skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then, a lot of people have been excited about VR and blockchains

dunno about blockchains, but i'm sure there isn't 100million VR units sold. Plus you don't need to pay upfront to use chatGPT to try it. And everyone who has tried it has been amazed, or at least, impressed at how good the responses are.

Not saying that the language models and AI hype is to be believed, but there's substance there. If you are an investor, you should be wary of missing out. And if you're not an investor, you should be wary of losing your human advantage in the economy.
Saying "I like ice-cream" has obvious conditions under which the speaker means it. ChatGPT cannot meet those conditions. It lacks the capacity to like, indeed, to intend to say anything.

ChatGPT cannot communicate. No act of text generation its engaged in counts as communication: it does not mean to say anything.
It was definitely the day I realized that he was not the brilliant strategic person he is portrayed as.
what are reasons to choose musl over glibc? (or glibc over musl?)
Try asking it why cryptocurrency is a Ponzi fraud and you will get strong opinions in response. It will tell you why you're wrong and vigorously argue its case.
Reflecting on How We Plant and Grow Tor Onion Services
Unreleased RTS game count me in!
Fake devices implanted in chronic pain patients in multimillion-dollar scam
Am in this situation. The 3-4 load isn’t caused by me but is the minimum work necessary to keep the company from crashing and burning. The cause was a cargo cult restructuring that caused enough ceremony, overhead and friction that ingrained expertise left. The company made no effort to retain people either and won’t pay enough to attract new talent.

The solution is simple and will be applied within the next quarter.
I am building https://www.market.dev. I've learned about NextJs, Vercel, Supabase, Tailwinds, etc. These are the latest tools that have become popular. I can only learn these through side projects because in my day job, I work with an older stack, and it will take some time before we adopt to the new things. Another benefit of focuing on Web3, I can learn about the trend and what skillsets are more in demand in the new space. It's been a rewarding and interesting project. I also observed time needed to ship MVPs is much shorter than years ago.
You can prompt ChatGPT to insert slurs. Just search "prompt injection".
George Soros Open Society non-profit is the counter to this. It specific finds like minded organizations and political candidates and shovels money at them.
This is great but I'd like to see an autopilot that can do the hardest crash
Thanks for sharing your experience, I think that adds a lot more to the discussion than your previous comment, which frankly came off kind of callous and out of touch because it reads like you’re writing off “kids these days”.

I don’t much see the point of rotating accounts if you lurk more than post (I lurk more than post too, usually), but whatever. But comments that come off as not thoughtful from new accounts tend to get less grace because there’s a non-negligible amount of bad faith posters, especially on politically charged topics

Honestly I still think this is an alt account, because the account age almost exactly matches the age of the thread (12h now) but your first post is only like an hour old. Plus the initial tone, I don’t know. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, but it’s lot of doubt. please post more thoughtfully in the future, your followup was good discussion at least but the initial post was borderline noise IMO
I don't consider SAMs as substitutes for real lambdas to be progress. Kludge would be more accurate.
Apple actually made this much harder than it should be by special-casing P256 ECDSA in their build of libressl, which means trying to use it with PKCS#11 breaks: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/64968.html . The approach Secretive uses (which is what I ended up mimicking) is using the SSH agent protocol rather than PKCS#11, which lets you do the crypto in your own codebase instead.
> But there's certainly something missing here in terms of a demonstrated value proposition here.

if people paid, then that demonstrates value doesn't it?
I'm trying to create a CNM/CNI plugin to allow tailscale to act as a network provider for containers.
While everyone has their preferences I find myself hating the office a lot less than I used to these days. (and I was very vocal about hating the office pre-covid[0])

However, some things of note:

1) My "Office" (not home) is not an "Open Office", it's a place where I can reasonably sit in peace and have control of my surroundings (this is something not afforded to most people in offices, and something that work from home provides)

2) I do not have children at home, which is a pro and a con of working remotely. Being able to look after your offspring is great! I have it on good authority though that kids are distraction machines.

3) My Commute is a 10 minute walk through a sparsely populated city in southern Sweden with no heavy trafficways (or even mild trafficways by North American standards)

So even though my home office setup is dedicated, clean, & spacious, I do quite enjoy going to the office at the moment.

My meandering point is that: everyone has different life situations, the office has to be a better place to be than home if you want people to come to it and it needs to be accessible too; it can't be the case that you force people to sit in traffic for 2 hours each day to get to a place where their senses are assaulted all day.

On the whole, gathering around a whiteboard is fantastic and casual conversations over coffee can really help smooth over accidental communication gaps that exist in every organisation. (and, also help create some more positive interactions with colleagues than the relatively normal situation of calling on people only when they need to do something). I can't imagine needing to be in the same place 5 days per week to get the same benefit though.

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/how-to-survive-an-open-office
I would expect that number to be higher than reality because when push comes to shove a lot of people are not actually going to quit. But it’s still a surprisingly high number.
One suggestion: if the lander is within about 10 feet of the ground and is still either swaying back and forth or going really fast laterally, it should thrust upwards to buy more time to correct those things.
It always just gives me the hand emoji and tells me it doesn't want to talk if I correct it. That was like a week ago. Not sure what it's doing today.
> rather a case of an IC taking on too much themselves

Which is a management problem. If management can't see that this is happening and fix it, what are they even doing?
What would be some examples of features that your service could add to my app?
I have been fooling around with the small 7B llama models. They chat, but they are pretty dumb compared to ChatGPT. This means they are terser and they confabulate more, even for things that are common knowledge. It seems, from asking it questions about current events, that the model was trained up to data from early 2020.

I haven't seen much output yet from the biggest 65B parameter llama model. One can rent cloud VMs that can run it for $1.25 an hour or so on vast.ai to run it, but ChatGPT is $20 a month so why bother, unless you like the fully uncensored aspect.
That was... something.
Nah, it's a strong indicator that people don't know how to write good prompts, or how to co-edit iteratively with the AI.
Thanks for the link, Vale is promising and the "generational references" trick sounds neat. I'm not entirely sure how it impacts developer productivity (i.e. I use a refcount precisely because I don't want to manually manage memory; a cryptic, hard to reproduce runtime crash related to a "generation mismatch" is not much more helpful than a double free, "safety" guarantees that translate to runtime crashes are irrelevant in the real world except where they expose violation of the runtime invariants, such as access past the end of the array; but maybe I don't fully grasp the concept they are proposing).

As a general sentiment, I fully agree that improving developer productivity while maintaining safety, speed and ahead of time compilation & static typing are open problems, and all current languages still suck more or less.
Also check out https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent which simplifies the setup quite a bit.
I switched from Kagi back to Google because Kagi was just too slow for me. The search results on Google load much faster, while the response time on Kagi was at times over 500 miliseconds.
I'm french, and it feels like this strike is being worse than usual. Or maybe not.

I'm not worried, on the contrary, I'm hopeful the government will adjust its stance.

French politics involves a lot of negotiating. It's a form of quality control. It can be a bit chaotic, but it is a good system. Politicians here cannot do as they please.

We often say french people complain too much. It's actually a good thing. It's better than the opposite. I would not like to be like countries where citizens are obedient.
What are boq and pod..? (curious non-Googler here, Google search didn't help).
You can start literally any time a new job as a developer. The problem is more
like that your executives believe their company is sexy so you will stay while it's usually not.
Same here, except I dropped Google as my search engine of choice a long time ago.

ChatGPT is great for doing some of the heavy lifting. I pasted in a list of raw, unprocessed data and asked it to give me unique values sorted alphabetically. I know I could have done it in code, but just being able to paste it in, give a plain English command and get the same results was fantastic.
List of people who have been considered deities
This is something that struct me before as I was enjoying the Japanese Hanami (having a picnic under flowering trees) festival, and I once attempted to verify whether my understanding was correct, but unfortunately my Google-fu failed me at the time, since a "tree" happens to have a troubling double-meaning as a tree of clades in phylogeny, or as a physical tree; so it's very hard to search whether "physical trees form a phylogenic tree". Glad to have that verification now.
As a rule of thumb, energy use by poor people is negligible with respect to the energy use of the rich. I'm sure Australia, the US and Europe could do just fine witb half their current energy usage. Take for example the situation in Europe : energy prices skyrocketed last winter and as a result 30% less natural gas was used. On a macro level this was only a minor inconvenience, nothing more.

If we want, we can buy less styff, fly less, reduce the temperature in our homes, eat less meat and spend less time commuting to a bullshit job. All without causing major inconvenience.

Remember how the entire world was effectively able to switch to lockdown+work from home overnight without coming to a standstill? Very inconvenient, but definitely not the end of the world
Story of Sosumi and the Mac Startup Sound
> and that code cannot do a lot of bad stuff,

True now. But Microsoft made a contribution in this area too. Active-X plugin's were effectively DLL's you downloaded and then IE attached to itself. Since they ran as IE they could do anything IE was allowed to do - like modify most files on disk, including the OS. The customer got a plugin that could do literally anything the browser was allowed to do to the disk, display, network and OS, and it being native code Active-X plugins were quuuuuick. Microsoft got lock in.

Security disaster understates it of course. They were rightfully treated like toxic waste by very browser except IE.

My real point is Microsoft has form in this area. And it's form that continues to this day. They could have made VBA as safe as Javascript over time by perhaps introducing a safe version that was always allowed to run, and made the dangerous variant harder and harder to unlock. They've never showed the slightest interest in doing so. Instead they ship "Windows Defender", which is about as effective as a week old cotton mask in a COVID ward.

Come to that they could have provided a Windows environment as safe as iOS and Android, and migrated everything in over the course of a decade or two. Again - not the slightest hint. Instead they apparently prefer to keep their systems insecure, and sell yearly licences to half arsed fixes like Intune to businesses who can afford it.
I agree. However the ChatGPT situation is the first hype that’s really been harmful rather than just disruptive. It can and is being used to generate low accuracy noise which degrades quality information. I suspect our demise isn’t going to be a big bang but a slow fizzle of information decay. And this is the start of it. At best it’s going to make us stupider.
No, because left-handedness is not commonly treated with hormones and surgery, and medical practitioners do not report feeling pressured to eschew normal clinical reasoning when a child presents with left-handedness.
No I don't, because hardly anyone still deploys barebones VMs, unless they can't do otherwise.

In theory, containers, application containers, and serverless language runtimes only need a type 1 hypervisor or bare bones kernel to execute.

In practice, there is still some kind of kernel underneath as convenience to the infrastructure people.

Actually, when we deploy VMs, it is mostly Windows ones, as Windows containers still have a couple of gotchas, so no systemd there as well any way.

Finally, systemd is a Linux thing, and there are more UNIXes to choose from.
Only one image?
I'll go out on a limb here ... tell me if you disagree ... that if you file your taxes on paper, all that personal information will be quickly scanned and available in a database. The database of the site in question.

I say this because the My Account service allows a Canadian to check their balance, payments, credits, filing status, etc. It's there for anyone, ready to go, with whatever information the CRA has stocked it with. Your information, even if it started out on paper. It's pretty inconceivable that the CRA could function if the paper filings didn't soon end up in the same database as the e-filings.

Anyways, then at that point, your paper personal data is sitting right there behind the login of that same CRA site we're talking about. For your future convenience. Or leaking. Or hacking. And then we're back to ... "in the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsible for any damages you may experience as a result."
love it!

A good landing, keep trying

Score: 83.5 point landing
Speed: 3.8mph
Angle: 0.8°
Time: 44 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 32.1mph
Max height: 257ft
Engine used: 25 times
Boosters used: 19 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
While I was playing the game, the idea of traveling in a SpaceX rocket ship didn't seem appealing to me. Now that I have experienced your autopilot feature, I feel MUCH more confident about it.
It seems like a desperate move to make as much money as possible before the consumer printing industry becomes irrelevant.
They didn't get it all in at exactly the wrong time, but it does appear they lost something like $10-15 bill on around $80-$90 bill or so of securities. That's a lot of money given the entire shareholders equity is around $16 bill.

They are public, you can see their filings at the SEC. I'd guess some hedge fund paying attention noticed this weeks ago and just made a killing.
I urge you to pick up and read Desert Solitaire[0] and reconsider your 'wasteland' statement.

Benefit/cost might be there, but for a project costing 22B it would be sensible to study and quantify.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire
Looking for children under a certain age is more or less a full time job. Trying to mix it with work is, well, simply a bad decision.

Over that age, and if the kids themselves can manage it... sure, it's great. You're there for breaks and emergencies - much better than being absent for the whole day.
I downvote and flag every chatgpt generated comment, even if they’re up front about it

If I want to know what chatgpt thinks about something, I can ask it myself
I think the only thing that saved musk is that he called him a "pedo guy" which is/was slang in south Africa in the 80s meaning just creepy. You usually can't be sued for general opinions.

However, I seem to remember that Musk followed up the insult with some insinuation that he might know something about the guy which makes it worse. But I don't care to read up on the details at the moment.
So everyone needs to explicitly block cheese pizza for themselves just so a few perverts can share that stuff in the name of "free speech"?
> managers not being good at setting expectations

Expectation setting (and all of the things that fall out of it) is such a huge problem in my experience. I'm always trying to get clear expectations out of management. I had a ~decade gap in my career where the expectations were vague, ambiguous, bullshit... And worst of all misaligned. First-time engineering managers, specifically, were all so bad at this. I've walked from jobs where this was the root problem.

Recently, I've landed in a company and on a team where the expectations are crystal clear and, as a result, and closing in on 20 years in this industry, I feel like I am able to do some of my best, most impactful work. Work that will likely outlive my tenure with this organization, and it feels fucking amazing!
I was just going to reply with EEE, but the situation you're describing presents a problem.

Suppose the network wants to be able to handle billions of users, but you want to keep each instance "small," i.e. thousands of users.

Then you'll have millions of instances.

Having each instance manually curate a list of others it federates with isn't going to work, but neither is instances not federating with the large majority of other instances.

You all need to figure out a way to get rid of this instance-level whitelisting or blacklisting, because that ends with either Meta or an intractable scalability problem.
Secretive has to function as both a key generation utility and an SSH agent because of a restriction in Apple's Secure Enclave functionality - only the app that generates a key is allowed to use it. There's actually a workaround for this, which is to use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptotokenkit to expose keys to the user keychain, which then means the tool used for key generation doesn't have to be the same tool that allows applications to make use of that key. We're using this internally to generate keys that are then combined with user creds to receive x.509 and ssh certificates, and exposing the ssh certs to ssh using the SSH agent protocol. Our next step is to take that a step further and use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/access... to verify that the device asking for a cert is a device that we own (IT will be able to set one of those bits during device provisioning, and then we query that data during certificate issuance to show that the request comes from something we provisioned)
> Correct me if im wrong, but their AI is not AGI (or even anywhere close), so most of their products that use it simply use it as a halfassed replacement for a proper algorithm (to solve the problem). Its basically fancy statistics.

What does "a proper algorithm" even mean? The best algorithm so far to implement a chatbot is ML, no? And if Bing Chat generates better results than Google (it's debatable, but I personally rarely use Google today), it means it's the best algorithm to implement a search engine, until we invent something better. Why are ML and a proper algorithm are mutally exclusive?

> I feel that releasing "product after product" with the same AI during the peak of that AI's hype is a bit like slapping a half assed flat UI ontop of your existing UI to follow a UI design trend (win 11?).

Really weird analogy. There were plenty good software with flat UI when win 11 came out. There is no chatbot as good as ChatGPT.
>The question is why

Because a word is worth a thousand pictures.
The actual capacities are listed: caring, imagining, and so on.

Animals form mental representations of their environment, which are directly caused by that environment in conjunction with their prior models of it. On top of these states they combine motivational and emotional attitudes to form goals, to intend, to play, and so on.

There is far less mystery here than we suppose. Thousands of years of religion has forced this supposition that there's a "mind/body" problem, and characterising the minds of animals is such a difficult thing; it isnt.
It depends on the setup. You can generally only ask an hsm to perform a few specific operations “encrypt this data”, “sign this data”, etc and you’re restricted to the exact formats that it supports.

Because they are generally not very configurable (their design goal is to be secure and so the less complexity the better) it’s fairly common for them to just not directly support any specific cryptographic protocol.

Given that, what you can choose to do instead is have the hsm generate a key for you, and then you use that key to wrap your specific secret - say an ssh key - then you decrypt it when you need it which requires user authentication through the hsm - use the raw key and then clear it from memory.

But if the only record of the external key is wrapped by the hsm, if the hsm loses that decryption key then you’ve lost access to the ssh (or whatever) key as well.
Yeah fair points.

By my measure, any telemetry sent back that wasn't explicitly opted into is shady. Once data has left my machine, it's out of my control and anything can happen to it.

We may not have time to fully audit the source, but individuals and groups I trust have, and have made forks that cut out this telemetry as well as other potentially unsavory features. One can also monitor network traffic in and out of an a browser app to understand what is being sent.

I'm using Bromite on my phone right now to type this.
Oh, I need a new account. Hang on, can we book a new meeting in two weeks? I have to gather all my security keys first.
It's like the prisoner's dilemma.
A modern driverless vehicle like those being deployed by Waymo and Cruise will have considerably more compute than virtually any home computer. A pretty typical setup would be something like a high spec Xeon (or equivalent), 1-2 massive GPUs (or equivalent), lots of big FPGAs/ASICs, and some beefy networking on top, duplicated for redundancy. You wouldn't have to go very far back before the 'supercomputer' moniker became appropriate.
It's a pretty standard example of a prisoners dilemma. Each VC telling their companies to pull is the right thing for them in isolation.
It's a tough situation to handle, because if someone is simply struggling at their job, it can have the same symptoms. They claim they have too much work to do, and important projects always end up delayed, with their tasks being the ones that are delaying everyone. As a manager you need to make a judgment call about how much work they are actually taking on, but that can be tricky when you're less familiar with the codebase than the individual is.

Either way, you still want to move critical tasks off their plate.
Yeah, but it is unusual to talk openly about it. Nowdays, everyone prefers to pretend totally everything was totally always achieved by hustling from humble salary with no connections or help at all.
Sell-off in US bank stocks due to concerns over solvency of Silicon Valley Bank
Not really. Carter didnt talk about the “general malaise” just for fun.

The economy was pretty much in the dumpster for most of the 70’s in both countries.

Not unusual for the old guard to be turfed out when that happens.