skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wireless charging has been around for 100 years
I was reading about a Buddhist ritual for self mummification. The final phase involved being voluntarily lowered into the ground in a lotus position until they die.

It’s quite amazing what the human mind can do. Especially when you’re crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
Considering the context, no.
Sure it is. There's a shit ton of shit on spotify, but if I want to listen to blackened ambient doom or technical jazz fusion death metal I might have one or two options each. Just because there are ~1000 Kanye/Taylor Swift wannabes trying to cash in on that played out mainstream sound doesn't mean there is enough music.
I think that depends on your view of evil. One could conceptualize it as the absence of good. It's a subtle distinction, but its implications are far reaching.
Is that the component of the aircraft that allows it to yaw? If so, I imagine it’s less than ideal for this to fall off at speed.
That was the biggest takeaway for me too, what a lot of duplicated effort and lost opportunities competition can bring.
parler was actually built on wordpress, lol
Might include "private" groups or DMs that are hard to scrape. Plus data to tie handles to real people.
Yeah it is bonkers to me that people don't turn all the stuff on. There's a lot of help out there that is basically free. It's worth taking an hour or so to go through all the checks--if nothing else it'll probably make you wise to some new footguns.
No. I always format every hard drive I buy, but GP asserted that their firmware has likely been compromised for years.

That's a strong statement, unsupported by, well, anything.

Not saying it isn't true -- and if it is, I want to know about it -- as it puts my systems at risk.
Hans Reiser Murder Rap
I case someone is interested in some search and seizure actions that happend in germany: https://www.xn--pimmelgate-sd-7ob.de/en/
Synthetic Data from Compilers
What is the measure of an idea though?
It took me a little bit to understand the article's wording but here goes.
The manufacturers say it is difficult to comply with the law by cleaning the equipment. So they want to label that the product may contain sesame by accident. But they can't say that because it wasn't intentional. So they have to actually put sesame in so they can label it.
This just made me realize that even though I pronounce Linux as "Lee-nux" (the same way he does), I always read his name as "Lie-nus" (like the Charlie brown character).
Perhaps the price for committing crime is very high. Or poverty in a given place is not actually a life of misery.

In my experience, especially in South America, the twin forces of poverty and civic dysfunction produce desperation - and that seems the driving force behind the sorts of “crime in the streets” that gets headlines.

Of course in other places on the same continent corruption (narco, mining, logging, etc) produce violent crime that plays out quite differently.
Seems the "Captivity" sections goes into more depth about why she probably doesn't hold the record:

> For the first six months of her captivity, Kampusch was not allowed to leave the chamber at any time, [...] Afterward, she spent increasing amounts of time upstairs in the rest of the house,

> In later years, she was seen outside in the garden alone

Seems she wasn't underground for the entire duration.
Greenland and Madagascar would disagree. But yes on second thought, you are correct with the river.
Hmmm - given that just a couple of weeks ago while looking at cars literally every dealer had a 4k to 10k “market rate adjustment fee” (literally what they called it) I’m not sure how much I trust a claim that this is magically over. I don’t see it really stopping until people can just buy directly from the manufacturer.
...and is owned and funded by American Republicans.
> In my view, the reasoning for not releasing GPT4 information (hyperparameters, etc) had nothing to do with AI safety. It was a deliberate marketing decision

In their technical report they give both reasons:

"Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar."
Beta: Hire a virtual team of domain-specific artificial workers
I've found myself to be depending on ChatGPT for more and more micro-tasks. I've found that once you get comfortable with the prompting workflow, you start to wish you could do it faster and with fewer keystrokes and clicks. Fumbling with text files of prepared prompts quickly gets cumbersome.

So I had a bit of a vision - I wanted to have a contact-list of assistants that I've "hired" on demand simply by writing their biography. With AI-generated profile pics.

This is a beta, right now it's a bring-your-own key model (will enable oauth as soon as OpenAI provides it), and a fraction of the whole vision, but I wanted to put this out there to see what people think, I wonder if I got the UX right, and if others find it compelling or not. Right now the 'workers' don't have memory of previous messages, to reduce token costs, each request has its own context, and gets treated as a new task. I just think sending entire chat log histories just to provide context is wasteful, without some smart filtering, or at least user-control.
Dargo taught me that revenge is best served immediately!
Uber fares allegedly linked to phone battery levels
Hunting them is the easy part, relatively speaking. The hard part is what comes afterwards: getting the carcasses out of the bush and to a meat processing facility. It's not as though they turn into packages of pork chops and bacon when you shoot them, after all; butchering a pig is a substantial amount of work and it has to be done promptly to prevent spoilage.
Really? The no-sun condition would drive me insane.
Given that humans haven't adapted 100% to "raw water" after millennia of evolution, the odds aren't really in their favor.
Lot of game assets are static, and people are working on animated NERFs too. Also another necessary thing will be collisions and physics.

example for character animation:

https://zju3dv.github.io/animatable_nerf/

example for the static world already working in Unreal engine real-time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjpzMDur7UY

diffusion models for NERF asset generation:

https://sirwyver.github.io/DiffRF/

https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/

Physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0PM-wv_Xg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eklh1pIAri0

and there are a lot more research being done on this, it's hard to keep up with all the things happening in AI
Surface water, perhaps. But the water from aquifer fed artesian wells is generally hundreds or thousands of years old.
https://nitter.net/dril/status/473265809079693312
The way a lot of people experience "the web" is not primarily text, but instead compressed screenshots of text. And screenshots of screenshots, ad infinitum.
> Among the measures likely to be proposed by parliamentarians is for developers of products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to declare if copyrighted material is being used to train their AI models, a measure designed to allow content creators to demand payment.

well that will be the end of the parasitic AI revolution

good riddance
No? I used "you're" correctly. You might be parsing my sentence incorrectly.
That's just your perspective and indicative of how far left you are. You don't realize where the overton window has shifted.

I'm going to lay something down on you, the 2008 John Stewart version of Fox News that you're fighting in your head... Doesn't exist. Fox is FAR MORE controlled opposition than a source of conservative values.
this seems like it might be useful for arguing on HN
> There are some people the world is objectively better off without.

“Better” is always subjective, so this is false.

> The issue of course is who gets to decide that

This is an issue exactly because better is always subjective.
On paper, it would be easier to lift them from the moon than it would be to intercept and slow them down enough to land them on earth. When the asteroid hits the moon it expends huge amounts of energy in the impact, slowing it to the a near-stop as compared to its speed while free in space.

It may be possible to aerobrake asteroids at orbital velocities in earth's atmosphere, but that is a VERY dangerous proposition. It might work for small rocks, but a commercially-relevant chunk of iron would be a very dangerous object to point at earth.
Proxyman is fantastic. It replaced Charles for me.
Instead of putting down what others are creating, how about you submit a creation of your own that is more to your liking?
"Radios" in Spotify are a shadow of their former self anyway. They used to be a theoretically infinite list of songs that you could up and down vote, which would then influence the next songs to be added. Now it's just a playlist of stuff Spotify deems similar and you essentially just have to deal with it.

Discovery via their radio used to be great. Whenever I tried it more recently it was kind of awful. I've switched off of Spotify many times over the past few years, only to regrettably come back and be disappointed again.

I wish Apple would just make a proper cross platform Apple Music client, then I could switch in peace. All the other alternatives lack some of the more obscure artists I listen to regularly. And while I try to purchase as much as I can, not everything is available digitally and I don't really want to import CDs from the other side of the world.
I understand you're trying to get a concrete definition of "network abuse", but you won't find one. It's not really possible to create a concrete definition that won't somehow include legitimate user traffic.

And I know, now you want to define "legitimate user traffic".

The problem is that the expectation for such strictly defined terms is what leads to legalese that's impossible for anyone that isn't a lawyer to understand.
It looks exactly like a scam site to me. Some information to get gullible people to start clicking and giving away information, but not anything actionable or verifiable. I wouldn't register an account, let alone use a google login or anything similar.
That's only true if the judge doesn't throw the case out nearly immediately, which they will do if they view that the plaintiff's case is bullshit.
The site clearly wants to collect email addresses, likely to sell as these particular email addresses are likely fairly valuable, otherwise there wouldn’t be any login at all
The Ajanta caves were monasteries, but they still had contact with each other. The monks would also have responsibilities and chores to do around the site, plus interaction with the lay public who bought offerings, and presumably with visiting aristocrats and officials who paid for their upkeep.
Skynet isn't the problem – GLLMs will destroy reality
This talk is about how generative large language models like ChatGPT are a new (since 2017) kind of AI, and they've turned out to develop surprising emergent capabilities like developing a theory of mind (currently equivalent to a 9-year-old human) without anyone noticing for a couple of years. This is a transformative technology, and developers need to look at the new responsibilities that come with it or we will watch it destroy our reality.
Then why are you unable to answer the question. What is the crime you're accusing him of and where is the evidence from the laptop to support that?

It was not a lie. Unless you can prove that any of these claims are true, it wasn't a lie.
So? Is this meant to be some kind of gotcha?

My guess is that both your old life as an attorney and current life as a IT/IP consultant involve some kind of "fee-based Consultancy services"
Because then it loses the shareability - you can't compete with your friends when you're all getting different songs to guess
Twitter mostly - https://twitter.com/brettunhandled/status/161317951121827840...

It was also picked up by FastCompany, TechCrunch, some others, which has helped people continue to find it
Not entirely accurate. They don’t own 49% yet [0].

Microsoft invested $10B, and get 75% of OpenAI’s profits until they receive $10B and _then_ they get their 49% stock certificate.

[0] https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10...
Impulsive people can act impulsively.
Thanks for sharing, I had not heard of that - that has fascinating implications for humans inhabiting planets with different rotation periods! (I'm surprised I haven't seen that explored in more sci-fi)
"There are an estimated 314,808 trans people living in Thailand" https://weareaptn.org/

Thailand has a total population of 71.6 million.
Can you share with us the main differentiator your product has over some behemoth like Google translate? I'm personally an occasional tourist to Japan only and wish I could find a course in "tourist essentials" or "Tourist fluent" Japanese
millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds.

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
https://hackers.ee was started as a volunteering project to help people who got scammed on the internet. You know, all these fake investment schemes where callers play on stupidness and grid.

I've helped them to gather and do properly documented their cases, and support them during their visits to the police to make a claim. Police try to bounce as it's always a headache due to multiple countries/jurisdictions involved - VOIP provider from Finland, hosting in the Netherlands, money goes to Chinese company bank account, etc.

I had to demonstrate to them it's not something impossible, so I've provided guidance, prepare requests drafts, etc. I've dived deeply into OSINT, forensics, audit, bank compliances and procedures, infrastructure enumeration, and other cybersecurity things to solve these problems.

There were never payments required, but when it works people donated some money to keep infrastructure, as a tip or so. When it becomes 30k+ annually years ago, I've decided to make it my full-time job, with some pivot on what we're doing - now it is mostly cybersecurity services to businesses and companies. But still helping civilians to handle scam attempts every month.
it is black magic, absolutely respect C developers.
The Incredible Machine was amazing, as was the spiritual sequel "The Incredible Toon Machine"
Now add this to your prompt. "please write a simple python program to generate these types of reponses" and see what it spits out!
You take it down, and give what info you have to the police.

The main problem has been that mindgeek didn't take it down, because they were idiots.
The best argument for separating the Americas is probably the existence of the Darien Gap. I’m not sure there is more inhospitable route in a populated area anywhere in the world.
No... not at all. If that was true, then why didn't FOX News, Breitbart, or any of the other right-wing media outlets show evidence of these supposed crimes? Why would FOX News bury the story to not affect Biden's chances of being elected? That doesn't even make any sense.
Economic cost of reduced carbon sink and instability of Central American forests
> There are some people the world is objectively better off without... I was quite relieved when Rush Limbaugh died, for example. I will feel a great deal of relief when Putin and Xi eventually kick the bucket.

There's nothing "objective" about this at all--this is an extremely Western/US-centric view of the world. Most of China does not consider Xi Jinping an evil person who the world would objectively be better off without.
Super excited of you.

- Do you have any outside hired help? I see you still have no employees, but do you contract with anyone to do customer support as an example?

- How many approx customers do you have these days? $10M revenues = 10,000 customers. Is that roughly correct, if so - wahoo, congrats.
I loved the pizza fridays in my company.
Thank you!

Yes she still makes all the products (with help though now) as she finds a lot of enjoyment doing it and as we're trying to find shortcuts for our work, she found her ways on becoming more productive on the making process. At some point this whole thing became unmanageable, especially on Christmas.

Now the business operates with 3 people on board, me for the digital part, she for the art behind the brand and another one person full time for order management, client support, helping on the making etc..

And very soon we'll hire one more and move out of the house to a bigger space because we'll enable B2B as there is demand on these kind of products.
> The practitioners of sokushinbutsu did not view this practice as an act of suicide, but rather as a form of further enlightenment.[14]

At what point do we consider this a mental illness rather than some higher ascent?
The sentence:

> I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å

mentioned in the other comment is understandable to a swedish speaker, but it's written half-phonetically. The words i, å, and ö are properly spelled, however.
I almost can't believe this is actually for real, it reads like satire from TheOnion.com.

Welcome to America in 2023, where they are deliberately adding allergens to food, in order to comply with potentially over-reaching laws...

It's peanuts too: https://snacksafely.com/2022/04/company-will-add-trace-amoun...
This is all anecdotal, but this one hits home for me. As a longtime NPR supporter well before the 2016 election, I wholeheartedly agree with all your comments. There was a drastic change leading up to that 2016 mess. We shouldn't forget the comment section was shut down in 2015 as well. An abstraction layer was added to it as a solution, but it really seemed to take away from the site as there were a lot of great discussions and debates taking place.

I'm fairly anti-Trump myself, but he never lived in my head rent free - a spade is a spade. The bias can be heard within minutes of tuning in, which I still do every time I'm in the car. I treat it just like I do CNN or Fox, which is with a grain of salt.

All that being said, there is still a lot of really awesome content coming from them. This American Life is still one of my all time favorites.
Rocket SpaceX may lease High Bay 1 in the VAB; China to fight price war
That sounds like an email collection scam…

Edit: OP has also never posted before
Why ChatGPT is a security concern for your organization-even if you don't use it
ChatGPT may not be used by all organizations and may even be banned. But that doesn't mean you don't have exposure to the security risks it contains. This post looks at why ChatGPT should be part of your threat landscape.
Wouldn't "e" just be a contraction of "en" in this sentence? Is it "det" in the dialect?
>TV has been doing popup ads for years and I am quite sure many Android games also do it. Then you have ads that could be directly embedded into the game play or the games environment itself, a port to Stadia was necessary anyway, so adding ad support could have been done as part of that.

A fair point, and one I hadn't really considered.

I was thinking along the lines of multiplayer FPS games and the like. If you stop play to show some players ads, they'll be dead/have lost by the time the ad is over. If you stop play for all players to show them ads, I'd expect really high loads on servers as they "customize" the ads by region and PII.

Alternatively (as you imply), using "product placement" ads in-game without interrupting game play, I suppose that could work, no matter how disgusting it might be.
Do the documents also have like four words on each page and you've to spend your entire time scrolling to navigate?
I use both Mission Control Plus and Batteries. Very useful!

No problem if don't want to answer, but I'm curious about what rough percentage of your income from those apps comes from Setapp? How does their compensation even work for a permanently running utility? As far as I know, there's not a lot of information out there about their business model and how they compensate developers.

Anyways, thanks for the useful apps.
Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting
if it's hard to understand maybe there's a rage bait component at play, maybe the people who got sick aren't new-age health nuts but that were kids playing around that zone.
Why don't you go out and drink raw water for a while and report back after.
v8 has its own build chain, which involves ~5gb of downloads. that build chain doesn't work on many platforms, and requires very specific versions of prerequisites including specific glibc versions.

the build chain consists of specific compilers, specific versions of chromium parts and pieces, its own sys root, everything.

since the API for v8 changes on a regular basis (not as much as it has in the past, at least), you cannot simply change out v8 versions, as they likely will not work.

v8 is also compiled differently for each embedding application, and thus a shared object won't work correctly across multiple applications, and besides is strongly advised against by the v8 team.

nodejs has its own build process that they've been maintaining since the v8 3.1.4 days, but it is specific to node.

so, it just adds up to a difficult maintenance.
What don't you like about RBS? I've been retro-annoting a couple of small projects, seems quite reasonable (but tooling is immature, documentation thin on the ground).
> I was quite relieved when Rush Limbaugh died, for example.

Sure, and I can be relieved too when specific people, who cause great suffering, die and therefore stop.

Relief is a different thing than taking great satisfaction in it. It's not schadenfraude I feel about their death: it's relief about having one less thing to worry about, not relief at finally getting my vengeance.
It's also not affordable to treat mental health here. A 50 min session costs $220 and benefits mostly don't cover it to this day. The hope is that the current clinical testing with ai based therapy bots can increase accessibility and affordability to therapists I would think. What other realistic option is there?
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See my other post for a discussion of non-user security topics.

Every app user has a database user, mapped 1:1, so there are no credentials to leak. The DB credentials are the user credentials. In the demo app repository I implement open signup with email confirmation using stored procedures/a server extension. It works by creating a guest user with a well known password, but it's locked down so that the only things it can do are run a couple of stored procedures. Those then send an email to confirm ownership of the address before creating a real DB user.

Open work: don't use passwords, mint SSL client certificates during signup with the private key stored in the OS keystore. Now there's no cookies or passwords to steal! Also, OAuth integration.

The guest user / open signup is certainly a weakness for the demo, which is public on the internet (a dedicated cluster though). It's locked down as much as possible but there are probably lots of ways to screw with the server even without being granted access to anything. And there are no rate limits on signup. It's really a very basic exploration.
Not every racist is a neo nazi, not every leftist is a stalinist.

Lumping them together is a cheap tactic to aggravate people, which I think it's dishonest and not very effective.
Don't worry, we have been polluting plenty of aquifers too!
No. If you try to paste math or an algorithm box with funny notation from a PDF, it gets corrupt. Thus you need the latex source. And downloading and selecting the appropriate bits from the latex is quite fiddly.
> I just have no idea how someone could possibly be this diluted.

A few years ago on my doctor's suggestion I started making a point of drinking water throughout the day.