skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah my point wasn't that it was universally loved - there was plenty of criticism. but the criticism was because other things in the same product category were better than iPhone at some things. and that's because the product category already existed, and people were used to using those products and had already formed opinions about how they should work.

an augmented-reality headset is a fundamentally different sell, because that's not a product that currently exists in any meaningful way. Apple doesn't have to convince me that their AR headset is better than any other one that i've tried, because i've never tried one. They will have to convince me that this is a thing i need to own.
yea this is a terrible idea. I think of the Zapruder film.
Doesn't "possession" refer to "holding the copyright"?
If someone illegally downloads (pirates) the copyrighted content, how do they become the possessor?
Why Toyota Isn't Rushing to Sell You an Electric Vehicle
>Unused variables and imports are a compilation error which is INCREDIBLY annoying during development

It's easily solved with:

_ = unused_variable

_ "unused_import"

Sure, it's annoying, but not in an incredible way :) Before I knew about this trick, I used to temporarily delete or comment out all related code, which is indeed incredibly annoying.
My take-away is that your interaction with the OP has not changed your opinion about "everyone", expressed above:

>> What I and many others have noticed about the "Are LLMs really smart?" debate is that everyone on the "Nay" side is using 3.5 and everyone on the "Yay" side is using 4.0.

Sometimes there really is no point in trying to make curious conversation. Curiosity has left the building.
That is not what the paper is about. More about the limitations of the Turing test as currently applied.
I think that it is already happening.
Don’t forget the even stupider variant, the allow-list of like 5 symbols. “Tell me you failed infosec 101 without telling me you failed infosec 101.”
Ha ha ha .... Brilliant idea. Wonder why no one thought about it before.

Have a good day.
The brand-new Pixel 7A was priced $499 at launch with ~$125 freebies included in that price (free Pixel Buds or $100 off Pixel Buds Pro, basic case they priced at $25).
Someone’s natural stupidity is someone’s else gold mine
"AES-KDF in KeePass is only CPU hard, while Argon2 is both CPU and RAM hard. This means that AES-KDF is victim to GPUs and ASICs for fast password cracking. The memory requirements in Argon2 make GPUs and ASICs considerably more expensive to reach similar password cracking speeds."

https://www.reddit.com/r/KeePass/comments/k511o6/comment/ged...
It’s a joke. The parent makes a really solid point and it’s advice you should follow. A boring tech stack is the correct one.

It’s a pretty well documented fact SV startups tend to spend a lot of money on over engineering and making technology decisions based on what’s flash-in-pan popular rather than longevity. Any delta on stability you simply make up with sweat and don’t tell anybody about.

Most startups ideas could be fully implemented in cgi-bin gateway scripts in a few days, but that’s not ‘sexy’. Part of it is a mating dance to VCs: the more hip and bleeding edge you seem, the more competent you appear; despite the inverse is an actual reflection of reality. So my comment is in response to that running joke; in a way, a new unstable database that could disappear off the Internet within six months is a great technology to bass your entire start up on, given the above context.
Doesn’t PCIe already get you that today? Either with an existing PCIe -> X bridge chip, or an FPGA with PCIe capability?

It’s not cheap, and you need to write device drivers etc - but that’s the case regardless.
But PGP sucks horribly for that! It's not made for it. Believe me, I tried.

If you read the old PGP manuals, it talks about something like a woman secretly communicating with her lover. That's the use case, not verifying random packages.

0. GPG trusts your key absolutely.

1. GPG trusts the keys you've signed.

2. You can verify stuff people you trust trust.

After that, you're stuck. So if you want to verify the signature on say, the Tor Browser then you either need to know the actual owner of the key (which just says "Tor Browser Developers"), or one of the people that signed it.

I just tried, there's 100242 signatures on key 4E2C6E8793298290 for some reason. Probably an attack.

So, what then? Well, GPG sucks here. You have no tools whatsoever to ask GPG "is there a path between me and this key?". There used to be some random guy that ran a web service, but that's gone.

People have used GPG for signing random software, but GPG itself never actually adapted to this use case. The official tooling needed to solve the problem of "I need to make some sort of estimation of whether there's some sort of trust path between me and the signature of a random person I never met" doesn't exist.

I guess you could use AWK to extract those 100K key IDs, download them all in a loop, import every single one (GPG will slow down to a crawl if you do that, it can't handle large keyrings), and hope that at least one has a signature from someone you know of it.

Oh, and you better plan that kind of attempt well, because this will take hours, and GPG and related tooling will choke on such a huge keyring. So you need some sort of plan to import all that junk, find what you need, then get rid of the extra.

Yeah, that's not usable. And I say that as somebody who participated in key signing parties to the point on having a key signed by a couple hundred people.
LOL sure, because Elmo invented Twitter. /s

His only "innovation" has been bringing fashy parasites like Ian back.
> I'm not sure what peripherals were implemented by the community for the RP2040 either, maybe they would not make sense on a PC.

Well, someone implemented bit-banging Ethernet TX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35810281
It's an excellent question. I was meaning a higher standard of behavior. As no one can be perfect in thought and deed, the above list are expected to be held to a higher standard of ethics as pointed out by their training.

Those on the list 'signed up', so it can be expected they knew what they were in for. They also have more power in society then the rest of us and should be held accountable.
In this case it means "the possession of a copy". In Germany that means that you have the file on your storage device and are able to retrieve them (put them on a screen, make a copy or send them to someone else. 'Deleted files' are also retrievable until overwritten).
Hey future you, I just also just want to clarify that I don't really think the iPhone sucked!

Obviously it was amazing. I just meant on day 1, which many of us forget about, it wasn't there for most people. It has conceptually stayed more or less the same product but it really has gotten so much better that we take for granted how much it's improved.

In my opinion, for example, the iPhone 4s was the first that was good enough for most people, but even then for many people it wasn't until the screen became giant that it became usable.

Anyways, I was too poor to own the first iPhone, but I had the first Apple Watch. It was weird for me because I simultaneously felt like it was amazing and a huge let down. I kept telling myself, "Well, at least it's a nice watch", but the truth was that it was just too limited.

I think conceptually the watch has stayed the same but is so much better now.

I'm excited to see the non-head-work ambient computing future, and I think Apple will be successful.
Designers alone can't push through a change for the sake of change as their work relies entirely on user research. Even if they do have the research needed to prove a change is required, they also have to get developers on board.

So I don't know where this conspiracy theory comes from, but it's entirely unfounded unless you're talking about a designer like Jony Ive with the power to go through multiple obstacles with ease, in which case the change isn't happening to prove he's needed but because he has a different vision.
> And yet the average user, even technical users does not care.

If users do not care, they do not think the UX improvement is worth switching. So what is the goal here? Antitrust isn't happening here because the harm is only to competitors, with the UX being harmed if Safari, Chrome et al had to implement a popup like "duckduckgo.com would like to become your default search engine. switch? y/n".
Dolphin is an impressive piece of software. And I always enjoy reading their thorough progress reports.

I still have my old Wii laying around, with all my old Wii and GameCube games. I followed the dumping guide on dolphin’s site (and a wii hacking guide) and it was shockingly simple.
I successfully dumped my entire Wii and GameCube library. And even backed up the Wii onboard memory to dolphin on my PC. And even got dumps of my GameCube memory cards. Dolphin now exactly matches my physical wii, including the complete home menu and all game saves.

I was surprised that all of this was possible. I click a button in dolphin and it’s exactly the same as my wii. All the Miis are there, all of the channels. Main difference is that I can swap disks with a click. I was shocked at how simple doing all of this was. The hardest part was just swapping disks and coming back every 15 minutes to swap another disk.

I didn’t really play these games anymore on the wii, and I don’t play them in dolphin now either, but it does give me comfort that I could go back and keep playing if my Wii finally bites the dust. I can connect my original Wiimotes via Bluetooth too. It’s really impressive what the dolphin team has done. It’s identical to my console. I could plug my pc into the TV and set the resolution lower and you probably couldn’t tell the difference.
> one time purchase

I can only see a monthly or yearly subscription option?
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A semester of Haskell-language-server: an internship report
> Don't allow anything on the internet unless it really should (get a good enough firewall)

Even that isn't enough, many a botnet has employed lateral movement inside a network.
Ask HN: Have you used a forward sale to avoid stock transfer restrictions?
I was an early employee at a reasonably successful startup company, and I have found myself in an awkward position.

I have millions of dollars worth of stock that the company is not allowing me to sell citing transfer restrictions specified in the stock options agreement. I have multiple offers to buy my stock but the company won't allow a stock transfer.

It feels like such a hypocrisy, I "own" literally millions of dollars of stock which I had to purchase when I left yet I am not allowed to sell it.

I've heard people mention that a "forward sale" is one way to get around this – they buy the shares now for a certain price and I transfer the shares later whenever it is possible.

It seems like this would constitute a violation of the stock option agreement, but I'm also told that a company would never sue an employee to take their shares away because "that would look bad".

So I'm just curious, has anyone done this? How do you feel about the risk?

I'm also just generally curious about the history / legality of transfer restrictions if anyone has any insights.

Thanks!
Norway here, but I didn’t get it. First guess was that foehn meant foot/feet, but I was way off according to the other comments
Because LWN adopted it, raising visibility and interest. I edited my comment to make it sound less like I was saying GnuCash is buggy.
I quite liked "Terminal World" by Alastair Reynolds, though sadly he plans no further novels in that universe.
I considered buying a xiaomi 5 years ago and this makes me glad I didn't
"Brains have no conscience...they are just a network of billions of neurons in the brain, and each can be connected to thousands of other neurons, forming an incredibly complex network. They are just transmitting information in the form of electrical and chemical signals changing their internal electrical charges..."

Note: I think the same about LLMs ;-)
Your project is so awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Should Actors Be Paid for Auditions?
Even just at home. Removing a major ergonomic constraint from the ~8 hours of daily work computer screen staring would be huge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_Go...
Inside the Securitate Archives
I doubt that.

First, here is it’s prompt:

You have the tool browser with these functions:

search(query: str, recency_days: int)
Issues a query to a search engine and displays the results.

click(id: str)
Opens the webpage with the given id, displaying it. The ID within the displayed results maps to a URL.

quote(start: str, end: str)
Stores a text span from an open webpage. Specifies a text span from the open webpage by a starting substring start and an ending substring end.

back()
Returns to the previous page and displays it.

scroll(amt: int)
Scrolls up or down in the open webpage by the given amount.

open_url(url: str)
Opens the given URL and displays it.

Please render citations in this format: &#8203;oaicite:{"index":0,"invalid_reason":"Malformed citation 【{message idx}†{link text}】"}&#8203;

Second, there is a paper on a very similar sounding tool from OpenAI: https://openai.com/research/webgpt

I would guess it is likely a version of WebGPT in plug-in form.

Edit: Just had it access an ngrok address I setup and the user agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot`
In a healthier OSS ecosystem, we'd have people counter-signing packages after they've vetted them. If Google approves something through to production, then it's probably okay for you too.

This wouldn't be a bad extension to the GNU license really - requiring reciprocal review.
Android will retract permissions automatically if you haven't used apps for a while. It's possible that this mechanism is implemented wrong (i.e. they just reset the permissions regardless of whether they've been denied before).

I personally stopped trusting Oneplus a while ago. They once were the champions of open source Android phones with affordable models and clean ROMs, but they seem to have changed lanes to become your average Chinese smartphone manufacturer a while back, with expensive phones, questionable business practices, lacking update guarantees and support, and so on.

I've never trusted a carrier branded phone, that basically adds a layer of crap and problematic customization that I don't need. Carriers and ISPs are notoriously shit at providing useful services, that's why Apple become popular for refusing customized phones, and their incompetent and malicious layers on top of already mediocre Android implementations are just a recipe for disaster.

I realize these types of phones are much more common over in the USA, but there's a reason they're cheaper than when you buy the phone from a normal store and it's not because your carrier sympathizes with your financial situation and decides you deserve to save some money.
The FLP lecture recordings posted at The Feynman Lectures website are "archival" recordings derived from the original 1/4" reel-to-reel tapes, which were digitized at high-resolution in 2010. They are "archival" in the sense that no editing or audio-engineering was applied to them before they were reduced to podcast quality for publication online. We used the best OGG and AAC codecs available, and all but the first lecture, which was recorded poorly in 1961, are "good enough" in the sense that you can understand everything Feynman is saying - in fact I think they sound pretty good. Basic Books, the publisher of FLP, is currently working on a commercial edition of the lecture recordings, which will be edited and audio-engineered, so they should make audiophiles happier, but for the purpose for which they are intended, learning physics, I think the online versions (other than the first lecture) are more than adequate.
Yeah I appreciate there is a lot going on. But is it really 1k ops/message?

Even at 100 ops/message you should be able to do > 1k messages/sec without breaking a sweat.
So much needs to change for things to go back to anything resembling normal, that I assume it will never happen. Basically everything the SF supervisors, mayors, SFPD, and DAs have done has made the city less safe, less livable, more expensive, more politically hostile, and all of that has led to a downward spiral. Instead of building more housing, they built more commercial real estate. Instead of making BART safer, they offer platitudes and less than useless policies. If you didn't take advantage of the pandemic to get out of San Francisco, I feel like you made a mistake. I love the geography, weather, food, and lots more about San Francisco, but the way it's managed is unaccepted. I have never seen nastier and grosser things than on the streets of San Francisco. The people giving out meth pipes and needles are morons and harm reduction clearly isn't working--overdoses just keep increasing even though the harm reduction people are getting what they want. There are virtually no consequences for selling fentanyl.
>do manual updates when a patch is out for two weeks.

Manufacturers will simply ship dormant changes that wake up a month after deployed.
What is safer browser? And also, safer than what?
203 according to 1password, but I archive the ones I don't need roughly every year.
There are other efforts underway to mitigate these threats (which could be subject to their own critiques, but let's not get into that here) but PGP has had 20 years to prove its utility in this area and it has resoundingly proved that it (A) does not address the threats it purports to and (B) introduces tons of confusing complexity into processes which are not benefiting from it.

Let me restate that: it is not free to continue supporting PGP. It has a tremendous cost both in its own maintenance and its opportunity cost. Every moment spent attempting to mitigate its fundamentally broken design is a moment that could instead be put into designing something new, that works properly and doesn't require dragging around the massively bloated corpse of 1999-era cryptographic engineering.
It's not clickbait, it's unfortunately sad truth every microsoft slave/user has to cope with.

It still holds true to just avoid every other release of Windows if one really must use it. Luckily the only thing I need Windows for is as a runtime environment for Visio and Project in a virtual machine, so doesn't matter how bad the OS UI tends to be (assuming they don't screw those up as they did for Office ribbons introductions).

Luckily with using Linux, if I don't like a UI, I just modify it, or change to an entirely different one that suits me. Microsoft slaves don't get this option.
The impossible is infinitely expensive.

Manual moderation costs only slightly less.

An inadequate amount of both is affordable.
We are currently working on a 'reconstruction' of the first lecture recording, which we hope to publish at The Feynman Lectures Website later this year.
PS3 games are running a lot better than they had been, that’s true. However the CPU needed is, last I checked, still rather beefy.

PS4 actually has some emulators as of last year. Originally it was just Spine, but now we have fpPS4, a more advanced open source Free Pascal-based emulator.

Wiki page summarizing the current state of PS4 emulation: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_4_e...

ModernVintageGamer showing off fpPS4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=012PptHgl3s
Easy on that one too: make the seller partly responsible for the shit they sell. Amazon is profiting from the situation, so make them responsible as well.
Sounds by a wide margin even less well defined than AGI or sentience
Thank you. One of the more frustrating aspects of the Apple Watch and now VR headset is the bizarre tarnishing of the launch of the iPhone and iPod. It’s a strange cognitive dissonance too, since people do still point to that Keynote as earth shattering. No one goes back and watches the Apple Watch announcement.
Could you elaborate a little? I don’t understand why the libraries make macOS less UNIX than some other Unixlike.
Are you suggesting that other countries should ban Google, Facebook, etc?

The pot calling the kettle black.
April 9th, 2018: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/new-paradigms

May 5th, 2023: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/new-paradigms
Alignment gets expensive. Don’t skimp on it
>There’s no “truth” to what a property is worth. It’s worth what the market will pay for it.

There are historical charts and indexes that compare the price of square foot to inflation, wages, etc. There may be no one single universal truth, but there is a baseline for what real estate should cost (relative to everything else).
The tragic life of Louis Wain: Victorian painter who popularized cats
Lehman’s Laws of Software Evolution
I really enjoy(ed) Neal Asher's "Transformation" series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Intelligence) and the Polity universe.

I enjoy sci-fi series, interesting spacecraft, compelling aliens and am a sucker for machine-based intelligence.

This series combines all these and re-engaged in sci-fi. I went on to read most of Asher's other books including "Agent Cormac" and "Spatterjay" series.
Yeah, that could work, at least for larger orgs. Not so sure the majority of users would comply with such sn extension, or even have the knowledge to review for eg. security issues. Having a working PKI solution that could work regardless of ecosystem would be awesome. If nothing else, I can research which key eg. Microsoft uses, and then allow anything signed by that key as an initial threshold.
In my experience, different drugs have different effects on different people, sometimes radically so, and overly-generalizing is less than useless when trying to learn and understand how drugs work, both on an individual level and a societal level.
You can already experiment with fpgas on a pc. Get Vivado, and then you can code and simulate logic.
Also, if you really want a "fancy checksum" for verifying package installs, there's already a better feature in pip that actually works and is well-supported: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/secure-installs/
I don't think the "Lisp community" generally had a problem. What you remember was on an unmoderated Usenet group and by two people. Usenet was mostly unmoderated. What that means can everyday be experienced on 4Chan, 8chan, Twitter, Telegram, certain subreddits and other current social media channels - just in a million times amplified way.

Hackernews, btw. is moderated and posts/comments can be deleted by the moderators. comp.lang.lisp was not moderated.

The Lisp community at that time was much larger and way more diverse, spread over a lot of communication systems (often via Mailing lists), Universities (US with some other countries joining), R&D institutions and companies. In the very early days Usenet was only used by a small group of people (many Students and Academics), later also there were also personal accounts and private access.

Blaming the "Lisp community" now and then for the toxic behavior of two people on an unmoderated Usenet forum decades ago is not fair. In any large enough group one likely will find toxic people, that should be of no surprise.

I was participating in that Usenet forum and I never liked the toxic behavior of a few people and from the trolls (people poisen the technical discussion just for fun). This created a lot of heated discussions.
> Now with LLMs, I think one of the great leaps is the idea that it’s no longer necessary to be “pedantic” when giving computers instructions

Yes, but they also can't. They can't be pedantic or follow explicit instructions. That's the other side of the coin that isn't being presented.

They can present the right elements of the story in the the right places, but they can't perform it.