skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it's obvious but never stated in the article, ultimately the U.S. military did decide the risks heavily outweighed the benefits and put the plan on whatever dusty shelf such ideas end up on.

The history of nuclear weapons is full of stories like this, where something crazy is proposed or prescribed by policy but ultimately cooler heads prevailed.

It's not widely known for example that during the Cuban missile crisis nuclear weapons were deployed and Russian forces were told to use them if pressed. The U.S. did not know this, and pressed, heavily, but ultimately Russian forces opted not to use them against their orders.

It's also worth noting - again, since the article doesn't - the Soviets had a corresponding project and in the end came to the same conclusion.

As the article states China may indeed have or be toying with this idea as well, but in the end will in all probability come to the same conclusion.

I'm reminded of a Q&A Putin did in the mid 2000s where a student asked him what Russia would do if provoked too much, and in a rare candid moment Putin responded despite all the rhetoric countries may throw out, the truth is no one wants nuclear war and in such a war there are no winners.
not even close the same thing.

oauth/oidc gives too much signal to the identity providers. it's a 1990s solution at the time advertisers were writing the specs alone. and the implementation required oath-nascar-sponsorship pattern to have dozen of providers. no bank would accept that.

webauth is a spec of this time, were it's still owned by advendors, but with a couple device vendors now for a semblance of balance. and it also solve the implementation issue of having to show too many logos on the login page.

so, no, it wasn't possible before webauth. webauth solves the oauth issues for 3rd party attestation with a semblance of anonymity (which is meaningless if both party exchange data on back channels)
That's fair! Would love to hear (sincerely) how you would answer this question.
she probably killed the dog just to create the narrative
This actually looks fantastic! I had hoped when I said “this doesn’t exist for other frameworks” that Cunningham’s Law would come into effect :) It looks like it’s made by the same person who created Chakra UI, too!
We do not know whether or not that is what humans do or how qualitatively different it is to what humans do, because we don't know all that much about human reasoning works.

Put another way: Some Markov models are Turing complete, so "merely" computing probabilities can be Turing complete with only minor steps, so trying to downplay the potential capabilities of models like this by handwaving about things we don't know is foolish.

We don't need that scale of input, but we also don't know if LLMs need that much input to do well, or if our current training protocols are simply poor. With ongoing work on reducing the training cost, it is at a minimum clear that current training methods are far from optimal.
Going longer than two weeks for a sprint just makes the lies happen at different place. There are approximately 0 teams that can accurately state all the work they will need to do four weeks in advance, even two is a stretch. Planning and retro per sprint become a burden though, on less than two week sprints.
Related from 3 days ago "Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829697
If by totalitarian you mean "democratically elected government not playing to the US tune", you'd have it right. But I don't think that's what you meant.

Chile was building early some feedback-based information systems like what modern corporations use. They may have worked or failed, but we will never know because the US government indirectly promoted and financed a military coup that installed an actual murderer totalitarian regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_...
JavaScript and R are more Lisp-inspired to me. I tend to think of the Lisp family as containing Scheme, Clojure, and other languages with a fairly close resemblance. Common Lisp, its predecessors, and a few other languages like uLisp are more closely related still and are practically, if not strictly, the same language.

I’m not sure this informal taxonomy is “right,” but it seems to be useful and in line with common usage.
That's not the same thing. Here, KeePassXC supports being a WebAuthn _device_ for logins, whereas linked is how you can use WebAuthn to log _into_ bitwarden. The former is basically (?) emulating the device, whereas the latter is just supporting it for vault logins
Classic defenestration scene (from Braveheart) here: https://youtu.be/4S7QARslq74
> I'm sure other mail admins will agree.

Don't be.
The thing that I think is important to recognize about “US imperialism” as compared to colonial imperialism is that they’re very different things. Colonial imperialism was an extractive, money-making endeavor whereas what the US does and has done is focused on power-making.

This is pretty trivial to see if you look at the relative costs compared to the economic benefits the US secures - all US adventurism is a total loss in pure economic terms. You’d never do it if it was about money.
Oh I completely understand why they like tips. I have a feeling all of these new IRS agents are going to crack down on it though. It has to be pretty easy to track now that most tipping happens digitally via the POS system.
Tutorial: How to Use ChatBotKit Skillsets to Create a Weather Forecast AI Bot
Learn how to create a weather forecast bot using ChatBotKit's skillsets. Follow the step-by-step guide to create a skillset and an ability to get weather information using API requests.
I can see why that would be controversial for sure. But I guess it is “AI” so ticks the box as a viable solution in 2023.
Is there an in-depth article on the topic? I’m interesting in learning about this, but I haven’t had much luck with English language articles on Google.
Pretty much all PCs support multiple video outputs. It's not a gimmick at all.
I'm a firm believer that copyright and estate ownership should only extend to the direct descendant of the artist.

No selling estates rights, no letting the great grandkid coast on the ideas of their great grandfather. Copyright is to protect the artist, not landlords.
I see comments about the quality of the writing in the article. For a more higher-quality treatment of Bruegel, Manfred Sellink's books[1] are not to be missed. Sellink is the leading Bruegel scholar.

[1] https://books.google.be/books/about/Bruegel_in_Detail.html?i...
I second this podcast, great vivid storytelling.
A good reminder that any of your data that exists solely in the cloud is at risk. If you're into using the cloud to store stuff, be sure to keep a copy of that stuff locally as well.
That's not completely helping me visualize why it doesn't pass through the membrane. Are you saying that each water molecule surrounded (Na or Cl) ion stays intact as a group, and is too collectively too large to pass?
Apple gets bashed for using hard-to-repair designs and creating unnecessary e-waste and rightly so.
Makes me want to improve the build and submit a PR.

Such a great project!
Seems like a long-winded way of saying, "no". ;)
Wonder if one could make the membrane out of something like stainless steel to support higher pressures now that we know how this process works
https://archive.is/TGkwS
Just as a reference, I work on flight data recorders for rotor and fixed wing aircraft. 1/10 of a second is pretty common in that world as well.
I understand the difference now. Thanks!
There is a certain viewpoint that ontology should be at the heart of "no code". If you think that you way you believe that the key part of applications programming is developing a mental model for the application domain and then constructing data structures, user interfaces and such around that model.

I've seen quite a few attempts at automatically generating mappings from one data model to another. In the age of tf-idf this was inevitably a disappointment. With something like sbert.net we can certainly do better.

I'd consider two scenarios: (i) migrating data from a production system to an analytics system, and (ii) migrating data from one production system to another.

Let's imagine the system is a hotel reservation system. In the case of (ii) any scrambling of the data could produce a very unhappy customer. You might test the migration multiple times but at some point you have to cut over the old system to the new system and live with the migration you did. In the case of (i) an error might throw off your analytics, but the analytics might help you find errors, and you can always feed back what you learn into the migration process and do it again. (In fact you'll probably 'migrate' again and again to make monthly, weekly reports.)
I hope I don't get hate for this, but I still use my old Yahoo! email account in parallel and I find the email experience much better than what Gmail has become. Especially the use of tabs yahoo enables and the non-intrusive ads on the side make my productivity and multi tasking way better.

To me, the only advantage to Gmail is integration with the Google ecosystem, especially for Android users, but purely for email, it seems to have stagnated, but not in a good way like wine, compared to the old HTML days of 2005 when it blew everything out of the water.

How Gmail still not have tabs is bewildering to me.
Various carbon-silicon fusion technologies, eg growing GPU's in your garden
As if we could agree on what 'human intelligence' is (or indeed, how to measure it.)
5 Lessons Learned from Taking Next.js App Router to Production
The error is from Free Pascal, e.g. Error: Syntax error, ";" expected but "BEGIN" found. Delphi (at least Delphi 2 which i have here) has a similar error but without the "Syntax Error" part and uses single quotes, e.g. ';' expected but 'BEGIN' found.
How accurate is this? 150 mya it shows the UK and Norway looking almost identical to today.

On a related note, I heard both of those coastlines were formed by glaciers in the last ice age. But wouldn't that also have been true during every ice age? Or did they just get more dramatic each time? ;)
I guess I should have seen this coming. If Google is concerned enough about their bottom line to have layoffs, then presumably they're also looking for low-hanging fruit to (they hope) increase revenue.

This reminds me of Microsoft's increased injection of ads into Windows 11. I'm curious if/when market dynamics will limit the extent to which Microsoft/Google do this.
You're making a lot of assumptions, some of them almost slight-of-handish and it makes this whole thing read as not particularly trustworthy to me.

For example what is "the cause of liberty?" As phrased nearly anyone would support that abstract concept, but when they find out what concrete policies other people mean by that it's a source of vicious conflict. So what do you mean by it?

Another is the repeated assumption that covid mitigation steps like isolation and vaccination have no impact beyond the individual. This is a normative american mindset, maybe, but completely insufficient for addressing a public health issue like a pandemic. As witnessed by the US having something like 1/5 of the global covid deaths. Rhetorically irresponsible not to address this point, given the subject and context.

And then finally you're assuming a lot of things happened because of covid, when it's possible-to-likely covid provided only the proximate trigger or justification. To address your examples: russia and ukraine were already at war & this escalation had been predicted for years; famine is well understood to be a political phenomenon and covid provided a justification to accelerate policies of austerity and inequality, but none of them were invented recently.
If you have never lived in a place with good public transit, I can understand why you feel this way. You are literally trapped without a car. Now imagine, tomorrow you are diagnosed with epilepsy, or macular degeneration. Or, your car is destroyed while it's parked on the street and you cannot afford another.

If a car is the only form of transportation, your freedom is contingent. Think of what a privilege driving is. Even better, great public transportation makes driving much more pleasurable.
This blog post could really use a more specific (basic) example how to set up a virtual container network.
Stan Druckenmiller USC Marshall Keynote Speech
The modern idea of a state, with involatile borders and exclusive sovereignty on its land, people and agents abroad, is popularly traced back to the Peace of Westphalia [1]. At least as much as such an idea can be traced to any singular event.

It also caused the end of theocracy in Europe. And of course the massive population declines (over 50% in some regions) lead to all sorts of social changes. Without all of this, the Age of Enlightenment, which was just starting in the final years of the Thirty Year's War, might have played out differently across Europe.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_system
I think we have a slightly different use case as I'm mostly collecting sensor data for ag automation on a homestead scale and I'm a python programmer already but for me python has been impossible to beat so far. The combination of easy of use, the massive ecosystem, and wide spread support/internet resources make it hard to beat IMO.
Very true! It's take time, effort and skills to achieve this.
1Password already has a beta/demo of this I believe.
My understanding is the firmware is on some non-writeable chip.
Honest question: why would you expect hate for using Yahoo mail?
Interesting seeing this posted, as I'm one of the authors. The citation of the eventually published paper is here[0].

My coauthors are the experts on beef markets. They asked me to join for the econometrics. Possibly of interest to programmers is that this paper got me started using the D programming language. I needed something that was fast and easy to interoperate with R. Been using it since.

[0] Pozo, Veronica F., Lance J. Bachmeier, and Ted C. Schroeder. "Are there price asymmetries in the US beef market?." Journal of Commodity Markets 21 (2021): 100127.
> Copyright is to protect the artist, not landlords.

But... but Big Mouse!!! /s

Personally, I'd cut the line even closer, for patents and all other forms of intellectual property with the exception of trademarks: 10 years should be more than enough to make back R&D / IP development cost.

And no more "software patents" either, same for all kinds of patents without a concrete, working implementation. No more hoarding of ideas to stifle competition. And if you're not actively using or fairly licensing your patents for a year, instant revocation.
> There is literally no place in it for private feedback or some kind of learning plan or a weaker developer having tasks adjusted so that he can catch up (getting simpler ones, or only frontend ones till he learns that), literally nothing... Instead, scrum prevents effective, safe and compassionate communication. It provides rituals, that is it.

Sure, scrum is a team tool, not a personal development plan tool. The latter is best handled with one's manager. Note that I am not claiming scrum is an everything tool. It won't solve world hunger either. How on earth does scrum "prevent effective, safe, and compassionate communication"?? It just sounds like you're throwing accusations at the wall now to see what sticks.

It sounds like we've had vastly different experiences. I'm sorry to hear yours have been so unpleasant.
I believe someone will sooner or later link to the Kurzgesagt video about nuking the moon, so I might as well do it myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfPBt9dU60
I don’t understand. China is just a country. Real face? Usually I feel like the problem with HN is that every one assumes they are right or that everything is mostly subjective except the few things they view as objective. Then if you aren’t civil you are somehow wrong. Finally, if you’re espousing far left or far right opinions, you get a bad reception.

Unfortunately since most people aren’t experts on most things, this turns into a bunch of fugazi. People who are financially or academically successful in business or engineering or marketing think they understand politics too.

This is what happens with topics like China. I don’t care about China much. So I end up defending it because the negativity towards it by the Global North is staggeringly inconsistent.
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It is telling though, that a year ago myself and I think most programmers would have just quickly said "nope definitely not", whereas now you kind of have to get long winded to say no, and many of us are not saying no but maybe

AI has progressed in fits and starts. We could be one more breakthrough away from AGI, maybe many breakthroughs are needed. Nobody knows for sure, or how quickly those will come. I think things could get wild really quicky, given how effective a really primitive "Guess the next word" neural network is by just throwing a ton of data at it.

What will we get with more nuanced ideas and multiple networks wired together with feedback loops and such?

Gonna be fun.
> There are no equivalent, easy option

Of course there is, the equivalent easy option is passkeys without vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in does not make any of this easier or simpler.

Also note that current platform-offered password managers already allow syncing to new devices, so even for the people who are saying "I only want to use my Google account", syncing passwords through their Google account to Android is just as easy as using passkeys would be.

> Average Joe has brand loyalty so that they will stay in whatever. Usually. If one goes to Samsung, they usually stay there - even if Pixel is better.

This is just not true. I see people switch ecosystems all the time, and when they refuse to switch ecosystems, the reason they usually give is "it would be too annoying to port everything." Lock-in is something that affects ordinary people, I see this all the time.

> Where is the 2FA for dropbox or bitwarden? is that file supposed to be accessible without 2FA?

Weren't you just arguing for simplicity? The average user doesn't use 2FA. They should, but they don't because it's too complicated for them.

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But this is silly, we've graduated from "people need a simple solution" to "any solution that involves anything other than a Google or iCloud account doesn't count as simple."

Which, sure, if your definition of simple is literally "the passwords stay in your Google account" then only putting keys in a Google account will do. But it's a pretty tautological definition.

And also a definition that doesn't hold up for ordinary users in my experience. People do actually understand that there are passwords for services other than Google and Microsoft because they interact with those systems today just fine. Pretty provably they can handle that level of complexity because that level of complexity is embedded in every single service that we use today.

But let's assume you're right. Even under that criteria, even if your definition of simplicity is "I sign in with an Apple/Google password and that's it, and it has to be specifically an Apple/Google password -- I want to re-emphasize that current password vaults with Google/Apple already handle this use case fine today just as simply as passkeys do, so there's still no extra simplicity or ease-of-use with passkey synchronization. At best, for those users it's as easy to sync a passkey as it would be to use a password manager. But password sync to new phones on log-in is already supported natively if you use the native built-in password managers (ie, the same password managers you'd be using for passkey).

Even under the most restrictive criteria with the least possible number of steps for syncing -- password vaults can be synced just as easily if not easier than passkeys can be.
There are more propper vr headsets sold than Xbox series consoles.
this is wrong. you're confusing with app attestation. the other reply to this comment is also wrong.

passkey lack the attestation content because the spec doesn't provide for the case being discussed on another thread... cloud backed up keys.

attestation field, per current spec, must attest the 3rd party own the key and it only lives in a single placed (original intent was harware on client validated by vendor keys there)... now obviously we know apple google backup your keys on their cloud, so they cannot attest anything per current spec.

don't takes that as a instance on privacy. they are rushing changes to the spec.

as soon as they can attest keys that are shared with their clouds they will do.
A Look at Common Caching Strategies, and How CQRS Can Replace the Need
We're not close and it probably doesn't really matter. I mean, yes I want a real world Jarvis but that's not really what's important.

What's important is that AI will quickly replace toil in white collar work. Unfortunately, a lot of people make entire careers of that kind of work. "Paper pusher" type jobs are the most at risk but so are the low end of lots of creative jobs like copywriting, graphic design and even script writing.

We're going to have to reckon with the consequences of AI long before AGI becomes real.
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This a marketing tool, a simple landing page builder. It has no mobile version at the moment, so better to try it with a desktop.

What do you think about it? Is it easy to create pages here?

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"In conclusion, everything we do is destroying the planet!"
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Ask HN: Using Open Source LLMs in your company
Hey everyone,

is your company using a fine-tuned Open Source Model instead of OpenAI products for production tasks or thinking about it? How are your experiences with that?
You can use the left/right arrow keys to step through the existing snapshots, and turn off the "Rotate globe" option in the settings to keep your view in one place.
Is that correct? Phones purchased via carrier are locked to the carrier. The customer has the right to unlock it after the purchase, but the default state of the phone is locked, is it not?
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply any nefarious ulterior motives here.

I'm more just intellectually curious about the dynamics of Github and marketing on it these days, whether it's for attracting contributors to non-commercial OSS projects or more commercial objectives where rapid growth leads to userbase, funding, etc.

The project looks quite interesting and I agree we need a way to bridge the gap between traditional bot creation frameworks and the more LLM-centric approaches of late.
> You have a legal right to reveal embarrassing information about someone

Yes, but you don't have the right to threaten to do it for extortion. Again, context matters. If you still don't get it I give up.
Ask HN: Favorite Email Provider/Setup
Hello HN, long-time lurker here. I was wondering what your recommended/favorite email provider/setup is. I use Gmail, like a lot of people, and I feel that I'm a bit too dependent on this Google account. Hearing all these horror stories of people getting banned by Google with barely any support to resolve these bans makes me want to potentially explore other options.

Please let me know what you guys use and if I'm otherwise being a bit too paranoid about gmail ^^
No, it doesn't. Not entirely anyway. All the light transport is calculated using path tracing but primary visibility is still using the rasterizer.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/cyberpunk-2077-ray...

Nvidia's own announcement shows the path tracing overdrive mode is still tracing rays from a G-buffer, which would've been generated with the rasterizer.