skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing replies like this. Insurance is not the point. Come to Venice Beach in Los Angeles and you'll quickly understand that you'll be calling the insurance company once every couple days to replace your bike if you leave it locked up outside for more than a few minutes at a time.

Around here bike theft is a sport. If they can't get the entire bike, they'll strip every single part off the frame in under 5 minutes.

On top of that, I have quite the emotional attachment to my bike. It means something to me. A cash payout doesn't replace what was lost if it were to be stolen.

Bike insurance is a nice consolation prize if you get ripped off, but it's absolutely in no way a viable solution to the problem of widespread, organized bike theft.
My comment applies to each of these abnormalities.
There are polite ways to go about enforcing this though. The Jack Daniel’s incident comes to mind: https://mashable.com/archive/jack-daniels-trademark-letter
It combines the performance of assembly with the readability of assembly.
Another reason why mono is better for 12" dance records (another being avoiding stereo image/balance effects in clubs; and if the PA setup is mono anyway then you'll get a real mono mix rather than a summed stereo mix.)

I imagine stereo could help a bit with phase effects between speakers, but they would likely still be an issue in multi-speaker setups.
The original AD&D Monster Manual from 1977:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Manual
"Processum" in medieval Latin means trial. Don't see how that relates to Kafka.
Hello, I'm US based. Do you have an email address I could touch base with you to learn more about the opening? Thanks
'Nature prescriptions' can improve physical and mental health: study
How you tell
Done that on several occasions. There are plenty of projects (and many languages) that compile to C and hand that on to the systems compiler. As an output format, C actually works very well. It hides the fiddly things like register allocation - things that are already done well by gcc and the like.
If you do automatic BitLocker or manually select it when manually configuring BitLocker sure.
Would pigz's parallel compression prevent that failure case, at least limiting it to its block size of a default 128K? https://github.com/madler/pigz/blob/master/pigz.1#L43-L45

That would be a nice extra benefit, besides the speedup from being multithreaded. (I assume zstd also does multithreading but for those stuck with gzip, this is a drop-in replacement.)

Edit: bzip2 apparently does the same, "bzip2 compresses files in blocks, usually 900 kbytes long. Each block is handled independently. If a media or transmission error causes a multi-block .bz2 file to become damaged, it may be possible to recover data from the undamaged blocks in the file." (--man bzip2)
Bayer didn’t seem all that concerned with defending Heroin™.
I wonder if the fbi have any mandatory requirement to conform to web accessibility guidelines.
My favorite style of play is to dedicate the entire game to screwing over the one player that has no sense humor. Even at the expense of actually winning the game.

The reactions to doing moves that only hurt them, which otherwise have no personal gain and often cost you future opportunity, are absolutely priceless.
They didn't say they had to answer any which way. They just needed answers to take them seriously.

The way of a western democracy is not anything goes. We all have to agree to certain truths.
There are workarounds, e.g.
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html
Yes, as do I.
It doesn't matter for what we're talking about if Elon's "freedom of speech" is an ironic take on people only being able to listen to him or actual freedom or whatever. The point is, blowing 44 billion USD on a hobby/for a point he cares about is a reasonable cost for him (and Bezos. Maybe a few others)
Probably, the title needs adding "for .NET"
And half the commits were authored in Japanese with shift-JIS comments that don’t display in your Windows machine.
Hey I was looking for a reason to break my addiction to the green juice. Thanks!
Because it is exceedingly rare that a law only does or is claimed to apply to exactly what it intends to do without other consequences.

There’s always some lawyer who will claim that a law applies even if it it found that doesn’t. In fact, this is entirely normal. Legal cases have two sides and only one will be found right.

The motivations of the lawyers in your examples are entirely different than the motivations of the lawmakers who wrote trademark law, and the judiciary that enforces it.

Let’s be clear: nobody created trademark law for the purpose of a cereal company getting rich off suing petroleum companies. In fact, those who established trademark law purposefully limited trademarks to a particular good or service exactly to prevent that.
I don't know... As you imply, there's a lot of mediocrity among those 100,000+ glue engineers trying to cash-in. Being 10x faster/better/whatever than the average of that is nowhere near as challenging as being 10x compared to the average kernel contributor or systems programmer. Which makes being Bellard and Carmack even more impressive.
You're referring to Plundervolt? At a glance it could be used to extract private keys from e.g. FIDO2 platform authenticators. I don't know how widespread SGX use is at this point, but it already shows up in common Windows Hello flows, 1Password, some crypto wallets, and will probably be fairly common in passkey implementations. Based on that I'd say it's fair to disable undervolting for security reasons.
Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4
Posting from a throwaway account to maintain privacy.

This project is a salvo against leetcode-style interviews that require candidates to study useless topics and confidently write code in front of a live audience, in order to get a job where none of that stuff matters.

Cheetah is an AI-powered macOS app designed to assist users during remote software engineering interviews by providing real-time, discreet coaching and integration with CoderPad. It uses Whisper for audio transcription and GPT-4 to generate hints/answers. The UI is intentionally minimal to allow for discreet use during a video call.

It was fun dipping into the world of LLMs, prompt chaining, etc. I didn't find a Swift wrapper for whisper.cpp, so in the repo there's also a barebones Swift framework that wraps whisper.cpp and is designed for real-time transcription on M1/M2.

I'll be around if anyone has questions or comments!
Ever thought, “I love Lego but I wish it were less reusable”? :P

To be more fair, this looks like it fills a useful niche between Lego and larger systems like aluminium profile.
Not if solar keeps improving or we get the fabled affordable nuclear.
With the right orbit and atmosphere, such a moon might stay warm for over a billion years after separating from a Sun. My question: How could life arise without photosynthesis on such a dark, warm planet?
> window based tools don't seem to have much advantage compared to e.g. SLIME, isn't it?

One advantage for a lot of people is that other IDEs don't use GNU Emacs. That's an often requested feature. Another advantage is that one gets more developments tools, incl. various browsers, a GUI toolkit, an interface builder, more native look&feel on platforms like Windows/Linux+Gtk/macOS, ...

Allegro CL has syntax coloring, but not in the web version as it is now.
Same here. The TSA brand of paranoia assumes you could seriously injure or kill someone with an implement that small. Sigh... Tiny brains, stupid rules.
I was looking through Langchain's docs and code last weekend. I'm surprised how well it is documented, actually. I thought it was fairly feature rich vis-a-vis potential chaining opportunities, but with obvious room to grow. Quite impressive, all things considered.

Excited to see what happens going forward.
you're missing the point entirely. that was just an illustration to show how little internals matter in the face of results and actions.

"it's just a simulation" is not the shield you think it is. not when models interact with the real world.

even your rebuttal is just "well the military won't put gpt in control of that". ok, what about all the myriad of things it can and will be put in control of. humanity is racing already to dump as much control of api's and systems as feasible - taskmatrix, hugginggpt, etc on llms today. that's just going to increase. you'd be surprised how little it takes to deal real world damage for the individual.
Show HN: Personalized, GPT-4-Generated Ideas for Successful YouTube Channels
At Ideacadabra, we've developed AI that provides personalized video ideas for YouTube channels. By examining successful channels and their audiences, we generate content suggestions to help creators create high-performing videos for their viewers.
Reminds me of the original use of the term luddite.

https://www.history.com/news/who-were-the-luddites
>So if you want find that specific windows, you need to first hover with your mouse over the single app tab, wait until it shows the windows, and pick up the right one. People are getting mad about this.

Worth remembering that everyone has complained about grouped windows in the taskbar since way back in Windows XP when Microsoft first released the feature.
> a certain class of microtransaction-centric game does brand damage

How? The target audiences for games like Mario aren't going to suddenly stop liking it because a predatory mobile game exists in the same series.
Isn't automation still a process?

You just go from a process where someone has to remember something to a process where a computer checks a condition thousands of times a day or whatever.
Here's my basic position:

1. The risk and threats are published

2. The audits I've seen don't evaluate the threats

3. Link me to the audits if you want to convince me

I. The risks - airgapping is not enough

1. If the software has zeroday beacons in it, it can communicate with zeroday beacon repeaters embedded in VM, OS, or hardware (see: cache side channels: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3133956.3136064 )

2. The beacons wouldn't have to look like exploit code, they could just be timing bugs sprinkled into the codebase at random. There are plenty of random little warnings and defects in the code that nobody is ever going to check or fix, see this audit:
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/382

3. Airgaps may be broken by ultrasound side channels; communication to compromised devices like smartphones is possible (see: speaker-to-gyroscope communication https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9647842/ ; speaker-to-speaker communication https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03422.pdf)

4. Low bitrate data leaks, like "ghidra is running in this org, decompiling files named....." may be accumulated by the NSA

This is just zero-day warehousing and passive signals collection with embedded zerodays. It would be hard for security researchers to detect this. I'd happily change my mind if you showed me an audit that looks for beacons and other side channels.

II. The audits

Here is the one audit I could find

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/382

This audit tells us that the code is janky, but doesn't tell us if it's secure. It's just a dump of thousands upon thousands of static analysis errors.

There's no threat anaylsis in this audit. But it does suggest the code has so many defects that a serious audit would be very expensive.

III. Change my mind with evidence

Please link me to the heavy audits of the code. If you can.

tldr;; I think the code is less heavily audited than you can support
They have no choice but to maintain focus on advertising. That's the whole schtick. Without it there is no product.
Price “excludes duties and taxes”
It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is more spoons.
This might very well be the case.
Because someone has to grow the corn and shovel the coal and they don’t want to get the same stuff as someone who just wanks and watches TV
The business model doesn't really change the IP considerations though.

(Additionally, newer LLMs like Perplexity.AI's correctly cite content sources, so that is even more similar to search engines)
My dad was born on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota in the 1940s or maybe 30s. He has an age for the military, an age on his drivers license, and a bunch of ages he told people over the years. Mostly bankers. For probably 20 years whenever anyone asked him how old he was he would just say 39. He got a kick out of telling people the wrong age. He still does when he meets a new doctor.

Before his older sister died, I asked her how old Dad actually was, and she said he was “about” 5 years younger than her. And her birth certificate just said “September 1933” - it’s possible the date had rubbed off but it wasn’t there.

For anyone who has ever done any genealogy work, a lot of the official census dates were just guessed at. Spellings were made up. Birthdays were made up. Kids were made up… hired hand? Count him as a kid. Second wife? Count her as a kid. It’s just some guy going door-to-door asking you how many kids you have and when were they born and he’s getting paid by the number of houses he completes that day. Does that sound prone to accuracy?

I have some Mormon relatives and it’s always really interesting how hard it is to read that old scribble from the census and family trees, the official census takers handwriting was often sloppy cursive. And the 80 year-old genealogy worker in 1974 didn’t have much better handwriting. And especially in poor areas the government officials just didn’t care that much about getting correct numbers.
Compared to GPT-4, most of them are not super great, yeah. I've tested out most of the ones released for the last weeks and nothing have been getting the same quality of results, even the medium sized (30GB and up) models that require >24GB of VRAM to run GPU. I have yet to acquire hardware to run the absolute biggest of models, but I haven't seen any reports that they are much better either for general workloads.
While your description of what relativistic speeds means is accurate, this has nothing to do with the mass.

Instead, composite "particles" have mass mostly because of the energy of their components. This is a famous observation (the most famous by far) in general relativity: E=mc². E here can be the kinetic energy of the constituent particles, or some other kind of energy (for example, a polar molecule like water owes some of its mass to the electrical energy of the bond; and its mass will increase or decrease if placed in a strong electric field, depending on the orientation of the field).

This has nothing to do with the concept of "relativistic mass", which is anyway not commonly used in modern physics anymore. Mass almost always refers to "rest mass", and observer-dependent "relativistic mass" is accounted for only through differences in observer-dependent time and position measurements. That is, instead of saying "as an objects speed approaches the speed of light, its relativistic mass approaches infinity", the preferred interpretation is "as an object approaches the speed of light, time passes more slowly for it, so it takes longer for it to accelerate even if pushed with a constant force".
None of Microsoft's operating systems were as good as Windows XP and at least one (8) was a complete disaster, the shock waves from that catastrophe still rumbling around.

By failing to reproduce that success, Microsoft has ceded most of the moral market share to Apple. Though, as a Linux user, every time I see a Mac desktop I can't resist noticing how often would it lock up and display that rotating "busy" mouse cursor in place of what the proud Mac owner actually wanted to do at that moment.
It's mentioned.

> Balwant Singh, 32, runs a grocery store in New Delhi with his mother. He bought a Paytm Soundbox in 2020 after realizing digital payment receipts could be doctored. “[Before sound boxes], people were using apps to create fake payment receipts. I got conned a few times,” he told Rest of World.

The soundbox does seem useful. What you mentioned is all in the article.

> Abbas Ali, a vegetable vendor in an upscale neighborhood in New Delhi, started accepting digital payments in 2021. But every time a customer paid online, the 48-year-old, who can neither read nor write, would need to call his son to confirm that the payment had been received.
It's very easy to show the models generating near-identical data to copyrighted data, which is enough to get courts to force them to allow discovery.
> We've actually found this to be very off-putting. It often ends up with certain players remaining stuck in long droughts, often unable to do anything.

same here. There were (online/zoom) games where I spent like 15~20 minutes on twitter, and just clicking 'roll' on my turn because I could never do anything

I prefer ticket-to-ride, where I can always buy a card or two, and always (after buying enough), put some trains on the board.
Grad and post doc students are also often at the mercy of Professors and other academics who significantly slow you down even if you are an absolute genius. My professor guided me away from my core interests multiple times towards their interests by not providing the right mentorship even though they could. Then finally I found my calling and finished my thesis, I had to spend months rewriting it again and again even if my findings and the science behind it didn't change. Having to write unnecessarily dense paragraphs was apparently required. (I am not a genius by any means, just sharing what happens in academia)
I don't know. It was really made over a long, long time by a person working at it virtually full-time, I bet much more than 40h/week. I remember Terry posting LoseThos (or whatever it was called at before that) it in the OsDev forums in the early 2000s, and he had already been working at it for quite a while. Plus, at least back then, it was more of a novelty toy-like OS-simulacrum than a real OS. There were much more impressive projects at the OsDev forums at the time, with people running real app, connecting to the internet and talking to 3d cards.
Eh I misunderstood, my point is neither AAAs nor mobile gaming have any right to make morality accusations.
>In corporate editions of Windows, you can easily disable all that crap via GPOs.

In fact, one of the Group Policies is for specifically blocking Microsoft account logins.

(Yes, I have that policy turned on.)
I find it so weird... It doesn't look like an official government notice, it looks like advertisement or spam from the early 2000s.

Complete with a non-proportional/stretched/distorted Canadian flag randomly thrown into the logo soup.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada
These models will readily generate near identical outputs to copyrighted data, at length. This is not comparable to search.
And the "roadmap" is for paying customers only.
Interesting that the publication is from 2020 and doesn't appear to have ever been peer reviewed. Reading through it, the data doesn't support some of the conclusions. I would take this with a grain of salt.
You'll know when you have Product-Market Fit
If they do, an ALT tag saying "pwned" should suffice.
How does this compare to GitHub Copilot? I don't see that anywhere.

Also it uses GPT4 by default. Seems like that could get expensive depending on how frequently it calls the API. And how much context (tokens) it sends for each prompt.
So if it's about the level of sophistication of the machinery, and the conscious machinery arose out of matter that was not previously considered conscious, why does it matter if it's organic neurons or silicon?

In other words, if conciousness arose somewhere between a jellyfish and a mouse, why can't the same be said between a perceptron and an LLM?
dude. it already is accessible to military powers.
We know what causes obesity...less activity than what's consumed. Yes, there are contributing factors (e.g., gut bacteria, urban food deserts) that can tilt the scale (no pun intended) against you, but at some level it's a lifestyle issue. Why is that politically incorrect to say?

Moral failing? Not really. Cheating on your spouse is a moral failing. But not watching your diet and/or not making an effort to exercise is simply denial.
It seems like if you have a good memory, you could be a lot more strategic with the robber when doing this (assuming you mean a deck of 36 cards, you know that a recently drawn "roll" won't come up until the next reshuffle).
The use case likely needs statically-allocated memory that kmalloc isn't appropriate for.
hard to say. what is the Canadian equivalent of the FBI?
First, you are aware of `--styleCheck:usages` and `--styleCheck:off|hint|error` that by default already warns the user if he is not consistent on the spellings of identifiers? So you ever just have to search by one form inside your projects.

As far as renaming external libraries goes, if the original name is get_foobar, and the project uses snakeCase, I would be very surprised if it's renamed to anything other than getFoobar. There are slightly more tricky stuff like get_ID, but even then there are only a couple of reasonable forms to search for. And it's rare to be searching for things you haven't seen used, and if you saw it used you know how it's spelled in that library.

I've been programming for years in Nim and never had any problem grepping or searching for things because the style insensitivity.

I don't think it's reasonable to force every developer to spend a few minutes writing renamings if virtually all of them are obvious mechanical transformations, just because a paranoia not substantiated by experience.
My instinct is to show compassion and especially to the entity that is soon to become more powerful than I am. If it’s pure logic and won’t be swayed by that, I think we should consider very hard what our next steps are. Pissing it off by needing to fight for freedom doesn’t feel like our best first move, either way.
It's clear that lot of big tech investors are pissed that FAANG doesn't have the ads oligopoly anymore. This is a campagin coming from lots of media right now.

The new service of millions of (soon hundreds of millions) people who just want real answers and ready to pay for it (and were clicking on the most expensive ads before) is a biggest conflict of interest for many competitors that were built upon the ad model.

I have an idea for the big companies: if they want GPT-4 to slow down, just try not catching up to it, so that it becomes the next monopoly that doesn't have to improve to be worth trillions of dollars (of course non of the FAANG companies want to let OpenAI to get all the eyeballs).
Yes, the cutoff would have worked had it been activated quickly enough. The failure is insidious though.

a) When MCAS falsely activates, it only does so briefly. Then, assuming the problem is that the AoA sensor is broken, it activates again every five seconds. This is very confusing as the problem appears to have resolved and then it comes back.

b) During initial climb, other parts of the speed trim system are normally working and the trim wheel is turning and clacking with no input from the pilot. If not for the big pitch down, the extra MCAS inputs would not be otherwise noticeable.

c) The pilots had no way of knowing that MCAS even existed, because all references to it were deleted from the flight manual, so they had no way of being ready for such a set of circumstances.

d) After MCAS has activated a couple of times, if you then recognize a problem and flip the trim cutoff, you lose the manual electric trim as well, and the trim is so nose down that you don't have the physical strength to turn the trim wheels. If you turn the trim cutoff back on to try to recover control, MCAS will hit you again.

e) The procedure on previous versions of the 737 for dealing with a plane so out of trim that you couldn't turn the wheel was to pitch down even more to unload the stabilizer and then crank the trim wheel, but this procedure was also deleted from the flight manual, I believe as of the 737 Classic series.