skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>actual facts

You see how quickly you are to believe these are the "actual facts"? That's how quickly they were to believe their "actual facts" as well.

That is the story. Not the facts. What we tell ourselves, what we tell others. This is why they brought up memories, an unstable collection of flashes in our mind, and we use these to craft a story. The story has changed, and will continue to change, you're in the process of writing it right now.

Unless you don't believe in free will and that your story/stories are already written. That's a very fun thought!

This is why "facts" is misleading here. We aren't talking about observed realities (she is going to the park, I am eating an ice cream), we're talking about our feelings, thoughts, memories, perceived consequences, ambitions, projections, assumptions. None of these are objective. Despite our best attempt to come together and make it so.
Indeed I did, thanks!
I had a conversation once with a developer that had built an interesting crypto thing. I was asking about the hard details of how the pieces interacted and eventually just went and read it because his answers were close to useless.

One thing he said during that conversation when it became clear he only understood it well enough to put big lego blocks together was "oh it's hard to talk to you web2 guys". Just 0_0 lol what.

That's about my take of what web3 has meant to me ever since. The evm ethereum virtual machine is interesting in it's own right as well as some adjacent things. I don't really want to make any claim as to if any of that stuff is 'going anywhere'. He couldn't elucidate any of that to me in person, just an ol web2 guy, sadly.
I'm not. There has to be some kind of physical threat for it to be assault. Smirking is not that. Neither is tearing up paper.
A great book by one of the auhors of HtDP is DCIC and it uses a programmimg language called Pyret and chapter 3 covers a transition from pyret to python.

https://dcic-world.org/2023-02-21/index.html

Do you have any examples you can share of GPT4 being degraded?
WebP has problems (several unreported CVEs too), and is essentially another tga disaster under the hood. Anyone smart keeps those little monsters in a box. =)

What I am seeing is the high-water-mark for WebP was 3 years ago... It is already dead as a format, but may find a niche use-case for some users.

Consider built-in web-cams that have hardware h264 codecs built-in, as the main cpu just has to stream the data with 1 core. Better battery life for both the sender and receiver.

Keep in mind a single web page may have hundreds of images, and mjpeg streams are still popular in machine-vision use-cases. As most media/gpu hardware is now integrated into most modern browsers, the inertia of "good-enough" will likely remain.. and become permanent as patents expire. =)
Putty and s2n are examples how this problem is solved, they work on POSIX, e.g. linux, just compile them with gcc and they work.
I think Apple truly cares about iMessage in particular maintaining E2EE. iCloud backup, for those who use it, is a different story.
That sure is a lot of pompous talk for a Helvetica knockoff
Just don't dump it on the market all at once? You sell it off slowly to maximize profit. Undercut the competition, put the terrestrial gold industry out of business, and capture the entire market.
If only there were a strong, centralized app store that could perform app review and prevent applications from degrading user experience beyond the extent actually necessary without that permission.

Good thing the EU just outlawed that model and forced everyone to support "third party app stores" that are thinly-veiled shells for Facebook/Google/etc to bypass that review process.

the "I wanna sideload" crowd are nothing more than allies of convenience for FB and others. Facebook was already experimenting with getting users to manually sideload the full-telemetry build and now they can just say "oops not supported on safari, install the native app".

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
So, how do we use it?
I’m not surprised, SMSing people is still common, and sliding from that to iMessage is totally frictionless for iPhone users. With iOS market share being around 50%, I’m surprised (skeptical even!) that it’s not closer to 50%.
Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted sharing crackdown
I think what I wrote is the opposite of "means to an end". Enjoy the journey. (Just make sure to start it)
You're saying that people should be aware of Target's practices, which is why it works?
Xbox’s Top Bestselling Games Are Mostly Old Xbox 360 Call of Dutys
Are you sure? Doesn't it depend on the criteria? What if my criteria is that the author not be Catholic, or that they aren't competing with my son in the pork industry?
Not really applicable, in that situation there were local court rules requiring physical documents and "wet" signatures (i.e., signed in person with a pen). The UST specifically noted that absent those rules DocuSign would have been acceptable.

Also...the article is from 7 years ago...
There are plenty of legitimate web3 and defi projects out there. The ethereum network, on-chain real world assets like USDC, protocols like Uniswap and AAVE, interesting stuff happening in the DID space. This blog post just reads like someone (who is this, by the way? this is a single post on a bear blog- why are we taking this so seriously?) who got caught up in and then burned by an overhyped NFT project.
Especially funny since JPEG images commonly have .jpeg as an extension!
I can see the appeal of this. DVDs are very cheap in charity shops nowadays and I think you would value the content more if you searched for it in the real world, bought it and ripped it manually.
Brominated flame retardants found in breast milk from the United States
If they would have compromised they wouldn't have been banned.

So, yes?
It is still a good goal. Having to input details into forms is why even the most user-friendly CRMs can still not be enough to get staff to use them. Unless you work in a trendy youngish hipster startup, most companies outside of that bubble have the constant challenge of getting employees to use new tools. I have a client company whose employees only use WhatsApp and email, barely use OneDrive and resist using Slack or Salesforce or any other tools.

If they could just dictate a note and a contact record in Salesforce gets updated, and it does so with near 100% reliability, that would definitely be a game changer.
You are not the target audience. The lower half of the bell curve of target audience did drop out at grade school.
Conversational data between human beings is exactly the sort of tokens you’d want to train a massive in-house LLM on. Then you could have embeddings for the local stuff on-device, and still call it “private” models.

The magic data dust is only useful if they can use all of it though. I just see some incentive there that I can’t imagine them ignoring in a couple years.
'ChatGPT's evil twin' WormGPT is devoid of morals and just €60/month on darkweb
Container formats increase size. Now for video that doesn't matter much because it doesn't move the needle. For images a container format could be a significant percentage of the total image size.
I'm sure there are plenty of 173 sq mi areas on earth to put it. And if there's not, by the time it reaches the surface that area will be pretty clear!
Headline: Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Even with the new iCloud e2ee, which is not on by default, if you enable it, Apple and FBI/DHS/et al can still read all your messages (unless each and everyone you iMessage with also enables it), because iCloud still escrows iMessage sync keys in non-e2ee iCloud Backups, breaking the e2ee in iMessage.

For 99.99%+ of iMessages, they ARE NOT E2EE and can be read at any time by Apple and provided to the state without a warrant. This is by design. HT202303 explains this, because for some reason Apple doesn't like to publicly lie.

This article is brand marketing, nothing more. It worked on you.

Apple has the ability to ship private devices. They don't because they choose not to fight city hall.
EU DMA and I don't think it really has to do with privacy at all.
For me at least, it is the opposite. It is not that I think Facebook is principled, it is that I don't think Apple is particularly principled. They care about money. Unlike many of their competitors, they are not fundamentally an ad-tech company which means your personal data has much lower value to them. This has caused them to build their brand around privacy because that is something their competitors have difficulty doing due to their business models. Apple's pro-privacy stance is just as much a capitalistic position as a principled one.
> Did your app purchases form the Google Play Store automatically transfer to your Apple App store, and did your photos off your Google drive transfer to your iCloud, or vice-versa?

Which apps would those be that you have to buy on iOS and Android separately? Most non game apps are subscription based that work across platforms.

My photos are already sync to Google Photos on my iPhone and if I had an Android device, I would just download the Google Photos app.

Music bought on iTunes has been DRM free since 2008 and Apple Music is available on Android.

Apple, Google, Amazon and a few other platforms and most of the studios participate in MoviesAnywhere where you buy movies from one platform and it shows up as purchased on the other platforms

What data is “trapped”?
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero....
In the meantime, it might seem very counterintuitive, but it is very evolutional and GOOD regulation!
It will force custodial monopolies companies like Meta and Apple, either go away OR provide programmability for users to incorporate their own encryption layers with possibility to control your own keys yourself.
I don't understand why FedNow and CBDC are such a big issue in the US. FedNow looks quite attractive from a fees perspective, especially when compared to PayPal and alike. Part of me wonders if the middlemen who stand to lose out might be trying to muddy the waters. It wouldn't be the first time.
When self-hosting it - it's up for the company that is using the tool hosted on-premises to ensure that all their specific requirements are met - i think DocuSeal provides enough features to make this happen.

AWS S3 to store documents can be integrated with DocuSeal to ensure the documents integrity - AWS services have their own logs that can't be altered and so can be used as a source of trust.

And to ensure that the document was signed by a real person companies can include photo attachments into the documents signing process (this could be a photo of an ID card or a selfie)
Autocorrect changed senbei to sensei.
I have seen some arguments that they don't care about your privacy and it's all right there in the privacy policy if you're willing to read it. A video on the subject [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/r38Epj6ldKU
Can you give a name so I don't have to read a long article?

It is easy to find people who believe that it is possible (with some low probability) that AI will end the human race in the next 12 mo. (I'm one of them.) I haven't seen anyone however put most of their probability mass in the next 12 or 24 mo, and I'd like to find out what their reasoning is.
Prisoner Inventions: Design under duress
We know that change, specifically in employment status in America, can and often does mean the difference between life or death.

So yes it’s extremely important that employment changes not be thrust on people if we can at all avoid it as a society.

You should care more about the plight of others.
arbitrary r/w via WebGL, apparently: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142786...

looks like a pretty powerful primitive for only a $10K bounty. what would it go for on Zerodium?
> I hope you'll come back with something better than 'I couldn't find anything about Hunter Biden's laptop.'

Why wouldn't that be good enough?
NASA, capable to capturing a $10 quintillion asteroid but, according to the hacker news commenters, completely incapable of making rational economic decisions. These Internet commenters are so smart.
If you think they're really going to do that and not hand over keys, I can give you a great price on this bridge I'm keen to move.
They're complying, in that China has not required them to alter iMessage in China. It's still E2EE. But iCloud backups aren't, and each country's respective government has access to those.
Who is this, and why do so many people care they got burned by an (even at the time) obviously overhyped NFT project? There's nothing of substance here. Certainly nothing technically compelling enough to warrant the HN front page.
Use a local LLM like LLaMa 2.
Even though there are scams, Blockchain have a lot of utilities.

You don't have as many scams in AI just because it doesn't involve money, but there are countless cases of people labeling stuff with "AI" or just some other shady stuff using AI to preform scams, spam and other malicious stuff.

Saying that "would be better handled by using a single trusted database and cryptographic signatures for verification", is the same as saying that "AI could just be replaced with Ifs and Elses and other algorithms, and all you are doing is just optimal solutions".

I'm just mocking the fact that HN seems to have the idea of "AI Good, Crypto Bad", even thought that both are just Trendy tech
Is it? Literally every single workload is improved by adding more cores. Even single threaded applications benefit, as they can have more time on their core, without having loosing their cache.
The biggest weakness of the ChatGPT Webapp is the inability to tinker with the system prompt, which is what can really control how ChatGPT behaves and can correct a large number of undesired behaviors people keep complaining about.

This is most likely using system prompt engineering on the backend, so hopefully people will also realize that prompt engineering is not a meme by finally giving them a mechanism to customize output significantly. It also explains why it's limited to paying customers only, as it can be used to work around certain safety constraints, and I am skeptical that this new tool is hardened enough against it.
> You can't just measure things on "how many utilities/much utility" something has.

You very much can unless you're completely out of touch with reality. For instance plenty of real world metrics show that ChatGPT has proved more useful within its first 15 days than cryptocurrencies have been in 15 years.

> HN instead of embracing the utility/technology advancements that come with Crypto, it appears to undermine the significance of Crypto in an attempt to gain an edge in the competitive landscape on what is now popular.

If haters on HN can "undermine" your technology then you've admitted it's shit.
>My primary reason for believing this is that as a scientist myself, I've never done it, and none of my coauthors has ever proposed to do something like that.

Are you sure? Also a) how far along are you and b) how far from actual research work are you at this point?
So both of them based their story on flimsy/incomplete evidence and they keep reshaping their stories.

If only there were an objective reality to know which car was in the wrong. /s
How about Google hires talent that actively tests, discovers and mitigates vulnerabilities

That's Project Zero: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Zero
> On one hand, a single country can't just flood the market with a valuable material

Can you elaborate? A few centuries ago Spain extracted so much silver and gold from the American continent that the price of those precious metals suffered in consequence.
I wrote a comment on another thread today about this wrt surveillance. Reduced friction in surveillance definitely is something to be feared, as the evidence is that if the government/police/alphabet agencies can use a power (literally, not necessarily legally), they will. The only thing holding them back in the pre-digital age was the high cost of physical surveillance and even data storage, when "files" were things you held. The difference in quantity of possible surveillance has become a difference in quality, where it's just "common sense" that the government can easily pull your movements from cell tower records, and that they'll do so regardless of whether they're allowed to (or say "terrorism!" allows them to)
The one bit of Romanian I learned there: Merci!
Who here clicked the YouTube link at the top of the README.md file and DIDN'T watch it all the way through? I admire your resolve!
> still have over a decade of data in gmail, google photos, and google drive

And apps are available for iOS that let you access all of them. If you install Google Drive on the iPhone, your drive shows up along side iCloud in the Files app and open/save file dialoga
Running Query Insights on PlanetScale
Wikipedia actually has a system for creating knowledge and verifying it, while ChatGPT was trained to convince humans.
Currently you can export all files, but there's no way to access them otherwise. They plan on having an API. Right now you're limited to 1GB of storage that they pin on their IPFS node, but they plan to enable self-hosting, i.e., using your own IPFS node.

Roadmap on GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/projects/1/views/1
"Can I see your social security card, please? The one that says 'Not to be used for identification' on it?" lol
I didn't find it gentlemanly to name names here, and wanted to let my comment be developed independently, but since my comment is already flagged, I suppose i'll make it clear the source and the weight of the research that I'm simply referencing. This was saidin the all-in-podcast. This was during episode 135, at the 23:15 mark. The show has a guide so it should be findable.

I believe hosts do research and in fact, have VC minions (paid staff) during the show pulling the data to demonstrate how the calc was derived.

(I'm actually quite surprised this is not immediately known, as I thought the podcast audience was primarily HN ..)

Also, sibling comment added his own independent analysis
>> What if the author had paralyzed the woman? What if he was solely and entirely at fault?

>In this case his story would have never been written. Thus we get a big survivorship bias to hear only about unlikely events and get some kind of wisdom tidbits from those.

That's not necessarily true. Many years ago, I killed a 77 year-old woman by striking her with my bicycle. Her skull fractured when she hit the pavement. I heard her skull being crushed, but I didn't realize it at the time -- after I realized what that sound was, it's haunted me to this day.

I was completely at fault (I blew through a red light and hit her after avoiding someone else) and while I don't think about it every day any more, I bear the responsibility for her injury, eventual death and the grief it caused her family.

While I don't consider myself a bad or evil person, I made a really bad decision that cost someone their life. And I will bear the guilt of that bad decision forever.

I don't give myself a pass because it wasn't a malicious act, mostly because that poor woman is still dead regardless of my motivations.

I can't go back and change the past, but I've tried to make better decisions since then. That's not enough, but it's all I can do to avoid such things moving forward.
stores that aggressively sign you up for their loyalty programs are so annoying. every gas station pulls this shit.
I would not suggest taking legal advice from the EFF. You might as well contact the sovereign citizen movement at that point.
People just like playing slots. We had a crowd who just liked to spend lots and they won lots too since higher denominations had a higher payback compared to lower denomination. Usually 88% for penny slots but $1, $5, $10 (per line played mind you!!) are 96% to 98%.

I recall we had a few good looking people regulars who were in movies or TV or models not sure. One woman had on jeans that cost more than I made in a year. Actual diamonds for the decoration on them. They spent piles of money and on drinks.

It was amazing to see especially in small town Canada with a population of no more than 70,000.

And yes our comps sucked mainly due to laws on free booze or encouraging gambling. The odds/payback are industry standard it's all highly regulated here as other casinos. PAR sheets only allow so much adjustment.
heard of upi in india? it’s one of the best payment system in the world.
It's funny, C++ projects either have the best or the worst setup experience.

Took me hours to get Audacity building on Windows. Actually, I might have given up and installed Linux instead, and built it there. That's usually way easier!

But the other day I built an old MP3 encoder (BladeEnc) in a split second. It brought a tear to my eye. That's with Visual Studio 6. Which somehow builds an entire project before the new VS even begins compiling!
News represents nothing that grabs them because it’s too expensive.
This was fun, I forget sometimes how silly all our grade school math worksheets used to be. I always had trouble showing my work for simple additions and multiplication, it's a bit easier when its a self motivated dunking on the GPUs.

It may take 4-5 days and 1000+ people, but it's definitely created a greater sense of community than any faster rendering system. I like looking over the different pixels and knowing that they represent some nerd-sniped engineer like me.
If you're using the word 'item' to describe a data structure in minecraft, you're not using it in the traditional way, you're using it in a technical way.
Forget the military, when was the last time the government used force on its own citizens? Probably 1 second ago, and thousands of times a day. Are you really more oppressed by a private hospital today than you are by literally thousands of laws that have penalties that will put you in prison? I'm not pro private hospital, or anti-law, but let's be real about who has ultimate control of your freedom. Even if we grant the threat to your freedom by a private [fill in the blank], that entity only is allowed to exist by dint of the government. Not a coincidence that many of your examples are the most regulated industries, or directly in business with Government (hospitals, firearms manufactures, prisons, insurance companies).
> I can't stay attached to a single project for too long and I lose interest.

I'm the same way. I'm good for about 5 years, tops, before I just need to do something different. But I've known lots of people who were the opposite of me. They prefer not to change projects and would be thrilled to stay on the same one forever.

Different people have different needs, and I think that's a wonderful thing. Especially when I see people happily doing important work that would have me wanting to slit my wrists in no time.
There are stronger and weaker forms of it, though. Apple holds the keys to the identity (public key) exchange in iMessage. You're still trusting Apple not to mitm your conversations, but at least they wouldn't be able to do this retroactively. Other E2EE messaging apps at least have a way to verify each others' pubkeys, but it's not required and very few people do it.
I'm still not sold on the "productivity angles" for this. Love the PSVR2, and Beat Saber alone is typically enough to get folks all in on it. Having a steering wheel for the haptic feedback makes Gran Turismo insanely immersive.

Doing the same things without the feedback on input, though? Feels odd. I can almost see the argument for "you can just hook up your keyboard for the productivity," but I think we are well past the diminishing returns on screen size for most folks.

I am hopeful that this can lead to some more money spend on the ideas. Hard not to see some of this having impact in the future. But really hard for me to see it as an amazing creation/productivity tool.