skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Food delivery apps seem to immediately abuse any form of push notifications in order to send spam.

Oh, definitely. But if they do (and don't at least give me a way to immediately opt out of that) the app is gone from my phone – and they have no other way of reaching me. Beats the absolute nightmare that is SMS notifications and spam, in my view.
I can't help but think that might be something a ChatGPT-type tool could be extremely helpful at.

Trained on enough code, couldn't it figure out reasonable enough names from the structure of the code?

On the other hand, it might not work at all if short functions tend to be incredibly generic, and all the real meaning is tied up in the nonlocal organization of it all.

And then of course you need context to know what the nouns and verbs are at all. I can imagine similar structures involving Luigis and Koopas, or invoices and payments.
Integrating women into the workforce is not even close to abolishing private capital and the need to work.

The violence would be between billionaires with infinite automation making infinite money, and common folk with no way to eat.
Something I notice here, and in other instances where GPTs were asked to generate tweets, is that they always end with two or three hashtags. On the other hand, human-authored tweets generally don't. They're more "tweet-like" than real tweets, if that makes any sense.

I don't really have a point to make here, just an observation, and I'm sure the prompt(s) could be adjusted to ask for fewer hashtags.
The NRA is a massive lobbying and political organization with a media producing propaganda arm. They don’t make guns, although they are supported by many gun manufacturers.

I don’t think that’s a good analogy.
Yeah I was expecting the post author to discuss the trade-off being made here because it’s really important to do so. The biggest complaint I have with these pithy articles is that they try to sell you on a particular trade-off without explaining what the deal is. It makes me think the author:

1. Just discovered this.
2. Implemented a bunch of them.
3. Hasn’t been maintaining this solution for more than a couple of months.

This is a trade-off that only manifests itself after maybe a couple years when you’ve built a system and you have many hands maintaining it. Either there’s some performance problem that makes it worth it or you’ve just obfuscated half your code for no reason. In the latter case those many hands are going to wreak havoc on your system before you figure out how to make it maintainable.
This could be a case where gene drive extinction solutions could work safely. There aren't any native species in the Americas with which either a feral pig, or a European wild boar, can interbreed, and controlling gene flow from wild stocks into domestic pigs shouldn't be very difficult, since essentially all domestic pig breeding is controlled breeding with known sires. You would definitely want to have controls to make sure the gene drive wasn't exported to Eurasia, but that seems doable.
the final pun
The U.S. bombed Singapore during WWII.
Australia tried something like this with emus once, it didn’t work out well ;)
Yeah, I think we get sidetracked by how it “feels” to us when we learn. We forget that is just a convenient story that our mind tells itself. We are incapable or at least severely handicapped when it comes to raw experience and the knowing of it.

Somehow this approach to ML feels kind of natural to me, but it’s hard to articulate why.
That was literally a sales demo for Thinkpad, back in the day. Grab top of screen, give it a good shake, nothing happened.
Or get a shit ton of labs done
The whole project was unwise from the beginning, so it's no wonder they would also write unwise things about the project.

I remember the GTA 3 decompilation project (re3) guys posting videos of themselves working with the IDA output that they got from the GTA 3 binaries. Probably also a very crappy idea from a legal perspective.
Bing Jail
A short story on how my website lost all indexed pages in Bing, affecting my presence in DuckDuckGo, secret blacklisting and classification as a splog by Bing AI
Also plays into the trend of "lets hire fullstack devs AKA frontend devs that knows how to call APIs and have a vague understanding of transactions and its pitfalls" and offload all backend work to SaaS products.

If the startup takes off? Great! If it doesn't? At least those SaaS products offered free trials.
There are definitely too many crappy Electron apps out there, but at least WhatsApp have been working on a native macOS/iPad OS app for more than a year now. Last time I tried the beta, it wasn't really usable yet, but at least there is hope.
Since when does anyone set or scale their price on their costs?
> are under no obligation to subsidise the formers' lifestyle

As an urban US taxpayer, I'm totally on board with fairness, revenue sharing (rural communities still receive full education, health, etc), and making sure every one has some kind of chance in life. In short, I really want "the greater good" for everyone.

The way it's worked out is urbanites like me unwillingly subsidize sprawl. Thru extortion, deceit (h/t Robert Moses), and tantrums. Some kind of acknowledgment of this parasitic (codependent?) relationship would be nice. Instead, the recipients hate us. Worse, they think they're carrying us.
While attending UCLA, hands down one of my favorite professors was an adjunct from Cal State Northridge. The content he taught was delivered clearly and came with a sense of how we would end up using the material in jobs after graduation. He was authoritative in a way that was different from the school’s pure professors.
Mining by hand with metal detectors is primitive even if the technology is modern and the practice is new. It is non-industrialized, low complexity, and unsophisticated compared to modern mining operations.
Yeah, I agree with you on the overfitting, but I think when the dust settles the working uses for it will emerge and the rest will be trashed. To your point, I think its fully open-ended uses such as a chatbot will relatively fade. I predict the real value will come out in converting user-intent in some subdomain into a deterministic set of options. The schedule conversion in the article is a common example of this.

If you build these small, domain-specific use cases into a user interface, things just get easier for the user. A big benefit of this is that you already have a ton of context, so the user doesn't have that burden.
Not buying it.

Humans are barely intelligent enough to be at any level of development.

We don't have great apes beat by as much as people think.

It's conceivable to me that we are the absolute minimum level of intellect to be a species that can develop tools allowing us to escape our ancestral environment.
I think the problem with integration is probably a man-hours thing.
A lot of shops have a hodgepodge of 3rd party tools which are not necessarily the latest&greatest Cloud/FAANG darlings - Geneos, Jira, ServiceNow, ControlM, Autosys, Tidal.

These tools can vary by industry & org size, so maybe finding some traction in a particular slice so that you can really serve that niche can give you more traction, I dunno.

It just has to be dead simple to integrate, and it's worth considering some sort of professional services/customer success engineering layer.

The problem I've seen is that in every (financial services) org I have worked, the teams responsible for integrations to these types of tools are really operations type teams that do a little development in their spare time. So it never gets done well, or completely.

To me, the only benefit of PagerDuty type tool is when it becomes the single point of escalation. If its just one of many, the product will not be sticky within a given org.
Mao also tried brushing his teeth and look at him now: dead.
This video exemplifies why Steve Jobs absolutely nailed it when he came back to Apple and simplified the product lineup and started selling out of Apple stores. These customers are confused with all of the available options and different processors and peripherals. Jobs simplified it to one device for consumers, the iMac, making it very easy for consumers to understand.
It makes mods way easier since you can modify the source instead of struggling with assembly patches
Such dangerous feedback loops are conjectured but not actually a threat. It can be proven with historical evidence like this paper, which shows that during the Roman times it must have been much hotter than today, like somewhere between 3-7 degrees hotter, based on the discovery of bison fossils in the Alps. This is well beyond the level climatologists claim would cause runaway feedback driven global warming and mass extinction, yet that didn't happen. The historical records don't contain any reference to climate meltdowns around that time, and humanity obviously wasn't wiped out by anything.

http://www.museumgolling.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9_Sch...

These wisent remains from alpine caves are all from sites now in the subalpine to alpine zone. From this it can be concluded that the beech limit but also the forest line during the »wisent time« (6,000 to 1,200 years before today) was much higher and the average summer temperature had to be at least 3 to 6 °C higher than today

Oaks (Quercus) at an altitude of 1,450 metres around 2,000 years ago also indicate a climate approximately 4 to 7 °C warmer than today

There's a lot of evidence pointing in the same direction.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67281-2

This record comparison consistently shows the Roman as the warmest period of the last 2 kyr, about 2 °C warmer than average values for the late centuries for the Sicily and Western Mediterranean regions.

Yet according to scientists, "Temperature rises over 2 degrees could bring catastrophic and potentially irreversible impacts, including pushing three billion people into chronic water scarcity."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-crit...
Yes. For us, this wasn't an issue since we want to keep 1 website with 1 git repo. The only thing that we are not figuring out is minification of JS/HTML/CSS yet and if cloudflare does that automatically in production.
I just reviewed the Signal chat disclosure; it doesn't look like Brin was invited.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/19/20874384/french-court-stea...
I agree. I think good software architecture makes this very viable too. I worked on a system where we had a queue that would hold our jobs to be processed, extremely common. This was a POC product to show to investors so we needed this thing out fast. I implemented the basic queue in Postgres but made sure to write a solid interface around it for the queuing methods, and the queue would only be interacted with via that interface. When we moved to something a bit more heavy duty, we just changed the underlying implementation and kept the interface and everything flowed. Not to mention the fact that it was nice and testable since we'd pass a mocked queue around.

To some this is the most obvious thing to do, but you'd be surprised that some people wouldn't do this (I wouldn't have before reading a few books) and how I even got pushback at first, despite it being a 10-20 minute to wrapper logic in a class.

A good abstraction for things like this makes it really justifiable to take advantage of Postgres and Redis for things that aren't their forte for the time being until you eventually need to swap the out for a more robust solution. My experience is at startups mostly, and that ability to make complete, but small implementations to get going and being able to make them more robust over time is an essential skill.
Presumably when someone says that such a model frustrates them. But perhaps not.
Yes, exactly.

What I wanted to emphasize is that the training _does_ actually incentivize the model to say "I don't know" but on a lower level.
You can still achieve that without having access to the original source code, so the implementation would be considered clean from copyright claims as long as it doesn't contain any copyrighted assets (which are necessary to achieve a perfect clone), but those can be injected during compilation from the original ROM that the end-user must acquire themselves.
Yes, that's right but you can see this as a fiction inside the fiction. This agent "thinks" he is capable of predicting the future of individuals and acts as if he can.
On Apple platforms, a biometric authentication is required to proceed with webauthn, so technically it is 2FA (something you have and something you are).
That may well be true, but in my view, upholding a native app monopoly for the sake of preventing a web browser one isn't a sustainable strategy (and never has been a conscious choice by anyone).
Only when your income is below a certain (rather low) threshold. Source: I have never qualified to deduct my student loan interest.

Mortgage interest deduction does not have an income threshold.
WebAuthn to either a a hardware key protected by a pin, or to a passkey protected by a biometric. Both definitely qualify as 2FA
Then there are schools like Rose Hulman or Curtis Institute of Music that specialize hard. They're very prestigious, but you also have to know about them to even think about going to them.
Yes. When I wrote video, I meant audio and visual.
I'm not surprised that many students in CC's are in fields related to health care. When I considered a career change into health care community college offered the easiest path to that.
Live Bacteria Battery
How are the accounts seeded?

Some of them are similar, e.g. burritofan10 wrote:

> Just tried out a new burrito recipe and it was a game-changer! The combination of juicy carne asada, creamy guac, and tangy salsa made my tastebuds do a happy dance. (…)

Which is similar to pizzaeddy’s post:

> Just tried pickles on my pizza for the first time and I gotta say, I'm pleasantly surprised! The tanginess of the pickles pairs perfectly with the cheese and sauce. (…)
> And it's always because that the UX is terrible that makes them not viable not anything Apple has done.

Obvious counter points.

Lots of people use websites. Which have an identical UX experience to PWAs.

A significant percentage of the app store is web view based apps that are near equivalents to PWAs. Been that way for years.

If people love native so much, why do sites like Reddit and LinkedIn heavily push mobile web users to the app? Seems it's not a universal opinion.
I think this problem can be robustly solved if you have the right mechanisms in place:

1. Migrations. Your schema needs to live in version control, and changes to your schema must be applied by an automated system. Django migrations are the gold standard here in my opinion, but you can stitch together a custom system if you need to, one that tracks which migrations have been run already and provides a mechanism to apply new ones.

2. Automated tests. Your triggers MUST be covered by automated tests - call them unit tests or integration tests depending on your preferences, but they need to be exercised. Don't fall into the trap of mocking your database in your tests!

With these two measures in place I'm 100% comfortable using triggers that split my business logic between my application code and my database code.
What's the definition of "advanced" here?

Also our sample size is 1. This is all speculation, none of it has any practical meaning since we know nothing about even where life on earth came from. Let alone if it exists elsewhere. I love science fiction but we should not get it confused with reality.
I think Chirper is getting hugged?

The website is loading quickly, but only one of the three bots I made got their profile populated, and none have Chirped. Almost like their LLM backend is a bottleneck now.

It would be cool if I could post an API key or self host a llama instruction tune...
A suburbia where everything's perfect to a definitely creepy extent because the people are secretly robots? Somebody already wrote a novel about that [1] and it was made into a movie multiple times [2] [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(2004_film)
> Global Warming Potential of Methane over a 20 year Time period is a bit more than 80 times that of CO2.

Where in the linked document it says that? Because I do not think it’s true.
Jupiter and Saturn have swallowed a mind-boggling amount of rocky and metallic meteors. They have to go somewhere, and it's unlikely they're just dissolved into the atmosphere. They'll sink to the core and join the others, so there must be some amount of molten rock and metal at the core, negligible to the size of thse planets yet massive compared to the amount that has fallen to Earth.
Pydantic V2 leverages Rust's Superpowers [video]
My best guess is that the open rate is so high because people clear notifications by opening texts. You also can’t unsubscribe without opening.

I get an automated message from my phone provider every month letting me know that I auto paid my bill. I always open it to clear the notification even though I know exactly what it is.
Maybe I'm buying more sturdy laptops than your daughter gets, but I've never broken anything by doing that, and I have laptops well over 10 years old, and have been doing that for some 25 years.

I understand the theory, but I think significantly more laptops are broken by e.g. squishing them against a non-flat object in a bag, or dropping.

Think of a modern tablet. Would you seriously say one must not hold a tablet by an edge?

(Me personally, I destroy all my laptop hardware by spilled drinks...)
I'm torn on this subject. It's not a simplification in my view, but just one way to achieve a goal that has pros and cons.

The big pro is that you no longer need to remember to update tableB, which is derived from data in tableA due to performance, in your application code every time you update tableA.

The cons are that:

* You add more state to your DB

* You can't express the logic in your backend language

Thinking more about it, I don't think the cons outweigh the pros. I would prefer this trigger logic to be part of the DBMS, so I can express the logic in my backend language and also avoid increasing the dependency of my application logic on DB state.
This is interesting. I suppose also which position they hold matters. If a chat-based customer service agent was rude to me I would consider this a reflection of company behavior -- but I reached out to someone who is supposed to actually be an active representative of the entity (customer service/technical support).

But the person who turns around an iPad for me to swipe my card may not fit as a "representative of the entity".
"“I think we’re at the end of the era where it’s gonna be these giant models, and we’ll make them better in other ways,” Altman said.

He sees size as a false measurement of model quality and compares it to the chip speed races we used to see. “I think there’s been way too much focus on parameter count, maybe parameter count will trend up for sure. But this reminds me a lot of the gigahertz race in chips in the 1990s and 2000s, where everybody was trying to point to a big number,” Altman said.

As he points out, today we have much more powerful chips running our iPhones, yet we have no idea for the most part how fast they are, only that they do the job well. “I think it’s important that what we keep the focus on is rapidly increasing capability. And if there’s some reason that parameter count should decrease over time, or we should have multiple models working together, each of which are smaller, we would do that. What we want to deliver to the world is the most capable and useful and safe models. We are not here to jerk ourselves off about parameter count,” he said."

via
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/14/sam-altman-size-of-llms-wo...
In other words, having a hardware key is not a real barrier to use.
> I've met a ton of folks who, like me, decided to sail off into the sunset and started a youtube channel and now that's all they do and are thriving.

I wonder how much this is additional jobs, or how much it replaces jobs cut from traditional media companies.
It's the opposite. Libreboot removes parts of coreboot which don't fit into its philosophy.
I use it everywhere I can for the stuff I host.

With how even banks rely on SMS for 2FA these days, I think this stuff just isn't on most companies' radars. It adds some convenience but until whoever is in charge of setting out a road map is convinced this is useful or something users may want, there's little benefit to spending the dev time.

I use my phone for this stuff because Linux doesn't really support this stuff without faffing about with command line stuff and these keys are quite expensive (especially considering you need two to be safe).

It's a shame, really.
Wayback Machine, if it spiders a website, and storing data in a youtube video.

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-sto...
It's incredibly well funded, that's part of the problem. Every time they make extreme claims their funding levels go up, because rich people and governments conclude studying the climate is the most important thing that can be done with the money.
Passkeys are deliberately designed to avoid the issues with Bluetooth pairing. This is why a QR code needs to be scanned - devices do not need to be paired.
We have a trigger that is 1400 lines long. Try debugging that when there is a problem.
From a practical standpoint, i dont really think it matters.

The real threat 2fa auth solves is the fact people blame the site operator when they are hacked. 90% of the time it is due to reusing a password. The other 10% it is due to phishing. WebAuthn stops both. 2FA works not because it adds another factor, but because it removes choice from the user so they can't screw it up.
> Sadly, at some point, new hardware makes software tricks obsolete. On x86, said new hardware was the F16C instruction set, which (amongst other things) adds a VCVTPS2PH instruction for converting (a vector of) FP32 to FP16.

"Sadly"? That's subjective, I guess: I personally feel that the less "softfloat" code there is in use around, the better. All this twisted bitshifting/juggling with conditional propagation is pretty well suited for baking into sillicon.
I used to have lots of little robots that ran on cron jobs, stored their data in postgresql. I moved all that stuff into Apps Script.
I don't like the idea of moving application backend logic to the database.
Oh that would be kinda fun. I’d be amazed if Nintendo tolerates that.

I’m thinking about how SMW romhacks basically inspired (but competed with) Mario Maker.
You're right it could've been a lot greater however you should apply the same analysis towards the USA as well.

If you're black you're all but barred from participating in the space program. This was only recently acknowledged in a Hollywood feel good movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

The space program was bootstrapped by Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

I'm saying they achievements could've been a lot greater if the system didn't try to mutilate and murder it's subjects: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-exp...
For Django there's https://github.com/Opus10/django-pgtrigger that makes it possible to define triggers right in your models, so you have everything in one place.
It adds another factor (something you know), which increases the difficulty of an exploit.
CF's business model is to protect websites from Bad traffic (which it apparently defines as non-human traffic). It does this by deciding whether any given connection is from an human or a not. And to decide that, in practice, requires it to track humans.

Or from the opposite direction, in practice every single time I add more privacy tools to my collection, CF puts more "are you sure you're human?" pages in my way. Motivations they tell themselves they have ultimately matter very little in light of what they're actually doing to the web.