skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative to Matlab is not necessarily another programming language. Often, it's a purpose-built tool with maybe some scripting built in.

That's what confuses software engineers about Matlab. They see code and think that the work is software engineering, but that's not always the case.

Imagine the reverse scenario. The professor sees you crunching numbers in Python and tries to convince you to switch to Matlab because it's "better". But you're a software engineer, and you still have to do all your software things that Matlab isn't great for. Why would you be interested in it?
Aren't people used to entertaining bugs in games though? It's not like existing conversation systems never lead to absurd situations. E.g. a guard questioning you about bureaucracy while his colleage is being eaten by a dragon in front of him.
It's preferable where there's a reason to distrust a custodian of the data. Of course, most of the use cases dreamed up don't fit that description, and much of the hype may have eroded confidence in the term.
I don't think it's unpopular. We need more and better game software, what exists today is unsatisfactory for a plethora of reasons. I'm personally interested in this because I ship Planimeter Game Engine 2D, which comes with client-side prediction standard, and it's the largest pure-Lua game engine on GitHub.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d
Here's my D3D11 implementation of speech-to-text https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper With medium model it needs 1.43 GB of assets, 2 GB of VRAM, and on gaming GPUs works at 10x realtime speed. These performance figures might be good enough for modern videogames. BTW, the model understands almost 100 spoken languages and can translate them to English.
maybe its just me but serverless seems ill suited for these heavy garbage collected languages. Since you're just spinning up a process shutting it down once it does its job, you're really wasting a lot of cpu cycles on building up the garbage collector. A lot of the overhead is fine when you're using a persistent instance where you can "warm the cache" so to speak. nodejs would be the edge of what I consider good for serverless. go is probably ok if you turned off the GC and rust would be ideal.

Then again, I've managed to completely avoid serverless as I find it to be a pita when you want to do anything more complex than a trivial crud app.
> A model that "knows" the rules will make no errors, a model that makes any errors does not "know" the rules. Simple as.

Does this mean that human minds are merely statistical inference engines and don't truly get the models either? Because they make tons of mistakes.

I'm starting to think that at scale, quantity starts becoming quality, and there isn't a fundamental difference between a model and statistical inference. It's like vector graphics vs pixels, after a certain level of detail they are the same.
Honestly that sounds like fear-mongering, Reddit wants to protect its interests by turning the public against section 230 reform.
It’s not free. They just let people steal more easily these days. And some who steal it consider the ads as a justification.

It is indeed a $100-200 OS with ads in the start menu.
I'm an american. It isn't common, but it is common enough that when it is used it doesn't stick out as an out of place word. I use it myself once in a while.
There are lot of documents to proof document identity, for instance, notaries in Brazil: https://finbold.com/brazil-authenticates-156k-documents-via-...
Why is there always, "but they're getting rich!"

Who cares? I'm sure the mods are aware. They do it anyway because it's beneficial having a healthy community that they are also users of.
Remittance, anonymous payments, proof of authorship, decentralized DNS, international financial contract enforcement, provably fair gambling, immutable digital asset ownership, publicly accountable donations... just off the top of my head.

It takes little imagination to see many use cases for a computing system that no single party can control. It is the difference in a dictatorship vs a democracy.
Had seen dvc almost 2 yrs ago. Is it enterprise offering of the same?
Thank you, I did not realize that the difference was in post. There's no better way to get correct information on the internet, than to post an incorrect statement on the internet!
> 90ties horror show

I had to briefly pause reading there, as the word "90ties" is a horror show itself.

Ninety-ties? Ninetittys?
They're conveniently zoomed all the way out on their graphs. Scrolling down to the DAUs, developer count and overall revenue (at the bottom btw), it's pretty obvious that things have shifted downward since September.

I get that this is supposed to be one of those 'draw your own conclusions' articles, but it doesn't really work when there's such a sharp short-term loss at the end of the bubble.
> I believe that people do just sync got repos between machines. 5$ VPSes, Raspberry Pi's, laptops from 2009. Why not?

it's a pain because of NAT/port forwarding, not to mention the chore of making sure every device is up to date. You can get around the NAT/port forwarding issue by having a $5 VPS, but then you're essentially storing your password database on dropbox.

>Also, what is there to compromise on a machine that basically runs just sshd with password authentication disabled?

1. Same way that dropbox can be compromised: your account gets hacked or the provider gets hacked.

2. While I agree that a server with only sshd and auto-updates enabled would be pretty hard to compromise (foregoing the above), I doubt that's the typical setup. Most people probably have a "general purpose" VPS that they use to host all sorts of stuff, which means there's lots blindly typing in "npm install ..." or even "curl ... | sh" going on.
I find it crazy that making a payment requires giving your full details. Using a credit card is less writing a cheque, more handing over a chequebook and saying "help yourself".

I dream of a payment system where payment generates some token, which the intended recipient can redeem, perhaps bearer ones for casual transactions, with support for periodic payments, revoking existing tokens or placing per-token limits.

One day perhaps...
> Unlike other companies that hire content moderators, the content that Reddit displays is “primarily driven by humans—not by centralized algorithms.”

Reddit’s entire business model is Astroturfing-as-a-service, so I don’t believe this for a second.
They are not taxed at the same rate, income tax goes up to 45 where as dividends stop at 39ish according to the HMRC website.

They are also not counted for NI contributions as far as I can tell.

Admittedly, the difference isn't as much as I thought.
> Also sounds like they really believe the whole founder-hero mythology if they think that Page-Brin can save the company

Maybe I'm overly cynical, but don't they hold > 50% of voting shares? It may just be C-suite CYA action: by ensuring Brin & Page's buy-in on counter-ChatGPT strategy this early, who would blame the current CEO if it doesn't pan out? It won't be "Sundar Pichai's plan" that's at fault
Yes! I completely agree. You're not alone. There's a lot of us out here slogging through writing portions of game software we don't want to only because it's necessary to create the experiences we want that can't be delivered in a timely fashion with existing technology.
> Don’t use ChatGPT for medical research.

Or Google. There are plenty of pages out there that (e.g.) claim that Alzheimers is caused by drinking out of aluminum cans, or that the world is controlled by grey aliens from Zeta Reticuli.
Drug trade and ransomware.

Crypto has huge externalities, even apart from people being scammed.
So maybe we're going to see actually useful applications? Until now, it's unclear if there were any because anything that wasn't a ponzi scheme was drowned under the lure of free money.
"Smart phones will never succeed. The cellular networks will collapse under the weight of all that data" - someone in 2006
> Section 230 is based on a principle that someone is responsible for the content a post

No, its not. Law predating section 230 is based on the principal that lots of people can be responsible for published content.

Section 230 is based on the conclusion that certain of those rules making people liable are inappropriate in the online context; particularly those that would give any active moderators of content liability as publishers, which does not depend on actual knowledge of the illegality of any content. These rules were being applied to both sites and users other than the creator when section 230 was adopted, which is why it explicilty protects both operators and users.

Section 230 doesn't he impact the liability of creators at all
Yes I watch all his videos. My favourite is “Some very needed comparisons”. I started doing.(just for fun) a complete under-graduate and graduate course in Mathematics in my spare time after watching this video.
It's an interesting question: can filmmakers actually use this newfound range in a meaningful way? I feel the same about those two scenes -- one I can follow, one I cannot. But I wonder if anyone out there is filming high range scenes at night in a good way, and the Battle for Winterfell is just a failed experiment in figuring that out?

The final episode of Midnight Mass comes to mind. And much of The Vvitch. Both aren't totally ideal -- they can be difficult to follow at times -- but I think they use the range to convey chaos and fear of the unknown in a meaningful way.

Curious if anyone has other examples of this pulled off well.
Sorry, I wanted to say that we could get rid of multiple choice and still not face the issues free text inputs had back in the days.
Does anyone have a list of all the dark patterns Microsoft has used to push IE, Bing, and Edge? It's truly astounding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
> Part of the reason why many companies jumped on this bandwagon is also because 'customizability' is hard(er) to build in, and certainly more expensive to maintain.

It's also harder to A-B test with so many variables. If tests aren't statistics significant, the value of user analytics and UX experimentation decreases from a "% lift" perspective. It's harder to know if a feature change or a user defined config had a causal relationship to some other metric.

It may be the A-B testing tail wagging the dog.
“ Linux is only free if your time has no value”
Because people are funny.

It's the same reason you'll still find scenes and photos shot in sepia tone and black and white. People prefer the way film looks even though it's less true what was actually shot.

People like typewriters, vacuum tube amplifiers, and Vinyl records; Not because they are better than their more modern counterparts, but because of nostalgia and a preference for the "feel" of these things.

But, it just so happens that it's easy enough to recreate film effects that actual film ends up being just a masochistic activity.
"You may evaluate others' opinions in this way. The more confidence they have, the less competent is their opinion."

Rare self burn, nice.
The agent-driven nature of PGP, along with the encoding itself (which was primarily meant for emails) adds a lot of complexity, and makes it much harder to setup, configure, and use safely compared to other tools.

It is a tool trying to securely manage keys in an insecure environment, and even offloading some parts (such as to a yubikey) doesn't make it any easier to use.
The VPS does not have my private GPG key, stored locally, and hence cannot use it to decrypt the passwords.
Look. I don't love it or hate it; not an evangelist or anything. 99% of what you see calling it a scam is accurate.

But once that all shakes out -- I still think it's just getting started. The use cases aren't what a lot of people thought they would be -- but the ones that are actually useful are doing fine, and the world of "all the other money" is in such a bad state that I can't help but see some form of widespread adoption as completely inevitable.
Most of the time you can do "site:reddit.com" at the beginning of your query and get the information you want.
The asian crypto hype was surely dead. It was largely driven by rich people trying to smuggle money out of China.
Perhaps Section 230 shouldn't extend to sites with anonymity. If somebody is harmed then somebody should be liable.

An issue is you have anons causing harm to users who cannot be sued and the platform also cannot be sued. No good.
> The workaround

is to uninstall Windows
How do you reconcile these statements against a 51% attack that is already possible with Bitcoin? Decentralized? Hardly.
Just drag it to the trash and move on with life. It takes two seconds.
After centuries of building, it may be too late to abandon Imperial units. E.g. How to replace that 5/16 nut on your old hay rake? Literally billions of things exist in Imperial units. It's commercially ridiculous to suggest that's going away.

So then, either two systems (the worst outcome) or try to switch and your business fails.

Btw its 'simpler' is such a dumb reason - simpler for whom? Why is decimal naturally any better than anything else?
> A more important point about Reddit specifically is that when Reddit finally goes IPO, all the mods get ZERO.

Some mods have definitely been making money controlling the content that appear on the popular subs, e.g. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/oh5o4/rtrees_nonprof...
Bitcoin “crashed” to a market cap of 440 billion USD.

It is valued more than the vast majority of publicly traded companies.

From that measure alone, why should anyone think “it’s dead”?

Bitcoin ain’t tulips, ain’t the pets.com, etc, to think something that is 14 years old and valued at 440 billion is going to die anytime soon seems…so wrong

Especially when in the past 2 weeks, BlackRock (biggest asset manager) is continuing to dabble more in bitcoin
https://financefeeds.com/blackrock-makes-bitcoin-eligible-in...
I can't stand the fact that pausing Netflix to go fix up a plate of dinner inevitably leads to an obnoxious adroll for shows I've already seen or don't want to watch. And when I try to resume my show, I end up out of the video player, have to click the resume button, and I then deal with 20 seconds of garbage quality video as the bitrate settles and buffers.
Yes, I do a git pull between my vps and various devices. Works perfectly well. But my threat model does not include 3-letter security agencies, so I'm completely ok with that. Beats having my passwords stored on the cloud controlled by XYZ company and then waking up to a news article saying that their servers were compromised. That is the threat model that I optimize for.
What if you delete it, and then make your own shortcut to something else and give it the exact same name Edge was using?

Would it delete your shortcut, to make way for its own? Or would it see your shortcut and mistake it for its own?
How is i.MX8 related to these controllers?

(typing it from a i.MX8 phone right now - putting it into a gaming controller sounds hilariously ridiculous)
Most people are in the "On all other devices" category. Having to pull out a computer for what should be an in-app setting is ridiculous when you can sign up on some of those devices directly.
>why it bills itself as the "standard" Unix password manager

It's a smallish (<1k loc) wrapper script around GPG, a tool basically omnipresent, and passwords are saved in an hierarchy as regular files. Essentially it integrates well in the existent ecosystem and is easy to extend.
From my very limited view, I've seen mostly recruiters, managers, and HR specialists (but not generalists) announcing that they had been laid off. Haven't seen anyone whose job is primarily technical get laid off, though I'm sure it's happening some. Large lay offs are a good way to clean out across the board the people who you were planning on putting on a PIP or are already on one.
Yes, i am testing it now.

So far seems good, initially i was getting some very slow animation times but adding the `--low-quality` flag seems to work well.

I am planning to do an internal session in my company on Git, and will be using this tool to help them visualise some of the concepts :)
From a user experience perspective it's interesting that it may be a worse experience to get a set of links and have to pick from them and use cognitive effort to discern which sources are reliable, than to simply use ChatGPT and get an answer. But this step is precisely where verification happens.
I had a similar thought, what if the single player story of an open world game was unique and generated for every game download on the fly. This would be awesome and is probably doable today, since the compute would have to be done only once on the servers of the publisher and could use some cloud api → the gamer would just download a game, a unique game.
Macron has a very long history of making huge oral promises and revoking them weeks later. Most of the time, the Prime Minister and its government are only informed via Twitter or the press. and they have to work hard to limit the damage.

Moreover, having a huge war industry is only possible if there are many other SMEs and large companies. No industry can be isolated and self-sufficient. Most parts of our industry have been shut down since the 1980s (remember Alcatel's Tchuruk?), but it started much earlier (EU). Today, the public sector holds 60% of GDP. How many years before it's 70%, 5 or 10 years?

France's foreign trade balance has been very negative for several decades and it gets worse every year.

And there is also the question of budget and money: since 2017, Macron has deeply indebted France, following the path of Hollande and Sarkozy. In recent years, the French state is missing each year hundreds of billions in revenue and has to borrow them.

Who will finance France in the coming years?
> If you wanted to call for a reservation at a particular restaurant, check movie showtimes at a particular theater, you would go to the yellow pages

If you wanted to find the number of a particular restaurant, the white pages were far more efficient.

The yellow pages were primarily useful when you wanted a list of restaurants, not a specific one.

Something else that was nearly 100% ads: the old Computer Shopper magazine. As I recall, they printed just enough editorial material to qualify for the "literature" postal rate rather than the "advertising" rate.
Without giving you a monologue, I'll give you some food for thought in a very few statements.

1. The internet you know today allowed people to connect and share information globally.

2. Over the years, we've found value in digital things and may, thus, call them assets: e.g., data, media, and information/knowledge.

3. We have no way to deal with digital assets, which has implications and inefficiencies. DRM was a symptom & soft way to deal with this problem.

4. While the internet connects globally, it is not made to reflect ownership on a global level. Real ownership either doesn't exist or is not transparent. And while privacy is important, ownership should at least be cryptographically provable.

5. Blockchains do not aim to replace the internet or your database; they are a layer on top of the internet, giving us a new foundation to rethink and rebuild how we deal with digital value creation.

In some way, it will bring humanity closer on a global level.

On top of that, there are many philosophic, societal, and idealistic ideas. A lot of them require or trigger a systemic change—many of them we might never see happening, at least not in our lifetime.

If you want to learn more, you need to dig in.
Former Googler here.

20% Time is a myth and always was. Yes, occasionally someone would talk about "their 20% time" but it was rare, and usually just meant "spending a few hours on something else." Admittedly, once in a while someone really did spend 20% of their time on something else, and management was not allowed to complain.

Once, in about 2006-07, I was at a table with about 8 software engineers and asked for a show of hands, "How many have a 20% project?" There was one hand.

What it WAS useful for was checking out a project you might want to transfer to.
Abe was assassinated with a homemade gun because manufactured ones are so hard to obtain. Per capita, the rate of gun death in the US is 1600x Japan's. Hell, the total annual number of gun deaths in Japan is lower than the US's rate of gun death per 100k (~10/year in Japan vs more than 10/100k/year in the US). The US is so much worse on that aspect that it's laughably absurd you'd even make that point.

https://everystat.org/
https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-control-how-japan-has-al...
I wonder if the BIN/IIN (Bank/Issuer Identification Number[0]) of canary cards give it away. For this to work against sophisticated attackers, I'd expect a canary card to be indistinguishable from a regular one, though I still love the ingenuity of it.

edit: They mention this in the article, I missed it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_card_number#Issuer_ide...
I noticed that too. And I guess this is a way to offset the high resolution that shows every minute details. It must be cheaper and easier this way.
Perhaps, Google can finally start focusing again on creating quality products instead of nonsense videos/hypes like "Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNEzzDcllU).

However, would people even trust their new products knowing Google's tendency to kill off these products within a short amount of time?
The terminology has gotten really muddy, and people talk of statements that are true, i.e. in accordance with the facts as though they were the facts themselves. The facts are what a true statement agrees with that makes it true.

Facts are, epistemologically, the way things are. That statement wasn't a fact, but it was true.
Without peer? It gets facts completely wrong for which Google produces the correct result on the first hit.
It may revive. If it becomes regulated and inspected and secure, you know, like real currencies.
An extreme but mean't in good faith question: would you fight for Japan if asked? assuming you lived there.
I didn't like my kid before he existed that much either.

Do you also write reviews of restaurants you haven't been to?
> I can confirm the output and clean up the generated text into my own style... to support online marketing activities.

it sounds like you're using AI generated output to do content marketing to support SEO activities for a healthcare client at a marketing agency

if this is the case, when humans search for [organic] content on health conditions related to the human liver (on Google) you are hoping they land on ChatGPT generated content you published (for your client), to help the client avoid buying Google Ads to get those customers

at some point your content will rank well enough that other SEOs will do the same thing to compete, leading to dilution of overall quality content as it's all SEO optimized content, which makes Search generally unusable.

This, to be fair, has been happening well before ChatGPT, but will only accelerate.
My existence is a very, very low bar to set.
Right, but if an attacker has access to the VPS, it can pull off the various shenanigans that's described in the OP? That's the whole thesis of the article. If you have access to the underlying storage of pass (eg. the git instance if you're using git to sync everything), then you can perform some attacks. The attacks aren't catastrophic (ie. attackers being able to decrypt your passwords with no intervention), but they're still pretty bad nonetheless.
Odd that an all powerful god would choose text written in dying languages, easily susceptible to being lost or destroyed, as the preferred method of communication.