skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your bank and soon every other service will see how 'cheap' it is to fight spam and abuse simply by restricting accounts attested by [apple,google,microsoft] and nobody else, specially 'None' like this one.

If that's what they want, they can have it today via OAuth/OIDC (and many sites do just that). It's not a panacea - Google & Co catch some spam accounts but not all of them and not always before the damage is already done.

Passkeys/WebAuthn improve the situation by giving site operators more choices.
I doubt it. The average person doesn’t understand why web3 technologies would be helpful, and the average person would have to be made to care in order to adopt web3. The other side of that is that web3 could be successful if someone made the killer app for it and if that app were likewise simple enough for the average person to use without being told how.
.....after 13 years.
The author might also be using this a stop-gap until a FOSS licences comes out with similar terms, but don't want to make the current license nonfree because that has different complications.
I don't know why but the story of CCC reminds me of MMM (aka Minnesota Mining, aka 3M).
Ah, damn, I had no idea
Hell, landowners don't have an unrestricted right to build things on their property.

Go try to build an unusually tall structure on your residential lot, or two houses on one lot, or a multifamily dwelling in single family zoning, or even just a shed right up next to your property line.

Go try to build something the wrong way; build a vernacular house, with no formal blue prints.

Owning property conveys a number of rights, but it is very easy to run up against the limits of those rights.
What are the odds this is some consultant's idea to SEO the pirate app away? A bit like the criminal former Prime Minister saying he likes to build model buses in an attempt to SEO away the concept "Boris Johnson 350 million pounds/week Brexit Bus".
Because MS owns github and MS therefore WILL abuse whatever goes there. Not 'if' but 'when'.

Source: over 20 years of working with their products and seeing the way they treat everyone else
Isn't the SLAM tracking processing done on the headset itself and then the computed movement data sent to the PC/PS5 via USB?
I'm using Librem 5 as a daily driver. Calls, texts work fine. The battery life is just about 10-12 hours, since suspend is still experimental. But it is progressing: https://forums.puri.sm/t/status-of-suspend-for-librem-5.
pg8000 is the new hotness and does not require native libraries

- https://pypi.org/project/pg8000/

- https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000
It's usually considered something you know, since it's used as password replacement (first factor). You can create schemes where it could be considered a second factor (used together with a password, mandatory smartcard/fob storage, etc.), but that's not the regular case.

At the same time, it's easy to turn password+TOTP into a single factor by storing both in the same password manager… the theoretical MFA definitions are not the most practical.
No. People don’t see the value in ‘decentralization’, their motto is something like ‘give me convenience or give me death’. This commercial, for the first personal computer that didn’t come with any programming tools, reveals the true attitude of the masses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI

(Note the guy talking in the screen is a blockhead as I see it.)
It's ironic that the movie studios want license agreements for content they own to cover distinct uses (streaming vs DVD's for example), yet they expect actors to agree to allow their voice, likeness, mannerisms, etc. to be usable by an AI for future projects (only the studio's own projects of course!).

If I own "the thing", I want you to pay for each new, distinct kind of use for it. But if it's your thing I want to use, I want you to have a permissive license.
I don't think so. There have been billions of dollars flowing to this industry and till now nothing came out that is close to being useful for the mainstream
It itself is not a GPT. It is a a framework of a framework project built on top of Rasa (https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa) and Langchain which by default uses gpt3.5-turbo (change it in the .env file) or any foundation model you wish.
A drop in the bucket, no, a drop in the ocean. It's no good to plant trees, for a good start you need to plan forests. And you can't plant a forest by sticking a bunch of saplings in the ground and then walking away... you have to construct a whole ecosystem, with enough diversity to create stability, otherwise you're at best slightly increasing the buffer size of the anual carbon cycle, not reducing long term carbon. That's why "global greening" didn't have any measurable impact on global warming.

Best estimates for how many trees it would take to start making a significant dent in atmospheric carbon is on the order of a trillion, btw. There are currently about 2-3 trillion on the planet. A few thousand years ago there were probably about 6 trillion.
Can you recommend any resources for learning the basics about guitar setups and repairs? I’ve done some basic setup and soldering work in the past, but recently have been getting into modding guitars and don’t want to butcher anything too badly…
Isn't one of the major barriers that you'd have to reimplement the entire tracking code for PC? Or does that actually run on the headset independently and not on the PS5?
So how many backbone routers are 20 years old?

Your claim was that any change to the ASIC was the same design cost. But really? A 40-bit routing table design, where there is a 32-bit fall-back to preserve the top 8-bits vs a 128-bit routing table design. Why would these be the same cost?
That's pretty much every country including the US.
Title of the linked article is “Type parameters in Go”; I’m not sure what this post is referring to?
Event time vs. recording time - I think this was the link you were looking to provide: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2017-07-08-Datomic-this...
CCC exists and stands for Chaos Computer Club.
I think the concept of open source should simply extend to AI models.
I'm fine with AI being trained on open source code, if the entire model is also released as open source.
We need GPL analog to AI training - license that allows you training models, but only if they are released as open source. An infective AI training license.
1. Most of the posts on they sub have nothing to do with people's lives being "ruined".

2. Yeah its may be unhealthy but people do all kinds of unhealthy things to themselves.

3. 35k subs on a subreddit that seen around 12 years is TINY. There's a sub about quitting porn that has over a million.

4. Even though you claim there are "no studies", here's a study from the WHO. Where they concluded that no action beyond "monitoring" was warranted based on current evidence.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/kratom-mitragynine-7...
They also have the benefit of being able to travel large distances through an environment (air) still largely unrestricted by humans. Long distance land movement for terrestrial wildlife is more fraught these days.
I don’t know about that, that scene where they are sitting in front of their computer working on their portal and someone shows them the first release of Netscape 1.0 with yahoo included as a nav bar item seems pretty significant in my memory

I didn't see this, and according to wikipedia, this was in the second last episode. This makes sense, because (as I indicated) I stopped watching at season 4, second episode.

And I had to fast forward through loads of "he said / she said" drama and people arguing about personal "stuff" to even get to the end of episode 2.

Like I said, first season rocked. 2 and 3 I watched, although 3 was harder to get through. 4 was just a soap opera, and citing the second last episode as 'something tech happened!', doesn't make me feel wrong here.

Anyhow, to each their own. You can tell what I don't like, others may have more tolerance, or even enjoy more drama orientated dialog.
I think OpenKeyChain is pretty great, I still use it. Unfortunately the authors went commercial (heylogin) and this is why they abandoned it. Their new products are very corporate and not interesting to me as an end user. But OKC is really necessary for my entire flow. I use it with password store, with termux (through OKCAgent) and some other things.

I hope someone else picks it up too, but as long as they incorporate security fixes it's fine. I use yubikeys for the actual encryption anyway so the only risk is in the symmetric part.

But what's the problem with your keys being too new?
I spent 2 years using NixOS as my sole development OS and I learned a ton. But every little thing is a battle. Prior to that I used Arch Linux for like 8 years and it was so much more pleasant to use for day to day dev (due to the great package manager and high quality packages and, well, mutability).

At some point last year I came to the conclusion that the immutability/repeatability of NixOS just isn't worth the drawbacks for a development machine. I swapped to openSUSE Tumbleweed and haven't looked back. It never gets in the way - I install what I want, manage my dotfiles in chezmoi, and rarely need to fight the OS to do what I need it to do.

I think NixOS has some interesting applications at scale. If I had to manage a fleet of 100+ machines and ensure they are all identical, and I can easily roll back changes, NixOS would be a prime candidate.

Similarly, I still think Nix the package manager is pretty great for individual project dependency management. There isn't really anything like it as far as I know.
Reflecting the sunlight to get less of it?! I'd very much like the opposite — please reflect a shitload of sunlight at my city. We barely get any, especially in the winter. Besides, there's zero practical benefit of the temperature going below freezing in a city anyway. It just makes people suffer and the snow creates more work for municipal services.
The couple paragraphs the author used to trash talk East Texas was really off-putting. I’ve never been there so perhaps I’m missing something, but this elitist attitude (which the author openly admitted to in detail) of judging a book by its cover is a major contributor to the problem. Just put on your empathy hat for a moment and switch from rough looking gun totin’ Harley riders at a BBQ place to baggy pants wearing thug looking low rider drivers at an inner city fried chicken joint. And in both situations, you’d miss out on some mighty fine cooking.
> Microsoft makes no money on new sales of computers!

They stopped doing OEM licenses?
Luckily apple is of the opinion that attestation is a bad idea for adoption and they canned it
Isn’t this similar to the trust issues for the x509 CA model?

Basically you’re implicitly trusting that no other CA among those trusted by common browsers will emit a certificate for your domain.

While this isn’t really nice for website certificates, and while there are some safeguards (although the strong ones got deprecated, like http key pinning) … once you go down to the granularity of a single user… not sure how that pans out.
Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation
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every meme started as a 4chan meme
I'd put it slightly differently: nobody has found an important enough problem that decentralization solves. (Edit: and at the same time there are lots of benefits to central authorities, meaning decentralization has an even bigger hill to climb in many cases)

It also feels to me like most implementations of anything decentralized just end up creating a different de-facto central authority as part of the process.
See that's the main problem with strict scrum. Why can't you add things to the sprint mid sprint? Sometimes things come up that you didn't think of.

There's really no point being that strict. I think two week meetings/sprints are good for keeping focus and as an opportunity to agree short term priorities. But the point is to get work done, not to precisely obey scrum rules.
> People still rarely do this in music, as holding up industry secrets is deemed more important than fostering a community of personal growth.

This is absolutely not the reason and it's surprising to read this opinion stated as a fact.

First of all, not revealing multi-tracks doesn't prevent personal growth. Human ear is pretty good at discerning individual elements of a mix. It's all in the final product. If you can't learn from it or can't hear something, either it's an unimportant part of the mix, your ear is not good enough yet to distill any meaningful information from the balances of the mix in question, or it's just not a good mix.

Secondly, multi-tracks are not the source code. Putting it in relevant terms, it's just the assets. What's important are processes and artistic decisions made while processing them and combining them in their final form.

Not revealing stems/multi-tracks is not a matter of gatekeeping, it's a safety measure to prevent unauthorized use of individual composition elements and creation of "alternative" mixes which break artistic integrity of the piece.

Music is art (at least a considerable portion of it), and and artist needs as much control over the final product as possible. Mixing is a part of it.
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Is it? I haven't seen it definitively confirmed either way, but intuitively it would make more sense to do SLAM on the PS5s main processor rather than driving up the PSVR2s BOM with an on-board processor fast enough to do it. They have to stream the camera frames back to the PS5 anyway for the passthrough feature to work.
It would be even more readdable if it was just one column.
But this is a turn-key llm, that is built on langchain? A user doesn't need to dig into langchain themselves, right?
This program should be part of the main DJI software suite or something that you could download from the drone manufacturer.
I, as a drone owner, should have full access to all the telemetry data for my own analysis and archiving purposes.
When I was younger (in my teens, early twenties), I looked forward to every feature upgrade. Now I’m getting anxious at breaking changes and upgrade paths and every new major release of RHEL/Debian makes me a bit sweaty and they feel so quick (what, Debian 12 is coming out this year? I just migrated to 11 last year.)
Now I’m an old grumpy 29 year old man yelling at the cloud.
The plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the Moon
I don't understand your point about vendor lock-in, on the devices side YubiCo, Feitian and NitroKey exist (as well as many others probably) and are none are "multinational corps" in the derogative sense (the replies make reference to Google, Microsoft, Apple -- do those companies even produce U2F tokens?). On the authentication side, WebAuthn isn't tied to SSO and most websites that have their own login system will probably just add WebAuthn rather than switching to SSO (the WebAuthn and FIDO sites both have PoCs you can test and there are plenty of open source libraries and frameworks to use).

I also don't get your point about how tokens could be used to sell your data -- it's my understanding that it'd be very difficult to track someone using their U2F key (there are attestation keys but they're done in batches so you cannot track an individual token, and the registration handshake doesn't use a unique ID you can use for tracking). But even ignoring that, if it were possible to track people using their token, then a digital token in KeePassXC would also be just as trackable.

Personally I don't see a huge difference between this KeePassXC feature and just having your password (and maybe OTP) stored in KeePassXC and auto-filling everything. I think that's also secure enough for the vast majority of people (it's also what I use for websites that don't support WebAuthn as a second factor or when I don't want to have to have a physical token to do actions) but it's clearly not a second factor of authentication. Requiring a physical token is sometimes a good thing. Yes, if it breaks it's annoying, but requiring a token is what makes it multi factor authentication.
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I've studied AI with Prolog and Lisp in the 90s but dropped it, because it felt laughable. I've switched to neuro computer science with hardware neural networks, but dropped it, because it felt laughable. How times have changed.
That sounds identical to how companies I've worked for "do agile". A kanban board. Every two weeks you revisit the board, see what got done, prioritise what to do next (usually by dragging it from the "backlog" to "todo" column).
This is a bit OT, but does anyone know free implementations of logic programming languages other than Prolog? Portability is a bonus.

I already know:

* Strand

* http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht...

* Racket's implementation of datalog

TIA.
> It doesn’t matter. The process is irrelevant.

Wrong. Literally the whole thing about law - and especially about intellectual property laws - is that process is as much, if not more relevant, than the outcome. This is why "code as law" efforts are plain suicidal. This is why you can't just print out a hex dump of a pirated MP3 file and claim it's not copyright violation because it's just a long number that your RNG spit out - it would've been a good argument if your RNG actually did that, but it didn't, and that's what matters.

This is what it means when we say that, for just about everyone except computer scientists, bits have colour[0]. Lawyers and regulators - and even ordinary people - track provenance of things; how something came to be matters as much, and often more, than what the thing itself is.

This is what makes generative AI case interesting. They're right there in the middle between two extremes: machines xeroxing their inputs, and humans engaging in creative work. We call the former "copying", and the latter "innovation" or "invention" or "creativity". The two have vastly different legal implications. Generative AI is forcing us to formalize what actually makes them different, as until now, we didn't have a clear answer, because we didn't need one.

--

[0] - https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
I don't understand which part of FIDO/WebAuthn requires "trusting Google or Microsoft"?
What do you by post 10m seed round?

Do you mean if LlamaIndex starts collecting VC?
I'm not sure, are they for-profit?...
What do you mean? Apple already offer it.

They are still to officially publish a spec, but already published rate limits for 3rd party apps attested requests on the official docs and since 2021 people are documenting how they are updating their IDs on AAGUID fields on already available attested requests.
So, they just wait a week and then do it? It's not an effective measure.
Sulfur dioxide has a pretty short lifespan in the stratosphere. If an experiment does go "horribly," and honestly I can't imagine how an experiment, as opposed to a full scale geoengineering project, could really go that badly, it should be easy enough to just stop.
Can you really use this acronym as a trademark?

They say "mark" and not "trademark" in this takedown notice probably for a reason - because they can't call it a trademark and it's not enforceable?

If somebody creates ClosedAI company with product called ChatLLM, does it mean they can start sending takedown notices to everybody left and right who is using "LLM" in their name?
We used to host TradeWars on our BBS back in 1990-ish. Gosh those were fun days.

If anyone wants to revisit the days of olde - https://www.telnet.org/htm/places.htm
Also you're shooting yourself in the foot by not doing any clickbait, considering that clicks = money. So if you want to make more money on YT, you need more clicks.
I'd have a much less rigorous standard that I'd bet is still too rigorous for the project to go ahead - everyone actually working on the project would need to be able to demonstrate understanding of 'fat tail' risks to the satisfaction of Nassim Taleb or someone he designates.

I'd bet that anyone who can do so wouldn't want to work on the project, except possibly as a grift. Which I'd honestly be fine with, given the people choosing to fund it.
To answer that you'll first have to define "Web3".
>Why would someone stick around at a party they don't like? Is this really what normally happens?

The reason was in the paragraphs leading up your excerpt: >, and so he decided that the unresolvability of the question was the answer. To the question “Do groups
of people behave as aggregations of individuals or as a cohesive group?”
Bion’s answer was that human groups are “hopelessly committed to
both,” which is to say hopelessly committed to individual identity and to
group membership.

Or put another way, the desire for social conformity can contradict private preferences.

If the bored person leaves early (fulfills a personal preference), he/she draws extra attention to himself because they're the only making an exit. This can also embarrass the host. So a reasonable rationalization is to avoid embarrassing the host (social conformity) and just suffer some temporary boredom.

But the above social calculation changes if multiple people decide to leave. Now, there's "safety in numbers" and leaving early is emotionally easier. Sure, the host still might be embarrassed but there's no longer a single party-goer to point disapproval at.

Another version of the above is clapping and standing ovations at presentations. If all the audience members expressed their true opinions, there might be 75% clapping and 25% not clapping. But polite society has an unspoken rule where everybody claps. Likewise when some think that clapping by itself is appropriate but a standing ovation is not. But then a few stand up ... and now everybody stands up.
>driving up the PSVR2s BOM with an on-board processor fast enough to do it

The Quest 2 can do SLAM on the head set plus the 2*2K resolution 3D rendering in real time on a 4 year old QUALCOMM chip running Android OS on top and it costs less than the PSVR2.

So Sony can definitely afford to put a processor in the headset just for the SLAM compute alone since the 3D rendering is done on the PS5.

The chip in any optical mouse is a low resolution camera and DSP computing SLAM algos at hundreds of times a second and costs peanuts. VR headsets have more resolution to process and account for the third dimension in space but they also don't have to process the entire picture but just the differential movement of the LEDs captured in their blanking intervals, processed as white dots in B/W images, further simplifying things.

So pretty sure the PSVR2 SLAM compute can be done on an ARM chip or FPGA worth ~ 10 USD nowadays.
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Haha I didn't want to go into accusations like that, since it does list an author at the bottom and this is apparently an excerpt from a book, but still.
phantomhelp is from the same guy that has the flightreader app. Since you upload your .txt log files it might not be "acceptable" by many privacy concerned users. The airdata one looks good and is a bit more professional, worth another look for sure.

Thanks for the recommendations, that's why we have HN comments, to help each other :-)
Thanks for the insights.

I wonder if one needs even LlamaIndex?

From their site:

>Storing context in an easy-to-access format for prompt insertion.

>Dealing with prompt limitations (e.g. 4096 tokens for Davinci) when context is too big.

>Dealing with text splitting.

Not sure if it isn't easier to roll one's own for that...?

I know a thing or two about the math behind LLMs and all this software build around a few core ideas just seems to be a lot of overkill...

When mentioning about PGVevtor, did you refer to this repo or is there a class within LangChain that has the same name?
https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector