skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. Geodetic GNSS systems use two different carrier frequencies to measure and correct for atmospheric dispersion. This reduces the error to sub-mm levels. The inaccuracy of real-time GNSS is due to unknown variations of the satellite orbits, satellite clocks, and earth rotation.
Question: this last year I paid software developers to create a new product, spent $1,000,000 on their wages, then I turned around and sold that software product for $1,000,000. I made no profit on this product. How much federal taxes would I owe based on this new tax rule?
> You're going to have to provide specific quotes

Why? What's the incentive? It affects me in no way if you missed something, or you don't believe me, or whatever it is that prompted this request. I find enjoyment in writing down my own neural activity, but there is nothing exciting about copying/pasting someone else's.

> I can't see anything that looks remotely like what you say here.

What did you see? What harm do you think was caused? The article I read said that the man was harmed by having people disassociate with him. Not the lie disassociating with him, people disassociating with him. Those people exhibited poor judgment in their willingness to harm another person and, if the the courts determine the harm is worthy of legal reprieve, why are the people making those poor decisions not who were penalized for their actions? Why is their stupidity Google's responsibility?

"I didn't know not to harm this man. A computer I was using said it was okay! It must be the computer's fault." should not be a sufficient argument in a court of law. But here we are.
The article you linked talks about the MFA fatigue attack. TOTP is not vulnerable to this attack since it doesn't send a push notification approval request. Would you elaborate on the viable MITM attacks that are possible with TOTP and mitigated by an active authenticator?
You can't ignore the reality that even many streams of Christianity regularly insisted on certain perfectly natural behaviours being "sinful" and worthy of eternal punishment in hell. That surely must have had some effect on the mental health of believers, but there's no real evidence our collective mental health has improved now that the majority of us no longer buy into any sort of doctrine of being born as sinful and needing to plead to supernatural beings for forgiveness etc.
So I'm struggling to see how the possibility that a percentage of modern-day young adults may have occasional feelings of guilt about their lifestyle knowing it's making some small contribution toward long term ecological deterioration could be significantly impacting mental health. What's arguably more concerning is those (both individuals and businesses) who make token gestures towards behaviour changes that claim to be for the sake of the planet etc. as though it gives them some sort of moral superiority, especially given there's little genuine analysis done as to whether the changes really are of any net benefit. It may give some artificial boost in sense of self-worth and short term improvement in mental health to the gesture-makers but is at best a distraction from what's really needed.
ChatGPT cannot reason from or apply its knowledge - it is nowhere near AGI.

For example, it can describe concepts like risk neutral pricing and replication of derivatives but it cannot apply that logic to show how to replicate something non-trivial (i.e., not repeating well published things).
Would it be possible that the warrant issued by Swedish authorities came via a prior request by the Interpol?
Specifically, it is the AU/NZ SouthPAN SBAS that's delivered via Inmarsat. They use PRN 122 for the corrections.

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/positioning-navigati...

For details: https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/123320/SBA...
There are tons of survey tools that you might be able to sell your tech to for a small exit.
So long as the known location GPS has power, hasn't been hit by lightening, hasn't be stolen by local kids, and the radio signal can reach your GPS (this is a big one - some farmers do this, but they have one GPS at home and sometimes it cannot reach all the fields), or any other the other things that can go wrong.
Charging per page view would only work for pre-approved sites and have many of the downsides as ads, not sure I like that idea at all. Also micro-transactaions are not necessarily about payments like we are used to them now, but could completely transform how donations worked.

And also paying after the fact, did you like the content? Pay. Not have to wade through ads "paying" for something that turns out was only clickbait, tracking and garbage.
https://archive.is/8fvv8
Aside from being a fan of Forth (the programming language) and being quite confused initially, let me say that the site is clean, I like it, and I'm very pleased to see a "Good News" section. :-)
People get implants that can calcify or take steroids to look or perform a certain way. All have known and proven long term side effects that are detrimental to health. Yet people will jump in line to get them.

I would argue that even if it was proven that one of those PFAS are dangerous in cosmetics some people would still use them.
Try scrolling with their widget instead of the browser scroll bar.

You can bookmark or link to any point in the thread. Add /postnumber to the thread URL if you don’t want to manually grab it.

And there are some excellent condensed themes, CSS styles and user styles out there if you want that.

Not saying you have to like it, but there are easy solutions for those specific preferences, and overall, Discourse has been good for participation on old forums.
Martin Shkreli's new startup :)
Ask HN: AI product builders, how do u assess/iterate on quality of your prompts?
I'm building an app that creates "choose your own adventure" stories. I'm looking to improve the prompt that writes these stories but I feel like I'm making changes somewhat blindly...I mean, I'm not sure if the changes I'm making are better for most users.

How do you assess / iterate on the prompts that power your apps? Any tips or tools that you'd recommend?
It's an embarrassment to Google to have two independent AI research teams. It looks like a failure of management and oversight. I'm very surprised it took this long for them to be merged.
Ask HN: Ever start a job and quickly realize it was a mistake? What happened?
Someone’s essay on that theory: https://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Spec...
If so, where are application of this? Is it too early?
The guys at https://slimemoldtimemold.com were interested in a PFAS theory of obesity, but they seem to have moved onto lithium as a greater area of focus.

My counterfactual: wouldn't you expect ski shop workers to become super obese? They're exposed to huge amounts of PFAS in ski wax.
Hum... I've noticed that this post has a deeper explanation of what your product does than your entire site.

I am really curious if ChatGPT really beat a slightly modern highly specialized AI. Did you actually try it and get better results, or are you afraid of the hype?
Long Covid is mostly a mental disorder. Just like ME/CFS.
I think Search was such a strong engineering feat that sold itself as a product, that they never had to develop the product chops that other tech companies had to.

I'm also thinking of Waymo, and the disciplined way they went about developing their technology, working with municipalities, first responders, etc. But, there is already a clear-cut product goal (drive better and safer than a human driver), existing legal and regulatory framework, and very visible and high stakes for errors (humans getting injured or killed). It's the kind of conditions that engineering excellence and mediocre product design does very well.
This seems really promising but a little too good to be true. Hope she's right.
Now please somebody create this in the opposite direction :) Down the mariana trench and beyond.
agree on it being a good play by MS. will interesting to see if they do spin it out to their other realms
I can also recommend the History of Byzantium podcast for anyone that wants to to extremely deep into the timeline.

I've listened to all 265 episodes so far, and I'm still thrilled every time a new one comes out!
Mankind has pushed boundaries far beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations in countless scientific fields.

Yet in 2023, there’s no consensus on stretching. Boggles the mind.
> unhealthy food categories

What exactly do you mean by unhealthy?

For the purposes of weight (fat?) loss (and ignoring PFAs contimation) foods are equivalent if calorically equivalent once accounting for thermic effect of protein, and digestibility of certain carbohydrates like dietary fiber and sugar alcohols...

> After the 26-week intervention period, food and instructions were no longer provided, and many chose to discontinue their participation during this period, whereas 101 remained up to the maximum duration of 26 additional weeks

This means PFAs could affect any of the main pathways of Calories In Calories Out balance from fidgeting, temperature regulation, ghrelin/appetite (lack of satiation control leading non-adherence to a diet) etc.

But there's little evidence that the foods themselves are "unhealthy" or fattening. They simply are consumed in quantities that hinder/negate attempts to lose weight.
All crypto startups use established banks to transfer and hold USD. I don't know of a single all crypto bank in US.

A lot of companies that brand themselves as a "bank" are some regional bank underneath.

(I literally work in the payments industry, for reference)

Ex: One Financial states

> ONE card is issued by Coastal Community Bank
I believe long covid could be a PTSD type of thing (shell shock, combat fatigue, etc).

I've recovered from two long hauls after two infections and as I reflect back, both of those infections were times of great stress (having a new baby, stock market tanking, layoffs, family deaths, etc).

The things that have helped me are the controversial ones outlined here. Exercise, CBT, lifestyle changes, and even some alternative ones (nicotine, cold plunges, deep breathing, etc).
I already know when my dogs needs to eat, drink, shit or pee or go for a walk or play because he usually will tell me.

Choosing to ignore your dog won't change because some magical AI can now translate it to -Im fine, Im only barking because you're an awesome being, keep your subscription humaaan-
Wow, it's a Burroughs machine on a chip!

Well, two chips actually, but the idea is the important thing.
This is a navigation satellite, it is a communication satellite that sends information you cannot get via GPS. The speed of light in the atmosphere is not a constant, this satellite is sending corrections so you can account for that (that is there is some other GPS 'near' you, at a known location, and then it compares where GPS says it is to where it really is and you subtract that difference).
Your experience and my experience do not align.

I asked GPT-4 to give me a POSIX compliant C port of dirbuster. It spit one out with instructions for compiling it.

I asked it to make it more aggressive at scanning and it updated it to be multi-threaded.

I asked it for a word list, and it gave me the git command to clone one from GitHub and the command to compile the program and run the output with the word list.

I then told it that the HTTP service I was scanning always returned 200 status=ok instead of a 404 and asked it for a patch file. It generated that and gave me the instructions for applying it to the program.

There was a bug I had to fix: word lists aren’t prefixed with /. Other than that one character fix, GPT-4 wrote a C program that used an open source word list to scan the HTTP service running on the television in my living room for routes, and found the /pong route.

This week it’s written 100% of the API code that takes a CRUD based REST API and maps it to and from SQL queries for me on a cloudflare worker. I give it the method signature and the problem statement, it gives me the code, and I copy and paste.

If you’re laughing this thing off as generating unhelpful nonsense you’re going to get blind sided in the next few years as GPT gets wired into the workflows at every layer of your stack.

> pushing the bottom out of the labor market and actively making the lives of the poorest worse in order to line their own pockets.

I’m in a BNI group and a majority of these blue collar workers have very little to worry about with GPT right now. Until Boston Dynamics gets its stuff together and the robots can do drywalling and plumbing, I’m not sure I agree with your take. This isn’t coming for the “poorest” among us. This is coming for the middle class. From brand consultants and accountants to software engineers and advertisers.

Software engineers with GPT are about to replace software engineers without GPT. Accountants with GPT are about to replace accountants without GPT.

> Literally every single argument I've seen towards this being AGI is

Here is one: it can simultaneously pass the bar exam, port dirbuster to POSIX compliant C, give me a list of competing brands for conducting a market analysis, get into deep philosophical debates, and help me file my taxes.

It can do all of this simultaneously. I can't find a human capable of the simultaneous breadth and depth of intelligence that ChatGPT exhibits. You can find someone in the upper 90th percentile of any profession and show that they can out compete GPT4. But you can't take that same person and ask them to out compete someone in the bottom 50th percentile of 4 other fields with much success.

Artificial = machine, check.
Intelligence = exhibits Nth percentile intelligence in a single field, check
General = exhibits Nth percentile intelligence in more than one field, check

This is AGI, now we are nit-picking. It's here.
> Stop trying to tell me about statistics.

Stop lying about them. Your statement about the sample size being the entire population is exactly wrong when the population size increases.
If you aren't advocating for doing nothing, but many parts of the federal government exist because nobody actually "handled things" in the "maybe someone else should be doing something" days prior to that part of the government getting created... then how do you actually propose making sure that "maybe someone should do something" gets turned into action?
To add on it, sometimes adjacent logs can help to find solution, which by using the conventional google way, you'll need to analyze those yourself. With gpt, you don't need to, or they're helping you navigate on it.
Err sorry but to quote Wikipedia:

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. It is one of the best-known and widely applied PFAS. The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon

Remember Teflon coated pans? And how you are supposed to throw them out if they're scratched?
Physics articles are even worse. Commenters on HN are mostly science-illiterate but have very strongly held opinions.
Here's my first post:

https://jondouglas.dev/long-covid/

And my recent one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LongHaulersRecovery/comments/12iv4p...
I think what they are saying is that the counter-party in the in-person BTC/USD trade could have gotten those USD in an illegitimate way, and that by accepting those USD in exchange for BTC you’d be partaking in money laundering.
Perhaps consider Fidelity. Cash management account, free/without fees. ATM fees reimbursed, free wires in and out. Funds could be kept in SPAXX [1] in that account.

Not investing advice.

[1] https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/31617... (Fidelity Government Money Market Fund)
Ski shop people tend to be super active in sports, that may negate negative effects of PFAS.
We're talking about children here. Their decision-making skills and understanding of consequences is by nature impaired (compared to the typical adult).
> I believe they've already started construction of upgraded launch facilities which include fire trenches and water deluge systems.

Ah, so excavating the launch tower was intentional; demo tower 0.1 to make room for tower 0.2!
Which of those do you think is a product "for generative AI"?
No, most VPNs would ask for address, email, full name, and so on - thats PII that not everyone gets who I visit on the internet.
If talking about bundling a web browser inside their OS, sure. It was more that Microsoft missed the entire potential of the internet as a whole and how fundamentally transformational it could be. They had no presence in online services, e-commerce, search and more until they saw competitors eating their lunch, and have been lagging behind ever since.
The youngest of those products is 15 years old.
One Canadian woman got rid of 133,000 chocolate bars
Both Tesla and SpaceX have absolutely received grants, not just contracts and loans, from the government. Just last year, SpaceX requested and applied for $886 million grant from the FCC, which is nearly three times the annual budget of NPR. They were denied for that particular one, but they appealed the decision, complaining about it.

I'm not sure what misinformation you are referring to. It is a matter of fact that Tesla and SpaceX have received billions of dollars of government contracts, highly preferential loans, grants, subsidies, and tax incentives.

Another example, from Tesla's own report submitted to the SEC in 2020:

> As part of various governmental responses to the pandemic granted to companies globally, we received certain payroll related benefits which helped to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our financial results.

This was at a time in which Musk was railing against government bailouts. Tesla never gave more details on the government handouts this particular line was referring to.

It goes on and on.
This would be really interesting in combination with some zero knowledge proofs, so you can allocate your subscription fees to sites without the payment processor (or the site) knowing who you in particular are patronizing.
AFAIK, an important reason eunuchs were preferred as generals and high officials is because a person who was castrated or had any other deformity could not be emperor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_mutilation_in_Byzant...) Exceptions did occur, e.g. Justinian II, but rare. It was also common practice to castrate sons of deposed emperors.
>someone will tell me, guaranteed.

Exactly. I'm not suggesting everyone be uninformed... just that they don't need to be informed about the majority of what is considered "news" these days.

>Most of it is not even news, it's fear peddling.

Wow! Not even a joke. I just went to what CNN considers relevant "United States" news and this is the page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230420200421/https://www.cnn.c...

Half of the articles are about random killings or violence. I don't see anything positive to come from visiting that page.
There are, of course, multiple ways to describe any situation in a literally accurate way. A canonical example is "glass half empty" vs "glass half full".

If a glass is expected to be at one tenth of its capacity, but then, by surprise, it is found to be at one half of its capacity, then it is a bit odd to write the headline "Glass Half Empty". We would instead expect something like "Glass Half Full by Surprise", or at least "Glass at 50% Capacity". I don't think one has to be a fanboy of glasses or liquids to take issue with that framing.
I'm both surprised and not, given how much user blocking they already employ.

For months now, I've been unable to view photos on Imgur. Only recently, I finally realized their "over capacity" error was their cop-out for "we don't want to serve your IP blocks". (Yes, I am primarily on VPN.)
it'd be interesting to know if the PFAs affected the caloric equation (greater absorption, thermic effect of digestion, NEAT), if it affected behavior (maybe PFAs stimulate appetite?), or if it's simply association with foods which have known Caloric/Behavior effects ... (eg processed foods have lower satiation often leading to a behavior of eating more calories)
Meh people would much prefer to be typing their prompts into a Google search box than opening a separate GPT app. I doubt there real issue here is a marketing one. Despite ChatGPT's massive growth numbers the market is pretty immature, it's still very much open and not yet decided.

Many markets had early leaders who got stomped by later entrants.
Is the title here editorialized, or is Axios doing some weird AB testing? The article I'm seeing is about the bill passing the Washington House, and concludes with:

> What's next: To become law, the bill must clear Inslee's desk. But a veto looks unlikely.
Its only more complex for the programmer because of presumed experiance with polymorphism. Its alot easier to debug a concept because a type either has the function or not there is no overloading or massive inheritance tree where u can easily mistake what is actually being called.
Show HN: LLM Playground, compare results side by side
Another part of the messy reality of weight loss is that some people "successfully" lose weight, but then "relapse" because they just feel like shit at the lower weight despite it allegedly being healthier.
System Call Tracing Windows
Is there any decent Windows equivalent to strace? I just found this.
Excited to share a demo of the autonomous mode in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXgmv0q6CQ

In the demo, the AI assistant plans my next trip to Braga, Portugal. You can easily customize and recreate your own assistant with the autonomous mode for solving your own complex tasks.
> any idea if they're still hiring?

Yup, aggressively. Drop me a line; personal email is on my profile.

> Hardware adjacent work is quite technically challenging, but tends to not pay well.

Yeah, the explanation I got is that, specifically for a semiconductor company, it's so bloody expensive to tape out chips that a huge portion of the capital in the company gets allocated to that. Checks out, but it's still a little lame.
The problem with the intrapreneurship idea is that it's really hard to beat desperation as a motivator. I have seen people behave very differently in the context of a startup vs a corporate research lab thanks to this dynamic. Some people thrive in the corporate R&D environment, but the innovator's dilemma eventually gets to their managers.

Cisco has done a great job balancing this, actually - they keep contact with engineers who leave to do startups, and then acquire their companies if they become successful enough to prove the product.
Can confirm, am "Software Engineer" but from a family of Real Engineers™, what we do on a day to day basis only resembles engineering in the weakest sense.

Both professions iterate on failure but Real Engineers actually spend a significant amount of time studying each failure and drawing strong conclusions based on collected data. We can do that (and sometimes do) but usually just hack it and re-run the tests until it works, can't really do that with a physical test though unless you have reduced your problem down to a small test article (something programmers should always do because it's cheap and easy).

Our field is young and lacks the rigorousness of Real Engineering. We probably don't want to adopt all of it because our cost and risk profiles are hugely different but there is a lot to learn from Real Engineers about how to iterate better and get better bang for our buck out of our failures.
I can't read shit like this because it reinforces an anxiety I have: that we may all die of some kind of COVID induced thing _some day_. That COVID has effectively poisoned the world with a virus that eventually wears you down after having it repeatedly and can't be stopped, with a large impact on the global lifespan and disability rate.

Any kind of evidence against this would be much appreciated.
Helping a people defend themselves against violence is basically the polar opposite of promoting violence.