skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Personal opinion" hat on:

multiple factors do not provide perceived user benefit. They benefit the party who is providing service and exposed to risk.

The old Battle.net authenticator made it harder for my account to get hacked, sure. But I had a process, involving real people behind the scenes at Blizzard, to recover from that hack.

They didn't create the authenticator as a measure of altruism to users; they created it because hacks are expensive. This is why they would regularly reward users for enabling the authenticator with various items/DLC.

Now the reality is that if I get hacked multiple times, they may refuse to restore my account. They might not be able to restore my account with available information, or it might take ages due to a large scale attack (such as someone managing to deploy a key logger via zero-day browser exploit, if we are speaking to personal experience).

Services have good reason to not trust users to have good password hygiene - most do not, and breach lists only go so far to help alleviate the problem. SMS is expensive, but even sites with lower security needs use it because the alternative of recovering user accounts is more expensive.

> All factor-types can work in ways that complement eachother. Removing or at least weakening passwords is not a good way forward, we need to work on fusing all the factor-types jnto a single strong 3-factor auth.

This is likely not going to happen for anything outside of government use cases.

Biometrics on most consumer hardware are a "shortcut" for a cached knowledge factor, like a device unlock PIN on boot. They cache the knowledge factor because entering passwords constantly is a lousy experience. Likewise, changing a device biometric to match other people can be done with just the knowledge and device possession factors.

Maybe one day we will have embedded neural hardware which will transparently meet all three factors, or maybe there will be really clever solutions with all-day VR hardware, but today's consumer hardware doesn't support three factors, because the biometric factor is just an extension of the knowledge one.
Sundar Pichai is not one of them.
If Epstein had such a connection with such a big man in so many fields, Melinda Gates wouldn't have had to divorce Bill Gates because of his relationship with Epstein.
This has been discussed many times here and elsewhere, but it was not an investment, but rather $150 million purchase of Apple stock. The symbolic of it, as well as the confidence of Microsoft to continue developing Office for Mac software for at least 5 years, helped save Apple, and not any cash infusion.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-mic...
> While Microsoft is becoming a developer haven

How so? Windows 11 and Edge are “desperate”. I hate .NET/C#. Mac OS X/iOS/Apple rule.
I really appreciate you saying that! I'm glad it helped you.
> a) what would you have them work on?

In other words, Google is now a mature company whose CEO can't make it grow anymore.

Hey, I'm not judging. I have no better idea either. But the question stands, if the CEO can't do anything more than your average joe, why the big salary?
Not only is the information not available, it's not obtainable. They sell a little gadget. They do not know if the people buying them are a family, fratboys in a household, 3 people dating a triangle, or just randos on the street.

The reason for my "impetus" is when a claim is this riduculous, I don't need your information that's as easily verifiable as "horse dewormer cures covid."

the reflex to bs is to gag. your reflex is to blindly accept jesus into your life because he walked on water.
I have to disagree with that statement. There is objective truth. Reporting a news item can be vastly differ based in on the end goals.
If the company is so out of ideas and cares so little about maintaining/expanding existing products that they have to lay off upwards of 10k people, it's in pretty bad shape. Why were they hired in the first place?
I'm glad this finally made it to the front page. This research deserves more attention than it's been getting. The movements and strategy are very impressive for something trained end-to-end and exclusively in simulation. I don't think I've ever seen anyone get better motions out of this kind of servomotor-driven robot.
> The FPGA on the other hand has the output ready one clock cycle after the inputs stream in, and can have many such operations in parallel. One might ask, why are cpus not being replaced by FPGAs?

You need to be careful with interpreting cycle counts as execution time. A naive operation on an FPGA may take a single cycle because the author has asked for that, rather than constructing and using a pipelined multi-cycle ALU [1]. Therefore the design tool will synthesize a layout that performs the operation in a single cycle, but the cycle time (and thus clock frequency for that portion of the layout) will be limited by however long that operation needs to complete, and will be much longer than the cycle time of the CPU you are comparing against. Note that a CPU almost certainly has "better" ALUs than those you'd get on an FPGA - optimized fixed-function circuits can always be faster than their generic programmable equivalents - the advantage of the FPGA is that you can have only (and more of) the operations you need, running in parallel as many times as the device will support.

You could make a CPU by which every instruction (even very complicated vector instructions like AVX or SVE) was completed entirely in a single cycle, but that cycle itself would be very long, and all of the incredible throughput benefits of pipelined execution would be lost.

[1] Pretty much all of the vendor design tools can instantiate an ALU for your device, given parameters like # of bits, operation types, # of cycles, etc.
Sure they are. The word "curate" comes from "care". That's a subjective feeling! However, it's not so subjective that lots of other people can't share it, and that's what makes these things fun to share.

From my perspective, a 'gem' would be a post that has something rare and interesting about it, and perhaps also touching or beautiful.
This made me laugh maniacally, thanks for posting. Hopefully the future of all fast food training!
Case in point

> Rust, cargo build for our "test world binary".:
64 core Threadripper 3990x @ PBO level 3, ~400w, with Optane drive - 1 min 37s
M1 Max, 64 GB, on battery @ 30% charge - 1:34s

https://twitter.com/kiratpandya/status/1457438725680480257
OnlyFans is probably just a slice of this. So is Twitch in some ways.
The Verdict on Drinking Smoothies for Weight Loss, Say Experts
Coercive power over the company, no? Otherwise he wouldn’t be getting that pay raise no matter how mean he was to the employees.
And "what you consider a tense" is semantics. Full circle.

To me a tense is the way you normally and automatically construct the grammar of a sentence to implicitly convey a specific idea about time. Without saying it explicitly. So "I went to the store", "I went to the store yesterday", and "I went to the store last week" are all the same tense. Because you've communicated "past" through the grammar without having explicitly said it. And it is clearly different than "I am going to the store" or "I will go to the store".

The Chinese form, by contrast, all look like, "I go to store". And the words saying whether it was somewhere in the past, yesterday, last week, now, or some time in the future need be nowhere in the sentence. It is enough that they were explicitly said at some point.

And this is specifically something that Chinese people struggle with in English. You constantly will catch them making mistakes like, "I go to store yesterday." Because the idea of conveying time with grammar is as foreign to them as the idea that objects have gender is to English speakers.
There have been a few walk-outs but they weren't really much to write home about. Any attempts at unionization in Google (not that there have been many serious ones) seem to have been sabotaged, either internally or externally. I would be very surprised (albeit pleasantly surprised) if we ever saw any serious labor actions there.
OK but I still think it's creepy to track a list of what people have said about themselves.
I don't understand the hate for passwords. I want to keep my security in my head for as long as humanly possible. There was a whole movie plot about this [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/JrBdYmStZJ4?t=238
Giving money back to stockholders is a form of resource allocation. A company can decide whether it wants to develop new products or not or how many.

If investors, the board, and Leadership thought there was more money to be in made by developing new products they would do that.

Everybody wants to make more money. Nobody wants to make less money just so they can lay people off
This would be great for America. It’s drowning in wealth and dying of apathy.
Why can't they build them cheaply in other countries without that safety requirement?
These are literally the Google-internal-social-media version of "meaningless article about something happening on Twitter". I'm sure these articles are easy money though or we wouldn't keep seeing them.
I hope you are measuring and attributing churn to its causes.
What is APL? I searched for “APL database” and didn’t find anything that seemed related.
There's nothing to see here, just a waiting list.

Check Show HN rules:

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
GitHub, Visual Studio Code, Copilot, Azure. Need I go on?
Nothing about the way Microsoft treats their employees makes me wanna work there.
The broader context of the target audience of this language is very important here — it’s oriented towards the familiarity and needs of a community most comfortable with python
I've paid up to $50 for a single T and been disappointed. Price is no guarantee of quality. Sweat wicking etc is fine for workout shirts but not for daily wear, they must be 100% cotton.
http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Generally we have continued finding that the more "other"/general stuff an AI model is trained on, the better it performs on specific tasks. As in, an AI model trained to identify photos of all animals will perform better than an AI model that is only trained to identify breeds of dogs. Even at identifying breeds of dogs.

Taken to the extreme, we've found that training image models with "multi-modal" LLM capabilities improves their ability to identify dogs/etc. A lot of people don't realize that GPT-4 is actually multi-modal...while OpenAI has only allowed API access to use text input, the model itself can also accept image input.

Note that we've moved on from ImageNet-style tests "Choose the most appropriate label for this image from 200 possible labels" to much more advanced "Reasoning" tests[0]. PaLI[1] is potentially the SoTA here but BeIT-3[2] may be better example for my thesis. Notice that BeIT-3 is trained on not just images, but also trained like an LLM. Yet it outperforms purely image-trained models on pure-image tasks like Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation.

More importantly, it can understand human questioning like "What type of flowers are in the blue buckets of this image?" and respond intelligently.

0: https://paperswithcode.com/area/reasoning

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06794v2.pdf

2: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/image-as-a-foreign-language...

3: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Couldn't you just use Fish or zsh-autosuggestions? I don't see the benefit of using a web api or AI for every keystroke when the current solutions work well enough.
Here here. Today, bundlers may get you to first page load faster. But if a user comes back and you've shipped two small fixes, all those extra wins you get from compressing a bunch files at once fly out the window & you're deep in the red. If you have users that return to your site, and your site is actively developed, bundling is probably a bad tradeoff.

We see similar fixedness in the field all over the place: people freaking love small Docker image sizes & will spend forever making it smaller. But my gosh the number of engineers I've seen fixate on total download size for an image, & ignore everything else, is vast. Same story, but server side: my interest is in the download size for what v1.0.1 of the Docker container looks like once we already have v1.0.0 already shipped. Once we start to consider what the ongoing experience is, rather than just the first time easy-to-judge metric, the pictures all look very different.

Then there's the other thing. The performance reasons for bundling are being eaten away. Preload & Early Hints are both here today & both offer really good tools to greatly streamline asset loading & claw back a lot of turf, and work hand-in-glove with import-maps. The remaining thing everyone points out is that a large bundle compresses better (but again at the cost of making incremental updates bad). The spec is in progress, but compression-dictionary-transport could potentially obliterate that advantage, either make it a non-factor, or perhaps even a disadvantage for large bundles (as one could use a set of dictionaries & go discover which of your handful of dictionaries best compress any given piece of code). These dictionaries would again be a first-load hit not different from a bundle's hit, but could then be used again and again by users, to great effect again for incremental changes. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport

Bundles are such an ugly stain on the web, such an awful hack that betrays the web's better resourceful nature. Thankfully we're finally making real strides against this opaque awful blob we've foisted upon this world, our users, and ourselves. And we can start to undo not just the ugliness, but the terrible performance pains we've created by bundling so much togther.
NYC considers facial recognition ban for businesses, landlords after MSG debacle
Absolutely - there are all sorts of amazing comments like that buried in HN's archives.
I got mine. Screw the rest of you.
Work.

They could, but why?
cool. so take the 2000 kids in that school, they probably belong to 700 families. life360 knows what kids belong to what families I'm guessing?

what about families without children? what about a couple of old people?

for your little area where everyone knows what it is, there are 330million more people, half of whom empty their webmail folder when windows gives them an out of space message. you really think 1 in 5 families nationwide know of this niche thing? that literally makes zero sense.

what makes even less sense, the claim from this company is not only do 1 in 5 families know about it - they own one.

here's my theory: the scammers defined family as "family tree" - and if your married second cousin you've met once has this airtag clone, they count it. but if your married but don't have kids, you're not counted at all.

fake numbers from a scammer, for a product that's not unique or first, or anything more functional than a simple app on a phone.
Modern microfilm doesn't; what about the kind that's holding newspaper archives from the 1920s?
Posting too fast clears in an hour or two, not days. Learn how the site works, don't complain to me.

It's classic climate denial to continue to harp that the earth was hotter in the past so somethingsomethingsomething look over there and ignore the fact that the rate of change this century, not looking back a million years, is the point of the comic.
It makes sense. Prepaid cards are not banks and they take very little risk in letting an unverified person get a card, as the card only has the money the person paid for it. They can not overdraft. Adding to that more and more online companies are rejecting said cards, at least the major online stores anyway.
But LLMs are not unchangable, there are several mechanisms available by now to drive change and learning (especially as context windows improve)

Practically for outcomes it doesn’t matter if that learning is happening in the LLM or on a layer above it.
The main product, which is search is completely wrecked too.
>Citizen's tax dollars being paid back to them when you can't leave your home is not a driver of inflation

The pandemic relief wasn't funded by "Citizen's tax dollars". It was funded by borrowing. Lending/printing this much money in such short amount of time is going to cause inflation because demand (caused by dollars cojured out of nowhere) is chasing limited supply.
Yeah: unique usernames chosen by the user is an inherently elitist mechanism that only works for a small number of early adopters to a platform; the vast, overwhelming, dominating majority of the billions of people on earth who might become a user of your platform end up with semi-random strings of numbers and even symbols to establish their unique name. The only fair and reasonable thing to do is to randomly assign enough of the username to put everyone on an equal playing field... which is how Discord used to work, but--as is all too typical--I guess some engineer or product manager failed to really think through how this actually feels for the hoi polloi in their zeal to slightly improve some metric.
Neither does a passkey. They've designed the standard to allow sharing the passkey with others.
This title is working overtime
> so if some prediction task requires long range dependencies you might expect one of the less-penalized heads to end up specializing
Exactly. You have heads that focus on content nearby and ones that focus on stuff that is far away.

> I wonder what would happen if the penalty for one head is zero? (The paper suggests this might've been tried and just made things worse, but unclear)
Yup, this is something we tried. Making one of the heads zero doesn't improve or degrade performance.

>I must admit that this is a wonderfully elegant (and interpretable) way to do this... much more intuitive (to me at least, a wannabe practitioner) than all of the trig-based embeddings.

Thanks so much!!
GitHub.

Azure.

Windows Terminal.

Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Cross-platform .Net.

Visual Studio Code (and the other one)

WinGet Packafe Manager.

Rust for Windows.

Etc.
It’s probably good to look at everything you think you know about history through that filter. History is a small number of people trying to build coherent stories from a random assortment of source material. 99.99% of everything that happened is left out of the stories, and what is left is told through those few people’s personal lens.
Sure, but in the context of society all laws exist to override personal decision making. Anything from speeding fines to marriage laws to corruption regulations. It's all about taking the autonomy away from the individual. RvW isn't unique in that regard.
Given that MIT received a large donation from Eppstein, it wouldn't be too surprising that Chomsky, an MIT employee, had a meeting with him.

Given Chomsky's current age, I think it would be unfortunate and unprofitable to question him. He does not have the same vitality and lucidity now as he did when he was interviewing Foucault.

If you want to know more about Eppstein, you should go to Joichi Ito.
Is there a good "starter" FPGA kit which has an open-source toolchain, and the ability to build/deploy everything from the command line?

I'm going through links in the comments here now in search of this too.

It would be cool to hook up an FPGA to an image sensor and do my own processing from the raw sensor data. Based on that description, I'm not sure which dev board or starter kit would be best to be looking at.
OK and what about welfare, or medicaid? Clearly a reframed version of tithing for the poor from a lot of religious traditions. Do you think we should drop those because they (a) overlap with religious teachings and (b) aren't libertarian?
> Saying it goes to "recreation.gov" misses the point.

> It goes to Booz Allen Hamilton.

Article says this in the 4th sentence.
Also from the same paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvLcr5HtNc
Without realizing this was a quote from the Simpsons, I read this totally seriously and accepted it as a scarily plausible scenario for the future: a competition for the first power to achieve dominance in the field of robotic war. And once the winning robot army has liquidated their competition, the war can be effectively over—no need for any human lives to be lost…just to surrender to the superior technological force.
Related. Others?

Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31583982 - June 2022 (1 comment)

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31455968 - May 2022 (83 comments)

Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316637 - March 2021 (123 comments)

Lotus 1-2-3 DOS Development Encyclopedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312681 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Lotus 1-2-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304542 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Rediscovering Lotus Agenda (MS-DOS, 1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24862343 - Oct 2020 (11 comments)
The bsd binary compatibility system was an interesting effort to allow executeable files built for other systems to run on bsd, I never actually used it but my understanding is it was always hard to set up and fragile.

OpenBSD removed it as they did not feel they could properly maintain the system.

FreeBSD keeps a little of it around, mainly to run linux binaries.

NetBSD it looks like they kept the whole buffet.

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/compat.html
You mean the thing that people claimed if it were repealed, the internet as we know it would end? Then the thing did get repealed, and nothing really changed?
Is Pichai trying to get fired.
I read the un-paywalled paragraph, and have a simple solution: renounce your US citizenship. Easy peasy.
Now I shall read the rest of the article, no doubt about how jackbooted IRS thugs are kicking down doors in Toulon or something, but this seems like a problem with a trivial solution…

Edit: I don’t really feel like my off-the-cuff reaction was wrong or unwarranted. Someone makes it to 29 years of age without ever questioning the ramifications of the country of his birth? That seems … remarkably incurious.

The US also doesn’t “fully tax” non-resident citizens - there’s a $100k+ deduction of income earned abroad. And the author himself refers to foreign tax credits, so….

“Even so, anyone seeking to renounce U.S. citizenship still has to travel to a city with a U.S. consulate.” Oh my. The horror.

I’m still not totally convinced why the USG is supposed to be bending over backwards to accommodate its citizens who are, uh, in the process of renouncing their citizenship?
My minimal, open-source implementations in a couple of languages: https://www.nayuki.io/page/time-based-one-time-password-tool...

The shortest one I have is a 6-line Python function using only the standard library.

I noticed that all the major tech companies support TOTP 2FA - e.g. Google, Amazon, Uber, Dropbox, etc. At the same time, I am very annoyed that seemingly none of the Canadian banks or CRA support it. They either use SMS/PSTN or a proprietary mobile-only application (no desktop version). Is the industry standard not good enough for ya?