skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone shed light on how names like 'GJ 486 b' are arrived at? Looks to me like something pulled out of a random number generator and piped through a base64 encoder or something like that, but surely there's a method to the madness?
Thanks, I vomited a bit into my mouth.
I mainly use WSL and Windows Terminal. 11 is fine. So is 10. The tiling WM in Windows 11 is nice.
Okay so use a YubiKey?

I must be missing something but I do not get all this hand-wringing. Don’t like the passkey options from Google or Apple? Fine! Use the hardware authenticator you absolutely already have if you’re the kind of person who has these sorts of objections.
Free ChatGPT is based on code-davinci-002 (GPT-3.5), which is used in OpenAI Codex. See

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6195637-getting-started-...
Better yet, text-generation-webui-docker when?
plus for a lot of companies an IPO might be not in the near future due to the stock market being what it is (even though who knows anymore...). So why buy options if you don't know when you'll get to sell it.
Might be interesting for marketing guys but take it from a guy who’s worked with publishers. They hate inline editors.
If this is a true threat, I don't imagine us retaining a capitalist society for very long. AI is basically the dream for socialism, and the antithesis for capitalism (except for the capitalists that win the arms race).

In any case, I've never been one to say that technology enhancements for humanity is a bad thing. It's only the powers that be that can wield it for bad.
> So just give up?

Not unless you think there's no other option between "do something that's ill-suited for the local problem" and "do nothing".

> Maybe there should be an effort to correctly map all lines and improve the general infrastructure.

Sit down and think about both the logistics of this and the cost, and map out what you think a reasonable timeline for that would be, and you'll hopefully understand why that's a nonstarter for a sanitation problem that requires an imminent solution.
What are you measuring to determine that now your result is viewed as less valuable? Is it the peer reviewers or personal conviction? In the end all that matters for you, to the extent that peer-reviewed publications are important to your career, is that your paper gets cited. And if people are citing the unfinished arxiv paper instead of yours then that speaks poorly of their own research and not yours.
Deflating the Potbelly (1992)
It was performed by an amateur theatre group called "The Hexagon Club", at a show maybe a dozen years ago. I've searched on-line without luck--it probably doesn't help that Tom T. Hall wrote a song called "The Ballad of Forty Dollars". Anyway, good luck.

We quite possibly crossed paths at GWU back then.
You're basically complaining that your choice of using closed down platforms arrived with delay
Sell it to the highest bidder and let the market dictate who is assigned those three letters?
If the abstract is accurate, then I'm very, very excited to try this on LLaMA 65B. We are tantalizingly close to ChatGPT performance parity on consumer hardware.

Hopefully this lowers the cost of doing instruct fine tuning on the larger models, and we see a Vicuna like model based on LLaMA 65B soon. This is exciting folks.
Twitter Rethinks paid API for automated accounts
The neurological term for it is "Confabulation", which is a lot better than "Hallucination" as used in AI.

Confabulation is the unintended generation of false memories.

Hallucination is false perception.

Clearly, the phenomenon we are seeing with LLM researchers call Hallucination better fits Confabulation.
Biometrics are not passwords. They are user IDs. I have concerns with this approach.

EDIT: Looks like support will be coming to NordPass and other password managers soon - https://support.nordpass.com/hc/en-us/articles/1298467820264...
In a corporate context, it's very different from Chrome.

>It's more memory efficient in general

>It supports the Edge Webview2 framework that MSoffice apps use further cutting memory use

>It supports MDAG https://learn.mecrosoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

To me Edge is so competitive that I was surprised to see Microsoft getting back up to their old playbook when much of what makes edge profitable for them will be disabled on a corporate network anyways.
With all of the tech layoffs that have been reported, I have difficulty believing that there is a shortage of candidates for the remaining positions at the moment. Unless the wsj thinks all the layoffs represent hiring mistakes…
We integrated a React app into a Go CLI
Some has to train the models.
> since .NET ecosystem is one of the most sanest out of all ecosystems

Is it? This is the same ecosystem that has .Net, .Net Core, .Net Standard, and .Net Framework as all different (and overlapping? who knows) products?
Mental Strength in Judo, Mental Strength in Life
The devices are far from being security bastion.
Without commenting on my current employer, all of my previous large employers are busy buying more companies this year than the last three years combined.
> But you need to remember your org charts; the Edge and Windows 11 decision-makers are not the same people with the same incentives.

People who I assume are MS employees keep saying this on HN, and to an end user it's really weird. I don't need to know squat about the internal org structure of some monolith in Redmond, they need to stop screwing around with this anti-consumer behavior and regulators need to slap their hand any time they try and reach for this cookie jar.
Neat paper. Planning on reading more in-depth over the weekend, but more fundamental than just applications to GPT their insights are:

- Existing pruners were written for models that are order-of-magnitudes smaller than any in the modern GPT family. They grow in linear time with the amount of input parameters so they're unequipped to work on current architectures. The best existing pruner performs takes 4.3h for a 1.3B model

- The core issue to scale is time to calculate the Hessian during prune analysis (effectively a matrix of second-order derivatives, famously computationally intense to calculate)

- They follow the existing literature and use a local approach to each layer. By doing this (and doing it well), it can preserve the input/output contract for surrounding layers, which makes the whole thing paralellizable across machines

- Their solution approximates reconstruction loss by approximating a quadratic loss and then running a OBS update (with a few other optimizations on ordering and iteration on the side)

I'm particularly excited for these smaller models, mostly for inference efficiency gains in realtime applications. The general con of weight pruning is they still require incredibly large training clusters / investment in training resources upfront to get the original parameter weight. But if the lottery ticket hypothesis holds true, this might be the best way we have at the moment to get models with same performance and lower longterm operational costs.
There is literally no setting like that in path you've given, I just checked on personal 13 Pro with iOS 16.4.1(a)
This whole thing feels like Toilet Paper Crisis 2.0 - purely created by consumers acting irrationally.
How do you figure? To me it looks like AI, especially Boston Dynamics style killbots, are the capitalist autocrat's wet dream.
Alternatively, it's like saying that there are more US banks that are going to fail...
Here's the actual report:

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2023.pdf

Future of Jobs Report, 2023

It's almost 300 pages long. I'm not even sure what's most interesting so far. Largest job decline? Data entry clerks, Administrative and executive secretaries, Accounting, bookkeeping and payroll clerks, Security Gauards and Building caretakers and housekeepers are the top 5.

Largest job growth? Agricultural equipment operators is number 1, followed by truck/bis drivers, then Vocational teachers, Mechanics and Business development professionals
On the flip side is bioaccumulation, in which contaminants and toxins are concentrated in organic material, particularly animals, and most especially for predators-of-predators.

The reasons for high mercury levels in tuna, shark, and swordfish is that each of these is both a predator and often eats other predatory species. There are numerous other examples of both species and contaminants, including even natural and even vital substances, e.g., vitamin A toxicity in carnivorous livers.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation>
Microsoft Project does support PERT estimates, though it's difficult to find and use: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/expected-duration...
My presumption has been that they will force a long recovery key to be printed by you for recovery OR the enrollment of designated trusted users that can approve an account recovery.

They already force you to do either of those things if you want end-to-end encryption for all content types (which they called increased data protection).
If you do that too much, you just train users to enable all permissions all the time without thinking.
Fogcreek's software fogbugz had that... It's a pity that it's mostly been abandoned.
Is it irrational to pull your uninsured funds from an insolvent bank?
If memory serves right, DOOM was also developed on NeXT.
1 by 1. Whenever I see an ad I turn it off.
Seeing the Midwest figures is unsurprising and still disappointing. As someone pitching a startup, the number of big name investors that have asked where I’m calling from and have this look of “why?” or even outright asking it really shows some extreme bias. Given the world is moving more towards remote work, it’s strange that VCs still have this belief that only coastal areas can innovate.
fixed cost projects either don’t change, or more likely have a very specific change procedure written in to them, so the customer knows changes aren’t free.

(of course changes are never free, but we all seem to want to brush that away, to the detriment of the customer.)

there are a lot of software projects out there where the customer isn’t chasing some shiny new toy. the folks who wrote the firmware for your microwave had a really good idea what the entire feature set was going to be before they started.
"Private property" is an inherently political term. To take an extreme case, for much of human history it was perfectly acceptable to own other people. Once you accept the abolition of slavery as morally correct, then you've accepted that property rights aren't completely inviolable in all circumstances.
One could argue that offering a walled garden from the outset is more honest than the Microsoft strategy of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and ultimately the latter creates more of a monopolistic threat in practice since walled gardens almost definitionally can't capture most of the market.
Yes. Kvark pushed WGPU as a cross-platform graphics base for Rust, and that worked out quite well.

It's actually better in an application than in the browser. In an application, you get to use real threads and utilize the computer's full resources, both CPUs and GPUs. In browsers, the Main Thread is special,
you usually can't have threads at different priorities, there's much resource limiting, and the Javascript callback mindset gets in the way.

Here's video from my metaverse viewer, which uses WGPU.[1] This seems to be, much to my surprise, the most photo-realistic game-type 3D graphics application yet written in Rust.

The stack for that is Egui (for 2D menus), Rend3 (for a lightweight scene graph and memory management), WGPU (as discussed above), Winit (cross-platform window event management), and Vulkan. Runs on both Linux and Windows. Should work on MacOS, but hasn't been debugged there. Android has a browser-like thread model, so, although WGPU supports those targets, this program won't work on Android or WASM. All this is in Rust.

It's been a painful two year experience getting that stack to work. It suffers from the usual open source problem - everything is stuck at version 0.x, sort of working, and no longer exciting to work on. The APIs at each level are not stable, and so the versions of everything have to be carefully matched. When someone changes one level, the other levels have to adapt, which takes time. Here's a more detailed discussion of the problems.[2] The right stuff is there, but it does not Just Work yet. Which is why we're not seeing AAA game titles written in Rust. You can't bet a project with a deadline on this stack yet. As you can see from the video, it does do a nice job.

It's encouraging that WGPU is seen as a long-term solution, because it improves the odds of that work getting completed.

Still, I was chatting with one of the few people to ship a good 3D game (a yacht racing simulator) in Rust, and he admits that he simply used "good old DX11".

[1] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/tp9mLAQoHaFR32YAVKVDrz (That's on PeerTube. I'm curious to see how it copes with an HN-sized load. PeerTube is supposed to scale automatically.)

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/1302512/reall...
That’s a fairly accurate overview. If you’re a bank, there is also code to handle market parameters/fits, software to handle positions/booking, exotic payoffs ( and the accompanying compiler to compile the dsl ), regulation, GUIs and custom tools for trading/sales, risks, etc.

6 million sloc is indeed a fraction of what you’ll find in an investment bank. It’s also (I think) what makes it very interesting: an IB is a huge software system, with a mixture of extremely legacy (30y) and bleeding edge tech, and very strange human made rules.
It also can’t be overstated just how expensive things have gotten. I’d wager a large percentage of the exercise decline is due to employees having less cash.
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Elon made a bigger, but less widely known, rake-step recently: WordPress dropped Twitter from a social media feature set in WordPress because of the API cost.
In SF and Phoenix, Waymo has cars driving around with no drivers.

It's here. Tesla (and maybe Cruise) may well be sucking at it, but Waymo isn't.
I agree with the sentiment that it's not the auditors, but actually the Fed only drives short term interest rates, while what is cause issues is duration on long term interest rates (particularly mortgages/MBS with 10+ year duration). Those rates are mostly set by the market and inflation expectations. So actually, quickly lowering inflation is key to keeping long term rates from going way up! In that sense what the Fed is currently doing is actually keeping the value of the bonds/MBS higher than otherwise (by driving the economy into recession).

Now where you could argue that the Fed made a mistake was in buying MBS (lowering net interest margin) during 2020 early in the pandemic. That drove mortgage rates down right when fiscal stimulus was increasing bank reserves and everyone who could refinanced.
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this feels like an attempt to hive mind against anything cool from this company
Still, it seems like it is a kind of lock-in (intel only), to save 10 cents or something. What's expensive about standalone wifi?
> We can seamlessly call C++ functions from Mu and vice-versa, and pure Mu functions can be used in Excel formulae via our Excel add-in.

wtf
That's fair. The electric F150 at 8250lbs, which is obnoxiously heavy, does .011% as much damage as an 18 wheeler.

The point is the same, an 18 wheeler does >99.9 percent of all the damage on the roads. Trucks absolutely do not come anywhere even remotely close to paying for the damage they create. The entire transportation system in the US is a trillion dollar subsidy to the trucking industry.

That being said, I'm fine with that. I also don't want tomatoes to cost $11.
Yes but countries generally have rules that require rotating auditors and inspection of a sample of audits by a regulator.
Great! Where I can type those passhphrase in google mail or o365 or million other serivces to secure my data ?

Oh? Nowhere? Then why you're even talking about the distinction ?

Also passphrase definition is definitely not "a password used for encryption", I dunno where you pulled that from. Original meaning is just "longer, more secure password"
It's always frustrating to me, the headline about the destroyed jobs. Very rarely any mention of the new jobs or the fact that the jobs that were destroyable were also often not a whole lot of fun in the first place. Or that we are maintaining the good things we have with even have human capital available to accomplish ever more (hopefully) important things.
One-Pot Recycling of Li-Ion Batteries in Rotating, Concentric-Liquid Reactors
Unemployment insurance and severance.
America’s Credit Rating Could Get Downgraded Even If a Default Is Avoided
This is wonderful for when you're on a motorcycle going somewhere new. Absolute game changer!
Depends how insolvent it is
I also recommend the official dock. It basically turns it into an easy to use Mister.
Multi Pass Key Raw Demo
The issue with Vulkan is that it's so cumbersome, I just don't want to use it at all. Tried to switch, but went back to OpenGL. There isn't anything in Vulkan that warrants that insane amount of overhead.

WebGPU is based on similar modern paradigms but it's an actually usable, sane, not overly verbose API. It's a pitty that WebGPU is deliberately gutted to make it a 5 year old smartphone graphics API because I'd prefer it over Vulkan any day.

I'm glad that Vulkan is taking some steps back on render passes, pipelines, etc. If they keep removing unnecessary entry barriers, I might eventually try the switch again in a few years.
Show HN: Boardify – drag and drop digital signs
Hey, first post on HN, sorry about the sign up.

Solo dev here, been building this drag and drop digital signage platform for a while now, started off in the currency exchange niche, haven't got too much traction yet, let me know what you think!

For those curious, it's a React.js and Gatsby frontend, with an Elixir and phoenix backend, I'm happy to talk tech if you got any questions.
The water analogy is thus: everyone who dies drinks water, but lots of people drink water and don't die, therefore water is unlikely to be the cause of death.

However, some estimate that over half of U.S. banks are insolvent. That's like half the population dying after drinking water. At what point do you start worrying about the water?
Bats possess a sensory organ we do not. "What it's like" is just a way of saying they may be conscious of a sonar sensation which we utterly lack, similar to a person blind from birth lacking color sensation. To use technical philosophical jargon, bats have sonar qualia that humans do not, assuming bats are conscious. We cannot say what that sensation is, since we don't have it. This places a limit on our knowledge. Don't let "what it's like" trip you up.

It's a legitimate philosophical problem which is spelled out in Nagel's paper. It's not a problem with language, it's rather a limitation on our experience, which also highlights a limitation of our epistemology.
In production Haskell you need to combine monads using e.g. monad transformers and this is significantly more complicated than just understanding how bind works. It also requires a lot of boilerplate code and any errors there are not obvious to track down.
The reason is dogfooding. The homepage uses one of the components (viewport carousel) and every section must be viewport to demonstrate its features. Now I understand that's irritating and will change it. Thanks!
> Moody's also AAA rated a bunch of housing derivatives in
2008

The products rated AAA by and large performed as such. (I have never seen contraevidence. Though the massive intervention introduces unremovable endogeneity.) They weren’t necessarily liquid the entire time. In that way they bear fun-house mirror similarity to this crisis, where the creditworthiness of Treasuries wasn’t ever in question. But their value in the interim, and thus liquidity, was.

The problem of 2008, with the benefit of hindsight, wasn’t rating agencies being funny. Those senior tranches were creditworthy. But we weren’t sure, and they sure as hell weren’t liquid.
There's nothing irrational about not trusting banks, especially when they're directed by the federal reserve to have 0% of their deposits on hand.
GPT is actually EXTREMELY good at math compared to an average human who is not using a calculator.

Ask a random person stuff like whats 465*42/12 and you'll
get ridiculous answers, and LLM can use tools now.

I'd argue that it's actually superior to humans in that regard
There is a pervasive narrative in certain groups that renewables fundamentally cannot do "the job" of providing power for all of humanity. They cherry pick issues from current small scale deployments, ignore all the times and places it works just fine, and claim that only nuclear can handle our needs without reducing our way of life.

This is done at least by some in order to attempt to get funding redirected away from solar and wind and storage projects and research into the money pit of nuclear power plants and research. They do this because they actually care about having to rely on fossil fuels for as long as possible.

This is why a lot of conservatives in Texas believe their winter storm horrors were caused by wind turbines, which they often call "windmills" for some reason, even though if you call a magazine "a clip" they will rip your head off and complain that you shouldn't be allowed to make policy about something you don't understand.
My outlook is opening email links in their built-in Windows Mail app - which to me is the epitome of dumb and the one time I want them to handle it...
I would totally hire a part time person for 80-100 hours a month if they're highly self motivating and a GSD personality. There are also places like Holland where you can typically get a job and then request to work fewer hours (with a relative pay adjustment) and this is protected by law.
Handling the unique design challenges in Web3 gaming
Handling the unique design challenges in web3 gaming
Tony Kay: Software Development Leverage