skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall the selling point of Matrix being security. (Otherwise, we could just use IRC.)

The conventional IETF-ish Internet ideal of open standards is to have a specification that is implementable.

When the selling point is security, insecure implementations don't help us.

Suggesting an off-the-shelf proxy kludge doesn't clearly answer how implementable it is.

Sounds like you're saying that the protocol (with necessary security) is hard to implement. Do the new changes affect that one way or the other?
Someone posted on Twitter that chatGPT is like economists - occasionally right but super confident that they are always right
Founders really need to start doing 10 minutes of due diligence to ensure that their sites won't crash and burn under moderate Hacker News or Product Hunt traffic before posting at these places. You get one shot at front page success, and are now losing valuable impressions because people can't even open your website. And you not being able to keep a marketing page up and running doesn't really give me confidence in adopting your actual product. A few clicks in Cloudflare could have easily prevented this.
> I normally use Bing when Google fails to yield results...

Every once in a while I hear someone at Hacker News hitting the dead end with Google Search. Can you give an example where Google search fails, but other search engines (e.g. Bing) provide results? Must be fringe niche topics, no?

>... or decides to hellban me for searching too specifically

Is hellbanning a thing at Google? What happens if one gets hellbanned?
But regular search engines only regurgitate what they've indexed, yet don't invent outright nonsense when they don't know (if you asked Google who won the superbowl in 2024 the nature of the results make it clear it simply doesn't have that information. Though if you change it to "world cup" one of the top answers says "portugal was the defending champion, defeating Argentina". The result is titled "2024 futsal world cup"!)
I fell in love with Recursive (Casual Mono). To me, it's the perfect blend of slightly casual, slightly serif-ish, and not too skinny.
https://recursive.design
Screenshot: https://freeimage.host/i/HE6AFfV
I wonder if it's actually "trained" or is it rather "imagine you've generated all that fancy text content, which follows now: ${content}".
Not really. This is a syntactic error, not a type error.

To expand, this is the equivalent of something like {"a": 1, "b":}. The type checker in something like Typescript wouldn't ever come into play, because it's not legal syntax to begin with.
Leaving Iraq earlier would have been fucked up. We would wrecked the country, destabilized it, raised the problem of sectarian warfare, and then bounced. We still basically did that, but at least helped it with ISIS before leaving.

As it is, we arguably owe it more.

You can see what the result of leaving Afghanistan has been. We should have devoted more resources to nation building there.
>I think a lot of Microsoft hate is clouding judgement here. People want Teams to suck.

Agreed. It's as bandwagon as I've seen anything else. FFS, I half expect to see M$ written about.

It works fine, have your meeting and get back to work. What is it that people are trying to do in Teams?
> My company forces us to use Google Chat. I would take Teams any day.

What are the shortcomings of Google Chat over Teams?
My guess is that they are simply finetuning the model on your provided data: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
‘A Mystery of Mysteries’ Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door
You said recent.

The employees are reported to have received a 14% raise recently. The record profits were 7% higher than 2021 with inflation for the same period at 6.5%. All of this is in the linked article.

I am not defending the actions. I have noted a problem with the term "record profits" and engage where possible to limit what I see as a problem with that language.

I'm not arguing any of your points outside of the use of the term record profits without any hard numbers. The reasoning being that record profits is the goal and normal as far as I'm concerned. A 0.5% increases should be clearly labeled due to the loaded nature of the term( In my opinion.)
That is emphatically incorrect, and it's difficult to imagine how you could possibly have come to believe that to be the case. It's also irrelevant to the discussion.
AMC plans to charge more for the best seats
Well, last time I checked, at least two people were needed to have sex. Makes it hard to follow this request for some…
client-side rendering was coined because server-side rendering was the default.
now that client-side rendering is ubiquitous, being explicit about server-side rending became necessary and along lost in translation became "technique" - is what I think happened here.
https://archive.ph/r0ur3
Interesting to note that San Jose is 39 miles from the Salesforce tower.
The vast majority of journalists are barely performing what any rational person would call journalism, and for the most part they're providing "journalism" on the same shit that 50 other journalists are covering too.
As frustrating as NIH can be, Never-Invented-Here can be worse. I’ve worked in shops where we were doing some bleeding edge things, either with processes that scaled horizontally to levels that were ridiculous at the time, or by handling astounding numbers of events per second, etc. In some of those, we had tech leadership who felt very strongly about using off the shelf components wherever possible, which is fine. Most shops don’t need to re-invent Nginx, or PostgreSQL, or Redis. However, sometimes there’s something unique about a specific problem that means that nothing widely used is going to be a good fit. And in that case, you’ve gotta decide whether to 1) make your engineers solve it with an inadequate tool, 2) find a way to make the problem go away, e.g. by turning away big customers, or 3) trust your engineers to, you know, invent new things.
BookTok Is Good
You think SQL injection vulnerabilities are due to the SQL language itself?

That's like saying JS is flawed specifically because too many people used eval(…).
probably not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34766838
The issues sometimes aren't about teams but microsoft authentication. You are sometimes forced to use incognito mode or cannot join.

Plus it doesn't work on any browser, even if said browser has capability to run it, or on mobile, unless you install their app.
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.2.1
I don't think it is absurd to require self-built homes to conform to universal codes. Builders-owners are the first inhabitants, but not necessarily the only ever inhabitants. Some other person/family may be living in them 5, 10 or 20 years from now, and having documentation that the original owner didn't cut corners when building the object reduces the "lemon market asymmetry" during the purchase process that is otherwise almost intractable.

CZ has about 78 per cent home ownership, China has 88. I am not sure whether the difference is so significant; it may reflect underlying differences in population migration (e.g. a lot of young Czechs go study to the traditional universities in Prague, Brno or Olomouc that are far from their family homes and obviously rent their rooms while there; maybe Chinese youngsters mostly study in their own city). We also have about 7 per cent of foreigners who are often transient and don't feel the need to buy any real estate; China doesn't.
> It's unlikely the panty gender gap is intentionally discriminatory. It's not clear exactly why women's undergarments are taxed at a higher rate. "The patterns seem to date back to lobbying from earlier eras," Rampell writes.

This article is intentionally being dense. Tariff schedules are completely arbitrary and entirely set by industry lobbying. Historically, the market for women's underwear was different (different stores, different manufacturers, different consumer preferences). So at some point there was a domestic women's underwear industry that intentionally sought higher tariffs on their own product.
Just shove all your information in the prompt. I assume that's what these guys are doing anyway. ChatGPT doesn't yet have any API, but you can use text-davinci-003, which does have an API and is functionally identical.

The API costs for a large prompt are quite high, and since you have to repeat it with every single query, your costs can go up very quickly.
Every meme is stupid. That’s the point.

Also, pleading is an actual part of this very common sexual dynamic. If you’re just made uncomfortable by sex that’s fine but you don’t have to turn that in to judgment of people who aren’t.
Too many chiefs.
> My hunch is the people that are truly irked by this are too deep / close to the subject and because it doesn't match up with what they've worked on, studied, invested time, mental energy into, well then of course it's hot garbage and 'bad'.

That's quite the straw man you've built. Recognizing the limitations of a technology is not the same as calling it hot garbage.

As a language model it's amazing, but I agree with the GP. It's not intelligent. It's very good at responding to a series of tokens with its own series of tokens. That requires a degree of understanding of short scale context that we haven't had before in language models. It's an amazing breakthrough.

But it's also like attributing the muscle memory of your hand to intelligence. It can solve lots of problems. It can come up with good configurations. It is not, on its own, intelligent.
Doesn't negate the point. Waste can be useful if paired with a complementary system. As I understand it, high efficiency manufacturing can be like this.
As a tangent that I found intriguing, here's some pro-union propaganda from the 40s in the USA:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gsu_mhross_8075?canvas=3&x=628&y=...

Interesting to see the Unions vs. Communism messaging.
I think I saw this the first time you wrote it. It’s genius, and I think perfectly accurate.

(Although, speaking as a consultant, we are not all like that. It is of course the big consulting companies being hired into the big-end-of-town companies. Some of us little guys really do care about our customers.)
Yes it is:

Voice Tech's patents, according to their abstract, involve "receiving audio data from [a] mobile device at the computer. The audio data is decoded into a command. A software program that the command was provided for is determined. At least one process is executed at the computer in response to the command. Output data is generated at the computer in response to executing at least one process at the computer. The output data is transmitted to the mobile device."

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/12/mycroft_patent_troll/
I did a similar thing where i had a specific "journal" chat with CGPT and gave it a biography and primed it to act like Socrates with mental health training, and counselor skills. I get it to give prompts and also ask questions that promote elaboration.

Actually journaling for the first time in my life, it is amazing when it remembers things that i have told it and is super motivational, especially since it is always available and never gets bored of me asking for advice or venting about my day.
Appreciating Design
Video from multiple locations.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJq6DcIEzM
I also though of this (prompt engineering), but I think that would hit the token limit pretty fast.
We went from HipChat to Teams and Teams is much better.
As a passenger, even if I couldn't see out the window, you'd definitely
know you weren't going "up" anymore at that rate of decent.

No, you really wouldn't. Even for the pilots spatial disorientation is a real problem and they have instruments to show which end is up.
"platform with fewer features" does not sound right, fediverse microblogging apps (there are many of them) are implemented on the rich W3C ActivityPub standard. It's not a platform, it's a huge and vibrant distributed ecosystem.

Twitter is (just) a very popular, proprietary microblogging platform.
Tyler Texas Patent Trolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XknFl1l_8
There are now three proof points across The Witcher, The Last of Us, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners that high-end adaptations enhance the gaming experience and lead to increased game sales. It'll be tough for a producer to pass up the opportunity to get paid ~10 dollars for a season + 60 dollars for a game sale.
If we take that view, we need population to fall by 40% just for house prices to not grow?
Wow, that’s… one way to make a UI.
But it took a million dollars to defend that it wasn't one patent, from one person.

Seems like a very very real reason to be horrified by software patents.
> Like workplace safety rules, they are written in the blood of the dead.

I mean this is highlighting a problem. Could the rules have a heavily annotated and multi-layered version that shows the related precedents?
Salesforce spent billions on their building in SF. Their company value is partially based on the value of this building. If the building sits empty, the value of the building, and therefore the company, will drop.

This is why they are doing this. To keep the value of their very expensive building up.
Am I too harsh for expecting that in 2023, a company actively signing up customers for a cloud-based service should have enough autoscaling so that getting to the front page of HN doesn't overload the landing page? It just doesn't give me much faith that the actual product will be stable enough to use. Especially just giving a generic 5XX error from nginx is a bad sign.

Edit: did this get manually knocked off the front page without getting flagged?
Learning Semgrep
Neat project. I find it convenient cause I'm so busy and don't have time to read.
From their website:

Chief Diversity Officer - ... responsible for guiding and scaling inclusion strategy and diversity initiatives across Twilio's global workforce

Chief People Officer - .. responsible for driving the talent development and acquisition strategy, and building infrastructure to support a thriving culture of belonging, diversity and inclusion across the company

I'm seeing some optimization opportunities here.
After this TP gets released, it looks like FF will be the only outlier[1]

[1] https://caniuse.com/declarative-shadow-dom
> Things like having chats for Meets and sharing documents in a chat then get integrated into Drive are things that Teams does well and last I saw Google still kind of didn't have a fully-baked solution, at least at the time.

I'm not sure what quality of integration Teams has - but Chat has had this integration for several months now.
Do rights and autonomy make people happy? Lots of research shows that the happiest people in the country are conservative women: https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-are-liberals-less-happy-than-...

Indeed, the past 30 years has seen a consistent expansion of rights and autonomy and relaxation of social rules, and happiness has been declining pretty consistently the whole time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/22/americans...

It's also the case that happiness among women has been declining since 1970: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w14969/w149.....
A "call sales only" service can reflect that the company hasn't had time to build a signup flow, or it can reflect a reasoned decision that a large number of low-usage customers won't be helpful for the bottom line. Depending on your infrastructure and the level of support you want to offer, it's easy for small customers to cost more money than you'll ever make from them.
> secondly, a common consulting practice is to re-sell successful projects to other clients. Obviously not the exact IP, but the experience and general approach. This can be invaluable.

This is basically our business model, combined with a B2B product that supports it. We have developed a very good recipe for a few clients and are now applying it everywhere.

Today, about 80% of our business is a consulting package. The 20% technology setup piece comes after we figure out how to conform the customer to our capabilities.
What makes me very angry about Google Meet is that you can't configure it so that guests can just join without asking.

This means if you have a meeting with a lot of people, you constantly have to babysit the "Someone is asking to join" box, as people come in late.

Also, this box has got to be the worst UI design I've seen in a while, since it even blocks yourself from muting/unmuting yourself and disabling the camera, until you make a decision about whether you want to admit the person.
Sure it can. Missile guidance systems fit on a tiny missile, but you can’t just get one.

The controlled parlor game is there to seed acceptance. Once someone is able to train a similar model with something like the leaked State Department cables or classified information we’ll see the risk and the legislation will follow.
There is something about the language and/or community that leads folks to build their own X instead of collaborating on a common open-source version of X.

Perhaps the lisp learning curve is high enough to dissuade those who want to contribute to a project but don't yet know Clojure?
The exact example from your post doesn’t work for me. Which is often my experience with this kind of posts. I’m not sure if that’s because some preliminary work is needed or it’s because they’re constantly updating the model.
Still struggling from this famous fallout:

https://librearts.org/2012/01/whats-up-with-dwg-adoption-in-...

I'm the maintainer, the FSF owns the code, and I'm very fine that it's GPLv3. Others not so, but we don't care. GPLv3 is the only possibility.
The missing piece seems to be that for certain questions it doesn't make sense to extrapolate, and that if it's a question about what will happen in the future, it should answer in a different manner (and from my own interactions with ChatGPT it does exactly that, frequently referring to the cut-off time of its training data).
I'm honestly shocked no one has openly laughed themselves silly at the idea of "personalized domains" for a site openly engaging in piracy... because surely that wouldn't be a way to build a stronger case against individual users engaged in piracy, riiiiiight?
> Why were the people living in that house so greedy that they cheeped out on buying/renting housing?

Can you please point out in the article where it states these occupants knowingly purchased/rented a structurally compromised home? Because the article I read does not state this.

Don't say foolish things before reading the article.
You're only there because there's been no visible effect of whether you look at your wrist or not.
The entire 3D indie game development is going to be revolutionized. This is feels like we are just starting with something that was never seen before. The quality is just good enough at current stage. It will most likely improve over future iterations.
> A few clicks in Cloudflare could have easily prevented this.

In my experience, this is surprisingly harder to achieve in practice than it sounds. I've had to spend quite a lot of time figuring out CloudFlare's arcane composition of page rules that would prevent a simple web site's denial of service by a simple netcat command.
Honestly the entire patent system should be thrown out / winded down. Nothing but dead weight, especially when huge countries like China completely ignore them.

We can find other ways to finance "innovation".
Here are some ways you could rank devices:

Open API with documentation?

Open Source Firmware that can be deployed and updated by the user.

Open Source hardware specification (think RISC V)

Does this device produce data in an open format or standard?

Does the device send data to the manufacturer or third parties?

Does this device depend on cloud infrastructure the end user cannot control or replace with their own?

Does this device require you to install a mobile app to configure or manage it?

Can the device be repaired or upgraded?

What is the typical support lifetime by the manufacturer for software updates?

What is the MTBF?

Does the device have a secure supply chain?

Are cad files available to support modding and repair?
There it is right there. I'm not saying it's correct to do this, but this is the long and short of what's going on here. To get the big fish you have to sometimes sell at cost, because their name draws in the small orbiter fish who want to be big fish some day. If every small fish started demanding big fish rates, the entire thing stops. In a way this is emblematic of class privilege and wealth disparity issues at the moment.
> one major company to say "screw this, lets offer wfh and reap the rewards" and then they win the title of best company to work in that sector and well qualified candidates are leaping from the curmudgeony competition right to them

Silicon Valley has a habit of taking every discussion and injecting it with religious zeal. Not everyone wants WFH. Not everyone wants in-office, or even hybrid. There are team dynamics unique to each configuration, with the relative costs and benefits depending on context. Beyond that, there's a spectrum of options, from remote-only to in-office only, to RTO on fixed days a week to RTO a couple times a year.
Training a custom chatbot is easy. Having it reliably retrieve the data you want is hard. For any given question, you can get it to look at a maximum of 4k tokens (16k characters, or 3k or so words). So when you want your chatbot to have access to a LOT of data, you usually end up having to work around that - typically by:

1. chunking up your documents into ~2k word chunks,
2. and then getting the query, doing a search using that query, and getting the top N results back,
3. running the prompt on each result, and then
4. gradually combining the results of each run of the prompt.

Each step is a little lossy, and there are quite a few steps there, so the bigger the corpus gets, the lossier/less useful your bot is.

Now that being said, there are ways to improve that, but for now at least, its unlikely that a single slackbot is going to solve all your knowledge management problems for you.
> "I am handicapped in the looks department" is pretty depressing.

Conversely (and as you hinted at), "I'm only liked for my looks," illustrates the double-bind at play. Yes, it's difficult to shift societal norms but I encourage folks to ask themselves, "Which other norms shifted in the last hundred years?" and how that was accomplished.
I'm currently suffering from a serious case of distrust and cynicism over anything related to medical health news, I wonder if this is widespread? The very first thing that popped into my head reading this was, "Probably just a another coordinated marketing campaign by pharmaceutical interests aimed at increasing the prescription of anti-depressants to teenagers", and the data from the CDC also made me uneasy:

> "The Youth Risk Behavior Survey was given to 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021. The survey is conducted every two years, and the rates of mental health problems have gone up with every report since 2011, Dr. Ethier said."

Is this really enough data to come to any solid conclusions? What's the seasonal spread, for example, do you get big differences if you run the survey in June or July? What's the socioeconomic spread on the data? Are there major differences in reporting between boys and girls? Can this be accepted as a real trend with any confidence? I just don't know about this stuff anymore.