skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: Wealthfront now pulls transaction history when you link a bank account
Weathfront no longer supports micro-deposit based authentication if the bank is supported by Yodlee. And when you link your account with Yodlee, WF automatically pulls 1 year of history from your bank account and keeps pulling new transactions [0].

They clearly have the option to use Yodlee's API only for verification and give people the option to include transaction history, but they don't allow people to opt out of it.

I only use WF for investing. I can't transfer money without linking my account and handing over my data.

We need stronger privacy regulations in this space.

[0] - https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005251883-How-does-Wealthfront-use-my-linked-accounts-to-help-me-with-financial-planning-
>...people should be able to participate in social institutions like marriage consistent with their biology...

"Consistent with their biology" is not a precondition that you could find broad agreement on - I don't think you could even find a broad agreement on what it means.
Auto-GPT: An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous
Yeah, there's a whole lexicon around this sort of thing. "Go touch grass" is a fantastic one for it's punchiness, but "terminally online" is fun one, too. Add in a healthy dose of sarcasm, and labels like "influencer" and "gamer" and the like get used as pejoratives often, too.
And yet somehow the world’s richest man and a world renowned journalist, both arguably fluent in English, can’t communicate with each other. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/10/23678105/elon-musk-substa...

The core of the problem lies with your expectation that just being fluent in English is sufficient to not have miscommunication. Communication is a lot more involved and something as trivial as not having a good night’s sleep can take your attention away from what others are saying. Written communication helps because you can read something back quickly if you skipped over something or were not paying attention.
> I really feel Yubico has a great reputation as far as hardware token companies go.

They do. Or did. With this move, though, the "reputation score" has to reset and be considered neutral until we see what the new behavior will be.
Have you taken an oral exam? You're making some assumptions that do not hold, in my experience.

For example, oral exams are still very common in Poland and Polish universities. They typically takes less time to take, for a few reasons (the number of questions, the speed of writing versus oral production of answers, the ability of the professor to ask probing and follow-up questions instead of having to give the same battery of questions to each student in a blind and generic manner, even when it is clear that the student has answered the question in another answer or another way). The goal is for the professor to establish with confidence the degree to which the student understands the material.

Now, yes, it takes more time for the professor to administer the exam than it would take to administer a written exam, but note that grading exams is also very time consuming. You can delegate to grad students, but the same can be said of oral exams, so there's little differentiation there. The oral exam combines the administration of the exam with the grading, whereas written exams separate the two.
Alternatively: Swift didn't get dragged in because she didn't need the money and understands that.
I started to make a joke about correction lines, but couldn't come up with a punchline :-(
It is only a matter of time before the current education system faces irrelevance. While they are concerned about cheating, it is in fact their own institution that is at risk.

Mostly it is the AI hallucination problem that stands in the way.

Furthermore, if AI continues to consume the world, who is interested in investing years into building up lifelong debt to only risk that everything you learned is now obsolete or irrelevant upon completion.
Yikes, they have a submission leaderboard. As if the expected signal to noise ratio of a system like this wasn't low enough.
Apple’s VR headset might run tweaked versions of iPad apps
Show HN: LangTool – create semantic tools from Python functions and classes
LangTool adds a semantic layer on top of python functions and classes, to enable LLM interactions with functions and classes.
LangTool borrows the concept of a Tool from LangChain (https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain). One of the goals of this project is to complement LangChain by providing a high-level interface for users to create tools on the fly.
well, better tell them anyhow: I just did
gut the brusar and fire half the administrators. We can replace 80% of the school administration with AI anyway. that will free up enough money and PAY professors a living wage.
People Are Now Worshiping AI Gods–But There’s Only One Thing We Want to Know
Trying to be fancy to say things won't be running locally. The orchestra/performers won't be live in front of you but on the radio.
Even with ALBs, I still have to decide what to put in my containers right? Before for playground projects I've just used `serve` but it's not really suited for a production app
Is anyone else getting tired of the "employees say", "experts say", "researchers say" tactic in journalism?

How many? And importantly, what percentage is that? What do the other employees or experts say?
Alternate take:

I work on my documents on my computer, my phone and my iPad.

My IDE is hosted in AWS Cloud 9 most of the time because I travel a lot and while my internet may be spotty, it’s good enough to connect to the hosted environment and I get full speed internet between my IDE and the Internet when I need to download something to it (packages, Docker containers, etc)

My photos and videos automatically get backed up to iCloud, Google Drive, Amazon Drive and OneDrive.

If I dropped my phone into the ocean, I can go to the Apple Store, buy a new phone and it’s just like having my old one.
15 hours of focused attention is a lot more effort then 40 hours of reading papers.
I think recent developments broke people. They can no longer tell actual reality from the magic in their imaginations. For them future (imagined) is literally now and they are super scared of it.

Not scared about global warming, not scared about war and countries bravely stocking up on most deadly weapons, not scared about capitalism eating itself to the bone. Future potential AGI is what they choose to be scared about because suddenly producing words got a bit cheaper.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-turns-to-chinas-yuan-in-...
If it is indeed learning from humans, I fear that it has a terrible source to model itself on.
But we (English speakers) are not above ripping off untranslatable words from other languages. At work I used to talk about fingerspitzengefühl and schwerpunkt; we didn't even bother trying to translate them to English. And everyone I know knows about schadenfreude and zeitgeist and "je ne sais quoi."

Maybe we do have translations for them. Maybe the English word for schadenfreude is "schadenfreude." (But yes, if you want to say I'm cheating, that's fine.)
I added the pdf of free chapter of 'Trustworthy Online Experiments' and then had this strange exchange... way too agreeable.

Me: Bukowski said: "If you're going to try, go all the way". How would you do this with an AB test?

PDF: While Charles Bukowski's quote is not directly related to A/B testing, you can apply the spirit of his words to your approach to A/B testing. To "go all the way" with an A/B test, you should aim to test as many variables as possible in order to get the most accurate and comprehensive results. This means testing multiple variants, adjusting multiple parameters, and collecting data from a large sample size over a significant period of time. By doing so, you can ensure that your results are reliable and that you have a clear understanding of which variant performs better. (Page 21)

Me: But if you go all the way (in the way you described), wouldn't you be walking in a garden of forking paths?

PDF: You raise a valid concern. When conducting an A/B test with many variables and parameters, there is a risk of encountering the "garden of forking paths" problem. This refers to the issue of having many possible paths to take when analyzing the data, which can lead to false positives or overfitting. To avoid this problem, it's important to have a clear hypothesis and plan in place before conducting the test, and to limit the number of variables being tested at once. Additionally, you should use appropriate statistical methods to analyze the data and correct for multiple comparisons. By taking these precautions, you can minimize the risk of encountering the garden of forking paths problem and ensure that your results are reliable. (Page 21)

Me: So what's a better way to go all the way?

PDF: A better way to "go all the way" with an A/B test is to focus on testing a few key variables that are most likely to have a significant impact on your metrics. This approach is sometimes called "full factorial testing" or "multivariate testing". By testing a smaller number of variables, you can reduce the risk of encountering the garden of forking paths problem and increase the statistical power of your test. Additionally, you should use appropriate statistical methods to analyze the data and correct for multiple comparisons. By taking these precautions, you can ensure that your results are reliable and that you have a clear understanding of which variables have the biggest impact on your metrics. (Page 21)
The premise for broad acceptance of trans rights, just as it is for gay rights, is the scientific fact that prenatal endocrine exposure controls sexual orientation and people’s feelings about what gender they are: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801.... It’s not at all “ill-defined” it’s the scientific premise behind saying that someone is born transgender as opposed to choosing to be transgender.

Accepting the right of people to present themselves consistent with their gender identity has nothing to do with sanctioning breaking gender norms for “art” or other purposes, which is the focus of drag.
You speak faster than you write. Writing helps formulate your thoughts better and hence reduces the need for do overs.
yeah I know, I head-desked when I saw that. Can't win them all
I asked a history professor friend how he combats this? He says his essay assignments are very targeted toward material covered in the class and in the class notes. He thinks the course and note material is unique enough to prevent people from using AI to cheat.
> There was a time, when I was young, backwards compatibility was a big part of our job. To me, it seems every other day QT and GTK makes a point of ignoring backwards compatibility with their releases, making Application Development hard.

Which is odd because desktop user interfaces haven't fundamentally changed in the past two decades. Theoretically you could generate UI code for Win32, Qt, GTK, and others from a common markup format.
The two species share a lot of glue genes, and the properties of their silks differ due to other genes affecting things like the ratios of glue proteins in the silk. Those other genes evolved faster than the glue genes themselves.

The title is technically correct, though misleading.
I've always been an atheist, but I'm starting to wonder whether the decline of religion has done more harm than good. We've certainly lost some of the basic human decency that was once passed on via religion. The concept of forgiveness seems to be one glaring example, and the rise of selfish consumerism and online narcissism.

Maybe we need something to replace religion, without the dogma, oppression, and conflict. Something other than the online tribalism and activism seems to be filling that void for many...
"Do no exploding gradient"
I can’t believe that people use closed source auth solutions. As a security engineer, I am so thankful that Ory exists. If you can’t run your auth stack locally, your engineers will find work arounds for the inevitable pain/frustration due to some undocumented behavior that they can’t self service a root cause understanding.
>There is not a majority coalition in support of voluntary gender norm breaking in the name of self expression.

As opposed to in the name of what else? your posts are so weird - no one is trying to fight you, so maybe tone it down. Like, you post at me like I'm going into your community and making you do things with your children, it's a bit ridiculous. We are just chatting on a website.

>No, sorry, standard brown immigrant socialization—which is why both DeSantis and Youngkin won on this issue.

What?
I was expecting the reason to be that she met FTX Founder Sam and decided to not go with the vegan effective-altruist pay-your-politician crowd

Smart girl
I'm getting tired of the obvious deflection attempts when something bad comes out about big tech corps.
Well the comment about it "burning a lot of oil" could also be attributed to splashing some oil in the air intake. And it might eventually leak somewhere hot enough to burn.

I agree odds are intake means... oil orifice in this case. But I figure we're already in car abuse land might as well see how deep the rabbit intake goes.
Ask HN: What's Your Obsolescence Fraction?
Given the Kent Beck post [0] about how ChatGPT has rendered 90% of his work valueless but increased the value of the remaining 10% manyfold, what's your personal estimate of your obsolesence fraction?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627779
Are you saying we shouldn’t scratch Meta’s itch?
Towards Federated Forges
Did anyone listen in to OpenBCIs TED talk today? What was their demo about?
Is that really special treatment ? There was no NTSB before the first train derailed and killed people. We usually wait for a new technology to kill a lot of people before we address questions of safety.
I've been losing sleep because there's no reason to ever 'sleep on it' when there is an obstacle.
Why isn't the SEC going after the politicians that accepted donations from FTX?

Did those politicians ask any questions at all or just happily recieve the money, no questions asked, wink wink
Where needed you can make models deterministic by setting temperature to 0 with a fixed model version. You can use prompt injection honeypots to help flag malicious prompts before you pass them into your code. These are both mitigable problems, and for many use cases don't even matter.

Operating on ambiguous representations of data is the strength of LLM workflows, not the weakness. Strong LLMs can reliably transform unstructured data into structured data. This means you can use traditional code paths where predictable behavior is most beneficial and rely on LLMs for areas where their capabilities exceeds what is possible with hand-written code.
Our new Hyundai Ioniq 5 does this.

It's a beautiful vehicle on many ways. But as so often, the desire to use touch controls has compromised the ability to drive without taking eyes off the road

The most egregious example is turning off the climate control. I need to look down and locate the "fan down" control, which is small and on a touch screen with no tactile features, then click it repeatedly until reaching zero and the air stops.

Piss poor design and dangerous for one of the most frequently performed tasks.
Smart phones dramatically increased the technical capability of amateurs, and to a lesser extent their mechanics, but the net outcome is a huge volume of very good, very boring & generic photographs. Smart phones did nothing to advance the art of communicating via pictures. AI writing IS likely to follow a similar path.
Colleges in the US on the march to $100k a year already...do you really think students/parents are looking for optional ways to spend even more?

People want to learn, but what they really want is a degree. No one is going to go two more years into debt for pedagogical purity
Yes. Alternatively accurate title:

Google's Rush to Win in AI did not lead to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say"
How long is it going to take universities and companies to face the reality that we should not be assessing people's capabilities in a vacuum where they can't access the tools that they will be using in the real world.

If knowledge can be easily acquired in 5 seconds, why are you testing people on whether or not they have memorized it? What good is 5 seconds? If the difference between an accredited engineer and a regular person is supposed to be a 5 second Google, then what the hell is the point?

We need to modernize assessment. We should have done it decades ago when cheating became rampant. Problem is that universities have zero incentive to fix this problem. Human resource teams don't either. The only people that really care are the people that have to work with everyone who gets hired despite having zero actual skills. Unfortunately, they have one of the quietest voices in this chain.
In a headline? No, its making a statement about whose opinion is featured in the article. I find that weakly informative.
For comparison:

Do human beings have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to everyone?

Do corporations have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to someone?

I think it is safe to say that two preceding questions are hotly contested, so it's hard to give AI a frame of reference.
Based on that quote it sounds like the crowdsourcing was used to analyse the locations in order to show the bias. The claim is that AI was used to determine the locations on the first place.

If I recall rightly the Pokémon Go locations were derived in part from an earlier (and far better) game called Ingress. Players could submit candidate locations, but it's possible that this was mostly ignored, and/or some form of AI was used to select or filter those candidates. It's also possible that Ingress had a racial bias in its userbase.
I don't think it's that but that most human digestive systems will catastrophically fail trying to digest ethanol-corn or animal feed-corn.
Ouija board wonder: how Hilma af Klint’s occult dabblings made her an outcast
I like the idea, but I'm worried about the FPGA being programmed to exfiltrate the secrets and re-flashed to the original program. With the Yubikey, it's mostly guaranteed that the device key remains on the device. Are there safeguards against this?
Brain is an immune privileged organ so it is the opposite of your intuition. Get an infection into the brain and it is done.

> Immune-privileged sites include the central nervous system and brain, the eyes and the testes. Even foreign antigens accessing these tissues do not generally trigger immune responses.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-a....
Usually it means two people were willing to talk to a reporter.
I think Chrome added something like this recently. It "hibernates" the tabs, but you can opt out. The only downside is that I think it loses the tabs' state.
Always hated that abbreviation. I feel the disrespect to the reader in being unwilling to write out a word (instead of an acronym) really makes one wonder about actual commitment to communication. I mean why translate if one can just use gibberish?
Inspired by this I tried using chatGPT

Here's another excerpt, this time from the novel "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway, that mentions the time 07:30:

"I woke up late in the morning. The sun was hot on my face, and I had a headache. I had been drunk the night before, but I remembered everything that had happened. I lay in bed for a while and listened to the sounds outside. There were birds singing in the trees and the sound of people walking on the street. I looked at my watch. It was 7:30. I got up and went to the window. The sky was blue and cloudless. It was going to be a hot day."
Chemistry 101 is likely a better example. Intro to chemistry is a required to class for almost all STE (not M, but M often takes it too for a physical science degree), along with anything that touches on nutrition, medical...

https://chem.wisc.edu/chemistry-building-project-overview/

> Chemistry, as the central science, is relevant to many other disciplines and is therefore part of the core curriculum of numerous degree programs on campus. By the time they graduate, 55 percent of undergraduates have taken a chemistry class at UW-Madison. As enrollment grew over the years, department and campus leaders noticed that students were often not able to schedule needed courses. This meant it took them longer to earn a degree.

There are about 10,000 under grads for each year at UW Madison. Chem 103 gets about 5000 students per year.

While that roughly matches the Psych 101 with 2000... this shows that "here's a real number."
Not if you're under time pressure, which many written exams are. If you have to write fast, you're maximizing the chance of mistakes and there's little opportunities to go back, correct and rewrite.
The N100 has a TDP of 6W. I haven't measured power draw of the whole system yet though, I imagine that the mainboard will pull another couple watts at least.

It shines especially in scenarios where the Pi is just a tad too slow. E.g. you can't live transcode 4k videos on a Pi, while the N100 has latest UHD graphics and therefore ships with a decent HW-accelerated H265 en/decoder.
I'm getting down voted but let me elaborate:

Do they speak a language that would be widely useful in the US? Are they literate? Numerate? Basic stuff we take for granted here in America, where everyone had at least 10 years of public schooling.

We're not even going into the more "advanced" skills like a driver's license, or functional literacy.
An excellent game where the designer/programmer doesn't let things get in the way of building is Aurora 4x [1] (not really a small game anymore). Only runs on windows, doesn't even have modifiable window sizes. For users that have period separators instead of commas a bunch of the text is cut off. It's a fantastic game that is purely what the creator wants and plays and is nothing more, and it has a great community behind it. It is purely a work of passion by the creator.

[1] https://aurora2.pentarch.org/
That’s pretty cool! One thing to consider is implementing more filters—for instance two visually similar dresses could be made of different materials.
I think there's a misunderstanding here (and on Alpaca) about exactly what non-commercial means with respect to software licenses. Here's some related discussion: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/12074

The CC-NC licenses cover modification and redistribution ("use" in the license). They apparently have no bearing on whether you can personally run the software. And of course the outputs of the software are not copyrightable.
Everybody’s guilty! Got unexplained 0’s and 1’s on a USB? Must be a hidden partition.
Why does it feel that so many trends that were "emerging" are now all suddenly converging? I've gone through a lot of macro data and everything from climate change and fertilizers to food and automation and monetary policy seems to be breaking down at the same time.

Is there a whitepill scenario for the remaining years in this decade?
sounds like it would make sense to sit it out and wait for gtk5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK5-Likely-After-GTK-4.12
I don't care if the value of my skills changes.
Not Dutch, but I speak a language that has a similar word, with the same meaning: "gesellig".

Look at the first picture in TFA. That's gesellig. Having coffee on a busy terrace on a sunny day is gesellig.

Spending time in front of a fireplace while it rains outside is cozy, not gesellig. Unless, as the article points out, you have friends over that are gesellig.

It shares a root with "gesels" which means "to chat". And you have the word "geselskap" which is similar to "audience", but used in a more social context.

Gesellig is all about having a good time with a fun crowd. Cozy can be this too, but it's more restrictive I think. Playing a drinking game while in you underwear in the snow might not be cozy, but it's sure as hell gesellig!