skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a downside if the password is a 100 characters-long string?
Python lets you write unsafe code. https://wiki.python.org/moin/CrashingPython

Does that mean it's no safer than C++?
Yes I pronounced it „Kache“. Didn‘t know better ;)
Is it possible that what you have been working on over the last six weeks became more specialized / less generalized and common? Did you start out with a prototype and then move later into pinned dependencies? Had you attempted using the Walrus earlier or just recently?

My contention, which I covered in this video below here, is that due to the underlying statistical sampling problems inherent in RLHF transformers, LLM's perform poorly in edge cases, which, depending on the application or language, the margin of that edge can be super wide.

Here's a video I created about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmIol4mnLo

I didn't cover this yet but there are these things called, "scaling laws," which basically state the amount of raw text needed for a LLM with of a particular size of parameters. So my current mental model is that these, "laws," are really economic rules of thumb, like Moore's law is actually Moore's Rule of Thumb, and there is a huge expense in sampling clean data, hence the need for RLHF.

More about RLHF if not familiar with that term yet: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
> in any real sense

I would be sure that if Tim Follin decided to just use that, he would have "made full sense" (cpr. "Agent X" and "Chronos", ZX Spectrum).
Sounds above my (current) head.

Here I thought GCM was some modern foolproof/footgunless design.
lol. It's only a matter of time!
The open source ecosystem, especially JS, is a royal shitshow.

People pull inn hundreds of dependencies from all over the place and expect other people to maintain them for free.

Those people argue the "free" means free as in free beer. Because, who wouldn't like free beer? (hint: it's the guy who has to buy the beer for everyone to drink for free).

Free software is just software with freedom, just you are (hopefully) a free individual.

Of course there might be individuals or organizations that have interests in keeping that software maintained and that's a different thing.
I'm not sure to what extent this is true but here's an anecdote.

The other day I was at the local climbing gym where they have a "Moonboard"-clone - basically a spraywall with LEDs so you can program different boulder problems by selecting holds and having their LEDs light up to indicate which are part of the problem.

The application to control it is a web app. It didn't work for me on Safari, but it did on Firefox.

I thought it could be some difference in configuration but another iOS user confirmed it worked for him on Firefox but not Safari on his phone either.
A simple solution that makes language more precise would just keep tall and thin, and then untall and unthin could be used. Adding "plus" could be used to indicate if someone was superlatively unthin
Then what represents your 'real' thoughts? I have a feeling your response will be attemong to define why some forms of thought are more pure than others with no facts to back it up.
I'm fine with "service providers" essentially similar to FM radio stations (in addition to actual radio stations, FM or otherwise) doing some discovery for me because the good people at Soma FM and WFMU and KFGM and KBGA know more about their music than I do, and their brains aren't driven by an algorithm aiming at getting me more like what I've already heard. This doesn't have to be human-curated, even, as long as the algorithm behind the selection is not tailored to me.
Swiss turning is ideal for this, on a Swiss turning lathe the headstock moves rather than the tool, which improves accuracy.
This is terrible. You cannot have Dahl without his irascible self. It's one key reason why he is so loved. There's a certain honesty in calling a character a 'fat old gnome' that appeals to children. Mrs. Sponge will always be 'the fat one'.
Because his comment is basically "Open offices are great! Not for work I mean."
It seems SAPI might be removed from the latest versions of windows. It was pretty simple to use in VB6 in pure dictation mode or you could even load a dictionary of listen words for even higher false positives. Any replacements that anyone is aware of for offline dictation / dictionary?
Actually they are removing the ability to use SMS for 2FA for non-paying accounts. SMS is not a great 2FA method but I'm not sure that removing it completely is the best solution. Then again, Twitter does have other 2FA methods, right?
Similarly, cell lines are known to have variations and make replication difficult, especially after a few passages at the lab. FBS also being essential to media but being notoriously difficult to standardize makes things even trickier.
No? The submission was for a blog post from 2 days ago by AdGuard, and now you've made it into a blog post by Mozilla from last year. That's a pretty extreme change. The Mozilla blog post gives some background, so why not just post that link instead of changing the whole submission?

This was a mistake, dang. Not to mention it doesn't have (2022). Which it didn't need, before you changed the link.

The AdGuard blog post has details that the Mozilla post doesn't, such as a specific discussion about ad blocking, as well as recent developments in Chrome's deprecation timeline.
if this is horrifying, perhaps you should go touch some grass man. A decent security take is not a horror show when you can get even hobby stuff of your own signed fairly trivially.
The current systems like chatGPT actually have just such two parts. One is the raw LLM as you describe. The second one is another network acting as a filter on top of the first one. To be more precise, that second part is the process of finetuning with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). It trains a reward model to say if the first one was good or bad. Currently it's done very similarly to standard supervised learning (with human labelling) to say if the first model behaved good or bad, aligned or not with 'our' values.

Anyway, while I remain sceptical about the roles of these in-flesh hemispheres, the artificial chatGPT-like systems indeed do have such left and right parts
This author equates personhood with text. He makes some interesting arguments and observations but I think he is confusing personality with personhood.

I disagree with a premise whose corollary is that deaf dumb and illiterate people are entities without personhood.
interesting, what are your use cases?
Pretty cool, but my advice to anyone is still "stop using tabs, you os already have a window manager"
I know that before I was born, the million years previous went by like nothing from my perspective.
POSIX is a corporate standard.

Community standards are usually not formalized.
Well, we are providing the environment to the chat - the text we submit is its "environment". Generating the response is "acting". Or are you arguing that it would need to be able to influence physical environment?
>Before DRM, this process was solved very easily by copying over files.

Before Steam, the game would just yell you to insert the CD after you copied over the files.
Maybe that's why Elixir never gained real traction.
Yes but competition between sellers in most niches is so tight that as a new seller you'll struggle to make profit, even if you've innovated on the product, because you'll be paying Amazon for search engine ads and also dropping your price as far as you can to win sales. You essentially end up as an unpaid employee of Amazon, managing and optimizing a listing.
I stopped using which some time ago because while it worked fine to bootstrap Debian based distros I found out it wasn't included in arch. Since then I always default to command -v. I don't see the problem, it already wasn't portable and as can be seen in this thread including it gives the false impression that it was.
> he had 2 magical years but even someone like KD was way more significant during that era

Everybody that knows anything about Basketball stats would disagree.

Plus, Curry has won 2 titles without KD, and in neither of those runs did he have a Top player with him, like Lebron had with AD and Wade.
The Harry Potter novels can create the Harry Potter model, an agent with real interactions with humans. Agents might get some rights, it's conceivable in the future.
You definitely need to be good at lying, so on some level we have a meritocracy.
Or better, Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata.
Descent gave me extreme anxiety when it was time to escape the level. Such a well constructed game.
> Linked lists have real performance benefits in some applications.

Maybe in 0.01% of the cases. In reality they just ruin your cache and memory allocator performance for no real good reason.
I mean, the same is true for C++. If some C++ library you use employs GC, you can’t abstract that away either. The actual difference is how frequent such libraries are in the respective ecosystem.
You can always put an index.html to prevent that mistake.
Which in turn has inspired the creation of PrivacyProtect [0]. It allows to do basically the same thing as the other applications, but in my opinion the interface is better, it also allows you to directly select a file which I guess is easier than copying the contents, it also means you can just select an image file for instance or some other type of file other than a web page.

[0]: https://www.privacyprotect.dev/
After work or after lunch?
> Not all adults are quiet, in fact some are louder than children!

This is very rarely true in a restaurant. Young children also don't sit still for a whole meal.
Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs

It's really good, and use it a lot of times. Doesn't seem to be an active project anymore though but it still works
This only describes one model of selling on Amazon i.e. as a vendor. The vast majority of sellers are not vendors and manage their own inventory quantities. The way the system qorks changed several times over the years, and was notably very constrained during COVID, but these days Amazon just provides a recommended qty per sku and an overall hard limit on total square footage each seller can use. The limit is determined by sales volume, so higher volume sellers get more space. If product doesn't move, the seller pays storage fees and eventually (more expensive) long term storage fees.
> “while disinflation is happening, we’re still seeing modest inflation”

The inflation we're still seeing is severe, not modest.
This is because the data is fundamentally and inextricably embedded with anti-social sentiments[1]: language embedded with sentiments reflecting competition and fear rather than cooperation and mutual aid sentiments.

All that nightmare data (which we generate, look I'm doing it now), is a reflection of the joys and traumas of people writing it, and if the majority of the NLP chat data is anti-social then there is no possible other outcome.

You cannot fix this with more "filtering" as the data is embedded in almost all written text. You have to change the sentiment.

[1]https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2016/projects/cs224w-...
I agree that they shouldn't have removed it, it's up for rational thinking human beings of all ages to confront the reality of the past even if we don't like them. It's how we learn and grow (also like a kid would actually understand or conflate them in this modern time).

But to answer your question, I assume it's because Rudyard Kipling wrote "The White Man's Burden" (1899). It drives people apoplectic, although anyone with any history knowledge would realize that post wwI the Japanese applied an even stricter interpretation of this philosophy to Micronesia (obviously the white part wasn't the important part.
I mean ... At that point you could just include a caching/proxy layer at your router.
He has 4 titles. 2 he achieved with no other Superstar on his team. That's the same amount of titles Lebron has.

And on avg, its hard to argue that Lebron has not had the better team. Lebron moved from one team to another always engineering situations to get the best possible team mates. Lebron has played with more high level team mates then basically anybody in NBA history (outside of maybe Kyrie).
> It is absurd, sorry you are missing that.

All you can say is that it's wrong or absurd, but you don't give any reasoning for it.

Why is banning children from restaurants absurd, but not from bars or most weddings?
But that AI just lives for a single conversation. Then you refresh and now it is dead, instead you get to interact with a new AI and see it birth and then die a few seconds/minute slater.

There is so little there that it is hard to say much at all about it.
Or widening of the peak. If one type Ia supernova goes 1,2,3,2,1, the sum of two could go

1+0=1
2+1=3
3+2=5
2+3=5
1+2=3
0+1=1
If a tool's threat model never considered having network input in the first place, that tool would seem deficient in most every real-world situation.

I do not per se see a problem with "network input" but I think you're referring to input from untrusted sources, i.e. input that is not controlled or approved by the user of the tools.

I think that a modern operating system must definitely have access controls that can flag and signal when input is untrusted, wherever the source may be, network, keyboard, USB stick, camera, whatever. If the input is from a network source such as el rando website, then an AAA-layer service can block, flag, log, and handle an exception, rather than forcing every tool and every application to track the provenance of every byte of input. Don't you think?
Because many of the most successful sellers either own dozens of products, and have spent years optimizing their listings and winning the trust of the algorithm, or are direct fronts for Chinese manufacturers, who don't have the cost of the middleman. In either position, selling at volume on Amazon is profitable, and the eyeballs are there.
Ah I hadn't considered it would be too large to be held like that, thanks for the heads up
Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased
Twitter just made me disable my SMS 2FA setting, reserving the feature for twitter blue users.
It's a weird decision on their part, they still allow me to use an MFA application or a hw key, just not SMS.
SMS 2fa is understood to be the least secure form of MFA so I am surprised Twitter only reserves it for their twitter blue users.
Can you elaborate on your experience? There's a lot of negative D opinions from people who've barely used it and, for obvious self-selection reasons, a lot of positive ones from long term true believers. It would be interesting to see a negative experience from someone who used it extensively nonetheless.
> ... since everyone has been burned by a FF restart that, for unknown reasons, fails to restore tabs even when configured properly to do so.

I've actually had this several times with Chrome, but never with Firefox. The major point of me moving to FF actually was when Chrome lost 50 Tabs once again.
Correct, but to be more precise, both Typescript and Flow allow for both JSDoc and the more common TS-like syntax.
"Free as in beer" is funny because it's basically open core. You pay for the sandwiches.
Rehab and jail won't teach them to pay bills and prepare dinner, will it? There's a basic nurturing element missing in all this.
Film 'Tetris' Recounts 'Unbelievable Story' Behind Video Game
Doom on a Pentium 4? Seems like a massive overkill

Also can’t believe P4 was just 7 years after the release of Pentium, with Pentium Pro between them.
You’d have a point if the status quo had changed since the introduction of the MAS, but it hasn’t. As explained in other threads, in order to offer the same functionality, Apple would need to implement tighter controls, similar to those found in iOS; you yourself have complained about these restrictions, and we'd hear the same trite iOSification nonsense, or someone blathering about user freedom, when what they really mean is freedom for developers to fuck with other peoples machines. So this appears to be yet another shitty stick with which to beat Apple, especially given that it is really no better anywhere else on the desktop.
don't we have this in the standard library now with go 1.20? errors.Join() or multiple ℅w directives in a fmt.Errorf()
> Also, popularity is a signal that there is real value in what you are doing.

Now apply that to your first paragraph?
Which peers? Connected how?

Sounds simple, but number of cases where this would happen is likely pretty low.
Firefox is very good on macOS these days. Very low memory and CPU footprint, great battery life.

I haven't run numbers but it feels similar to Safari in that I can use it pretty much all day without reaching for the charger - that is, unless I'm doing a lot of video confs.
Very little by way of arguments for why these chat bots are or aren't sentient. This article has an assumed point of view (current AI bots aren't sentient) and then describes & judges user's reactions to chat bots in light of that. I don't think it adds very much new to the societal conversation.
PrivacyProtect – Securely share and store passwords and sensitive files
> you can not have both competition in the browser market, and every browser being the exact same all the time...

Are you claiming that there can't be such a thing as web standards? HTML?

Why would an extension standard be any different from an HTML standard?
I once worked on a platform producing analytics using data that, at its source, was manually typed in by people.

My product managers would insist we do distinct counts on the aggregates instead of using probabilistic algorithms, because we "needed" the absolute 100% accurate output. No matter how many times I would explain the data was never 100% accurate to begin with and that the error rate using HyperLogLog wouldn't make an ounce of difference, we never were allowed to do that. As a consequence the performance of the system when doing distinct counts on interactive queries was about 100x worse. This didn't seem to bother anyone. I never understood why.
I basically said as much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850130

Though, I'm not sure you could even have a precise GC for C++ even if you wanted to, given the way most C++ is written.
Ask HN: Anyone Codes as a Relaxation Exercise?
I noticed this last year. When I'm very stressed or very tired I find myself coding as a way to relax. It's not regular work, just small toy code, exploring ideas or technologies. I never force myself to anything with this projects. I stop whenever I want to stop and if I want to give up I just do it without any guilt.

I've been thinking why I do it? I think it's probably the little worlds of code I create and that I fully control and the pleasure of all the small accomplishements.

Does anyone else out here does this? Would love to hear it.
Since people can function normally without voices in their head then those voices aren't your logical thoughts, it is that simple. Instead the thoughts are stuff you can't express or picture, its just thoughts, but I guess that noticing them could be hard if you think that your thoughts are just some internal monologue.

Edit: For example, when you are running, do you tell yourself in words where to put your feet or how hard to push or when to slow down or speed up? Pretty sure you don't, that wouldn't be fast enough. Most thoughts you have aren't represented in your words, and some people have basically no thoughts represented as words, they are just pure thoughts like how you place your feet when you try to avoid some obstacles etc. Or some people might think "left right left right" as they are running, but those words aren't how they decide to put down their feets.
You are right! Respond and listen - absolutely! It will be just silly not to do that.

However, being able to implement it, having the infra to facilitate, and the internal quality of the deliverable not to incur more tech debt by being quick … this is just not as simple as size of company and work on plate.

Yes, I am not humble but we work hard :)
Value is subjective. I value a bottle of water far more when I’m dying of thirst.

Professional athletes make money because their talent is valued and it’s rare.

You have a fundamentally flawed understanding of price, value, and economics in general. Some teachers are indeed paid more - some extremely well - if they have rare skills that are highly valued. Top tier teachers get jobs at universities, private schools, and as tutors. I have never met them but I was told top-tier acting instructors are paid very high rates by Hollywood actors. Highly talented teachers don’t work at public schools because those jobs are generally pretty terrible.
Rust has a small(ish) but high quality stdlib. It does not aim to be Python. Like with any language, you have to know the ecosystem in order to be productive.

That said, sure, having a full-featured stdlib can be convenient. It's a matter of trade-offs. Having more content outside of the stdlib allows the ecosystem to evolve organically (and iterate quicker) and select the best approach to a given problem (which... could definitely have been an advantage for Python).
Hemp isn't any more or less sustainable than any other crop.

This isn't about marijuana. Marijuana should and will eventually be legal.

This is about the cargo cult that has surrounded hemp.

Hemp is in the C3 photosynthesis category, as are million of other plants.

Generally speaking, switchgrass or any other C4 grass will produce more biomass in identical conditions, than hemp.

If your goal is biomass, switchgrass also has the benefit of not being an invasive, non-native, species in North America.
Whoever made this page, certainly isn't being completely honest. Twitter is only charging for SMS based 2FA... which is far less secure than the freely available options offered... if people want to pay for the SMS based and be less secure, that is their prerogative.
It reads exactly that way.
I guess it actually makes a lot of sense, this is because sending SMS costs money, sometimes quite a lot when you are doing it at scale, if the user is paying you at least recoup those expenses.
I think I was one of the few lucky ones. I think I was one of the last batches shipped. I also had the Gen 1 Motorola Atrix's as well. I so badly want a truly ubiquitous device, but the few iterations I've tried just don't quite make it there.
Cataloguing classical music has always been a headache, even for experienced librarians. There are multiple recordings, some conductors record the same piece multiple times, with same or different orchestras and soloists, arrangements for different instruments (maybe in a different key), parts of a piece known under alternative names (Bach's Air for a G-string is just one movement from his orchestral suite, and he never called it that anyway). Old composers often borrowed bits or rearranged whole pieces (Mozart did his version of Handel's Messiah), and various historical ways to name and number pieces (concerto #1 in B from opus 6).
Is there a place listing all these little known but useful macOS utilities?
Yeah, even if you don't think cloud providers are doing scummy stuff as policy, there's always the risk of rogue employees. One of the startups I worked for had that happen with a remote office. They decided to wind down the office, gave generous severance and plenty of warning, but one of the devs felt they had nothing to lose so they snuck a trojan onto the servers that would siphon away some of the ad revenue. It wasn't very sophisticated so we found it the first morning the metrics took a dive.
There is and has been also option to make backups from steam games. And then install those on other machines.
FWIW, you can use data URLs to include any type of file in your HTML, and with <a download='filename' href='data:…'> browsers will allow you to save the file.