skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why you got downvoted... I think it's very likely that some sites in the future will implement e.g. "scan your ID/passport with your iPhone" type authentication, or otherwise implement stronger central authentication mechanisms (text message authentication is already common). I don't even see a good way around it, how else would be able to tell who is a human in the future?
Try reading the words in reverse. That’s what I mean.
Since there is no /s at the end I will assume it was not a joke. This is definitely not a sane policy on the internet.
Is it that better than the official Google Podcast app? I have been using it for years and it's pretty nice.
> I think this crisis is the strongest yet reason to push for CBDCs as only a central bank can fully guarantee a deposit

This makes zero sense. A CBDC doesn't have a stronger "guarantee" than normal central bank money, yet it has all kinds of negatives like total surveillance and control.
I wonder if you could use a chicken like in the old chicken tic-tac-toe machines to mimic real user behavior.
Assuming you ever manage to get it back out. I've met more people working after retirement than not, very few of those felt they could do without the job.

My employer assured me for years that I was paying taxes, Social Security, and pension savings. Turned out not to be the case. I spent my health on that job and found out that I'm not eligible for any assistance because I never paid in. The difference between me and most folks is I already know how boned I am, it isn't a looming surprise.
Apologies, was very hastily recorded in between about a million other pre-launch tasks.

I thought my Sennheiser Momentum 4's would do a better job, but even they were no match for a glass call booth.
During what I think was the height of the Wordle craze, and after watching this video, I tried to treat it like chess. I memorized SALET and a few of the most common next moves off it. I think I managed to keep a handful of second guesses and one or two third guesses straight in my mind.

I played those patterns on even days, and on the odd days I used my traditional heuristic word of AEROS (three vowels, common consonant R, S at the end) and tried to reason through.

Apart from my score for both days going down, I found that my suboptimal AEROS play was way better for me - which makes sense, I can’t keep enough of the search tree in my head to use it well!
Embezzling from the pension fund is a popular move among dishonest accountants, and what can you do if the money's simply not there? In times of great upheaval, promises get broken and in a governmental collapse, there's no entity left to keep those promises.

Hopefully we are not in such calamitous times, but we shall have to see.
As I noted above it's probably healthier for fruits/veg to shop more than once a week but I just don't like the hassle of grocery shopping that often. If it was along the way from mass trans to my flat maybe, but one stop away definitely not.
> There's that passive, vague non-word again: "impacted". Such a milquetoast way to say "something happened" but without that pesky specificity.

Well, everyone ion the business knows what's going on with twitch and the streaming-market at the moment. So no reason really to explain further I guess?

> So, they are growing, but not growing faster than some [arbitrary] goal?

Actually, in the last months they were shrinking. Partly because viewership around this time of the year is always shrinking for reasons, but this time even more, because pandemia inflated the market, and now as it's ending, the inflation also disappears. Overall, there is still growth compared to the time before the pandemia, but nobody really knows how it will hold until the end of the year. Additionally, the gaming-markted is being a wild mix at the moment, and most attempts of twitch to diversify their content have failed. So they are a bit clueless at the moment I guess how the ship will move and grow.
> Modifying text files that are human readable are a big no-no.

Silly absolutes are a big no-no. You don't use automatic code formatting!?

Using commands to modify a literal list is fine.
In my opinion hiring a motivated junior is a good decision. Onboarding new developers is the harder part of the process, regardless of experience level. If you are just in a new established startup, the risk might be that the whole development process is still unstable and tasks you might assign to them are going to hit a bunch of unknowns/undocumented parts for the hire and you.

When I was a junior hire I think it took me somewhere close to a year to get fully competent for the role that I was hired (not needing oversight for my work anymore) and the platform we were developing. When picked up later in my career on other projects, it could take me somewhere from 3-6 months to operate at full capacity.
life is pain and there are no shortcuts
I thought about the noise route, but doesn't that make you more unique? Maybe if many users share the noise, but then that makes it easier to identify what's noise and what's not.
"Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise"
https://twitter.com/tomflood1/status/1609976864897916930
I also found his rant videos not to my taste. He is a pretty abrasive person and he seems to spend most of his time making rant videos these days.

Having said all that, I support the right to repair movement. I commend him for being a gadfly and a leader on this issue. The right of ownership of the things you buy and the right to repair what you own are extremely important, fundamental rights. Without them, we are all reduced to tenants in a neo-feudalist dystopia.
If garbage collection helps, you no longer have ownership, because a single place where a value is dropped obviates the need for GC. If you no longer have ownership, you no longer have use-site mutability, because no single place controls the mutability anymore. If you no longer have use-site mutability, you no longer have the good type system. The borrow checker is what makes it work.
An Open Letter to Generalists
Do you remember when you realised you were different? Felt the twitch of “why doesn't my brain work like theirs?". Looked around to see your peers specialising, climbing the career ladder, celebrating 10 years in the same position. Maybe you were convinced that the grass was indeed greener on their side.
Neither socialism nor capitalism has any bearing on the existence of state social services one way or another.
Wasn't this a free beta offering?
Rokits are the new NS10s. Go to a studio and you might see Rokits there, alongside a nicer set of nearfield monitors. Bedroom musicians have Rokits, bedroom producers become successful and rent studio time, and the Rokits are familiar.

Familiarity is important. If I know what NS10s sound like, I know how to use them to find problems in my mixes. Same with Rokits.

There may be some of this special sauce that makes NS10s particularly appropriate for monitoring, but the familiarity is a big deal.
> using an interchange format like protobufs allows for automatic client generation in several languages

Maybe things have improved, and maybe I was using the "wrong" languages, but when we tried this at a previous company the generated code was deemed so awful that we abandoned that idea almost on day 1. To this day I tend to believe the promise of "write once, generate anywhere!" to be mostly BS.

Not even picking on protobuf specifically here - last time I tried a REST generative approach (swagger?) the results were similarly unusable. The whole concept is a fantasy, unless things have staggeringly improved.
Just want to add a data point: I just tried this word for word with today’s Wordle (secret word = tough) and ChatGPT 4 got it completely wrong, didn’t reuse letters it got right and kept reusing letters it knew weren’t in the word. It’s easy to look at this Twitter thread and freak out, but even a broken clock is right twice a day and I encourage people to try these examples for themselves.
Living in the UK, the big repatriation discussion is around the British Museum and the Elgin Marbles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles

It's named Elgin from the person that took it from Greece.

There's a patriotism around it where it has become a political issue about whether to do so.

The common argument against is that it would mean that the Museum would need to give back everything in its collection.

Today we have such sophisticated technology we can recreate pretty much any artifact.

Scan it, and get as much research data as possible, if there's a fear of it being lost. But like the article talks about the Nepalese statues which are still part of their culture being stolen in the 1980s, the people that would care most are those whose ancestors created it.

If the role of a museum is to educate then exhibitions on something like reproducing an ancient Egyptian coffin would be fascinating.

I visited Pompeii recently and what I really appreciated was the context of the artifacts together.

Looking at home from almost 2000 years ago, and seeing the "beware of dog" mosaic in the entranceway gave me much more of an appreciation of the life people there would have lived.

You see lead pipes going along the ground and you may think they're new. But no, there was a previous earthquake that damaged the infrastructure, so whilst there were repairs happening the volcano erupted.
ChatGPT-5 will be written by ChatGPT4? :)
>The bank also needs to pay the loan back by an agreed uppn time (which destroys the money).

Perhaps you can clarify by what you mean by 'destroyed'.

To my knowledge once the bank has 'created' the money it will always exist in the system. However it has devalued all other money by a small amount which we understand today as 'inflation'. So it's not clear to me what you mean by destroyed.
Heh - it's a "project" - myself, between learning to do 3d printing, in order to build parts/widgets to get my diode laser running for etching/engraving/cutting, it is an endless stream of tweaking this or that. OTOH, I am able to repair/replace things that would have been junk. (For example, I have a keyboard slider tray, where during a move, I lost the plastic sliders - those little parts paid for the cost of the 3d printer)

Go next level - implement a QR code label and recognition system, so it can find the correct box automatically. (Sorry, couldn't resist)

Also - thank-you for your books, I read "The Cuckoo's Egg" when I was 18 and it was one of the most amazing things I had read to that point. (I also loved "Silicon Snake Oil" - but missed "High-Tech Herectic")
I love how a simple mention of Cliff Still in 2023 can still generate over 100 lovely comments in a handful of hours.

Thanks for being a truly good person, Cliff. ;-)
They seem to do both which is frustrating.
Hunger. You can’t teach it. You can’t train it. You might be able to rehabilitate it if the individual is in a low spot.

Consider all of the work now. Not just the “work.” Team lead. Is your team ok? Your team does the “work,” you are part of the team, but don’t forget that keeping a team running smoothly is also work.

Update your availability calculations in your head. You were estimating 70% of your day was going to be actual work, with 30% towards meetings etc? Time to reduce that 70%. It’s ok, that’s why you are growing a team - to get more done - but it isn’t free.
> The copyright owner is the only person who can sue people for violating the license of the software they created.

For the copyright violations, yes. But I'd imagine a skilled lawyer could make a suit against a company for a violation of the contract between the consumer and company on the grounds that the consumer knowingly bought a product that included those clauses and the company did not follow through with delivering the product as sold.
In my understanding, the role of banking is to take on the intrinsic risk when doing money allocation.

1. The central banks control supply (by controlling their interest rates)

2. The banks allocate resources (lending out with a risk premium)

3. Consumers and entrepreneurs use the money for value creation.

To me it seems like banks ought to be able to fail. The problem is that banks have gotten the responsibility of the money infrastructure (the cash to e-money transition) which we can not afford to fail.

We should lift the money infrastructure responsibility of banks.
>CBDC: If you want safe custody of your money.

Not safe from the moralizing pricks (of which there is a surplus in our midst) who the executive or legislature will inevitably try to cozy up to by stealing my money on the basis of some attribute or box that I check.
Apple has been lagging behind Google for a while, and now Microsoft.

That being said, Apple is rarely the first adopter of new tech. So, this seems to be in line with their default strategy.

Apple did fine after the death of Steve Jobs, so I don't think that analogy is valid either.

Right now, Apple being a consumer/fashion/tech company, LLMs are not an existential threat to their business.
I bought something like eight Klein bottles in one go from him a couple of years ago, as a thankyou gift to various members of my team at work for a new software release. Not sure if he knew this but I had a spreadsheet tracking what kind of bottle (eg a wine-loving teammate got a Wine Klein, a teammate I've gone for beers with got a Klein Stein, etc), plus the countries they had to go to because many of us work remotely! Germany, Estonia, Chile, California...

Dr Stoll was _incredibly_ friendly during the process of buying all of these (I tried to keep it organised but I did ask him to send eight different packages to something like eight different locations!) and I bought his smallest-model Klein bottle for myself at the same time. It and its accompanying propaganda is one of my prized possessions, sitting on a shelf next to a wild boar's tusk, a 1920s brass charting compass, and other Really Cool Things.

If you read this and happen to remember me, Dr Stoll, I'm very grateful -- plus, I have no idea how to top that gift for my team next time we have a new release out. The next one is later this year. How can I do better than that? I genuinely don't know what to get them next :)

If you're interested, this is his website: https://www.kleinbottle.com/ It has far more than just normal Klein bottles. There are Klein hats. Klein earrings. Klein Erlenmeyer flasks...
I haven’t seen a custom build of Wget, but for Curl there is curl-impersonate[1].

[1] https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide
Yes, unconscious bias is a huge risk in my “trust your got instinct” approach to hiring. For example, I bristle at the name “Daryl” because I went to school with someone with that name and I remember him laughing at me. Maybe this is why I’ve never hired someone called Daryl.

So I agree you need to articulate and challenge your reasons, even if only to yourself. Periodically review the ones you’re rejecting and ask others if there’s a pattern, then deliberately spend time with people represented by that pattern.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t come naturally to me and I have to work hard at it.
Sigh, no GC language guarantees no memory leaks either.
Any comments you read, and thought was smart, was the take of a 15-year-old. What do you have to say now?

Albeit it's better than talking to ChatGPT.
Short seller warned US regulator about Signature Bank in January
Just it irked me that the parent comment tried to paint all 21y olds as incapable idiots.
> solving problems involves less lobbying

I think we can all agree this pretty much sums it up. Basically every major problem we face in America is the result of lobbying and gerrymandering.
Just looking at the pictures and graphs in that paper is enough to become amazed by what they're achieving. The example where they show 3 pictures of an old monitor plug being connected to an iphone to recharge it, and then GPT4 is asked what's funny about it, and answers incredibly accurately, is amazing.
After I read The Cuckoo's Egg many years ago, I sent you a goofy fan email and you replied! Totally amazed by this whole instant world connectivity thing. 1 1 was a race horse... Still got a dot matrix printout of it somewheres... :)
My guess is less concentration, debt and leverage in total. We seem to have progressed to a point where the entire system is very unstable and always at risk, and the only tool we seem to have left is creating more debt/money. Our modern fiat money is one of the greatest experiments in human history, and we have no evidence yet that such a system can be stable long term.
Given the data is (credible and beautiful) BS, I think it's closer to red dwarf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3NWKbBaaU
People used to anthropomorphize Markov chains like this. I've been through this rodeo before, at least a few times.

I did a little lab on GPT with middle schoolers as part of a Science enrichment activity. Without prompting, the entire class was making it say nonsense inside of the one hour session.

Try using a GPT model to do something humans actually do, other than random bullshitting on the internet. Field customer service requests. Even carefully SFT'd models struggle to beat decision trees, and are sometimes worse, at actually solving the customer's problem. They sound more human / less robotic, but who cares if the customer's problem isn't solved and the dialog quickly diverges into insanity?

Just because you want to see God on a piece of toast doesn't mean that the average human has completely lost their capacity for critical thought.
We don't know. Glass Steagall Act doesn't really deal with the fundamental problem with 2008, which was at its core an error in measuring potential risk of new finantial products. It could have prevented some of the worst impacts of that error, but we're not sure.

Here's quote from former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder: "What bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books? I've yet to hear a good answer."[1]

You know that saying: generals always prepare to fight the last war.

Finantial Regulations are like that too. We don't know where the next crisis will come from, and so we don't know if we're ready for it.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/14/448685233...
To never use the first release of any major version is confirmed as a good policy again ;-)
Generating Data Functions in Your Elixir App
> Metal isn’t cross platform and 3d is very much a cross platform technology.

It isn't.

Vulkan as an idea appeared a year after Metal was released.

And even today:

- Windows first-party support is DirectX

- Xbox is DirectX

- Playstation is whatever Playstation uses

- Switch has nominal Vulkan support, but you're better off using their non-Vulkan SDKs

- MacOS and iOS are Metal

- Android support Vulkan. Some versions of it, depends on phone, version, and manufacturer.

- WebGL is browser-only... and on its way to be replaced by WebGPU

Yeah. Great cross-platform story
I see some evidence that it handles complex transformations, but there's so many corner cases in the real world, like...

- Different ranges, where the source is, say "size 0-10", and the destination is "S/M/L".

- Various flattening or exploding needs. Like an array of namespaced tags driving a flat list of boolean fields. Or a source with 2 tables and a foreign key being transformed into tags, or flat fields, or a 3-level nesting.

- Encoding/Decoding things. Transforming windows-1252 into utf-8. Decoding base64 (or json, or xml, or...) and storing as fields in the destination.

- Compound transforms, both directions, two fields into one, or vice-versa with splitting on a delimeter.

- Appending a unique suffix/count to some field because the source doesn't enforce uniqueness on the field, but the destination does. Or going the other direction.

- Hundreds of similar patterns.

It's fairly easy to see the breadth if you look at all the dials and knobs on any popular ETL tool.

I'm curious if the idea is to pull all these into scope, or if it's to ignore it, and focus on a deliberately smaller market.
People plugging it as output of Midjourney in 3, 2, 1...
Setting Up the Hacking Environment: Installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox
I had this problem recently trying to hire people good at and willing to work with a big Angular v1 codebase.
I don't think you're actually proposing anything with that CBDC statement - CBDC doesn't imply any particular policies or mechanisms. It is a non-phrase without a concrete proposal. What exactly is the central bank supposed to do here?
See the “Single-View 3D Reconstruction” section at the bottom where they do precisely that
Yeah it is funny what you will discover when you are forced to use something you can change.

You also sadly realize how much software gets shipped that if the person who wrote it used it, would hate it. You have incredible leverage with software. What would you change about the UI/UX?
Reclaim Protocol Is Hiring a Cryptography/Security Researcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
Any previous doubts I may have had regarding the authenticity of this "CliffStoll" account have now evaporated. ;-)

Thank you, Cliff, for all that you've done. Clearly, you've left a mark on many souls... and we're all the better for it. :-)
DNT may be opt-out. But it should certainly be treated as "Don't even bother asking for consent to track, because I already told you the answer is no, and you'll be harrassing me by asking."
“Worlds most accurate”: Source, fingerprintjs. Sounds legit.
I always find it a small miracle that you can yank an individual git commit out of a program, and end up with a working program. If I commit anything, follow-up commits quickly make the original quickly a hard requirement.

Maybe it is a sign of bigger and more stable source code, that individual commits influence each other less.
ChatGPT Helped Win a Hackathon – cybersecurity firm Claroty used the AI bot
The Supreme Court wrestles with questions over the Navajo Nation's water rights
The death of the comment section has been greatly exaggerated...one comment, that the moderator didn't even see fit to remove. Ain't much.

Also funny that you wonder if people would take the hurdle to send an email instead. In this particular case, the author has in fact written about the torrent of email abuse he faces on multiple occasions, for example here [1]. Is his 2021 post evidence that email is a thing of the past?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
This isn't totally out of the blue - they have previously e-mailed API users claiming that the GPT-3.5-Turbo model is just as good/better as well as being faster & cheaper per token than their other models, and would only require a small change to prompts (claims of being better, of course, isn't true for all cases).

I suspect the reason for this (especially given the extremely short timeline) is they're desperately trying to free up space in their clusters for GPT-4 nodes - they've clearly been struggling under the demand for GPT-4 (with ChatGPT Plus subscribers initially getting 100 GPT-4 messages every few hours, then 50, then 25 with a warning that the limit will be reduced further this week).

I assume the limiting factor here is how many A100 80GB instances Microsoft is able to get and rack from nVidia.
I've seen two people go down the Ayahuasca path in the past years and both of them have undergone such profound personality changes that I've had to stop seeing them. They've gone off the deep end in ways that are hard to describe. What also bothers me is that they've become incessant advocates for others to join them in their misery.
Hey Pierre, there's no information about who's behind the website (not a single name), and your terms page has not yet filled in the placeholders

> Questions about these Terms should be sent to the Company at [insert company email or contact information].
That's maybe a cultural difference. For example I know of no such place in Belgium even if I'm quite well travelled in it. So it's a least really not common to have suburbs as you describes.