skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter doesn’t report the news. It’s a platform. Labels are for publishers of news.

“A platform” is just an internet term for a kind of publisher (roughly corresponding to “an online publisher who mostly publishes things for which it is – or would be, if it was operating in the US – protected from the liability usually attached to publishers via DMCA section 230.”)
Damn, what a great issue! Drinking from a technicolor fire hydrant of 90's dot-com zeitgeist.
These are companies, they work with the law: put terms of use on your content which ban cloaking your identity. When the unique identifier you put in your feeds shows up on the unauthorized profile, you now have evidence not only that they were illegally using your content but also they knew that and were trying to defeat an access control mechanism.

At that point, all of the big content companies are on your side – none of them are going for a “but we really want to use their content without paying for it!” argument – and it further increases the number of people reconsidering their continued use of the site.
Can intelligence be separated from the body?
Have you tried ControlNet with Stable Diffusion?
Transaction fees are supposed to compensate for the decline in newly minted coins. Using very bad back-of-the-envelope math, transaction fees are about $2 right now, with about 2,300 transactions per block. That works out to a couple billion dollars over the last 10 years, which isn't peanuts.

(Again, bad estimate that uses USD and today's numbers as if they'd been the same since the beginning.)
I think the government have enough (just right) power thru public funding.
Giving them extra power to mandate doctor what to do is not right.
There's an argument that the world of atoms stalled decades ago and most growth since then has been in the world of bytes.

If that's true, why? What happened in the world of atoms?
Not only that, the expectation for safety in automated devices is much higher. The benchmark shouldn't be "as safe as cars driven by Californians"; it should be "as safe as elevators in California, per mile."
i'm jealous that their washing machine has an API. I just used a 15A rated smart switch that has an espressif chip under the hood and flashed it so it tells me when the washing machine stops pulling current - that means it's done!
by simply using a third wallet that does not link the two? HIs mistake was a rookie move that could have been avoided but he got lazy. Lazy criminals make law enforcement's job easier.

https://twitter.com/Rarest2012/status/1646211056782524442
You'd use the SM-3 (USN) launched from Aegis platforms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3

Threats like this are why Japan and South Korea are the only countries outside the US to field it.

Alternates would be THAAD and the GBI, but believe those are more specific to the US Army and Missile Defense Agency's needs. The latter is also still under serious development.
"sources familiar with the situation"
I think the biggest societal impact may be not “utility” at all but rather on the social side of things. The chatbots are nerfed right now because the big companies don’t want them “acting weird” and doing things like the infamous jealous girlfriend convo between Kevin Roose and “Sydney”. But the idea behind the movie Her is essentially demonstrable now, and people are going to deliver those experiences.

I think things are going to get really weird. The prospect that my teenage son might have a virtual girlfriend does not seem sci-fi at all. Economically speaking, will people pay to chat and sext with “people”? I think yes?
Everyone has a phone these days, and every phones has emergency alerts enabled by default. You'll get notices in any actual "hits the fan" situations.
TFA is fairly literally an advertisement for easy LLM training on azure GPUs.
> Why are there so many articles about this lately?

If nothing else, it is garnering attention. Looking at it from a purely cynical perspective, it resonates enough to generate views from the readers; certainly from this crowd at least. And engagement is the life blood of social media.

More literally speaking; I don't know. Perhaps it's because that dream of a 'single' life style is becoming more and more inaccessible. How many have the financial freedom to be able to comfortably support a 'single life style' nowadays that isn't to just stay at home and play on the computer?
I'm sorry, but this mainly reads like the signal you'll get from running through this script is learning whether or not this candidate enjoys being walked through how clever you are.

That might be something you are looking for in a member of your team, but it's not a great indicator that they'll bring much additional shareholder value.
Inflation is the increase in prices. When inflation stops then prices stop rising. Deflation causes prices to go down, but the fed hates deflation and will act against it. So, yeah, prices won't be going down.
faceid under screen on iphone is still several years out
Whoa. I asked it how to use Facebook's new Segment Anything model on a specific use case in microbiology and it spat out all the code I needed.

What in the world?! This is dark magic.
in Russia very few people will say they are hapoy. The might nit elaborate why
I think similarly.

I hate the hassle of applying to jobs, even searching for them. It is far more practical to me to be contacted by recruiters, then filter what really interests me and move forward from that.

If nothing else, having been recruited puts you in a better position, negotiation-wise, from the beginning.
Perhaps the simplest explanation is these kinds of articles get lots of clicks and views, I doubt most writers have a big agenda when starting an article like this.
Imagine you yourself no longer meet these standards. What happens if you’re in a car crash and you’re seriously injured for years and lose your socioeconomic status and your chiselled abs? Do you think your husband should leave you because you no longer live up to his achievement standards?

I can’t help but read this and think that the real reason you’re single is because you dislike yourself and you’re basing your entire life around achievement in an effort to make you like yourself. Perhaps when others fail to meet those standards and are happy regardless it makes you feel resentful. And perhaps your self hatred is the driving force in your life and you’re scared of what it means if you step off the gas.

Statistically, you’re most likely going to be dead within the next 60 years. When you’re on your death bed, do you want to look back on how chiselled your abs were when you were 30 and how big your bank account was or do you want to remember the times you spent laughing and having fun with someone?
I love Hetzner compute offerings (not just price, but the CPUs they offer).

But their hardware design could improve. See picture below.

https://twitter.com/PetrCZE01/status/1637122488025923585
same

I take it for what it is, a notification engine for "influencers" and media, and a time-waster, and basically nothing else

it's essentially not good for anything else, if you put too much faith in it to do things like learning or discovering new things, you're going to be disappointed

but at what it does I think it's better than a couple of years ago when I last spent some time using it - it was unmitigated garbage at everything back then
> Java Applets were available from close to day one right along side JavaScript, and yet...

And yet, what?

But the actual question is: Why? ;-)

> There is the document web and the application web. Both are equally valid.

No, they aren't. The tech was build to support only a lightweight version of the first one. Everything on top is just a great hack, and pure insanity form the technical viewpoint!

> It is absolutely an application platform, as evidence by the fact people use it to deliver applications.

People do a lot of very stupid things. That's not evidence that doing stupid things is a good idea…

> An ever increasing percentage of desktop software is moving to the browser

Nobody is doing that because web-tech is a great application platform. It's actually exactly the other way around: Most people complain about the extremely crappy tech, but still do it for other reasons.

> I'd argue the only reason mobile hasn't followed suite is the non-market forces behind the app store model.

This makes no sense.

It would be much cheaper for the developers to not pay road toll to the app-store owners (-30%!), and they would at the same time remain in control over their own products, if they "delivered" web-apps. But most mobile developers don't do that, for technical reasons: Web apps are just crap and especially on mobile it glaringly shows.

> I can write my software exactly one time and it will run on every platform

You mean, like JVM applications already did 25 years ago?

> Compared to everything else I've worked with, the web as an application delivery platform is great. I write my code, send someone a link, and they are running my app.

What's again the difference here to Java WebStart?

BTW: Installing a JRE is exactly the same one-off effort like installing a web-browser…

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We lost between 20 and 30 years once again just for political reasons!

Only to arrive at the worst rip-off of some concepts which were already almost "working fine".

I admit that's a recurring pattern. It's always the most terrible tech that will come out on top in the end, for completely insane "reasons". The market just always favors the cheapest shit that can be rolled out with least effort. It was like that for example with things like C or UNIX. Now "worse is better" became a kind of proverb in some circles…

To be of the opinion that the technical best solutions win in the market is imho a sign of not much experience in this world. It was until now the exact opposite in almost all relevant cases, because most of the time the cheapest shit wins on the market.
If it batches syscalls could libc use it in place of the normal syscall method? You’d have to kind of deliberately nerf it by waiting on calls in spite of its async nature but this might still bring a boost due to reduced kernel user mode switching and other overhead.
Much-Hyped Water Plant Hack Wasn't a Hack, Was User Error
Why are there so many articles about this lately?

We are going through a lot of societal changes. People used to marry as a survival issue, so we still tend to default to assuming that's necessary.

The world has changed. Humans are grappling with how to navigate this new reality.

/2cents
To add further skepticism, "Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland, disagrees. He is the last surviving member of the group that drew up Canada's Charter of Rights." is a massive red flag.

1. Chretien was much more instrumental to the authorship of the Charter, and is checks CBC as he's kind of old still alive.

2. That "qualification" is meaningless. It's trying to imply Canadian constitutionalism has original intent, which it doesn't (we use a living document philosophy). So a non-applicable appeal to authority.
Liability protection.

Superintelligence didn't create Heaven, a world of no suffering, first.

Superintelligence did not design biological genetics: including inquest.

Aren't there multiple Superintelligences, and how do they meta-analytically agree to disagree?

Superintelligence might accountably cryptographically sign its communications or orders; e.g. with W3C Verified Claims and W3C PROV (so that we might ascertain that Superintelligence did indeed themself say or do things)
Incidentally, part of why I've been in no rush to watch Star Trek: Picard past season 1. At the end of that season, Jean-Luc Picard dies, period and end of story. But I'm guessing the following seasons carry on like the android that now thinks it's Picard actually is Picard.
Your neighbor didn’t understand Google when it came out, but they were informed by a friend about how useful it was.

Show them some of the power of an LLM and they too will realize the power I predict.
This is just because of the Irish corporate tax dodge, which should be internationally prevented. Ireland let's big corps, including apple and google put some workers there, then let's them "book" their revenue there from other countries at a much lower tax rate. It's basically shameful avoidance of corporate taxes.
I don't know anyone who's used Midjourney more than a day and stuck around in one of the newbies channels; pretty much everyone slides into the bot's DMs.

The social angle is not what's fueling Midjourney's success. The quality of its output certainly is.
Well, I wouldn't walk naked down Colefax at 2am, but your point is well made :D
Out of curiosity, when there are a limited number of choices, did people still have favorites? And argue that "theirs" was better?

Or were they so segmented or different that competition was not a thing?
Is this few or many?
As a Dell XPS user I'm so jealous of laptops with competent power management.
BBC has some good sources
Why on earth this is flagged?
UN, not NATO.
Ye olde Xanadu had this in their scope. I think it went further and allowed a paragraph based granularity.
Practically it works fine in many areas of the US as well—just, good areas that don’t want to put up hurdles for voters in the first place. But, give an extremism a means to disenfranchise anybody and they’ll go for it

Morally, even if it works out OK, it ought to bug you if you don’t have a cost-free way to vote.
Awesome. Glad it was better. We still have a lot of work to do :)
Yes, the problem is "easily and precisely" should just be "easily". Natural language tends to be easy but not precise, while computer code is precise but not easy. Obviously something like idiomatic Python or other similar examples are relatively easy, but a very advanced SQL query can be expressed with a relatively concise syntax but unless you are an expert is not at all easy to produce on your own compared to expressing what you want in natural language.
“peer reviewed scientific fact”

What’s that, precisely?
How? What's their technique for overcoming the anxiety with a live stream audience?
I don’t think this really answers the greater point that the commenter made though. Without the public funding, they wouldn’t have the label—-whether they deem it embarrassing or opposed to its perceived meaning.
> "powerful training runs should be reported to governments"

> "important to address the whole spectrum of risks from [...] to longer-term existential ones."

> "cause for optimism and concern -- the whole range of emotions is [...] shared by people within OpenAI"

This sounds fine. Everything is fine.
unfortunately elicit doesn't extract "meaning" from papers and let you "ask" it (yet)
"Towards a modern web stack" is only partly the topic of this, there's less total focus on ripping out the entire hypermedia stack & replacing it with their own rendering engine.

The Flutter crew is in a weird position because they believe in themselves as a strong cross platform system for enabling app developers to get their "pixel perfect" options. But stripping out all extensibility, hypermedia, making the web as bad as regular native apps is a huge downgrade for users. CanvasKit & all just doesn't fit with the web, or interoperability, or protocols, or connectivity. It's a small micosm, a bastion/exploit for "native apps" to hammer their way into the web.

At least this talk is a little more general. The idea of alloying the web is farrrr more interesting to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696
I have not! Only MJ.
I was expecting this to be the recent conversation[1] about Medley Interlisp, presented at Bay Area Lisp almost a month ago. It's been on my list to watch.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWFTiai_tA
Gen Zs – Master or Main?
I have a variety of stumbling blocks, handicaps if you will, to dating, including actually being handicapped. It's no one thing that is a deal breaker but there are enough of them, and each is quite large on its own, well ... I mentioned being handicapped. I have been on a rather intense regime of opioids for some time so I can control the pain and do things like "sleep" and "not scream into pillows." Yet if someone were to offer me the choice between keeping the painkillers or giving them up, but not feeling loneliness any more, I genuinely would not know which I would pick.

Loneliness comes in many, many forms. It exists along multiple axes and, as always, the blessed can discount the sufferings of the cursed, even if they are themselves impoverished along another dimension. I consider loneliness to be one of the great problems of society: loneliness for peers, loneliness for romance, loneliness for someone who might enjoy your company sexually. Loneliness for another person who might understand where you come from on some topic of importance to you. Some might search for others who have similar tastes in music, or film, or some other passion. Different people feel different forms of it to different degrees, but so much of it revolves around a simple concept: is there someone else who feels the same as I, who has the same thoughts about this thing? Can I really be the only one in this?

Think back and ask, when was the last time you had the response "yes, yes, exactly! Exactly like that! You've summed up what I have been trying to express"?

Relationships are only the most obvious form of this, and relief from this kind of unanswered question of the soul is balanced by the uncertainties of the trek to find someone "like." Will it take long? Will I find anyone at all? Or will I simply stagger about the landscape, a random walk of rejection, percolation theory with the personal pain of being, kindly put, unsuitable? Will I find myself utterly lost, like a penguin in a Herzog documentary pursuing some mountain I haven't the reserves to reach? Do I even begin the climb down off of the local maxima at all, knowing that descent is so often treacherous?

One of the more galling aspects is that just bringing up the topic invites advice given, all too freely, by those with no skin in the game. They will not suffer if their advice is incorrect. The person who glibly suggests you "get out there" will not experience the pain of rejection, the inner flinch as just one more sliver of your self-esteem is pared away as you recognize the suppressed flinch of revulsion on the face of another. And in this you discover, in a fractal nature, another kind of loneliness -- a person who does not care about your loneliness, making suggestions whether or not you would take them, only there to simply move the conversation to something more pleasant.

Give us a pill for that.
Really, I don't believe that "Open to Work" label makes too much of a sizable difference in our field for the better or worse, it is probably a non-issue.

Recruiters never really cared if you are looking for work or not. I doubt recruiters filter their searches by this label.

No recruiter ever:
"Oh, this guy is not Open to Work, better not to contact him, let's move to the next"

Actually, we could have a "Please do not contact, not open to work" label, and I am pretty sure you'd still be contacted several times a week by recruiters with barely, if any, reduction in the number of messages.
Kids were pissed when their TV shows were stopped to broadcast the idiocy of another child.
Potato, potato.

> The prize in economic sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901. [0]
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/
What do you mean by Bucky's tensegrity system?

I only know tensegrity from the structural engineering concept, and although I'm not on a nickname level of familiarity with Buckmimster Fuller, I'm still confused as to how it applies here.
> It means that most of the internet is left-leaning.

At the risk of sounding like I wear a tin foil hat... that's what they want you to think!
For the 1.3 billion parameter one they do mean train from scratch on your 2 hour “coffee break”.

Which totally begs the question, Microsoft AI researchers get two hour coffee breaks?

—edit—

The way they word it is confusing but, yeah, fine tune the model on your two hour coffee break.
The other side of the coin is that IoT stuff that accepts anyone's connection from anywhere is vulnerable to hack attacks.

Sure, you could secure it with a FIDO2 key or PKI or something, if you made it so that the crypto didn't rely on PII/contact info.

But you see, this is consumer equipment. Nobody will purchase FIDO keys or buy in to PKI, with all the joys of manual certificate management. Nobody in the IoT field wants to support that stuff even if hobbyists were into it.

The laundry room here is managed by a very large service company. They previously had web pages where anyone on the Internet could watch washers and dryers count down until they were finished. It was simple, it didn't use Flash, it worked for me from any device.

Then they "upgraded" and ruined everything. The laundry room is now full of Bluetooth signals, QR codes, mobile app posters, funny money that you reload into the app to pay for your laundry. It's a nightmare. Thank God they still accept coins.

But laundry rooms are high-profile targets for vandalism, abuse, inept usage, and all sorts of opportunities for breakage. I welcome central registration. A stable email address is the least I can do if it means that the machines can be serviced, and there is recourse for vandals and thieves.
FBI and FCC Warn on 'Juice Jacking' at Public Chargers
If you're literally developing a hatred for some group of people, you're probably spending too much time in toxic online spaces. Perhaps you should consider reducing your exposure to that kind of content. It's a hazard for the soul.

(I'd have said the same thing if you said you were developing a hatred for right-leaning people or anyone else.)
Why would you want to disenfranchise sociology and psychology?
My naive theory is that we're well into the diminishing return stages of the S-curves of many of our technologies. We need major breakthroughs that can start new S-curves.
At least DW is totally transparent about it. A quick look at their web site gives you that info immediately. The info page about it even figures as one of the top Questions in their FAQ:

"DW is Germany’s international broadcaster. It is organized under public law and funded by the German federal tax budget."

https://corporate.dw.com/en/what-kind-of-company-is-deutsche...

"DW is financed via funding from the state, i.e. from tax revenue. This is in contrast to the domestic public channels, which are funded via broadcasting fees."

https://corporate.dw.com/en/who-finances-deutsche-welle/a-36...
Or because people conflate statements from biological and societal domains, when they should be separating them.
One I've heard a few Canadians pronounce differently is either "California" or "Pennsylvania" with an extra syllable. So, where an American would say the "nia" syllable like "nya", a Canadian would say "Cal-i-for-knee-a"

I still wish I knew why this particular difference exists
What does the dot mean in O(n.2^n)?
Ask HN: What are your optimistic takes on the SWE job market post AI?
I think we’ve all heard quite a bit about how LLMs will impact SWE work in the near future, and would like to hear the other side. Please keep it realistic, no saying the job wont change dramatically or otherwise undersell the impact of LLMs.