skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love reading printed books and blog posts. For those interested, a starting point for printable CSS is Gutenberg[1]. This has been my go-to for the print media in CSS. I believe I stopped looking for another one with my lack of deeper involvement in development of styles.

I'm also guilty of picking Baskerville as the default classic look to printable font-family and even had resorted to it for screen.

Besides the tools mentioned in the article (Vellum and Atticus), Ulysses also has a good option for print-ready output.

1. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg
> bad actors can overwhelm the swarm

I don't think so. To simplify: You send out 1000 tasks, you perform them yourself, now you have 999 bad flags and 1 good one, you send out 10 tasks to the same including the good one, now you have 990 with 1 bad flag, 9 with 2 and 1 with 2 good ones, you continue sending tasks to the bad nodes and drop their response, if they send you a task you return garbage, you ask the good nodes (with say 100+ good flags) for their list of good nodes and test them one by one.

You could build a system where bad nodes have to return so many good responses before getting booted that the joke is on them.
I bet we know what took them down the other day now…
“You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities, They're on the same Boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests. They don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them and they're getting it.” -George Carlin
From fish tanks to data banks: finding Grafana on a farm
How does he care about masses?

Are these masses real people, or are they his idealized vision of what people want ("straw people", to coin a phrase).

For example, we know that he does not like mass transit, and pushes transport systems for single people or small groups. Yet these system cannot scale as well as larger subway and train systems, as the Las Vegas Convention center loop shows.

That would suggest to me he doesn't care about the masses who use mass transit and cannot afford paying for his far more expensive proposals.
“Beta” also very much means “use at your own risk”.
how is this different from the previous NeRF work? does it build a 3D model?
I see. Actually, there are some other sites that don't accept youtu.be links as well. For some reason, didn't remember it being an issue here, but I guess so. That should explain why they don't show as dead, but also don't show publicly.
No, it's pretty infrequent. It's not a phantom risk but it's managed and the extreme side of the risk is pretty much 'why did you spray thermometer grade mercury around inside here'

Many reactive metals are light. Who knew?
https://archive.is/20230320180018/https://www.bloomberg.com/... non-paywalled
Always upvote Cyberiad references.
yes. this is the collision of goals in between telco led protocol stacks, google led s/w development, authorized & signed blob binaries and users.
Zipline's Innovative Drone Delivery System [video]
I’ve still not really seen a single compelling mixed reality product. The google glass was cool but everything it did ended up being put in a smart watch.
This happened to me too. I still use a MacBook Pro from 2015 mostly for watching videos. As you described, any time a subtitle appeared on the screen, the screen fluctuates in brightness / gamma levels.

I guess one other thing you could say is, I don't know if it's just me in my head, but I always feel that the cursor movement in MacOS is silky smooth.
I'm in the same situation, but is there any way for us to know if our Pixel 6s were compromised before the patch became available?
It’s super easy to parse until you have interesting higher order functions.
It’s magnitudes cheaper than the cloud though.
I wonder if this is to stop JetBrains from competing with whatever solution Microsoft will (presumably) bundle in Visual Studio.
> It's just such an incredibly good TCO for really good security

Good security when you cannot turn WiFi and mobile data off because it has to talk to mothership ?
Gods don't have persistent bodies or brains. They're spirits.

I don't disagree that digital systems with neural architectures could have agency in principle, but agency generally is definitely not the output of a large language model. Animals without language have agency, in that that they take actions to fulfill their desires. Current LLMs may have some degree of intelligence, but they don't even appear to have any consistent wishes or desires. You can get them to talk longingly about x... until you give another prompt and suddenly x doesn't matter to them at all.
Meet HN: Who wants to grab a drink in Hong Kong?
Hey, I'm in the city for two months, and it looks like many tech meetups haven't resumed after covid yet.

Anyone who wants to meet up, grab a drink and talk side projects / tech?

Email is in my profile, if there's more people we can figure out a venue / place, so do reach out if you want to chat!
Show HN: A new video frame prediction method in CVPR23
An OS is an entire environment with an entire philosophy. You don’t get to just hand wave it away like this, when there are many people going for the same job who won’t.

It is wonderful that we now live in a world of highly portable development where you don’t need to get into the nitty gritty to do basic things, but you’re missing out too much detail here.

You know when you write a web app, when you start it, you need to bind to a port? Guess what provides that port? What does it mean to “provide a port”? How does it physically work? How does this differ on Linux vs BSD vs Windows? Are there reasons you should care?

You know when you write a mobile app you need to use public apis to do things like draw to the screen or get user input? Guess what provides those apis? How do these APIs differ from OS to OS? What’s missing that you always reach for? How does local storage work? Or a remote API call work?

And then arguably the internet itself - and I mean it in the sense of the RFCs that define the behaviour - is an OS in itself. When you type something into your browser location bar and hit enter you start a chain of processes that involve DNS resolvers, root servers and registries, multiple routing algorithms (at different levels of the stack from Ethernet or wifi up to BGP), get invoked as your packets try to find their way to their destination, and the replies try to move their way back. Way, way below the HTML and CSS is this monster of dependencies. How does all that work? Why is it built that way? What are the failure modes and can you mitigate them?

These questions are rhetorical but they are meant to provoke a little nudge of curiosity: there is a rich, deep vein of thought that has gone into every corner of that experience, and knowing a little more about it will allow you to develop better software higher up the stack.

And honestly, even though I have worked mostly in the web app sphere for 20 years, if somebody just hand waves it all away in an interview, I know there is a lot of training we will need to do to get them to a level where they can successfully debug 100% of the issues we will see in production (and therefore reduce the chances of me getting paged).

It’s not a red flag, but if somebody walks in just as good everywhere else and is locked and loaded on this, I’m inclined to hiring them instead.

It would take a curious person a few weeks at a couple of hours a day to learn enough about this stuff to be able to talk to it and apply that knowledge. Meeting candidates who have never even thought about it is frustrating.
Interesting concept. The rendering of the shirt buttons could use some improvement.
mandatory tish-boom: if they have grown more than one head, haven't they grown more than one horn? so.. how are they unicorns any more?
Do you have more information on this? I was not aware pixel phones have any additional protection against modem exploits.
You're saying they choose a UK law firm bc it "looks cooler" to travel on a plane to the UK? Am I reading this right
Facing the demons: can Dungeons and Dragons therapy heal real-life trauma?
I really dont care that much. To be honest i just wanted to "try it out", and also i cant stand twitter, its just such a echo chamber, and is full of pro russia trolls and trumpists, so i gave that up too. Im sure the trolls will migrate to mastodon too, sooner or later.
This approach works if you expect your workers to be experts. This of course works for some companies that have the ability to attract workers who are highly skilled as well as they are generalists, and hence can efficiently and skillfully perform a range of activies. The risk is also high in that it is difficult to replace such workers. The majority of the industry works on minimizing this particular risk and hence they create teams where each worker can perform a subset of tasks well. Basically, scattering your eggs in different baskets.

Anyways, this was a nice read. Also good to know that some companies can operate in an unconventional way and also make good profit (because of and not in spite of) their unconvential way of working.
> Google have guaranteed at least one person and their family to never purchase another Google product or service.

They did that when they waited more than a month to patch the phone call bug in Pixel 6 series. What if someone has an emergency? Nope, Google thought that can wait.
These are more like “prime brokers” rather than “counterparties” in trade.

How often do you assume that your prime broker will go out of business before your hedge fund does? Unless you’re a big one (Citadel, Millenium), probably “never” (it’s the same with startup companies).
I've become really used to Copilot. Hope this doesn't impact that. Also goes to show you the risks of building off other people's models.
Ironically these icons appear to be being served by Google Cloud
But isn't there really not inflation going on but late stage unregulated capitalistic greed?
C# scripts...
If you need that, you can: https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

Can't vouch for their solution but looks like they do what you ask for.
seems like Codex api is used in Github copilot https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex ; from their page, we are seriously worried about losing the tab completions features of codex api we have come to rely on in the excellent Github Copilot for neovim in our team

>> Codex is the model that powers GitHub Copilot, which we built and launched in partnership with GitHub a month ago. Proficient in more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can now interpret simple commands in natural language and execute them on the user’s behalf—making it possible to build a natural language interface to existing applications. We are now inviting businesses and developers to build on top of OpenAI Codex through our API.
My desktop has been running for longer
> Unfortunately I can't stand iOS. No kidding, I'd rather have a Nokia 5110. I've tried repeatedly, thinking "I'm just not used to it", but there's too much about the design philosophy that I find actively obnoxious. Strangely, I don't have this problem with macOS.

That's how i feel with iOS and macOS, the whole design philosophy and UX feel alien to me, and makes me hate every actual issue I encounter even more.

> I'm getting a bit sick of this treadmill. I don't buy the defence some people offer that it's too much work to support the older devices. Having a security-only backports release series for old devices would be _trivial_ compared to the enormous piles of money Google sets on fire for shits and giggles on a daily basis. It's planned obsolescence, plain and simple.

From what I've understood, it's mostly the hardware components' vendors' fault - Qualcomm and co that provide the SoC and modem. It's their firmware which isn't kept up to date by the manufacturer (because it isn't easy to do so), thus phone lifecycle is inherently limites. There have been massive recent advances in that area though, with on one hand more vendors (MediaTek, Samsung) that could maybe be forced to compete and thus have to differentiate from one another, but also big changes to Android and the way updates are done, to keep firmware/driver/kernel updates as simple as possible to develop and roll out. We can see the effects with multiple Android vendors (e.g. Google, Samsung) now supporting phones for much longer.
So hopefully soon things will improve.
How to Make a Great Conference Talk
what are drawbacks of gpt-4 relative to codex ?
More generally, it can't reason about any incidence structure. Doesn't matter if the underlying relation is mathematical or simple-logical. Ask it which trains go to Kings Cross you'll get a list of tube lines in London. Now one at a time ask it about the stops of each service in that list, more than a few will not have Kings Cross. Any scenario where things x are defined by their set of properties {y} and property y is defined by the set of things {x} which have that property.
I had the same issue of Copilot hijacking suggestions with Intellij family of IDEs. Apparently there is a setting, disabled by default, to show both the suggestions (copilot's and Intellij's). Not on my laptop but it's somewhere in

Settings > languages and frameworks> Copilot
Despite What You’re Told, Banks Do Not ‘Create Money’ (2022)
Stringing up a pipe with a mix of awk, tr, sed, cut, sort, uniq etc. is certainly not more readable than a Python script with comments not invoking any of these but using Python's data structures, or even data frames/SQL.
I have been using pocket casts since forever and I am not missing a thing.

Haven't really have the time to compare various podcast apps myself.
I would prefer supporting a local photographer.
> Goes without saying:

So don’t.

Bringing this up unmprompted is a bad-faith response. As if someone needed to be reminded that two unrelated things are indeed unrelated.
Curl 8.0.1
We kind of did. It was all the bitcoins, NFT and other blockchain related companies.
As a Brit, I concur.
It's true that Japan has a very permissive immigration system for high-skill immigrants, because it wants more people like that to help the economy. Japan has a shortage of technical workers, particularly in IT. And I agree, it's done a really good job of providing support for foreigners, better than what I saw in America which is supposedly immigrant-friendly (but not really).

However, if this shortage didn't exist and the economy was humming along just fine without any immigration, these lax immigration laws would not be there. Japan used to be very hard to immigrate to prior to this century.
And my warm greetings back to you David — it sends me back a few decades too!
Acer Aspire E15 and its firmware problems (unable to boot other OS than Windows)
The text was too long, so I had to put it in pastebin.
Allowing arbitrary number of children doesn't come for free. You might need a linked list, which is a waste of memory and access time if you always just use up to two elements. What most parsers do is to provide exactly 2 slots, aptly named left and right, and use zero, one or both of them.
Sure. But this is a good replacement when your team is in different physical locations.
the processing may as well shift to the clouds. With the subscription fee, of course : )
> Come on man, if you don't understand how a business can be showing signs of unhealthiness while still increasing revenue then don't post.

I wasn't aware of this criteria, is that somewhere in the guidelines? All I'm seeing is stuff about civility and being decent.
Tesla Finally Exits Junk-Rated World After Moody’s Upgrade
Firstly, it should be noted that this isn't kindergarten. Your work doesn't get praised because you showed up, or because you worked hard. So if your idea is crap (and let's be honest, most are) be prepared to hear it.

Secondly your idea isn't new. Trust me, lots of people have thought it before. Most did nothing with it. Some have tried and failed. I know this feels unintuitive but ideas are valueless, everyone has them all the time. The worst thing you can do is treat an idea as valuable or unique. (it is neither.) Despite what the patent Office would have you believe.

Third, Execution. Assuming it's at least a useful idea, assuming it's not some boil-the-ocean scheme, you'll get judged on your execution. And you're a carpenter showing a rough prototype to other professional carpenters. Who will judge it like a finished product. And all of whom believe they could do a better job with execution. (Oak? Seriously? Oak is so last year, everyone is working in Myrtle now...)

Lastly, we all know the product is doomed anyway. Either you give up, and it dies gracefully, or it's successful enough so you get acquired by say Google (well done to you), but then Google wait 3 years and then kill it.

So yeah, this is a crappy place to get validation, much less actual customers. Selling to techies is a fools game.

On the other hand figuring out a target market with pain (you can solve) at a price point they can afford, and figuring out how to reach that market (at a price you can afford) can lead to a good income, and a long-term business.

Just don't expect much support from here :)
As long as authorized users have access to the contractual agreements and lifecycle, legal counsel may make crucial choices right away and start contracts rolling. Automated contract management software helps businesses to foresee breaches of contracts and lessen their effects.
The problem that I saw with Codex is that it routinely bugs out and starts repeating something infinitely. And the model parameters can't stop that from happening.
Realism or pessimism?

Most startups fail --- half don't last 5 years.

You be the judge but with this sort of track record, don't they deserve to be picked part?

Sometimes the picking can be unjustified or simply wrong. People are human and make mistakes.

Personally, I don't understand why bottled water is so successful. I can't remember the last time I bought some. It pollutes the planet for no good reason. I have an insulated stainless steel bottle that works just as well and has paid for itself many times over.
I'm actually quite surprised at the low popularity of jazz. I have found jazz to be one of the few genres that is pretty much always welcomed. Don't know what to play for your guests? Put on some jazz!

I also know a few jazz cafes in my city and personally I've been listening to the genre since my late teens, so I never thought it was this unpopular.

Classical music on the other hand I've always found tricky to enjoy. There are a few pieces I really like and in general I can tolerate it as background music, but it's not something that you easily groove to. Classical music venues are also a bit high brow, so not something you'd pop into easily.
The new Kotlin WASM compiler uses this. You currently have to set some feature flags to unlock this in browsers:

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew-eap.html#how-to-enable-...
> the team points to the OpenAI GPT-3.5 terms of use, which state that the model may not be used to develop AI models that compete with OpenAI.

and yet i bet openai was trained on data that they did not bother negotiating and honouring "terms of use" for. what's the difference?
Not everyone can work, or at least, not regular "full-time" work. However, more flexibility could get more productivity out of the aging populace: ending fixed retirement ages, for instance (some people are decrepit by 70, others are still quite vigorous and active), and also more part-time work, remote work, etc. could get more older people to be contributors to the economy again.
Tell that to enums
I haven't heard of bfe.dev before. But I like yours better for a few reasons.

1. It has CodeSandbox built-in with a live preview

2. You actually wrote test cases, most FrontEnd Interviews don't even have that, and neither do practice probolems.

3. You should consider making the submit code button should larger!

Since you're still building traction, and the library is still small, I would consider changing the way you upsell. Rather than lock things behind a paywall and drive people away. I want more hard questions, and to play w/ the component design q's.

You could consider making all your problems free, and limit the number of test runs? This is kind of how bfe.dev was doing it. You could auto-run the tests in the background, and give a score, but not tell the user where they failed. Solutions could be paywalled, but not the problem. Hope this takes off!
Imputation is a fairly common technique that would be familiar to most molecular or computational geneticists, especially those used to working with poor samples. There are software packages to assist in the calculation.
I think if you showed a full example (including the 15 inputs and the outputs) it would be more clear what I might be able to expect.
ChatGPT is extremely similar and doesn't flip out and start repeating like code-davinci-002 does sometimes (and the model parameters lie freq penalty don't stop it).
I'm sure everybody would like the right to build on their property as they see fit. That doesn't mean that they would want to grant their neighbors the same privilege.
I loved the list of observations at the bottom.

eg
> I got the idea for this research project upon awakening on June 3rd, 1999. I immediately decided to do it that day
On iPhone 13 mini Safari it says I have the dev tools open. Only when I hide the toolbar it says „no“.
It was long ago, when almost nobody had a 2400 baud modem, hardly anyone knew of the Arpanet, and pocket pagers were a rarity.

Everything’s changed: today, almost nobody has a 2400 baud modem, hardly anyone knows of the Arpanet, and pocket pagers are a rarity.
That's a valid perspective IMO but corporations are too slow to react and keep up.. Another thing is, if models that are good enough for the general use case that I can fit in my medium range hardware then I definitely don't need to pay for the more perfect one.. A couple of such good enough models are already there and a lot of us are already not following or waiting for the GPT-10.. That's the point of the article and why OpenAI are visibly insecure about those models.
Bernie Sanders Holds a Moderna Show Trial
Couldn't they just buy the entire company?
I would be curious to hear a lawyer's take on this, though I suspect we'll be hearing the Supreme Court's on it soon enough. This seems to be begging the question of who owns the content produced by the software. So far, the courts have stated that model-generated content cannot be copyrighted [1]. That was referring to images, and text seems likely to be on even shakier ground.

I don't see how a company could license the usage of something that they don't have the legal rights to - the output text in particular. Obviously OpenAI can terminate people's accounts for whatever reason they want, but that's largely meaningless. They have 0 chances of deterring anything unless they can secure substantial damages.

[1] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...
It was not though. ChatGPT is more consistent and doesn't bug out. And now GPT-4 is better at code than code-davinci-002.
How does it find the GC roots on the stack?
NeRF models are trained on several views with known location and viewing direction. This model takes one image (and you don't need to train a model for each object).
In my opinion you should migrate to ChatGPT 3.5 turbo which is superior for many tasks cheaper than davinci-003
> Option 1: you rely on every single developer to be careful and make no memory-leaking mistakes.

Nope. You use a language that dont have this problem, and handles memory safety within the compiler, just like what Rust does.
Does this dilute the headshot currency in the professional marketplace? If anyone can generate a flawless, idealized photo of themself, surely it reduces the signal headshots once provided: that you have the means to pay a photographer & are willing to invest the time / give a damn about appearing professional.

It might also damage the sense of identity they provide, if the generated images wander too far from reality of the source images.