skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's as much its choice as any other site has for its authentication.

A site having the technical ability to determine not just its authentication mechanism but how that authentication mechanism is stored is not its choice and should not be its choice and is not its business.

And its a clear degradation in user freedom over passwords, a system where it's impossible for Google to dictate that you use only a specific password manager to store and sync that password. It shouldn't be possible for Google to know how I'm storing a passkey.

It's not their right to decide anything about that. They've never had that right. We're not taking a freedom away from Google, we're saying that Google should not have the ability to take away a freedom that we've always had, because they're our devices and it's our login information; it doesn't belong to Google.
https://archive.is/1Ibow
Since the spokes would buckle at the merest whiff of compressive stress, we can assume the hub to be "hanging" by the spokes that attach to the top of the wheel. However, if that was the only force acting on the wheel, it would allow the rim to deform into an ellipse, so the spokes that radiate sideways are also under tension to hold the rim into a circular shape.

I think the description of even load might not be too far off, but I haven't looked at it in depth.
I believe it is the transfer of the knife into the space occupied by the torso and the intent to do so that is illegal. If the torso moves into the space occupied by the knife on its own, it’s an unfortunate accident. If the torso moves into the space intentionally, it is self-harm or suicide depending on outcome and where the knofe intersects the torso.
Sorry for the off topic question, but does anyone know how to buy consumer hardware optimal for running emerging open source chat models with the largest parameter chat models possible?

Would it be more cost effective to try to buy an absurd amount of ram and run on the cpu?

Or buy an Nvidia card with the biggest capacity available?

Or maybe buy a Mac with the most memory you can get?
Will Universal Basic Income Save Us from AI?
It's the human method of interacting with that integer which is the problem.

Nobody is going to start saying IPv4 addresses as hex, people aren't used to base 16. "Just set your gateway to co.a8.0.fe" said nobody ever.

A 128-bit dotted quad would be equally unwieldy. Again "The IPv6 local range is 252.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000/7" said nobody ever.

Honestly 128 bits was too much. They should have just done 64 and stuck to dotted quad and ARP. That would probably have got more acceptance than what we have now.
As I noted in my second sentence.
The problem is not "training using GPL", it's stripping the license and providing the resulting code to anyone, for any purpose.

Copilot can provide very specific implementations of problems with "in the style of $NAME" prompts. Consider a case where you put your life's work as GPL licensed code, and someone can reproduce + adapt your highly optimized matrix multiplication code with a simple prompt, without license. Even if it's not a "textbook license violation", you're lifting one's GPL licensed function and landing it to your codebase without its license. If your code base is not licensed under the same GPL version (or later if the repo allows), it's both unethical and license breach at the same time. Adaptation of the code doesn't matter.

Same is true for more strict, source-available licenses. They are open source, but not open to be reused. What will happen if you put a function derived from a codebase with these strict licenses with or without knowledge? You're again in a dangerous grey area from both license and legal perspective.

The issue we discuss is neither straightforward nor simple to navigate. I left GitHub because of this, and may tag my repositories with this badge.

Open source means nothing if copyleft is taken out of the picture, and licenses are simply ignored.
Why?! Why restrict the advancement of a field? Most of the times the code uploaded to github came from another source (not original content, very little code is original).

Nobody can stop this anymore. If it's not github that's only taking code from their own platform, there will come others that scrape the internet and use everything, just like MidJourney. Embrace it.

I'm more against Art AI generators, because they produce end results and will fully replace the need to know how to draw. Copilot is just providing simple snippets, it's not thinking for you, so it won't replace the engineers completely, at least for now.
The existance of the State is an infringement on your rights, any good that comes out of it isn't really an argument. It's akin as saying that killing all poor people would eradicate poverty, so it is harmful in some ways but it has some benefits

Other actors would also be States, we the people should fight against all States, not just the current one
So true, I forgot about that, wow, how the frog has boiled so slowly over the years.
I now see every GitHub repo has a 'report' button, to facilitate censorship, in the name of 'safety' as usual. With a huge list of categories.
I agree there's a difference in the ease of access, a competitive advantage, sure. And I get that people writing public-source (however licensed) software don't want to make it easier for them (as in, Microsoft) to make money off of "learning" (of the machine type) from it. That's fair.

However, at a first glance, it still feels to me like an unavoidable reality that if you publish source code it'll eventually be ingested by Copilot or whatever comes next.

I mean, for the rest of the content all the new fancy LLMs have been trained with, there wasn't a Github equivalent. They just used massive scraped dumps of text from wherever they could find them, which most definitely included trillions of lines of very much copyrighted text.

In short: not only I don't really see an issue with Copilot-like AIs learning from publicly available code (as I described in the GP comment) but I also think if you publish code anywhere at all it's inevitable that it'll end up in Copilot, regardless of where you host it. If you want to make it more expensive for Microsoft to scrape it, sure, go ahead, but I don't think it matters in the long run.
Hydro quebec is the national energy "company", which is nationalised, but they give contracts to other companies to run parts of their operations - this happenes through multiple deals by one of our past prime minister. At this point, Hydro-Quebec is only directly responsible for a portion of the hydro we create, while it has let natural gas, wind turbines and possibly more to private companies.

Edit: refer to my other comments, this is a bad take, hydro is not privately owned

It's hard to research even for a french speaker though - I think I might reasearch and write something on it just to clarify my own opinions
Nope, rather maintain my own list, and there are already tons of blacklists
Plausible deniability is often, an effective tactic.
Ask HN: What product for developers has the best documentation you know?
This is about as obvious as saying that we have more car accidents now than before the invention of the car.

The question is whether the cost-benefit analysis stacked up.

The overall mortality rate was about 0.2-0.3%, which is... on par with the UK, US, and tons of places that played restriction bingo.
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As a cultural critic, I have always been wary of the impact of technology on human communication and understanding. While AI and ChatGPT are impressive technological innovations with many potential benefits, they also carry significant risks. One of the main concerns is the potential for AI to further erode human-to-human communication and understanding, as people rely more on technology to communicate with each other. Additionally, there is a risk that AI could be used to manipulate public opinion or reinforce existing biases and prejudices. It is important that we carefully consider these risks and work to mitigate them as we continue to develop and implement AI technologies.

I asked chatGPT what it thought Neil would have thought.
Each pixel is stored as a 4-bit index, so 2 pixels per byte.
This makes sense and I expect in time, that short people in general will be preferred due to their fewer calories needed.

The Expanse books go into “spacer” evolution but I think that we’d have more short and compact people rather than tall and thin since taking less space is important in space in addition to fewer calories.

Also, there’s a funny bit in Seveneves where people in space cut off their legs because they felt they didn’t need them (spoiler: they did need them).

I thought that after astronaut programs got past their original sexism blocking female astronauts that the other concern was that radiation in space was much more harmful to female reproductive systems than male.

So the future of space work is post menopausal women. Or I suppose short men as well.
You have the full rights to upload any open source code. The entire point of an open source license is to give others the rights to do what they want with it. Unless the license has a specific exclusion for github or github like services, you definitely have that right.

> This is even true for e.g. MIT licenses as while they are very permissive they still require a form of attributions which Copilot doesn't provide.

those two things have nothing to do with each other. MIT gives me the license to upload. Copilot NOT giving me the license is irrelevant because the generated code isn't distributed under under an opensource license and thus has no relevance to the discussion of MIT or any other Open Source license.

additionally, requiring attribution and having the right to upload it are separate things. A license MAY require attribution and it may not. Rights can be granted without such a thing. See Public Domain, and CC0 for examples.
So what I hear you saying is that if a normal person gets locked out of their Google account, they will also be locked out of every other website they have accounts with.

Yikes. I guess I’ll be telling everybody to stay far away from passkeys.

*By “normal,” I mean the people who don’t have yubikeys, like myself. Lol.

Edit: wait, what do you mean if your phone still works? Also, does this mean if you lose your phone you can’t log into anything? How do you recover from that?
Well for running the average model as-is without spending a few days figuring out why you're getting strange errors and can't get it working you more or less need CUDA support.

As much VRAM as you can get is probably also a good idea.

For reference I can seemingly run Vicuna-7B (I think the 4 bit version) on my 6G 1660 Ti at roughly 1.5 tokens per second. Way too slow for anything useful, so you can imagine what CPU inference would look like.
> "People" aren't owed an unstainable business model by society any more than companies are.

True. But society needs to align incentives with its desired outputs.

If original work and creativity just makes other folks (entrenched middlemen) rich, we’ll see stagnation. With capital likely determining even more than before.

If a pursuit can’t make money, it becomes a luxury with all the implications involved.
They’re similar but differ in some important ways[1].

Passkeys were built on top of work done by FIDO though.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/passkeys-what-the-heck-and-why/#the-d...
I always find the docs Stripe provides to be top notch.
I've always understood the triangle to be cost, time, scope. Quality should not be mutable.

https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/triple-constraint-projec...
> ecosystems

A majority don't. A majority use their phones/banks rather than analysing ecosystems.

> It'll mean that when your family member that doesn't know to make backups loses their iPhone, the only way to get those keys back will be to buy another iPhone.

That is acceptable solution. Buy and then move on with life. Everything will be back after your shell out $$ (android).

But with local will the family member send the hard disk or USB disk containing keys to recovery? Which recovery company? Will they be honest?

Whereas if you want to new phone - all works then easy.

People want simplicity. Really thats it.

(Again it may be sad for those that don't want to carry phone but the world is designed for average user).

BTW, why do you thing banks are using proprietary device.

Ask the HN -er to

- make it possible using U2F or TOTP keys (QR code)

- the same HN-user likes to implement flashy APP - so that they

- track, help whatever
What's wrong with excess fat as opposed to excess calories in the form of other macronutrients?
"de-" carries the additional sense of "down", so thrown down from a high window rather than thrown out through a low window.
This is ILLITERATE narrative. This is weak science and trash journalism. Painters of the time were literal, which make this hit piece an illiterate writing of history. This is news from the academic synod, and not without purpose to deceive.

What evidence do we have that Bruegel was not painting reality as seen? Based on what report and observation does this journalist assume the details they give to you? Soon they will tell you the white whale from Moby Dick was not real, but a phantasy, no such creatures ever existed. This essay is deliberately avoiding Breugel's religious works and feeding you pasteurized scholastic to flavor his psychological profile for you to phancy. Yet they will tell you his actual pastorals "are a study of man in nature", in other words real historical document.

They are telling you fairy tales while you look at real pictures, and then present to you, as phact, a CGI of Earth in space and CGI of a hairy ball of fire and CGI of a planet with rings around it. Bruegel's paintings are more real than quantum physical representations, but you believe time travel and aliens are more real than history as displayed in psychical images.

This tactic is modern and used religiously, it is no different than character deformation. If you care more about the man than the work, you can write off the result any which way. Now you are set loose to believe a person would only say or do as such because they are "crazy" or have a phony syndrome; in reality they give you the syndrome.

The proof of this is simple. If you see beauty, nobody can tell that what you feel is actually the very image and form of the opposite. The thing itself resonates with you, and thus the beauty must be in you also, as if you are the very instrument which measures beauty. If I tell you the character of the person, I am attempting to resonate those personal traits inside yourself, and thus if I say the character was psycho, and achieve that trait in you, your perception of the genuine article becomes psychotic, and you no evidence the person in question was any which way.

Beauty does not allow for that, for nobody can tell you otherwise. Not all things are beautiful, but that does not make them unreal. Your sense of beauty is the barometer of sanity, but importantly it is the basis of true relational science, for beauty tells us that we should not be deceived by unreal observations which can only be given to us; your observation is the only real one you can trust.

Now, you might ask "But then should we not question the observations of Bruegel?" Yes, that is precisely it, base your judgement on original observations and correlate those with as many findings as you can, rather than lazily accepting reformed observations by psychotic hackwits attempting to dictate what is real and not.
Check this article out to build a perspective a out how consumer hardware performs against more business solutions in the machine learning area: https://bizon-tech.com/gpu-benchmarks/NVIDIA-RTX-3090-vs-NVI...
GPT, not GTP
This is where the M2 Velocity chart again comes into play.

Taxing the uber-wealthy is actually deflationary, not inflationary. Taking away their ability to hoard unimaginable amounts of money actually helps the economy tremendously. The money that sat around in Jeff's or Elon's bank account doing nothing but accruing interest actually flows back into the economy, reducing the need government's need to print more money.

How, and why? People still need money, the economy still needs money, the business cycle and the real world still need to continue. Even if one person takes an outsized percentage the money supply, the underlying conditions that allows everyone else to participate in the overall economy remain unchanged except for one critical point. The only change is that because one person has so much money that they've effectively skewed the velocity of an average (currency of your choice), the government has no choice but to step in and print more money.
While I agree that the home page and navigation could be better structured, there is at least a Basic Concepts page linked in the sidebar. That page links to much more helpful description: https://tensegritywiki.com/index.php?title=Tensegrity
It’s about attested keys, not attested apps. Apple does not attest their software-backed FIDO keys (they call them passkeys).
The original PS3 demoed at E3 2005 had 2 HDMI ports and I suspect they removed it for the same reason. Extra cost and little value.
Ask HN: Simple, low-maintenance startup blog platform?
We work in the generative AI space and regularly have users coming up with very nice use cases of our platform.

We'd like to showcase their work (with their permission/collaboration of course). Currently we post about them on Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn. However we'd prefer to move this content to a richer platform, and just link to it on social media.

What would you use for this?

We want to be able to "just write", without having to care about styling, hosting etc.

Five years ago we would have used Medium without a second thought, but we moved away from it as it became less and less usable. Has it improved again? Any other suggestion?
US Virgin Islands House rep in Congress is Stacey Plaskett (D). She can only serve on committees but I'm sure she is doing all she can with her influence to notify Mr Page...meh.

On April 13, 2023, Plaskett sent a letter to journalist Matt Taibbi threatening him with prison time. Maybe she does the same for Page?
While I do believe that thinking and compression will turn out to be fundamentally the same thing, the split you propose is unclear with NN-based models. Code and data are fundamentally the same thing. The distinction we usually make between them is just a simplification, that's mostly useful but sometimes misleading. Transformer models are one of those cases where the distinction clearly doesn't make any sense.
TiKZ/pgf has the best documentation. Apple and Zoho docs are the worst!
Each pixel was 4bits(1/2 byte), and memory is in bytes
> The big mistake I see people make is trying to be overly clever and predict the future workload needs. It never works out like that. Design for your current workload now, if your architecture can handle 10x of that great! Each time your scale from 10x workload you will likely need to redesign the system anyway, so you shouldn't pay that tax unless you absolutely have to.

I’d also add that the problem you hit first is almost certainly going to be something you aren’t expecting. I’ve seen so many times where people spent time on the cool sexy problems and then years dealing with the scaling problems in their algorithms or other services instead.
That system sounds reasonable, except that if "greed" is at all common in practice, that's good evidence the price is not fair. I followed the wikipedia link to the committee in charge but it didn't say anything about this question.
Did natural immunity work though? Pretty much every active American I know has gotten Covid not once but twice at the least. Of course even in that statement the nuance of what strains etc was lost.

I’ll actually agree that by the time vaccine mandates were made the strains didn’t diverge that much and it should have been perfectly acceptable to show iron clad proof of prior infection as an alternative for vaccine proof (if I’m not wrong that was actually the case in some scenarios).
http://upbase.io/
It's a project management tool for individuals and small teams. (Disclosure: I'm the founder)
We decided for fun to do a small project in htmx (we had to pick something, one person opted strongly). Yeah, I was cringing and still am. I fully support frontend/backend split status quo.

For stuff that is uncomplicated I much prefer svelte as it still keeps the wall between frontend/backend but let's you do a lot of "yolo frontend" that is shortlived and gets fixed. I run small startup on the side" svelte fe + clojure be. It works great as I have different acceptance for crap in frontend (if I can fix something with style="", I do and I don't care). I often hotfix a lot of stuff in front where I can and just deploy to return later and find better solution that involves some changes in backend.

I can't imagine that for moving a button I would have to do deployment dance for whole app that in my case has 3 components(where one is distributed and requires strict backwards compat).
Plus sometimes I don't want to develop a high dimensional regression model for how the setting affects the fps or deal with all this shader compilation stutter.

It can be a lot of fun to squeeze out every frame you can, but other times I just want to play a game.
> This looks like the national electricity model in Quebec, where the public absorbs risk and the private part of the private-public partnership absorbs profits. Just the best!

I'm not super sure what you're referring to, Hydro Quebec's (often significant) profits are returned as dividends to the government. This year was $3.4 billion[0], and while I'm sure they have private contractors, but I can't imagine they're raking in anywhere near that.

0. https://globalnews.ca/news/9503363/hydro-quebec-record-finan...
I can totally understand the OP's frustration with TechCrunch's website, and with cluttered, bloated, obfuscated websites in general which only aim to maximize the time the user spends there by confusing the fuck out of them.

This is why I read sites like The Economist (finite number of articles, released weekly) and RSS feeds. So tired of the attention economy.
Is that why modern GPUs are so costly? Half a dozen unused connections?
Yes, a professor I had called it "cinnamon bun," and it's been a thing since at least the early 90s. Waterfall doesn't have to be end-to-end.

In my experience it's better to have more than a 2 week cycle though. I've seen it at 3 months and 6 months, both worked fine. Even if waterfall is end-to-end, it should still be broken up into phases for sanity checks.
Who is the most influential or most well paid Briton ? Its either the hedge fund manager, real estate monarchs from Central London or the old and established elite.
No innovators or upstarts in there.
The society has somehow chosen to value people fiddling with complex financial instruments or real estate power broking over the real productive individuals.
The post does not mention, but the same thing unfolding in America ? (* Apart from Elon Musk *), the darlings of the American society are developers of cutesy social networks or subprime mortgage schemers...
Even America feels very different than what it used to be at the height of competition with the Soviets.
This was not obvious to slaw, who did not say anything about cost-benefit analysis.
> that's the whole point of having a limited liability corporation

If your argument is that “there’s nothing we can do about this without completely abolishing LLCs” then that strikes me as somewhat absurd.

The limited liability privilege that exists today does not in any way make you immune from prosecution if your actions are criminal. Sam Bankman-Fried is one obvious example.

Whether CEOs should “suffer” or not depends entirely on whether they have broken the law, not whether they are leading an LLC.

It’s called “limited” liability for a reason.
i always wondered why membranes. can we not drill 0.2nm holes in silicon for instance?