skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that it's not only a "when we will see" but also a "whether we will see". Changes the economics significantly for investors.
Constructive criticism is good but the gist of the comment I was replying to was basically “this is a stupid waste of time”. I’d like to see less of that it just stifles good conversation.
His elbow remains in the photo
assuming the brand still has the same standards today as they had 10 years ago. In many many cases that is not the case. After 2008-2012 quality of appliances reeeallllly went downhill
Question: what is a credence good?

Also:

> Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment.

I’m admittedly focusing on the narrow end, here, but this is intriguing. How large is the effect? I couldn’t access the full paper.

Intuitively, this would suggest that certain dentists are optimizing for low-effort, high-margin procedures. If that’s the case, I’d expect the distribution of wait times to be multimodal, which might offer a path to detecting such practices cheaply.
businessofapps.com claims they only do 8M transactions per month, and have/had 4500 employees, so 8M transactions / 4.5K employees / 20 working days/month that's 88 transactions to post per day.

They don't need datacenters, quill pens and paper accounting could handle that 200 years ago with about 3 hours work per day.

Generally supermarket cashiers can do somewhat less than 30 transactions per hour, so I think its justified they should be able to do all the accounting manually in three hours.

The numbers do look a bit odd.
The research report link is probably a better source here than the re-hashing and brief commentary by Schneier. https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/opwnai-cybercriminals-s...

That said, it's not anything more than posting some screenshots from hacking forums talking about using ChatGPT, I don't think anyone here would be surprised at the results.
They photoshopped out the sky and put it in a pretty fake looking hangar.
> ... I'm fighting with within my company for a long time...

I bet that's fun.

> There is no such thing as an "interpreted language"...

In the common vernacular, yes, there are.
"Finally, figures up to June 2022 looking at deaths from all causes show unvaccinated people were more likely to die than vaccinated people.

While this data on its own can't tell us it's the vaccine protecting people from dying - there are too many complicating factors - if vaccines were driving excess deaths we would expect this to be the other way around."

It's simple math but anti vaxxers are consummate innumerates.
Wouldn't actual film snobs know that Oscars don't mean shit?

And wouldn't technical Oscars mean even less for film snobs, when it comes to the worth of a movie as a movie?

Also, why would a film snob be impressed by it being by James Cameron? He is closer to Michael Bay than to a director a film snob would actually like...
As pointed out in sibling posts, it is a (very charming, IMHO) work of fiction, and as such the librarian could be considered an unreliable narrator rather than a fact-checking journalist. A little artistic licence goes a long way and although it may not be exactly how modular synths commonly work I think it was a nice literary device to build wonder around what the machine can do.
I remember Yashi worked on this support, it is great.
Five steps to starting your PLG motion
Yes, they are mutually exclusive. There are two different meanings of "middle class" being used in this kind of discussion:

1. The class of people who live of their work but owns their own means of production (e.g. independent professionals like dentists, lawyers, or independent tradesmen like plumbers, electricians). This definition sits in the middle between the working class (who has to work for an employer) and the ruling class (who employs others to work for them).

2. The class of people with the middle earnings, regardless of how they earn their money. This definition sits in the middle between the poor and the rich.

So, if you are comparing middle class and working class you are clearly using meaning #1, in which case they are mutually exclusive by definition.

To be clear, not everyone who works is working class, the working class is just those who have to sell their labor to a middleman because they don't own the means to work directly to a customer.
They must love how all the corporations are rushing to run their software on either Amazon, Google or Microsoft cloud.
Which it is, tech pubs are huge part of the after market activities of every aerospace manufacturer. That those are not up to date, or not available when or where needed, is a major finding during audits or investigations.
Yes, they are not working class.
Time to capitalize on all the fearmongering of the last few years, before people realize we are not going to blow up in a ball of fire by 2030!
The useful idiots are not going to milk themselves, you know...
It's about avoiding damage/wear/stretching to the vagina (since people seem too squeamish to say it directly..).
I don’t think so. I’ve always bought /really good/ motherboards and then adequate CPUs etc to abuse. And upgrade later.
I do not know QFT or String Theory and I have a question.

Can these other equations be derived from the Schrödinger equation using a suitable Hamiltonian?

And do you mean that you need time to be in the Hamiltonian as an observable to satisfy Lorentz invariance?
>financial history

Challenging to find reliable sources on this that actually include financial statements.
Nokia made smartphones very early actually (in the 90s), but they were just not very good at it.
Its ChatGPT getting screwed on their first crypto "investment" and struggling to make sense of it all.
No idea about the tech planes are using, or their contracts. But that’s a good example of the kind of issue a tech solution, in general, can possibly help with. No attorney has the time to take on such a case because it would be for just a few dollars. Less than an hour of billable time probably. We have class actions, but those have their own set of problems to overcome.
I'll keep it on my watch list!

It already marks several of my editor checkboxes (LSP support, fast global search/replace, real time tree view, etc). I'll say it again, it looks very impressive.
Show HN: Piano Chord Player
Usenet and IRC were the socials when I started. And mailinglists. There was always a crowd there, but I figure most people were just doing work without bothering to post about it. Same as now.
Meh. That's all relative to GDP. That's not a reduction.
> 120,000 is a large number. It's approximately half of the entire city of Aarhus (Denmarks second largest city).

That's a terrible comparison though. In the US, about 3.3m people die each year. That's almost 60% of the total population of Denmark. A Denmark dies in the US every 18 months.

But that's just what you get when you compare a city with the population of a country that is a hundred times its size.
See https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/mongod...
If OpenAI was to be true to their so called 'mission' the models for GPT-3, DALLE-2 and ChatGPT would all be open sourced already. They chose not to and are now a for-profit and slowly becoming Microsoft's newly owned ClosedAI division.

Microsoft new investment in OpenAI is meant to give them a return and it is inevitable that ChatGPT will be in some way paid for. OpenAI is losing millions a day for running the system.

Nothing is free forever.
There is no such thing as "client state" separate from the notion of resource under REST. The URL is meaningful only to a server. If a server can encode data in the URL so it doesn't need to persist it, that's perfectly fine, so long as the URL conforms to all expectations of resources, ie. caching directives, lifetime, etc.
It sounds like it's time for open source licensing aimed specifically at humans, with different terms for machines.

The problem I can see is that most people don't host their own content, and don't pay to host it either. In such a case, it really isn't up to the author to license the work. Chances are the content is already licensed to the host, who usually has explicit rights to do whatever they want with it.
Hopefully this pivot allows them to realize promoting altcoins like Doge will not take them very far, and go deeper on the Lightning Network integration to enable their customers to move funds and use apps made on L2/Nostr
I use make extensively for a company wide build system across most/all products. Normalized everything.

Someone at the company introduced Just in their projects. I’ve used it quite a bit now, it’s great EXCEPT that you cannot include other Justfiles. So abstraction is impossible. If I want to implement something like a push feature, that has to be implemented everywhere, with no way to centrally update all projects.
I wonder how much this should be in licenses we can use for software, writing, art, since people don't agree whether copyright is relevant when including something in a training dataset.

And how much chaos and schisms this could cause, between people wanting to allow their work to be part of training sets, and people wanting to disallow this.
Okay Mr Reddit, no need for profanity. Parent comment is literally BSing. This isn't even happening on either of the mobile apps.
FWIW, I tried DoNotPay to get out of a street cleaning parking ticket and it didn’t work. To DNP’s credit, they refunded my money after providing a PDF response from SFMTA.
Sounds like we are going to need to update the old saying "a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client".
This is exactly the level of rigor and arrogance I expect from a TED Talk.
Fair enough :)

It was just funny to read "never got a reply, did this to 3 employers already" and then I couldn't resist this tongue in cheek response. Sorry ^^
“Absolutely, 100% completely false.”

Perhaps virtually everyone has access to health care, but certainly millions opt out at the cost of their own well-being because they can’t afford it. There have been times in my life when I have.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MFv8J7Smws
https://example.com/.well-known/ is the conventional place these days to store this type of meta-information.

favicon.ico and robots.txt predate this convention, so they keep littering our server root directories.
Even if it's true that he was unaware, that just shows how bad the people he employs are. It's farcical, you are your team, if his team are crap it's because of him.
"irl_chad" is a very apt username here...

You could do us all a service by telling us the name of your company so we (especially junior developers) could give it a very wide berth.
That would be probably best done via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI
Ah, a pitty... I liked the idea of a photo shopped picture in which only the sky was unaltered, when sky replacement seems to be one of the first thing a lot of people do in Photoshop.
A memristors-based Bayesian machine
There's definitely something weird going on if you look at their one other comment, what the hell is this even supposed to mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34323834
I had read previously you'd mentioned they'd refunded 28,000 and now another 68,000 ... bringing in my mind the total of 96,000 refunded so far to your customers. At this point counting the cost of items sent out only confuses the matter, because that only matters if most of your customers opt not to repay you albeit using something different. Clearly apparently good customers opting not to repay, would be odd in a regular online business.

If you've not heard from customers it's a fair guess that either no email was sent to them to inform of a refund, or your customers are not the sort of people who check their emails every day / week. Once your customers realise I guess it'll sort it self out, even if it's a bit messy. I dare say most of your customers won't be checking their bank balances every day, and even if they do they'd have to get a break down of the balance to work out where the extra money came from.
With most technologies, I find the heuristic of "how will this technology help improve your average suburban consumer's life, or those serving them" helpful. Internet? Great. Smartphones? Yep. Electric Vehicles? Kind of.

Crypto has never had a real answer to that question. The opportunities of crypto are things like you owning your money instead of the bank, fast transaction speeds and anonymity - nobody but a tiny percentage of people give a crap about any of this. Certainly not enough to supplant the most prevalent piece of infrastructure in modern society, the fiat.
I have young kids under 3 who will point out the smallest speck of peels and reject the Apple slice.
I didnt want to imply to go into lockdown, i was more pointing at the lack of interest in the current non covid excess mortality. This data has been out there for a while and not just in the UK. Could have worded it better.
I doubt that it's news to anyone that staff are an expense.
Putting back the percentage of GDP that has been deallocated for the NHS would go a long way to solving the issues that were caused by the deallocation.

That seems pretty uncontroversial.

There is, however, a large contingent of private companies profiteering from this situation; as the NHS was forced to buy things from private hands.

More money will not fix this mandated profiteering.
GNOME Contacts still lacks the option to import/export contacts as VCard files because it uses a dead library written in Vala which nobody has the permission/guts to either rewrite or delete, and frankly I don't want to have more than one app to manage my contacts on a smartphone, especially if the third party one is not well integrated into the system.

It's a shame that these mobile developments still haven't really pushed the default apps out of their rut.
Movie recommendation: Synecdoche New York
I live in a tiny village in SE England with fibre 900/300 provided by Trooli.
Friends in London have 2-20mb adsl!
I can neither confirm or deny intents and means planned to plant seeds or swarm in this direction.
The "always mount a scratch monkey" account, at https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/scrtch.monkey , is a very corrupted version of the story. See https://edp.org/monkey.htm .

There was no "Mabel", no swimming, and no asphyxiation. The electrical shocks caused all five monkeys to convulse, and three died.

This re-telling papers over the tragedy of what happened, both for the monkeys and for the service engineer who unknowing harmed and killed them.
I am late to the party, but I played around with ChatGPT this weekend and found it to be very useful. One of the most useful applications is in the area of language learning, particularly to see how grammar is used. Unlike textbooks, you're getting exposure to language phrasing and sentence structure is similar to what you will encounter in the wild.

I also generated an absurdist story and was able to feed ChatGPT additional information to direct the plot where I wanted it to go. In that context, I see it being useful as a catalyst to help overcome writer's block.

Finally, I had it write me an "Animated plasma effect using JavaScript and Canvas", which it did albeit one that would have needed a bit of human tweaking to get it animating properly.
I've jokingly said over the years that Canada is secretly behind global warming because they have the most to gain.

They're obviously not literally behind it (we know who's emitting the lion's share of CO2: not Canada) but as you say: they're going to benefit in some ways!
I don't know how you equate "speculative value" with "valid projects". Bitcoin has value because people are long on crypto. "Long" has an end date - just because it's 50 years instead of 10 years doesn't mean it's not coming.
Ridiculing a reasonable position that is worthy of discussion and debate isn't a good way to bring people to your side.
China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech
Capitalism have nothing to do with free market, unless it changed meaning again?
I agree, but the other path I've heard proposed is for miners to force a hard fork to lift supply cap and keep subsidizing the network with inflation. I think that's even less true to bitcoin's original ethos.

(I also think it overestimates the power that miners have to unilaterally hard fork and have the community accept it, but so goes)
Lots of little things, but the number one thing he did that I liked was take control of every lull in the conversation and direct everyone back to the agenda. Keeps things moving. I also liked that he would let everyone know how much time we had left at different intervals.
The legal system is already under DDOS if you want a speedy trial. There are people in jail for years without being found guilty for anything simply because the courts don’t have enough capacity to manage their current criminal trial load.
This example is complicated by games also being art and how it can be hard to separate both (even when it's just graphics and audio that you keep on a more closed license).

See how Western games are still overwhelmingly closed source, despite the now known rewards : like Civilization 4 (2005) opening most (but not all) of its C++ (dll) source code, as well as easy to mod XML & Python scripts resulting in a still alive modding scene even today, 18 years later, and after 2.5 (much more restrictive) sequels !
I assume by ‘breaking a manifesto promise’ you are referring to backtracking on the student loan issue. For context, the Lib Dems ran a campaign, the most talked about point being that they would get rid of student loan fees which had recently risen to £3000, the highest they had ever been. Not only did they not do that, within about two years of office they signed off on doubling that amount by 200% to £9000 tuition fees. For the average student, University tuition now costs even more than America (I can provide a source if you don’t believe this), and I would argue that the quality is nowhere near as good.

I voted for them on the basis of that pledge and I have never felt more betrayed by a political party in my life. It sickens me to my stomach. In this country you can only get four years of loans for university. I ended up dropping out of university because I was a mess in my late teens/early twenties. It means I now only have two years of funding left - not enough to get a degree unless I do a two year fast track course which are only available in certain subjects and of questionable quality. To go back, I would have to find a spare £9000 out of nowhere plus living costs which are most likely at least another £9000. This is particularly difficult when you can’t access high paying jobs because you don’t have a degree.

I’ve long since sorted myself out but I am now effectively priced out of bettering myself in my own country, directly as a response of the decision of this Lib Dem government. I taught myself to code to finally escape the minimum wage job trap. I have also been teaching myself Spanish over the last few years and I am seriously considering moving to Argentina or another Latin American country in order to access the affordable education. I am also going to start teaching myself German to open up the option of staying in Europe as the university costs there are minimal or free. Once I leave, I am planning on never coming back if I can help it. I feel that betrayed by my own country and have zero faith in it as a democratic representation of its citizens.

The Lib Dems could absolutely have not voted for that issue. They could have walked away and dissolved the coalition government. They chose not to. Well, decisions have consequences as I found out the hard way. And as a result, I will never vote Lib Dem again so long as I live.
"force you into a contract extension"

I'm not going anywhere so really it's no difference to me. Continue service with my old phone, or continue service with a new phone. All phones have a two year interest fee payment plan now - smartphones are a service.
There are some problems like highly distributed computing that you really can't work on anywhere else. No other company is dealing with data on a scale like Google, Amazon, etc. It is a fascinating problem space that's still relatively young and being figured out by the people working on it.
Japan, US to team up on next-generation nuclear reactors
Here it is (haven’t used it but looks that part):

https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim
> Absolutely, 100% completely false.

Ok I'll be more specific: "leaves millions without insurance and since they're usually low-income and therefore cash-poor, unable to get any adequate access to healthcare". Is that really, meaningfully any different from what I said?

I have to say, the words "bankruptcy can be a good thing" is going to be bouncing around my head for a while. I don't know how less regulation could help these people, and I'm a little bit horrified thinking what kind of creative solutions these providers would come up with ...
> why bother

Some of us live in a world where HTTP requests get a whole bunch of either junk or malicious bytes injected into them by ISP's and governments.
I think everyone was completely caught off-guard by the ferocity and pace of the crypto drawdown.

Volumes have atrophied completely. It's not a cooling of retail interest vis-a-vis the stock market, but complete apathy and/or hatred.

See the volume data for OpenSea as an example.
OpenAI own or will own only 2% of the company... with Microsoft owning 49% and other companies owning the other 49% ... it's not looking good.
He didn't say it's the only measure.
What blooper said.

I use alacritty as a gpu-accelerated terminal and neovim plus the LSP stuff from VSCode
I would be fine with my GPL code being used as training data. As long as attribution and copyleft is kept for any derivative work created by AI.

Which might as well be anything the AI outputs. Yes, please include my copyleft work, actually :-)

(I'm afraid having different versions of the GPL would split the free software / open source community, I'd prefer copyright laws to be updated / jurisprudence to decide that it's not ok to ignore licences)
Interesting talk.

At the end he casually mentions so many things that he could also talk about, including that apparently the encryption on GLONASS military signals was already hacked, and that many parts of the mil-spec GPS are "securiy through obscurity"... Is this true? If so, where can I find more reading material about this? It was my understanding that the P(Y) code in GPS is encrypted using (basically) a OTP, and not based on obscurity at all? Doesn't GLONASS use a similar system?
Now the question for non-native speakers is: How to pronounce that word? ;D
Bit of a different take - I'm a programmer, but I've held the title CTO for the last 8 years.

As a CTO, I've been routinely asked by non-technical peers and PR departments to represent the company more. Sometimes citing obscure reasons such as attracting technical talent - when we never had an issue with that.

So far, I've largely resisted it by reasoning that it's not the most valuable thing I could be doing. As soon as I asked folks about concrete goals, KPIs, and business value, the arguments fell apart. If someone's job is to "do marketing", especially if they're inexperienced and/or have a small budget, they'll look to what they see other companies do and try to delegate it as much as they can. Even for marketing people, conference talks and blogging rarely have that much proven business value compared to other things they could be doing, in my experience. For programmers, that's all the more true.

Even now that I went into consulting, I don't think hopping conferences and writing blog posts is gonna pay off more than other things I could be doing. I enjoy discussion (like here on HN), but something in me is averse to generating more noise - which most of my thoughts probably are. I'd rather build a few deeper relationships than an order of magnitude more shallow ones.