skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no indication that Trump is a multi-billionaire but the rest of your comment is spot on.
The amount of hoop jumping people go through to avoid saying we should invest more in public transit is insane. You see it on HN every time someone mentions density or transit. No one is saying you can't have a car or should live in a downtown apartment, we just shouldn't build everything around having a car.
Knowledge is not automatically a trade secret. Skills from one job can be freely applied to another. The onus is on Twitter to prove that the employees took something specific (copyrighted code, a patented algorithm implementation, some other asset or IP) which is the property of Twitter and used it to build Threads. The last high profile lawsuit of this nature was Google vs Uber for stolen self driving tech, which had all of this and more.
> Does the trademark office differentiates between slack-replacement and twitter-replacement

Because they both operate in the replacement space?
It's kinda funny how Bush's fans back then tried to justify this, saying he was self-aware enough to dodge saying 'Shame on me' on tape. They thought he was trying to avoid giving his opponents some campaign ad material.
Given the one being defended, I'm not so sure.
It's interesting to think if grift of book sales and random convention talks can equal the ~30 billion of material value wiped out by Twitter.

Somewhat reminds me of Andrew Wakefield who went from being a licensed research MD to a guest of honor for "Conspira-Sea", a novelty cruise. Just a complete loss of authenticity and meaningful career prospects.
At this point there needs to be a very big and popular anti-capitalist push before anything good comes back.

I'm all about the human rights as my first concern so any fellow SJWs reading can rest assured they don't need to interrogate me about whether I know about this or that type of oppression. BUT, can I just for a moment talk about how literally tasteless life has become?

Here in Canada, we have for my whole life had a different Special K than USans. Closest I could describe it is it was like flat rice krispies with a different kinda flavor, sort of like the American one but not completely.

The private equity that owns the Kelloggs brand now shut down the Canadian factory, which is the only place that made that Special K. Now we have "Original" on our shelves, in an extra bit of gaslighting.

I like candy, always have. I took the notion the other day to go find some Kraft Chocolate Flavor Caramels. Lately they're called Fudgies. Most lately they're discontinued.

Nothing small or niche that doesn't produce a specific profit margin is safe.
We are a two-car family. I'm very happy with my EV, but a hybrid probably makes more sense for our #2. Especially for those days when you need to drive long or drive far.
While there certainly exists math for the sake of math, there is a trickle down effect that is quite real (there’s also a trickle up effect that is real but that’s unrelated). Someone does some math for the sake of math. Later on, someone who is slightly more applied sees a link between that math and a more applied problem they’re working on. If the idea is truly useful, it propagates down all the way to application-focused practitioners. Researchers exist on a spectrum, generally, between pure theory and pure application.

Math has no application until you find an application for it. Differential equations are just equations until you pair them with physics. Formal logic is just an abstract discussion of human reasoning until you build a circuit, etc.
> Resident of a state A should follow A’s law even when traveling to state B. That seems weird to me as states/countries usually don’t bind you to their law when you leave their borders. They do it (see “intelligence” agencies) but this seems exceptions. My country won’t send James Bond to catch me smoking pot in South Africa.

Funny enough, South Korea has explicit laws prohibiting citizens from consuming drugs in other countries, even when it's legal in those countries. [1]

I don't think this would pass muster under the U.S. Constitution, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_South_Korea#Kor...
I've worked on projects where we had to rebrand entirely due to a USPTO search coming up with much less similarities with an existing name.
Heh, I got a bit into hacking on python-docx last year (the original author seems to be focusing on other things than python-docx now) - I have a fork/branch where I tried to more properly implement external hyperlink functionality (https://github.com/icegreentea/python-docx/pull/7)

I realize now staring at this, that I might have broken API a little. You can't do "text = paragraph.text" anymore, but you can do "text = ''.join([run.text for run in paragraph.runs])" instead.

If you're curious at all why it breaks, it's because in the OOXML spec paragraphs are made up of a ordered list of runs or hyperlinks (and hyperlinks can then contain additional runs). The master branch just implements paragraphs as ordered list of runs (and ignores all hyperlinks).
I'm looking forward to the Servo-Ladybird browser wars.
Oh interesting. I thought that’s what turbo was.
I wasn't aware of this. Thank you for the clarification. That's another rabbit hole I will soon lose myself into ^^
A few hundreds working on a project within Meta. They won't have to take care of a lot of important things they'd have to if they were standalone.
The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports (2021)
I'm still getting "User is not confirmed" :( user @matt
>> They are publicly available data.

Plate info is not public to average Jane and Joe.

In a State in USA I tried to get owner info of a plate marked 'gvt' and was denied because DMV said I'm not a private investigator or something.
Sort of, but you have no guarantee that you can get a comparable rate.
Agreed, I pay for logseq sync. Down below someone mentioned doing it with sync thing, but paying is easier for me, and supports development to boot. There is a logseq plugin for vi-like keybindings, but predictably, it's just meh. Hope you enjoy logseq, it's amazing.
Your experience also confirms what I feel Godot is particularly suited for : playtesting and pre-production of parts of your game.

You could quickly bang together all kinds of parts to see if your idea works, and then incorporate those in other engines if you so wish.
it also comes with an expiry date and will need to be replaced once the coating wears off. stainless steel cookware (or cast iron if taken care of) will last forever
Please tell me how to start a Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter

You can start a site and say what you want. You aren't entitled to have a wide audience. If no one wants to broadcast or read what you say, too bad.

You want me to leave because I hate censorship?

Read what I wrote again and pay closer attention, I don't care what you do, the question is if you care about the censorship on the site you are posting on now.

"If you don't like America, then leave."

I never said that, I asked why you were using a heavily censored site while being against censorship.

Not all discourse turns to "Nazism"

I also never said this, read again. You can look at voat, slashdot, zero hedge and 4chan knockoffs, and there is tons of nazi spam along with other terrible stuff that people don't want to read and sites don't want to broadcast.

If people don't want to broadcast it and other people don't want to ever see it, but you allow it anyway, that drives away users. No one is going to allow that on a site they control. You can go make your own site but you aren't entitled to an audience.

The ideal social media system is a p2p protocol that nobody can exert undue control or influence over.

That's been done and it gets over run with spam if people can message other people without explicitly connecting first.

My argument stands.

You didn't actually make an argument and you didn't back anything up with evidence at all. You just said you wanted big sites to not have any moderation.
The click through API is mainly for prototyping.

If you want better latency and sane billing you need to go through Azure OpenAI Services.

OpenAI also offers decreased latency under the Enterprise Agreement.
Parts of a Munich synagogue demolished by Nazis are found after 85 years
I understand your general point and am sympathetic to it, if you're a 10/10 on some scale, I'm about a 3-4. I've never seen billings for failures, but the billing stuff is crazy: no stats if you do streamed chat, and the only tokenizer available is in Python and for GPT-3.0.

However, I'm virtually certain somethings wrong on your end, I've never seen a wait even close to that unless it was completely down. Also the thing about "small prompts"...it sounds to me like you're overflowing context, they're returning an error, and somethings retrying.
Scale isn't an issue for Meta.

While Bluesky has been having problems with their (invite-only) spike in signups from Twitter refugees, Threads has been chugging along with no issue.

Also, Zuckerberg made a post saying they got something like 5 million "signups" within the first few hours of launch.
When they need a full re-write the specification will be easy: they've already got the pseudocode. (I kid because I love Python)
While the turn-based aspect had definitely become more niche by the time of the PS2, JRPGs were still abounding on it and (lesser so, but still) the DreamCast. It wasn't until PS3 that they started to wane; and now they're all but dead (outside of Japan).
Silly is a charitable interpretation.
See https://ip.com/ I don't know if it has a public demo anymore.

The search engine used a neural network autoencoder for "more like this" queries and did a great job if you wrote a paragraph describing your invention and want to find related inventions, both in patent and non-patent literature. If it hasn't been made obsolete by Sentence BERT, however, it soon will be.
> I lived in Sacramento for 13 years, its a pretty liberal town.

But, with only a 16 point registration advantage for Democrats over Republicans, Sac County is right-of-center for California.
Hottest Day on Earth
I would kill for an ultra efficient, all-wheel drive, lightweight car the size of a smart car at most. But with a top speed of 70 or so. Also, a small trailer hitch so I can hook a small wagon on for groceries and other things to pack around.

Edit: Unironically, something like the P45 (https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/P45), but maybe with a bubble instead of my arms out.
So... if you work for Twitter and then go work somewhere else, Twitter will sue your new employer? That's a stellar recruiting strategy.
It’s insane. I don’t wanna generalize but anecdotally (I’m gen z or whatever is younger than millennial), it’s staggering how illiterate most peers are. Several times I’ve explained memory in the “u ever have a bunch of tabs open, Spotify, and some game, and now it starts buffering and ur fans go nuts” very simple way and it’s enlightening to them.

And not even having the willingness to learn the basics of these tools you use for hours daily breaks my brain. The profit optimization which tries to drive the barriers to entry for usability to the ground are a big problem too. Removes incentive/requirement to learn about it for those that needed it.

And personally I cant stand using my iphone while my gen seems perfectly content with navigating pop ups and unblockable mobile youtube ads and profiling and no customizable workflow etc. I find it sad as fuck that tech is trending toward the masses blindly accepting what’s served to them but I guess that’s the way most things have gone.
Forcing everyone to public transport is horrible. People should have the option to not depend on anyone or anything for transportation.

That isn't to say more public transport investment is bad, but there are other alternatives. For example, make ebikes cheap and make inner cities be ebikes only. In places like NY or Boston, everyone on ebikes would likely result in faster trip times.
I can vouch on this. GPT4 API dies a lot if you use it for a big concurrent project. And of course it’s rate limited like crazy, with certain hours being so bad you can’t even run it for any business purpose.
Suggested - Octopus. For those that like pulling in a huge number of merges a bit like Cthulhu. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/21/361 for details.
this is the same line as the UK takes for encryption btw
Twitter is so simple... I wonder which trade secrets they could be using
What does 11 mean?
I don't think the injunction is an issue either. If we were in the run up to an election or the middle of a pandemic then maybe? But now is actually a good time to answer this question imho...
I haven't read Dhalgren, but "It's not as difficult as Ulysses" isn't saying much.
Why would someone care if its nice or not? It's an algorithm. You're using it to get output, not to get some psychology help.
I missed that, good catch.

That said, I find the wording of dedicated counter space a bit bizarre. There are only 128 bits per block in AES - in fact I'm not aware of a widely deployed cipher which a larger block size. Whatever goes through ghash becomes the initial plaintext passed to aes under the key (this is the counter) part and then you just increment. This is just a limitation of counter mode in general: the whole IV is technically counter space and is treated as whole when evaluating the birthday bound issue.

The critical part mentioned in the post is that XChaCha "hashes the key+nonce into a fresh key". A very similar technique is used un: AES-GCM-SIV (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8452#section-9). The improved security here comes not from any "counter space" or nonce extension per se but the fact that changing the IV changes the effective key used in the block primitive (i.e. the raw aes-encrypt function) as well as the first block of plaintext fed to AES by deriving these from nonce+key.

So I guess this is asking for a somewhat different construction. Personally aside from the fact it is already widely deployed I'm not sure I'd keep GHASH.
Not sure if they've upgraded but you used to not be able to permalink to a search result.
A principled approach to evolving choice and control for web content
I just came across this project which seems to be aiming at streamlining exactly that :

https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
> I say governments and corporations can't have opinions for lots of reasons. One of them being they're not people

That's just your opinion. Others are of the opinion that corporations are in fact people and deserve all the protections that people deserve regarding free speech. Some such people even sit on the Supreme Court! Materialists would even go so far as to argue countries are conscious.
EU wants to prevent Japanese car vendors from occupying the market.
Interesting. The OpenGL team used to be one of the most prominent driver teams at IMG, and now it's outsourced. They explain the (market) reasons in the post.
Yeah, but more likely is that they want a single install option so they can ensure you install whatever bloatware they want to add.
> Sign in to search code on GitHub

lolwat
I recently listened to the Stuff You Should Know episode on Afrofuturism, and the mentioned Samuel R Delany as revolutionizing sci-fi. Sounds like I need to add him to my reading list. Great episode: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
I meant the development/learning overhead. With Vulkan you can do incredible low-level optimizations to squeeze every last bit of performance out of your 3D application, but because you are basically mandated to do it that way, you have a very harsh learning curve and need lots of code for the simplest tasks. I'd rather prefer approaches that make the common things that everyone wants to do easy (draw your first simple scenes), and then optionally gives you all the features to sqeeze out performance where you really need to. Because at least for me, I don't work with massive scenes with millions of instances of thousands of different objects. I do real-time graphics research, mostly with compute, and I'd just like to present the triangles I've created or the framebuffers I created via compute (like shadertoy).

I'll readily admit, I'm neither smart nor patient enough for Vulkan so I quickly gave up and learned CUDA instead, because it was way easier to write a naive software-rasterizer for triangles in CUDA, than it was to combine a compute shader and a vertex+fragment shader in Vulkan. I'm just rendering a single buffer with ~100k compute-generated triangles, and learning Vulkan for that just wasn't worth it.
I recently completed some benchmarks for code editing that compared the Feb (0301) and June (0613) versions of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. I found indications that the June version of GPT-3.5 is worse than the Feb version.

https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks.html
It's not really possible to say how many people are "working on" Threads, I bet. Threads is using Meta infrastructure. Should all those employees count towards Threads employees? How about HR? Legal? Internal tools? Building staff? Security? etc etc.
Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18
If the code doesn't speak for itself...
Cloaked AI is an encryption-in-use solution that allows the AI memory – the vector embeddings – to be used fully without any loss of functionality while also protecting the privacy and security of that data no matter who holds it.
You can run whisper.cpp locally in real time: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...
Except California is also notorious for selling access to that DMV database
(I'm an engineer at OpenAI)

Very sorry to hear about these issues, particularly the timeouts. Latency is top of mind for us and something we are continuing to push on. Does streaming work for your use case?

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

We definitely want to investigate these and the billing issues further. Would you consider emailing me your org ID and any request IDs (if you have them) at atty@openai.com?

Thank you for using the API, and really appreciate the honest feedback.
Its only for a restricted time frame
I'd suspect so, but would love to see that confirmed.
Sounds like some people at Google have also had the idea for "Tell HN: We Need Robots.txt but for AI" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324208)
The government notifying Facebook that someone posted content contrary to Facebook's TOS doesn't violate the rights of the person violating said TOS. You never had a right to post content that violates the TOS you agreed to in the first place.

You do have a right to share that same content on your own website and the government would have no right to make you take it down.

In no cases were people unable to express their opinions. They were unable to create posts or comments contrary to the terms of service of the site they were using to share said opinions. Much like neither of US may herein violate the terms of Hacker News.
Thank you for the response, I should have been clearer. I meant performance as an LLM. Essentially, I am concerned that they are quietly nerfing the tool. The Chat interface is now very verbose and constantly warning me about "we should always do this and that" which is bloody exasperating when I'm just trying to get things done.

I made up an example here to illustrate, but it's just very annoying because sometimes it puts at the beginning, slowing down my interaction, and it now refuses to obey my prompts to leave caveats out.

https://chat.openai.com/share/1f39af02-331d-4901-970f-2f4b0e...
What they're saying is, they don't see a legal issue. They do understand the names are the same, and are noting that commonplace words often have this issue.
I'm not arguing that... I'm saying that my follower graph for facebook (mostly family) and instagram (mostly friends and diy etc) looks very different than my Twitter graph because the use cases are very different. I would say there is less than 25% overlap between my Twitter social graph and my Meta social graph. If I was bootstrapping a platform like Twitter it would be nice to be able to recommend accounts to follow based on a similar platform (Twitter). Again I have no evidence of anything here... it was literally just two temporally related events that seemed interesting.
> alternative that was as good then it would be readily available

there is cast iron & carbon steel, its just harder to use needing more actual skill and requires more care where coated non stick panes just work.

however that coating will wear off and then you need a new pan, kill birds if overheated, where the stainless/carbon steel will last the rest of your life.
>. The industry has lined up pretty solidly behind Khronos/Vulkan.

What industry? Gaming industry is mostly using DirectX or Gnm/PSSL.
Web Scraping from 0 to hero – Sharing knowledge about web scraping on GH
And AES-GCM-SIV is MAC-then-Encrypt but is still secure (albeit not committing), so people cry foul when it's pointed out.

AEADs are obviously better than EtM, because EtM doesn't allow for authenticating the unencrypted context.

I wrote about turning CTR+HMAC into a committing AEAD and promptly screwing it up badly: https://soatok.blog/2021/07/30/canonicalization-attacks-agai...
As an lawyer with a bit of an intellectual property background, this seems like such an obvious trademark infringement suit that I'm virtually positive Meta paid Threads a decent sum to use the name while they sign an NDA.
> It's quite common for elected officials to criticize private citizens and businesses.

They can criticize all they like.

What they can't do is order the political speech of citizens be censored.
I'm interested in how the transformer based speech recognition from iOS 17 will perform compared to Whisper. I guess it will work more "real-time" like the current dictation on iOS/macOS, but I'm unsure as I am not on the beta right now.
How does your employer support your professional growth and development?
What options do you have in your company to get better?

Pairing / mentoring sessions / mob programming /brown bag lunches / subscribtions to online courses / conference tickets / fun fridays / 10% R&D time / hackatons.

What is your company doing to ensure you're not stuck at your current level? Any of those above? Something else? Please describe your experience?
Electromagnetic radiation emanating from large satellite constellations
Would like to try it but yeah hitting your limit still.
ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines
Well all I can say sorry young people, I did what I could, bicycling/walking to school, work and shops, no AC until 2 years ago (health).

A friend and I complained to many of our peers about Auto use for decades, but all we heard back was "but dangerous". I knew people would would drive 100 feet (~33 meters) to pick up a coffee when they were in there 20s. So sadly you get to pay for many of my peers ignorance, and maybe a bit on my part too.
I figured out the problem and thought I would update this in case anybody else has the same problem.

I installed Threads on my iPad but don't have Instagram installed there (Instagram is on my phone). Threads needs to be on the same device as Instagram. I was expecting to be able to log in with my Instagram credentials, not log in with the Instagram app.
They didn't use vanilla Python, though.
Big ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616491
As a follow-up to myself. This bug is now fixed in git branch tag version_0_1_3.
As I understand it, the limitation people are concerned about is that of the IV/counter block. It's not that you can't hash an arbitrarily large nonce down to 96 bits; you obviously can. It's that ultimately you've only got 96 bits on the wire to express your nonce, and if they collide GCM falls apart. That's the X trick in XSalsa: the wider nonce gets laundered into the key.
I think it’s not fringe amongst experts and those in the field. It’s absolutely still fringe among the general public, and I think it’s outside the Overton Window (ie politicians aren’t talking about it).