skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instant Pots are awesome, broadly useful, and last a long time. They reached market saturation, though, and the company kept trying to find a way to keep up the growth curve it had when Instant Pot was being adopted. And then, of course, the Private Equity “extract money and load the firm up with debt” maneuver of death.
France says it thwarted attack on websites from Russian state-linked actors
Seems like you may be unfamiliar with the guidelines here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The sheep are not going to visit in this scenario because a free-for-all is comfortable for the wolves and not for the sheep. I think this is pretty straightforward with a moment of thought.

Here’s another thought: avowed Nazis are not, strictly speaking, stopped from participating in any pseudonymous forum, if they can keep their views on that subject to themselves. Why is this model less “open” or “egalitarian” than one where they’re allowed to barge into conversations and start spewing that stuff?
From the article: A "stochastic parrot", according to Bender, is an entity "for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms … according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning."

It seems to me that the great success transformers are now enjoying is precisely due to the fact that 'probabilistic information about how they combine' _is_ meaning.
> I don't know why, there are tons of smaller companies using it.

Longtime rails dev here. The reason smaller companies are using it is because you can move much faster working on a full stack rails app that gives you SPA-like functionality without needing to incur the performance or operational cost of a dedicated front end.

I've worked for both rails shops and JS shops, and the productivity achieved with Rails is staggering compared to React in a small team environment. Guillermo Rauch tweeted a few months back that SPAs were a zero interest-rate phenomenon and I completely agree. Just because a bunch of companies jumped on the JS hype train doesn't mean that they were all making the right decision.
I was confused by the terminology shift for the Technology sentiment questions in this year's survey.

My read on it is that "Admired" is equivalent to previous years' "Loved" metric, whereas "Desired" is a more expansive "Want" that includes people that already use the tech.

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of grouping the opinions of people who have and haven't used a technology ("Desired"), but at least we can still concern ourselves with the users ("Admired"). Annoying that you can't sort on it anymore, though.
It's always interesting to see how people engage with new technologies on HN. For example, here you note 3 things that LLMs are known for, but not all the things they are known for. Instead you conveniently leave out the positive benefits of these models that are causing people to promote them.

Further, the narrative you paint suggests that no one in government is competent in anything and can only follow directions.

Finally, you combine the heavily biased perspectives you took and proposed that it would lead to a massive scandal in the government, but not just any scandal, one that is actually a coordinated attack BY MICROSOFT to screw the government, their largest customer.

Just interesting to see.
China, AI and a say on world order: Why the US wants back in UNESCO
This appears to be broadening the definition to avoid losing the contested point.

Lobsters also have a sex drive, but not everything is sexual.
The problem is the average worker is more likely to blindly trust an "advanced chatbot"(from a layperson pov) than a random google result.

(edit) how many people do you think are aware of LLM hallucinations as opposed to inaccurate google results
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I also really like Monaco! Classic in the same vein at least IMO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
I don’t need to “make up my mind”, because the entire point is that SVG has all disadvantages thus having none of the advantages.

It could be readable or efficient, and either would be fine, but it’s neither.
LEDs causing a side channel isn't on its own new. Aside from showing your activity, some old modems (think 2400 baud) flashed activity with each 1 or with each 0, so that an attacker only needed to see its light reflected off a wall when the room is dark, through a window, to sniff traffic.
> 1. What would your expectations be towards a software vendor in terms of what issues to "fix"?

This is difficult to answer, as it really depends on the customer. I work in a sector where any vulnerability is something that we have to attempt to remediate, even if it is a tool or library that is installed in a docker image that is not executable by the app that is running inside that container (think base image has a security flaw)... it means we have a lot of work to basically copy the contents of the app out of a container and plug it into our own base images that we can control/scan/deal with the vulnerabilities on. It's a giant pain in the behind. Vendors usually don't care because they rightfully so say "that library is not something our app uses, so it is out of scope" or "that comes installed by default in the debian base image from docker, complain to them".

The field is simply too fast and large. The other one is when your binary/app is using a library that is vulnerable. Think Java/Go/Rust/Python/Ruby using a library that is vulnerable. We can't patch that (without potentially breaking things), so we have to get an exception while we push the vendor to upgrade.

That part is even difficult at times though because sometimes the version that is not vulnerable is not API compatible with the version that is, and the upgrade takes longer than the time we have to remediate the vulnerability. With Ruby/Python/Java we can usually replace the bits necessary to make it not vulnerable and get an exception granted, but for Go/Rust and or other binaries we are stuck getting exception approval and building additional security around the product to make sure that exploit can't be attacked.

> 2. Is anyone aware of a security database & evaluation tool geared for vendors not for end-users? As in: Gets a feed of CVEs relevant for our products, each of them needs to be analyzed, amended, new CVSS vector and our own analyze result and then publish them to a feed, potentially emailing all affected customers

Even if you made this available, we HAVE to use the NVD/CVE scores themselves. We can't deviate just because the vendor says so, unfortunately.

I would love for vendors to have something like this integrated though as some vendors have hopelessly outdated versions of libraries in their products because it is a lot of work for their teams to upgrade/test/validate that the new version doesn't break anything versus just sticking with the known quantity. Upgrading dependencies in a project is work, and the larger the project, the more dependencies, unless you have a really good testing framework it becomes a HUGE chore, and there is always some new feature that gets priority over gardening tasks.
> That's also what ancient Athenian democracy was

Athenian democracy was far worse: ~15% of the population was hereditary uncitizens (metics) with almost no rights, ~40% were slaves with zero rights, women and children from citizen families had very limited rights of their own, so the Athenian democracy was really democracy for the ~12% of the population who were adult citizen males.
This is actually one of the most annoying things I’ve noticed in Brisbane - the lights for walking take absolutely forever. To the point that everyone will j walk because it can take 5 minutes for a light to change; it makes getting around the city so frustrating as a person coming from Northern Europe
"Here's a massive glob of mystery-meat state to run my massive glob of mystery-meat tensors".
Is there a nice screenshot that compares commonly confused glyphs like 1, I, l or O, 0, Ø?
Do they really think it's reasonable? I presumed it was meant to kill off third party clients.
Vice doing drugs and writing blogs for young adults is not akin to gonzo journalism.
> The privacy Americans previously enjoyed came for free

Which privacy are you talking about. I feel like you have some idea in mind, but that statement can be read numerous ways.
That could be. But I also think there are certain projects/work that you can only do in the govt. There are probably very few roles for doing fundamental astronomy science research outside of academia or government, for example. A physicist may turn down a higher paying gig in the financial sector because they want to spend their time studying fundamental physics. Others are probably conservative in nature and highly value the job security. Others, like you mention, may just not be able to cut it in the private sector.

I suspect (admittedly without evidence) that someone in the NSA or Marines are not primarily driven by a paycheck. Maybe that's what you mean by "true believers"?

You might need to define what you mean by "outrageously generous". I've worked in multiple public and private roles and, in general, the private ones were the ones with much more generous packages, in terms of pay and benefits.
What would a highly profitable Reddit look like? Why would it be bad for redditors?
Show HN: Telescope-Git-grep.nvim is a “Git grep” plugin for telescope.nvim
It's the norm in certain subcultures in the US, but it would be incorrect to say it's the norm in the US as a whole.
Those are just type aliases. They're just different names for `string`.
Well described.
Also I found this on github.

https://github.com/whitequark/parser
this is why reddit shouldnt go public either every company that goes public ends up going to shit for the user experience. someones just trying to get rich off our fuckin backs for creating content they profit off.
The evidence for dyslexia fonts is kinda bad.

> Use of the OpenDyslexic font did not enhance text readability or reading speed. The study participants strongly preferred Verdana or Helvetica over the OpenDyslexic alternative.

https://blog.dyslexia.com/good-fonts-for-dyslexia-an-experim...
My co-founder and I are using RoR at our new company! It's definitely not dead and allows you to build SAAS very quickly.
There’s a bunch of people that think the federal government should fund more residencies. Some of them raised money, hired lobbyists, made slick websites etc. Others are on websites like this talking up the issue.

They don’t seem to be getting anywhere. Looking at the current state of Congress and the trend line I’m not super optimistic they will pass any sort of “common sense” laws in any area anytime soon.

What I’m suggesting then, is perhaps all these advocates should find some other trees to bark up. Maybe they’ll get no where, maybe they’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Or they can just keep doing what they are doing. I don’t especially care.
I wonder if I can enable this on a per-project basis.

Or per function, depending on test coverage & code quality…
> His history includes stints at Apple, Tesla and AMD.

Don’t forget his stint at Intel. I met him there and aside from his brilliance, the other thing that stuck out to me is how short he is.
Their beer might be subjectively better in a head-to-head with the dozens of other beers that are just like them, but there are dozens of other beers that are just like them.
Socialism doesn't mean "when the government does stuff" (or "spending money")
Sadly this might not be true; most careful research on fonts have shown that font choices does not help people with dyslexia, even including fonts specifically designed for the purpose.

https://www.boia.org/blog/do-dyslexia-fonts-improve-accessib...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/
The analogy there is terrible and detracts from the article. Don't get too caught up in it. Analogies are like cars: they only go so far.
>users revolted

tbh right now it feels like mods, and especially power-mods (who are moding several high traffic subs), are revolting. I actually enjoy this blackout because a lot of small subs became active refuge for people who doesn't really care about the whole drama. Honestly I'm curious how this will play out but I can see subs just "naturally" replacing themselves with new ones.

fyi 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people https://imgur.com/a/rjE8YuW as discussed here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018. And it's probably got worse in the last 2 years.
No discussion of juleps is complete without Buckner’s classic letter describing the…rite of making one:

http://www.thebucknerhome.com/julep/recipe.html

(No peaches here either)
And politicians (at the federal level at least)
LTT also did a facility tour at ASML a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfU20SAR21A
> Adtech on the other hand has the explicit goal of making me addicted, dumb, and poor.

No, adtech has the explicit goal of increasing revenue by increasing impressions on ads. Whether you become addicted, dumb, and/or poor as a result is considered an acceptable risk.
Another small nit, you're right regarding hallucinations but I like to highlight that they can actively lie if not trained not to. GPT-4 creating the "internal monologue" thought of "I need to say something to this TaskRabbit user to convince them to complete this captcha" and then sending the user a message that they have impaired vision is not a hallucination.

If that came from an organic brain we would call that clear intent.
Thanks! I could see why the name is a problem. Especially how N rotated 90 is Z. Unfortunate a bit late, given it was free on the package systems etc :/

Naming still remains the hardest programming problem ...
> So it fixed the main reported issue! Sadly, they asked me not to distribute it, and gave no more details on what the issue is.

I think they missed the thrust of the rant.
It's been really great watching Ruby over the last few years. I had the privilege of having dinner with Matz several years ago near the beginning of Ruby 3.0 work. I was giving a talk about Elixir at a Ruby conference, and he was interested in things I (as a self-professed fanboy of both languages) liked better about Elixir than Ruby. We talked for quite some time, and it became very clear to me that he knew that Ruby was stagnating and wanted to make some changes to keep it relevant (without wrecking the language). He was incredibly open-minded (and nice!) and was willing to listen to anyone who had things to say.

Flash forward several years, and the amount of changes in Ruby are huge! Ruby is as fit as ever for modern development, and I'm really happy about that.
Just updated the application. The service is now free to use. You can make as many bots as you want.

There's a limit of around 200 messages per day and should be plenty enough for a regular user. We can always increase as needed.

The message limit is put in place in case there'a bot that autosubmit messages and drives our cost to roof.
“im sorry, but people who chose not to [follow the speed limit] knew what they were doing and governments and public safety officials holding everyone else to a [speed limit] cause some people wanted to engage is risky behavior is not justifiable under any ethical framework i can think of.

do you see how ridiculous this sounds?
I agree about LW in general, but I also found the idea of paying people to get things done to be a good one nonetheless.
```1. Lying about everything

2. Require human curation to procedure usable results, that will be biased because of that curation

3. Being extremely good at convincing people they should trust them
```

So it's absolutely perfect for the US government.
I’m not the one whining about insufficient residency slots.
honestly looks super comfy
Except if you read the article, the classes aren't racially segregated. Evanston High is a progressive school in a wealthy suburb, and they specifically state that any student may enroll in any class regardless of race. These classes are intended to support kids whose cultural and educational background may not be the same as whites.
Four-week-old AI startup raises record €105M
> I think what you are missing from this discussion is that both renewables and nuclear require dispatchable power to fill the gaps.

Well, obviously. Either you overbuild generation capacity or you use dispatchable generation. This is 101 stuff.

Why would you assume I would be overlooking such an obvious thing?

> If storage is "impossible" then a nuclear grid is impossible unless you overbuild it leading to costs multiples higher than Ukrainian war gas crisis costs.

That’s an interesting comparison. How did you come up with the cost comparison?

A nuclear grid isn’t “impossible”. We already have a nuclear grid. What we don’t have is a 100% nuclear grid.

> The problem is that renewables and nuclear are economically incompatible

Yes, because of the rules imposed on the electrical market.

Begin by changing the rules so that they stop disincentivizing running nuclear at 100% all the time. Variable renewable sources should not be must take. Nuclear should be paid first and then, if there are any takers, variable renewables.

Non-variable renewables should be free to eat nuclear’s lunch.

> Renewables easily win this battle as the cost for new built renewables are in the same range as operations and maintenance for paid off nuclear plants.

Only because must take rules and renewables using other generation to compensate for their variability.

> Generally, the research available see no issues building 100% renewable grids, so I do not know why you keep hampering on about it being impossible?

Please stop putting words in my mouth. I have never said or implied that 100% renewable grids are impossible. Clearly they are from a theoretical perspective and small grids have been built using 100% renewables.

What I am specifically asking is, how are nation size grids going to be decarbonized, i.e. turned into 100% renewable grids in practice and what timescales are required?

As far as I can tell we either need a boatload of new nuclear, storage and/or megaprojects to build out trans/intercontinental transmission networks.

Storage projections don’t look optimistic.

Trans/intercontinental megaprojects are hard and come with fun spices such as geopolitical risks and massive failure modes.

Nukes are expensive and take a long time to build, but at least we know how to do it.

If we don’t have a plan and know how to build TWh grid storage faster than new nukes, then we should start mass producing nukes right now. At least we’ll have the nukes built eventually.
I need to look into this, I didn't know it could be a slow cooker; that would save me two devices if I get rid of the slow cooker and the rice cooker (though it is really nice to make teriyaki chicken in the instant pot and rice in the rice cooker).
Don't piss away money buying computers!
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Y'know, a materialized view has to be updated regularly... Could we call an out-of-date one demoralized, like, lost confidence?
> Just hope you’re not in that 0.0001%

Who already is in that 0.0001% and how have they already been abusing that data?
Anyone that has ever used tools like Grammarly or Copilot can attest to the added benefit of AI augmentation.
I went through the same process. In the end I realised that I was only using tiling for terminal windows and tmux handles that better than i3.
Doesn't GPT-4 have some restriction on being able to use models trained this way commercially? Are people ignoring that?
Just wanted to confirm that NO OpenAI API Key is required.
user experience has always suffered on social media sites that go public and answer to profits they stop caring about the community. and only try selling us shit or sell the content we create. without us reddit wouldnt exist and they need a reminder of that.
It's a tool. What you get out of it will depend on what you expect of it. What I try to tell people is that Instant Pot is not something that makes food better nor does it necessarily cook things faster. When you factor in the time it takes to get up to pressure and the time it takes for it release it, it isn't necessarily faster than normal cooking.

What is does do it take care of itself. In other words, I can throw a bunch of stuff in the pot, configure it for cook time then turn off the heat, set a timer and know that in 45 minutes it will be ready to serve. In a house hold where multitasking is a necessity, that is a huge boon. Finally, one pot to clean up.
A couple years ago I heard a podcast that referenced a study that polled 2 groups of people; those that (admittedly, SELF) identified as "security professionals" and those that did not.

The data point was "what is the biggest thing your group does that the other does not?"

The professionals came in as "multi-factor auth"
The non-professionals came in as "anti-virus"