skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"instead what's important is ensuring that when someone gets fired that they aren't left destitute or desperate and that there's a path available to them to find new gainful employment."

how does that happen? What's the SOP on that?
Isn't the inspiration behind these models our own analog hardware?
I absolutely don't spot them $5k all of a sudden, based on that history. I may based on other factors, but certainly not based on a long history of them borrowing $5 and returning it.

That seems like such an obvious answer to me I want to ask if you intended to ask that of me or the person I was responding to.
> privy to some insane shit that barely gets stopped

Hmmm, sounds more like fantasy thinking (to me). :/
An actual quote from the article:

"Technology is also not the only factor at play when it comes to job disruption, according to WEF. In fact, it comes sixth on the list of factors leading to net job creation or elimination."
What "flavor" of Godot do you recommend? By flavor, I'm referring to C# vs. GDScript.

I keep wanting to commit to using Godot for projects but I'm unsure which foundation to build upon.
Drawing with ChatGPT and Tikz
Perhaps even by biological cells!
You feel cheated by the whole movie because their scleras are blue?
People carry around earpods, keychains, wallets. What's one more little dongle on a keychain?

But sure, I agree (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790638 ). I'm just trying to come up with some workable solution. Not trying to make the best of all possible worlds.
If you don't use biometrics then it's passwords or passcodes to authenticate to the local device or a secondary device to unlock it. After that it uses public key cryptography to do the actual authentication with the site you're trying to log into. At no point does the site need to have access to anything secret, unlike traditional passwords.
> ROI analysis and make a go/don't go decision about a project

And if the estimate is even remotely realistic, the decision will always be "no go". Even if it's actually something that's actually needed.
Of course, it's only robbery when those wealthier than me have gotten ahead. The fact that I make dramatically more than some random African Worker for ChatGPT obviously doesn't mean I have to give up any of my money. It's the 1% who need to forfeit their money - to me!
Not really, everyone knew this was dangerous. For the UK it was either "do this or don't make nuclear weapons"
You can't downvote a whole thread, only comments. Threads can only be flagged or upvoted and the thread is not flagged. If there isn't enough interest it fades to the second page after a while. That's what happened here.
As opposed to whom? Which same hours are you suggesting they work? I'm a little confused by your comment here.
See also dreaming to be a butterfly:

> The image of Zhuangzi wondering if he was a man who dreamed of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of being a man became so well-known that whole dramas have been written on its theme.[22]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)#%22The_Butterf...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument
> I went to NYC for work, and the transit system absolutely did not hit all the marks. I had to get to the Jacob Javits conference center, and ended up walking a couple of miles through just-shy-of-sketchy neighborhoods because the single bus was out of service.

When? The 7 has run directly to the Javits center for nearly ten years now.

> a couple of miles through just-shy-of-sketchy neighborhoods

This is a common issue for people who visit NYC. It's funadmentally an issue of perception, which makes it hard to address because it's inherently subjective, not rooted in objective facts. To get to the Javits center from the subway, you would have had to walk through the Theater District, Hell's Kitchen, and/or Chelsea. These are some of the wealthiest, most developed, and safest areas in the country. While you may personally perceive it as "just-shy-of-sketchy", that's fundamentally a perception issue: your expectations aren't calibrated in a way that aligns with the actual safety profile of the areas that you're visiting.
Used cars are actually much more likely to be stolen, especially if lack modern features like chip keys, immobilizers, and GPS tracking services. In US cities, the most stolen cars are all 15-20+ year old models. If you buy a new Toyota for instance, you don’t need an AirTag because it comes with location tracking services built in.

https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/most-stolen-cars/

https://wblk.com/most-stolen-vehicles-ny/
This looks like a variation of the Obama Administration stance on new US based Coal Power Plants: "We are not going to forbid anybody from do it, but we will make sure they go bankrupt in the process of doing it." :-)
> Both represent a global shift in power.

Yes, but there's a difference between a shift of power from one entity to another and a shift of power from one entity to many entities (distributed). That's what the people above you are saying.

Tldr: Swap != diversification
Butterfly effect is really something. Steve Jobs gets kicked out of Apple, builds NeXT as a form of revenge. Tim Berners-Lee buys a NeXT computer, finds it inspiring, and, thanks to NeXT's focus on a usable development environment, finds it easy to whip together a prototype of the WorldWideWeb. And so, even though none of us use NeXT computers today, thanks to one particularly important NeXT computer, all of us use the Internet and hyperlinks today. And yes, I know that much of MacOS and iOS has some lineage to NeXT. Still, this chain of events: Apple => NeXT => Tim Berners-Lee => WorldWideWeb is just bonkers for its world-wide ramifications.
The README indicates:

The base model checkpoint is licensed under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA-4.0). Under the license, you must give credit to Replit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that Replit endorses you or your use.
If it doesn’t have fragments, how do you implement something equivalent to this when mapping over items and every item has to output multiple roots?

<React.Fragment key={idx}>
Moody's gave them AAA ratings because just like the Moody's rep in The Big Short, Moody's has competition - a big bank doesn't like the rating Moody's gave their bonds? Oh, well, they'll just go to a competitor of Moody's, who is more than happy to give said bank the desired rating.

Effectively the financial version of judge shopping.
"Microsoft" is not a person with emotions and desires. People too often anthropomorphize, and it is a natural thing to do imo, because we still think with human brains. Microsoft, like any other company, is a far more complex system than I think our brains are ever meant to comprehend, let alone create. Is it food to eat? A fire to warm up? Is it a leader to follow? A book to read?

What even is Microsoft?
The mainstream economics consensus is that inflation was kicked off due to excess savings and limited supply of goods (first) then services (second).

The idea that business profits are driving inflation is a partisan talking point, not at all consensus.
A few people have made this joke, to the point where I'm wondering if there's not a hint of truth in it :p
Ask HN: Books that helped you become a better person?
Maybe you were lacking something and you realised that after reading a book. Then you changed yourself and became someone whose company people enjoy more.
Like I already wrote: not to more than 99% of the world's population (including western countries).
Interestingly enough, humans have been able to use echo location, primarily in blind individuals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
I bet your desktop display is not 2160x1440 though...
Because password managers that you (and many others) use all the time are probably a more serious attack vector than your bank deposit box.
Not quite: Passwords are long-lived bearer tokens, which can be phished/MITMed (exclusively using auto-fill helps, but non-technical users are still prone to be phished) and are administratively harder to securely manage on the backend of the relying party.
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This has nothing to do with legality. I simply stated that taking someone's things by force is still theft when it benefits you. I still consider all four of your examples to be theft. Like I said in the other comment, whether we consider theft to be justified depends on the situation, but whether it's theft doesn't depend on your belief that it's justified. You lack the consistency to win this argument and it shows.
That's intentional and what Windows Modern Standby is trying to copy, badly.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-power-nap-m...
Yes it’s a passive aggressive way to get Edge’s numbers up. You have to take action to make it obey your previously stated preference.
the thing is, management is accountable to a budget, timeline, and an ROI. They have to be able to say how much something is going to cost, how long, and how much they're going to get in return. Now, a person doing the estimation has to be able to take everything into account, down to the cost of context switching, but those three things are all that matter upstream. Also, the people doing the estimations have to be able to answer questions like "well, what can you do in, say, half the time?". It's not easy.
Thanks! :) Yeah I'm surprised no one else made it yet to be honest, it seems like a pretty natural use of the face/hand tracking tech
Show HN: Hyperfocused – a macOS app to launch and manage windows
Hey everyone,

I've been looking for a good layout management tool with profiles and focus app for Mac but none of them worked the way I wanted. I tried making the app I wanted for myself but was curious if other people would find it useful too. I've put in a free 7 day trial so please try it out and let me know what you think.

You don't need to sign up to download. Download link is in the Gumroad page.

Here are the apps I've tried in the past: amethyst, phoenix, rectangle, moom, heyfocus, selfcontrol
Wow, this is amazing and 1K lines is very tempting for me to look deeper and hack.

If I were to write my own implementation, where should I start?
No, I don't see a way without legislation, and I don't see that happening without a significant event.

Having said that, ring doorbells are useful in finding people who try to break into homes and commit other crimes. Aiden Fucci was convicted with help of a Ring camera. I'm sure his victim's parents are grateful.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/23/aid...
Sounds like some shady bullshit to me! Take quick action before there is no money there.
If something is or isn't the crime of robbery has nothing to do with legality?

> I still consider all four of your examples to be theft

Fair enough but do you at least recognise that your position is not mainstream, which might explain why people don't simply accept it beyond simply being leftists?
My example appears to have distracted you from the point I was making. Let me make the point again without an example: being vulnerable to one attack does not mean there's no value in not being vulnerable to another attack when the attacks require different strategies and levels of effort. Or again: making breeching security more difficult does in fact reduce your risk of random security breeches. Or to put it another way, a determined attacker will search for an opening, an opportunistic attacker will move on. There's value in protecting yourself from opportunistic attacks.
Thanks, will do. Cheers
> “WorldWideWeb.app”

That sounds so funny in todays time.
Having read the book it was still hard to watch that movie without constantly thinking "how is this supposed to make sense"?

Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones had a bit of that, where you know reading the books made the show easier to follow, but that Dune movie felt hollow
We understand how LLMs and other neural networks work, even if the exact results of it are not obvious without looking very closely at tiny parts of the network. The math involved is undergraduate level math. The answer is always "because that's how math and the data work out" even if it's just weighted soup when looking at it from a high level.
MPK is really cool.

> What I don't like bout Google doing this is that the big providers use this to tether and lock you in to their platform. The power of this shines when it's federated. So if you run a site, you can provide security to your users without them needing Google, FB, etc.

The value of many of these schemes is authenticating under your google/FB identity (email, phone number, org affiliations). It makes a lot of sense for centralized identity providers to do this because they already know who you are and how to authenticate you.

There is a growing untapped market for the authentication and secure use of of pseudonyms. For instance people that want to run a blog and interact in social media under a name that is not connected to their true name. Or some Senator wants to play video games but might be worried that it looks frivolous. This is a setting where something like MPK really shines. I believe over the next five years we will see an ecosystem around a pseudonymous web. MPK might have just been too early as that ecosystem isn't quite here yet.
How does this compare to private companies? I don't see anything in the article about revenue multiples, but I was on the market recently and anecdotally everyone is trying to justify much higher multiples for early stage (pre-C) private SaaS right now.
Thanks! It is indeed Mac only, because it uses MacOS's built in Vision library for the hand and face detection.
Why not everything I do is “Open” or “Free”
CAD stuff could take advantage of this too.
I thought these guys [0] were out of business but at least the website is still alive.
They ma{k,d}e a server that provides heat to your home. Just give it power and internet access, they provide compute loads.
Now that I have solar panels, a hybrid heat pump and currently excess electricity, this is interesting to warm up a vat of tap water, for example.
Any guides on DIYing such a combo?

[0] https://nerdalize.cloud/
On Android, there will supposedly be an API for third-party Passkey implementations soon: https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...

1Password has already announced their intention to use this once ready. I really hope iOS will provide something similar soon.
Yeah but that wasn't the reason, was it? They didn't do it because they wanted to replicate work, they did it because they didn't want the Meta lawyers to be big mad at them.
The million dollar question, of course, is whether Tim Berners-Lee—or someone else—would have built a web browser anyway, or at least something very similar. We don't know the counterfactual.
> We know exactly why banks are failing. Federal rate increases pushed they are long-term Holdings underwater and account holders made a run on the bank.

No, they failed because the banks didn’t hedge interest rate risk whatsoever. It isn’t the Fed’s fault for doing it’s job to tame inflation. It is the banks’ fault for not doing basic risk reduction at the expense of some profit. They optimized for profit and not resiliency.
Not entirely. Also from the article:

"...The Fed’s report last week revealed the extent of weaknesses in SVB’s risk management and internal audit functions, both of which need to be assessed by a company’s external auditors.

Jeffrey Johanns, a former PwC partner who teaches auditing at the University of Texas at Austin, said that could raise a question of whether KPMG should have highlighted these failings to investors as material weaknesses that could affect the financial results..."
Great work. Can't wait to see where this goes.
At some point, every FAANG will have entire pods designated for RED/BLUE AI pentesting/vulnhunt, if they dint already...

Also will every other major country.

I'd bet china already has RED/BLUE challenges going on internally..
I'm curious how free software users will be able to take advantage of this improved security. Seems tied pretty tightly to proprietary systems and I wonder if, as a free software user, I'll eventually be locked out of the Google ecosystem.
Thanks, I'll move the homepage out of the carousel component, as it seems to be too confusing. Have a nice day
The paper is clearly asking what the difference in experience is between humans and bats. Whether a process is a "thing" or not is kind of beside the point. The core question is can we articulate how the core experience of being human is in comparison to the core experience of another creature that perceives the world in a fundamentally different way.
I am more talking about the city than buyers.
Not now, but soon. Bitwarden's public statements over the past year, and their acquisition of passwordless.dev, would seem to indicate that they're working very hard on adding passkey support.
Neat. If the author is around, might I suggest pushing some of the 'why use an FPGA' to the front? I think it would benefit from a more concrete example motivating the use of an FPGA - like a picture of some simple circuit using a seven segment display on a broad board next to a picture of an FPGA implementing the same circuit in order to make it more clear that it is a substitute for putting experiments together by hand. I think it will help newcomers better contextualize what is happening and why.

I think in the same vein your wrap up of why you might want to do something in hardware vs software is great and well placed.

Hmmm, I guess now is as good a time as any to bumblefuck around with small electronics projects for fun. Thanks for the reminder!
1-layer nets are equivalent in theory and universal approximators, they are just hard to train.
> but we will make sure they go bankrupt in the process of doing it

More like – we will cut subsidies on coal by just a little bit and let them try and get profitable by themselves.
Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon simulator
Two years ago I shared my personal project CS Weapons here on Hacker News. I was blown away by your response, staying on the front page for almost a full day and peaking at #2. I was so grateful for all the valuable feedback and support ♥

With the advent of Counter-Strike 2 approaching and the upcoming major tournament in Paris next week, I thought it would be a good time for a relaunch; I'd love to show you how things progressed with its development and the implementation of some of your suggestions.

CS Weapons is a weapon simulator for CS:GO & CS2, written in JavaScript. It aims to provide valuable comparisons through the analysis of weapon data; it includes powerful features like animated recoil patterns with compensation guides, reactive data-driven charts and a native app experience on mobile.

Calculations are performed live in the browser and are scenario dependent, dynamically updating based on which part of the body was hit, your range from the target and much more.

New features & notable changes:

- Fully dynamic weapon inaccuracy. This is computed in real-time depending on the number of shots fired, the interval between them and your firing position.

- Recoil patterns are now provided along with compensation guides. The animation speed matches the weapons rate of fire, so learning to follow the yellow path for a given weapon will effectively allow you to fully compensate in-game!

- A redesigned comparison interface.

- Settings to tailor your experience, like altering the units of measurement displayed for distances.

- Shot interval modifier. See what the optimum tapping speed is for a weapon by increasing the interval between shots to balance inaccuracy and DPS.

- Firing duration modifier. You can now simulate the amount of shots fired for each weapon rather than setting it directly. This is invaluable for comparing weapons with varied RPM.

- Position modifier. Alter your firing position to see how weapon inaccuracy is impacted. Find out what weapons are best to run and jump with!

Aside from that, under the hood I've also been fixing bugs, adding a new simpler payment flow and improving the site's performance on search engines.

CS Weapons has been a labour of love for me and I hope you feel that in your user experience. Thank you for your time and support.
Black Mambas: patrol with South Africa’s (almost) all-female anti-poaching squad
Related HN thread, aged 11 months

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426700 ("Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud", 300 comments)
I'm curious to get a take on Apple's documentation for passkeys and iCloud Keychain Recovery Escrow system [1] [2]

There's multiple references in this documentation to phrases like "To sign in for the first time on any new device, two pieces of information are required—the Apple ID password and a six-digit verification code" or in the no-device-recovery escrow documentation: "users must authenticate with their iCloud account and password"

I can imagine a world where Apple replaces sign-in passwords with passkeys; your devices form a ring of trust which "sponsor" new devices into your end-to-end-encrypted iCloud Keychain. But I'm having a hard time imagining how zero-device escrow recovery can work without a thing-you-know password.

Has Apple spoken specifically on this at all? Do they intend to follow the same route as Google and get rid of passwords entirely, and if so how are they securing zero-device iCloud Keychain recovery? Or will they probably just keep passwords around, if only for this specific use-case; and if so, what are the implications for functional user security? If I have an Apple Password I don't use for ten years, then have to use it that one time to complete zero-device recovery, many users won't remember it.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/escrow-security-for...
Venture Oracle: AI tools for venture capital
I love when people share this stat not realizing they’re proving these vehicles are already better drivers than humans. A human disrupts traffic on the road in front of my home every 10 minutes
We're talking past each other.

The whole point of what I was saying is that yes, human attention doesn't scale and that is what is going to save us from a deluge of LLM spam.

A billion pieces of fake news or ten, it makes no difference. Humans can only look at one at a time.
We already do that in a general sense (static and dynamic scanning) in our build pipelines, but all of this will surely accelerate.
I wonder how far we can take this. Is 1B parameters theoretically "expressive" enough for GPT-4 like performance? I wonder how far off "theoretically optimal" we are in terms of performance/parameters ratio.
They also may not publish the DNA sequence they are using, or they may have more than one sequence and only publish one of them. Presumably it has to be in a highly conserved region of the bacterial genome (or present in a few highly conserved places).
I will never weld my login to a physically so fragile and unpredictably high maintenance and volatile thing as a mobile phone. It is also cumbersome for casual logins and increadibly risky for important ones. Thank you, but no.

(good thing I already started to migrate away from the Google universe)
When There Are No Bytes
They are just gonna move to khazakstan
Wouldn't KPMG have similar incentives?
yet, 20% of times, apple loads their own keyboard instead of my default GBoard :)