toss in the usual "...and the suspect has no social media presence..." (which I guess makes you a bad person, that not being on SM is in itself a crime?)
This is precisely why I use w and q instead of x. Not knowing if it wrote is definitely not a feature I'd want.
I may not be an uber geek but I’ve been using vim for 10 years, even written a plug-in and I didn’t know this.
This is a great exercise in napkin math, even with constraints you've set for yourself that don't fully approximate Twitter (yet). Thanks!
GDPR Troll Shakedown from Mustafa Sisic of Europe Data Protection
> NVIDIA required too much babysitting

This is on a headless box so thankfully I've never run into any of those issues, I just install their driver and pass the GPU through to my Docker container.
You get that kind of response anytime the subject matter is vi or vim. Still more if it mentions nvim, nano or, god forbid, emacs(!)
Bing announced their ChatGPT deal the next day: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/04/microsoft_openai_chat...
AI’s ‘dirty little secret’: Many people prefer robots over humans
Ok, we've put a question mark up there to make it more explorationy.
Why can't it just be a progressive tax that starts at 0% for the bottom 70% of lot size in your area?
>seems like the school board have no standing

That was exactly my reaction. If Bob Ferguson (WA AG) wanted to pursue such a case, he / the state would have standing - and as far as I know, the school board asking the state and getting other school boards involved in such a case would be the more powerful approach. This is Seattle though, with its particular political leanings, and/or it could also be a bit of a Hail Mary - do this to show frustration in hopes that the AG or similar parties will take action.
> I still find them useful

I guess that's what I was asking, is why or how? I didn't say they don't have value as a fact, I said I don't understand the value. Why are they useful to you, ie, what would you do with this knowledge if your storage service had a warrant canary and stopped updating it?
It's a strong claim, I don't see how it could be shocking unless you're unaware of the recent history of housing policy and urban-suburban dynamics in the US. Or think that, uniquely among all things in history, that ended at a specific recent time with no consequences carried forward into the present.

The civil rights era is in living memory, people who were children for white flight are retirees and homeowners now. They're not all or even largely racist or strictly motivated by racism, but some of them are, somewhat. No one identifies as a racist and if asked could probably find marginally acceptable euphemisms for who they do and don't want in their neighborhoods and why. But come on.
I think it's kind of hilarious that tech "journalism" now encompasses a summary of someone else's YouTube video.
I've been using ChatGPT to suggest me books similar to books I've liked and so far the results have been good. Many of the books that are recommended are books I've read and enjoyed so the remaining ones on the list are added to my reading list.
That's surprising how much it costs.

Did something similar recently for fun and cost was ~20e for co2 sensor, attached to a raspberry pi pico or esp32 and it ends up being 27-30e. (add some more sensors like co or gas for 10e each, a mini display for 5e, hook up to home assistant or telegram and ends up being more useful)

To be fair, QA on these things tends to be valuable, so perhaps cost might be justified.

Cost likely can go down if you know what to buy, I didn't and just bought what a reputable seller had.
Being not very good with numbers is one of the limitations of the current model. I imagine that in the future we will see integrations with a number of different tools to overcome these limits - WolframAlpha being the first one that comes to mind when talking about algebra and calculus.
Yes, but unlike most times it gets things wrong, this is probably appropriate for explaining things to 5 year olds.

(Also, the UK comedy quiz show QI made the exact same mistake).
Had a nice late spring walk in a forest on January 1st. near Warsaw.

I am sold on global warming...
Which will ultimately drive more people directly to ChatGPT and just cut out the search middle-person.
Yeah. I remember taking it on every single family trip for years just hoping to catch a single packet. Never got one. Oh well. I somehow got a replacement under warranty, they let me keep the old broken unit. I set it up to work as a WAP gateway (the issue wasn't fatal) and used it to mess about on the early mobile internet, had a great time.
How long would it take for "ChatGPT farms" to crop up and try to influence the results? How much harder will it be to "clean" the results from any learned data set?
It already has replaced Google for some of my needs. If I want a simple answer to queries like:

How to make a Sazarac

What’s a good waffle recipe

How do I change the O2 sensor on a 1982 911SC

I find ChatGPT issues perfectly good answers without all of the superfluous results, words, clickbait, and ads.

And for many other questions that are technical, medical, or trivial in nature I prefer its simple one-shot response.

Is it perfect? No. But neither is Google. I still at times neees to use quotes and booleans to get Google to bring me the results I want.

As a side note, Google is the Microsoft of 1997. Dominant and content. It doesn’t really want change. That’s why it’s time for a new challenger.
You're right, I don't mean RAW. Thank you for clarifying!
For people who have become involved with national security issues, aren't they often required to deny being involved with national security issues if asked? Would that count?
For me it suggested fictional book names that do not exist
The explanation is misleading. The satellites don't see you and don't care about you. They are beacons sending a radio signal (the beacons says: i'm satellite X and here is a timestamp). The receiver based on the known position of the satelites and the beacon signals received figures out your position on earth using math!

So the explanation is either: satellites and their position or give the full explanation. Not this regurgitation.
futurecoder was actually translated to French by three teachers working for the French Ministry of Education to use when teaching the maths/programming subject 'NSI'.

I love maths myself but I've made a strong effort to avoid maths in examples/exercises so that the course is approachable to students who don't like maths. The first page is a special exception as it lets users immediately try something familiar (like 1+2) without needing to introduce strings or any other new concepts.
I searched through the comments and was surprised no one had mentioned this:

Look at the evolution of how AWS has changed their services.

I see your HN account was created in 2021. If you haven't been watching this space for a long period of time (6-10+ years), go back and watch the AWS re:Invent keynotes.

You'll notice a trend of starting out with a very simple IAM and then evolving into vastly more complex mechanisms of authentication, authorization, auditing, accounting, network policy, and representation of multi-tiered organizational hierarchies between all of these systems.

This will give you an idea of what the MVP looks like, but also allow you to plan for what WILL be requested in the future (even if it's a stupid idea). Tragically, the briefest way I can summarize this is to say: "give them a Rube Goldberg machine so they can take Conway's Law and run with it."

context: I've worked exclusively on the intersection of FL/OSS and "Enterprise" software for almost 20 years.