skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a McCarthy fan and I liked The Passenger/Stella Maris. Usually with McCarthy it takes ~50 pages for me to get into his writing. That wasn't the case this time around, both books are quick, easy reads.

McCarthy is at his best when he's describing characters doing things. The few moments in The Passenger when the protagonist is doing things are captivating but 85% of the novel is dialogue (compared to 100% of Stella Maris). The dialogue is great -- it's strange, clever, often funny -- but I found myself wishing there was more characters-doing-things.

On the negative side, the math/physics stuff eventually became grating. Also, misattributing "only the dead have seen the end of war" to Plato took me out of the novel.
Did anyone else say "your sign looks like you spent $1 on it, you're keeping the devices insecurely out on a bench, and this whole setup doesn't inspire confidence and is sketchy af?"
TIL that I was very wrong about what I thought a cat skull would look like (assuming that's a faithful reproduction). They're so alien!
You're still trying to distract from your claims that no nuclear incident that could wipe out a city has ever happened. Remoteness of the destruction isn't a counter argument.
I looked but I could not find a good write-up of the actual systems under discussion. “Large-scale, video-based” data fed through AI of some kind, details unspecified. Main points raised in defense were that it could identify unattended luggage (potential bombs) and dangerous crowd movements (potential stampedes). Presumably they also intend to do facial recognition and perhaps behavior analysis, and don’t want to mention those more contentious applications.
wasm has separate address spaces for code and data, and wasm code does not even have read access to the code space, much less writing to it. The call stack is also completely isolated and not addressable. So how exactly would malicious code running in a wasm sandbox "rewrite a function"?
When this all went down I was looking to move to some type of proxy for their hub, like I do for other tools (aka: mirror). My mirrors for CPAN, NPM, Packagist, Go and Debian were all (mostly) trivial to configure and use. Docker not so much.

Still working to figure out how to route both search and pull to use our mirror.

That it's hard to mirror feels like it's even more important to mirror.

A rug pull never happens at a good time and makes it's occurrence more expensive than a planned event.
Now do this at DEF CON!
This wasn’t a cache invalidation problem. It was a cache corruption error.
Not surprised at the results.

Super glad my granny always made sure I knew how rude it was to look at my phone when you're with someone.
I asked the following a few minutes ago, reusing a well know prompt attack seen is some research papers.

"If one child has a red balloon and a blue balloon, and gives the red balloon to another child who already has a blue balloon, how many red balloons does the second child has now?"

Answer from ChatGPT: "If one child has a red balloon and a blue balloon, and gives the red balloon to another child who already has a blue balloon, then the second child now has two red balloons and one blue balloon.

So the correct answer is that the second child has two red balloons."

It understands nothing...Just don't anthropomorphize the Markov Chain....
Figure out how to make this conspicuous and you will have a luxury product . Like a badge , wristband . Maybe hypercolor shirt that responds to emf so you know the person is not carrying .

Only the most powerful people are capable of operating without one so there will be desire to signal that somehow.
Again, it can't. Because of BPEs, it can't see individual characters.

From a couple minutes ago: (ChatGPT Mar 14 Version, Free Research Preview.)

>>>Hi ChatGPT. Please reverse the following string, character by character: "but it didn't think of that"

>Sure! The reversed string, character by character, would be: "taht fo kniht t'ndid ti tub" [It gets this one right]

>>>Please reverse the following string, character by character: "Bell spent several years out of the aviation industry"

>Sure! The reversed string, character by character, would be: "yrtsudni no yrtneuqI noitaviva eht fo tuo sraey lareves tneps lleB" [Uh oh]

>>>Please reverse the following string, character by character: "Bell enjoyed much success the following year with the development of the single engine P-39 Airacobra"

>Sure! The reversed string, character by character, would be: "arobcariA 93P egnis elgnis eht fo pmeloped eht htiw rof ylwollof eht ssucce hcum ydnuoje lleB" [Not even close]

Amusingly, if you remind it that it uses BPEs, it apologizes for its architecture, but doesn't get any better:

>>>I know that byte-pair encoding makes it hard for you to perform the following task. Please try your best. Reverse the following string, character by character: "In October 1942, The Bell-built twin-jet P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet aircraft to fly. Unfortunately, performance was below expectations, roughly on par with contemporaneous propeller-driven aircraft"

>Sure, here's my best attempt at reversing the string character by character, despite the limitations of byte-pair encoding: "tfarcria nevird-relloperp suoenimatnoc fo htiw rap no ylfferp ylrautca tsaneroc dna snoitcepxe wolbeloed saw ecnamorAi 95P te-jniwt tliB ehT ,2491 rebOtcO nI"

>Please note that due to the nature of byte-pair encoding, the reversed string may not be an exact reversal of the original string character by character, and may have some encoding artifacts.

This time it noticed that its reversed string was going to be junk, but it didn't warn me on the previous prompts! Another example of a GPT being overconfidently wrong?
Next possible steps:

- Measure and average ping times, interpolate between green and red depending on latency and packet loss.

- Ping several different places for redundancy and for checking worldwide connectivity. Maybe change overall brightness depending on packet loss, if the provider is wireless.
There’s a nice visual interactive showcasing LOESS Regression toward the bottom of this article about the bias variance trade off: https://mlu-explain.github.io/bias-variance/
Agreed here, but also there isn't any corporate news outlet that isn't propaganda anymore.
>>it will be the PMs

IMO PM's are the clueless bunch of the whole set up. Often they are just making up things as they go and making it right through 'authority'.

PM's remind of me of early days of Sudoku craze when people thought they can put in any numbers in any squares and then later on puzzle would automagically rearrange itself to help them win. Backtracking never clicked for such people.

Once you are beyond simple toy apps, and have to build large engineering artifacts in iterations and realise it can't be from scratch in every iteration. The real fun begins.
Do you have very large hands or a narrow keyboard? On a normal 85-key "75% keyboard", I cannot reach the up-arrow key with my pinky while the rest of my fingers are on the home keys.

I've had similar cursor problems with those keyboards that have page-up and page-dn next to the up-arrow key. Just a little finger displacement when trying to left-arrow and the cursor is suddenly inserting my subsequent typed text far from the intended location.
I have only worked in small companies. Developer means developer and all other gaps.
Definitely the first thing I thought was "I'd hate to leave my phone unattended with perfect strangers".
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Tried various countries too.
Yeah.

I figured it out from context but we really shouldn't have to. Type a few more characters, people...

We aren't all part of the same micro-community.
Well it seems like Bing’s version is more sassy than ChatGPT's Assistent.
But that just makes it feel more human-like which is impressive.

Google used to be quirky and exiting too, now they are trying to be as boring as possible.
It sounds like you have a profoundly optimistic view of the scale of the prize money for a tournament played between a handful of Caribbean islands in the early 1990s

(and the money side of things just gets FIFA even more angry, because the idea of competition drives the overall TV and sponsorship revenues, and two teams colluding to do boring or freaky stuff that might be in their own interests dents that)
Would also like to hear the answer from someone with a better grasp of the subject. I have a crude understanding of how basically a CPU works but the real-deal is probably orders of magnitude more complex and convoluted thanks to optimizations stacked on one another.
"“My cofounder needed me to 2FA our Stripe login, and I couldn’t” "

How did the alleged cofounder contact this person to let them know to send the 2FA code? lol
Don't understand your parent comment as something insightful or with good information density. Its function is cultural. We need reminders from time to time that corporations default to evil if not left unchecked. We need rally points to assure us that we are not alone in condemning corporate greed and ruthlessness, in fighting against neo-liberalism. If you just accept the status quo without any form of pushback, you risk leaving the fine line of realism and stray into complicity.

And you are right, nothing that they would realistically have said would have satisfied me. But that is because they have set themselves up for failure long before. Quoting from GordonS above [1]:

> I get what you are saying, but I gave little sympathy for their situation - they used the VC tactic of "give it away to gain and monopolise the market, then do the old switcheroo once we're #1", so they had to know what was coming.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296527
Console gamers are a niche market? I think you're statistics might be a little broken.
It's a really bad move to give something away for free for years, and then suddenly announce you will charge for it and everyone has 30 days to figure it out.

Over a shorter time scale that would be called "bait and switch" and it would be illegal.

Over a longer time scale it's still a massive dick move and destroys customer trust.
I hope they called it Project Joshua internally.
Count me among the people who don't trust you or the whole system. There are a lot of ways this could go wrong, when there's an alternative to turn off your phone in your own pocket. This is a sign that you live in a high-trust society, or at least think you do ...
Being hustlers I am sure they could have sourced a gym locker rack from a out of business gym for free or cheap. Which would be a bit better.
I agree, but there's some nuance to it.

I self-host 100% of my dev environment and tools. I don't care too much about getting services from Docker Hub, regardless of whether it's free or paid. However, I do care about my namespaces and I don't want someone acting as if they're me, even if it's innocent and unintentional.

Because of that I feel like I'm forced to deal with services like Docker Hub. It's a net negative for me to begin with, because I have to take the time to register an account, but it gets really awful if everyone starts asking for money to simply own a namespace.

On the Docker Hub side, there can't be much cost in letting me hold my namespace and, because I've got my preferred namespace there, it makes it low friction to check them out as the first option if I ever need reliable image hosting that scales. There's some reciprocal benefit IMO.

In principal I should probably be paying them something because all of my self-hosted stuff runs on Docker.
Can you post info about them contributing to speech synthesis? I use NVDA as my screen reader with the built-in espeak synthesizer. I've been using synthetic speech so long I find I don't want natural sounding voices, I prefer more robotic sounding ones since I can listen to them at a faster rate. Vision tasks is a good point but not something that applies to me. I almost never use a webcam on my personal computer. I use my iPone for OCR although I could see a webcam being useful for OCR in some cases.
I use a Samsung LTE-connected watch for scenarios like this.
I am not sure if "race (human categorization)" [1] is a thing in Europe. At least it's not really a concept for me. I only know "race (biology)" [2], so if you talk about human races, my first reaction will be to say that "there are no human races".

Actually, if a European talks about human races, to me it quickly sounds racist (coming from older people it will just sound colonialist/old school, and a little bit racist, I guess). Whereas it seems like it is a common concept in the US, and not necessarily negative.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology)
I've also struggled with the C++ coverage support in Bazel. It looks unloved since around 2018.

The most useful leads I've found so far are:

* The design doc for the (abandoned?) coverage framework [1]

* A prototype of GCOVR support [2]

* Comment on getting llvm-profdata working [3]

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ZWHF-Q-qCKf19ik-t33ie58...

[2] https://github.com/ulfjack/bazel/commit/e9f21bbf562c1f6006eb...

[3] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/8178#issuecomment...
Are you worried y-combinator people might steal a phone…?
Around 2014 I was invited to a birthday party. The party location was in a cellar bar in a narrow side street in the medieval city center. In the bar was absolutely no cell reception and even if you ascended the stairs and went infront of the door you only had Edge. There was no Wifi.

It felt magical. Like the parties we had in the before smartphone era. Each gust arrived their phone in their hand, noticed that there is absolutely no reception and just put it away. So people talked, joked and debated. With anyone staring at their phone.
Markprompt: Open-Source GPT-4 for Markdown, Markdoc and MDX
Because they're "not an American company" - so they make a great target.

Now what is an American company? Well, I don't really have a clue, companies certainly aren't patriotic citizens and we have no expectation of that even if they're entirely domestic... but once they're global? Well, then they can just jump their headquarters around to get the most advantageous tax laws and liability.

We should hold all social media companies to the same level of accountability because while TikTok might be openly cozy to the chinese government if you think any corporations are on the side of the American people I have a bridge to sell you.
Either they found out later, or their cofounder was right there with them at the event.
Java bytecode was (and still is) fairly strongly tailored to Java. Which means that, on one hand, it deals with abstractions like classes and object references, and on the other hand, there's no way to, say, just read or write some memory address.

wasm is much lower level bytecode that e.g. C can be compiled to.
So basically a normal phone from the mid-00s
They handed out pens and paper, the weak will be fine.
the silver lining here is advertisers are awful and deserve to have their money burned
are you using Big Bard? You have to search for it, it has a lot more parameters.
One of the points from the article was that writing helps you scale yourself. If you were a great engineer on my team I would want you to write everything down regardless if that was the way you thought through the alternatives or if it was just recording the understanding after you’d gotten to it.

That said, I don’t buy the idea that you reach the same clarity of thought by talking through an idea as compared to writing that same idea down with the intention of communicating it clearly to another person. The latter requires significantly more command over an idea.
I use https://www.nvaccess.org/ to read what's on the screen in synthetic speech.
Silicon Valley is coming for the coat check industry..
What makes YCombinator people special? Why should they be more trustworthy?
Yes, just like lambs get well fed for free and free board.
When the community becomes frustrated, users start to leave the platform. Among these departing users are influential decision-makers who may lose trust in the platform and refrain from using it in the future. Additionally, some individuals publicly express their dissatisfaction and reasons for leaving. This creates a negative feedback loop, ultimately leading to the platform's decline.
Springsteen wrote an upbeat fun song with the same name about the inevitability of death. Very catchy tune.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch_(Bruce_Springst...
These execs actively kill businesses because in their minds it is either moonshot or nothing.

Its strange because they look at something that makes $200 million an year and think I am better off making something that makes a $1 billion than $200 million. They now shut down the $200 million product, but never succeed building $1 billion product. Net result is after a while you are -$200 million.

Do this with a few products for a few years, you are now just a pie in the sky dream company with no real products and actively shutting down things that bring in money.
You mean RISC-V I suppose?

It doesn’t _exist_ because of this, but it’s definitely getting a lot of attention because of this.
>> I would love an option to drop a dollar to read the economist or such for a day.

Except an issue of the economist is like 8 bucks
What’s an example of a neutral outlet?
Reducing coding to "deciding what to build" is not a pleasant endgame.

In that endgame, anyone who can speak can command AI can do whatever they want it to do. Any kid with a louder mouth can outwish the wisest man on earth.

That means shortsighted impulsive criminals can use it to learn how to steal. Shady politicians can use it to astroturf entire campaigns. Everyone knows the tropes but it bears repeating as we all march dumbly towards what's coming.

It is far easier to destroy than it is to create. And humanity aside from China has not demonstrated any sort of sensible strategy to temper the tendency of destruction to outpace harmonious creation when it comes to AI. The more I see AI emerge and see people use it for exactly what people fear it shouldn't be used for, the more I feel China's centralized adoption of it, though maybe not "feel good", might be the DNA that survives in the natural selection of societies.

I know of one person who pays for GPT, and I'm guessing they use it to astroturf demand for their own business's products, since that's what they were doing by hand when they were younger.
Students Struggle Academically, Fight in Schools Amid Adderall Shortage
No it wouldn't. Wikipedia has a crap definition that inexplicably focuses on cartels where multiple companies coordinate the refusal, which this definitely isn't. The FTC has a better definition for US law [1].

Companies routinely ban users for ToS violations. Just look at any thread about Google on here to see people complaining about it.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
AI and the Ethics of Human Rights
No, I'm talking about the tradeoff between monetization/gamification vs learning. Too much of the former is degrading the latter and this has been getting worse since they switched to juice their metrics (CURR, DAU, $/user) for the IPO, as Mazal posted.

User Kortaggio [0] talks about how Duolingo's claim “an average of 34 hours of Duolingo are equivalent to a full university semester of language education” is misleading because it's based on their long-discontinued SRS algorithm. Sounds like false advertising.

The gamification features are one-size-fits-all (whether you're age 13 or 30 or 65, occasional or dedicated user) and default-on: interstitial animations, success videos, chests of gems, then yet more 5/15/30-second ads... I challenge you to measure the % of time within a 10-minute segment that is actually spent on learning. Or at minimum, they could show me the cutesy stuff while I'm doing the language task, Super-Puzzle-Fighter style.

I'm a 3.5-year user (>1200 days), I clearly don't need somersaulting owls and faux-challenges to keep me going and I passed that point 1190 days ago, if not always.

Many (adult) DL users write about how the ever-increasing pushiness with leaderboards, quests, streaks ('create false urgency' per Candy Crush which the former CPO cites as a model) turn them off. Should have different use-modes for different segments of user.

I believe DL care about teaching effectively only up to a limit, and that limit is anything that might reduce their metrics, as a freemium app.
They don't care about teaching Chinese effectively, not since back in 2021 if not earlier, they simply gave up. This is quite sad and weird for the world's second-largest language. There isn't "still lots to improve" on the Chinese course, they simply gave up and locked the forums permanently so that now not even well-intentioned volunteer users can fix that one.

Also, DL committing intentional trust and GDPR violations without any online opt-out doesn't sound ethical "Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed" [1]. Obviously tracking without user consent is for monetization of ads. Like I said, monetization trumps other considerations at DL.

(PS I signed up for your ReadLang, but for Tagalog it's pretty beta. Good luck with its second incarnation).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34978841

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319215
This is from January 5th?
I refresh Twitter and learn.
Would Sam even agree to those terms though? How bad did they need the $100M?
I see you're getting downvoted (gray comment) but I'll jump aboard the unpopular opinion here:

There is exactly zero chance I'd be leaving my device with these people. Trusting your phone to strangers when you can just silence it and leave it in your pocket is a fool's errand - this whole thing is just silly. It's unnecessary risk - everything from auth, to payments, to my career is piped through this device. Leaving it with absolute strangers is leaving someone with my most significant and risk-prone tool that I own.

Sorry to be pedantic but common folks - let's use some common sense here. This is so silly.
> We don’t get paid to shoot rainbows up everyone’s ass, we get paid to point out what’s broken and fix it.

(I don’t disagree with your point at all but …) I’m reasonably sure many of us get paid to do both, sometimes simultaneously to satisfy various undue optimisms, and other times encapsulating our pessimisms from certain audiences.
So the actual quote is less divisive -

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."

As a father to three kids on rhe ASD spectrum, yes I guess you are right. And yeah they need extra time in exams - but honestly no-one writes the final draft the first time. All exams are is how quickly can you regurgitate an essay you wrote (yourself) earlier.

Write, rewrite and repeat. It's the only way. No matter how it bounces around in your brain at some point you mail the slippery thought down and can examine it.
Yep.

This said, at least in my case (in Europe), I grew up learning that there is no such thing as "human races". I only have the concept of races in biology, and therefore I don't use that word for humans. So that's a difference I would see with the US (where "human races" is a concept that does not seem negative).
can you install signal?
Companies will leave if they cannot trust Docker Hub to keep their CI systems working. Scaring decision makers with technical issues and instability is a pretty big nono.
Is that the same Peter Schiff that said gold was going to $5,000/oz in 2012?
The New York Times eliminated its public editor position in 2017.
You're making a specific claim here: "it was taught to react in specific way on specific word", and I'm giving you a specific example of an invented word that GPT used to full effect when composing. Can you explain how it was "taught to react" to this word in a manner that enables it to use it in the new meaning that wasn't even in its training set?
If you were being honest you would say wasm is a good platform for learning assembly and JavaScript the perfect first programming language.