skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the cost of licensing Windows which makes small-sized non-Windows VMs cheaper, there's been a strong pro-Linux bias in academia for a long time that nobody likes to talk about.
Replit: I tried to write HMM Forward function code:

```

# Write a function that performs the forward algorithm of an HMM. Ideally it uses numpy vectorization,

# But if you cannot do that it is fine too. Just perform forward inference, given HMM parameters and Observations.

#
def HMM_forward() :

# Write your code here

# Hint:

# - Remember that HMMs are stochastic, so you will need to multiply transition matrices by observation probabilities

# - Remember that HMMs are stochastic, so you will need to multiply emission matrices by observation probabilities

# - Remember that HMMs are stochastic, so you will need to multiply emission matrices by transition matrices

# - Remember that HMMs are stochastic, so you will need to multiply emission matrices by transition matrices

# - Remember that HMMs are stochastic, so

```
It gets stuck in an infinite loop.
ChatGPT gets it write, first shot:

```

import numpy as np

def forward_algorithm(A, B, pi, obs):

"""
Performs the forward algorithm for an HMM.

Parameters:
A: numpy.ndarray, shape (N, N)
Transition matrix of the HMM, where N is the number of states.
B: numpy.ndarray, shape (N, M)
Emission matrix of the HMM, where M is the number of possible observations.
pi: numpy.ndarray, shape (N,)
Initial probability distribution over states.
obs: numpy.ndarray, shape (T,)
Sequence of T observations.

Returns:
alpha: numpy.ndarray, shape (T, N)
Forward probabilities for each state at each time step.
"""

T = obs.shape[0]
N = A.shape[0]

alpha = np.zeros((T, N))
alpha[0] = pi * B[:, obs[0]]

for t in range(1, T):
alpha[t] = np.dot(alpha[t-1], A) * B[:, obs[t]]

return alpha

```
OpenAI managed to do the important but extremely hard, they moved out of the DL benchmark frame and made something that is general purpose useful. Great effort and congrats to Replit team though, hopefully they can keep iterating on this and reach ChatGPT capabilities someday
Finally the BRICS countries have something in common: authoritarianism.
The irony of that article is that the traffickers were sent to jail because of our app. We are unapologetic about working with law enforcement.
Example.com is reserved by IANA and should be reliable to exist for a long time. From the "more information" link:

>As described in RFC 2606 and RFC 6761, a number of domains such as example.com and example.org are maintained for documentation purposes.
That tweet by Lee Robinson isn't really about markup, it's about unbound spending, which seems to be more related to, for example, this recent complaint where a bug led to an accidental $3380 bill in just 6 hours

https://twitter.com/shoeboxdnb/status/1643639119824801793
Saw this yesterday and thought it looked interesting, but must admit haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/JushBJJ/Mr.-Ranedeer-AI-Tutor
Quantum mechanics works the same way every time. Being random doesn't mean they're not working the same way every time, the distribution never changes.
The safety violations in construction’s most iconic photo
I just started looking into WebAuthn this week, and was annoyed that there is no simple way to begin: Chrome (on Ubuntu) doesn't provide a local authenticator, unless you use an emulated one. This means any site that wishes to use WebAuthn can't just say "let's do it for everyone," because not everyone might have a phone they want to use, or a security key.

I found out [1] that WebCrypto + IndexedDB is pretty much the missing piece, where you can store/retrieve a generated CryptoKey without having access to the private data. I wish the WebAuthn API would handle that for me...

The end-result is likely that everyone is using WebAuthn as a 2FA, rather than a password replacement, because on-boarding seems to suck right now.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/49479890
> how on earth does consciousness arise from material "meat"

Let me try. It is a way to perceive with goals in mind. Nothing special, just perception, future reward prediction conditioned on current state, and learning from outcomes.

The whole specialness of consciousness is that it carries inside not just our external world, but also our plans and goals. So in this place where they meet, and where there are consequences to be had for each decision, this is where consciousness is. [*]

I support the 5E theory of cognition - embodied, embedded, extended, enacted, and enactive cognition. I think you need to look not at the brain but the whole game to find consciousness.

[*] Consequences for an AI agent could be changing its neural network, so it updates its behaviour, and changes in the external situation - the agent might not be able to backtrack past a decision they take.
> US mines more bitcoin than any other country.

how do you know that? are there rankings somewhere? super curious
Lol, thanks Nicky Case, I needed that
That’s correct, we are arguing that “I need it more” is not a good justification to violently robbing someone, is that a problem?
I don't understand why this would be difficult to enforce? It's a tax on companies that are doing crypto mining, not on an individual running mining on their personal machine.
Awesome, I do not have or want mastodon or any social media like it, but did sign up for your newsletter. Thank you for all your hard work.

Once the next book comes out, I’ll buy a couple of copies immediately! Looking forward to it!
Have there been any well-known games made in Godot yet? When I started with my first proper game which was released a few months ago I went with Unity because I couldn't find any successful examples and the knowledgebase was lacking in comparison with Unity.
Not to mention asteroid mining
Definitely not, I've heard the same thing about car thefts. The person who has their car stolen is basically told "good luck with that"
I also sympathize, and agree with the conclusions.

But it's VERY important to remember, that "the economy" (capitalism, the "thing", whatever you want to call it) is NOT an entity unto itself.

While this is a nice metaphor, it's not realistically accurate. The economy/capitalism/thing is actually a collection of a very small subset of the human population. Which IS actually brutalizing the rest of the human population and the physical resources of the planet.

But it's not a run away AI, or alien invasion, it's "us".

People are screwing other people and trashing the planet.

When we talk about "getting rid of the system", this really means disenfranchising this very small minority.
SiegeGPT
SiegeGPT caters to the casual player base of the popular FPS title Rainbow Six Siege, in rendering dynamic gameplay strategies based off of ChatGPT's API and Vercel's Edge functions.
> Lies. Bullshit. Con artistry.

These are worse as they imply the thing generating the words knows the truth and purposely says something else.

An LLM is just doing next token prediction. It's a mathematical process. It's not trying to "hide" the truth from you.
> the scenario where your password manager is running on the same device as the one where the user is performing the login

Android will provide an API for that scenario (i.e. on-device third-party authenticators) in the near future [1].

Hopefully, iOS will do the same.

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...
Samsung bans ChatGPT use due to data leak
I like VSCode too. I use it for Clojure, Python, and C#, which I am working in this year and haven't for a very, very long time. I was pleasantly surprised at the progress it has made.

Ironically compared to Windows, MS has been willing to kill backward compatibility more to improve .NET to make it more cross-platform, something that must come from a very different part of the company, probably the one that got the "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS" mandate.

I make no apologies for their history, but I like these tools and I like them much better than Java, which also has its place. (This isn't a throwaway comment, notice I said I use Clojure, it's my favorite, which runs on the JVM.)
It's called hybrid transport, and the old name for it was caBLE. Yubico has a nice explainer here: https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/Concepts/Hybrid_Flows... It's not fundamentally different than other transports for other roaming authenticators like a USB key; the QR code sets up a BLE connection between both devices and presents the authenticator with a challenge for it to sign and log in the originating device.
Guess how many disruptions humans are causing per day in SF
> A good rule of thumb is that people or institutions fabricate evidence because they are making claims that are both false and harmful.

Another good rule of thumb is to assume stupidity not malice.

Ultimately rules of thumbs are just that, and shouldn't be over relied on for things that matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

This is the problem of describing if a gradient has something. Quite often the 'N tests' we make up end up excluding entire classes of humans (You're blind, oops!) by poor premise in our classifications.

People love black and white/binary classification systems, the problem with reality is it rarely gives a damn about giving us simple systems to classify that way.
Client-side buffers are not a great idea. Pixel buffer objects and MSAA framebuffers exist in WebGL 2.
> You can actually ask Siri to navigate with Google Maps by appending "using Google Maps" to a request. So for example, "navigate home using Google Maps".

Yeah, and its easy to open the link from Outlook and Teams in Chrome - just copy the link & paste into the chrome URL bar.
> I had a little trouble installing it on our Gould minicomputer and mailed in a support request

Not sure if this means snail mail, but I don't know why I never considered that before email, people used physical mail for things like tech support, heck, maybe submitting patches
The solution, for you, is a cloud synced passkey manager, possibly a custodial one.

A password manager with strong passwords is weaker than a password manager with passkeys, because passkeys use asymmetric crypto and passwords+2fa involve exchanging a shared secret over an insecure channel at some point (yes I'm considering 1-sided TLS an "insecure" channel here).

Trust the security experts when they say passkeys are more secure. Now, solving the UX to make it match that of passwords plus managers today is the problem, agree.
Stripe, a longtime partner of Lyft, signs a big deal with Uber
> don't know if Apple/WebKit also has open-sourced theirs

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/main/Source/WebGPU
> Imagine if you had a product that you really wanted to sell, but were having trouble because every sale required 110 square feet of earth to be set aside.

Isn't that only like 1% of the average house's lot size? You make it sound like most houses wouldn't require any space if not for parking.
Astronomers have caught a star in the act of swallowing a whole planet
Possible, but none that I have been repeatedly exposed to. I axed Microsoft out of my life when they started their anti linux crusade and I haven't looked back but people keep pushing Teams on others.

The whole interop situation around video conferencing is ridiculous, there ought to be a common protocol and a variety of clients around this protocol, instead we have this utterly dysfunctional situation where there are five different walled gardens, each of which has their own set of problems and compatibility issues.
If you're worried about someone doing something other than calling a method in the lambda it's pretty straightforward to use an Expression<Func<T, TResult>> and validate the contents of the expression. Seems like that would make for a much better dev experience than this static Ref property pattern that you don't see anywhere else in C#.
> password and TOTP convenience

Passwords and TOTPs are not MITM-safe, WebAuthN/Passkeys implicitly are. (Credentials are bound to a specific RP, i.e. it's impossible to accidentally provide one to the wrong website or a scammer on the phone.)
That's heavily dependent on where you live. We're getting high speed internet pretty much everywhere in France. It's a program full of controversies, but here I am in a 3k inhabitant village with a 10gbps connection for 40€ a month... (Yes, 10Gbps, I'm throttled by my gigabit ethernet)

If you can't get fiber here you get a subsidised 4G / 5G router for a very reasonable price.
I rather deal with Google than deal with armed goons backed by laws.
Pornhub cuts Utah’s access to its site in protest of age verification law
Google search data showed searches for virtual private networks – encrypted connections that can circumvent geographical restrictions – surged in Utah after Pornhub’s decision.
Does this basically means there is one "master password"?
> Subtle correction: as far as I’m aware if you were to disable lazy evaluation (which you can now do via compiler pragma) on any Haskell program of significant complexity it would blow up. Common practice is to force evaluation of critical sections of code. That’s something the compiler can sometimes do for you.

Anecdotally I can confirm this is true.

> Laziness in Haskell is a great way to write declarative code, you really are describing a concept rather that telling the computer what to do. That can lead to very clear and orderly source code.

100% agree.

> Having said that, the drawbacks are significant, performance, memory usage, and debugging can all be a real pain. The last one sucks because it affects development of all kinds of programs, not just performance critical (and challenged) ones.

I think this largely depends on domain. Then, it's not clear if the best tradeoff is to go fully strict or develop better intuition for lazy evaluation in many of those cases.

> Difficulty hiring on a small scale in my experience is complete BS

I have a theory this meme is repeated by people who don't know where to find the many functional programming candidates.
Not the OP, I'm still hesitant because it infuriates me I have to give them my identity which they will then log every prompt against. You think they aren't building profiles on people? AI moties(more in gods eye reference )is what they are.
a) OP's article includes the observation that a report into a serious fire was suppressed for 30 years. Perhaps start your search for evidence with what has already been provided, and then broaden to include the whole history of the plant.

b) it seems like the high costs are less a function of government inefficiency than the fact that reprocessing for weapon production is difficult and dangerous, which adds to the cost. Commercial endeavors don't have or want to produce plutonium, but if you think that private industry is somehow immune from the creation of negative externalities, corner-cutting, or cover-ups then I've got an incredible new cryptocurrency opportunity just for you.
Didn't roads exist for millennia before cars did? Were they a subsidy for nothing and basically just burning money before?
The main reason I'm curious is because they write

'We solve this problem by allowing users to create instances of the class/interface without invoking anything on it. For classes this is done via FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject and for interfaces this is done via Castle Dynamic Proxy. This lets us "reference" (hence the name Ref) methods on the objects without actually instantiating them with side effects. Method calls should never be made on these objects (and most wouldn't work anyways).'

Which sounds like a lot of heavy lifting. It seems something like

public class WorkflowBuilder<T> where T : class
{
// Somehow workflow gets the real instance
private T Instance;

public async Task<TResult> ExecuteActivityAsync<TResult>(Func<T, Task<TResult>> func) => await func(Instance);

public async Task<TResult> ExecuteActivityAsync<TResult>(Func<Task<TResult>> func) => await func();

public async Task ExecuteActivityAsync(Func<Task> func) => await func();

public async Task ExecuteActivityAsync(Func<T, Task> func) => await func(Instance);
}

public record Purchase(string ItemID, string UserID);

public class PurchaseActivities
{
public static WorkflowBuilder<PurchaseActivities> OneClickBuyWorkflow => new WorkflowBuilder<PurchaseActivities>();

public async Task DoPurchaseAsync(Purchase purchase)
{
await OneClickBuyWorkflow.ExecuteActivityAsync(e => e.DoPurchaseAsync(purchase));
}

public static async Task DoPurchaseAsyncStatic(Purchase purchase)
{
await OneClickBuyWorkflow.ExecuteActivityAsync(() => DoPurchaseAsyncStatic(purchase));
}
}

Would pretty much achieve the same thing.
Bullish for Ethereum I guess, which has cut its electricity usage by 99.9% or something since switching to Proof of Stake.
Luckily I ordered the AX210 over the AX211 because the AX210 was cheaper. :P
Intelligence implies agency, self awareness, thoughts and feelings - none of which has anything to do with the current crop of word generators.
Adding quantum to whatever you are doing always makes it better!
Nest Hub 2nd Gen Updates to Google's Fuchsia OS
> There isn’t a level of smell you can’t quickly ignore.

Not a fixed level, of course! But at any given instant, the level you can ignore is lower than the one you can't. Hence I'm still better off doing this, a fact which apparently you can't stand for some weird reason...

You're also going to gather data over time, which will tend to smooth out any such day-to-day variations.

This is how you can reduce (not eliminate) pollution exposure without paying for expensive non-nose sensors. This is true whether you Believe It Or Not™.

>No, it’s carbon monoxide, NOx, SOx compounds etc.

Citation desperately needed. I showed you mine, you show me yours!

What conceivable mechanism could concentrate these traffic pollutants higher than the outside concentration? Are you running a pump that's somehow fighting entropy to push these outside traffic pollutants (against the alleged concentration gradient) into your car??

Usually it helps if your claim doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics. :D

---

edit: I'll throw you a bone to save time. Literally the only way to achieve this outcome without violating physics is to intentionally reverse my recommendation: try to suck in only the most polluted urban air (intake the concentrated plume from a line of cars accelerating, behind a garbage truck or schoolbus, etc), and then switch to recirculate to save up that highly polluted air and breathe it for as long as possible.

So...... don't do that! If you're studying IAQ in cars, you need to control for that.
Nope, people are just looking for their daily dose of outrage.
> it's still waaaay safer than driving. Americans grossly underestimate how dangerous driving is.

I think this is part of why the parent poster used the term "psychological safety". The thing about driving is that you are individually in control, you can choose how you drive and that greatly affects the safety of driving. While public transport may be statistically safer, for some people the lack of control increases the feeling of lack of safety. I am one of those people actually. I've been driving for more than 20 years, I've had several accidents, all of which occurred while my vehicle was fully stopped and I was rear-ended by someone not paying attention, some while my car was parked and I wasn't even in it. I've had zero injuries from driving, and I have an impeccably maintained fleet of vehicles and have extensive driving training (I hold a competition racing license, have driven many different types of vehicles, and have done executive protection/pursuit driving training). I feel significantly safer in a vehicle I own, maintain, and control (including my reactions to others) than I do being exposed trapped in a box with random other people, many of whom are dangerous, without any significant recourse. The only way I'd ever take public transport every day is if self-defense were strongly legally protected and I could be armed at all times, because there are too many crazy people out there that will kill you for looking at them accidentally, or for not dropping a dollar in their hat when they're busking, or whatever other reason they contrive in their delusional minds for why they should harm a random person they don't even know.

Statistically I might be safer taking public transport, but in a car I never have to expose myself to random crazies without an escape strategy, and I can choose how I react to other drivers to prevent accidents (I have avoided MANY MANY MANY accidents in my life due to my awareness and superior driving skills).
https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci/mining_map
It'll be great if they'd build language servers via the language server protocol, that would be editor agnostic.
The relationship between VSCode and commercial versions of Visual Studio is the worst part of .net, especially the omnisharp debacle.

Given much of the key feature set of visual studio is now in VSCode for free for .Net development, I wonder what future holds for Visual Studio. My assumption is that Microsoft will eventually stop making commercial IDEs and just give the tooling away, as it all helps drive Azure/cloud compute sales.

VSCode runs in a browser and can now be launched straight from a github repo page - I don't think you need a crystal ball to see the way things are going. Imagine onboarding someone with zero dependencies to install on their development machine - just pop a browser and get to work.

> https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/08/31/github-...
VS Code is pretty great, and I agree the remote dev extensions (ssh) are hands down the best feature added. I also like that it had a directory tree and the integrated terminal early on, that's what got me hooked.

C# is nice, but the experience in VS Code is sub-par and I think it's the VS (not code) managers that are responsible for that state of being.
For me, hallucination is better.

Lies, BS, and Con artistry all require conscious motive and intent. Thats a bridge to far, for me, in ascribing ‘intelligence’ to these models.

Hallucination, to me, conveys ‘seeing things (facts) that are not there’. To the extent the models are ‘perceiving’, they ARE perceiving reality incorrectly. Granted, I expect many times it’s because the source of the model training data are, at best, just wrong or are lying.
Everything has to be done by someone else.

You can't work on your own place, you have to employ someone to do that. Where do they live with their work van? I guess they have to be a business(tm) and rent a warehouse. Oh and their van has to be less than 5 years old, otherwise it's too pollutey. They can just buy a new one, that's fine.

Etc etc.

It'd be funny if it wasn't actually happening. I have had a pretty charmed life and I still find it really hard to understand the weirdly bookish attitude.
Environmental Activists Are Coming After Vanguard. Here's Why
But the blue check mark on Twitter is seen by many as “this person is a douchebag.”. We are currently testing a Doge/blue check sticker to mark physical world objects for opsonization. (Don’t think it will perform better than a confederate flag for a car parked in a black neighborhood though.) Google should pick a symbol that doesn’t have so much baggage…. A green check or something.
Yes, quick google search will reveal many results.
> I thought STM was dead.

My company codebase makes generous use of STM in Haskell. STM is the first concurrency solution I reach for in Haskell and I believe it's the idiomatic thing to do.
It's a knotA(door)able for me.
You’re looking for causal.app for that, and it’s as good as it sounds.
Yes, I'm waiting patiently in the wings. Sadly when I asked Apple's Passkey team about supporting this, they said it wasn't on the roadmap (though they carefully didn't say never, it still doesn't instill much hope). Once this missing piece becomes a required part of the standard, I'll stop holding my breath and get super excited about passkeys.