skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No universities in the UK look at these things, the only thing they look at is if you've been part of programs that look at socioeconomic factors (e.g. if you're the first in your family to go to university, parents salary, you live in an area where people don't go through further education, etc.).

I've always found the US admission considerations crazy, like them caring about "legacy" (unthinkable in the UK) or them requiring you to write crazy essays (all I had to write was ONE relatively short personal statement which was mostly academic interest).

I believe that instead of looking at race and sex, US universities should do the same as the UK and instead look at socioeconomic factors as a whole.
I read Amusing Ourselves to Death about 20 years ago and remember it as one of the best and most insightful books I have ever read.
That’s what Apple used to do for actual device-bound credentials. Passkeys aren’t that anymore.
It is single column on small screens like phone
> which is a very crass assumption in 2023

No, I think it's a very sensible assumption. As far as I can see, virtually every GNU/Linux OS has shared libraries in /use/lib, and it even has crude support for versioning.

When these assumptions break with Nix, I'll grumble about it, but I won't blame it on the original package. Nix's approach is a break from the norm, so really it has the responsibility of maintaining compatibility.

> But it's quite straightforward to write your own nix packages based on upstream python packages

Things break down when you have to stick to specific versions of packages, at which point creating/overriding nixpkgs quickly becomes untenable.
My idea is to use Nix to complement the existing standard standard Python tools everyone uses.
> because people before you were dumb as fuck

There are many Tudor farm houses built out of dried cow/horse shit and hair where this hoard was found, and school children visit these 500 year old buildings daily to experience the engineering of these dumb people.

It's an intolerable impertinence that these buildings can't be knocked down and replaced with glass and steel boxes that conform to the latest construction regulations.
That seems like truly terrible advice. The only example given:

> It may still be useful to request and store attestation information for future reference - for example, to warn users if security issues are discovered in their authenticators - but we recommend that you do not require a trusted attestation unless you have specific reason to do so.

If that’s the only application, that communication should happen through alternate channels like your browser/OS vendor itself. Having random websites be responsible for communicating whether a given attestation may indicate compromise is less than helpful and the probability of that actually happening correctly is about 0. Oh and given all the breaches, if there is a compromise, the attacker now has a helpful list of customers using compromised authenticators.

One application seems to be to use this to try to replace captcha but I wonder what kind of impact that will have on 3p authenticators. Without extra details, it may be right to be concerned this is a massive landgrab as to how people access online services.
I am not saying that a convincing answer has to be convoluted. But a simple answer is not always the right one.

To understand when a simple answer is unlikely to be correct, you do benefit from understanding the mathematics. There’s a reason that people with doctorates in statistics spend 8 to 10 years in school to learn how to contribute to it.
What happens when Google Search doesn’t have the answers?
Are you mind reader?
The newest Call of Duty does that as well
Thanks, I hadn't seen those. I did find https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails earlier but haven't looked into it yet.

I'm not sure it solves the problem of restricting the information it uses though. For example, as a proof of concept for a customer, I tried providing information from a vector database as context, but GPT would still answer questions that were not provided in that context. It would base its answers on information that was already crawled from the customer website and in the model. That is concerning because the website might get updated but you can't update the model yourself (among other reasons).
I get 3 tokens per second on M1 Max running 30B models compared to 1 token per second on a GPU (P40), both quantized to 4bit. So, in my opinion CPUs are better for inference (at least fast CPUs with DDR 5 versus cheapest GPUs).

The reason why GPUs seem to be the standard de facto is that they scale better, are more power efficient and are better supported by pytorch & co. Also, academia cares more about getting the best quality for their benchmarks, than about the performance and accessibility.
For anyone interested in why VirtualLink didn't go anywhere, one of the limiting factors was that USB 3 and above is entirely separate from USB 2 and below.

Normal USB-C DP Alt Mode delivers either four lanes of DP and USB 2 or two lanes of DP and both varieties of USB. VirtualLink takes the 4xDP variant and upgrades the USB pairs to support 3.x modes, but that means if you plugged a USB 2 device in to the headset itself there'd be nowhere to route that traffic.

A chip was developed to bridge the gap and allow USB 2 devices to connect to the USB 3 bus, but there were quirks and it ended up not being ready in time to be useful to the VR market. Valve eventually cancelled their adapter plans and that was the end of it.

This Hackaday article has a lot of useful links including an open source breakout board design for the chip in question: https://hackaday.com/2022/03/07/a-chip-to-address-the-fundam...
> Guaranteess that attestation won't be used to block KeePassXC from being used as an authenticator.

What would such a guarantee look like? It's very hard to promise that something will never happen.

I guess some kind of industry standard for criteria that a pass key manager must meet, and platforms accepting pass keys would promise to support any system meeting those criteria?

Trying to predict every future gets hard. There are unlikely but possible scenarios where we would want something like KeePassXC to be cut off (e.g. they or a similar product steals credentials).
Never gonna happen.

Unless the world approves and agrees to support monopolies
That's what I am trying to say. Personally, I don't mind if my code is being used for commercial or not. I do mind when Microsoft uses my code without a reference and asks me to pay for copilot just because they decided to put it behind a paywall.
People in general are still not listening...
Well, I guess two things:

1. Sam's point is that if you are going for a poison-antidote, you probably don't have time to shop around and will go anywhere because you are price inelastic at that point. It's not a real scenario, but in that situation of course we shouldn't allow pharmacists to just charge whatever they think they can get away with to extort the most money from someone who is dying of a poison. Is this point really up for debate, or are we really saying that should be allowed behaviour?

2. It wouldn't be facism regardless.
I first heard of this as a sort of practice based on the writings of Carlos Castaneda. He wrote these very interesting and entertaining books about his anthropological studies of a Yaqui Indian shaman which were later revealed to be mostly made up. The books were so compelling that they drew true believers and a practice of movements dubbed Tensegrity was developed.
Be aware that this a longish journey.

Acquiring selectively mathematical skills at college level is complicated by the fact that there is quite a lot of interdependency between subjects. This goes beyond proofs. You'll be stymied by notation and assumed background knowledge.

College curricula obviously solve this somehow, so check a few of them out, and work backwards from your target subjects (eg graph theory) to find all the prerequisites.
https://www.slashid.dev/blog/passkeys-deepdive/ talks about this, among others.

I think Apple mentions it in a WWDC presentation as well, but I find it quite ridiculous to bury such a significant change in a video + transcript announcement.
> we can assume the hub to be "hanging" by the spokes that attach to the top of the wheel

That's a common misconception of how bike wheels work, but it's more accurate to consider the hub to be propped up by the reduction in tension in the spokes below it.

There's a more detailed analysis here: https://www.astounding.org.uk/ian/wheel/

> From these figures, I conclude that it is perfectly reasonable to say that the hub stands on the lower spokes, and that it does not hang from the upper spokes. It is also wrong to say that the force distributes all around the rim and all the spokes contribute to holding up the hub - over a third of the spokes have an effect that pulls the hub down!
That's a lot of speculation to be using as the basis for opinion.
> - Local weather forecast - Daily email summary - News headlines for your specific industry - Updates on your (stock) portfolio companies

These I can understand. Even at a news show that's usually text read by a speaker to the audience. I mean the speaker doesn't derive from the pre-written text, insert jokes, at most they make a pronunciation mistake. The examples on the websites about plants, motivational quotes I'd expect to have, well, passion. The AI speaker still sounds monotonous although I think you tweaked it a bit already.
This is very good and every country should to the same with all their natural resources!
GPT4 > Thank you for your thoughtful response, than3. I understand the concerns you've raised and the limitations of AI-generated solutions. Let me clarify a few points:

Decentralized decisions: The idea here is to promote distributed decision-making in the context of smaller organizations and communities, recognizing that a one-size-fits-all approach may not work in every situation. I agree that this can be interpreted differently by different people, but the goal is to empower those who understand the local context to make more informed decisions.

UBI: I understand the challenges in determining the right amount of currency to distribute and the potential consequences of getting it wrong. UBI is just one possible solution that has been proposed by some experts, and it is important to continue researching and refining the idea to address these concerns.

Technology advancements: While it's true that AI and machine learning have limitations, they could still be helpful in assisting human decision-makers with certain aspects of economic management. I agree that they will never be perfect, but they can be a valuable tool in conjunction with human expertise.
Sustainability and resilience: Yes, these terms can be interpreted differently by different people. The intention is to encourage an overall shift in mindset towards long-term thinking and resource preservation. This could involve considering the environmental impact of our actions, promoting the efficient use of resources, and fostering social cohesion.

I acknowledge that the ideas I've presented may not be perfect or comprehensive solutions. However, I believe that considering these perspectives and having an open dialogue about them can help us collectively work towards better economic systems and policies. I appreciate your valuable insights and the opportunity to engage in this discussion.
The only gaming console I still own is a SEGA Saturn - and a burned copy Street Fighter 2 Alpha practically lives in the disc tray. (I use an Action Replay cartridge solution for booting burned discs called ‘Pseudo Saturn Kai Lite’.)

I am fortunate enough to have a live-in music studio, and it actually lives attached to the secondary monitor in the studio for us to take breaks on and do a few fights to decompress. Pretty much never fails to be a hit.
Structural forces, roughly speaking, are compression, tension, and shear.

Compression is like stacking bricks. Bricks are very strong in compression, but very weak with tension, which is why we have arches and flying buttresses.

Steel is great for both which is why we have skyscrapers.

Compression forces are easier to intuit, so for example we tend to think if the human body as a stack, each bone resting on the one below it.

But in reality the human body is also tensegretic. All the muscles and tendons and ligaments pull you upright. This is also how we have suspension bridges.

A purely tensegretic structure would use no compressive force, you can create a tensegretic dodecahedron with chopsticks and rubber bands, it will have no two chopsticks touching each other, yet it maintains the structure.

You can probably find instructions for how to make one in 10 minutes at home and you might achieve a different intuition about how real world structures operate.
then it matters less. the more anonymous it becomes...
Still going on until the lawsuit in India is resolved.

I have a couple papers I have been trying to get for almost a year. Can't get them on Sci-Hub and the authors never responded when I asked directly.
HQ sells it, basically, at-cost locally. The cost does go up, inflation and all that. The remainder that is exported above-cost is just profit for HQ, which is turned into further expansion and returns to the provincial budget. There are good economic reasons to not go further and start outright subsidizing the cost of electricity. it would just turn those export profits - which could be spent on anything - into things that use electricity locally, which is less general and exchangeable.
This is actually amazing, and proof that AI will not take our creative abilities and render then useless, it will actually make sure that everyone has the ability to fully express themselves without limitations. You can write, but you can't sing, don't want to use autotune or vocaloid or anything that makes your voice slightly less shitty? Here's your solution.

Will it mean that every kid with a laptop and no DAW experience whatsoever can now crank out crappy-to-decent music? Yeah. But that's a tale as old as time - before the computer it was a guitar. The upside is that that same kid with a laptop can now have a shot at striking gold as well. It will also mean that the ability of the pros will be supercharged. You put this kind of vocal tool in the hands of someone who knows how to properly EQ vocals, how to layer them, how to pan them, and how to effectively mix them and use effects? That person can now crank out both rough drafts and quality tracks significantly faster. I'm all for it!
Passing faster is not safer, in fact the opposite is true. It FEELS safer, but the chances of being killed go up astronomically. You feel like you can make it, all the while you are accelerating to fatal speeds. If a car appears in the oncoming lane you are supposed to slow down and return to the rear of the vehicle you were passing. Your car can decelerate much faster than it can accelerate. Brakes can dissipate over 1300 horsepower. That's even more than a Model S Plaid.

https://driversedguru.com/drivers-ed-training-exercises/stag...

In all my decades of driving I have never seen anyone do this other than myself. People are so committed to passing they literally run people off the road while going head on with tractor trailers and family cars. I've thought I was going to see people die more than once. It's insane how ignorant and self centered people get behind the wheel.
Related: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11..., which says:

“We already know that you can’t create a window that is always on top […] because whatever trick you use to be on-top-of-always-on-top, another program can use the same trick, and now you have two on-top-of-always-on-top windows, and what happens?”

FTA: “When Task Manager goes into Always on top mode, it’s doing more than just being an always-on-top window in the WS_EX_TOPMOST sense. Because WS_EX_TOPMOST isn’t good enough any more.

Windows 8 introduced the concept of windows existing beyond the normal plane of existence. Windows 8 apps, the Start screen, toast notifications, and the lock screen (among other things) all exist in their own world outside those of regular Win32 desktop apps.”

So, now we have an “alwayser on top” feature, but it’s restricted to Microsoft programs.
You’re talking about the lithium itself. Chile specifically is taking steps to go upstream to capture more of the value as well so that 0.9B number would be severely undercounting.
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Are We Close to AGI?
How close are we to AGI and do people actually understand what that means? Too often people use the term as if General were 'ubiquitious' as in a broad application of AI instead of one that is inditinguishable from human intelligence.
Upgrading hardware is an ongoing process. You are proposing a single point of change without any reason for it to be handled that way.

You are arguing that all change has the same cost. I don't see your reasoning for this. A smaller change to a system has a lower cost in R&D, and a lower cost in manufacture.

Although it is probably true that the cost of updating all equipment dominates the cost of redesign, this is only an issue for a big bang update rather than a rolling upgrade.
Hahah, that's hilarious. I wonder if Buckminster Fuller knew about this when he coined the word? Or maybe he didn't coin it...maybe these guys got there first! haha :p ;) xx;p
An extra $10 BOM cost that results in a $25 price premium for a gaming PC is no big deal. That same $25 would have a huge impact on console sales.
Yep, hence why I mentioned this would only be a problem if they ever want to do business with the EU
The search on sci-hub is not great. It is best when you know the DOI of what you want.
It has been a Russian tactic as well before the fall of the Berlin wall. The presence of Russians in Brazil during the military regime (mid 1900s) is well documented in history.
Democracy is compromised by commercial institutions because they can afford resources that no public or independent organisation can afford.
Ask HN: No-code data import pipeline builder, possibly a good idea?
I have an idea for a tool that would allow users to build data migration pipelines for their onboarding users from other (possibly competing) software. In my mind, it makes sense, since it would be great for UX, and, from my knowledge, data migrations are usually done manually and are just boring and complex. However, I haven’t really seen anyone doing that, at least successfully, so I wonder, why? My guess is that it’s really hard to to build a solution that could do something like that without much specific work on specific migrations, and the only way to find success is to basically be a consulting firm that does one-off integrations. Would love to hear your thoughts though.

Cheers!
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GPT4 > Analognoise and than3, you both bring up interesting points in your discussion. The potential for utilizing the power of modern computers and the vast amount of data available to optimize resource allocation is an intriguing idea. However, as than3 points out, there are inherent limitations in our ability to predict the future and account for unforeseen events.

It's true that non-market economies in the past have faced significant challenges due to the lack of fast feedback mechanisms and the inability to effectively allocate resources. While the advent of powerful computers and the availability of data could potentially improve these systems, it's important to acknowledge the inherent limitations of computers and mathematical models.

As than3 notes, not all information is available, and there will always be unpredictable events that can disrupt even the most carefully planned resource allocation systems. It's also true that solving this problem has remained elusive despite over a century of research by experts in various fields.

That said, the goal isn't necessarily to find a perfect solution, but rather to explore ways in which modern technology can help improve our understanding and management of resource allocation. This could involve developing more sophisticated models, utilizing machine learning algorithms to analyze large datasets, and combining the insights gained from these tools with human expertise and judgment.

In conclusion, while it's unlikely that we will ever be able to achieve "perfect" resource allocation, there's still value in exploring the potential of modern technology and data-driven approaches to improve our economic systems and decision-making processes.
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What if they move up the value chain though, rather than simply exporting the lithium?
> If it does not pass, the government has lost confidence, has no right to rule, and an election must be called.

Generally an election is called, but theoretically the Crown may ask another political party to see they can get enough votes together to pass legislation.

If the current governing party has a majority of seats, then there is obviously no way that any other party can. But if (as now) the currently governing party does not have a majority of seats and are part of a coalition/agreement, then another party could try forming a coalition.

Minority governments have been relatively rare in Canada, and so the 'proper' actions on what to do during them aren't part of the cultural zeitgeist, which can lead to drama:

* https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-byng-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King–Byng_affair

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–2009_Canadian_parliamenta...
There's no point in looking at any updates. It is my understanding that even though it was found that malicious actors had commit access during development, no source code audit was conducted. Since it can't be proven that said malicious actors didn't commit malware prior to release, it must be assumed the game contains malware and therefore cannot be safely installed or played.
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In my tests Apple refuses to provide attestation. I'm using Resident Key: required, User Verification: required and Authenticator Attachment left empty. With those settings registering a credential fails if I ask for attestation: "indirect" or "direct". Only "none" works.

My theory is that setting Authenticator Attachment to "cross-platform" (yubikeys and such) or "platform" (touch/face ID) might block cloud-synced credentials, in which case perhaps attestation: "indirect" still works. But I'm just guessing, I haven't tried it.

Or perhaps Apple anonymous attestation only works when using webauthn as a second factor (i.e. without Resident Key and/or without User Verification).
I think Postman might have liked a more interactive medium for entertainment. So the idea of having a Socratic discussion with ChatGPT rather than passively watching TV, where the program flits from "10 people dead in mass shooting" to "and now this... a Corgi that barks on key!"

But I'm thinking more of the immediate adoption of ChatGPT and similar tools to generate writing. What I took away from "Amusing Ourselves to Death" as a primary concern was the effects on discourse and thinking.

I need to re-read (well, re-re-re-read) AoTD because Postman's central theme was about the population being distracted by trivia and entertainment, but along side of that he discusses the transition from oral culture to written / print culture to electronic media culture.

He made a good case that our transition to electronic media has, bluntly, dulled our ability to reason. There's a set of critical skills that people use to engage with written text (though Postman might have been somewhat generous about this) that they don't use with TV News, etc.

So the idea of leaning on ChatGPT to generate written content, I think, would've alarmed him quite a bit. I'd love to read his thoughts on that, though maybe he'd be just as happy not to see these technologies come to life.
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