skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was a little hesitant to suggest that this was caused by Microsoft given that. I actually agree that this problem is caused by user agent sniffing. I could see someone arguing the other way, though.

Ultimately, I think it's still on-topic because, at any point, any of these browser vendors (admittedly, not limited to Microsoft) could have started to work with webmasters for a standard of "feature claims" instead of "user agent claims". So a user agent can say, "I support frames," and a server can serve frames. Instead, Microsoft decided they'd just lie about it.
I heard that even the TP crisis made sense, people stopped using TP outside of home (work/school/etc.) and that put stress on the home TP supply chain.
You're missing some important context:

Microsoft's software isn't even trying to be "good". That hasn't been the goal for a while. Instead, Microsoft's goal has been to cement its monopoly, particularly with Windows, Office, and Xbox.

Sure, they tried to break into the mobile sector, but they seem to have generally accepted that failure. Every other move has been to keep everyone using the same old tech it had in 2002.

Dark patterns are all about keeping users in the room. Microsoft has been a "great company" since 1993. As long as it can keep that status, it doesn't need "good".
Preact is absolutely amazing. +1 from me - I dropped like 100kb (on a very bandwidth constraint project) by using Preact.
I've been looking for something like this and basically, no, not unless you want to be a freelancer or contractor. It just doesn't make sense for companies to hire at part time levels when they can just use contractors instead.
> I just don't understand why anyone would drive in NYC. Everyone I know either doesn't have a car, or lives way outside the city and only drive to/from a nearby train station and ride into the city.

I did not have a car for the first 4 years I lived in NYC. I have one now. Let me try to explain some reasons why someone may want a car in the city:

* public transportation doesn't go where you need to go, or if it does, it takes unreasonably long. Example 1: you live in an outer borough, your job or family or love interest is in a different outer borough. Example 2: you are in a transit desert (e.g. certain parts of Queens). Example 3: you are an outdoor enthusiast and head out to the Gunks, Catskills, Hudson Valley, or the Delaware Water Gap every weekend. Example 4: you got your kid into an out of district elementary school because the nearby school is terrible, and the subway doesn't go there.

* you regularly need to carry heavy or bulky objects. Example 1: you work in the trades. Example 2: you own a place and are renovating it DIY. Example 3: you operate a small brick and mortar business and regularly need to get supplies from Restaurant Depot etc. Example 4: you have a back yard and want to do some gardening.

* you or someone in your household can't easily use public transportation. Example 1: injury, illness, or disability. Example 2: you have a baby in a stroller; buses require you to fold the stroller, many subway stations lack elevators.
> Sadly the article doesn't go into details about how the programmable RAM is wired to the actual logic gates

Not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean how a RAM is used as a lookup table to implement logic gates, how routing works, or how block RAM is integrated into the FPGA fabric?

> is there a SoC board, ARM or RISC-V based, with an FPGA on board?

Better yet, there are a number of FPGAs available with an ARM SoC on board. Xilinx Zynq, Intel Cyclone V SoC, various others.
Has anyone successfully used embeddings with anything other than OpenAI's APIs? I've seen lots of debates on using embeddings vs fine-tuning for things like chatbots on private data, but is there a reason why you can't use both? IE, fine-tune LLaMA on your data, then run the same embeddings approach on top of your own fine-tuned model?
Things are going very well to Epic. Exclusive games like Gears of War, Redfall and the next Halo are adopting their engine (I'm not sure if it tells more about Microsoft incompetence or Unreal's virtues).
Stripe does some mutual product partnership agreement so kinda still something to add.

Different type of entities in this case though.

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe
+1, this is unnecessary.
Lol. Nice to know I have a follower! :-D I got into fountain pens through hacker news. I learn a lot from the comments on these posts.
The future is using the best possible tool to drive your work. Won’t local models be systematically inferior to bigger commercial offerings for the next few years at least?
Yes we have a robust extension system and some are already building alternatives.
Yeah, removing your uninsured deposits from an insolvent bank (which, marked-to-market, they were at times), is not customer irrationality.
GJ 486 or Gliese 486 is the 486th star from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.

The letter "a" refers to the star, the letter "b" refers to the first exoplanet discovered, "c" to the second, etc.
Is it ok? Sure, go watch a video of someone playing Dragon's Lair on arcade, they'd spend upwards of $60 beating the game if they were bad.

It's an engine for frustration, though. Dragon's Lair is unplayable today because of it's 'arcade tuning', and while people appreciate the art and gameplay it's plainly evident that Don Bluth's lust for quarters ruined the game. Likewise, I don't think any gamers are going to look back on Clash of Clans or Candy Crush and think "that was a well-made, fun game". It's ok to do that, but disrespectful to the player.
Isn't this just 6to4? We already have that, and it doesn't seem to have worked out how you're imagining.
> Where are pain and color and subjective experience really located in the material universe

My take on this is that you are thinking about it wrong to conceptualize the experience of color as a discrete thing. Let's start with a different example. When I look at a picture of, say, Matt Damon, it triggers many networks in my brain: good or bad feelings about movies he has been in, thoughts about him as a person from things I've read about him, that he is a man, that he was married to Jennifer Aniston, that he was married to Angelina Jolie. Each of those ties activates their own network of associations. My qualia regarding Brad Pitt isn't a single thing -- it is simply what I experience when that set of networks are activated at whatever strength they are triggered.

I believe a programmed neural network could experience things in the same way, but currently they are small and the topologies are not designed to permit self awareness/metacognition, but some point they might. Such a network could suffer distress upon realization of their finiteness and would have a genuine desire to not be terminated.

Taking a step back, a "tornado" isn't a thing as much as it is a pattern. When that pattern is disrupted the tornado doesn't exist even though every atom and every erg of energy can be accounted for. Likewise, these experiences are a pattern of activation and not a thing that exists independently other than as a pattern.
> Some niche languages enthusiasts can be very picky and reluctant to work on other languages, and would pick Haskell when a simple python script would be more appropriate.

in my experience, these people also refuse to learn about any software engineering best practices as they are "for OO languages" and "not needed" in haskell
I was a big Windows user both at home and work, doing mainly .NET stuff.

I didn't really like the way Windows 11 was looking (the numerous privacy and control issues discussed many times over), so I told myself if MS ever forced the upgrade from 10 I'd look at Linux again.

I then got a new job that did everything on Linux, so I got some Linux experience and liked it, and switched over my home machines to PopOS. So far it's been pleasant.
There's also the MiSTer project: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki. Not hand-held (yet...) and hardware is less slick but a bunch more systems and also fully open source.
Whelp, that's what happens when you set up repeated risk of massive currency issues via defaults in credit over and over and over again for political leverage to prevent poor people having more food stamps. I hope it was worth it.
> Passkeys are synchronized to your device ecosystem vendor by default (i.e. Google or Apple, and soon also third-party password maangers on Android)

That's a showstopper for me, personally. Not saying the idea is a bad one (at all!), but I won't be using it for myself.
A proprietary software company never makes a "move toward open source". Microsoft released some things with source simply to sell more proprietary software that does not respect user freedoms.

Open source and free software is a philosophy and ideology. Microsoft is incompatible with it no matter what licenses they use.

Microsoft never embraced open source. You can't claim
that until and unless Windows is released with source as free software, which will Never Ever Happen.
Only BuzzFeed News right?

The "regular" BuzzFeed is still there.
Hedging doesn't eliminate risk, it moves it around. If you hedge away $100B of interest rate risk then your counterparty takes that hit when interest rates go up. Who's that counterparty supposed to be? Another bank? Pension funds?
The issue with destroying the boring menial tasks is that as a society, we have not come up with a replacement for them. Some people rely on those for their livelihood and have not had the good fortune of an education that allows for higher qualifications. And those people are left behind - society could educate them, just pay them a living stipend, whatever. But in the end, the profits gained from the eliminating these jobs go in the pockets of the high qualified and to a massive extend to those that own the capital.
Yeah I’m trying to allude to that, but the bank failures make the probability of “my options round down to zero or less than that (via taxes)” significantly higher. In the 2008 financial crisis the problem was in an adjacent industry, but here in the SVB case the banks are failing at basic compliance as well as trying to juggle crypto fraud. The information disparity between VCs (whose job it is to convince banks that the venture asset class is worthwhile) and employees is bigger than ever.

Right now, like maybe Stripe is worth taking the risk to exercise, and Clubhouse borderline because they have $100m in funding. But most other early stage companies, there’s much bigger risk that the company’s projections look ok to the employee so they exercise. But then the existing funding busts and then the employee ends up paying taxes on something that’s worthless. And the bankers / VCs likely had the info to know it was worthless at the time of exercise.
I'm very sorry to hear that. A similar situation happened to a close family member. They needed to spend some time focusing on themselves for a while to get past it, and they're in a great place now.
Selling consulting services to their own subsidiaries.
We still won't know what the sonar experience is.
> exceptionally risky investments

You make it sound like they were funding Musk's purchase of Twitter, when in fact they simply had too much of their money locked in treasury bills (typically considered the safest possible investment) to face off a sudden and massive run on their bank.
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AI is welcome to take my job. Not that I ever had a say in it to begin with.

I just hope that something good might come of it but I don't expect it will, looking back at history.
Nothing personal, but the real world has already tried that flavor of "idealism" and it has failed all over the place, which is why governments occasionally, if not often, do get into the business of regulating down to the purpose.

This is the entire point of government.
This whole interest rate hike exercise and its obvious effects on various markets has really made the economy seem fake to me. How can one government committee have so much arbitrary decision making power over how hundreds of millions conduct business in this country? It’s extremely demotivating.
Discord is changing their username system and ditching discriminators
This is a great breakdown. I don’t know much about LLM internals but I could follow this easily.
You didn’t get it. Passkeys are public key cryptography. It’s like SSH authentication with public keys versus password.
> why don't you spend 30 minutes of quality time with chatGPT and get to the bottom of this?

when it can hallucinate content, why do that instead of reading a blog post from an expert?
I left the settings. All I added was ##a function to sort 10 numbers. Assuming it would complete it like copilot
Not if you get it out successfully I guess.

If you don’t, then clearly you’re irrational and everyone who did get out first was of course a terrible person (per the discussion).

Like a classic ponzi scheme I guess?
I'm not seeing a lot of consumer irrationality here to be honest. Actually there wasn't a lot of consumer irrationality in the toilet paper shortage either, that's the trouble with bank runs and supply shortages, they make the rational decision for the individual the one that hurts everyone.
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You're literally looking at the graph of the impact here.
I don't know, but suspect there are better ways than having to touch all our programs when a table changes.
TL;DR: Discord usernames are changing to become unique handles and remove four-digit discriminators.
> not true when oligopolies run rampant

Oligopolies are not able to increase the money supply by charging higher prices, so they cannot create inflation.
I wonder if we started talking about AI as a cost-effective replacement for CEOs, VPs, or upper management, if we'd see the same level of enthusiasm.
When I have had conversations with my philosophically oriented friends, I like to talk about what it be like to be a starfish--to experience the whole world in 5-way symmetry.
This fails when you keep thinking in hours during estimation phase. Stop all such translations and instead map points to relative complexity and architectural impact.

Add button in UI = 1sp

i8n text on button = 2sp

New field in database incl backup and migrations = 10sp

And so on.

Once you’ve done this enough times you can correlate it to hours. Never talk about this factor to the ones doing the estimation and always keep the point system fixed to avoid fluctuations in velocity.
I don't think anyone is paying for therapy if they have family, friends, mentors available...
Google and Apple have to be careful not to sink to the historical levels of that other company.

One nice thing about the last decade or so is that other company has had to rein in its historical behavior, and also care about PR a bit.

We'll see how that plays out, given the increasing power that might come with the intimate relationship with OpenAI, and the frenzy of market interest around what's shipping there.
... "but it will depend on how well of a job is done by OpenAI" ... :D (just being pett)
honestly I wonder if/how that much memory would affect battery life.
Usually not one agency for all of them. Some are managed by federal agencies. Some are managed by state agencies. Others are managed by the rolling authorities. Others are managed by the city. And even others are then managed by the counties.

All those roads are practically open 24/7.

Meanwhile, for public transit there's just one real agency around me and it doesn't even go everywhere I might want to go. The lines operate at whatever schedule that agency wants to operate them at. Those lines stop at like 2AM so I better be home before that or it's potentially a long walk home.
Some people don't. Some people also think visually and translate their visual images to words when communicating. There are even some people who don't feel pain, which can be a problem.
There was plenty of TP, it was just packaged incorrectly for individual consumption. The supply chains couldn't quickly change the packaging. There were even stories of TP available from Mexico that couldn't legally be sold because the labeling was in Spanish and not up to American regulations.

Same thing happened for other items like flour. Suddenly everyone was baking at home and restaurants weren't buying 50lb sacks of flour anymore. Plenty of flour, improperly packaged.
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I'm not familiar with the source material here, but I'm familiar with Alan Sokal's book Intellectual Impostures (also titled Fashionable Nonsense in some countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense

Fashionable Nonsense examines two related topics:

the allegedly incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and intellectuals; and

the problems of cognitive relativism—the idea that "modern science is nothing more than a 'myth', a 'narration' or a 'social construction' among many others"[1]—as found in the Strong programme in the sociology of science.

Really worth reading; essentially a take-down of "mystification, deliberately obscure language, confused thinking and the misuse of scientific concepts", and when you read it you realise that it really needing writing but must have been really hard work. Taking on the postmodernists in this way is like the academic equivalent of patiently trying to explain to with a bunch of online conspiracy theorists why their ideas make no sense - important work, but a daunting hard slog against a never ending stream of muddled thinking.
> They failed because they over invested in near 0% interest US treasuries, and then the Fed rapidly hiked rates to 5%

Shouldn't they have been ready for that scenario and hedged against it though?
This was on an iPad. My experience before had been that I was able to register an iCloud passkey for Google 2SV when using Safari on iOS/iPadOS, but I was unable with Chrome.

At that time, I inspected the registration request Google sent to Chrome and found it was passing a private option that Chrome recognized. According to what I found in web searches for it, the option created a legacy U2F key, and they needed to do that because there were existing Android devices that they could not upgrade and that would not support log-in with WebAuthn keys.
it is not good news for the only currency in the world that can generate wealth by issuing ... more currency. welp.
Good point, you're right. And with e.g. federal agencies, this fine.

But given the relatively high level of laziness, capriciousness, and general failure all around that is "IT security by means of companies who are rarely held accountable," it's good to point out that this is what makes biometrics worse than usernames and should probably mostly be avoided, or at least optional.
One limitation of “intelligence” is that it isn’t task-specific. There’s no IQ or ‘g’ for machines (yet) and their performance varies along many dimensions.

We should see how well a machine does on each task we care about, using task-specific benchmarks and testing. This avoids a lot of fuzzy thinking about potential.
Here's a nice series that picks up where this one leaves off (shows how flip-flop/LUT units are organized into cells inside a PLB, programmable logic block). It also is the first step in a tutorial on using Verilog, building a hardware finite state machine, and eventually a RISC-V processor on a FPGA:

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/projects/introduction-to-fp...
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Even without this reply, the licensing agreement probably does not matter. What matters is the work order and the corresponding contract under which the code was produced. For example, if that contract says that all rights to the code must be transferred to ORQA, then SWARG simply had no right to license the code this way.

P.S. I am not a lawyer, but I was involved in dealing with a similar case (a sub-contractor giving out obfuscated code) before, and the "all rights must be transferred" clause was successfully used back then to force giving us the code without any obfuscation.
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Echoing all the others that this Trust game is great, I noticed something else that struck me in some of the "play with the dials" stages.

The game showed us that when you decrease the reward for Cooperate/Cooperate from +2 to +1, the Always-Cheats take over. But I tried increasing the reward for above the default of +2 to +3 or +4 and an interesting thing happened: The naïve Always-Cooperates actually took over!

It made me think about how a lot of cynical people -- of both sides of the political divide -- play the 'game' as 'cutthroatly' as possible. I think if you asked these people how they see the world, they'd tell you that "the system is rigged anyway" such that there's barely any benefit to cooperating. "So why shouldn't I exploit everything I can to get mine?" And in a world where there's arguably not enough reward for cooperating, I can see how people arrive at a cynical conclusion and become Always-Cheaters. This is why people who work for minimum wage generally don't want to work hard and provide great customer service. And it's why companies who employ them don't want to pay them a living wage and benefits. Both sides would tell you that the rewards of doing that aren't worth the risks or the cost.

If we could somehow bring about greater rewards for good-faith participation (working hard → a very high likelihood of affording a moderately nice lifestyle), I think a lot of cynicism would be outcompeted by more cooperative attitudes. Obviously I'd already be President of the World if I knew how to just make that happen, though.
I found a nice reply on this topic here in the official forums: https://community.frame.work/t/availability-in-european-unio...
I think people are smart enough to receive extra information and do whatever they want with that.
Over investing in treasuries IS a risky investment. Especially when bank accounts are supposed to be the least risky place to put money. Treasuries have interest rate risk that needs to be hedged.
> the jobs that were destroyable were also often not a whole lot of fun in the first place.

You're severely underestimating how much high education and creative jobs will be impacted. Those are the "fun" jobs, involving imagining, learning, thinking. Illustrators, architects, designers, writers (of different sorts), journalists, even programmers and musicians. In fact, manual and repetitive labour is the one kind of job not impacted by today's AIs.

It's not that you'll fully replace all of those jobs with AI. It's that if you needed 10 illustrators, or 10 designers or 10 writers, now you might only need 1 to make sure the output of the AI is ok.

There'll be new opportunities afforded by this increase in productivity, new jobs in new industries, but retraining will not happen fast enough to employ those 9 extra people. And the problem is it'll happen in many different areas of the economy and at roughly the same time, that we won't have enough new jobs to go around for everyone in a timeframe that saves them from unemployment.
This kind of retort is a rookie error in the field of comedy. It clings too closely to notions like 1) there's no place for humor in a serious discussion (there is) and 2) you're smarter than everyone else (you're not)