skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is fairly accurate, spotify don't do podcasts. Spotify run a custom audio streaming service that they hoped would kill podcasts (by gaining market share and then fucking people around). Fortunately, the business model looks like it was totally misjudged and they're failing.
https://subtls.pages.dev/
Am I guessing correctly that Scala is "getting in the way of getting things done"?
Is this really an article? It's just pointing to the FT piece.
It's a bit of an unfair statement but I do see where he's coming from. Apple make consumer phones and laptops, professional workstations, wearables, headphones, and TV/Home products. We've yet to see an M series chip for products in any of the following fields:

Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Data Center Solutions, Edge Computing, High Performance Computing, IT Infrastructure, Network Connectivity, Robotics, Security, Broadcasting, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences, Hospitality & Restaurants, Industrial, Manufacturing, Retail, Smart Cities, Transportation.

Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and Arm make devices or design IP for every single one of those sectors. Apples' portfolio is streamlined to just "lifestyle sectors"; stuff people directly interact with in their every day lives. How can you call them the number one chip maker when they don't compete in any of those markets, and even in the one they do they're only superior in performance per watt; not sheer performance benchmarks? Until we start seeing M2 chips in everything from server racks and satellites, I'm inclined to side with Gelsinger on this one.
I often worry about aa "The Machine Stops" scenario.

GPT AI actually gives me hope. What if we can store and run an AI in a phone-sized-device that is superior to a similarly sized library of books? Can we have a rugged, solar-powered device that could survive the fall of Civilization and help us rebuild?

It would certainly have military applications in a warfare. Imagine being the 21ct century equivalent of a 1940's US Marine on Guadal Canal who need to know some survival skills. ChatGPT-on-a-phone would be handy if you could keep the battery charged.
There is a model that was just released called falcon-40B that is available for commercial user. It outperforms every other open LLM model available today. Buyer beware, however, because the license is custom[1] and has restrictions for "attributable revenues" over $1M/year. I'll leave that for you to interpret as you will.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct
[1]: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct/blob/main/...

EDIT: I just realized you seem to be asking for a fully realized, turn-key commercial solution. Yeah, refer to others who say there's no alternative. It's true. Something like this gives you a lot more power and flexibility, but at the cost of a lot more work building the solution as you try to apply it.
Best soundtrack.
> What they actually found is that Gigabyte's motherboard software auto-updates over HTTP, which makes it vulnerable to a MitM.

So the next question probably should be, are we sure there is no other signing mechanism at play here? If the blob downloaded needs to pass some sort of signature verification to be loaded, the use/lack of HTTPs wouldn't be a big factor in the security model.
In your painting example though, surely the end result would be far too obviously transformative to ever be in any danger of accusations of copyright infringement, copying, piracy, stealing, or any of that?

I mean look at Madeon’s Pop Culture song - wouldn’t “stealing tiny bits of other people’s work; reassembling it and calling it something new” describe it pretty completely? Except that track is a masterwork in the mashup genre. The bits aren’t ‘stolen’ they’re just ‘used’ and the entire concept of the song revolves around them being immediately recognizable.
Asus introduces 49-inch super-ultrawide OLED gaming monitor
Hi HackerNews, Or from permit.io here, happy to discuss and answer questions here about the concept of FoAz and its RFC.
We can (at least theoritically) abolish technology too. It's also not even only about software. It would honestly be better, see the book Technological Slavery by Dr. Skrbina (available on internet archive).
> You’re faking the reader out by using “join” to mean something which is not JOIN.

Yeah and not having to do precise prompt engineering is a major advantage of GPT-4 vs other models.
VW's Scout Brand Will Build EV Pickups and SUVs in the U.S.
I've noticed that simply plugging a Logitech USB dongle into a Windows machine with no other interaction is enough to trigger it to download and install Logitech's crapware.
Waiting for some camera company to release a camera that provides the original image hash that is signed by an embedded cert on the camera. I assume going forward, that'd be one of the only ways to use photos as evidence. That there'd be a proof of originality.
Yep it's easy... just download a wrapper app from GitHub, download the models, set up the configuration, realize you're missing libraries, install a specific version of each etc

Your average user doesn't understand how to set up and leverage open source software because it's too complicated to get going.

They want to open Photoshop and use the feature in the tool the already use, without setting up anything.

Quite frankly, Adobe nailed the UX here.
This is a traditional P-code compiler, that is it compiles to a virtual machine (Pascal had that long before Java or .NET). Free Pascal is a native-code compiler. Probably for most uses that is preferable, but it is interesting that the Stanford compiler (which has a long lineage dating to the early 1970s) is still runnable on modern operating systems.
Microsoft Surface Pro X webcams quit working last week–flawed workaround issued
I feel like this would be better as a mobile app, not a Chrome extension.
I think it's a byproduct of a shift in RLHF to favor more "responsible" AI, as a result of huge community fears of the potential negative impacts of AI. Essentially "neutering" the AI's capability.
Nowadays they make them dependant on the serial number of the device, the idea being if you get locked out of your own device you can contact the manufacturer with the serial number and recieve the override code.

Quite predictably however, some motivated individuals have reverse-engineered how these codes are generated and made online tools that can generate them as well(1).

[1] https://bios-pw.org/
This has long been a temptation for engineers. 40 years ago the textbook in the digital electronics class I took at Caltech had a chapter called "The Engineer as Dope Pusher" that talked about it.

It gave as an example clothes dryers. The way most home clothes dryers working back then was you put the clothes in, you turn a dial on a timer to the number of minutes you want the dryer to run, and you press start.

The mechanical timers were very reliable. There hadn't been any substantial improvement in their design in decades because there really wasn't anything to improve. There had been improvement in the materials used, and in the cost, but fundamentally mechanical timers was a solved problem.

If the mechanical timer ever broke the repairperson would have replacements in their van. Even if they didn't have the specific one for your dryer it didn't matter because they all worked pretty much the same. They could just put in another one. Maybe the mounting holes wouldn't be in the right place, but they could easily improvise some way to mount it in your dryer.

The book went on to say that somewhere there is an engineer designing a new clothes dryer, and instead of a mechanical timer that engineer is putting in a digital timer. It has a microprocessor, 7 segment LED digit displays for the time, some buttons for interacting with it (such as setting the time and correcting mistakes), and a power supply. And let's not forget that it has software.

That digital timer has no advantage to the user over a mechanical timer. But it has disadvantages. The interface will be worse. It will cost more. It won't be more reliable and possibly will be less reliable, and if it does need repair the repairperson probable won't have the parts. If they have another brand's digital timer on hand they probably won't be able to adapt it to your dryer.

So why is that engineer designing the new dryer with a digital timer?

Because mechanical timers are boring. Digital electronics was at the cutting edge of consumer engineering then, and so by using a digital timer the engineer got to play with exciting new technology.
Who is using mobile without JS? They are going to have many problems beyond collapses... Likewise, crawlers these days generally run with JS enabled in a browser/VM because so much breaks completely if JS is disabled. This is not a real problem, sorry, NoScript fans.

(Anyway, if you are using CSS + the relevant semantic HTML elements, it can be more accessible, not less, because you are expressing priority and emphasis, so they can skip over collapsed stuff. Although I have my doubts whether screenreaders etc make any good use of it, given that they apparently still do not do basic things like stripping soft hyphens.)
I'd say that chip makers = manufacture, so TSMC too
WinRAR's Twitter post on Windows 11 RAR support is anything but fine
The point of a protest is (in a liberal authoritarian state) to change a policy or (in a democracy) to change public opinion. The mechanism is by being disruptive. But they've been so singularly useless at changing public opinion that some delusional people have concluded that the disruption is the point. It's almost certain that some mainstream electoral activity like door knocking would be more effective at changing the minds of people who disagree with you, but this is frowned upon because it involves treating those who disagree with you as a potential ally to be won over instead of a foe to be cowed.
I wonder how much damage those propeller fins can do to vascular tissue, especially capillaries, and at what density.
Yes I do, it is not monetizeable property and has easements across it. How much do you think land that you can’t rent or build on, that also has an easement for a path on it, is worth? You can buy or lease wetlands and desert in the US that have no economic value for very cheap, just like this parcel of land along the sea that has no economic value.
James Beard Foundation, Whose Awards Honor Chefs, Is Now Investigating Them
https://archive.is/d4I5P
The Huawei modem my ISP uses has a hardcoded admin password that can't be changed. It's actually higher privileges than the login you're supposed to use.

So I ended up building a separate firewall to isolate myself from that thing.
In the past OEMs would put passwords on motherboard BIOS, they were usually default codes but kept customers people from pushing F1 on boot and getting in to do bad things easily.
Oh this is good to know about
Wow brilliant idea how is the process for integrating to Langchain does it work for paid?
XSS vulnerability in the ASP.NET app: examining CVE-2023-24322 in CMS mojoPortal
A good writeup, but quite shocking that this managed to happen in the first place. I'd have expected that an email service provider would have very good monitoring on deliverability and failure reasons on both sending and receiving, and that something like a cloud migration would be done very incrementally to ensure no loss of service.

For this particular issue I would have expected some or all internal email at HEY! to be moved before any customers so that the new system could be tested.

Email is notoriously finicky when it comes to networks, IPs, the cryptography involved, and all sorts of details that are in flux during a cloud migration, and it's also notorious for being difficult to recover from if you accidentally get your email listed in denylists.
C’mon, it can’t be the french for military reasons! Probably the MI16! No, the Russians! No, an outsider! No, the far rights! No, Caledonian Barbouzes!

Mmmh finally that was the Frenchs…
Hate to break it down further, but you're more or less asking for the equivalent of an IQ test to be able to use Google, IMHO. I don't blame you for seeking such, but there's a huge contingent of people that would call such a demand an improper one.

I tend to side with your view, as I can gather it, that you treat the problem (people not critically thinking) rather than the symptom (preventing people from being given potentially unreliable information).

The recent news blip on the lawyer letting ChatGPT create their filing, then them claiming they trusted that the cases ChatGPT actually existed, and were indeed precedent-setting case law, is an example of pushing towards the idea that everyone needs to be treated like toddlers. I just think we should expect more from people, rather than the technology their utilizing.
There is an element of competition to it, and if there aren’t other people competing for the same thing then there isn’t any prize. For instance there are things like Kaggle, TREC and other competitions around putting up the best numbers for a particular problem which has the pernicious effect of creating “machine learning” experts that can do the MNIST digits to death but leave you wondering if the same methods would be successful for some similar problem (say handwritten Hiragana characters)

I think how new sports are frequently pioneered by somewhat older people who have aged out of being competitive at well-established sports and once there is a scene younger people take over. Younger people see jumping into an existing competitive hierarchy as the way forward, some older people see they can’t win at that and then start something new.
I'm not entirely sure many paper containers are better than plastic. Many times they end up in some combination of paper and plastic, or paper, plastic and metal. Which makes them impossible to recycle.
Open source emulators implementing ME or TPM or whatever is not a problem, so long the user retains full control of private keys. Or if it’ll be even less of a problem if ME CPU is going to be emulated too, because then the community will get to record the evil overlord doing its thing.
Can someone share a summary or link of what the drama is about?
Fidelity writes down Twitter value to 33% of purchase price
Driving at night the animal is nearly invisible in the shadows of the road shoulder. Even in the day they can bolt without warning. Always a good idea to slow down if you do see them, and put hazard lights on to warn other drivers. Dawn and dusk are when they are most active.

In a split second they can walk in front of you before you can brake. Add wet, foggy, icy, or snowy conditions and the braking ability is even more limited.
I am not trying to mislead. What index are you specifically looking at? The composite ones are not the best for various of reasons. I see declines at various individual indices after around 2015 or so.
Smart toothbrush heads must be in the running for the most needless use of sophisticated electronics.
Does the UK send letters and fines? I haven't torrented without a VPN for years but the worst I ever heard anyone getting was a letter from the ISP saying "that was very naughty, please don't do it again".
It's been 5 or 6 years ago now, but one night I searched for torrents for a particular movie, and Google returned hundreds of results from a dozen sites... and the next evening they returned 0. I think it was an October.

While I don't doubt that a torrent link shows up once in awhile, Google no longer usefully searches for such things. Or really anything, legal or not. It's more like a purchase recommendation system pretending to be a search engine.
Don’t ask an LLM objective things. Ask them subjective.

They are language models, not fact models.
Linked from the bottom of the post:

Potential Impact on Major Pirate Sites as Vietnam ISPs Face New Responsibilities, May 12, 2023.

> “Most Voluminous” Copyright Decree Ever Issued in Vietnam

> Global IP services firm Rouse reports that with 8 chapters and 116 articles, Decree 17 is the most voluminous copyright decree ever issued in Vietnam.

> “[T]he Copyright Decree provides significantly detailed guidance on copyright enforcement, especially which disputes can be classified as a copyright dispute, how to establish acts of copyright infringement, and how to calculate damages caused by infringements,” the company reports.

> “The long, detailed section in copyright assessment is also expected to pave the way for the growth of the currently limited copyright assessment services in Vietnam.”

https://torrentfreak.com/potential-impact-on-major-pirate-si...
Every place I've used that, email addresses are not publicly visible. To compromise that, they'd need to guess the very long random email address and its very long random password.
So first impression: isn't the FoAz proxy simply the backend? I apologize it that seems like a dumb question, I never used oauth or jwt.
There are skunks in Europe[1], but they look nothing like what that beast is supposed to.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat
Gmail dev here (but not search), I don't think anything has changed with search. Operators still work too. What's actually wrong?

Do you just have more email now?
To be fair, I had to read the postgresql docs and interpret the answer to figure out what the _laiq was actually asking.

edit: I guess GPT-4 has better reading comprension than me!
Why don't torrent site owners just release their sites as a torrent file itself? Like a sqlite dump with search indexes?

They could either self-update the torrent [1] or just release the new torrent via forums/groups/chats etc. Would bring the costs down to zero.

1. http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
I agree it's remarkable. Both the theory, and the feelings it induced in me while conversing with it.
The Reality of Illusory Contours (2005)
This point is understated. So many people are going around like "I'm building an AI app!" when the reality is, OpenAI built an AI app, you're just designing a front end for it.
How is this done with an encrypted drive?
I dived into LangChain's codebase to explore how it calculates OpenAI pricing
I'm amused how "chatgpt" is becoming genericized.
I'm pretty sure they were joking ;)
You realize it's just a complementary way of presenting the question "what is the meaning of life?"
The Unproductivity of Daily Life
After being in the SE industry for 4 years I'm starting to doubt the state of my abilities.

I'm unsure if the slow pace of progress and the neverending googling is ever going to come to an end.

Daily I'm experiencing the Dunning-Kruger-effect and the meaningless hours chit-chating on slack doesn't do me any good.

I'm not denying that my issues might be rooted in my lack of skill/IQ and that I might merely be whining.

However, I do have to admit that I am getting somewhat tired of the constant nitpicking to the likes of my tech-stack.

I want the gap between my ideas and the technical implementation to be minimally small. Is that possible?

Does that mean I should cater to the Ruby-community? Python? Elixir? Or even JavaScript?

Maybe this is how things are supposed to be. Maybe I'm just lazy. Regardless, I'm unsatisfied.
Ah, they systematically eschewed quality and engineering from their development mindset. I remember their gaslight routine whenever a proposal was made: “oh we should never divert from the 80/20 rule and whenever you work on a 20% feature, you are morally stealing from the remaining 80% of the customers. Shame on you!”
Google and OpenAI have more or less acknowledged that open source is going to dominate, in part due to the guardrails that corporations will be expected to put in place to "protect" their "vulnerable" population from the effects of "bad AI."

The truth is the AI only "hallucinates" as bad as the input (prompt) the user gives it. If you're explicit in your prompts then more often than not you will get explicit answers, instead of random answers as a result of your failure to provide clarity in what it is that you seek.
> India gets a great deal because it can buy oil from Russia at a slight discount and then resell it to Europe at a large markup. The loser here isn't Russia but Europe.

You're contradicting yourself. India is selling at a market rate, so if there's a profit to make, it's coming from the Russian side. Pick one - either India has a big markup or Russia sells with only small discount. Both can't be true.
That's a distinction between basic and applied research. People who care about applied research either found a startup or join Google or Meta. That way they can get plenty of reward.
Yeah I'm not complaining - I mention it because if you're a bit.io customer that wants to migrate to another serverless Postgres solution you won't be able to do it by "just" running the linked helm charts.

(In my opinion) when someone says here's the helm chart I assume running "helm install $THING" would give me a running version of $THING, so it's more so no one has the wrong expectations (like I would)
Checkout Claude, from Anthropic. It's a team of ex-OpenAI folks. The results I've seen from it thus far have been most impressive.
I use cheddar for this, it’s so versatile
Let say one of those rockets dropped its air bubble somehow. How does the body get rid of it? Or does it?
You mean like https://1984.hosting? Or more like https://legittorrents.info, which shut down recently[1]?

I had never heard of RARBG before, so I don't know if they were legitimate and you are being sarcastic or serious?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639370
Getting stuff to sun is actually extremely costly energy wise. We are going around sun very fast. And we need to kill that speed. There is no atmosphere like we do when getting stuff back to earth.
Just to nitpick that a bit, they have a lead. To me, a moat is some other axis of advantage that makes it hard for a rival to compete directly.

So for example Tesla has/had a lead in EV tech, but their supercharger network is a moat because it’s very difficult for a rival to compete with, even if they have equivalent EV tech.

I know there isn’t established terminology for this. It is a nitpick, but I think a lead is already a term we have, and moat has connotations of being in some way ‘unfair’. To me, just creating a better product isn’t unfair in any meaningful way, while moats in some circumstances can represent anti trust issues.
> Welcome to the software development world" only to find out they've been working as a software developer for over a year and a half already.

Ugh, you think 18 months is a long time? Programming is hard, just the technical part takes a lot of reps, but navigating the long term implications and social/business interfaces are what make the difference between an effective tech lead and an NNPP.

Here’s a tip: stop worrying about labels. Spend a decade obsessively honing your craft. Think from first principles. Ask difficult questions. Move around and find the smartest programmers you can to learn from. Confidence comes from hard-won abilities, not playing mind games with yourself about titles.
Same experience here. It has consistently been getting worse and worse. And seeing more and more "I'm just an LLM" type responses to queries that it used to give very good answers to just a few weeks and months ago.
Caucasian men (in the US) are on average are both taller and heavier than black men
Evaluating and Uncovering Open LLMs
Yeah, commission-based digital art seems likely to mostly go away, in the same way commission-based oil portraits mostly went away with the diffusion of photography.

It seems like generative AI will wipe out many design shops and non-IC/exec brokers/managers of creatives (recruiters, talent agents, admins, etc.) at least to the degree the web wiped out newspapers and their non-creative staff.

But it'll also enable creative designers/artists/writers to become their own studios. As Kubrick said, "one [person] writes a novel, one [person] writes a symphony." Generative AI will enable one person (or a very small team) to create a blockbuster movie or AAA videogame.