skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I, a nobody, got access to GPT-4 pretty soon after it was released. Maybe your stated use case wasn’t compelling enough to get access to the beta?

I'm also a self-proclaimed nobody and got access a day or two after applying, with some ideas I wanted to play around with.

Same for friends who applied, got access within days.

The only ones that didn't get access was the ones who didn't share what they wanted to build with the access.
That makes a lot of sense to me, and I see why it would be hard to coalesce all of that functionality into one or two sentences that would make sense to a more general, non-data, tech audience.
I'd go one step further and suggest a Pilot disposable fountain pen. Their nibs are remarkably good, and you're only out around $2 if you dislike them.

And if you like them, well then, have fun with your new hobby!
It’s sad to see Firefox on the decline :(
I like how you think empathy only exists when it isn't being directed towards people you like.

It's just such a cynical and emotionally manipulative conceit to demand that your group (I've perused your history and am aware you're an immigrant) be treated with "empathy", which is something you reserve entirely for your own benefit.

If other people thought like you, you wouldn't get any at all.
Whereas these days you'll probably watch as the entire phone shatters, both the screen and the pseudoglass back cover.
Does this line imply then it is mostly a concern for Windows users? I don't mind only using Linux, it is Best in Slot for most tasks anyways.
Mostly academia and nation states. Physical access will always be king and this provides one more avenue for adversaries to bypass encryption more easily.
You didn't say what language(s)/framework(s) you're currently using ... so it seems likely someone's going to suggest something you're already doing

What have you used in the past?

What are you using now?

Do you "have" to stay in webdev?

Where do you want to work (what's wanted/needed in Reno might be pretty different from Marrakesh or Bangkok)?

What size customers do you want to keep (suggestions for maintaining a rotating billet of 20 companies with fewer than 20 employees each will likely be [somewhat] different from wanting 1-2 "big" customers that'll keep you billing more-or-less half-to-full-time each on their own)?
Porn is not dangerous, it is just parents that don't want to talk about sex with their kids.

What is dangerous is social media, which should be banned < 21.
Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves
Aluminium is incredibly malleable! That’s one if its core qualities. We make paper to cook our stuff with it!
One of the authors here. This attack is relevant if your machine is physically exposed to attacks, e.g., in an office environment or while traveling, and if you don't use any additional pre-boot passphrase to protect the disk (but rely solely on AMD's fTPM).

When TPMs became popular, dedicated TPMs were mainly used, being a separate chip on the mainboard connected via the SPI or LPC bus. These were prone to (relatively primitive) bus sniffing attacks, where you would hook up a Logic Analyzer to the bus, watch a regular boot procedure grab the disk key, and then use software like Dislocker to extract all data from a USB Live Linux or alike.

Nowadays, most modern CPUs (both on Intel and AMD) ship firmware TPMs that are "included" with CPU die, making them safe against the bus sniffing attacks. However, they can still be prone to more sophisticated attacks like ours.
He Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever
Similar concept behind https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor
I've been reading up on DTS stuff already, there's some resources out there, but all of the "kernel developer guides" seem to predate that by a fair bit. I suppose I'll have to familiarize myself with U-Boot as well...
Microsoft is edging closer and closer to dropping support for Windows 10(even a computer I built in 2017 that's still running perfectly fine can't upgrade). But for many users, changing to another OS besides Windows is tantamount to not functioning, so planned obsolescence continues apace.
If the Trump era has shown anything, whether the piece of information is real or fake, people will believe and act based on ideals.
The lamy safari is fantastic and only about $35. You can find a black one on Amazon for $20.
Well, if we're talking about links in continuous text, they should definitely be underlined. Otherwise, they fail the WCAG success criterion 1.4.1.[1]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73.html
I've had an excellent experience with https://www.drakware.com/shop/p/adb2usb for a while now, I daily an M5301 at home and an M0116 in office.
In the old days parents would have this responsibility. And this doesn't necessarily mean that the parents would prohibit it! But I guess if parents aren't parenting the way you want them to, you need to pass a law. (which I disagree with)
It’s exploiting bugs on other websites to get free access…
i really liked google code, particularly because it supported mercurial, and worked pretty well. typically, google closed it.
A pattern in "AI" articles over the past few months is the almost complete absence of mentions to the labeling process - a vital part of machine learning systems - completely done by flesh-and-blood people [when the system is quality] in a laborious and monotonous process.

The reality of the facts is: the planet is dying and true AI exists only in the dreams of publishers. Rogue AI should be the least of our worries. Wake up.
Two more factors, India had contact with most of the world since the beginning, so no new disease wiped it on contact. Also you can not overestimate the population of India.
I'm an immigrant in the US.

If it was that easy, anyone could do my job, yet here we are.

I didn't come here to train people to take over my role. Work for it, like I did.
Is it just me, or does the PR experience with Github leave a lot to be desired? Unlike some, I don't have a problem with the concept of a PR per se, but I frequently find navigating the various conversations in my PRs more difficult than I feel it should be. If a branch is rebased, then comments on code that was changed get lost, and one has to go the Conversations tab and search for the comment there. I understand that the commit itself is gone, which is fine, but I think an easy way to navigate through the comments, even if their context is lost, would be a great improvement.

I am actually more interested in the suggestion to try VCS alternatives, though. To me, it seems like we have reached a local maximum with git where in principle, better approaches exist, but no one seems to think the cost of switching would be worth it.
The point of banning stuff on the Internet is not to censor stuff, it's to make the stuff the government doesn't like unmonetizable.

So VPNs aren't a "bypass" or a loophole, they're the desired outcome of these laws.
Annoying virtue signalling. Its as pleasant as someone running around your town scraming "LOOK AT ME IM STANDING FOR THE MORAL THINGS".
What age would you suggest having these conversations so that the kids' porn-viewing sessions can commence?
While I do worry about github, I disagree that the dominance of git is a problem. At some point every industry grows up and standardizes on something, anything, because any standard is better than no standard.

Git is far from an ideal solution, but it has emerged as the standard way to manage version control in a software project, and we benefit from there being a standard. Version control is the first barrier to entry in starting on a new project, so having an industry standard for version control benefits everyone: open source projects get more contributors, companies don't have to train new hires on their system, and employees have one fewer barrier blocking them from specific jobs.

Could we have standardized on a better system? Certainly. But launching a competing standard at this point isn't going to make things better, the best case scenario is that it fragments the industry.
Where are you based? I can purchase alcohol from Amazon UK with no obvious age checks. Deliveroo require that riders verify your age but in reality they just ask you to type it in. And the major grocery stores deliver alcohol without any obvious checking too. I imagine teenage drinking is much easier these days thanks to the above :)
This is why you need to evaluate your threat model. Is the NSA out to get you? If so, I hope you aren't relying on HN for your security strategy. Are you worried about theft? Add a passphrase to your encrypted volume and don't rely on TPM. Worried about your coworker or family snooping on your computer and seeing your emails to your mistress? TPM is fine.
It's funny to me that the article mentions their usernames and when you look them up, they're still happily posting. I wonder if they're aware of all this
Antithesis | Software Engineers, ML Research Scientists | Northern VA | ONSITE | https://antithesis.com/

Antithesis is using deterministic simulation, fuzzing, and novel ML techniques to improve software testing and increase developer velocity. For an idea of what we're doing, see Will's talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSPwJFXVlw or read the Simulation Testing section of https://www.foundationdb.org/files/fdb-paper.pdf. Fully funded medical, dental, and vision insurance. Unlimited vacation (with mandatory MINIMUM vacation time). Flexible hours. Incredible, cohesive team with the hardest and most interesting problems to solve. We work together onsite in a highly collaborative environment.

We're doing things nobody has done before, so we don't need familiarity with any particular language, framework, domain, or anything like that. Don't care. (But if you love Nix...we should talk.) What we do care about: you're smart, get things done, a joy to work with, and are comfortable dealing with open-ended problems.

Apply at https://antithesis.breezy.hr/ (Don't worry too much about which role you choose. We're looking for engineers who are ready to learn, not those that know everything already!)

We're also hiring for professional services roles. Feel free to ask about those.
My 22 year old son vehemently disagrees. And from what I've read from young men, many agree with him. When I (we?) were kids porn was Playboy or Penthouse or Hustler. Tame by comparison to today. As my son stressed with me, you can find _anything_ via the internet. Anything. ANYTHING. A developing brain can't unsee stuff and it does warp people's perceptions of what is normal.

Having said that, I am deeply suspicious of any move to "protect the children" because it's always used as a cover for a move toward authoritarianism.
Who said people will decide by themselves?

Each one of the people you mention will make a decision. How is not up to them?

Anyway, again you are talking about hypothetical other people.

What about you? What can you do? Stop pointing at other people.

No more excuses.

What can you personally do, and what will you do?

Anything else is just an excuse.
> can think of a few situations where taking the life of another human being would be justified, as a last resort

Straw man. We aren’t saying there couldn’t be a situation where causing social and economic meltdown is valid. If America is threatening global nuclear war, yes, causing it to burn into a deep depression and possibly dictatorship is worth risking. You’re doing that to avoid technical default, which would occur anyway in case of a constitutional crisis.

Earlier, you conditioned: “if a "constitutional crisis" means the government _doesn't_ default on its debt…” That isn’t a valid condition. If the Congress and Court say debt limit, and the President tries to override, you get a constitutional crisis and legal default, on America’s debt, but also everything else.
Access/privileges to execute on the host is required. I, personally, would not feel concerned unless I was a TPM user and knew I was a specific target.
A Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory
Better way is probably to give a fast path to citizenship for existing h1b workers but then abolishing the system for new applicants
Show HN: Stop nail-biting with your MacBook's webcam
Hey HN! I made this app because I bite my nails way too much while I code

It uses Mac's Vision library to track the location of your hands and mouth via the webcam.

Then when it catches you biting, it temporarily covers your screen with a big obnoxious warning. You have to stop biting if you want to continue seeing anything.

It's helped me a lot, so I hope it can help other nail-biters here :)
> Their goals only align with yours if your goal is to make GitHub more profitable.

Er, no. Their goal is to make github more profitable. My goal is to have a convenient code repository that facilitates both devops and code collaboration within our team. Our goals still align.
This is something we like to tell ourselves but they can do a whole lot, especially if the sites in question are expensive to host.
Hooded Pitohui
I know the name is supposed to invoke "iceberg" but my brain thinks "fatberg" every time.
> - should run easily on lower cost server environments (think Linux not Windows - but might be nice if it is able to run on either)

Honestly ... Windows servers aren't that expensive to run - they're not quite as lightweight as a Linux server can be, but they're not especially "expensive", either

The difference in a 4 CPU, 8 GB Windows box and a 4 CPU 8 GB Linux box is at most licensing ... but even that's minimal (commercial Linux support is basically the same cost as Windows)
Same. Which provider has the best security track record? I.e. which one has been hacked the least?
Well, that's not all the law does. It also strips anonymity and, therefore, privacy.
The Fairtiq system is so freaking cool: check-in the app when you board any train/tram/boat/bus, do any kind of ride, of any length, duration and connection count across the country, check-out when done. Do this any number of times in a day. Get billed the best price (excluding one-off deals) at the end of the day.

This is almost as simple as beeping your credit card when boarding. I've been so spoiled by that simplicity, I can't stand using needlessly complicated ticketing systems these days.
Workers Who Occupied an Italian Factory for Two Years Are Close to Owning It
I'm guessing the rates are up in the cities, and down in the rural areas.

It's more complicated than that. New York and Houston, for example, are way down from their peaks, and no one would consider those rural.
Because spaces in the names of things are _human_. Would you like to type your full name as Patrick_Lastname everywhere? Or have it canonicalized to that?

I'd much prefer if the space was encoded somehow like with URL encoding, or just make underscore and space interchangeable.
Doesnt change that this company whos original goal to 'democratize AI' is authoritarian-style picking who gets access.
'Bitcoin Request for Comment' Tokens Surge to $137M in Market Value
You describe pornography depicting underage people. I'm sure there's consensus on why that is bad.

I was, however, questioning whether minors consuming pornography is (always, and/or provably) bad.
There will probably always be more shows you don’t like than shows you do. They aren’t all for you / me / that guy.

Every show gets canceled eventually, except Jeopardy and The Simpsons I guess. The studio still owns the IP and can re-release, reboot for as long as human life exists.

Industry never wants to raise wages for anyone! A handful of companies own all TV & film media, meaning it’s even harder for folks to negotiate. That’s why unions and strikes are necessary.
We should not tolerate fraud. Your path to coming to the US should not have been so arduous. H-1B should be abolished, and something more equitable for everyone should replace it.
AI will bring out the "devil" in our collective consciousness. Midjourney is filled with dark images. People that gravitate to the dark side found an easy way to evoke it and put it out into the world.
Political news will follow.
Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just degrade. I need to know I can migrate easily once it happens.
Anecdata: Reportedly my great grandma, born in the 19th century viscerally reacted to things that were fictional movies of the 1960s like they actually happened. She could not distinguish between recorded news and recorded drama.

I think it's a matter of our 'priming', what we're used to: If you're used to digital recordings that seem real to actually be real, you'll be tripped up.

If you have no such expectation, you're less inclined to buy into the reality of something that is shown to you. That you have to believe some version of events that you pick up is a false dichotomy.

You can also not believe any version until you get more substantial proof.
ARM that are microsoft certified will specifically not give you that option.

You are probably largely using x86_64 which come with the option to do so, but there has been a lot of push around moving to things like ARM for energy efficiency reasons.
The rise of AI will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
What was your favorite movie or show with a union writer last year? What was your favorite movie or show with a non-union writer last year? Which do you think is of greater cultural value?
Is not Asimov you should learn from, but Gôdel. He took a language with hard restrictions and created over it another language, a higher abstraction level, to overcome those restrictions.
What’s so special about having 128 gpu cores when nvidia has had thousands of cores in their gpus for over a decade.
Migration Assessment for MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Today I learned that humans are predictable and consistent, but hardware is not....
Have you tried offering a competitive salary in addition to the training?
No it's not true. But people like to create strawmen in their head that they can feel superior to. "I'm better than all those dumb rubes!"
Anonymous Tor Phone
Lying requires intent and knowledge.
There could be some future in which computer security actually exists, but I just don't see our industry going in that direction right now. In any case, that technology doesn't exist now so the options today, with this law in effect, are as I stated.
I'm working on optimizing FUSE using eBPF (ExtFUSE [1]) and adding a caching layer exactly as you mentioned. Will post publicly when ready.

1. https://github.com/extfuse/extfuse
In terms of deciding how careful to be about it. An interesting property of Covid is that getting it for the first time without vaccination is about the equivalent of a typical person's full actuarial Micromort budget for a year regardless of their age. That's a serious level of danger but not a terrifying one and worth some a good number of lifestyle changes until I got vaccinated but not every potential change.
I think there is an implicit contest to be closest to center of the bulls-eye. So you want less competition.
This is yet another thing that non-techies sincerely don't care about. For them, it is the OS.

Now you can walk around telling every grandma that they should not refer to it as OS, but you will unlikely succeed in that mission. Accept it...
AI is going to be real benefit to Chegg
could you cite these bills? I am curious
I don't think this is a useful metric; the problem with how tech scales is that multiplicative effects are hard to measure.

But as someone who works in IT between tech folk and regular folk, I immediately percieve that a great number of liminal regular folk are going to 100% nope out of a terrible name like this. Might as well call it Poopy Edit or something like that.
I think the punishment for those workers is the thing they want. Their logic is probably that the worse the punishment the less likely people want to work in the US, so that tech salaries will balloon even higher. In reality many jobs will be nearshored to Canada/Mexico or offshored, especially with all the remote friendly setups that have taken place during Covid.
Population decline happens much faster than you intuitively expect. Each generation is slightly smaller than the one before it.

Current fertility rate in Korea is 0.78/woman

Gen1 = 100
Gen2 = 78
Gen3 = 60
Gen3 = 46
I saw the recommendation for the Lamy Safari in a lot of places. Just want to say I actually hated writing with it. Maybe I got a bad one, but I doubt it.
Perhaps a sequence of sentences, almost a series in the mathematical sense, where you iterate your explanation-finder, generating more sentences in the series, until it's sufficiently detailed for the question you care about today.

Also, remember that the explanation doesn't really have to fully contain the semantics of the model. It doesn't have to fully encode the weights, just activate sufficiently sympathetic structures in a human brain.
Of my last 4 customers, three are using Bitbucket, one is using GitHub. One is using Bitbucket's Pipelines (never head about), one Semaphore (same thing), one Travis (with GitHub), one runs tests locally and deploys from a self-hosted TeamCity instance. Almost every single external package all those four customers use has its repository on GitHub.
> - must be fast/efficient and scale well

Need to define all those terms :)

"fast/efficient" to ... what? Run? Write? Maintain?

What is your benchmark for determining "fast" or "efficient"? Why that standard, and not another?

"scale well" ... how? In what direction? Take advantage of more cores? Take advantage of more server instances? Take advantage of better storage speed? How "scalable" do you think your development needs to be? 1m hits per second? 1000 hits per day?
That seems overly emotional, to lie requires intent right? It implies the will to deceive. We don't accuse people of deception when they are simply wrong after all, so it feels inappropriate to accuse a machine that is predicting the next most likely word of lieing.
Before, parents oversaw things in the home and strangers/other parents extended that reach to the streets and the public square. These days parents barely have control over things at home due to how things can be circumvented, never mind outside the home.

It’d be like comparing an old style police stakeout and telling everyone surveillance is no different today because it’s just the police (ignoring the part where technology changes the calculus).
This isn't a discrete GPU.
And hallucination requires consciousness and sentience. There really needs to be better terminology for this.
To qualify for the DMCA safe harbor exceptions one must:

a. Designate an agent for service of copyright claims (i) on their website and (ii) in an online filing with U.S. Copyright Office (§ 512(c)(2)); and

b. Write, adopt and post on its website a “repeat infringer policy.” (§ 512(i)(1)(A).)

c. Set up internal processes and procedures to manage the notice-and-take-down process (§ 512(c)(1) (C)); and

d. Reasonably implement its repeat infringer policy.

So that is basically what this case comes down to. Did the ISP fulfill its requirements to qualify for safe harbor exception. It sounds like the plaintiff wanted to use these reddit comments as evidence the ISP failed to reasonably implement its repeat infringer policy.
The copyright says 2014, the foreword says they spent 15 years on the 2nd edition since 1995-2000.

It also says it was released the 6th of March 2023

So is it new or not?
That's an incredibly unimportant problem compared to what Hinton is worried about.
Original brand was out of Sweden and I can't find it anymore. But now using Carlson which you can find at any Whole Foods and it has been great.
Not an expert, but I think the biggest exposure most consumers might face is lost/stolen devices where it's conceivable an adversary could have physical access.