skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you're hearing is people mourning a loss of something they had and valued.

I think feeling that loss, and expressing it, is valid.

> Todays web is much better and more accessible.

Whether or not it's better depends on what you found valuable about it. It is worse for some, and better for others. Disclaimer: it's much, much worse for me. But I acknowledge that it's better for others. Such is life.

> The internet will get more personal. And that’s good.

Whether that's good or not depends on what you mean by "get more personal". If what you mean is "more personalized", then I think that's the opposite of good.

But, again, that's just me and I'm mourning that the web is most of the way toward becoming a thing that no longer meets my needs or desires. That it meets the needs and desires of others is fine, and I don't want to deny others from being able to derive value from it. But, nonetheless, the loss to me, personally, is real and I don't see why I shouldn't be able to talk about that.
Its the choose the number that make things look worse. If the article stated it increased €43 Euros a year, it doesn't sound as bad. Its still a large increase, but not as jaw dropping as the % makes it seem.
It doesn't "deprive" you of anything. You're not entitled to a business model.
> What you seem to be pushing for is the much weaker interpretation that they'll get better at all, which is well, pretty obviously true. But that doesn't mean squat, so I doubt that's what you are saying.

I mean this is what I was saying. I just don't think that the technology has to become hallucination-free to be useful. So my bad if I didn't catch the implicit assumption that "any hallucination is a dealbreaker so why even care about security" angle of the post I initially responded to.

My take is simply just that "these things are going to be used more and more as they improve so we better start worrying about supply chain and provenance sooner than later". I strongly doubt hallucination is going to stop them from being used despite the skeptics, and I suspect hallucination is a problem of lack of context moreso than innate shortcomings, but I'm no expert on that front.

And I'm someone who's been asked to try and add AI to a product and had the effort ultimately fail because the model hallucinated at the wrong times... so I well understand the dynamics.
I work in tools for game devs and it's great to see more open-source work like this it's very hard to find good modern open-source game examples.
finally, the real engine behind chatgpt
The value I get from just stealing media is unbeatable.

I can use the money I save on subscriptions to see a show and buy merch, which means the bands I like actually get paid. Win-win.
> Is the argument just - oh, but the stuff is cool, so... whatever?

Do you find it that strange that "company makes things people like to pay money for"?

I'm unsure which "objective" ethical framework disallows Apple products but allows any other consumer tech device. Apple does very well at some things, average at some others, and very poorly at other things, which isn't particuarly insightful. Whether you would like to spend money on an Apple product depends on how you value each of these things, and you can't be surprised that other people might prioritise different things than you.
> They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters

Do they actually, or do they just have a service for anyone?
Yes, the government should force Apple to release an SDK for other platforms.
I guess the Github description/HN title is incomplete, it's curious that it's saying it's a backup solution, but what is visible is an web-based photo browser... yeah yeah I get it, just like Google Photos (i.e. App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named according to the docs[1]), the web viewer is part of the package...

I guess it needs a better description, IMO a project with several big components (web, mobile, backend) sells itself short being named just "backup solution".

[1] https://immich.app/docs/overview/introduction
At one startup I worked for, all our GitHub repos were managed via Terraform. Adding or revoking permissions was easy: just ask DevOps and they'll add your username to the list of developers in the org or grant permissions on a per-repo basis.
How do you defend the service against answers copied from chatGPT?

How do you defend against trolls? And how do you distinguish them from genuinely stupid people?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

What do you do with all the teenagers (?) asking "questions" about sex?
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First of all, this is a good idea and a cool app.

IDK if this is part of your plans, it seems like a perfect way to gather LLM training data... And a reasonable use case for LLM integration. And its not in explicit conflict with your privacy policy as far as I can tell, as long as you self host.

Everyone is training LLaMA on ChatGPT Q+A pairs, but a big corpus of filtered, purely human, human rated questions+responses would be so much better.
Anyone at Google can write a memo about anything.
The ticks are there to show a high confidence that whatever the content is, has been posted by a real person. I got my tick because I seem to have divergent opinions from a lot of people, and that stupid tick makes them engage with my ideas hopefully for the better instead of rejecting them out of hand by passively disagreeing. It hasn't been all that long and it already changed my mind on something.

That stupid blue tick is important to have people engage in discourse, it's healthy for people to talk instead of vilifing anybody not in your bubble.

To think it represents intellectual elites is a mistake and it's missing the point.
but what’s the upside still? They’ll have developer units available this month supposedly so availability isn’t the big barrier.

It’s like saying they should enable iOS development on windows. It doesn’t make brand sense to do it. The slight upside of a few devs who won’t buy a Mac isn’t worth the deterioration of brand prestige by pushing people to multiple platforms.

Also there’s a not insignificant cost associated with maintaining tooling on multiple platforms when they rely so significantly on the vertical stack
There was an argument that was not used by the function implementation. I removed it from the signature entirely - at the definition and the call sites.

Boom. No longer compiles.

Yes I understand the complex and surprising rules that cause this to happen. That doesn't make them any less complex and surprising.
Yeah, that's not an unreasonable price. Just ticking off the features (which doesn't tell the whole story) Gandi's email service provides something between fastmail's $3 and $5 plans, and similar to protonmail's $3.99 plan.

That €0.35/month plan was a steal. Most places don't even offer backup store-and-forward SMTP for that let alone full email hosting. Of course, now that they are pricing themselves the same as their competitors they will be held to the same standard, and we'll see how that holds up.
Ask HN: Making LLMs ask a clarifying question
A major problem that we are facing is that the model (GPT-4) is not aware that there are multiple answers present for the query in the context. It tries to pick one possible answer and expands on that. Ideally it should be able to detect the ambiguity and ask a clarifying question.

I tried to make this as an "instruction" in the prompt but that doesn't seem to nudge the model towards identifying ambiguity. I am not trying to improve the retrieval to make the context less ambiguous.
Anyone has found a workarond?
How does this square with broad reaching commerce-regulating state laws like the CCPA or CEQA? Also, for federal supremacy/the Commerce clause to apply to something like this, doesn't the Federal government first have to have legislated in this area?
Copyright is a privilege, not a right, backed by criminal law and state violence. With numerous exceptions, like public interest and fair use.

It is not property like a physical object.
I'm not saying it's a perfect metric, but I also don't see how the context of getting paid a lot to do a job relates to what you're saying. A general principle is not reductionalist.
Some people are willing to take a on some extra risk to talk to journalists, and the world is a better place for their bravery.

And we’re talking about thousands of bits, we spend way more than that on stupid things like making UI slightly prettier. I’m streaming music at, I guess, ~200kbps, why not spend a couple seconds worth of music on keys? (Who knows, maybe it will protect some famous journalist somehow and we’ll end up ahead when it spares us a whole moment of silence).

Edit: TBH I’m not really sure this is a useful way to look at things, but the music bandwidth/moment of silence parallel was too convenient to pass up.
There are absolutely people who go into B2B data integration startups with the belief that they are providing a useful service to their customers. Do you really doubt that?
I’ve always been curious to know .. with all of the random 0-days in mobile operating systems (iOS, for example)

How do you know that an attacker is not persisting in the system if you click a bad link before a patch gets applied?
My imaginary approach is that you'd have to submit an actual copy to the Library of Congress or equivalent every year / every 5 years / .... So it forces you to at least track what you're copyrighting and have a working "production line". You could still refuse to sell it to anyone, but that would be essentially pique.
Your example of somebody we could have a constructive dialog with is... Elon Musk? I think that's absurd. The guy obviously does not give two shits about consensus.

I think the biggest problem with Elon Musk is a lot of credulous people, helped by credulous tech media, treated him as a serious person. But he's obviously not interested in dialog with anybody who doesn't kiss his entire ass. Having a convenient contemptuous label like "tech bro" is absolutely helpful in undermining that unearned and dangerous false respect.

And I'd say the second-biggest problem here is people valuing civility above all else, which allows toxic narcissists like Musk to run rings around everybody that's supposedly pursuing consensus with people in positions in power. Strangely, you never see those people working very hard to get consensus with the less powerful people that they harm. Coincidence, I imagine.
Laws are old. Wiretapping is a crime. Harvesting web browsing history is not. US Mail is legally protected. Email is not. Until a law is passed data brokers will ply their trade. Even after they will work right up to the legal limit.
> as if you are being let down by a paid tool

It wasn't "as if" that at all. It was a neutral statement of fact.
I wonder how many innovations/systems are lost to history due to people changing incentives OR not understanding the depth of how incentives are structured.
Without this open letter, it'd be hard to hear the other side. Most likely the changes would have been adopted...

Reading this encouraged me to think critically about things I work on.
Allowing porn monetizes and aids a probabilistic percentage of revenge porn, child porn, deepfake porn, and human trafficking.

Even if a waiver is signed, there's significant duress in many cases. There's a lot of pain and evil enabled by allowing porn to spread on an algorithmic newsfeed.
So far, remote remains the default where I work, and the jobs I’ve been interviewing for are also universally remote, even if the current staff are local. (Montréal Canada)
I don't know exactly why but usage of corporate memphis makes it a bit jarring for me.
Create a Fillable PDF Form with a Submit Button in LibreOffice Writer [video]
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
01:18 - Prep work
02:16 - Create form without table
02:56 - Use table to create form
05:00 – Textboxes
06:54 - Drop down list
08:35 - Numerical field
09:17 - Radio/option buttons
11:55 - Date field
12:45 – Checkboxes
15:53 - Export as PDF without submit Button
18:40 - Create submit button (I don’t recommend after this point - JS)
22:50 - Export as PDF with submit button
23:07 - Submit button send email properties
23:31 - Configure email client
22:54 - Saving and sending filled out form
24:37 - Receiving filled out form
24:49 - Wrap up
Show HN: Watch YouTube videos with other people
I'm building a site for people to watch youtube videos together and chat. Let me know what you think.
Your perceptions are wrong from a consumer point of view. They don’t make shiny toys (well they do but that’s not the point)

They make extremely frictionless ecosystems. Everyone on HN loves to tinker I would wager, but that is never going to be your average consumer. Apple knows that.

That is why Linux will never become mainstream, the friction of using it (from installing to daily driving it) is INSANE . No one can use it outside of a select few. Same with Android. Lots of idiosyncrasies when you start digging deeper. I wanted to use Samsung version of Airdrop today. It was a disaster trying to get a picture over to another device.

That’s where Apple shines. Get that and you might make a dent in Apples market share.
This is the best thing ever actually.

Every entrepreneur should be made prior to opening their business, to get a cell phone from montana.

Then, get a google voice #. That will be the burner for all random apps online.
I just finished building two small boats (1 sheet of plywood each, plus odds and ends) with my preteen sons using a VERY simple plan. Only 3-4 hours of work, plus drying time. I'll check this out when we're ready to upgrade.
4+ GB of ram required?
I am not a troll, I just don't do things which actively work against me.
I really like keywords. I use keywords for search engines and bookmarks.
I created several ones to mirror DuckDuckGo bangs.

It is unfortunate that add-ons cannot add a set of keywords: it would be great to have all DuckDuckGo bangs defined as keywords by an add-on.
This looks incredible with the local search and context awareness. Curious if there is a comparison to other tools like photoprism about the advantages of Immich
I know that larger cars need stronger A-pillars because the A-pillar is supposed to keep the cabin from getting smushed in a roll-over, and so the A-pillar needs to have a larger cross section.

But why don't they get that increased cross section by extending the A-pillar in the directions toward and away from the driver and keep its size perpendicular to that the same? That should give a stronger A-pillar without changing how much it blocks. It would slightly reduce the interior volume of the cabin bit that would come from space that normally isn't used.
Well, they fight tooth-and-nail to keep crims and fascists online, but they pre-emptively kick sex workers. What does that tell you?
The record quantum computers can factor is 21 -- and that is by cheating by already knowing the factors are 3 and 7. There are other results that use special form composites which don't count.

So a QC can factor a 5 bit number with Shor's algorithm in 2023 (with some cheating). That record has not changed for 10+ years.

I publicly bet 8 years ago that nobody would factor the number 35 by 2030. I hope I'm proved wrong.
I've no idea why you're asking me this, nor what point you're trying to make with your story. Can you make it plainly please, so I can understand what point you're trying to make?
I was responding to an author in the thread, not to the author of the article.

Catholic schools are financially structured in rather unique ways. They're controlled by clerical orders which are technically financially independent from the Vatican, kind of like a franchise.

Together, the institutions under a specific clerical order operate collectively kind of like a cooperative so money flows around differently than most schools.

Weirdly, schools that used to be but no longer are religious seem to now be some of the most expensive. For instance, Tufts, USC and Yale.

The rise in tuition is because college has been increasingly seen as a personal, private transaction and not as a social good.

This reframing of the institution as a market based services purchase is the rationale for the policies that have caused all the other problems

Catholic schools might also be cheaper because these clerical orders are ostensibly tasked with social welfare so they are still partially operating under the old model before the Milton Friedman mind virus.
I generally have 200-500 tabs open at a time, appropriately sorted into groups and hierarchies using sidebery
Your hands must hurt from clutching your pearls.

I bet you never took a vow of poverty or decided not to use tech. Do you use computers? Do you own a phone? Do you spend all of your time feeding starving children?
React definitely did not copy WPF. It copied XHP: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction which was another Facebook thing, but that itself was inspired by E4X: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
https://github.com/Shelf-nu/shelf.nu/blob/main/LICENCE

License MIT <3
A work that is not shared has no value and there should be no criminal sanctions to protect something of no value.

You don’t get to misuse violent power of the state to control spread of arbitrary information
I always add a line to my prompts something to the effect of "Ask as many clarifying questions as need be before answeing."
What advantage does this have over nextcloud?
That doesn't make sense since we ate anything we could find and evolution only selected for procreation, not for long term health. The very things we ate for most of our history could very well be bad for us long term, like increase our cardiovascular disease risk.

I don't see why I would accept appeals to nature in favor of the balance of our best evidence.
Personally I always thought Togusa had some good points.
The vulnerabilities are built in at every level.

Source: I was once a CALEA programmer.

Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot, a liar, or both.

Web sites that are frequently referenced are forced to censor the truth.
No they don't. They can make a decent guess occasionally but it's not remotely the same as in typed languages where it's accurate and works all the time.

It is absolutely a unique feature of typed languages.
Persisting in the fs is much harder than just getting code execution. Not impossible (nothing is) but much harder (and thus likely less common), due to signature checking
> If this is about behavior, then why mix in aspects of gender, age, and profession

This is such a good example of why technical degrees need stronger humanities requirements. Why indeed?
Useless without a desktop app. Who even uses a smartphone (too small screen and stupid keyboard) in 2023 ?
Velja Browser Picker
> provide the best user experience was through a mobile app

Having to install an app is always a bad user experience. It's a dealbreaker for me for just about every case, and in general it's got to add a lot of friction when you're trying to get people to sign up.

It would be interesting to hear some honest discussion of the tradeoffs. I assume most companies prefer me using an app because it lets them run arbitrary code on my phone, access contacts and whatnot, and send me notifications. Is it also materially easier to write the code for apps? Is that a legit reason why companies prefer it? And is whatever companies are getting out of forcing their users onto an app worth the potential users they lose because of it?
A competitor that "isn't for news, politics or negativity" [0].
In other words, a place that won't let the same thing happen.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334/instagram-threads...
But RSA has been long time going out, and short-keyed RSA doubly so. I would estimate that since maybe 2015ish deploying stuff that is coupled to 2048bit RSA would have been mistake. That gives generous 15ish year transition period. Anyone who cares even the slightest should succeed transition in that sort of timeframe.
Thanks and in your experience, does it work?
There is no "one quick trick" that will keep you healthy. It's a whole plethora of habits and activities that make a difference, not an individual one.
Lidar and depth sensing are the same
Twitter and Reddit for some reason get a pass from Apple's App Store Guidelines on this. It seems unlikely any other app will be able to have as explicit NSFW content as those two.
That depends on what it means for this to be "working"
I guess it really depends on who gets the developer devices. I have a feeling they will be more locked down than the Arm mac developer units (which they gave to almost anyone). If they are stingy then it’d make some more sense to allow lessor hardware to be used by everyone else but I totally see you point. I forgot about the dev units since I had assumed when they were announced that it would be very hard to get one. You make a good point.
The Lindy effect applies to non-perishables. There are alternatives which are much more likely to conform to a reasonable equivalency of non-perishable for cryptography. Per this article, RSA strongly does not fit reasonable equivalent definitions.
On the open-source side I'm ot aware of any solution that covers everything like this from one end to the other.
I would have assumed Amazon did that themselves? Amazon Registrar, Inc. is ICANN accredited.
Go private with something like Haven[1], or stay public but on a platform that explicitly avoids "viral loops" like Micro.blog[2]

[1]: https://havenweb.org

[2]: https://micro.blog
What is really going on here is that Google is trying once more to get all your data one way or another [0]. I would bet that Google offered a lot of money for GM to have Google automotive as their platform.

I really like GM and believe that they have a strong chance in the EV market long term but this essentially will prevent me from ever getting one of those cars.

[0] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-data-google-collects-...
In that case the volume of traffic such a communication medium would need to handle is likely small enough that you can bump the key size higher to ensure greater longevity, currently past the lifetimes of those involved, and accept that transmitting data will take a small fraction of time longer.