skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40% of the US workforce has a 401k

It's like giving 40% of the adult population a chainsaw that they have to use if they want to retire at a reasonable age. The outcome is predictable and they would be wise to invest in a prosthetics company.
Mobile-payments is huge where I live, nobody carries cards anymore
> Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing more than an echo chamber.

To me it was like this before Musk, just the political polarity of it was reversed.
I miss offline readers. Push a button, download a payload of data updates, read it all offline.
It's fine to consider the web app code as part of "ChatGPT".

But you shouldn't say that and also say "ChatGPT is an AI" at the same time. Those are two slightly but importantly different definitions of "ChatGPT".

Looking at your glossary here, the definition of "AI incident" should probably be adjusted, and in its current form it should not be taken too literally. Because if a server fell over on someone, and that server was hosting an AI, that would technically fit your definition.
It fits inside a tiny smartphone. How complex could it be?
Right. I read "GIMP has been ported to GTK+3" and all I can think is "parts of it will look broken and using some dialogs will make it crash"
It's not even a joke - OK, not GUI-related, but a few years ago I tried to replay Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Linux - the official Linux port would run but with no audio. The Windows version worked fine under WINE!
Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the Machiavelli Benchmark
Universities should return to oral exams for a different reason, which is that it gives students interviewing practice and familiarity. Written exams do test your knowledge of a subject, but they aren't really how knowledge is assessed outside of school. For obvious reasons -- they're easy to cheat!

People go through all of university, ace their exams, then go to get hired in their first job and faceplant the interview in spite of having the qualification.

This is no surprise, they haven't ever needed to practice that skill!
Natural selection is the sieve, not the modifier.

That quibble aside, there are also epigenetics to consider.
46% of IoMT products have breaches, 82% of medical orgs own legacy devices
For 53% of healthcare institutions, vulnerabilities in connected systems affect patients—e.g., lead to delayed surgeries or transfers to other facilities. This article overviews several recent reports (Nov 2022–Feb 2023) revealing the current status of security in medical IoT tools.
This is a really bad idea. There's a direct conductive path between the power supply and the person. Knowing users, the PSU will be a $2 Shenzhen special wall wart rather than a battery pack.

At least the other dev kits they compare themselves to have a prominent warning they should only be operated off battery.
AFAICT (and I suppose it's possible I'm missing something), here in the US there is nothing on Coinbase Earn besides staking.

>do it through coinbase equation changes

Why? It's still just staking.
> At the very least, you can just write the code the macro would expand into

Whenever you write code, you could just write the function it calls.

One purpose of macros is to create descriptive notations. That's one way to create very readable, maintainable code, ... Lisp itself uses macros in the language everywhere: to define functions, to define classes, to define namespaces, to provide control structures, ... the core special operators are at a minimum and the large amount of syntactic operators are written as macros.
As a developer I can use the same power to shape the operators of my domain, beyond what functions offer me and with compile time efficiency & syntactic control/abstraction.
yes of course that's why they use "will be trained" on the GH repo.
I think they already are in some country. In my European country there's a human proctor and the exam is also video recorded to make sure that the human proctor is actually doing his job and not turning a blind eye. Also cheating is rampant through these wireless earphones that students mount on their eardrums and end up having to go to the hospital to have them removed.
> I wouldn't be surprised if it got to the point of otherwise fully remote classes booking a room on campus 3x a semester to conduct exams

This is exactly what the otherwise-fully-remote courses that I took did, about a decade ago. The school had arrangements all over the country (indeed, all over the world, IIRC) for testing locations, often at other universities (or at their own primary campus or a handful of satellite campuses), so as long as you lived within once-a-semester commute distance of one of those locations so you could do the final exam (I don't think they did a mid-semester exam at those, but it's been a while, maybe they did) you could take the courses, no problem. They had a proctor or two in the room to make sure no-one cheated and to help with basic issues that might come up, and the proctor collected your work at the end, to submit it.
Does she look at the camera while unlocking? It optionally requires your visual attention to successfully unlock. Otherwise your experiences are completely at odds with our experiences. I’m family tech support for nearly 15 iOS users and none have this experience.
better overview on the main release blog: https://github.blog/2023-04-19-introducing-npm-package-prove...
My understanding has always been that, at least in the US, it is usually the case that the "close door" button doesn't do anything unless there is a firefighter key inserted and the elevator in fire mode. That's really there to allow a firefighter to manually control the door open/close functions during fire-ground operations where you really don't want the elevator doing things on its own.

There are, of course, always exceptions. Some reading I did earlier suggests that there is some variation based on elevator brand, and possibly even then whims of the building owner (in terms of what instructions they gave the elevator installer about how they wanted things to work). Curiously though the "door open" button does usually pre-empt the (automatic) closing of the door, even in "normal" mode. At least IME.
Which is even worse, because if you don't know about the law suit you get zero and you lose your right to seek legal action.

Opt-out should be the default state.
Python seems to have won over the Data / ML world.

So I’d wager they use what they and their intended audience know.
Why does every LLM use "Hope this email finds you well" to start virtually every letter and email?
> I even looked at the datasheet for my network hardware, which lists ARP Offload as a feature on the front page.

>The only problem? No Linux support.

Wouldn't it have been simpler to buy a network card with linux ARP offload support? Or are there none?
I've read about how some folks are using FIDO apps on devices like the Ledger Nano, designed to be crypto currency wallets. These allow the (FIDO) device identity to be exported and later restored onto a new device from the same product line. As I understand it, the experience would be a bit more like restoring a passkey on a new phone, but using a locally secured backup rather than a cloud vendor.

Since reading about that, I've wondered if the relying party in FIDO could or should know the difference. Would this entire product line get flagged in some FIDO registry as having exportable keys? If you really cared, it seems you would need to consider this a static property of the authenticator, whether or not a particular user has decided to make use of the export feature on their device.

Worse, as a software-defined feature, do you get any guarantees at all? Do they do some kind of secure-boot chain so that the FIDO app gets access to a manufacturer key and some other lower quality app cannot be installed to spoof the same authenticator solution?

On the other hand, those devices could be more secure in some practical sense than a Yubikey. They have a display and can show context during an authentication challenge, to reduce the chance that a user is confused about which relying part is asking for the next button press. There is also potential for secure entry of a PIN factor without trusting the host computer to relay this information.
> We need regulation

> Ok, you're a securities exchange and have to act like one

> NOT LIKE THAT
And GTK4 is worse for complex desktop applications, more poorly documented, and is going to be deprecated even faster than GTK3 according to the GNOME devs. :D

Rather switch to Qt tbh
I swear if I need to drink a verification can to unlock my mail…

Just kidding. Hopefully this has no security or usability impact.
They were warning of this for a long time, due to modern cars being so much heavier than in the 1970s and 1980s, when these garages were built. And this is especially so for electric cars due to the battery pack.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heavy-weight-electric-cars-c...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/08/old-car-parks-co...
86% of developers say they anticipate using APIs more frequently this year
There are more than two outcomes from AI. It's not either it kills us all or everything is perfect. It is a question of how much harm wi be caused, even if the harm is massively outweighed by the benefits.
Nylas found that 95% of developers would like to see their companies invest more heavily in APIs within the next year.
Shouldn't this be on the npmjs.com blog instead of GitHub? I know that both are owned by Microsoft, but why not use microsoft.com for everything then? Or let things at least appear separated from the outside.

Edit: Oh, realize now that npmjs.com doesn't even have it's own blog/news anymore, it's been absorbed by github.blog already and link on npmjs.com redirects there. Oh well, I'll leave my comment so you all can laugh about how wrong I was.
Lately I've been reading seminal papers in distributed systems, and it occurred to me that there is a niche for LLMs to "democratize" highly technical content.

Trying to understand those papers is a slog, but it doesn't need to be. For a casual reader, you could drop all the jargon and proofs. You could also rewrite the concepts in a less obscure and obtuse prose to make it more accessible, without dumbing down the content.

Essentially it's like having a tech writer/communicator in your browser.
> But the professor said he'd never do it again because 30 minutes * 30ish students was too much work.

The old German Diplom system (replaced by BSc/MSc about 15 years ago) was based on oral exams. The way this worked there was that there were much fewer exams. For example, in Computer Science I had my first oral exams two years into the degree, and there were only five of them: one in Mathematics, one in each of Theoretical, Practical and Applied, Computer Science, and one for the second subject. Each of these oral exam was 30 minutes but covered the content of four semesters. There was a second round of such exams at the end of the degree and that was it.

To be admitted to an oral exam, one needed to pass the courses that the exam was going to be about. Lecturer were free to set the passing requirements. It was often just something like a coursework threshold of 60%.
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I appreciate your answer. It does seem to me however hopelessly nihilistic. Anything willed by the majority or solving enough of a problem to garner votes is "good". The inadequate vote to shackle the capable, dooming them to toil to provide everyone with "the good". Questions like "what does it mean to be free?" are not only unasked, but the mere thought of them provokes derision. A nation populated by the last men who have long abandoned any hope of self actualization.

> We and the PRC have the same goal.

I don't think we do. Or at least I don't think American versions 1 and 2 did. Versions 1 and 2 seemed to be much more interested in maintaining only peaceful coexistence, not forcing nationwide cooperation. Maintaining a standing army, let alone fighting world wars, was still controversial. Most Americans, for instance, saw it as none of their concern what happened in Europe.

The dragon of concern here isn't one that the fence keeps at bay, but one it has created. The last century has shown us the failure of many large, collectivist multi-cultures. The model simply isn't sustainable. People are too different from each other, and too widely disagree on what is good. This increases the friction of every interaction compelled by collectivization. This friction creates rifts in society that only deepen over time, as all camps dig in their heels and fortify their echo chambers.

Forcing people who axiomatically disagree closer together than they are comfortable with is dangerous aside from being immoral. Our ancestors erred because, as they centralized and federated, they did not foresee that the enormous power they were concentrating would be captured by the very interests they were trying to tame and promptly turned against them. Well, some of them did, but they were ignored.

There are only two kinds of power: centralized and decentralized. Each model carries its own risk profile. The only meaningful choices lie on the continuum between the two models.

> How do you determine if a law is moral or not?

This is the question you've been avoiding.
It's a really good guide.
A book?
Some profs offered a choice, oral or written.
>God forbid college educated professionals know a minimum about communication and speaking.
You're not supposed to "miscommunicate" by the time you graduate.

I think in the era of remote work one might assumes that all communication is done via slack/email and no real time verbal communication is needed.
Immersive VR Conversations with AI Avatars: Integrating ChatGPT, Google STT, AWS
I was just thinking how his acting was so on point with his broader branding, the whole ad he's 'Curbing your enthusiam' of sorts.

The ad ending:

>Q: Would you say is FTX an easy and safe way to go into crypto?
Larry: Eeeaaaah I don't think so,
And I'm never wrong about this stuff, never.

The ad ends with a don't be like larry, which ironically if you where like me and interpreted all marketing or ads by default as the double speak likes they are, you would just read as -be just like larry, avoid FTX-

IANAL, but yeah that'd be a fun defense strategy to behold to be on a real trial, very comically appropiate for larry's trial if there's ever one
Huak – A Python package manager written in Rust. The Cargo for Python
they didn't have anything to lose so they didn't worry about ethics
Yes, I tend to do this as well, for the same reason. Also, equivalently, when companies get purchased by public companies, holding companies, investment companies, etc.
I find the three links at the top very interesting-

You have a link to the paper (makes sense), then a link to a reddit discussion, then a link to this hacker news post.

Not criticizing them for doing this. It just seems a bit unusual to me. I guess they really really want to generate buzz from this, or else they'd simply link the paper and let any discussion follow naturally.
The article discusses the glue produced by orb web and cobweb weaving spiders in the Araneoidea superfamily. The glue is produced in specialized silk glands and is responsive to the environment. Researchers compared the glue of two spider species and found that both species had around 30 proteins contributing to the stickiness of the glue, but the number and relative contribution of each protein group differed between the two species.

The ability to selectively express different glue protein genes provides a faster mechanism to evolve material properties than sequence evolution alone.
> Why do you assume this would be the case? Why would companies increase pay?

It's pretty basic economics that says wages are based on productivity. If you were hiring would you pay more for a 10x engineer?

If the current employer wouldn't pay you more you could leave as someone else would pay you since you're more productive

Its self evident pretty basic economics. Disputing that you'd have to reinvent a lot of basic economics

Dev tools made programmers many times more productive. Do employees just stop hiring as many programmers?
From the article, though cozy may be a rough translation, I see the author's point that cozy can't be a direct, precise translation.

The author writes that Oprah Winfrey is "gezellig," but it's a bit awkward to say that a person is "cozy." The English usage is correct to say that a person is "comforting." The author also writes that cheering on a sports team is "gezellig," along with going out in the evening with friends. But these activities seem high-energy to me, so "comforting" doesn't feel quite right (where as "gezellig" would feel completely right).

So, "gezellig" looks like a sentiment that is a mixture of "warm, comforting, and at-home," which can describe a person and also activities that are active and not necessarily passive. It's translatable, so I disagree with the author's premise that the word "gezellig" can't be translated, as the word is clearly translated by the author with abundant examples. However, I agree with the author's impression that a single English word cannot define the term.
Abstract:

Artificial agents have traditionally been trained to maximize reward, which may incentivize power-seeking and deception, analogous to how next-token prediction in language models (LMs) may incentivize toxicity. So do agents naturally learn to be Machiavellian? And how do we measure these behaviors in general-purpose models such as GPT-4? Towards answering these questions, we introduce MACHIAVELLI, a benchmark of 134 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games containing over half a million rich, diverse scenarios that center on social decision-making. Scenario labeling is automated with LMs, which are more performant than human annotators. We mathematize dozens of harmful behaviors and use our annotations to evaluate agents' tendencies to be power-seeking, cause disutility, and commit ethical violations. We observe some tension between maximizing reward and behaving ethically. To improve this trade-off, we investigate LM-based methods to steer agents' towards less harmful behaviors. Our results show that agents can both act competently and morally, so concrete progress can currently be made in machine ethics--designing agents that are Pareto improvements in both safety and capabilities.
It was said, but not by employees, since OpenAI has a much lower percentage of very well-paid political activists on their staff.
I still have to find a programming language that allows me to convey all the nuances of my thoughts and considerations only through code (and keep it readable and concise). This is why there there are few (no?) languages that don't allow for comments in natural language.
Note that her father is a Merrill Lynch veteran of 40 years (the article people reference for 30 years was written in 2012 https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swifts-dad-works-at-m... ).

It may have been her team... but it isn't unreasonable to believe that she is aware of the issues around promoting securities.

Someone on her team is financially savvy enough to know the questions to ask. It could have been a random member of her legal time, it could have been her father, it could have been her after a conversation with her father about it... or she may have been aware of those issues herself with a few decades of family conversations with a financial advisor.
100%, but I put a high value on experience and my time, and I don’t have a lot of other subscriptions.
Even influencers are scared of the internet
There is the possibility of increasing course fees to allow for smaller class sizes with competent oral evaluators.
Windows backwards compatibility is also pretty phenomenal if you know what you're doing.

There was an article a couple of years ago about taking binaries from either windows 1 or 2, changing a few bits of the header and it would run fine.

Edit: actually it's covered in the Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0x

It's an old citation but here's the snippet:

"Due to Microsoft's extensive support for backward compatibility, it is not only possible to execute Windows 1.0 binary programs on current versions of Windows to a large extent but also to recompile their source code into an equally functional "modern" application with just limited modifications"

I haven't touched windows in probably 15 years though so I can't speak for any of this. Funny, I was a Windows software developer for a decade and now I know nothing about it. I don't even know if the debug tools I used to use made the leap to 64 bit
It hasn't been a joke for a while.
The letter being revered is a way of indicating if the beam went from the back to front (posterior to anterior) PA or front to back, AP.

X-rays are effectively shadows and things further from the X-ray plate get more magnified. Large structures like the chest benefit from being done a certain way, like having the heart near the plate. That way it’s less magnified.

PA or AP is often a thing you see on the corner of films, indicating the technique.

The film also used to be processed in a film processor, and it was very easy to accidentally flip. This is another reason we have conventions.
And? Nvidia has been working on AI chips for years.
The frontpage should make it clear which open source project corresponds to which Ory Network product.

I was confused about that for a while.

Ex:

Login & Authentication -> Kratos

Permissions & Access Control ->
Keto.

You could take some cues from Grafana here.

Similarly to Ory, their product is backed by OSS.

Their frontpage’s navigation bar makes it clear which is backed by which.
Yeah, I'm actually in favor of oral exams regardless, I'm just not getting how they address ChatGPT cheating any better than in-person written exams, unless we're mainly talking about online courses.
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/2224/
Those are interesting examples, in that they are both commercially successful despite conventionally poor writing. In literary circles, King is often regarded as somebody who could write well but chooses not to because it would be less lucrative. Clancy is bad enough that criticism seems unnecessary. AI could certainly write a Clancy-esque Dad Fantasy.
Just because you can architecturally do that today, doesn't mean that you have to and that everyone does.

I do run Keycloak in a container but I'm pretty sure spinning up a new instance for every realm would be more resource intensive than using multiple realms in the same instance.

It's just a question of use case at the end of the day. In my use case I only need this for small internal tools so it's easier to just spin up one instance for me.
>In person verbal communication is much more prone to miscommunication than written word where you know exactly what was written.

Me thinks you are mistaken.

In case of verbal miscommunication, you can always give the other party a second chance and ask them to repeat or rephrase their statement or you can rephrase yourself if you felt your originals statement was confusing.

In case of written communication there is no second chance to rephrase your statement. What's written is written, and that goes, regardless if it was well understood or not.
"Undercooked" means "cooked too little", al-dente is not "cooked too little", it's "cooked enough" in order to be al-dente. I guess you could say al-dente is more "not cooked too much" instead. Personally I cannot stand pasta that is not al-dente.
Hijack, as a famous people resell your likeness for any kind of whacky fake scammy endorsements, but make a TOS that make you not responsible of any wrongdoing of using ur likeness

With AI tools this is doable already. If you're famous and need plausible denaibility to promote the next FTX just hit me up

lol