skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we will be fine because corporations tend to scale based on their profits more than their actual needs. I think this phenomenon is caused by tiers of management getting budgets and quotas. AI will make industries more profitable but managers have a talent for burning whatever budget they are allocated, more profits will mean higher budgets which means more employees and services consumed.

Look at huge tech companies, how did FB become a 75k employee company that runs a social media site with ads on it?

I do fear for people who are a one to one replacement in low margin industries like fast food.
OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO
I actually don't have a job! I'm a self-employed writer who made low five figures last year.
If you thought this article was about photographers gatekeeping, think again

Its just clickbait between buying this iphone or the next iphone

> But these upgrades for the Ultra could give photographers like me a difficult decision. If the rumors are true, the Ultra will be opening up a sizable photographic gap to the rest of the iPhone 15 series – so it could be a decision between splashing out on that flagship, or waiting until next year for an iPhone 16 Pro with a periscope zoom.
I find reviewmeta.com helps a lot. Having said that, it doesn't work on these "Tom Lesley" books because they only have fake ratings, no reviews (fake or otherwise).
> Other assets classes already have that

Financial assets. You can even become an M&A advisor and, as long as you never touch securities, avoid registering with anyone.
Thumbs up for Aegis, I've been using it for years and the backup & import/export has saved my ass several times now.
Writing is harder than talking. In my experience, people who don’t care spending time writing properly, well, they usually don’t care about your time. Or perhaps it’s just me, since I’m a non-native English speaker, at work I re-read (and rewrite) what I write many times before hitting Send. More often than not, it’s in the rewriting of my own words where I find the solution to the problem I was about to ask (duck rubbing or something like that they call it)
> On average you get 30% of capacity.

Average means nothing when the output is zero (at night).

> a solar plant with a nameplate capacity of 1GW is roughly 15-17x cheaper than a 1GW nuclear plant

And produces zero electricity at night.
Yes because blaming mass shootings on marijuana is of course absurd. Why don’t any other countries with the access to the same marijuana have mass shootings?
A real Amazon review would have rated it 5 stars because it arrived on time.
> What wavelengths am I protecting against?

Something around hundreds of meters. It's large enough that people don't treat it like a wave. Also, it's often semi-stationary, so you have to care to make your protection long-lived, and not only surge-based.

Coronal ejecta is formed by charged particles. The ones that can move only a few meters into the atmosphere. You don't have to catch those. There is also no high-frequency EM radiation.
Same. I think here is a good place to shout out to Vaultwarden:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Your password data, back under your own control.
Maybe it would be prudent to set it to less loud pending a definite answer to your question.
"Camera sensors" have been able to do this since the dawn of digital photography, seeing as these parameters are so fundamental even for selfies. A sensor that can't adjust exposure time is one that cannot function in almost any light.
How? If an app isn't installed through App Store it can't be rejected by Apple therefore developer can provide any payment method they want.

Am I missing a point?
The Only Good Social Network Is Google Maps
New York City to test local delivery hubs
Post by "Group Product Manager". It's a pretty useless post. Could've been 2 sentences.

From the support page:

> If you’re signed in to their Google Account within Google Authenticator, your codes will automatically be backed up and restored on any new device you use.

Still doesn't explain how it works. On the same page they're talking about synchronization:

> Google Authenticator 6.0 on Android and 4.0 on iOS introduces the option to keep all your verification codes synchronized across all your devices, simply by signing into your Google Account.

I don't understand why "people" think it's a good idea to hide any form of mental model or technicalities.

Provide people with a mental model. It will make it easier to understand all the Ws. People are not stupid. They will understand, as long as you can describe it properly.
The 1Password "no local/standalone vaults" "upgrade" in 7->8 is what got me to leave it after 15 years or so. They're killing the extensions used by Chrome/Brave/etc. in 3 months, so it became critical to move off Version 7 (which is probably not getting much security maintenance now, either). RIP.
Cool, what kind of stack are you using?
Iirc the waitlist is packed (million or so) and they've only let in 20k so far while they're working on scaling moderation (which is pluggable as well, I think).

Some info in the interview by TheVerge[0].

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-int...
People beat themselves up about this a lot. White people love to hate themselves.

Sure, your employer will reward your commitment by laying you off once you're of age, but it doesn't take much to end up estranged from your adult kids despite a lifetime of effort expended there either.

Hold out for grandchildren. It's the fun part of parenting without the responsibilities.
It is pretty well accepted that "open source" in the context of software is referring to the OSI's Open Source Definition. Elastic themselves say they're not calling Elasticsearch open source:

> Does this mean that Elasticsearch and Kibana are no longer Open Source?

> Yes. Neither the Elastic License nor SSPL have been approved by the OSI, so to prevent confusion, we no longer refer to Elasticsearch or Kibana as open source. We updated our website and our messaging to refer to these products as “Free & Open,” and when talking about the licenses directly, we describe them as “source-available.” If you notice an area we missed, please let us know, so we can correct it.

https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Most bucket shop spammers aren't going to shell out for the API version.
My position is they can indeed get meaningful telemetry with opt-out anonymised data and that the GDPR does not prevent this.

I am countering the position of the parent poster and asking for a citation that would indicate you don't need to sneak this around the EU regulators to do it.
Given that Europe requires side loading apps now, did Apple really "win"?
Working for a startup? You're getting screwed
I worked for a startup. When I graduated from Stanford, I joined two Harvard Business School grads to start a company that later raised millions in funding. All good. Problem? They ended up screwing me over and taking my shares. Here's what it is really like working for a startup.

You're going to have to work over 100 hours a week, and you'll think that you're going to be rich. You'll hope for the best. Your business partners will smile at you and reassure you that you're going to make millions. Some of you might jump on board without a solid contract in place (big mistake).

If you are smart enough, you'll hire a lawyer before any code gets written. Even with a lawyer, though, you are on a vesting schedule - meaning you can still work crazy hours and get screwed.

You'll raise millions if you are lucky, and your business partners who are much better at business than you will attempt to take your shares away. You won't see it coming, but thinking about it years later, you'll realize that the shift started on day 1. The secret meetings. The gas lighting. The this is not good enough, so redo it. The verbal abuse. The constant monitoring.

When they do corner you to take your shares, you'll be blind sided as you didn't see it coming.

Of course, they have their reasons why they are taking your shares (they could have hired a programmer for much cheaper, for example). You'll probably fall for the reasons they give you, and sign your shares away hoping to keep the peace.

You'll try to resume working with them, but the relationship is already toxic. You're supposed to be on a vesting schedule, and they begin to make it tough for you to vest. They might be nice at first because they still need your code, but as they start hiring people, things get toxic. They make unreasonable requests. You're supposed to code a complete IOS app in 1 week. Your position is no longer safe. You are replaceable.

Meanwhile, your mental health has taken a hit. You are stressed out, worried, and paranoid. You're becoming unhappier day by day. It slowly begins to sink in that this is not going to end well. You're also wondering if this startup will succeed. I mean 99% of startups fail.

Oh - they stop calling you a co-founder. You were just an engineer that they happened to run into.

Even though you invested 100s of hours per week into this startup and helped it raise millions of dollars, you quit because you have no choice. Your health is way more important.

Are you working for a startup? How do you feel?
> Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem.

Propaganda cuts both ways. For example, you completely ignore the reality that the sun doesn't shine at night ad that the wind doesn't alway blow. So Germany shut down its nuclear plants an now is burning coal to compensate.

Someone literally advocates for rolling blackouts in a sibling thread because renewable generation is intermittent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675328

This is a good comment describing the current situation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660884
The thing is, the Linux space at least has something nice and shiny to offer every now and then (although I'd say GTK and Gnome could go off and vanish and I wouldn't care).

And it's not just UI where Linux keeps evolving. Just look at systemd - a fucking breeze to work with, whereas on macOS you're stuck working with plist's (annoying but OK), and on Windows it's literally the same crap from 30 years ago in the NT era. A Linux VM can do a cold start in well under 30 seconds, Windows needs anything from five to ten minutes and you can't optimize anything.
I've had issues where 1Password wouldn't save my new logins properly, lasting for over a day. Maybe that's why they need the telemetry.

Do 1Password do security/privacy audits the way Mullvad do? That's a pretty decent way of building goodwill over time when it comes to decisions like this. It's probably a fine decision, but they should probably have gone to greater lengths to write this blog post in more exhaustive detail.
It's $8k cashflow.

Those are great questions, I figure I would get all of those once I reach out to them for more details. Thank you for posting them as I will make sure I don't miss that.

I don't know much about social media management, but I feel confident I can quickly learn just about any business. It is risky to go into a business that I don't specialize in, but I have a lot of experience delving into topics I don't know much about and becoming an expert. I think that being able to market an existing product will be a key skill to master early on, if I want to continue growing any business I take over.

Thanks for the heads up about passively managed business. You're right it would involve taking over and learning a ton. I was mostly thinking from the keeping-my-day-job perspective, but I agree with you, I should probably forget about these "side" projects as it would just be another full time job.
And if you were coming into a discussion with people saying "I think this thing happens", and you said "No, I don't think this thing happens, based on my personal experience," that would be one thing.

You're not.

You're coming into a discussion with people saying, "I have experienced this thing happening to me," and you're saying "I don't think this thing happens, based on my experience", which means you are trying to use your non-universal experience to tell other people that their experience didn't happen.
Vacation payouts shouldn't be relevant. They are earned while working, so they are compensation from the period when you worked.

Unless, of course, you are trying to collect during a period that is scheduled as a vacation? That could create problems.
Half of all the gold in the world has been mined since 1965 if you'd like another factoid :)
That doesn't work if Apple doesn't add support for WebGPU in their Safari, which is the only browser engine on iOS. It barely got push notification support. Hell I can't even play a standard opus audio file from Safari.
> Everyone just consents anyway...

Unless you don't lie to them and don't use every dark pattern in the book to trick them into clicking the checkbox.
Show HN: Manipulate CSV files using SQL completely in the browser (No Back end)
> It's literally for their customers.

This is said by every company that does telemetry.
I'm sure they'll replace it with something better suited... eucalyptus, maybe?
Or maybe, when they're first setting this up, excited about the new thing in their life that is their first smartphone or something, they don't realize yet that couple years down the line, half the things in their life will be gated by the Google account login form.

When first set up, the Google account really isn't something to care about. It only over time, and you getting used to all the conveniences it offers, that it slowly but surely becomes important.
I want to ask some American people - does marijuana legalized or just decriminalized in your state?
> I'm afraid it's not going to be hard, over the years, to find enough pedophiles and terrorists to make a compellingly popular case for more regulation of encryption.

You're going to oppress the world's entire population of human beings with warrantless global surveillance because of a few "pedophiles and terrorists"? What a tiresome argument, seriously. Go ahead and find us thousands of "pedophiles and terrorists". It won't matter how many you find because what you're proposing as the cure is the tyranny of a government panopticon.
Thanks for the update! I did notice they were flaky and maybe it's my queries that were more flaky than others that it stuck out at me more than when they possibly worked.

Hopefully you can get this resolved as it's become extremely frustrating searching technical pages to weed out unrelated information.
> I've had a computer blow out (sparks, smoke and everything) due to a power surge when the main power went out and then back on, rapidly.

> So while the "direct" causes might be different between EMP and CME, the end results are basically the same.

Not necessarily. My understanding is a CME solar EMP would take out grid-connected devices (via power surges over the grid), but leave most unconnected devices unharmed (e.g. laptops running on battery), but a nuclear EMP would take out both.
People to repair, direct, and organize the robots.

I mean, it's kind of a laughable example. Because we don't have humanoid robots today that can do anything meaningful in society, at any kind of meaningful scale. Without that, we are a far cry from having humanoid robots that can literally do everything.
It replaced Python for everything longer than a couple hundred of lines long for me. Fast language, fast compile times, clean(-ish) syntax, strong typing system, good ecosystem, and now multicore support? Yes please!

I must be more nuanced, though: existing libraries in opam are generally very, very good (I really like cmdliner), but many things may be missing. There is no alternative to Django, for instance. No serious IDE, except emacs. The standard library was so lacking that there is at least an alternative. The situation improved, but there's still missing stuff compared to Python.
You don’t share terms of the deal. For a win-win for you and the seller, it’s great if you can transition into the business while transitioning them out of it. Creating a financial incentive for them if the transition is successful is key. If they balk at this concept, walk away.
In order to build a chatGPT for the animal, we have to have a body of training data for it; where is that supposed to come from?
It’s still a win to them to have their biggest market not allow side loading or competing app stores.
You can't really pirate GaaS. All your v-bucks and skins live on the server.
link for reference: https://litepub.social/
Ok, i thought that only Apple uses biometric ID. Then: it‘s just awesome.
It is an interesting hack, buy 5 star reviews and use ChatGPT to write books. Amazon "print on demand" service to make physical books for you.

I wish folks like this would do a transparent web site on how much they made on the scam[1]

[1] It is a scam because we know ChatGPT will produce authoritative prose that is 100% provably not correct, so these aren't "books" so much as they are "printouts" being sold as books.
> little to no impact to your risk exposure by having them collect anonymized telemetry

The key word there is "anonymized". What is the risk of the collected data accidentally being less anonymous than intended? What is the risk of accidentally collecting more data than intended? Microsoft has already had both types of accident [1][2], so I think it's fair to assume a risk close to 100% over time.

Even if users opt out, what is the risk of the opt-out mechanism at some point containing a bug that causes it to fail? Or the risk of the user at some point failing to properly configure the opt-out mechanism?

Is the company going to put as much effort into minimizing these risks as the end user would like? Is anonymization of telemetry going to be the top priority for the company?

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145#issuecomment-22010...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23260548
> They weren’t really that fine-grained from a user perspective. You could not accept/refuse individual permissions, you either accepted everything or simply not install the app.

They were fine grained: apps either had them in their manifest, or not. If not, they could not call the respective APIs without getting an exception.

Because there were so many, it would be a great burden to app developers to check for random mix of required permissions, whether it was granted or not. The complexity would shoot over the roof. When Android switched to runtime permissions, all the detailed permissions were grouped into fewer coarse ones; exactly because so much detail would be unbearable for both users (fatigue from the alerts) and developers (handling the enabled/disabled matrix).

As far as I remember, iOS originally didn't have any permissions. It got them once certain app was stealing users address books, so it got confirmation for accessing contacts, camera/photos and a third thing that escapes me at the moment (location?).

> But on iOS, I get that request the first time I choose to send a photo to someone. I immediately see by the context why it needs that permission and I can make an informed decision.

The app can also remember that it got the permissions and do the nefarious thing behind your back. While it may look better, it is really not; it also won't work if the permission system is fine-grained: too many types of permissions and users will get lost. Also, users accidentally pick the wrong choice and then wonder, why the app doesn't work like they expect, or how to change it.
For all of those 44 years, the US has been continuously sanctioning, attacking, isolating, and threatening Iran.
Erlfuzz – Fuzzer for the Erlang compiler and VM
I hope your definition includes the swathes of techno-optimists that bandwagon on to new tech and relentlessly shill its positives with religious fervor.
> Because no network connection is anonymous but as long as you aren't handling PII

It's not the network connection that eliminates anonymity (although that, too), but the data itself. Even if there's no single piece of PII involved, fingerprinting is still a thing. That's why, if you want a hope at anonymity, you have to add the collected data into an aggregate collection and delete the original data records.
What do you mean by true unemployment?
The situation where governments can’t (bulk) intercept communications describes basically our entire history, with as small weird exception towards the end. Prior to the invention of the postal service, most communications were verbal and privacy was (relatively) easy to ensure. Even up until very recently, communications interception required some extraordinary action like placing a durable wiretap on a line and listening to verbal communications, or else laboriously steaming open mail. It’s only in the last fifteen years that we moved the bulk of our private, non-business communications onto electronic media that have long-term centralized storage and processing power to scan them. Coincidentally that’s almost as long as encrypted messaging has been popular.
Telemetry in a "trust us, this closed-source application which contains all your secrets, which we provide you and which we update periodically, is only contacting us for "privacy protecting telemetry" and not exfiltration, intentionally or not, of your most sensitive of all data" application is a hard pass for me. This seems like an IQ test kind of question.

(So many times error reporting, etc. have accidentally leaked highly sensitive data, which was then the source of a major compromise, in other systems. Maybe 1Password won't get it wrong, maybe 1Password will never be subject to any pressure to get it wrong...)
The Limits of LLM
It is possible that LLMs use a similar concept than the Jennifer Aniston neuron (we have found that some neurons only fire when we see a particular person's face) https://www.nature.com/articles/news050620-7.

A LLM could have the Donald Trump neuron. Whenever the prompt mentions Trump, the neuron activates and that neuron cascades activation of paricular sentiment neurons and those neurons re-shape all word's probabilities so that at the end of the process, we have text that contains "believe me" and "tremendous" and "a lot of money".

Then it becomes easy for the model to transform any piece of text in the style of Eminem or Shakira or anything for which there is a neuron that represents that concept.

This also goes in hand with the improvement in NLP we see with larger and larger models. Bigger models have more space to assign specific concepts to specific neurons. And bigger models MUST be trained with bigger datasets because if there are no more concepts to extract from the text, the representation of the world that the model learns caps. Like books and bookshelves.

Thinking in those terms hints at the limitations of LLMs because models can't learn things that are not in the books. Unless we are willing to believe that the whole corpus of books out there contain more information than the information intended to be put by the writers. Maybe there is information in the spaces between books that can be harvest by LLM which humans have not yet tapped into.

I think LLMs will not beat the top humans in any particular area of expertise but they will beat everyone else. They will be below top knowledge but way above average.
In the Netherlands dating apps won their case for third party payment processors but they still have to pay Apple something like 27% (instead of 30%). It's self-reported but you can bet Apple will come after them if it thinks they are fudging the numbers.
Apple will still take their 30% cut.

It's just that it will move from being taken automatically by the company to a model where third party App Stores/developers will need to pay it back to Apple on an ongoing basis.

Apple already has a system in place that captures which applications are being launched.
Oh cool. Reminds me of the Commodore 64 days; there was a floppy disk copy program that could run using the drive's controller. Since the floppy drive had its own power supply that meant you could actually turn the computer off and copy floppies. It was pretty pointless but just a cool trick.