skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else posted this article about how people draw bicycles: https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on...

You can see that some people have a fundamental misunderstanding about how bicycles work, and this misunderstanding does not stem from the complex 3D shape of bicycles.

Don't you think drawing a hand is a bit of an unfair "gotcha" for an AI that can accurately draw thousands of other things? Humans have hands and they're one of the most important parts of the body; humans use hands for everything. And yet, all but the most artistic humans cannot draw human hands accurately. An AI doesn't have hands. Hands make up a small part of its training data. Why should we consider the hand the standard upon which to judge the quality of the AI?
thanks, changed it :-)
> For hardware security keys, you can buy multiple keys, register all of them, and keep them in different places. Then if you lose one you just use one of the others (and register a replacement to maintain redundancy).

Do I need to have all keys in my physical possession to register them with a new account?

I could imagine having some backup keys in different places, but if I need to collect them every time I want to register them for some new account or service, it sounds like a lot of trouble.

(And if the process is too much trouble, the result would be that: (1) I don't use the hardware keys for those accounts, which is less secure; (2) I only register my primary key that I keep nearby, which is dangerous if it would get lost or broken; or (3) my backup keys end up at the same place as the primary one, due to forgetting or being too lazy to put them back, which is also dangerous…)
Posted multiple times the last two days. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gurwinder.substack.co...

This article is a bad take, not worth reading, save yourself some time
> In the article they outline a pretty decent way to overcome this through apple themselves which I'd be much happier with.

A process that no user has a reason to follow / sounds like spam.

And a 30 day timeout that suddenly makes stolen devices are worth something again.

The recyclers themselves need to it worth the owners time to unlock it…
> LaTeX might still be worth it for large documents

Having written my thesis in it, I can say that it very much isn't. If you don't plan ahead and make sure you split chapters into individual files it takes actual minutes to compile and when it doesn't it's nigh impossible to figure out where the problem is because the error logs somehow manage to be less useful than if there weren't any logs at all.

It's a very nice idea in concept but the implementation is just arghhh. My current go-to for this sort of thing is Markdown instead. It may be far less powerful but it's also far more practical in almost all cases.
> most fentanyl is manufactured in clandestine labs in mexico

contradicts your later statement

> the bulk is still produced and finished in china for export

> illicit fent still appears to mostly be produced by china for now
I mean, a bit weird, sure, but, again, they made Handmaid's Tale. And Game of Thrones. And two completely separate drama series about the Borgias! (I gather the HBO one _was_ bowdlerised a bit, but still.) If people can manage those, they can manage a bit of polyamory.

Like, it might not be for everyone, but there have been many commercially successful TV dramas with more disturbing sexual content than Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (Now, some of his other stuff...)
The availability of different peripherals on smartphones.

The first time FaceID succeeded in the dark, with my grizzled, bearded, asleep, partially obscured face I remember the flicker of amazement that I used to feel all the time thirty years ago when everything was new.

I sometimes think about my phone the way I think about a blank piece of paper before I write in it, just the sheer magnitudes of magnitudes of possibilities inside it’s tiny little electric chassis.

The power of my phone rivals total computing power of industry giants just a few decades ago, huge computers that people built large container rooms for, poured over schematics, organized millions of dollars for.

For what I make in a month, I could have more than a dozen of my iPhone just laying around if I wanted to. Half the size of a proper table coaster.

Also, SIMD. Like, wow. That was a brainmelter when I learned about it. I’m not quite punchcard programming old, but all the people that I worked with when I started would talk at length about it. Now you can just vectorize… whatever… basically for free.
I don't understand these comparisons between crypto and generative AI models.

The AI models just seem so clearly and instantly more useful to me.
I say it's a feature, not a bug. The original owner should remove the activation lock before selling.
Before the 1980s it was considered unreasonable risk to rent out a property that was not owned in the clear. Maybe this means we might want to being considering living by some of the older rules, Glass-Steagall being another prominent example among many others.
Honestly I've tried all of the VPS services and they're problematic. They are barrel scraping companies generally and some services literally block their entire networks. And occasionally their data centres catch fire. And of course the moment you get a minor billing issue you find all your VMs also catch fire. Also with any VPS, don't expect to be able to send emails from it. That's not going to happen even if you manage to beg enough for them to let you send them because no one will listen to SMTP from a VPS.

If I was going to go with anyone I would use AWS. Their stuff works better than any other company I've found and also support is actually existent. But expect to pay for it.

I don't want to pay for it so I keep my DNS and static web content on S3/CloudFront/R53 and let Apple handle the cloudy shit like email, calendars etc. Both AWS and iCloud+ cost me about £4 a month in total.

Someone will own you in one way or another. Better to leverage that and have an exit plan than not leverage it and cost yourself time, money and sanity because that's the real outcome of what you want to do.
What do you mean? I mostly browse from mobile and I found no issues.

You know what is actually long overdue? Lynx-friendly [1] layouts! ;)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Handheld POS terminals exist in America but I found them to be rare. When I was in New Orleans last year and went to a bunch of restaurants, 9 out of 10 of them had the traditional opaque payment system. Only at one restaurant did I I experience the waiter bringing the wireless POS to my table.
Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that "Don't the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different? Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses." and he pointed out to me that MS creates their papers in Word and pretty much all of the other papers I read were in LaTeX.

If your CV is generated from LaTeX -> PDF and all of the others are Word -> PDF, your CV will subtly stand out. Depending on the reader, the subconscious/conscious connection with CS papers may be a plus or a minus.

It's hard to say if having my CV in LaTeX has actually helped me, but this is the reason I use LaTeX for my CV.
That's also pretty anticompetitive ant it's crazy that this behavior has been tolerated for so long. Regulators have been asleep at the wheel.
And we use hammers to hit on nails, you still need a knowledgeable/skilled person to build a proper house though
Ex-FBI agent charged with aiding Russian oligarch walks free on $500K bond
Look - I get that it's probably not too hard to do with most of the parts that contain active electronics, but the comment I was replying to said all the parts.

How are you going to lock down the phone body? Or the screen (not including the digitizer)? Which, coincidentally, are probably the 2 most damaged parts of a phone.

I suppose there's probably some way Apple could lock them down. But that seems like an expense wildly out of proportion to the potential benefit.
An Americanized Brit to boot!
Personally I get Slack fatigue. I am very happy to have 1 on 1 convos on Slack but have a hard time following groups that have a lot of activity, particularly if it is office chit-chat or (worse) animated image memes which cause me a lot of distress.
I agree. Graphical animations (even to highlight text, tables, figures) is such an essential part of communicating in a slide show, and I have not found a tool that achieves both separation of content and style while allowing convenient design of these graphical elements.
A giveaway is that you can't comment on them :)
> In case you are wondering whether it is even possible to implement server-side iterations mechanism correctly: yes, it is. One example is the onepw protocol Mozilla introduced for Firefox Sync in 2014. While the description is fairly complicated, the important part is: the password hash received by the server is not used for anything before it passes through additional scrypt hashing.

> Firefox Sync has a different flaw: its client-side password hashing uses merely 1,000 PBKDF2 iterations, a ridiculously low setting. So if someone compromises the production servers rather than merely the stored data, they will be able to intercept password hashes that are barely protected. The corresponding bug report has been open for the past six years and is still unresolved.

Is this not always going to be a flaw with server-side iterations? And therefore knocks down the first paragraph's contention that it's possible to do server-side iterations correctly?
At the end of the day, good content is good content regardless of who or what produced it. We should focus on recognizing and celebrating the beauty, regardless of its origin.
How does this impact the repair market for Macbooks?

My partner has an M1 MBP with very minor liquid damage on the keyboard that took out most of a row of keys. Apple wants to replace most of the computer for something that I assumed would be $75 in parts, and wants roughly $750 (most of the price of the computer).

Will these scrap macbooks help reduce the parts prices for 3rd party repair shops? Or are parts like the keyboard now locked to the computer?
That registered recycler very quickly becomes an Apple sanctioned fence for stolen goods.

E-waste is going to happen regardless and it would be more proper for Apple to have a computer recycling program, which already exists, or to turn the old computers into spare parts for repair.

Eliminating the potential for theft is a massive win. I remember what it was like before activation lock existed and how high of a target iPhones were. As soon as that feature came out the thieves were screwed out of a potential payday. Now we don’t have to worry about our phones being stolen.
They don't need to "pass ownership", just hit the reset all content button (on modern devices). Any competent recycling/disposal process tells people to do this.

And if they don't, they can delete the device from iCloud.com (Find My) to bypass the issue.
large corps are dumping 3000 M1 Macs?
Regarding the "cyclic sighing" technique (called "Physiological sighing" in the graphic):

I have been doing it for a couple of years without knowing it was a thing. I have studied common Pranayama techniques, and I stumbled upon it via trial and error. I do it because I find it anxiety-reducing. I used to refer to it internally as "double inhale breathing".

After reading the OP article, and noting that they referred to "Yogic breathing", I decided to do a little research and discovered that this technique is called "Dirga Pranayama" or "three part breathing". The authors should have mentioned it in their article.
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Agreed - but note that 7 diceware words is still 90 bits of entropy - much less than 128, but still a pretty good password!
I was a college student so I couldn't afford one of those - I had a 100 GB SATA MLC SSD that read at like 100 MB/s - this was ~2007ish when SSD were still new from a consumer perspective.
This is wrong. Stuff makes it into the recycle/waste stream all the time without the owners careful de-authing. People die and their estates are liquidated. Things are damaged and discarded, or lost and written off, all the time.

Accusing someone trying to keep electronics out of the trash of laundering stolen goods is not ok.
Properly wiping FMM is, in my experience, beyond most owners, especially of they aren't mainly on mac and thus might no longer have access to apple id they used.

In fact, there was a period of time when depending on latest os version and hw version, the steps changed.

The one time I bought a mac personally, the reseller tried to follow the correct procedure... But they used an outdated one. Contacting previous owner led to threats of litigation for phone call mobbing.
Are we intentionally forgetting the part about how these are recycled machines? Sometimes the business doing the recycling doesnt have direct contact with the owners, often businesses are pawning off months old machines and dont know the last user who had the machine, theres so many scenarios where its not fair to say 'just contact the previous owner' - this grey area just leads to waste, and the only one at fault is Apple
> Responsible recyclers and refurbishers wipe the data from used devices before selling them on. In these cases, the data is wiped, but cannot be assigned to a new user, making them effectively worthless.

I'm sorry but this is bullshit too.

I have sold my fair share of old Apple devices via so-called "responsible recyclers and refurbishers".

When submitting the form on the website, they all have statements in BIG RED CAPITAL LETTERS saying "please logout from Apple iCloud before sending us your device".

Most of them also have terms and conditions saying they won't pay out and/or will return devices where activation lock is still enabled.
I don't think a majority of these LLM/GPT companies will ever a moat apart from first to market.
My partner tried to recycle to apple her old mac mini.

It was a nightmare of two trips to the apple store and all sorts of machinations.
This was a machine she bought direct from apple. They acknowledged this. There are certainly some issues with their processes which seem to make machine single owner.
ChatGPT is a stochastic parrot, why are we using it in this way?
Did you actually ever receive 100% factually correct answers from anything before for anything other than strictly mathematical statements?

Regardless, I find it silly to focus on the small flaws when we're witnessing a foundational shift in what kind of problems we can solve.
I've been using it more and more as a Stackoverflow/Google replacement when working. Sure, it's not always correct, but there's a lot of garbage answers on SO/Google too. But I'm finding it's better at getting me in the right ballpark, and that saves me time.
If you can prove you legally acquired the macbook, apple will unlock it. This is already possible.
First, the system described by OP is super easy to see who is gaming it. Everyone knows, too!

So it doesn't even fail your first test of "the system can't tell". The system can tell. It's just not doing anything about it.
That's the failure i'm describing.

Beyond that:
If people work around the system, it will never work, regardless of the system.
Any system can be worked around, good or not.
There are no magically good systems that can't be worked around, or don't even incentivize people to work around them.

All good systems try to deal with bad actors in some way.
If they don't, they fail. Plain and simple.

Saying that any system that doesn't work because it has bad actors is a bad system is silly. You will no-true-scotsman your way into having no systems at all.
The backdoor is already there, is it not? According to Apple's support site, you can remove the lock remotely [1], which means they can remove the lock remotely. You're already trusting Apple.

Given that, removing the activation lock after notifying you with a 30/60/whatever day window to respond seems like a reasonable policy to me.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441
Was that sarcasm? Because the reality is exactly opposite to what you say when you look at TFRs of societies having the best welfare - Finland (1.37), Norway (1.48), Germany (1.53), Switzerland (1.46). Even Sweden and Denmark are around (1.66), the same as the US (1.64).
> but a company going bankrupt or aging out old equipment doesn't care nor have any incentive to properly unlock

This is not true. The bankruptcy process attempts to recover as much value from assets as possible, and so creditors and the process should absolutely care to properly unlock in order to extract maximum value.

Similarly, aging out old equipment is still sold to make money, and unlocking should achieve more resale value.

The incentives are absolutely there. And the article does absolutely zero investigation as to where exactly there's a breakdown in incentives or communication, or if it's even a major issue at all. Maybe the process is working 99% of the time.
I think that in addition to influencing future models, AI content will also influence how humans think and write. People will start ironically and unironically copying GPT's style in their own writing, causing human produced content to increasing resemble AI content.

High school students that are prohibited from using AI for their essays will have a bad time. Even if they don't use AI chatbots themselves, they will unknowingly cite sources that were written by AI, or were written by someone who learned about the topic by asking ChatGPT.
The place that hacked a journalist into pieces?
I mean, all I did was use it as a screen and a keyboard. If I'd actually booted it on its own drive and installed software on it and returned it, they would've taken it back anyway. I didn't even spin the hard drive.

[EDIT] TO BE VERY CLEAR, I DID NOT TAKE THE I7 BOARD FROM THE NEW LAPTOP AND PUT IT IN THE 2014. That would be extremely unethical. I bought a separate used i7.
Yeah I hate to agree with this because while I love the idea of LaTeX--yep, it doesn't separate content and style. You get markup all over the place and it's often cryptic as hell. My resume is in LaTeX and I hate editing it because I'm always afraid the styling is going to break in some subtle way and then I have to figure out exactly what went wrong.
I've worked at companies that had inane policies with perverse incentives. And, it was pretty funny in a "A Confederacy of Dunces" sort of way.

Compare that to other companies that practically gave out no-limit credit cards and full access: imagine which companies attracted the best talent.

But, it amazes me just how long a company can survive being just mediocre and siloed. You often don't see the long-term effects until after those who implemented the policies have left or been promoted. I often look up those companies to see how they're doing. And, they're still chugging along, being barely profitable.
https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
Not necessarily. The bloom model (a GPT competitor and similarly sized) was trained on 1.5T of text, which reduces down to 350B unique tokens. If you took a histogram of those unique tokens, it would have a very long tail with probably 1% or less being well represented. That leaves 350M common tokens to serve as the basis for token tuples being fed into crowdsourcing. There are probably ~2-5B very common token sequences, if you had 5 people view each token sequence and give it a few scores, and that process took ~1-2 minutes (these sequences are short), that leaves a conservative estimate of 50 billion person minutes, or ~34 million person days. If you paid these workers $15/hour, that comes out to $12.5 billion dollars, which is not prohibitively expensive for any big tech company when spread out over several years, particularly when it provides a massive competitive advantage.
I very much feel that way about Slack.
The cost is two classical bits and one entangled Bell pair to teleport a qubit. You make the Bell pair, send one half of it to Alice (who wants to transmit the qubit) and one half to Bob (who wants to receive it). Alice then does a Bell basis measurement on the qubit she wants to transmit and the half of Bell pair she owns.

The Bell basis measurement has four outcomes. For convenience you can label them

00
01
10
11

Alice tells Bob the measurement outcome she got (this is the part that requires two bits of classical communication), and depending on which outcome she got Bob has to apply either no correction or a Pauli X, Y or Z gate.

This is known as quantum teleportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

and has quite a long history at this point (proposed in the early '90s and first performed in the late '90s).
He says in that very blog that he’s posting more to Mastodon than Twitter and has even updated his contact details accordingly.
You can already do that on Find my Mac by locking the phone/laptop remotely. Same way as you would when your credit card is stolen; a couple of clicks and no one else can use it.
Would you mind giving a high-level summary of the physiology of mental health (like one paragraph or two, however much you like)? Just the main things that are currently known/believed.
How does that relate to WebKit being worse than Firefox specifically if they're both on the same ground of not being Chromium?
No idea, but that's what the person who's complaining about the security measures in the article seems to claim.
I made mine based on an ancient cls file years ago, update it every year or so and it's worked great. Repo is also public (you can click on the PDF to see what it looks like) at https://github.com/sbrother/resume.
I do this too! Bash functions are incredible. They have to be the most awesome under-used function (pun intended) I know of
I've noticed (now even with personal experience) that with Chinese projects its usually form over function. You pull back the curtain and its vaporware. I know this can be said for a lot of projects in the western world too... China just takes it to another level though.
How do you know if you’re the one calling disruptive ideas “hype?”

Because statistically, you probably are. We all are.
No droids
> You would go to a restaurant and the first thing your hostess would ask is "smoking or non"?

This was still a thing in Russia around 10 years ago until it became illegal to smoke pretty much anywhere public (tobacco advertising was also completely banned and cigarettes can now only be sold from a grey cabinet with a price list on it). I don't know how it worked in other parts of the world, but here, this separation between smoking and non-smoking areas in restaurants was very much notional. The non-smoking area would lack ashtrays on the tables, but it still smelled quite a lot.

Some bars and restaurants serve hookahs inside, to this day. These were never made illegal.