skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome.

This allows to improve my load times after each deploy by several factors.

Be aware that the example that is provided in the article is quite dangerous. If for any reason the content of the script is altered, the user will execute it anyway.

With normal scripts you have the integrity="sha-..." option that secures the content. With importmaps we only have a couple of github issues and no solution.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/221
https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/223
Oh, I thought this was a decision made by my IT department.
There's no excuse for not being able to read the user-agent strings of the top five browsers in the world, especially when 2 of them (at least) are your own code base.
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This is really neat. "Javascript optional" is awesome! I'm very glad to see UI libraries look towards functioning on the web without JS.

Looks very complete too. I laughed at the "Overpowered, undersized" description.

Does it allow theming? It's all very flat which I know is fashionable but it looks to me like it's really in need of a few gradients or shadows or something on the buttons, dropdowns etc.
Finance is a well established use case for blockchain.
The article conflates AGI with "consciousness", which is a really basic misunderstanding. Pretty discrediting.
About 200 people died from cancers related to this
Arc is still just a fancy Chrome front-end.

I refuse to use Chrome-based browsers just to keep things non-monocultural on the web. Even though I do know it's a losing battle.
That makes assumptions that don't hold in the round. Once you have a lack of supply capacity such that there is inflation, then everybody can pass on the price changes and the amount purchased doesn't change.

That's the problem.

Somebody has to stand the loss, and for that to happen there has to be an expectation that you can't pass on the price shift somewhere in the cycle, which then forces that somebody to reduce the quantity purchased or shift it to an alternative supplier.
whenever I see AI generated videos it feel like i'm watching a dream but i'm awake. it's a very bizarre sensation. anyone else?
I may be wrong, but audio types are standardized, while geo or map ones are not.

Meaning that it wouldn’t be much of an issue to open an audio file with anything that isn’t Apple Music, but FindMy would need to support a myriad of map app formats to work as intended.
So do landlords just eat that tax increase or do they raise rents?
There is a somewhat similar technology for LWRs: systems that filter soluble fission products (including iodine in second generation systems) from steam so the steam can be vented from the containment structure in an accident. These would have been very useful at Fukushima.

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1224/ML12248A021.pdf

The Cockcroft-Walton scheme was not for cyclotrons, but rather for a simple linear potential drop accelerator. Cyclotrons build up the energy of particles over many iterations, so they don't need that high a voltage.
You mean >50% isn't a lock? /s

I remember this. Tough spot for NS. I remember thinking that 2:1 Hillary and three language around it, came across a useless hedge. In retrospect, I think he'd have gotten more respect if he shouted from the rafters that Hillary doesn't have a lock and Trump could really win. Then, he'd have been heralded as a genius. Strong forecasting, weak marketing.
Thats a lot of words to say train a better model
This decision was by the appeals court.

> The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday denied Richard Glossip’s request to vacate his conviction — despite the fact that the state’s Republican attorney general agreed with the request from Glossip’s lawyers.
Now you are making things up
Top US CEO pay rose 7.7% last year, outpacing inflation, study finds
Uniswap is a decentralized crypto currency exchange. Aave is a lending protocol where you can get a collateralized loan. There is many others.
In fact those cryptocurrency are decentralized apps themselves. All of this combined this millions of transactions every day.
My LLM does not hallucinate in a way that my RF model also does not when it performs poorly
I feel the number he generates via any procedure would be on the list since all of them are on the list. What am I missing about the plausibility of a procedire that must be possible which must generate a real number not in the series?
Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
Honestly, I've long since made peace with not ever getting back those assets. In that way I accept the risk I took when making the trades in the first place. But what really irks me with the FTX bankruptcy is how my assets were suddenly impounded, effectively stolen from me, and I wasn't allowed to trade it anymore even to avoid further losses. Yes, contracts, articles, and so on, but I'm a simple man: I pay. I own. So, if I am to ask compensation for anything, it must be 1. to get my crypto back, and 2. to be paid damages for the inability to trade during a period of free fall. As it's now, however I guess I can count myself lucky if I even get back parts of my own crypto, if anything. So, I've decided to not spend energy on it.
It's both. It's definitely both.
My respect for Satya Nadella is decreasing every day
FWIW, I avoid breaking news, for things not immediately relevant to me.

Some reasons are: protect my positive mental attitude, jealously guard my attention, and I really hate the infotainment industry.

This Ben Len story is a great example why. Snafu.

I'm content to wait for the dust to settle. A week, a month, a year, whatever.

For instance, I'll a week or more wait to check election results. I really don't care about the food fight; just tell me the outcome. It's not like I can do anything to change the outcome. (Yes, I've doorbelled and ballot chased for local campaigns.)

And then I'll wait at least a year to read all the "what really happened" post-mortems. Accurate, insightful analysis takes a long time. And even then the utility is debatable.

I worked in student broadcasting for 3 years. Student radio and some public access TV. We'd tour the companies, meet important local people, do job shadowing.

While I loved the tech stuff, I came to hate the industry. And once we learned the tricks of the trade, I couldn't watch "news" without screaming at the TV. (My family won't let me watch TV news when I visit.)

YMMV.

Peace.
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Server hosting
Follow up question. Can you name a country that does have a good cultural mindset for nuclear safety?

Years ago I used to naively assume the Japanese were very safety conscious and then I read details post-Fukushima that made me realise that the corporate managerial mindset rules there as well.
Teaching maths without "Maths Language" is like teaching programming without a Programming Language.
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Mind-reading machines are here: is it time to worry?
This is what I meant by saying that it makes commerce easier.
“Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile they want to be to its competitors”

They did decades ago in the last century. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
It's the usual story with web APIs, the implementation probably has resource quotas to keep applications from accidentally or deliberately doing denial of service, but you the developer targeting that implementation aren't allowed to know what the quotas are. You just have to make an educated guess at how much you can get away with and hope for the best. WebAssembly has a similar issue where consuming too much memory will get your app killed, but there's no reliable way to know how much is "too much" until it's too late to recover.
Yes you're right that's a good point
I disagree with almost everything said about Vulkan in that post.
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I hate this pattern, even if it's not monopolistic. If I want to open a link, I want it to go to my browser, not some embedded pane. It completely breaks my workflow. I can't bookmark, use password managers, any of my extensions.

> Looking at the bigger M365 vision of embedding snippets of documents/chats/stuff-from-the-graph into every other asset. Having there a free-variable like a third party browser will make this a horrible thing to manage.

Once again, MS with the browser balkanization. MS is on all the consortia, they can push for browser standards too.
That's so fun! :D
I think people would consume less media if they could make their own. I know I care less for things I can make myself. When you have a nagging feeling you could always go back and improve the thing you'll start noticing each imperfection then get bored after a hour of tweaking
I don't like MSFT as much as anyone else but this does feel like a misattribution of blame.

On Linux, the "default web browser" is part of the XDG specification and available under the settings key `default-web-browser`. In the absence of such a standard at the DE level in Windows, it seems reasonable to me that developers would have to maintain a hardcoded candidate list of web browsers and their likely executable paths in the filesystem. And yes, of course MSFT would put Edge on the top of this search list, the same Apple would do Safari, or Google would do Chrome.
That was the prediction. But ultimately no correlation was found.

Source: Mahaffey, "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters"
Ah, thanks. I can see it is also based on the grammar of graphic. Neat!
That's probably already possible with just a huge HTML page? At least on my system, if I create such a page and open it via a file:// URL, firefox will happily gobble up memory.
It’s probably morally wrong to add this one, but sometimes I put raising teenagers in that category! Outsourcing to a boarding school might produce better results than all my hard and unappreciated work. I say this as someone who self host all my digital services in a basement k8s lab.
Project Farm did a video comparing insulated water bottles and Yeti didn't perform so hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6j1NJkNzwI
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That's a good use case for… a quite regular pipe? :-)
Every single climate change prediction (hundreds of them) made since the 1960s have failed to materialize.

...But I'm the crazy one since I refuse to run around like a chicken without a head.

The church of climatology and latter day taxes is full of shit. It has always been full of shit. It was always and shall always be a power play.

I know for sure that earth's climate changes, but also know for sure that taxes and economic ham-stringing isn't going to influence it in any way, shape, or form.
Well, yes. The 'magic' is the nonlinearity. It's because the composition of linear (actually also affine) functions is still just linear (affine). You don't get any additional power by combining many of them - which is also the reason why linear functions are so well understood and easy to work with.

You give sprinkle in a tiny nonlinearity (e.g. x^2 instead of x) and suddenly you can get infinite complexity by weighted composition - which is also the reason why we're so helpless with nonlinear functions and reach for linear approximations immediately (cf. gradient descent).
> ISPs and coffee shop wifi injecting ads into webpages wasn't a theoretical attack

I run a trivial site via http and I don’t care about isps and coffee shops injecting ads. I’ve never witnessed this myself or known anyone affected, but my site is free and non-commercial so I wouldn’t care if a location did that.

For me, it’s worth the removal of a minor chore to not run ssl. Comically, my host automatically ads ssl every once in a while, then tries to charge me, then breaks ssl.
Providing no access to the underlying data is far more common in other fields of science than AI.
XKCD isn’t relevant to the sentence before, as comic notes, it’s about Apple.

the “Android makes you tap something to change your default browser!” was some FUD that either Brave/DDG stopped spreading because it was generating backlash.

Much like the “you have to confirm you enable sideloading!” alert in Android, it’s not clear what people want otherwise, a confirmation isn’t the same thing as making it difficult.

I wish these things would pass simply because it makes it harder to have the real conversations needed to get things back on track
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what is the popularity metric ?
I only saw a couple of entries which might have been credit unions --- were they intentionally excluded? Or are they that much less likely to fail?
> Sam Parnia at NYU Langone Health says the gamma wave surge might happen as people die because falling oxygen levels disable some natural “braking systems” on brain activity.

Woah, they should study this in context of the practice of meditating and fire breathing (hyperventilating?). A popular one is Wim Hoff who has this method where you increase O2 in the blood by breathing techniques and then hold your breath for as long as possible.
>once you realize that hydrogen storage is an option already
With unavoidable ~30% efficiency (or ~70%) energy loss, requiring an overcapacity factor of 2-3...
I don't think that this makes any sense. Debt is inherent to the act of lending. A loan that doesn't have a debt attached to it isn't a loan, it's a donation.
Ok again, I want to draw a distinction, are we talking about equity investments in banks? In which case, yes, by definition any asset has outperformed FRB which went to 0, but no, that's not a reasonable way to value forward looking investments. Or are we talking about depositors.

Because we need to be clear. For depositors the value of the regulation is very clear - when crypto exchanges are unregulated when they blow up their depositors money isn't safe. When regulated banks blow up, the customer deposits stay safe thanks to regulations. The thing that caused instability isn't the regulations, it's rate changes.

The problem you have with crypto is very simple - you can't point at the value of bitcoin or FTT or ETH or Terra or Solana and say that it's safe, because alot of the time the people who were invested in it no longer have the asset! It's all well and good to say that BTC isn't down 100% but the people who had BTC on FTX don't have the bitcoin anymore so the nominal value of BTC is academic.
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I prefer the Arc that hacker news is written in...

Did anything ever become of Bel?
The short answer to this question is "No".
Beautiful little gem. Bravo.
Slightly better tact after your other comment was rightfully flagged and killed, but still not appropriate for this forum.
The article has a humorous history of graphics APIs that I very much enjoyed. I did the the Vulkan tutorial for kicks one month on Windows (with an nVidia GPU) and it was no joke, super fiddly to do things in. I look forward to trying WebGL in anything that isn't JavaScript (some language that compiles to WebASM or transpiles, I guess).
Agents on the Brain
Uhhh... and at some point it segfaults if I try to load 5 GB of HTML?

[ 7527.750745] HTML5 Parser[14186]: segfault at 0 ip 0000556be8b79cef sp 00007fbdb1570420 error 6 in firefox[556be8b77000+9c000]
They juts need a bit more time! They are looking for it in kitchens and family apartments!
Why does Google develop Chrome? Why not just support Chromium?
There is the 1k jsx lib: https://nanojsx.io

Then again, if we are at this road now again, maybe they should just bring a lighter version of e4x as part of ES/JS.
Could LLMs help here to translate between programming languages? Same with COBOL. Is a coding assistant the way to get legacy systems updated -- sounds like a consulting niche.
Great you’re theoretically correct - and still pretty much completely wrong. Do you really think the parent was referring to steel nonstick pans? Have you ever heard a recipe or some ask for a stainless steel pan when they really meant non-stick?
Honestly, I think robotaxis would have existed already by now, provided every vehicle is a robo-taxi. IIRC, robotaxis tend to perform smoothly in environments where they alone operate - I think Google proved that in some test concept many years before.
Sadly I've been on the waitlist ever since this was mentioned.
That's not extremism. That's the way the constitution works.

What was intended to happen happened anyway.

The constitutional outrage was failing to implement the 2016 referendum that the people voted for. MPs acted with impunity and were rewarded by ejection at the following election.

The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act then set the matter on a statutory basis so the courts cannot interfere in the political process again.
taken offline? That's laughable.

The argument for keeping it in a box is not even made any longer. Developers are working as fast as they can to proliferate it across the internet because it's already so useful. What do you think the outcry will be like when it is 10x better and you tell all the internet users you want to shut down there new super-helpful friend?
My theory on this is it has something to do with battery life. I can't think of another reason they'd limit browser engines.
Nah. Common -> Magic -> Rare -> Legendary.

If you are gonna copy ARPG item tiers, do it right.

They could also add a Unique tier, but that would have a limit of 1 per customer.
I had dismissed this as yet another tab management browser widget thingy, but I took a closer look at it.

To me, what is really standout, is what they have done with "spaces." They are basically profiles, which is something no browser currently does well.

Ultimately it comes down to being a cookie manager to an extent. I love the idea that I can have different accounts for various projects, and when I switch between the different projects (spaces), the accounts are automatically logged in. Because it apparently keeps tabs (har har) on not only what tabs you have open, but also what session cookies are being used in them.

This is based entirely on watching some videos, I haven't tried it out yet. But this may actually be a really useful and innovative browser.
Fantastic comment. I spent a few years in Utah and was mostly unable to figure out a pattern in the former members I knew aside from they all know their church history, but it could just be selection bias as a history fan myself.
Sarcasm ignored.

Type level programming is possible in C++98.

Easy to reach for in most embedded compilers, when people actually use C++ compilers for C++, and not the C subset.
> GPT-4 is closed but the techniques it enables are reproducible by anyone with a credit card.

Requiring a credit card to verify scientific claims is a large deterrent. And in addition one needs to provide them with a phone number, which many people will not be comfortable with when considering their CEO’s history.¹

Even ignoring the above, using the output of ChatGPT is definitely not the same as having “access to any of the data or code used in the research”, which is the author’s complaint and what the original commenter quoted.

As for the other cases, we could only properly assess them if we discussed specific studies which I don’t think we’re going to do in the limited context of HN comments. Thank you for taking the time to explain your view.

¹ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
> Do you have an example besides logic/math where it doesn’t understand simple concepts?

All the time. It often fails to understand simple concepts. It doesn't really seem to understand anything.

For example, try to get it to write some code for a program in a moderately obscure programming language. It's terrible: it will confidently produce stuff, but make errors all over the place.

It's unable to understand that it doesn't know the language, and it doesn't know how to ask the right questions to improve. It doesn't have a good model of what it's trying to do, or what you're trying to do. If you point out problems it'll happily try again and repeat the same errors over and over again.

What it does is intuit an answer based on the data it's already seen. It's amazingly good at identifying, matching, and combining abstractions that it's already been trained on. This is often good enough for simple tasks, because it has been trained on so much of the world's output that it can frequently map a request to learned concepts, but it's basically a glorified Markov model when it comes to genuinely new or obscure stuff.

It's a big step forward, but I think the current approach has a ceiling.
This is the case with AWS's Go SDK for EC2: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/ec2/

No matter what PC I use, I can't open that website...
I think I’d like a more comprehensive via location version also. Might also help to include English summaries of news from other languages or from English sources in other countries. For example, I had to scroll to number 32 to see news about the Sudan, which is very significant news that seems marginalized compared to the news about Europe and the US that shows up on the earlier entries.
Microsoft’s stock price over the last 10 years has soared consistently. They have a lot of admins at small/medium companies very very willfully and loyally locked in to their ecosystem.

Microsoft does not care if they piss off most of these people because they not the ones signing the contracts and the lock-in is SO BAD that even if they piss off the right people, making any change is way more trouble than they are willing to deal with.

There is an entire side of the tech industry with admins who only want to learn powershell and still think you can’t “lock down” Linux and mac machines.
Once again, a megacorp gets something completely and unambiguously wrong, and their customer support refuses to fix it until the press gets involved.
Seeing this, it reminded me of an interesting topic: caching at browser-level the common external JS libraries, to achieve big performance improvements: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-subresource-integrity/issue...
Marketing claims have always been problematic, in every industry. But you can’t argue with results.
URL types for geo locations are standardized. And even if they weren't or the standard isn't sufficient (which one could reasonably argue), you are talking about features made by the platform owner. Apple can trivially declare "this is the iOS geo share format, apps intending to share or handle shared geolocations should use this format" and expect the ecosystem to deal with it.
You don't need to understand "Theorem" to know how to use the theory.

You can replace any of Math definition with code.

Is this the point of "for programmers" ?