skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, the number of fingers is absolutely critical, you simply fail to understand what understanding a concept means. ChatGPT is, in this sense (and I know it’s probably a gross simplification, sorry OpenAI), a fancy markov chain. It can sample data that, by sheer correlation in the training data, reflects many features a typical drawing that matches the prompt would have. But it doesn’t understand what a human hand is, it lacks the ability to abstract, so it cannot deduce that there are (almost) always exactly 5 fingers.

Yet it correctly understands that faces typically have two eyes, one mouth, one nose, etc. So clearly this "lack of understanding that hands have five fingers" is unlikely to be inherent to the model.

Let's say I ask you to draw a lady bug. You'll draw a red shell with some black dots haphazardly strewn about. However, the most common lady bug in Europe always has 7 spots. It's unlikely that your drawing will reflect that. Why? Because you lack understanding of Coccinella septempunctata. But does that you mean you lack understanding in general? Of course not. Lady bugs simply aren't important to you.

So again, why are we elevating hands to be the litmus test of understanding? Yes, hands are important to humans. But this algorithm is not a human, so hands are no more important to it than anything else it can do. Like let's say if could draw perfect hands 100% of the time. Does that mean you would concede that it has understanding? I doubt it. You'd pick some other thing it didn't do well and say "See, it can't accurately draw eggs stacked in a pyramid, therefore it lacks understanding." The issue with your argument is that is a slippery slope without a specific reason why the correct rendering of hands is important.

And I'm not arguing that GPT-3 or Stable Diffusion are omnipotent. Clearly they're not. But that doesn't mean that can't understand things in their domain. As others have mentioned in adjacent comments, the only test we have for understanding, in humans or ML models, is measuring the correctness of an output for a given input. Essentially, your argument is that "It's an algorithm, it can't understand like a human," which is begging the question.

I'm not claiming that ChatGPT or any other ML algorithm is "generally intelligent." Just that it has an understanding of certain concepts.
> and generally considered to be on the higher end in the US.

Maybe in 1998 but it's pretty much standard now.
Yeah, Tailscale is probably a good bet. If you wanted to get a bit more involved, I have a blog post about my setup with OpenVPN (though it does require a hosted box, which may kinda defeat the purpose of having it locally for OP depending on their needs)

https://blog.ollien.com/posts/vpn-gateway/
If you don't have a cheesecake factory in your town, you are, as far as Amazon's employee demographic is concerned, unpeople. Prime efficiency has little to do with it.
Wrong. There is a setting called "Require Attention for FaceID" that is on by default. If the user is wearing sunglasses, sometimes FaceID fails and so that might be a reason why you would turn this off. It works fine with clear glasses.
Is that how LLMs work?
damn, this all sounds like very interesting, cool stuff!!
I'm not sure if I'd be able to help much/have the time for it though, but best of luck!
As others have mentioned, gaming. I have a Steam Deck, which runs Arch under the hood using the Steam client to provide an essentially seamless gaming experience with Proton (which is built on Wine). Provides the efficiency and customizability of Linux with the gaming support of Windows in a handheld.
We often think building courses is the ultimate passive income play. But the reality is that selling a course is neither easy nor passive.

1. I only made about $1500 from two courses I built in the last 6 months.

Considering I spent 3 months on the first course, and 2 weeks on the second, I probably won’t break-even on either course for a long time.

2. I also have a sales conversion rate of 1.5%.
That means for every 100 people who land on my course pages, I can expect to make 1.5 sales.

Driving 100 people to a course page is actually very difficult, as it requires somewhere between 50k-100k post impressions to get there.

While attainable for people with a mid-5 figure audience, I’d have to post an insane amount to get that many post impressions to make a sale.

Stories of people making lots of money from course sales are anomalies. The reality is that most course creators likely won’t break-even on their course.
> Sets defined by type vs sets defined by lists of properties, specs, rules etc.

Recursive explanations are useless: "types are just sets defined by types". That's why we are trying to define them through other means.

Also TS has structural type system, which is literally about comparing properties.
Eh. Right but in this case you still have to take into account the messenger. He lives in a sobering reality and I'm sure everything he promotes and communicates he knows must walk a certain line.
Surprised we've made it this far without an Ubik reference...

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
We use in prod variant of no 1. [0]. Why? Because:

* it's sql

* it's extremely lightweight (built on pure, functional combinators)

* it allows us to use more complex patterns ie. convention where every json field ends with Json which is automatically parsed; which, unlike datatype alone, allows us to create composable query to fetch arbitrarily nested graphs and promoting single [$] key ie. to return list of emails as `string[]` not `{ email: string }[]` with `select email as [$] from Users` etc.

* has convenience combinators for things like constructing where clauses from monodb like queries

* all usual queries like CRUD, exists etc. and some more complex sql-wise but simple function-api-wise ie. insertIgnore list of objects, merge1n, upsert etc all have convenient function apis and allow for composing whatever more is needed for the project

We resort to runtime type assertions [1] which works well for this and all other i/o; runtime type assertions are necessary for cases when your running service is incorrectly attached to old or future remote schema/api (there are other protections against it but still happens).

[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/tsql

[1] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/assert-combinators
The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways - I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been carefully curating who I follow this time around).

I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and federate as time goes on, and this will turn out to be a net benefit for society. For now, my mental health is definitely better.
Not new, but quantum locking. Literally making things float. I'm still convinced it's magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4r_Dz_lJS4
This would be a fantastic aide for fantasy books like the Simarilian where there’s so many characters you lose track of who’s who
thanks Peer!
>>It would be nice to have bundle reform that requires all prices to be listed as taxes-and-fees-inclusive here in the US

No no no no

Taxes should be listed for atleast 3 reasons

1. The company is not paying the tax, you are. You owe the tax not the company, the company is merely collecting the tax for the government. In many states the company is paid to collect this tax on the governments behalf. If the tax was not collected at time of purchase you still owe the government the money

2. Hiding taxation is never a good thing, Taxes we pay should be transparent to everyone as they are extractions from the economy and we should be fully aware of the amount of money the government is stealing errr extracting from us at all times

3. Tax increases are blamed on the merchant if they are hidden in the price instead of on the government where they belong, this makes is politically easier to raise the sales taxes if it is all hidden from the consumer. If a state goes from 8 to 10% people will notice that tax went up instead of the price. This is one of the reasons why of you look historically gas taxes have increased far more than the sales tax rate, because gas taxes are hidden into the price of gas where sales taxes are not.
LastPass owner GoTo shares more bad news about November’s security breach
Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, the 'complete idiots' comment was only applicable in the event you had completely ignored the police while gathering the evidence. Since you seemed to have been in contact with them and realized they were not going to act I honestly applaud you and brother for taking steps to ensure your sister doesn't end up as a 'statistic' as they say.
A trip down the most mysterious road in California, Zzyzx Road
Maybe he was related to D.B. Cooper?
> I once attended a large flea-market where such a boundary cut through the fairgrounds. Taxes were different on one side of the line than the other.

Does this matter though? Even if the tax is different from one stall to another, they could still publish a price that includes tax.
"I'd like "The price you see is the price you pay" to be the rule."

Totally agree. I don't care what other fees or taxes go into the price. They are all cost of doing business. Just wait until the baker charges you extra for the flour and yeast that went into the bread.
rarely seen it quote the book verbatim. when it did it was very short snippets.

it's more like talking to a person who knows the contents of the book by heart.
I don't know if you're just being intentionally reductionist by doubling down on this "I can code this app in a weekend" angle when I just spent something like a hundred words explaining how that's not the point or what... but people are talking about the business here.

And it's the whole business: Not just 100M in ARR, but 100M in ARR with what burn rate and what exit that won't just be dumping a steaming pile on the public market as has flown in years past.

Maybe you're just missing the forest for the trees when these questions come up now too: We're not in 2019 anymore. It used to be that every startup with a faint pulse could justify any valuation by throwing up revenue numbers and see a successful exit at some point. Now money is tightening up and people are starting to question fundamentals again.

The comment you replied to is essentially saying: This is a sign of the times, 3B dollar valuation, ~100M ARR, likely an insane burn rate that that ARR doesn't even begin to touch

I don't know how that's even a controversial take unless your argument is "well we've seen even worse do fine" (because yeah, it did well fine in the past climate of free money)
Data Protection Authorities support noyb's call for fair yes/no cookie banners
Seriously. I reimplemented and launched the core scheduling features from scratch in like 12 days. React and firestore. Then google calendar integration was something on the order of another day or two.

Very useful little thing, but I sure don't know how you could spend $350 million doing it. The company I made it for absolutely is nowhere in sight of a number like that.
> I would rather have nothing.

Nothing can't play Halo.
Not the same, although the resulting shspes might look similar, a Lissajous pattern displays both channels of a stereo signal as X/Y. That means independent of what is going on if you send it a mono signal, you will just see a 45 degree line — totally independent of the frequencies contained in the audio.

This uses FFT to draw circles and makes the harmonics/frequencies visible.
Bird Hit QA engineer
There is 0 reason to distribute SSH keys across machines. You can tell SSH to use LDAP to check a user's keys, trivially.
Don't let the not-quite-clickbait title turn you off. This is a surprisingly interesting and well-written account of a place I'd never heard of.
The apps at the top are their sponsors, not the malware. However, as someone else pointed out, probably dumb on their part to design it that way. haha
Apple hasn't had big layoffs yet. My guess is that this is a PR move preceding a layoff announcement soon to come.
Nobody said you can't encrypt the key?

Also some people use password-less sudo, so...
How do you position this against AWS's own Security Lake announced at re:Invent in November (https://aws.amazon.com/security-lake/) ?

Your architecture diagram looks like a carbon copy of theirs.
The previous sentence before your quote:

> Astro now helps you organize your Markdown with built-in parsing, validation, and automatic TypeScript type generation.

The bolded text leading the paragraph of your quote:

> deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX

The announcement is about typing MDX. Also, Astro just works out-of-the-box with MDX, Next.js you have to do configuring. In others your don't get SSR. Personally Astro has the easiest and most flexible markdown experience ever. It makes sense to focus on that support and to lead with it. You can even have templates in JSX with MDX content files, cool stuff like that.

The Hybrid Rendering feature is really cool too. I have a few pages I wanted to SSR, but most of the site can be SSG. This saves from needing two projects. I can select pages to generate at build.

The rest of the error message optimization and dev tool improvements is always welcome.

Not affiliate with Astro btw.
How does Astro 2.0 compare to isles[1] (beyond what's mentioned in the FAQ[2])?

[1] https://iles.pages.dev/

[2] https://iles.pages.dev/faqs#astro
Install it somewhere else and move the data directory across?

Nextcloud is foss, right?
> But we won't, because our society is largely based on Calvinist nonsense that says there are "bad people" and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.

I'd argue it's just the opposite. If people believed Calvinism, then they would believe that all humanity has an innate capacity for evil and it's only circumstances that lead some people to become criminals and others judges. As I see it, the logical conclusion is that by changing people's circumstances we would be able to reform criminals.

However, I'm increasingly suspecting that many if not most people who profess to be Christians are actually just tribalists.
You would get rid of a small percentage of crime. A lot of crime happens out of either cultural ideals, or inability to control emotions.

My opinion is that the money should be spent on labor camps, specifically towards guaranteeing good nutrition, secure housing, access to medicine, with oversight on a government level, but everyone is forced to work. You would solve for things like inner prison violence/drug trade, since people will be physically and mentally exhausted, and best of all, everyone finishing their sentences will have had a good number of years of blue collar work. If some dude spent 5 years every day welding up structures for solar panels, I guarantee you companies are gonna want to interview him to make use of his skills.
"Click accept to continue"
Agreed with this, and Sam Altman himself says this is the next big milestone for improvement. It needs to stop being confidently incorrect.
It isn't unethical because they didn't break a law

Bahahahahahaha
Ooh, intriguing.

I've been using Flux studio session analyser to visualise audio signals for mixing In-ear monitors for live audio[1] from my Cue mix.

Might write a quick dodgy thing to add this to my analysis stack. Could be cool.

[1] https://imgur.com/RFsV3d9
It really wouldn't. Courts don't like it when you misuse copyright like that.
Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager for developers
Two months ago, we left our jobs at AWS and Figma to continue building Infisical.

It is an open-source end-to-end encrypted tool that helps you manage developer secrets across your team, devices, and infrastructure.

During the previous Show HN, we got a lot of useful feedback which we’ve been iterating on A LOT!

In the past month, we’ve been pretty much working 24/7, and we added:
- Integrations for Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Actions, Render, and Fly.io
- Public API
- User activity logs
- Point-in-time recovery and secret versioning
- Custom environments
- Kubernetes operator (https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/platforms/kubernetes)
And made lots of other performance improvements both on the frontend and backend.

Our repo is published under the MIT license so any developer can use Infisical. The goal is to not charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for some enterprise features as well as providing a hosted version and support.

In the coming weeks, we plan to add features like key rotation, alerts, and secret groups - as well as continue adding more integrations.

Give it a try (https://github.com/Infisical/infisical)! We’d love to hear what you think!

Main website: https://infisical.com/
For the non technical-ish... Have a drink every time I say "uh"...
In some countries it would be illegal. If you haven't seen the additional fee before ordering and they mention it only afterwards, it's a fraud. Personally, I can't imagine I would pay it. Yes, I don't shy away from a confrontation.
So far I don't feel like I get enough value from Mastodon but once I do, I will definitely subscribe. I wish there was a Pro version (without fancy features) like something Apollo for Reddit has.
Also, hormones have an enormous effect on the brain. The speculation I have read about immortality through brain vat tech does not address that such brains might not have any reason to want to live.
Imo. Google and Facebook doing cuts meant that they let go of the recent hires or allocations in recent moon projects. Their core business is intact and is likely thriving. PD cutting is a signal that the company is getting affected by the waves in the industry as in there's less startup funding
I've never been prompted to tip at the Starbucks drive through in my area. I pay using the app after loading up the gift card (you get more stars this way).

I'm very much tired of the explosion of tipping culture though. Now fast food wants me to tip workers. This was definitely not the norm when I was growing up, or even pre COVID, and as far as I'm aware, they're all hourly workers that started making pretty good wages in due part thanks to staffing shortages (McDonalds was hiring for 18-20 USD an hour, pretty big increase)

I feel like service industries and restaurants are doing anything they can to push costs onto the consumer without raising "official" prices. Like they all employed the same sociology consultants and they discovered what social levers they can instrument to get people to pay more without "paying" more. I been seeing these "economic recovery fees", "COVID safety fees" and other nonsense too.

I eat alot more at home now.
Which one was it? I’ve heard about Vsl-3 as being medical grade
The restaurant in the article claimed the 20% surcharge was NOT a tip. :shrug:
I wonder how much damage printer manufacturers did to consumer trust in this space. Even among non-tech people, it's pretty common knowledge at this point that printers will do a variety of terrible things like completely lock down your hardware if you don't phone home to get updates, use a non-standard or recycled/refilled cartridge, etc. TV manufacturers are catching up here as well with their greedy practices, but the printer stuff has been around forever.

It's not a far jump to extend this mistrust to all appliances and be weary of connecting anything to your network that does not require it to function.
> We use hands, recognize hands, some of us can draw or sculpt accurate representations of hands, we can talk about aspects of hands such as grip and fingerlength. All of these things encompass the idea and physical instance of "hand" in much more than just the artistic sense.

Sure, but the AI doesn't use hands so why would hands be of particular importance to the algorithm? Let's say the algorithm did draw perfect hands every time. Would you accept that it has understanding then? I doubt it. Your argument is essentially a slippery slope: no matter what it can do, you'd find something it didn't excel at and say "See, it has no understanding."

> Also, we certainly know when we draw a hand poorly. Unless we are children, or have a brain condition. And if we are children or have a brain condition other adults wouldn't say that we have a good understanding of what a hand is.

I've seen plenty of people claim they produce great art, when in reality it's terrible.
In my experience, hotels show total cost prominently. Go to Marriott/Hilton/Hyatt/IHG/choice/Wyndham websites, and before you can reserve, it will show you total cost and list potential parking/pet/resort/other fees.
I'm not defending it, but the win would be for website owners who might make slightly more profits, and advertisers who might pay slightly less for ads -- all because increased competition would reduce profits by ad exchanges.

Of course, that's against not just more tracking/sharing as you mention, but also probably significantly worse ad loading times and bloat in general.

It's awfully hard and hypothetical to estimate the impact of either.
Same in California, it varies by county and city: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx

Obnoxious to keep track of.
As someone who doesn't have intuition about these things: what are the chances that an 777 could have crashed and yet many years later very very few of its debris showed up or were spotted anywhere in the world (also factoring in intense search efforts around the most likely places where it crashed)?

Is this one of these 1 in a billion chance thing or is it not as crazy as it sounds? Like even if you were intentionally trying not to leave a trace, it is so hard to plan the drift and spread of debris and get so lucky in them not being spotted.
Wikipedia agrees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology
Couldn't the client send the number?
It depends on how mild the tweak is, and perhaps how different the result will be. I expect copyright protection for AI art will be very narrow, and likely only protect against direct copy/paste, or near-identical copies.
Paul Graham AI Essay Writer
I turned GPT-3 into PGT-3. Browse or create essays using a model fine-tuned to Paul's 200+ essays. Sorry Paul!
You don’t. You cut it into snippets. For those you create embeddings which allow you to rank them by semantic similarity to a query. You then prompt GPT3 with the question plus, say, the three most relevant snippets from the book.

The most difficult thing about the process is preventing the model from making stuff up.
I would simply walk out. This shouldn't be legal. In every spirit of the law, this is malicious.
I stopped going to Starbucks because of this. Simple Americano (espresso + hot water) is $3.50. They ask for tip on the pad, customary at least $1. This adds up to about $5 with tax, for a medium coffee. It's not sustainable. I maybe getting old and still live in times when the same Americano cost me $1.69.