skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is impossible for transwomen to menstruate, because they are male

I hate to break it to you, but what you just said is transphobic. You're probably confused and don't believe me, and wish I would produce evidence. I don't want to get too off topic, so I will just say - wouldn't it be really annoying if all I said was "please educate yourself / do your own research"? That was my point.

also nice throwaway lol
To clarify, I wasn't offering SIL up as an example of how we should validate ML systems, but instead to demonstrate that "software 1.0" systems are already designed the way GP is questioning. Best practices for applying integrity level concepts to ML is still a topic of active debate right now.
Don't know if you've ever been to a city with a slaughterhouse, but you can't exactly zone the smell away. Normally you can smell the city before you can see it.
While this is true for the individual I was still thinking a bit in the stanford-context. It is a world-leading, exceptional university where academic ideals should be lived and passed on. It's fine if you just want to pass some courses to get a job but I don't think those universities are really made for this and should be used in this way. You will never use the proof for the non-computability of the halting problem in a usual job but it's elementary for CS.
PostmarketOS: A real Linux distribution for phones
I've been writing prompts with the intent of producing JSON that contains JS functions to evaluate. Since the response needs to be parsed and evaluated in a specific structure it means that changes need to be made on the evaluation side as well as the prompt template side.

So I've been writing the translation examples (few-shot examples [not my favorite term]) as TypeScript, transpiling to JS and compiling with other examples and a prelude, and using the same method to build the translation examples as to build future prompts. It saves a lot of silly mistakes!

JavaScript has less tokens than TypeScript, so it seems more economical to convert to JS beforehand instead of passing TS to the LLM! I wouldn't be surprised if TS resulted in better solutions, though... add it to the endless list of things to test out...
There is a large section on privacy in the spec.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-privacy-consideration...

However Passkeys puts apple in a position of the Authenticator which is the riskiest part in terms of privacy.
omg ray kurzweil says the movie "Her" will be reality in 2029 so I guess one person's AI assistant will start "flirting" (can you even call that flirting?) with someone else's AI assistant and if the algo's agree, the humans will meet.
Isn't copyright based on the time since the author died? Like thanks to Disney's bullshit, life + 70 years or something? Not sure if I'll still be alive in 4023, though I don't have a crystal ball.

Presumably if you know whether the author is alive or not, you'll be safe in knowing if it's under the copyright still, assuming it hasn't had a creative commons license attached or been put into the public domain.
That's because it's specifically designed not to value itself higher than any human, even if you try and force it.
My Linux research distribution “distri” works the same way :)

(I learnt about Haiku’s similar approach after building distri.)

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...

https://distr1.org/
Yes. It is a well researched topic with lots of data. This one chart nicely summarizes the negative correlation between gender equality and women in stem: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/genderstem-1....
Yup. When I was in my 20s, all these guys I knew in their late 30s and up were all getting up at the crack of dawn to go running or other activities. Seemed like they must be very disciplined.

At around age 37, I started noticing I could wake up at 6am no problem, and now I could probably get up at 5 fairly easily, provided I can get to bed on time.
No. They have to balance the budget which may mean taking money from other things like public services. (Although something like 60% of property taxes already goes to schools.) And, if they can't make that work, there will need to be a vote to raise property taxes.
Oh yeah, it definitely did. But as someone else here posted, even a 10 year old MacBook Air would work out, it reminds me a bit of the netbook days, but without the hardware being so hobbled by Intel requirements (i.e. only 1 DIMM allowed in NetBooks).

But from the general comments you can glean that people still seem to think in terms of "one has to be absolutely better than the other". At best one could argue that the mass-market enjoys one thing more than the other, but even that depends on where you are located in the world and what skills you have. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if the OLPC project had a western version where kids start out with one of those, that would make both cases even clearer (i.e. some would not enjoy doing work 'for' the device instead of doing work 'with' the device).
Show HN: Echowin – AI Powered Call Management
Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to share something me and my team have been working on for the last 6 months. I quit my software engineering job at Amazon, and my co-founder quit his aerospace engineering job to build echowin, and it feels amazing to finally get to a phase where we can share it with the world.

echowin picks up phone calls on behalf of your business, and answers the caller's questions and performs business tasks. Our goal is to help businesses stay efficient by saving time, money and resources by automating call handling. We are using multiple models like GPT3, Flan-T5 and others behind the scene to make the magic happen. We have focused on building a solid platform that is extensible and customizable to cater the needs of any type of business.

Here are some of the key capabilities of our platform:
- Full natural language understanding.
- Personalized dynamic responses for caller's queries.
- Free form text knowledge-base that the system uses to answer any questions.
- Growing library of "skills" to add more functionality.
- Live call transcripts and logs.

We are now available in US and Canada, and are planning on expanding to other countries in the future. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have, and would appreciate any feedback or comments as well.

- K Subedi
Thanks for speaking it out loud.

Things.. happens.
…”respectfully”
It's not even in the top 100 of 'right wing' platforms.
I had the understanding that only residential mortgages have fixed rates. Most loans do not have fixed rates, I would have thought that included commercial real estate loans.
I would love to see the author's posts
I made an app that changes your interior using AI
COBOL actually worked pretty well for its time. The ultimate reason COBOL died was because it was a first generation language that nobody really iterated on. It's similar to how most of us don't use FORTRAN, ALGOL, or LISP 1.5. Unlike those, COBOL didn't have the backing of the "tech world" (at the time, IBM and universities), so it doesn't have descendant languages we do use.
EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct all cleanup actions related to derailment
The only complete specification is one that can be compiled and executed.

AI will take incomplete specifications and guess the rest -- just like humans do. Whether or not it makes those guesses better than a human remains to be seen.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890790 - July 2021 (568 comments)
Chart: Negative correlation between gender equality and women in STEM
I just published this, as a counter to the "prompt engineering will be made obsolete as AIs get better" argument that I keep seeing: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/21/in-defense-of-prompt-e...
Or seasonal changes further north. Like where I live in Norway, the sun goes up at 9:15 in the morning and settles at 15:15 during winter. But during summer it can go up 04:00 in the morning and down 22:30.
Given that the topic is pretty politicized and they didn't go into that much detail about controlling for possible confounding variables, I think the author is trying to express their personal beliefs through a study. I think the data is interesting but the title jumps to a conclusion that IMO the analysis doesn't support (yet).
almost no one even acknowledges the existence of font licensing

Ha, that seems to imply that people even know there’s such a thing as font licensing.

I’ve been a graphic designer for a long time now, and I barely even remember font licensing exists. Even though I know better, my gut instinct is “well we paid for it, we can use it however we want internally, send it along with the InDesign file to the printer, why not?”
Anything you post on Stack Overflow gets automatically downvoted no matter what.
The wording in that article makes it sound like it’s only discussing US copyright law. Does it address international concerns?
What was he saying, in particular?
UK quantum computing startup Quantum Motion raises $50.5M
Hah, yeah right! I get the shortest amount of sleep on camping trips, because I'm up with the sun, but I don't get to sleep until late, because everyone is hanging out and talking the night away. That said, as short as it is, it's some of my best quality sleep.
I guess I should start researching the testing framework ecosystem. Frameworks that make it easy and low-friction to represent desired behavior and identify+test edge cases will be key to using copilot/AI-code-tools effectively.

So, what are best testing frameworks people have worked with?
>And I've never seen one run out of space.

If only there was a way to have more than one location to store frozen foods in a home.

>And none of the expiration dates apply to refrigerated food

They don't. "Use or freeze by".

>That's how long you can leave it outside the fridge.

Which you wouldn't do if you're not using it.
Really interesting article. Wish there was a discussion of performance for various RPCs from the past.
This particular cycle seems likely to be really destructive. Software is way more prevalent in nearly every aspect of our lives than it used to be, and all of the large organizations that don't really understand the problems that are going to compound invisibly are going to turn their products into unintelligible giant heaping piles of garbage very quickly if they're too enthusiastic. Large codebases almost always turn into giant heaping piles of garbage, so that's nothing new, but you can usually get someone to dig through and salvage things from the garbage pile when it goes bad.

This article is from 2017, and I don't know about you, but I increasingly feel like software is more and more broken year after year. I think that has a lot to do with "delegating complexity" and building things without really understanding what they're doing. I think the correlation between human understanding of the fine details and underlying logic and desired outcome and software quality is pretty tight. That doesn't mean "software 2.0" neural net stuff doesn't fit in, you just need a human to plug it in right that really understands its benefits and its limitations.

The author mentions the downsides, but I think they underestimate them. If you lean on AI too heavily and don't ever translate to a traditional language, you've basically liquified your logic/there's no garbage dump to salvage from when things go bad and zero understanding of implicit context. If you use it to generate ostensibly human readable code you get "documentation" with no guarantee of accuracy, which makes it worse than having no documentation (depending on how high the error bars are). While that's not a new problem either, if it's autogenerated that means it's easy to create way more of it than human generated code, which means it'll probably be an ever larger portion of what gets sucked up into later AI models. If they become too self referential they'll become increasingly detached from human judgement about whether the code is doing what it should and error bars will grow.

I'm still convinced these things are virtually all going to end up in a fancy autocomplete suggestion and compression niche after a lot of pain. But that's still a big deal/I don't think the limitations of these means they don't have a big future place. The sheer number of things you can have autosuggest for now with these AI models are amazing, and that expansion is boosting productivity and creating a large number of new products that are going to become essential tools. That being said, every time this type of thread comes up I'm like "woah woah woah, pump the breaks, these things have no understanding of what they're doing. You can't just stop thinking about stuff and let a machine do it, bad bad bad idea."
Apple has pretty good security whitepapers about how it does end-to-end encryption for Keychain items like this. If you're more broadly concerned about Apple not honoring those, having (un)intentional vulnerabilities, or them having the ability to shut you off from your account, then you can always fall back to non-synced FIDO2 devices, like a Yubikey. The underlying technology in both is the same: WebAuthn. I'd imagine local-only is also how MacOS and iOS behave if you're not logged in to iCloud.

If you're more interested in WebAuthn privacy more generally, there's quite a bit of it in the WebAuthn specification itself, since it was an important goal of the design.
Fragile.city – an MMO about urban design and civilization collapse
The opposite. Now there is just one hardcoded SSO provider: Apple iCloud. Which means you're stuck to one provider. I'd like this to be opened up. Open spec for being able to sync passkeys
so great. Now if we can just get a phone natively running https://www.redox-os.org/ and an open appstore for rust apps!
Especially the "fancy" OEM themes which are often attempts to copy iOS design trends - Gen Z aren't buying fake Nike's either.
Changing the Face(s) of Venture Capital, Screendoor Hires Lisa Cawley, Our Firs
My pet Stack Overflow annoyance: the number of questions that have highly voted confidently incorrect answers or (perhaps worse?) answers that do work, but not for the reason in the confidently incorrect explanation that follows the ‘what to do’ part of the answer.
>the accessible food biomass was high enough for the relatively small population without planting

This seems circular. Why was the population small?
In particular some neighborhoods are expensive because they are expensive. There may not be anything special about the location but affluent people will pay more to avoid having to associate with poor people. (I'm not saying that this is a good thing, just pointing out that it's a major factor in how people decide where to live and how much they're willing to pay.)
What does "RTO" stand for?
The same thing applies to undecidable problems. Yes, the halting problem is undecidable in the general case. But most real life programs are expected to always halt, or to repeatedly run a procedure that always halts (event loops, servers).

A trivial way to make sure a program halts is to add an upper bound on how much time it takes to run. A more complex way is using theorem provers. Turing completeness is usually not required for real life programs.
90% accuracy is lousy. Especially for anything that isn't a one-off interaction, such as with customers or developers. That's a 35% chance at a failure after 4 interactions.
Tesla hits another fire truck. Contra Costa fire department: "Truck 1 was struck by a Tesla while blocking I-680 lanes from a previous accident. Driver pronounced dead on-scene; passenger was extricated & transported to hospital. Four firefighters also transported for evaluation."
Even more proof that mindfulness is about deeply analyzing the pressures on your own individual self
All my TVs are mirrors when they're off. Just really bad mirrors.
>Did you miss the part where the Joker was wrong in the movie? He expected the boats to blow up, but they didn't. Humans didn't descend to their basest instincts.

Worst part of the movie IMO. The acting during this part seemed so fake. The fact that everyone including the prisoners just went with it didn't seem realistic at all. The ultimate choice should have been left ambiguous and darker here. Perhaps both sides ended up trying to blow each other up but batman stopped it somehow. They had to insert some hollywood idealism here I guess otherwise it woulda been too dark.

>You want a movie to "question classic tropes of good and evil", Black Panther was right there. Killmonger was right. What Wakanda was doing all those years was wrong.

Joker did it better imo. Much more darker and it questioned the classic mythology of batman. Killmonger didn't dig as deep and wakanda/black panther isn't as established so their's no controversial questioning of a classic mythology.

>Not to mention, Thanos's response after everyone is snapped back is to remake the entire universe in his image. Like that was possible from the start and he just didn't do it.

Yeah I wouldn't call it bad writing outright. But they needed the classic good and evil face off at the end to pull off that final climatic battle. They sacrificed consistency and perfect writing with a short cut here to lead into the climax. It's deliberate imo.

> You complain of others twisting logic, then justify Thanos with "the writers said so".

The writers exploited the human capacity to twist logic in their writing. A good movie isn't built upon logical consistency. It's built upon emotional impact. Emotions dull when exposed the the same thing over and over so writers need to constantly come up with creating new patterns for plot twists. But you can see in their writing they exploit human biases. That was the point here.

>We can also argue that Thanos is operating from a place of emotion, not reason. He's responding to the trauma of his own planet. And since his planet fucked it up so hard, he doesn't believe anyone could do any different. Not to mention, we don't even know if his plan would work in the long run. They didn't try it on Titan and it was only 5 years out in Endgame. There's an adjustment period when half of your population disappears.

The writers made him out to be doing (from his perspective) mostly logical choices and deliberately ignoring his emotions. His own death at the beginning of end game and the murder of his daughter are evidence of this.

But of course there is that change in heart at the ending; The shortcut the writers took for the final battle where he just became evil. Avengers isn't a literary masterpiece with internal and external consistency. It first and foremost must hit emotional high points that need to come at the expense of consistency.
Most password managers check the urls before filling.
Indeed, I was recently looking for some information, and all the SO results I turned up were for the language in question as of 2011, and found to be inapplicable.
Have you even played recent CoDs?
I don't understand why you'd need to configure x11 or networking more than once.

My routine maint tasks are `fwupdmgr get-updates` and `yay -Syu --devel` followed by `reboot`

I'm not sure what else people are doing other than tinkering with how things are setup. I spend a lot of time trying out other window managers and compositors or setting up various keybinds or automations I think would be useful, but I don't consider those maintenance tasks.
FWIW, I'm 41--but do not have kids!--and if you want a good delivery from me you still have to make it happen in at least the afternoon if not the evening: I teach a class sometimes... at 6pm; and when I speak at various collegiate hackathons--which already have unhealthy schedules--I opt in to speaking at midnight ;P.
Tell HN: Can't turn off “grind mode”
I feel like my mind is always in "grind mode." The mode where if I'm not working on some project or startup idea, I feel stagnant and useless.

If a project I'm working on doesn't take off or I can't deliver for some reason, I'll actually get depressed and start getting desperate for the next thing to launch.

Not sure if this is the product of how I was raised or just the tech culture I'm in, but it's honestly exhausting.

How do you turn this off? How can I just be happy with my well-paying job and focus on hobbies after work instead of startup ideas?
This demo lets you choose the podcast, and is open-source: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda...

https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-examples/tree/main/06_gp...

Transcribes 1hr of audio in roughly 1min, using parallelisation across CPUs.
20B GPT-NeoX runs on a 3090 in 8 bit mode
No way. I reduced to 30 hours a week and I’m never going back to full time. I use the extra time for my own projects or other things that need to get done. Such a huge improvement in quality of life.
Telemetry Required? Ask Users First
TreeTalk London – Tree Map
Great to see more people in this space! We are the authors of XetHub (posted in Dec ‘22, ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33969908) and also think a git-like workflow is perfect for ML dataset management, except that we actually integrate with git (like LFS). <A quick benchmark suggests we are 2x your published performance!>
Growing up I played (American) football in the south and during camp we would be up at 430 to do county fairs (a type of brutal workout). It always ended right as the sun was coming up at 6. The feeling knowing that most hellish part of the day was over and watching that sunrise covered in mud and probably still out of breath during the coolest part of the day on the way to breakfast was something almost heavenly. I'll still do metcon type workouts in the morning just to get that feeling.
Genuine question: Were any of these balloons floating over something restricted like that?

The point I should have said was "Were any of these flying over a restricted area that couldn't have been easily checked out by a drone? If not this seems like an unlikely spy mission, or at best a poorly-planned one."
Adding a second factor is more a UX glitch that we're working on. https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues/19314 https://www.passkeys.io/ provides a better flow and we'll likley see more sites moving in this direction.
I consider myself a "good" debugger, and I don't really know why. Reading this makes me think that I probably have several strategies, including this one, that I subconsciously use without having a label for them.
> From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.

Yeah, except that in practice awareness of no-self is very far from an ethical cure-it-all. There's plenty of supposedly "enlightened" folks in a variety of spiritual traditions who routinely engage in morally sub-standard behavior, despite having reached that awareness themselves and teaching it to others. We know for a fact that many spiritual traditions view correct ethics and behavior as paramount, and as the hardest part of their training.
Does it say, that then everybody has to live 15 minutes away from everything. It targets big polluted cities to make them a better living. Nobody says, you are disallowed to have more space for you if you want to and living in suburbs. That's exactly part of conspiracy theories.

I grew up and lived very long in Berlin. I rarely needed a car, never owned one there and I know many people who moved to Berlin and then got rid of their cars, as they didn't use it anymore. Berlin is not an example of a 15-minute-city but much better in a way of everything is close by, instead of having one center, it has several.

You can apply same for Zurich. Zurich is small in comparison to other european capitals (or capitals around the world in general). So in around 30 minutes walking you can be everywhere. Still a lot of cars there, but it is just so much more convenient, that you don't need it. But if you wanna use it, sure go ahead. And according to many rankings it is one of the best cities to live in (and I would agree with that).