skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For more than a century, local newspapers served as the primary medium through which obituaries were published. But nowadays, more and more families are opting to memorialize their loved ones with a digital-only obituary.

One unfortunate side effect of this move to digital-only obits will likely only become apparent a few decades from now, and it will likely frustrate the next few generations of genealogists hunting for records of early 21st century ancestors.

Print newspapers were well suited for both the distribution and preservation of obituaries. Distribution isn’t a problem for digital obituaries, and in many ways the web is better than print in this respect. But when it comes to preservation, there are many factors that make digital obits in their current state particularly susceptible to rot.

Obituaries that appeared in print newspapers during the 20th century were easily disseminated and decentrally archived (typically by loved ones and libraries), making them relatively rot-tolerant. In contrast, digital obituaries in the 21th century tend to be centrally archived and often behind paywalls, making them susceptible to digital rot and difficult for organizations acting in the public interest to archive.

The for-profit company Legacy.com controls a strikingly large share of the market for digital obituaries. Unfortunately, the newspapers and funeral homes themselves often don’t maintain their own copies of the obituaries. And while some of the deceased’s loved ones might print out hard copies of a digital obituary, others might simply bookmark the URL and assume that the content will always be there. What happens if Legacy.com or one of the smaller memorial sites goes out of business or experiences some sort of data loss? Because of the centralized nature of how these digital obituaries are stored, it’s possible that very few other organizations will have archived copies of the content.
Your typical DSP beats your typical CPU on power and instructions/sec/dollar by a pretty wide margin.
would love if you could share a bit about your previous $400k/yr job. What market/sector niche/role was it if anything you can share about it, really curious!
Samsung phones can do things like wireless beam a desktop over to a TV. You can then use a bluetooth keyboard with it fine with Chrome, but not Firefox.
> You need to click on the link that is in the post

So, a communication failure straight away. Does not bode well.
I have one and find it to be very uncomfortable.
I’ll admit to just being a front end user of the platform only so I am sure it framed my opinion—the UX was dreadful. The other thing that set the bad taste it was brought in as the corporate email platform by a company that acquired us and since I lead IT for our org (now a division) and corporate IT was across country and 3 hours behind, we caught the brunt of all the user complaints and support for the first half of the day until the help desk opened up.
What exactly is learning? How does effective learning take place? How can learning help an individual to produce a viable outcome? There are loads of questions around learning and yet not one Edtech company tends to take learning seriously. Matter of fact the research done on learning is close to zero. So it would not be unfair to say that skills are being taught without a whiff of what learning is all about. That shockingly translates to Edtech being a driverless car going nowhere with learners strapped onto their seats. But how is this possible? Why would no one take learning seriously? Read my blog to know more
> Are Passkeys, at some level of abstraction, permanently replacing "something you know" (password) with "something you have"?

Sometimes. The authenticator you choose to use sets the policy of what makes a valid authentication. So if your authenticator is "Google Password Manager", it is whatever steps you need to get into your Google account and enable the password manager.

If you do not have the infrastructure to get into that account (say, you have a SMS fallback and your phone is dead), you'll be locked out.

If your authenticator is say a hardware security key, then most likely losing that key means you have no backups.

Even in this case, you can have more than one mechanism to recover access or to prove who you are (even if it is a second hardware key at home in the safe).
"Open sesame"
It looks like one is a gem when it's by the maker of the thing under discussion, especially if it's an unexpected surprise!
> Banks weren't betting that rates would stay low, they were betting that their depositors wouldn't run in Mass.

I think you are confusing causality. The depositors fled because of the bad bet that rates would stay low. As a bank your entire existence depends on confidence. Make risky bets that rates will stay low forever, and you are eventually going to be proven wrong and then confidence in your institution will drop and depositors will flee.
Awful headline you added.

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-... explains:

But this is a product that’s targeted at and specifically addresses the needs of people who are lonely and thus specifically emotionally vulnerable, which should make it worse to inflict suffering on them and endanger their mental health, not somehow funny.

...

As cringe worthy as “AI girlfriend” is, there’s no question that’s what they sold people. They advertised it, they sold it, and they assured users it wasn’t going away even while they actively planned on killing it.
Chegg’s Stock Tumble Serves as Wake Up Call on the Perils of AI
The seemingly unethical but I think totally okay way:

Job hop until you find a chill job that allows a hybrid schedule, or start one and move away, asking to go remote.

Work very hard 4-5 hours a day, and the rest of the time is yours. You might actually work harder than most people staring vacantly at their monitors and sitting in meetings.
Edge fucking sucks.
Orthogonal:

I recently watched the first Star Trek film from 1979 for the first time. If you haven't seen it, and find Voyager interesting (and/or wonder why vger.kernel.org is called that), you owe it to yourself to watch this movie.

Even the VFX are surprisingly good for a pre-CG era.
Yup. Don't even get me started on the lack of push constants. Last I checked WebGPU doesn't even expose raw GPU memory which means optimizations, like memory aliasing, are off the table.
Soft and cuddly to his friends, literally would murder the mailman if he could figure out the front door
Yes, the PRCs escalation of rhetoric surrounding Taiwan and actions to silence and shutdown internal critics such as Jack Ma have to be viewed now as steps towards further action.

We have to take China at their word that they will take Taiwan by force if required.
Yes, we expect to have a natural path towards explicit cooperative matrix multiply ops.

If you have a wishlist, we have an issue tracker! ;)
https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues
Finally, "agile" used as it should be!
I'm sorry it looks like some creepy list of comments that dox the commenter. Even dang highlighted one of his own comment, where he doxes someone else who commented in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940228
I think it's interesting as a learning tool. The stories it regurgitates are crap, but forcing yourself to describe why it's crap is the real benefit here. It's a fancy rubber duck.
/his reward for saving the company money/

By getting rid of people he shouldn't have hired - where's the penalty for that money wasting and poor judgement?
If people want to try it without spending so much, Ebay has much cheaper ones:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/194063513469

If you do find it useful then it's worth spending the money to get the best available, but I use the cheap one and it's great.
> Him getting a raise is a result of employees losing.

it's not a direct relationship.

The CEO gets a pay rise if the board believes it to be something worth doing - for example, rewarding the CEO for doing something unpopular (and taking flak for it).

The employees "losing" isn't a cause, it's an effect. The company needs to lower costs, and do some layoffs, in order to make it more profitable. And if a company is more profitable, the CEO is doing it's job. A company doesn't look out for employees; at least only up to the extend where the employees make them money.
I loved AutoHotKey V1, in all its janky glory. Say what you will, it was better than batch scripting. I especially loved the primitive GUIs you could make with it.

Nowadays I don't have as much need for Windows automation, but I'm glad to see the overhaul. I definitely miss a similar program on other OSes.
Passkey is an open standard, clients are not limited to Android or IOS devices.

You can for example use a Yubikey, on a Linux desktop system, to authenticate to services implementing the "passkey" standard. Does Google own my Yubikey in some way that I'm unaware of?

Nothing is owned by Google or Apple or Microsoft, there is no grand conspiracy trying to lock you into a platform.

Try educating yourself before spreading misinformation, and before assuming that everything is an Evil Conspiracy by Big Tech.
FWIW I've been using Kagi exclusively since Nov 2022, and here's what my monthly usage looks like:

Apr 2023 - 895
Mar 2023 - 1047
Feb 2023 - 650
Jan 2023 - 603
Dec 2022 - 1367

Trends much higher when I screw something up on my network!

I have been asking GPT-* a lot of what I would have previously searched for. And there's still a lot of searching `+reddit.com` because they can't seem to solve search.

I pay $10/mo and am grandfathered in as an "early adopter" with 1K searches. I would be willing to pay more because I've been so happy with it. It's simple stuff -- it respects and obeys my double quotes and boolean operators. If my query returns no results, I get no results. No advertisements, period. The ability to pin, raise, lower, or eliminate the rank of domains in your results.

It's just nice to feel a modicum of respect as someone who's been using computers since shortly after they could read.
Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form Inside Atomic Nuclei
The Opie Archive: The study of childhood culture, past and present
Good argument. I generally agree. Segway was a solution chasing problems. AI is already solving lots of problems and it’s only the beginning.

Adopt, adapt and move forward.
Curious if this could work to minimize 2FA authentications for repeated short SSH sessions? Particularly ssh commands run by 3rd party software such as Sourcetree.
>Why are some things only effective if we believe them to be so?

Our mind controls our body, which has strong healing capabilities.

>I'm not in favor of lies. But mayhap shutting up is more called for? :)

I don't get what you're saying here.
I was a restless sleeper until I've learnt to sleep on my back. Try it for a week, it really is a superior position to sleep in.
Curious if this could work to minimize 2FA authentications for repeated short SSH sessions? Particularly ssh commands run by 3rd party software such as Sourcetree. Every new connection requires acknowledgement of 2FA push notification.
Billionaire Investor Buys Epstein's Private Islands for $60M
It's not just the specifics of the environment but the fact that if you acclimatise to using the mask at home, when you travel you are maintaining perfect consistency with your home environment while sleeping, which I find to be beneficial. With a bluetooth mask you can add some white noise so even extraneous sounds aren't bothering you.
At the moment, you can handle memory manually with alloc/free (and there's stuff there to help with RAII), or you can use Python ref counting. Borrow-checking is currently under development, as discussed here: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/roadmap.html#ownership-and-lif...
I’ve had better selection and prices through vrbo and homeaway.

Airbnb has left bad impressions the last few times I used them with surprise fees and owners contacting before and after.
I was unaware, so thanks! TIL that a throwaway account has the 66th highest karma among commenters
(Not the person you asked.)

I don’t use it for navigation but I don’t recall any times when I learned that it’s wrong while using it for information about local businesses. That should be enough for the “QR menu only” flag at any rate.

(I only started using it the past 2-3 years, for what it’s worth. More to the point of your question, I would assume its quality of directions is at least “usable” given the accuracy of other things. Still an assumption.)
Bloomberg and Reuters for financial stories that are relevant to the markets. They have a major financial incentive to not mess it up i.e. their customers will cancel their 10,20k/yr/person subscriptions.
I hated notes but loved 123, I was even one of those weird slash key users of excel after we did the big MS switch for a whole lot longer than I should have been.
> Would this be a thing that the passkey folks would be OK with? That would ease a lot of my hesitation.

I mean, I don't _like_ it (if I'm a passkey folk) as a widespread feature. I suspect users may be tricked into giving away the keys to the kingdom.

However, these are generally just API, there are open source projects for security keys, and having an option to hold down a button on insertion to have it turned into a filesystem with a CSV file sounds kinda neat as a bit of hackery.

There are several third party software implementations, such as those built on top of existing password managers which have pre-existing password export/import functionality and tend to document their data vault formats (or have them torn apart in reverse engineering). I suspect this will happen if it hasn't already - it would be better as a command-line tool and not a button with a wordy pop-up.

My hope is that we have independent certifications for relying parties to rely upon, but lack of certification won't lead to such a bespoke implementation being rejected by anyone. Instead, some sites may ask for you to continue using additional factors since they don't understand if your passkey meets their requirements.
Landmark settlement expands dental coverage for New Yorkers with Medicaid
You keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means
Nordstrom closed its Jeffrey boutiques in Palo Alto, and its store in Escondido (among many others). So, presumably the homeless and crime problems there caused that?

And Westfield can complain about crime in SF but they're just trying to cough up an excuse. UWR completely ejected from ALL their US Westfield malls in 2022 while keeping all their EU malls. Somehow the EU homeless and crime problems aren't an issue but the US ones are. Interesting that.

SF certainly has its issues. However, in this instance, they are completely orthogonal to the reasons why Nordstrom is closing.

The structural changes in the way people shop were bad even before Covid, but the work-from-home contingent fleeing the city (SF has almost 30% working from home--the highest in the nation by the way--and it would probably be larger except many of them left SF) really accelerated the transition.
CVE Details – crosswalk CVEs by vendor, product, etc.
One of the Lotus founders / early employees, I was on a European bike tour and cruise with the guy about 2015. I'm trying to remember his name. He was legally blind but still rode a bike just fine, didn't crash, and had a great time.
It is notable that TLA+ is the most frequently used notation/method on the front page, followed by Alloy. It seems this has been the case for several (many?) years. Both notations/methods were invented in the 1990s, both were influenced by Z notation (used in the 1980s and 90s) and now have completely replaced it.
Nobody can ever be perfectly objective, but trying to maintain objectivity gets you a lot closer than rejecting the ideal outright.

The problem is that the news business has largely failed, and for the few players left, objectivity is no longer the goal, whether that’s due to explicit choice to prioritize ideology over objectivity, and/or simply prioritizing survival. It’s expensive to produce good journalism.
You can use passkeys from a FOSS client on Linux, you can even use your Yubikey if you have one.
Telling people something won't work could cause it to not work. Which is terrifying.

Edit: I am slow to realize it may have sounded like "shut up" was directed at you. My apologies. I meant that more for the generic voice of caution that is as often very valuable. And i am very nervous on what it implies for general health reporting. How many more people are sick because they think they should be? What can you even do with that idea?
How is my 90 year old mother supposed to figure this out? I can get her to use log passwords that she writes down.
I get the same error on an M series MacBook (Ventura). However from the repo README.md it looks like make should work instead of cmake, I’ll give that a try.
Their own website renders the Angular "template" as a string with no syntax highlighting.

The framework is extremely overengineered requiring multiple files for "hello world"

It introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity for projects of any size

It uses invalid HTML, with attribute syntax including brackets and parentheses

Sadly It's just not a good framework
They were the most popular memes on Memegen for several days. You're over-correcting in the other direction.
It's a superset of python with a faster runtime. There exist dialects for other languages that seem analogous.

The article introduces it with a video instead of just getting to the point and showing code.

Yeah idk. Looks cool I guess.
Yep. I remember CA SuperCalc for DOS. It seemed to be more advanced.
As I surf more and more of the old internet and broken links though, I’m realizing how precious that microfiche and film is.

I assume we are about to get a big lesson in this with Imgur removing all nsfw images and images uploaded without a user account.

I’m realizing the web isn’t a static thing at all, it’s just some wriggling ever-evolving snake we are experiencing and riding and watching the tail disappear and a new head born continuously. “You can’t step your foot in the same internet twice.”

I miss microfiche.
I'm curious. Why does the AI do that?

Is it as simple as there is some fraction of romantic conversations in its training corpus that involve a breakup, and so there is a chance that it will attempt to autocomplete a response into a breakup conversation? Or is there something more complicated going on?
Such beautiful arrangements. I wish these were implemented in architecture more.
It's a list of comments where people reveal personal information about themselves.
OpenAI Technical Goals (2016)
Seems like the type of porn that is popular is problematic for some reason?

"Lesbian Porn Is Utah’s Porn Of Choice"

https://www.bustle.com/articles/156093-heres-the-most-popula...
We wanted a solution that scales up to terabytes and has fast database access. Storing giant CSV files in git natively doesn't scale, and if you store them in S3 you lose the fast diff and all merge capability.

GDPR does require rebasing in some cases as near as we can figure. There are some creative ways to not require taking an outage during this rebase, or some other creative schemes for storing all PII in non-versoined tables. We haven't built any of that yet though, nobody has asked for GDPR support.
Lotus Notes: so painful even IBM didn't want it anymore.

PwC (big 4 financial auditing-side) used to be a mostly LN shop.

I remember LN on OS/2 ran the backoffice of a US nationwide retail software chain.
Can LLaMA approve credit card applications? (Part 1)
Yep, this is the one I settled on after trying a few out!
You’re still focusing on the wrong thing.
What’s wrong with sex for fun? That’s the moralistic religious conditioning that has us here in the first place.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media...

21% of US people use TikTok (in 2021).

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

iOS is close to 60% of the mobile operating system market share in the US.

https://www.statista.com/topics/2711/us-smartphone-market/#t...

And about 50% of smartphones are Apple phones, for a bit over 40% of the US population using an iPhone.
Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training
Jeremy here. Thank you for sharing my article on HN! I've used more programming languages than I can count since I started coding 40 years ago, and it's not often I've gotten really excited about a new language. So the fact I've written this should tell you how special I think Mojo is.

It's early days of course - Mojo is still a prerelease, which means it's only available in an online playground and it's not open source yet (although that's planned). But for such a small team to create something like this so quickly gives me a lot of confidence for what's coming over the next few months.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Abstract:

Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging because they are memory inefficient and compute-intensive for practical applications. In reaction, researchers train smaller task-specific models by either finetuning with human labels or distilling using LLM-generated labels. However, finetuning and distillation require large amounts of training data to achieve comparable performance to LLMs. We introduce Distilling step-by-step, a new mechanism that (a) trains smaller models that outperform LLMs, and (b) achieves so by leveraging less training data needed by finetuning or distillation. Our method extracts LLM rationales as additional supervision for small models within a multi-task training framework. We present three findings across 4 NLP benchmarks: First, compared to both finetuning and distillation, our mechanism achieves better performance with much fewer labeled/unlabeled training examples. Second, compared to LLMs, we achieve better performance using substantially smaller model sizes. Third, we reduce both the model size and the amount of data required to outperform LLMs; our 770M T5 model outperforms the 540B PaLM model using only 80% of available data on a benchmark task.
So cool! Would you be able to explain your architecture?
I like how they say "known to science", as it's equally likely such a creature was made up in a treatise on the natural world by some clueless ancient writer and it just happened to end up being real
Whether or not this particular thing is true, everyone should automatically downvote Daily Mail articles when they see them unless they’re specifically looking for fun celebrity tabloids to read.

It’s not a good news source.

Find the story written by a better publication and link to that.
Taiwan is the historic rightful government of China, subordinate only to the Mongolian Khanate (which also has suzerainty over Russia, conveniently). If we're talking about historic control that is, which certain hawks in the PRC and Russia seem inclined to do.

Long live the Khanate!