skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that doesn't work for long enough. It appears to work for a while and then it just breaks. Very basic passive fingerprinting is enough to block something as simple as that.

Sending the right user agent (and other headers) will work for most sites, but in my experience it's not enough for Instagram.
It's more an argument not to assume there are infinities of different sizes. That would also get rid of most mathematical paradoxes related to infinity.
« Even Korean is more phonetic than English»

Well, that’s a strange statement. Hangul is not just better by accident, it’s designed to be an advanced phonetic system making it possible to write many languages. You can learn in a few evenings, no need to know Korean, and you will be able to read Korean perfectly out loud without understanding what you are saying.
This is an ecosystem problem, not a tech company problem. You see these dark pattern pop-ups on every website, including media sites, mail order, big brands, local shops... The tech companies are thinking about their bottom line, but they're also responding to their customers (advertisers, publishers, merchants).

It is embarrassing indeed. The systemic nature of the problem is a good argument for increased regulation.
No finetuning for just a few facts could indeed end up being very costly. If you have 5 new examples that you want to fine-tune your model on, you probably wont fine-tune your existing model for 3000 training steps on just those 5 new examples. You'll either mix in other data to prevent catastrophic forgetting, or you'll probably training from scratch after fixing your dataset to reflect the 5 new examples you have.
Reading the comments in this thread really feeds into my bias that worker rights in the US are ... n't? I vividly remember a job posting from last year that listed '15 allowed sick days' as a benefit. What does that even mean?

In Scandinavia, you set a mutual duration of notice for both parties when signing the initial contracts to start working. For IT jobs, the standard is 2-3 months. This gives both parties ample time to adapt.
There is AIM Phoenix; it's a reimplementation though, I think the server is open source, but not sure http://iwarg.ddns.net/phoenix/index.php?action=main
Seems like that lends more credence to the idea that product strategy was the problem then no? How does a company decide to hire angineers and the products they'll be working on? It's true that engineering roles across the industry were overpaid in a way we're probably never going to see again, but isolated, that was just a symptom of the general amount of money sloshing around the tech ecosystem and doesn't really have anything to do with the reasons Lyft may or may not fail. The business model as it exists (at current pricing levels) is unsustainable. Even Uber is only achieving profitability because of its investments.
People aren't stealing phones to sell the charge port on the black market.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, newspapers frequently reported on suicides in detail. It was observed that the reporting on suicide had a potential epidemic effect. As a result, a standard was adopted in which suicides were generally not reported on at all, except where the person or context was notable, in which case few details are transmitted.

If a readership constantly encounters stories about suicide, that will surely increase suicidal ideation within that readership.

It seems a similar standard needs to be worked out for mass shootings. Simply not reporting on these events isn't reasonable. Nor is (unintentionally, negligently, or corruptly) helping a mass murder realize their goals by publishing their manifestos or making them famous.
Sure I get all that but you are literally never in any situation going to use your own money to pay for open-access fees. If you actually did that, sure, let me know lol.
Thomas Pynchon was ahead of his time with his book title
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow
I guess your view is that if a new thing is approximately as terrible as an existing thing, then it's fine. Mine is that new things are a rare opportunity to make the world less terrible, so we should take a swing at it.
I wonder what game this was for.

To me this is validation that going the SQL route in almost 99% of new apps is the right way to go. It will be a rare case that you won't be able to scale out given how mature some of these technologies are.
I've never had it happen to me, though in particular circumstances I've seen it happen with other people. But not with an immediate termination, just walked out the door -- they still got paid for the two weeks of notice they gave.

Mostly it was so we could find out if any ostensibly automated tasks were in fact dependent on their ongoing work, while they were still reachable to answer questions. Perhaps related, this was all during my time as a unix admin, before I officially converted to a pure software development role. I've never personally seen a developer walked immediately out the door.
Uber is in a lot more lines of businesses and markets than Lyft is. The split for rideshare in the US is 70% Uber and 30% Lyft.
The former already exists and is being employed in Libya. You don't need a neural network for this.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldi... (not the best source unfortunately)
The way I took it, was maybe LLM's don't need to get much larger, but that doesn't mean they aren't going keep improving it and maybe expanding with adding on other architectures. -- Maybe he was just trying to tamp down the hype since it is doubtful they could make something as instantly ground braking as GPT very soon.
> If you can afford a car you are not poor

I'm not sure I agree with this. In many parts of the US or Europe, you could easily be in a position where you can afford a car (and need one for work), but cannot afford housing. It's true that you might well still be well off by world standards (a car roof is still a roof), but I think I'd require "food, clean water, clothing and reliable shelter" to be a bare minimum for "not poor".
That's the official spec, but given how far the rest of the chip overclocks i would like to check that. The problem is that non of my SWD probes go above 24MHz.
A stream name is somewhat more limited than that:

> All Unicode characters are legal in a streamname component except the following:

> * The characters \ / :

> * Control character 0x00.

> * A streamname MUST be no more than 255 characters in length.

>

> A zero-length streamname denotes the default stream.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
They are scaling down the workforce which is different from scaling down the operation. This might come next because as a business you obviously don't want to operate in a small market where the economies of scale don't work out.
You can already filter out 95% of candidates with fizz buzz.
How Many Indians Are There Really? India Doesn’t Want to Know
You’re probably right. Devils advocate though:

When a company’s engineers ship quality code fast, they end up with more bandwidth. Then the company does more shit. What new has Lyft really built? It could be a symptom of slow engineering.
OP says they don’t think the engineers hired by doing leetcode hard problems (and screening out the folks who can’t) does not engender a good future for the org.

Your argument is “I found the interview easy, and hence it’s not that bad.” Just pointing out that perhaps OP thinks the culture you’re part of is not a good one. I’m not taking sides here but curious what this clarification means to you.

Your point about engineering not being part of the problem is another. It’s partly true - unless your technology is true main selling point (like openai or maybe google search), then sure engineering makes or breaks the future of the company. So in one way you yourself point out the commodity nature of what companies like Lyft do - given how many companies around the world do it as well now that is. Then the question becomes what exactly are you paying top dollar to these engineers for? Create 4 more unnecessary open source projects to make sure the engineers feel like they’re getting exposure?

Airbnb is the epitome of this. Like dudes, you rent out rooms, what are you trying to do creating open source ecosystems in data engineering for?

Elons original thesis of Twitters problems was absolutely correct, why you needed 8000 people to run that org (or whatever the number is for Lyft especially on the engineering side) is beyond me. Overengineered is absolutely the correct term in these cases I think.
Oh contraire :-) .Alternate data streams are widely used by virus writers and spies using them to exfiltrate data from foreign (to the spy) government and corporate Windows IT systems.

You think I jest ? Look up the leaked source code for the US government spy tooling. They hide data to be exfiltrated in an ADS on the root directory of the share :-).

I finally realized ADS were the mother of bad ideas when Ted Tso responded to me asking why I couldn't have them in Linux for the umpteenth time by showing me a Windows task manager screenshot of Myfile.txt as an actively running process.

If the ADS ends in .exe then Windows will happily run it :-).
"I want to download this file with all additional affiliate marketing executables and remote control included."

vs

"I do not want my grandma saved from a house fire preventable by products from our sponsors' catalogue."
Persona-driven ChatGPT yields toxic, racist output
> Only if you did it at a company like Google where it's being talked about and you've got that large a user base

Google has lots of folks who had access to the similar level of resources and no one but Jeff and Sanjay made it. Large scale engineering is not just about writing some fancy infra code, but a very rigorous project to convince thousands of people to onboard which typically requires them to rewrite significant fraction of their production code, typically referred as "replacing wheels on a running train". You gotta need lots of evidence, credits and visions to make them move.
Rides aren't subsidized. They have a gross profit of 1.5 billion against 0.5 billion of marketing expense.
This one is my favorite!
I think that line is a paraphrase of something often attributed to Diderot. Since he lived in the 18th century, this falls into the "quaint tradition" category.
> If you think co-pilot is cool now, just wait and see what it does in 5 years.

What will it do? It can't write exponentially better code. Maybe 50% better, so that I would need to edit it's outputs less often. The only thing I could see it doing exponentially better would be writing _less_ code. Telling me "stop! close this file. close this project. you are working on the wrong thing!"

Technology can jump sharply but then go relatively flat. We still haven't gone back to the moon, 50 years later. We still don't have at-home nuclear power plants.
> In order to have a scientific discussion rather than a political discussion, we need to know your intentions

The truth, freed from ideology. This will be hard to achieve given the enormous amounts of money involved on all sides - from "green new deals" via trillions of € in subsidies to even larger amounts of money on the fossil-fuel-status-quo side. With politicians who have made their careers on either portraying themselves as apostles of Gaia or ensuring the continuous flow of oil, gas and coal - and thus the continuation of an industry which more or less defined whole US states and several countries.

Just because it is hard - and probably impossible - to get the actual truth does not mean I want or need to cave and just follow one of the narratives. Given enough people looking for the actual truth it may become possible to reach it and act upon it but it better be sooner rather than later.

What is your purpose in asking such leading questions by the way? Do you agree that an actual scientific discussion - as opposed to one directed by The Science™ - is the better course? Also, who are the we who would like to know? I speak for myself, not for others. Who do you speak for?
My first thought was about how browser tabs would be displayed.
In an information environment, security and privacy are the same thing. The terms may have different connotations culturally, but good security-in-depth is the same set of practices that enable digital privacy, because the objective is the same: prevent leakage of facts.
I keep hoping for one of the open source clones to become playable, but they never seem to get that far. Someday I'll have to contribute myself I guess.
I have literally never experienced or witnessed this for any company I’ve ever worked for. This is just /r/antiwork leaking again.
Is anyone else old enough to remember when he promised to put future policy changes to a vote?
Sounds like it would be ideal to implement as a plugin, that way third parties could maintain it and remain at an arm’s length from the main software entity
AI doesn't "want" anything.
I think it has a lot to do with how common code examples in the language are. I bet if you tried with languages detailed here you will get a lot better results than more obscure languages (like GDscript)

https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages
I would definitely want to talk to an employment lawyer familiar with the laws of the local jurisdiction before making any assumptions.
I used to be an editor in a journal from one of the big publishers (not Elsevier). We searched for reviewers, invited them, reminded them when they were late in responding, evaluated their submissions, send the approvals, etc. And I didn’t get paid a dime. All the publisher had to do was maintain the platform. And sure that costs money too, but the costs are shared between multiple journals and papers.
Let me guess a novice programmer could build Uber/Lyft with bash scripts and a SQLite DB?
Pushing for whatever feature they fashion, pushing against stuff that they didn't create, doing things differently for no reason, making sure their software works badly on competitor platforms...

What Google is doing isn't much different from the MS from the 90's, except that they didn't stop improving their browser. At least yet.
The quantum code Kazuki Ikeda used to demonstrate quantum energy teleportation
The complete quantum code for quantum energy teleportation on an IBM quantum computer. You can demonstrate quantum gate operations on a laptop using a classical emulator or a real quantum computer. The default code works without an IBM ID. No special knowledge is required.

To run the code on a real quantum computer, create an IBM ID from the website and replace "My_API_Token" with your own token.
Show HN: PrismaGPT – Ask how to query against your schema using natural language
Hi HN!

I often ask ChatGPT how to construct Prisma queries, especially when things get a bit more complicated.

Since I do that on the regular, I decided to put together a tool that is specific to that purpose: PrismaGPT (https://gpt.howtoprisma.com/)

With PrismaGPT, you can drop in your Prisma schema and ask questions like "how do I get a list of users and all their related posts". You'll get results for both a Prisma Client query as well as raw SQL.

Hopefully it's useful, especially if you're newer to Prisma and want to get going quickly!
Cheers mate, another time!
Yeah, something like that. Idiots, trolls, etc.
Its disingenuous to claim that these engineers werent delivering business value. James Gosling worked on Java at Sun and Sun failed, would you say that Gosling isnt a good engineer ?

Engineering can only work in the bounds of the problems set to it. If the leadership doesnt want to diversify streams , get into delivery for example there is nothing engineering can do there. In the end you need both good business acumen to succeed and engineering is just a multiplier and facilitator there.
No, I mean the war Russia created for itself when it invaded Ukraine for reason no better than Putin's vanity.
Show HN: Chesswith.ai, play chess with hundreds of AI generated characters
> as for email [passwords], that's again a matter of security

I guess if we're nitpicking I'll point out that this is still privacy (how one keeps their password) for the sake of security. Information is kept private and passwords are information.
A tempest in a TTY pot (2009)
The first release was 16 years ago and they're still making new releases of it so I'd say it's definitely here to stay ;)
Shakespeare by numbers: mathematical breakthroughs influenced the Bard’s plays
Yes. You can even write stuff like “cd foo/\bar\/baz”.
Oops, you're right, added an extra letter to the acronym.
> I don't believe that DeepMind is openly making use of LLM technologies.

I think they are. e.g., https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-...
Alternatively, nothing will change too much because we don't really care. Watson was a fun Jeoparody contestant, but not a permanent addition to the show. Watching robots do stuff is boring: if you think religion and sports are going to get disrupted by AI, I'd wager you're not considering why they're popular in the first place.

If you presuppose anything, you have to try to justify it. That's what ChatGPT is doing - it has no model of "collapse" or understanding of the outside world - it's just taking your prompt ("assume the world ends by AI") and tries to come up with a believable justification. It's testament to how indiscriminate and willingly wrong it can be. The fact that AI unconsciously oscillates between fact and fiction makes it unsuitable for world-domination, at least without serious assistance.

We have multiple adversarial nation-states with nuclear armaments and advanced manufacturing tools that could wipe out all human life. Something tells me an erudite text-generation tool isn't going to end the world in my lifetime.
People underappreciate how addictive nicotine is. I've been an addict for 15 years and I quit so many times, sometimes for longer than a year.

The new smoking inventions only make it worse because they allow for much much higher dosages. I've seen teens smoking what amounts to 10 packs a day worth of nicotine. And they didn't have to chain smoke for 12 hours to achieve that.
> 10. Deceptive Button Contrast

(The orange button has a brighter background with the same white text, making it look like the lesser option.)
The 800XL was my first Atari, before the ST. It was quite hackable, and within a few months I didn't need a disassembler any more. I could read the 6502 instructions directly out of a hex dump and could write them in hex, without an assembler (6502 has so few instructions, you can memorize them all). Fun times. Math functions in the ROM were all operating on BCD — there was no FPU, of course.
Not all iq is created equal. Creativity matters
Yes you can create files named `.` and `..`. However, any sensible filesystem driver will reject that name (spoiler: there does exist drivers that aren't sensible).
gpt4 is so much better than any other released version there is no point to understanding capabilities on other models

tfa's model editing tho seems like a generic capabilitity.
They are talking of "vCPUs", so I suspect that is an LPAR.
In that era many games depended on obscure things that the logic did by chance.
https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/cs01/virtio-v...
Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter
Evolution and natural selection have nothing to do with "progress".
> Isn't gravity just a fundamental force?

Not really.

Gravity is most accurately described by the general theory of relativity... which describes gravity not as a force, but as the curvature of spacetime, caused by the uneven distribution of mass, and causing masses to move along geodesic lines.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
From my perspective, you are not only not addressing what I'm asking, you're throwing up a wall of prose in a manner that reminds me of a squid squirting ink, replete with what seem to me distortions and straw men. I tried a couple times, but this certainly doesn't look like conversational progress to me, so I'll tap out here.
I'm struggling to understand what happened from your comments.

So your funding source requires publishing as open access. (This is generally good imo, but details matter and challenges may remain.) But when you tried to publish in your selected journal the university objected... to what exactly? Allocating funds from the grant to pay for the publishing fee? Or did they have to pay out of pocket?
Images of child pornography are not protected under First Amendment rights, and are illegal contraband under federal law. Section 2256 of Title 18, United States Code, defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...
> Hardware sure isn't getting faster in a hurry

How is it not?

These LLMs were recently trained using NVidia A100 GPUs.

Now NVidia has H100 GPUs.

The H100 is up to nine times faster for AI training and 30 times faster for inference than the A100.
> But, it is at least comforting that people are now saying the white part out loud, which is "yep, Apple had anti competive power the whole time, I just like monopolies".

It's... been the entire argument, the whole time, for the "please don't change it" side. I'm not even aware of another angle on it. It's never been "quiet".

> I just like monopolies

I like my life being better than it might otherwise be. In this case, yes, that means I'd rather this monopoly stick around at least a while longer. I'm entirely not a fan of black-and-white positions on most issues. Monopolies generally suck. In this case, however, one particular monopoly seems to be giving me significant benefits I might not otherwise have. Now, if I could trade Apple's monopoly for a harsh crackdown on monopolies across the whole economy, that'd be easily worth it—yes, please. Just to "liberate" iOS devices, though? Nah, I'd rather they leave it alone.
NTFS implemented it to be compatible with Mac. They then started using it for storing the Mark of the Web and other special system properties, but practical came much later.
Recently we had a bug in an electron app that couldnt call exec on a filepath that contains a space in windows. After 2 days of researching and trying, i still don’t have a solution. I reckon adding nodejs to the fantastic world of windows file IO does not make it any easier.

Gonna give it another try this weekend.
Super cool. I had a 130xe as a teen, but I moved around a lot since then and travelled light so unfortunately it's in a landfill somewhere now :(

I was always slightly envious of the c64 for getting more/better games, but cherished my atari for some of the great titles that were unique to that platform.

I also credit my atari for getting me online at a blazing fast 300bps to some great local BBS's.
I find Galileo's conclusion plausible that neither principle holds for infinite sets.
xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition
Switch/PS5 next?
Batteries are the heaviest part of an EV, and it is super easy and...actually obvious, just to distribute them evenly under the vehicle.
It's the big gate though. No amount of experience, resume high points, etc. will overcome a failed tech screen or interview. It has stopped every single interview loop immediately that I've seen and been a part of the process. As soon as there's a "no hire" voice in the loop it's over, and the fastest way to get there is not figuring out an interviewer's tech screen question to their satisfaction.
She has been on medical leave since February, which makes me wonder in what capacity she co-sponsored this bill... can she do that from her nursing home?