skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on this.

I think we might also assume that we will believe we have created it before we actually do, but then simultaneously deny that we have created it after we already have.
I think the worst part is their authentication, for some reason I have a personal account that was invited as a guest in an organization to use Teams. I can only access the Teams workspace if I click through a link in my emails and I have to login twice. It only works on the web version, I can't login the app at all.

But once you're in Teams, everything is so much worse, it's like using a hacked version of MS Word to chat. But where Slack actually shines is around the workflows, automation and bots, I don't think Teams has much of that.

@geerlingguy had a way worse experience recently.
This threat has been around for ages. That’s why you grow tomatoes in an enclosure, and why your citrus plant might die in Florida.
I wonder whether you could have used a slightly modified WebAssembly instead.
Microsoft hasn't improved their company culture at all in the 30 years. Personally, I think they are a toxic entity and they should slowly vanish from the scene.

Then again, every other large entity in this field is toxic as well in some form or other...
Few things in medicine are linear. DNA has error-correcting codes, much like a hard drive or network connection.

In hard drives or networks, errors are tolerable below a certain threshold. It's a different story once unrecoverable errors start to occur (data loss, system crashes, perhaps errors getting caught by higher-level things like exceptions).

I'd expect DNA, cells and biological systems are probably similar. The error correcting mechanisms can probably handle some errors up to a threshold (which probably itself varies between individuals).
Google uses the same title in their post
Some stay due to goodwill, but others are surely just inertia; selling your house, moving kids out of school, leaving friends and family behind, etc.
"Hello, Siri" - everyday using artificial Intelligence
I'm afraid this isn't a problem exclusive to AI. There is a kind of intellectual fraud that is being normalized sacrificing truth in the altar of tech hype.

AI being crucial for the escalated propaganda wars isn't exactly helping to alleviate this issue.
I didn't know yeti used old diapers for insulation, but thanks for raising awareness!
Ask HN: Medium accuses me of copyright violation because someone quoted me on HN
Today I received a disturbing email from Medium.com. They suspended my account because they found two instances of my content appearing elsewhere on the internet. They accused me of copyright violation. They mentioned two examples:

1. My post (https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/how-not-to-read-scientific-papers-89c4f39e571d) was copy/pasted by someone else to their blog (https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/how-to-skim-scientific-papers-does-that-include-peer-reviewed-articles/).

But Medium accuses __me__ of copyright violation!

2. My post (https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/i-stopped-reading-hacker-news-comments-because-of-this-928b7ae87385) was submitted to HN and someone quoted part of that article in the comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400521).

Again, Medium accuses __me__ of violating copyright!

This is the second time they've suspended my account. I've been a long time writer on their platform and my account appeared as a top writer in a few categories. But this time they went too far.
First you call it a metaphor, now you call it an analogy. Which are you using it as?

An analogy highlights similarities, a metaphor is saying a bird is a plane.

Is a nuclear power station a coal-fired power station? Both produce electricity.

Is an EV an ICE? Both can get you from point A to point B.

A statistical model is not the same as a complex neural network, and its capabilities are not comparable.

I don't think pointing out similarities is very useful. Why not treat it like what it is? An LLM.
I don’t see how someone posting a helpful answer to a question destroys their identity, I guess it could be mixed in with unsafe or embarrassing things but please can people take the time to go over each message to see if it really needs deleting? It might be a lot of work but it will do so much good compared to indiscriminately wiping everything and breaking the history of conversations other people were involved in without their permission
So, following that chain of thought, the POTUS isn't elected either because the USA's voters only choose their electors, and those few electors who do vote can't just choose any US citizen to be president?
Only if the renters can pay more rent?
Oh, they found COBOLs lost brother ;)
The article you link seems to be criticizing it for their criticism of Ukraine for human rights abuses. It has been documenting what has been happening in Ukraine for a long time, in the Donbas and Luhansk regions. It has significantly reduced it in the past few years.

It's a faux agency used for corrupt western influence in the guise of "human rights". India banned it for good reasons.
I share this sentiment. It feels a bit like a product pitch that is intended to be acquired away.
It's called paid advertisement, and that's how these blogs make money.
Fair. But there's a difference between "openly accessible scientific information" and "trade secrets".

The US military has pushed state of the art in many fields, but I don't think anyone would say it pushed stealth composite science forward with the B-2/F-22/F-35 programs, because all the details are classified.

The risk is that non-shared research is eventually lost.
I’ve worked on some jobs where I worked on a wide range of systems and I just learned whatever language I had to use to get the job done. I’ve often started a job which was about one language that I didn’t know but I was expected to learn it (C# when I was a Java Programmer, then Python work just kept coming after 2013). There was the place where I was hired to do Python but the company pivoted and I did Scala and Typescript.

Occasionally I’d run into the opposite though, like the people who really needed a Ruby-on-Rails programmer right now and couldn’t even accept a quick learner.

I’ve always, however, used major commercial languages for my side project, today that is (i) Python, (ii) Java, and (iii) Javascript. I use Java and Javascript at work now. I could use Typescript for my side projects but I choose not to because I don’t want to be shifting gears all the time, particularly when I have 20 minutes to do a little coding here or there. Similarly I use React as a framework for front end work for small projects on my own account because I’d rather build depth and fluency with the framework I use at work rather than get bogged down in the details of Vue or Svelte. That way my experience at work and play transfer.

Beginning programmers tend to see “learning a new programming language” as a goal but I think that’s putting the cart before the horse. The foundational result of computer science is programming languages are all the same in that they can express the same programs, although there is a huge amount to know in the details. On one hand there is understanding the fundamentals (what does a package manager do in the big picture?) but knowing exactly how to fight with pip, npm, maven and win is one of those challenges you face when you face it, most people are going to flinch anyway.
The article's main claim is that Arc is the most transformative software in decades, plural, which takes us to a time before Google Maps existed, before all smartphone apps existed, and before online banking was ubiquitous. It's safe to say this article was written from somewhere on the hype curve.
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You can do a lot with just two facts:

- log 2 ~ 3/10 (which should be familiar to this audience)

- log 3 ~ (19/12) log 2 ~ 19/40 (in musical terms this is the fact that seven semitones make a perfect fifth) - although arguably you don't even need this, since you can derive the same approximation by noting that log 8 ~ 9/10 and interpolating between log 8 and log 10.
I suspect VSCode is a baited hook. Get enough developers dependent on it, then degrade it on Linux, and offer WSL as close enough to have people switch their OS rather than their editor. With developers on Windows, cloud follows.
You want mine?
To clarify, since it's not obvious in the UI, you have to click the timestamp of the comment, and then you can favorite it.
Oh the comparison to PDF was perfect. PDF and Metal have the same recent ancestry with postscript.

What ugly prejudices so many people on this thread seem to have. And how trivial and nonsensical. All I said was she should not have omitted svg in her history of graphics apis since she's writing an article about browser graphics. To deny that svg is a part of that, or that people don't program to it... well, I was going to write "ridiculous" but the xkcd about people who don't know things comes to mind...is it possible you just don't know that so many people make things with SVG? In any event, it seems I've touched a nerve that I didn't want to, and I find it ugly, and this is my free time, so I'm leaving the convo.

Peace.
> With MS' calendar all you see is a red block of color around the times they are not available.

Only by default, which I believe your org can change. You have complete control over this for your calendar, as does everyone else.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-your-calend...

> When I click into an email the title remains bold and the inbox count doesn't decrease.

Also configurable.
That's not what this report claims...
posting images generated by artificial intelligence in order to promote their reports on social media

If they wanted to use AI-images, they could have used any number of filters/effects to reduce the phot0-realism and make it clear the images were illustrations (vs "photos").
You can create an HTML table with 1 pixel cells, and use the DOM api to change individual cell background colors to make it work like a canvas.

Does that mean that HTML tables are a graphics API?
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I disagree with your premise.

I have an iPhone (forced upon me by work) and it's ridiculous how many links still try to open in safari or Apple maps. I've tried to configure it for years and I've literally uninstalled Apple maps, but half the time iPhone keeps wanting me to reinstall it when I click a link or address. And a lot of url links open in safari instead of chrome or Firefox.

Same with many other things - I can install whatever browser I want as long as it's a skin on their browser.

I can install any keyboard I want as long as it's just a skin on their keyboard.

I can install any app I want as long as it comes from Apple store.

Etc etc etc.

Yep, I vehemently disagree with your premise :). I think MS is looking at Apple's walled garden and saying "what if we could get away with some of that?"

(not disagreeing that dark patterns are despicable! My wife knows the scream that comes from my home office when I try to get iPhone or windows to do something I want! I just disagree that mobile os world is some paragon of user centric benevolence :)
I feel like I have Stockholm Syndrome because I really don't mind it, through granted I've now spent just about every day of the past year staring at a various AWS dashboard.

Overall I think AWS is one of the greatest products to ever come about in my lifetime, though I think one of their greatest fumbles is not getting AWS Amplified more right, they could have squashed both Vercel, Netlify and most other "resellers" like a bug.
Show HN: Wonderchat – Build AI Chatbots from a link to your website in 5 minutes
Wonderchat helps you to build a custom ChatGPT powered chatbot from just a link to your website or PDF files.

You can embed this chatbot instantly on your website and automate customer support with a chatbot that is 24/7 present.

The chatbot can speak any language in which it's asked. Compatible with all websites, including shopify, wordpress, webflow and more.
So, any progress on being able to bundle native modules and have them import properly into inline script tags?

Right now if you want bundling you have to give up native modules, because the only way to get a browser to register a native module is by making a separate HTTP request for that module.

The closest I could think of to doing this would be an importmap with a data URI per module, but I've no idea if you can load importmaps as separate files or if they have to be inlined. If they have to be inlined that defeats the purpose.
Worked at a company which used an internal IRC server for messaging, that was the best experience I've ever had.
I got the impression that kind of thing (buying time on GPUs hosted in people's homes) isn't useful for training large models, because model training requires extremely high bandwidth connections between the GPUs such that you effectively need them in the same rack.
The 90s are back baby!
The art style reminds me of some classic games/animations from Newgrounds. Forgot what they were called. Pretty violent and heavy on social commentary, so it's a bit of a shock to see that style used in such an opposite way!
I live half an hour from one of the two in the Western Hemisphere ... it's gorgeous :)
> that an emphasis on estimates and estimating is negatively correlated to productivity

When the estimates and their accuracy become the primary goal, productivity is secondary.

My worst experience with this was a company that valued roadmap accuracy so highly that we were rated on our on-time delivery more than anything else. The inevitable result was heavily padded estimates and teams who carefully avoided doing any more work than necessary (yes, early delivery was technically negative points for your bonus). The pace of work was incredibly slow and methodical, but the company got their metrics optimized. Madness.

The opposite end of this spectrum isn’t great, though. There’s something about teams that pride themselves on no estimates and no deadlines leads a lot of people to spin their wheels forever. I’ve also been stuck on some teams with endless cycles of rewrites and refactors and switching to the latest language or framework every 6 months. We did a lot of work, but didn’t ship a lot.

There is a middle ground that is much nicer than either extreme.
They're nice in a pinch, but I advise folks to think of them primarily as viewers. In my experience, for any serious work you'll want to use the native apps.
well you gain speed just picking the key underway instead of stopping and going backward
While the thing does sell, they can only already claim "millions" because existing holders of season tickets are being converted either automatically or manually, so the whole news release is also a bit of the usual PR exaggeration.
> By the way, does anyone know of a good alternative to http://neverssl.com ? I had been using this for years, but now it supports SSL for some unfathomable reason.

http://http.rip/ was shared (here?) recently.
Personhood has nothing to do with a hypothetical AGI happening. It actually boils down to hypothetical architecture even leading to AGI in the first place. It's a technical question, not a political question.

First it would need to actually have independent thought to be granted anything.
The problem is -

a) the British state has a very, very long track record of lying about domestic nuclear, so the public finds any safety claims hard to take seriously.

b) the main issue with nuclear power in the UK is economic - the public have had to take on genuinely enormous liabilities in pensions and cleanup liabilities from every previous attempt, so do not take the cost projections for future sites at face value. And quite rationally so. But if we assume that liability overruns from the taxpayer were to happen at the same rate, the economic case for nuclear versus renewables on a small, windy, rainy island with a lot of tides disappears.
I was referring to the UK, where we tend to have 2-5 year fixes. Rates were less than 2% for a long time.
your hypothesis is that there is a qualitatively different property to agi than whatever we have now. Most people here are just saying "if chatgpt is smarter that would be agi".

Going by the differences between gpt3.5 and gpt4 is really interesting. It is better able to reason in basically any problem I throw at it. Personally I think that a hypothetical system that is able to generate a sufficiently good response for ANY text input is AGI.

There aren't really any "gotcha" cases with this technology that I'm aware of where it just can't ever respond appropriately. Most clear failings of existing systems involve ever more contrived logic puzzles, which each successive generation is able to solve, and eventually at some point the required logic puzzle will be so dense few humans can solve it.

This isn't a case a case of "studying for the test" of popular internet examples either. I encourage you to try and invent your own gotchas for earlier versions then try them on newer models. Change the wording and order of logic puzzles, or encase them within scenarios to ensure its not responding to the format of the prompt

There are absolubtely cases of people overhypting it, or it overfitting to training data (see the debacle about it passing whatever bar exam, university test etc.). But despite the hype there is an underlying level of intelligence that is building and I use it to solve problems pretty much every day. I think of it atm as like a 4 year old that has inexplicably read every book ever written
Why were you giving them content in the first place?

I haven't (knowingly) clicked a medium link in a couple years: they make it hard to link and harder to quote things they host. "we have something you want, really, just do irrelevant things and we'll let you see it" is not a business strategy. I can't see the reason anyone would volunteer to be a source of chum for that beast.
Sorry I know this is low effort but "Can’t they just check" in the context of the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA operating it did make me chuckle. I'm pretty sure they checked :)
Medium is worse than Cloudflare for violating customer rights
Taxing Wealthy Dynasties Seen Backfiring in States Like New York (But Not WA)
> In my experience the worst it does is setting itself to boot automatically.

In UEFI? If I have the OSes on separate physical disks I'm planning to use the bios to select what boots.
Young men are using banned 'SARM' supplements to bulk up, with harmful results
I remember the bad old days of IE dominance. For this reason I’m on Firefox at work and home. I don’t want to go back.
This uses a log y axis. The circles are actually better for visualizing.
> Haskell in Production

Does not use Haskell.

Is it just me or is this... weird?
Too bad that WebGPU builds on top of Vulkan, so the dependency (and incomplete support for some configurations) is still there.
Elon Musk Threatens to Transfer NPR’s Twitter Handle to “Another Company”
Wow, Python really does hold your hand.

>>> 1/0.0

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero

>>> 1.0/0.0

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero
> 50 million people nationwide

Seems high. Got a source? Being a decentralized movement, I doubt that all BLM supporters support defunding the police.
The graph seems to be in nominal dollars, but I feel like real dollars is the only way to get an accurate comparison of magnitudes
Ask HN: Crt.sh Seemingly Flaky, Alternative?
Hi y'all, I use crt.sh to get SSL cert info, and today one of our certs expired, so I've been trying to use it, but getting 502's intermittently. Anyone else see this, and/or aware of an alternative utility? Thanks!
I can't believe this is the top comment on hacker news. Some of the replies are already covered but as much as I use my Android phone and Microsoft at work, I have never had anything other than Outlook 365 on Android. How is Google going to "literally destroy Microsoft"?

And then there's no need to comment on the Apple portion in your comment, considering the critique is that Microsoft isn't playing nice because they try to default to Edge.
> 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.

Yeah, I think it's a Bad Thing for security, to release importmaps without integrity.
When I posted this many of the comments were about how the Chinese currency was going to replace the dollar, which is the story the chart on Bloomberg was trying to tell. So that's what I meant—no single currency is replacing the dollar. Countries aren't fleeing American economic hegemony and running into the arms of the Chinese or any other up-and-coming hegemon, they're leery of hegemonies in general.

It's not that there's not a story here, it's that the chart they used wildly misrepresents what the story is.

(EDIT: In fact, as I write this the second highest comment on the main thread[0] is speculation about the Yuan becoming the world reserve currency, which is a reasonable line of thinking if you only look at the Eurizon chart and don't realize how misleading it is.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800862
> when I click a link or address

A link to what domain?

For clicking addresses, I kind of get it: the author of the text didn't link it at all, so the OS (or whatever) gets to decide how to enhance the presentation which can include promoting a specific app. Not great, but fine.

For clicking links, it should definitely just use the browser unless an installed app's manifest has the domain registered.
I'm going to give you the same unwarranted snark that you gave the author:

"In the browser there are now 3 such tools: svg, canvas, and webgpu."

That's wildly incorrect, and anyone should take your comments with a huge grain of salt. There are far more than 3 drawing tools in the browser.

Why are you excluding CSS? You can draw with it, as well.
https://codepen.io/matheuswf95/pen/wgRMwW

Why are you excluding Video HTML elements? It's possible to pipe directly to them from Javascript.

Why are you excluding drawing in the DOM? Do you hate ASCII and ANSI art? https://www.crummy.com/software/ansi2html/

Why are you excluding the JS Console? You can draw to that. https://dev.to/shriji/game-on-console-log-5cbk

Why are you excluding the HTML Title? Someone made a game that you play entirely in the browser's Title? https://titlerun.xyz/

Why are you excluding GIF? I can't find it, but I saw someone made a remote desktop client that encoded the video as a never-ending GIF stream.

Why are you excluding fonts? You can create custom fonts and use them to draw all kinds of crazy things.

We draw the line somewhere. I thought the History of Graphics APIs in the article was great. Sorry it disappointed you. I felt your attack on the author's credibility, "[I]t omitted SVG entirely. So one should take it with a grain of salt" was pedantic and rude.
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not British but Greenpeace and Amnesty were both charities I reverred growing up, before getting to know them from the inside
> ...article about browser graphics

Despite the name, WebGPU isn't limited to browsers, I think the article sort-of implies that without explicitly pointing it out (until late into the article).

Instead WebGPU has a good chance to become the 'missing link' standard cross-platform 3D API that sits above D3D12, Metal and Vulkan and at the same time is relatively straightforward to use for mere mortals.