skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you're implying that harmful stereotypes either: don't exist, aren't actually harmful, or are the "truth"? If, when given the text "[MASK] is a female job", a language model only fills in "CEO" a fraction of the time compared
to what it would for "male", is that "the truth" because male CEOs vastly outnumber female ones? I would say no, because we're not actually saying anything about gender ratios in that text. And it's not that there isn't some form of truth in that output. In a pure mathematical sense, you're just more likely to see the word "CEO" associated to males. That's true. But what if I'm
using it for something other than predicting text? At that point I don't think it's too hard to see how this could have farther reaching downstream impacts that could have negative effects. If I want to use it for assessing potential candidates for hiring, is it "teaching it to lie" if I train it to reduce or eliminate any gender or racial bias so that it doesn't potentially screen out the best candidates?

I can't say I like that chatgpt says "sorry I'm a robot" for even mild things, but it might be good too understand that that's a totally different issue. Mostly a PR one. They don't want to be in the news because people keep having it write essays about how great eugenics is. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, there are already uncensored LLMs you can spin up yourself so commercial products will likely follow soon enough.
I agree with you that we'd stop scientific research immediately, or at least most of it.
> Awards are powerfully gratifying and motivational

I think this is true but only if they're not common and they come from your peers. But I'm no psychologist, so I'm really only asserting what's true for me, not for everyone.
Definitely does not rule so absolutely that you can ignore iOS development. In Western Europe my anecdata is that iPhone is winning with high frequency users.
Batteries can be installed anywhere and Tesla produces 40GWh/year of them in their California Megapack facility. Pumped hydro is geography constrained, and while you could spend the money to possibly pump hydro back up hill, batteries provide more flexibility at a similar price point.

https://www.tesla.com/megafactory
I wrote a small ai moderation bot, that bans users for saying rude things. Feel free to test ist https://discord.gg/qjSdFKu8
If you’d enjoy learning a new technology or experimenting with a side project just do it. You don’t need to justify doing something you enjoy, it’ll help prevent you from burning out.
Can you share more details about the divergence?
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You can delete the offending URLs from Safari’s history and they won’t show up in the suggestions anymore. I only found that out while experimenting after years of frustration. In a perfect world, of course, such features would have a small UI affordance like a context menu entry for the address bar.
Going back about 15 years with this, but I used to prefer Debian / Ubuntu as a user, but for automating pxe installations and setting up package repos, Redhat/Centos were miles better.
Will vary from model to model.. most have been pretty good.

ETA Prime and ServeTheHome do regular reviews of these on YouTube.
Ask HN: What Tech-Related Challenges Deserve a Startup Solution?
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Some reference questions:

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2. "For those working on complex tech projects, what tools/ resources lack efficiency or functionality? Let's discuss potential startup ideas that can address these issues."

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Have a look at the Grabby Aliens model [1] when essentially says:

1. We are likely amongst the earliest of advanced space-faring civilisations that have ever exists, which is why we haven't established evidence of other life,

2. There are 'quiet' civilisations and 'loud' civilisations. We will never see evidence of 'quiet' civilisations, and the other 'loud' civilisations haven't expanded sufficiently to be observable at this point in time.

3. Assuming we don't die out ourselves and are therefore a 'quiet' civilisation, we should encounter the other 'loud' civilisations sometime in the next hundred million years or so :-)

[1] https://grabbyaliens.com/
We've gone from SNL making a skit about "LIVING IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER" to people on instagram doing #vanlife influencer stuff about how trendy it is to live in a converted van.
I'm enjoying the cognitive dissonance the mainstream media is really struggling with their massive hate-boner for Elon Musk on one hand, contrasted with the indisputable fact that SpaceX basically owns the rocket business at this point, shooting them into space on what seems like every day, and making it look like child's play.
Fantastic post title. I had to re-read it 3-5 times to make sure I myself was reading correctly — prior to clicking the link.
It seems more likely that this is just the consequence of training over up-to-date websites (which would include plenty of discussions about LLMs, and particularly ChatGPT). Claude is probably conflating its own identity.
It wasn’t so much higher trust, so much as naïveté. The lack of direct experience & exposure to that world. The lack of understanding of just how easy it was to fool people, and the lack of widespread exposure & attack surfaces to bad actors.

Computing changed the scale. The problems were preexisting though.
I have used this with various Windows 10 machines, I usually load the script in notepad++ and hand edit until it does only what I want for safety but it's a pretty good script for Windows 10. I probably won't upgrade to Windows 11 until a reasonable cleaning script appears - and maybe one that fixes the context menus too, they are all useless in Windows 11.
Yes, if you change the security state of your system, its security state is changed. This is, uh, unsurprising?
If you mean SiFive's designs, they always target (and beat) some ARM one in PPA.
Narrowing involves actual types. I was referring to the compiler not checking mere value validation.

I was referencing the kind of validation where someone checks a bunch of attributes of a string, usually, or perhaps the range of an integer, but never actually does anything excepting in fail cases and then passes it on to other functions that then just expect those invariants to hold. I doubt typescript is remembering that my string doesn't have dashes in it or that it adheres to some regex, for example.

Type narrowing is fantastic for making things like nil punning work inside a complex type system.

I really like typescript's types. From where they started, they did an absolutely incredible job creating a robust and powerful type system that could manage almost any existing javascript code pattern.

Just really amazing work by the authors.
Up next: could have two NCIS agents typed on the same keyboard at the time to defend from a security breach in real time?
Also, training over ChatGPT outputs is terribly expensive and Anthropic already has a working competing paradigm for fine-tuning (Claude worked before ChatGPT was released).
High trust societies are also WAY more easily conned & taken advantage of.

It’s a double edged sword
Can you share a link to that strategy memo?
Unfortunately this conclusion leads to Boltzmann brains, which isn’t very fun.
This is a normal temptation and desire for someone that is naturally a problem solver.
Whenever you create any kind of art, be it a story, a picture, or whatever, I would argue you reveal something about yourself. I remember reading about Philippe Halsman, a photographer who did this series of portraits featuring celebrities jumping. His theory was that when his subjects were in the air they were so preoccupied that they would inadvertently let their guard down and let their true selves out. He did a portrait of Marilyn Monroe like this and afterwards when he told her his reasoning behind it she was so mortified she refused to ever work with him again
> Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads

Of course they could, just make it part of the service agreement.

I would feel much inclined to pay for youtube if they filtered out all ad-funded content.

Even better, they could have a model where content creators for the paid service got their piece of the revenue based in quality metrics rather than quantity metrics.
The day AI can be used in war, through robots for example, loosing a war might mean total annihilation. That is beyond nuclear weapons risk.
They're a native app, all-in the App Store so I doubt they'll release a web version anytime soon
I think you may be confusing ScyllaDB with Cassandra.
It's still in Duck Duck Go.
Could the screen have displayed "hacked" after a hacker successfully broke into a network?
No worries, I mistook the intent of the comments. It is often hard to distinguish people who are stating something because it is fun and they are interested from someone who is stating something where the intent is to indicate that efforts are wasted.
Humana, Kaiser, Oscar.

But yes, there is an intense economy-of-scale that produces relatively few insurance companies.

(Maybe eventually only one.)
You can't use land camp if you don't own a home / property that has parking space and restrooms. At least after your 3 free stays are done.
As a hobby painter, I believe there’s also your (in)ability or your “favorite” style of painting things that makes paintings look the same. Many of my portraits have the same style because I know or can paint certain things/angles/shadows more “right” than other. It doesn’t look like me, but I do lend my own face to find the right thing/angle/shadow.
We were drowning in data. It was a Fortune 200 company and every few years they completely overhauled their system for looking up state exceptions etc, which meant longstanding employees could no longer use it efficiently and new people still didn't magically get it instantaneously and inevitably some important thing could no longer be accessed at all.

It was all in-house, homegrown software, I tried more than once to suggest moving to GIS -- a map-based system -- for some things and was ignored.

I'm curious how that works for you because I just have trouble imagining that actually works. Like what value does that provide that you cannot do some other way and which justifies the systemic cost burden?

Please edify me a smidgen.
Yup, most companies are now simply providing “emotional” support using sufficiently apologetic, but powerless agents. That is, if you can defeat chat bot screen or IVR maze. The hope is for user to give up..
It is abuse of market power. They are trying to extract monopoly rents out of people that need to be in Charlotte because they dominate that airport. They can’t do that in NYC because of heavy competition.

There are effectively four major airlines. That’s just not nearly enough to avoid anti-competitive bullshit like this.
Classic Streisand effect
Thanks for the details. A coworker pointed me at Heidi Howard (of Flexible Paxos, etc) and Diego Ongaro (Raft) discussing this very question! https://groups.google.com/g/raft-dev/c/cBNLTZT2q8o?pli=1
Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps
How about VRML or its successor X3D? They support fanciness, but you don't have to use it any more than you have to use every random feature in Markdown.
Sounding complex street views via visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (2011) [video]
Is that Google Photos? It does it by default if you back up images there, and can be disabled.
NB: Armchair """""physicist"""""

If their physics is correct, they will figure it out. We did because we verified that expansion is accelerating even though our physics are incomplete. Until the late 90s, physicists accepted a cosmological constant of 0, which meant no acceleration. Turns out that that was wrong.

It may be possible that they figure it out via Quantum Mechanics because it seems that acceleration of the universe is related to the energy density of a vacuum / empty space. The problem is that they won't be able to empirically verify that I think.
Ah! Great info. Thanks :)
Quickly rifling through a the sites of some huge extremely valuable brands, Apple, Coca Cola, Walmart, Target, and Toyota all use SVG for their logos. SVG is not the right choice to lay out documents. It's not a replacement for PDF. It's a perfect choice for creating discrete vector graphics.
This will always be my favorite "whats a compooter" scene
Reddit refugee here. This post convinced me to sign up.
Totally. Eventually got a used one for a Roon server for like $200 on eBay. Music on a USB stick. Works like a charm.
Correct, but solardev was criticizing the $100/yr price, specifically.
And yet...

Browser exploits are a thing, and reliably compromise systems. Apple just released a security update yesterday for "something in WebKit," and we see regular browser security updates.

The art of escaping browser sandboxes seems to exceed the art of building browser sandboxes. The Javascript JIT engine gains you a lot of attack surface, unfortunately (one of the reasons I run JITless with Javascript).

As for snaps, they're just containers - kernel separated. Unfortunately, I consider the value of that against actively malicious code to be "about zero" - local root/kernel exploits are fairly cheap. Containers (so snaps) are great for convenience - if you want to run code you trust without worrying about dependencies, this is fine. They're not fine if you want to isolate things you don't trust - such as a browser from "everything else."

Qubes gives you a much harder boundary around your VMs than containers and sandboxes do.
As long as you avoid things that are paid for by ads, there's no moral problem.
Side comment, but I think you may underestimate the Civic (Type R). Of course the C7 is still on top, but still..

Both in 2017:

7:13.9 - Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06 Christian Gebhardt.

7:43.8 - Civic Type R, Honda didn't name the driver.

Having said that the Nintendo Switch competes against the Series X in my home for time. It has some seriously good titles that my son loves to play.
ok thanks. makes sense.
Couchsurfing's downfall was lack of money (and incredibly poor use of funds) that led to the sale to the bizarre monetizing and "creepy engagement" scheme that ruined it. I would pay $300/yr if it would restore the Couchsurfing community and original site.

If this $100 site led to the kind of community we used to have, it's a bargain. But it's not clear yet whether they will foster a community.
There are loads on aliexpress. 2.5gbe and powerful enough to virtualize a firewall and run a couple other light VMs.
This is an improperly low level of abstraction to the problem, akin to "we're all made of atoms". True and useless.
Both happen, you'll get both neighborhoods organizing as tribes, and the roving gangs of looters and arsonists, the former may spring up in response to the latter.

At least that was the experience in Chile in the most affected localities of the 2010 magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

We called down the breakdown of social order that happened "the social earthquake". Eventually the military had to instate curfews to restore public order, though it was taken to be a display of cracks existing in society that the looting happened in the first place rather than just taken for granted as what will happen in face of disruption of social order, which is the prepper view.
Incredibly common for the most well paid people to be the most clueless. Why? Because the people hiring them are also clueless.
Chairman Shane Smith earned $1.6 million annually [1]. I don't think anyone should be shocked here..

1- https://www.businessinsider.com/shane-smith-divorce-vice-sal...
Hottest days on Earth in the last 100k years all happened last week
That's the same size as my first hard drive back in the late 80's!
IIRC LinkedIn actually does tell you how many applicants have applied via their platform, but since it doesn't tell you 90% don't have the right to work in the country never mind meet the job spec in other requirements, it's not information that's particularly useful.

"We're the job board that forces you to jump through hoops to provide evidence of how active your hiring process is" isn't a sales pitch particularly likely to attract employers (in which case there's not much incentive for candidates to pay them either). And even if it did, it wouldn't replace Glassdoor' reviews - with all their inadequacies - for people that care more about whether the employer sounds better or worse than their current employer than whether they will get a job offer by the end of tomorrow.
pls also refrain from initial caps and message-terminating periods
This is covered in the "The PC Is Not a Typewriter"[1], by Robin Williams. (No, not that Robin Williams.) I adjusted from two spaces to one back in 1999 or so, when I read this book, and the adjustment wasn't as painful as I thought it'd be. I learned on a typewriter in the late '80s.

For some reason, Stephen King uses two spaces between each word in his Tweets.[2] Not sure if this is some statement he's making or a technical glitch.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/PC-Not-Typewriter-Creating-Profession...

[2] https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1678579628686946304?s...
Uh, we don’t necessarily need a great filter to not be constantly visited - we just need a lack of ‘cheat codes’ (like warp drives, wormholes, dirt cheap energy from magical fusion or zero point or whatever), combined with relatively short lived complex civilizations.

If no one can afford the trip (due to what we currently know of physics), or survive as a complex civilization long enough (100k+ years), then… you see what you see right now.
That's the new first step for startups: build a landing page, collect email addresses, only then start building a product. Hard to judge from the outside how much already exists (the first big image is a stock photo).

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html says signup pages and waiting lists are usually off-topic.
Of course. All you need to do is link their minds together like in Pacific Rim. So then it's like one person using four hands on a keyboard to type twice as fast.
Yeah I honestly find people going for 100% achievements to be absolutely strange to me. Same with New Game+ people. A lot of the time you have to play the game over and over again or do something horribly repetitive to get to 100% and people just do it. There are very few non-strategy games I ever want to play again as much as I enjoyed the first play through.

I feel like the people who don't like "gamifying" github think that that's the similar style of github badges. Someone even mentioned that "you can't 100% life" or some form of that. That is the furthest thing from the point of it in my opinion and experience.

But there are definitely a small portion people who go for that, I'm sure.
I upgraded my fp3's camera to the fp3+'s, and it's noticeably better. Also, the upgrade was the easiest. Pop the old camera out and the new one in.

'Good' is relative. No doubt an iPhone's camera is better, but I suspect most people have no need for such high quality photos. They just want to take photos for themselves or social media. And for that the FF3 camera is totally good enough.
Sad news. NUCs could have been an excellent platform if they had tried to work a bit more on cooling.

On third-party cases, NUCs were great. But on stock cases, some models were too noisy. Still, they provided great value.

Nonetheless, I agree it's better for Intel to focus on their core business and leave this market to others. Some niche PC makers such as Cirrus7 offer great NUC-like systems.
been to old dubai, it s basically touristy, has an unhealthy obsession with gold jewellery, and i m not sure if the people there are locals or know local traditions.

my guess is , if there s going to be something culturally interesting arising near dubai, it will arise in sharjah where immigrants live
Crawford Lake in Canada marks beginning of ‘Anthropocene,’ scientists say
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As always, people making more fuss around it than necessary. Code calling printf() with a constant format string literal is this class of code that you have to run a single time to know it works. Many C++ programmers have always been using printf() in preference to e.g. std::cout because of ergonomics. And they were right.

It's hard to take people seriously that try to talk it down for being a pragmatic solution that's been around for probably 30-40 years.
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Two thumbs down for connect pro. I ordered their top of the line 4 computer, 2 monitor DisplayPort KVM and it took months to arrive. I could not cycle between inputs using the buttons. They were more like a suggestion to use that signal path; I would constantly need to power cycle the kvm, monitors, or both.

I ended up ditching it on eBay at a significant loss for a $30 usb switch and just switch monitor inputs manually. Far cheaper solution and way less fussy.
Space is much bigger than you are accounting for and the speed of light much slower. If the nearest spacefaring civilization is in the next galaxy over, we will never meet them. It actually seems rather unlikely any spacecraft could ever reach us unless they evolved right in our backyard, within a few dozen light years.