skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree about seeing more CL related topics here on HN. I thought since I am actively learning CL that it was due to "frequency illusion" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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> Screenshots are always available (similar to the era of web crawling)

DRM enters the room…

But on a serious note. I like the idea of using screenshots as a form of storage, but a lot of metadata is lost in the process like data hierarchy, data available in different visual states etc.
Trivially, being a language model is sufficient to explain the above output, by definition, because we know it is a language model.

However, it appears that the term "language model" is a misleading intuition pump. As you say, their capabilities surprise us. It appears that when it comes to language, which is a technology humans have developed for symbolically encoding as much of their cognition as possible, "predicting the next token" is an arbitrarily complex task that converges with modeling human cognition (and with modeling the world that human cognition is designed to apprehend).

This is not to say that ChatGPT-like architectures are capable of fully modeling human cognition - they clearly are not - but at this stage it's unclear which parts they are modeling. We don't even have a "map" of human cognition to compare it to, yet. I strongly suspect we're going to learn a lot about ourselves in the course of experimenting with AI.
I suppose things like a "design update", let alone "rebranding", never happen to this client?

Unless every page is entirely unique, a web site consisting of raw HTML pages has a lot of repetition / redundancy, and coordinated updates become repetitive, too. Authoring, too.

The upside, of course, is that there's literally nothing to go wrong in the pipeline, because there is none beside the upload operation.

I can imagine that sites like https://ciechanow.ski where every page appears custom-made could be managed like that.
How can something be theft, and yet nothing was taken?
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
Source - I have Kaisai mini-split at work and I've observed how each mode works (with my hand). There's probably more energy used per cooling amount during dehumidifying, because it's bigger temperature differnce (which means lower COP) PLUS condensing water (water phase change energy is big).
I can't help thinking more small and medium sized web sites should be setup like this.

I don't. Website updates are mostly changes to the content once it's gone live, and that shouldn't require a developer. Having a CMS in the backend and a process to rebuild a static website from the content when it's changed lowers the cost of keeping things up to date, and improves the web by making websites stay relevant.

What the code looks like when a dev is working on it, or when it's sitting in a repo, it's mostly irrelevant. The important things are that the site owner can keep the content accurate and up to date, and the HTML and CSS that's delivered to the users is high quality and efficient.
You are making the mistake of assuming that the average internet user behaves in a similar way to you. However, the fact alone that you are using HN suggests that this is likely not the case.

I used to have a similar sentiment to you, based on my own behavior on the internet. But I did have a few eye opening moments.

Back in school I frequently got asked for help with computer stuff. While I usually denied, I did help some close friends out occasionally. At some point a friend came to me with a software issue and brought her notebook. She had so much stuff installed, was using Edge without any adblocker and she somehow managed to install three antivirus programs (one of which I am 90% confident was a virus itself). Until that point I always assumed that basically anyone of my peers would at leset have an adblocker installed (this was four years ago and I am 23 now). I’ve had similar experiences since that have proven my ignorance.

And regarding how ads work: my grandfather used to sell glasses and watches for a living. While the watches are mostly sold shortly after his death, the glasses were quickly out of fashion and were laying around for decades now. Since these kind of glasses are now seeing a comeback I tried to sell them. I opened an eBay shop and listed two frames, both of which were sold but for a laughably small amount. I listed two very similar frames and ran some ads (mostly instagram) targeting the demographic I assumed would be willing to buy frames like these. I sold the ones advertised for 17 times more than the ones that were „organically“ discovered.

TL;DR: just because you think ads don’t work on you does not mean they don’t work on others. Advertisers aren’t dumb, they measure the success of their campaigns (hence the tracking) and it does work with large parts of the population
Almost none of the YouTube/blogs recommending this mention it or seem to be aware (or have just clicked through and granted the permission without thinking about it), but it absolutely does require screen recording to operate.

The DisplayLink driver requires your admin password to install, and installs itself as a background process that records the screen constantly in order to software render the extra display. There are other similar products, they all work this way.

From DisplayLink’s own website:

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/19509...
This is a very helpful realistic antidote to all the blogs telling people their life will be just endlessly incredible and. "happy ever after" if they'd save up then quit, buy a camper van etc etc. Mountains are fantastic . I love 'em. But they do indeed wear off if that is all one does.
> ...vocabulary to make myself concisely understood without anthropomorphizing.

The basic stylistic rules for avoiding anthropomorphizing are to avoid terms that ascribe intent and to frame your argument in terms of directly observable features.

In this case, I would drop "opinions" and provide explicit definitions for "smarter" and "better-trained". You seem to mean models that are more closely fitted due to more parameters and longer training, so I'll go with that.

Thus, I would rephrase the title as "How do AIs' responses on political topics change as their models become more closely fitted?"
I recommend the Deitel[0] series for Python and C family languages like Java, C# etc.
With hundreds of complete examples to follow (not code snippets) and exercises to challenge you, you will do better with these books as a beginner.

My strategy is to get to the 10th chapter of the book skipping the exercises, then go back and try them with a better overall understanding of the language and its nuances.

Great series.

[0] https://deitel.com/
I've been using DeskPins for "always on top" since I've known about its existence.
LetsEncrypt is not the only ACME provider, and there are hundreds of regular CAs. Nothing about TLS certificates is centralized, there's just market concentration as a result of good UI/UX by LetsEncrypt, but there are open-source ACME implementations available, the protocol itself is in the process of being standardized and nothing keeps other CAs from running the same service, and in fact many are planning to do just that.
> It hurts no one of course, but you can bet some people will be upset and start a controversy.

The situation sucks, but sure, you are right. Still, I want a good tool, and I don't mind if someone holds me accountable if I misuse it, that is fine, but I want the tool, and I will get it, maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but in the next 5 years I'm sure I will have something as capable as ChatGPT is now without artificial restrictions available to me.

Just seems rather pointless that we have to play this silly safetyism game until then.
Something like that, I see ads before a yt video I get pissed and will out of spite not ever buy that product, although I try not to pay attention to the content.

There are 2 phases, 1 is ignore mode and wait for the skip button to appear, the other is I can't skip and have to wait, which makes me angry for them wasting my time, so if it's a product I'll remember to never buy it.
However I found that if you navigate back and forth a few times the ads are gone and you can't watch without.

That's of course only for platforms where I can't adblock.
Yeah, that would be really interesting, open source models with similar quality to GPT that even smaller players could use to train models tailored for their application. Kind of the language equivalent to what the OS community already achieved for image models (eg replicating Dreambooth for StableDiffusion). I think one problem standing in the way of that would be that the computational requirements for language models just seem to be a lot higher.
There is a registry key that turns off web search in win10, it makes it much nicer.
I agree with the above. Having a local adblocker turned better for me as I could temporary disable it if some site breaks due to it or quickly add a rule if it missed something, while a separate device is just a hassle to debug or you need to depend on the projects' maintainers for that.
> according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach

TFA says this right at the top. Not that i'm too happy about it.
The difference is in how they are typically mastered. You can take a vinyl record, digitize it, and put it on a cd, and it will sound exactly like the vinyl.
If it's something like Rocket League or Overwatch (fast, twitch games), there's no shortcut - maybe watching a few videos will help explain the mechanics - but all you can really do is practice.

For most games though, reading the wiki is the best way to accelerate your knowledge of the game.

Let's Plays are often pretty good, if the creator really explains their thought process.
Tantivy 0.19: IP field, Faster indexing, Improved compression and aggregation
As far as I'm aware, we are yet to create a complex simulation or game as rich as the world around us. That said, even if we could, games often have somewhat well-defined fitness functions.

The other problem with simulated problem spaces is as the other comment suggests, you can on purpose or accidentally introduce all sorts of biases. "Our robot got smarter and it was left-wing", well, you did simulate it living in Silicon Valley. "Our AI got smarter and it was right-wing", well, you did simulate it living in a small Texas town as a priest.

As it happens, these AIs are currently being created Silicon Valley companies that are known to have a left-wing bias. So if any bias from the creators was to filter into the training system, we may have some idea in which direction it pushes.
Why can't the EU clean up its mess and forbid cookie banners?
Why do politicians meddle in areas they have 0 expertise in?

Questions over questions
always good to have zoning, either via small separate heat pump or with a retrofit like AirZone (not sure if something similar is available there) which modulates the flow to each duct from the air handler.
> That's when I learned, as a junior programmer, the value of pipes.

Sounds like a perfect BOFH episode.
That sounds like an absolute nightmare, to be honest. What does "trying to answer" even mean?

I generally try to think about a problem before actually, you know, writing stuff down. I can obviously think a lot faster than I can write, so writing down potential approaches when I can't quite see a way to advance from them - or for which I already know that they are wrong - is not really viable.

The only way I can see this working is in a "Give X potential approaches for this problem" kind of question. Giving exam questions for where there isn't a reasonably reachable answer derivable from the taught material is quite cruel. Keep that stuff contained to lectures so you can do a class-wide brainstorm session, that's a lot more productive and doesn't, you know, cause psychological harm.
A user should not experience an expired certificate. Hence, the right UX is: null.
A perfect illustration of the grandfather comment.
I'd love to use the trackpoint on my Thinkpad T440s but the trackpad has no separate buttons meaning I have to clunk the whole trackpad down to click, in terms of accuracy it's like bringing the thread to the needle then trying to bash it through the eye with a mallet.
List of feed URLs to ~150 technical blogs
> If I make ChatGPT say something egregious, and post that on Twitter or Facebook, I'm posting it, and I'm liable, just as I would be liable if I used a word processor with spell checking to make text and post it on Twitter or Facebook.

While arguably that would be the case, practically it might be a different look for the company whose algorithm generated the text in the first place—and from the audience, which might think that it somehow represents the viewpoint of the company.

I mean surely you have noticed that social media can get stirred up for no fundamentally sound reasons.
I grew up with a father who was obsessed with the idea that we were wasting electricity by accidentally leaving the lights on sometimes. As a result he's spent probably thousands in attempted energy saving devices which have all not worked and definitely would never save enough compared to the cost of them.

Which is why I think about these things despite this seemingly obvious solution.

And the fact that the guest bathroom when I visit his house still has no light switch but does have a cheap motion sensor which is annoying as hell.
I'm getting so many BlueJ vibes...
I find this pursuit of a not-biased "AI" hilarious.

We're all biased in many ways, so what is 'not-biased' in the first place?

It depends on who you ask and that makes it impossible to achieve. The world and society is biased. The factors of bias are infinite, location, time, religion, personal history, etc.

If you were to feed all data from everywhere and all past times into what we currently call AI, which has no actual intelligence or thoughts it wouldn't be able to give any confident answers to anything but deterministic questions like math equations.
Besides the mechanical/knowledge parts of it, one important thing (at least in my opinion) is cultivating an improvement focused mindset. Playing To Win [0] is a good overview. If something in the game doesn't go your way, blame your own understanding of the game and try to figure out what you didn't know or what you did wrong.

Team-based games like League of Legends can be kind of frustrating simply because your control over the outcome of the match is proportionally less than in a 1v1 game. It doesn't mean you can't influence the match to an outsized degree, but even the best players lose matches sometimes because their teammates perform too poorly to be "carried" to victory. Managing this frustration and taking a long view of performance is key to improving at these kinds of games (or at least climbing the ranked ladder).

[0]: https://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win
I'd say people who object to high-tech-ifying the car aren't against high-tech as much as against bad tech and poor implementation.

For example a screen in the car doesn't have to be bad tech. But if the screen is where all the controls of the car are located then it probably is. Internet connectivity doesn't have to be bad tech. But if it allows access to the most critical parts of the car it probably is.

Then there are things that aren't bad until you realize they're probably abused by the manufacturer. Your internet connectivity meant to allow you to locate your car in the parking lot is great and might be harmless until the manufacturer starts selling that data to pad the profits.

Sometimes all the high tech in the car might be super useful, super secure, super private, and still be bad because in a few years it makes the car prohibitively expensive or outright impossible to maintain and repair.
Ask HN: National Labs in Europe
A currently active topic on the front page is "Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527

From the discussions a coherent picture of the National Labs emerges as a workplace somewhere in-between academia and IT-industry, with great work-life balance, autonomy and intellectual challenges, as well as a slow and often bureaucratic pace of work.

My question is: what are workplaces with similar qualities outside of the US, especially in Europe? What are some alternatives for people with PhD (in CS, physics, math, etc.) outside tech industry and academia?
> That’s how political a works: do stuff for your coalition that’s bad for the other side’s coalition.

I wonder is this a specifically American thing, or a general feature of two-party systems. Many (most?) democratic countries don't have a well-defined concept of two sides. Here, for instance, that framing would make no sense; the current ruling coalition is two centre-right parties who historically dislike each other and have somewhat different constituencies, plus a centre-left party. In a few years, there'll be another government, which is quite likely to contain some, but not all of the current component parties. Try two-sides-ing that...
How do you handle citations and citation styles? Was scanning the thesis but could find any hints?
“Broke the Web”? I really dislike headlines like these. Movable Type and blogs didn’t “break” the Web - not now or back then either. Blogging and the blog layout was just one emergent trend of this era. Flashed based sites were another trend that emerged alongside blogs. Folks were still hand coding HTML and FTPing the files to a server. Directory/brochure style sites didn’t go anywhere. Through all these trends the Web has always been there like a good friend. Nothing “broke” it and nothing will for the foreseeable future.
I like how that blog / website looks with that ASCII header! Often I wish I would come up with such a design. And yes, I also like PNG a lot :)
> Almost nobody is out there blogging about gardening just cause they like the topic, the new gardening content on the web is all SEO driven

The reality is almost everyone posting on social media about gardening is doing so because they like the topic. The purely market-driven "influencers" are a minority, although they seem otherwise because they're the ones most aggressively tuning their content for the algorithms. And even then, people who make money from their content can also care about what they're doing.
Not sure what your point is :).
Probably has something to do with the actions of said "new media figures".
I'm using strong protection in Chrome and it prevents me from browsing HTTP websites unless I explicitly allow it.

So while you're correct, it's just a historic issue and soon browsers will treat HTTP like bad HTTPS but not in a sense you're proposing but rather forbid both.
Secure Your AWS Lambdas with TypeScript
That sounds weirdly gatekeepy. How dare those new peasants not slave away in HTML mines before they can get their content shown!
If you don't like the fee they'll pay you then don't sell the power back. If you don't like the cost they charge you, don't buy the power.
Verstappen dubs Le Mans Virtual “a clown show” as disconnects force retirement
They just fired 5% of their workforce. The times got tougher (maybe due to interest rates). I wouldn't hold my breath.
TL;DR

It's just for Identification.

The signature on the public key matches what domain it should resolve, and said public key pairs with a private key that encrypts your data. Assuming you don't a) mishandle the private key, b) the Signatory has a reasonably process to assure that person with the private key should be able to encrypt the domain, and c) all potential trusted Signatories can be trusted, then you can reasonably assume the site you're visiting is legit.

The actual encryption doesn't need identification. Doing so would ensure others can't listen to your conversation, but wouldn't help if the person you think you're talking to isn't actually the right person. This is a realistic problem, because there's nothing in DNS or routing that ensures trust.
Effects of "New Year's resolution: learn Python" maybe? :)
Would logging feature flag values be enough? Then you could look at stdout to see what the value was during each job
Interesting - things like extra Dynamaxing moves should therefore be considered part of the initial state that's committed to. Clients could also check to make sure that the Dynamaxing moves aren't being used outside of the 3 turn limit.

I've updated the post to reflect this - thanks!
> there should be a way to use TLS with a self-signed cert to say hey, I'm not making any strong claims of identity or privacy here, I just want some modicum of obfuscation of the traffic.

How would a browser know whether a site presenting a self-signed cert is one where no strong claims of identity or privacy are needed or whether it's one where strong claims of identity are needed but which has been MitM'd.

Also, do this without the browser talking to some "mothership" to ask about what a domain should be treated us because that would leave that party in a position where it gets to all of your browsing history.
What's the havoc exactly? From all the people interviewed, the ones complaining about the smoke on their way to the office seem to be losing most productivity...
Static page generator seems like ideal for that kind of stuff. Just enough to not copy-paste same stuff on different pages but not enough to get complex.
Ironic that the website instantly throws a cookie banner in my face.
They have Powertoys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon... and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/always-o...

not sure how good it is since I haven't used it myself

edit: you have to install it yourself
Coloring is the fun part. Probably a perk for employees.
If a phone crashes what’s the worst that can happen?

However if a car crashes you can put multiple life’s in danger, isn’t it?
Are there formats that try to do more of a 2D compression? With png horizontal lines compress way better than vertical lines. Something like what JBIG2 does but without the focus on letters
> I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter.

That's the mistake right there, use a proper app launcher (like https://keypirinha.com/) to avoid the freeze and many other issues (like having to move your focus off screen center) with this neglected core OS functionality. While you're at it, you could also rebind it to something more ergonomic like CapsLock tap (but not hold)
Quite the opposite. I'd like excellent offline navigation in the car that doesn't talk to a spyware FAMAG app on a phone, or the internet at all, so that the only people who know where I am going and when are the hundreds of ALPR data brokers and their customers.

Yes, this means you lose real-time traffic data.
Very often, 1. and 3. overlap well.

On the top of my head, the only thing for where there is almost no overlap for me is playing piano.
Yeah, but there is still a human between the code and its execution.

I'm sure one of these days someone will hook GPT directly to a terminal.