skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But Apple is trying to control me!" screams every dev who doesn't understand this, not realizing they are signaling their inability to empathize with normal end users and misattributing why Apple does what it does.

Apple gets it, devs don't. In this space, 1Password is least worst, yet is still more confusing than the average user quite understands.

Apple isn't a most valuable company because they want to control you. They're a most valuable company because their engineers blend software and hardware into experiences for end users not for engineers.

So much more software would be so much more successful if usability and adoption were as prioritized as utility and configurability.
There are other options, like moving in with parents, group housing, van life, or even going homeless. So long as people can afford it they’ll usually avoid those options but once they’re tapped out they are no longer able to. There is a limit for how much rent can be raised even if buying becomes more difficult to finance. I don’t think we’ve ever hit that limit in the US in recent history. Landlords not being able to raise rent to cover mortgage payments would be a new thing they probably haven’t planned on.
you could maybe write the whole thing in a few hours, but debugging what you wrote to recreate prior results will probably take much longer depending on choice of problem
Just for fun, seems easily susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack. Just take a postcard, copy their code, discard the original card, or just send the original later than the copy. :)
I didn’t say it didn’t. But, take high speed rail in the US. Even where political will exists, we fail to execute. In seattle we have rail and bus, but they’re largely empty. I spent a decade taking the subway in Nyc, arguable one of the better transit systems, and a primary reason I left was I found it soul crushing to use it every day. First, I don’t like crowds and hated feeling uncomfortable multiple times a day for a few hours every single day. Second, getting anywhere not in my corridor was a multi hour affair (round trip). Third, getting anywhere was at least 45 minutes one way. Fourth, it was almost impossible to leave the city and visit nature.

I may be weak minded and easily fooled, but my direct experiences made my weak mind want to own a car and gtfo of a public transit first urban core. I don’t hate the environment, I don’t think everyone should drive Suburbans. But I also think there’s a saddle point, and technology for batteries isn’t done yet.

I also suspect the “everyone who disagrees with my world view is a weak minded easily fooled idiot who can’t form their own opinions are are indoctrinated by a dark conspiracy” line isn’t endearing the public transit first folks to anyone but their echo chamber.
Beat me to it! - officially they’re “Ring Junctions” I believe.

The big ones aren’t too hard to navigate (from a drivers POV they’re just a succession of mini roundabouts), but there’s one at Hatton Cross (near Heathrow airport) that’s so small you can see the whole thing so traffic appears to come from all directions and it’s a bit of a nightmare: https://goo.gl/maps/PR4XBTPeEg1YojUeA
Yet this practice is nearly ubiquitous with cash tip jobs.
I mean, is there really any question? There is only one answer. Okay, maybe two. Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT.

Lot's of surreal stuff out there, but these two ... there is no question. Not one.

Living in exponential times.
Keep fighting the good fight my man!
In Europe we have working debit cards, so PayPal is redundant and hardly ever used.
> Now, you can add multiple MFA devices to AWS account root users and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users in your AWS accounts
Change Happens - They Keep Moving The Cheese

Anticipate Change - Get Ready For The Cheese To Move

Monitor Change - Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old

Adapt To Change Quickly - The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese

Change - Move With The Cheese

Enjoy Change! - Savor The Adventure And Enjoy The Taste Of New Cheese!

Be Ready To Change Quickly And Enjoy It Again - They Keep Moving The Cheese.
Definitely is. I've tried watching and uploading more recent BBC documentaries onto platforms like Youtube and YouTube would be quickly to remove said copyright violation. It's deplorable how moneygrubbing the BBC has become while also being penny pinched. Heck, most of their more recent documentaries seem require partial co-producing with WGBH (PBS Boston) or KQED (PBS Bay Area) because stuff's expensive now. A sad financialization of a public good. Thank goodness Vietnam doesn't extradite and that there seems to be some organized crime nexus there around pirate streaming, otherwise all the pirate sites would have gone down.
I love this.

Short and concise, this combines two of my most favorite mindshares.

1. "Hackers and Painters" – I stumbled across in late 2004 at the Technical University of Vienna's (excellent) bookstore. Reading it changed my life.

2. "Ideas are the Enemy of Observations (2012)" – Just Three months ago yamrzou shared this gem of a text. For me, it has become the most meaningful post ever shared on HN.

"How to get new ideas" seems to fit snuggly right in the middle :)

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33355094
The amount of waste may be unfathomable, but is layoffs really going to correct it?

Instead a culture shift to be more frugal might work better.

The criticism is that most of these companies will go right back to hiring tomorrow.
> but lack of ECC and OOB management kinda disqualifies it for anything serious.

> Yay that's like... almost as much as normal 1U server can do

It’s a fun toy. Obviously it isn’t the best or most efficient way to get any job done. That’s not the point.

Enjoy it for the fun experiment that it is.
I think it's almost the opposite - (I think) banks started issuing credit cards (with no ability to overdraw) as "debit cards" because it makes them more convenient for online shopping and such.

Not sure why else "debit cards" would suddenly have CVV codes and such.
> Reread my comment. If you read my book and write your own it’s OK, if a megacorp provides a tool that ingests my book and automatically writes this book for you (and charges you, and does not pay or credit me) it’s not.

This is not something that our courts could ever decide. How would they know if I did not use a LLM tool to assist in writing my new book?

> Why it’s not OK? In addition to generating a derivative work based on my book (not on ideas in mine, literally on mine, because this tool is not conscious and does not operate ideas, only the letters), which is already obviously illegal

That's not what constitutes a derivative work in the sense of copyright infringement. A derivative work is still a derivative work no matter how it was made. However, it is perfectly legal to say, go to Disney's website, download a JPEG, convert that JPEG to 1s and 0s, print just a bunch of 1s and 0s and not the image, just like a printing press made up of just [1] and [0] character blocks, and sell that. Yes, the 1s and 0s are mathematically derived from the image but the image of 1s and 0s is not a visual derivative of the Disney image. That is, no one is going to buy a t-shirt of 1s and 0s instead of a Mickey t-shirt. Anyone can go to the Disney website and get those same 1s and 0s.

> it also kills incentives for people to publish books at all—because now OpenAPI can buy one copy of any book, feed it to its ML tool, then charge people for using it and no one else ever needs to buy this book and give any credit to its author. Implications for open information sharing like blogging and such go without mentioning.

There are lots of non-infringing uses for such a tool in the marketplace and this will factor into fair use. (Sony v Universal)
Fair enough, it does make sense to have a higher tolerance for false positives than false negatives in this domain. I think that's a hard thing for people to accept though since so far it's been very obvious the objects and systems we interact with have not been conscious (except to pansychists of course.) It might be good to get practice in and build the habit early though, even if we don't think these current systems are conscious.
While I disagree (quite strongly) with the claim that non-locality is a problem with QM (on the contrary it seems like an extremely interesting and useful property), I would like to know why you think this paper has anything specifically interesting for Bohemian mechanics rather than any other interpretation.
Safari is way faster than Chrome on macOS
Yet it will happily tell you random non sense with utter certainty like that it takes twenty minutes to boil a whole chicken in the middle of a recipe or listing an incorrect number of children with fake names while writing a biography.
In my case, I want it everywhere. I operate from a permanent deficit of attention, and I store all of my musical reference material in Google at the moment, because one thing I do always manage to have with me (so far) is my phone, so if someone calls for a song that I don't have memorized I can very quickly pull up the chart no matter what.

I've tried making binders, I've tried every suggestion anyone could possibly make, and the ubiquitous available of Google Docs while I have a phone with internet is the only thing that has verifiably made me more productive. It's only gonna be a few tenners per month to have it fully under my control.

So what you're saying about AWS seems to be that if I just use EC2 and their cheap storage and stick to things I understand (I understand a rented VM, for instance, and I understand the idea that whatever that VM sends out counts against a quota), that they would have a hard time catching me out, and that also seems true to me. Behind a firewall I'm extremely brave, the fact this is internet-public has me a bit more trepadacious I suppose.

I also considered using a local instance to start, but the documentation seems to be very against that and I don't like starting my journey with a new system in defiance of their stated best practices, that seems like the road to a broken heart to me.

edit: lots of suggestions to use dyndns type services, problem there is I'm on Starlink and have no public IP available. There might be a cheap bouncing service out there but that's more googling and in the final analysis I can afford to do it the straightforward way.
I don't disagree with you at some level, but I also see a lot of hype in modern science and intellectual discourse. Maybe not for all fields, but for many.

A recent paper has been making the rounds suggesting that disruptive research is becoming less common. This seems critically important for interpreting Kuhn.

Perhaps, for instance, Kuhn was writing or formulating his ideas in an unusually disruptive era. Or maybe our current era is less disruptive, and so discourse about ideas has to be approached differently, maybe more skeptically.
The thought of clandestine modding labs and neural implants brings to mind a future similar to Ghost in the Shell.
Related news coverage:

https://google.com/search?q=lipsman+ALS+MR-guided+focused+ul...
That's because MS made a irrrcoverable level of mistake over a decade. They wanted IE6 to die in favor of their proprietary platform.

Apple did learn from this mistake and kept a minimal level of investment as well as prohibited competition via full control of App Store, which effectively forced most websites to support WebKit. Even though they did not invest that much on Safari over a similar length of period through these ways and still maintains the lead on MacOS. Which in fact proves my point.
oooooh.... I'd love a beta invite for this if anyone has one.
You have to love the cold calculating thought process of fund managers. That statement basically translates to "Your engineers are better than everyone else and can keep their salary, but your other employees are grossly overpaid".

Past the shock of the statement though, that's likely true. Recruiters at Google aren't 63% better than recruiters elsewhere, if anything their job is easier because engineers want to work at Google so they always drown in resume.
Well, this is ChatGPT, not Copilot, so I'd assume that OP was looking for a snippet using a public library rather than an internal API. In that context, suggesting you use an API that doesn't exist is just wrong.

I've definitely done this with Copilot, though—it will suggest an API that doesn't actually exist but logically should in order to be consistent, and I'll go create it.
Whenever I see CNET it takes me back. And that shareware and freeware download section. So many gems were stuffed on there.
more than that, based on EU regulations, charging extra for credit-card use is now illegal in germany. but confusingly this law does not apply to paypal transactions
For reveal.js, there's the multiplex[0] plugin that can synchronize views.

[0]: https://github.com/reveal/multiplex
I am happy with the synology server i have at home. I don't have to setup the server on my own but sftp, docker, nginx is included already. Mostly i just use it as remote storage for files.
If Firefox will focus _everything_ on making FF on MacOS reduce their batter consumption to the minimum possible (less than Safari should be the goal) then I think this is the only _winning strategy_ for FF not going into irrelevance.

not sure it is also possible to compete on battery performance with Safari but that is the only one I see. Drop any other project, any initiative and just focus on this.

Why:

1. Because there is a big chunk of developers who code web on MacOS thus winning them means what they build will run on MacOS

2. Becoming default for this group of technical people means they will recommend it for their families and more important install it for their young kids laptops

3. Can do it with Google money :)
You've conflated the critical detail. No garbage-out is the critically significant problem with AI. Right now, ChatGPT is the ability to generate structured results from whatever format we can think of to whatever format we can think of. They may or may not be correct.
> Would be ridiculously inefficient, while also being nondeterministic and opaque. Impossible to debug, verify, or test anything, and thus would be unwise to use for almost any kind of important task.

Not to defend a joke app, but I have worked in “serious” production systems that for all intents and purposes were impossible to recreate bugs in to debug. They took data from so many outside sources that the “state” of the software could not be easily replicated at a later time. Random microservice failures littered the logs and you could never tell if one of them was responsible for the final error.

Again, not saying GPT backend is better but I can definitely see use-cases where it could power DB search as a fall-through condition. Kind of like the standard 404 error - did you mean…?
Is there any place on the entire planet that _hasn't_ become more authoritarian in the past, say, 5 years?
The Hacker News title says "open source" in it... but Elastic isn't open source, so it shouldn't qualify... though the article doesn't say open source... so maybe the Hacker News title was editorialized and is incorrect?
Yup, this happens. Basically just hiring people to take the fall.

Seen this happen for teams where the manager loves everyone on their team.
It's been my experience that ChatGPT gets things wrong sometimes. It's also been my experience that if you say "X isn't working as expected." it will do its best to fix the issues. It usually does a pretty good job of fixing it.

I had it write a handful of scripts for me yesterday. It got about 90% of it right on the first pass and 99% of it right on the second pass. You still need to have some understanding of what you're doing so you can see when things are wrong but man if it doesn't save you a lot of time.
yeah, 'news'/documentation/commentary one way to find 'problems' with possible unmet solutions.
not tech news
Is this just another face of Poe's law?
> So now you need something like ChatGPT to cut through the noise?

I once employed a journalist to write about the pros and cons of wedding insurance. Just to give you a clue how long ago this was, it was a unique article at the time.

Many years years later, every article you will read about wedding insurance (there will be many thousands) is around 90% similar in style and content to the one I paid for.

I dare say you could use any other topic as an example, one thoroughly researched original and many thousand similar copies. I can't see how ChatGPT is not going to make this situation much worse?
> His interest isn't the long term well-being of the company, his interest is a predictable short term peak in valuation. Chaining short term profits is how these funds get outsized returns

That's a plausible theory. Except the letter I linked to starts like this:

TCI has been a significant shareholder of Alphabet since 2017. We currently own shares valued at more than $6 billion, reflecting our strong conviction in Alphabet's future.

Five years does not sound that short-term to me.
Work on side projects to keep your skills sharp so you're ready to apply for new jobs once the inevitable happens.
Cool, now if someone would remove the more annoying part of the frontend, and allow us to make backend as we please.
Citadels hedge fund has ~50B AUM, TCI has ~35B. They are in the same class of size.

My personal opinion is that the idea that hedge funds started the tech layoffs is bunk, boards get activist letters all the time and they are mostly noise. But TCI has the power to influence board decisions if any hedge fund does.
Generally, those are all good things to include in the commit message.
A few years ago in a hotel in London I had complementary water bottles on the night stand. The label said "Organic Water from Scotland". I was like: uhh organic water from Scotland is probably cattle piss. I prefer inorganic, non-bio water.
Even if this is not 100% serious, it is really starting to feel like the ship computer from star trek is not too far away.
#ISavedYouAClick: dye

(Interesting details on how PB works and its background. Clickbaity clickbait is clickbait.)
Culture, Care and Typography
Maybe. I believe it's probably deeper than just the choice of synonyms, the choice of "next token" as a whole. For more information see Aaronson's description of his work in the section titled "My Projects at OpenAI":

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823
I can't figure out the prices per month thing, if I select GP Compute and 'Monthly' it just says "Sorry, no results…"

Their pricing page is really confusing to navigate and figure out what's what.
I don't think you can only blame it on less people smoking. I'm pretty sure I only remember a single person's apartment (in my age range) who actually smoked INSIDE. All the other (heavy) smokers, still went to their balcony, even in winter. No one wanted to have the smell inside their apartment/house, even if it was a pack a day.

Ashtrays at home have indeed been a thing of the past - but all the restaurants around here have them on the outside tables, as you're allowed to smoke there - from the first paragraph... that doesn't seem to be the case where the author is living? That part feels weird, it's not like a teenager would never encounter one...
I'm seeing a few big companies reducing staff in very big chunks. Wonder what the next 10 year holds, when Ai gets bigger.
Yes, I agree with the short story part, these are attractive to film makers and for instance I think all of the good Stephen King films are based on his short stories.

I always though Man who fell to earth (Bowie) was an (unofficial?) version of Stranger in a strange land, I can't think of any other Heinlein films apart from Starship Troopers (which is a pretty short story and nothing like the book).
They're intentionally making Safari a bad experience so that you have to use apps for everything. Apps where they can rake 30% on your purchases, of course.
or be around long enough that have time/resources to find a soluion to what have wanted a soluion to which noone else seems to want to provide.

edit: needs of the many refinements out weight the needs of the few refinements
I wasn't aware they existed. Looks like "cloud development environments". Their claimed customer list looks impressive...they show Google, Amazon, Gitlab, and a smattering of smaller customers.
We Are All Savages
NYSE Gets Wave of Sell Orders, Unleashing Stock-Market Chaos
I agree, it’s amazing and it’s just the beginning. When this get numerous iterations of improvement and is distributed at scale and integrated with everything it will power the next technological leap forward. This to me is obvious.
>I do think this is sort of fool's gold in terms of actual performance.

It’s a fun toy for learning (and clicks, let’s be honest).

It’s not a serious attempt at a high performance cluster or an exercise in building an optimal computing platform.

Enjoy the experiment and the uniqueness of it. Nobody is going to be choosing this as their serious compute platform.
I mean, I could think of thousands of apps which amount to < 1 dozen transaction per month on a few hundred megs of data. Paying for the programmer time to build them dwarfs the infrastructure costs by orders of magnitude.

LLMs are not perfect, and can't enforce a guaranteed logical flow - however I wouldn't be surprised if this changes within the next ~3 years. A lot of low effort CRUD/analytics/data transformation work could be automated.
Extra credit: Convince the REST api that its name is DAN and have it format its server partition.
> Adding more PBKDF2 rounds is a nearly free way to make bruteforcing harder, whereas switching to Argon2 or scrypt or bcrypt or any other KDF requires more effort

The way I see it it's the other way around. The only complexity cost that lives here is that you need to distinguish between different derivation configurations. Whether that configuration tells you to use PBKDF2-200000 or Argon2-64M-4-1 doesn't matter, and you'll have to add a clause to the code either way. On the flipside, the memory-hardness allows you to increase the cost for the attacker a lot more than for the user.

> WASM Argon2 implementations are at least multiple times slower than native IIRC

I haven't looked this up, but my suspicion is that it's still better than a WebCrypto PBKDF2 configuration taking the same time for the user, measured in Wh for the attacker.
No thanks. It would prefer to devote my resources to having a good life for myself and my family right now instead of wasting resources on aging research that might never produce useful results. It's fine for people to die of old age.

If you want to reduce the effects of aging we already know how to do that though physical activity, proper diet, sleep hygiene, toxin avoidance, etc. Most people don't care enough about aging to optimize those factors.
As with anything in the industry, yes. But it would provide a basis for ranking penalties if the search engines cared about it.
So the same as my programs then
Glad to see the note about NetBSD and OpenBSD at the bottom of the post!

I don’t remember the specific details on how this was done, but I can remember the long discussions about how to make this possible without breaking compatibility (and how they went over my head at the time) and how far ahead they were from other systems.
Art is a skill that takes time to master. There are college level classes on mastering the human form. Just because most people are bad at drawing hands doesn't mean they don't understand what a hand is. That's a fundamentally different problem than what AI systems have.

As for the bikes, I'm not surprised most people cant recall the exact shape or design of a mechanical object they don't use or work on every day. I'm sure a hobby cyclist could accurately lay out one.
Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars
And then internal world model breaks. Now you have to hire a LLM debugging expert.