skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not.

When we look at the evidence, it seems like life began pretty much as soon as it could have as the earth cooled. It could be that life starting on planets like ours basically just happens as a byproduct of the planet building.
If Google's support is any indication, Google doesn't like to involve humans in their processes. There probably isn't enough humans to do this manual intervention you propose.
Traffic indeed sucks. It depends on the day. Wed is the worst. Friday is the "best"
Even within my immediate family we seem to have distinct differences in our conscious experience. My wife has very little visual or auditory experience of thought, no inner voice even when reading a book. While I mostly experience speaking as a continuous stream of words coming basically from my subconscious, with only a vague sense of what's coming up, one of my daughters says she is consciously aware of the exact words she is going to say several seconds in advance. It's like she has the ability to introspect her internal speech buffer, while I can't.

So while I'm sure there are a lot of custom tuned, problem specific hardware structures in our brain architecture, we do seem to learn how to actually use that hardware individually. As a result we seem to come up with a diverse range of different high level approaches.
Interestingly, even though it's a breaking change, breaking inference is explicitly defined to not be a semver-major change in Rust:
https://predr.ag/blog/some-rust-breaking-changes-do-not-requ...
My netbook from 2009 that is still working, was sold with a Linux distribution, and gotten multiple Ubuntu updates, and is still working perfectly fine.

Its price? 300 euros.

So apparently not something that is only for people that can only afford yachtes.
Another LPT: Also, you can get Github Codespaces for free if you're a teacher!
ah yes, i still remember that in 2001, what a golden year for Tesla company, silly little musk was only leeching off the success of our beloved pre-owned tesla company in 2001.
Yes I have, and Read the lyrics.

Have you?

(See other respondent for proof you havent)
> But if it's so easy, why hasn't anyone else bothered?

Because to most other automakers, EVs are a side business that competes with their core business, not their core business, and the rest of it because its not true, e.g., Tesla doesn't offer the best self-driving, they just spend more effort trying to sell the idea of self-driving to individual buyers.
Twitter's Brand Toolkit?
If it is random, and the universe is infinite, as we assume it to be, it will happen somewhere, an infinity of times, no matter how unlikely the event is. There should be exact copies of you popping into existence somewhere from quantum fluctuations alone.

Current studies are about finding the most likely pathway, rather than knowing whether of not it is possible. We know it is possible because we are here.

As for the technical details, look up "abiogenesis" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis )
Yep. LetsEncrypt is great but everyone centralizing in them is not so great. Normal browsers having the ability to connect to a bare HTTP endpoint in HTTP/3 would solve any problems that might arise from this centralization. It's a straightforwards and easy thing to fix for the HTTP/3 lib devs and mega-corp browsers using those libs. But no one cares about it.
Our simple, magic-free recipe for quantum entanglement
Prince of Persia is back in 2D – but this time he needs rescuing
> I would love to see a headset that can cope with being used in the sun.

The biggest problem is the lenses work perfectly in reverse, transforming the parallel rays of light from the sun into a single spot on the LCD screen, literally burning it.

Until we get a different display technology, outside usage is probably going to remain extremely limited.
Probably a few more but nowhere near as high profile as those two.
In the original architecture yes it was closer to an ideal. If only Usenet became Xanadu. Unfortunately people gave way to the centralization of servers and thus lost control to the direction of the 'net. At least that's one take.
Listening Well
I've never really thought about how contributors trying to avoid the XY problem really stands at odds with StackOverflow's mission of being a repository of answers, rather than a helpdesk. Not all Ys present as X, and not all Xs are actually Ys. Sometimes its an XZ problem.

The best you can hope for is some answer down the page that says something like "to answer the actual question..."
It does, but AFAIK, while it has 1 or 2 mainframe OSes still in maintenance, still getting updated, they run under emulation on x86-64 processors now.

All the mainframe OSes I know of except IBM's run under software emulation nowadays.
> Why don't they introduce a system where you can say, I need this answer for 5 bucks.

I think the problem with that is how do you prove it's a good or bad answer? Say you offer a bounty and I generate a great answer. You look at the answer and use it and then flag the answer as bad so you don't have to pay.
The court docs say that the brands made the case that because the illegal business had been happening over the internet, reaching out to her via email was a satisfactory way of serving her. What a farce.
not a really thought out rebranding apparently
What are GPT Agents? A deep dive into the AI interface of the future
When I was actively using signal I tried key signing with people I knew but even the technical folks wiped their key within months.
> defensively load it up

Agree. This isn't a problem on the partner/sister sites as much. They are very helpful too. But they don't show up on Google
There was a BBC article (I think) about a guy who travels via train all over Europe and finds these odd disconnections and routes that don't make sense, take too long. Often due to a lack of cooperation between various government imaginations.

It was an interesting read, as a tourist I generally can get where I need to go, and that's no small accomplishment, but traveling otherwise seems to present more complications than I assumed.
> Not one killer app has emerged. I for one am eager to be all hip and open minded and pretend like I use LLMs all the time for everything and they are "the future" but novelty aside it seems like so far we have a demented clippy and some sophomoric arguments about alignment and wrong think.

In my mind I divide LLM usage into two categories, creation and ingestion.

Creation is largely a parlor trick that blew the minds of some people because it was their first exposure to generative AI. Now that some time has passed, most people can pattern match GPT-generated content, especially one without sufficient "prompt engineering" to make it sound less like the default writing style. Nobody is impressed by "write a rap like a pirate" output anymore.

Ingestion is a lot less sexy and hasn't gotten nearly as much attention as creation. This is stuff like "summarize this document." And it's powerful. But people didn't get as hyped up on it because it's something that they felt like a computer was supposed to be able to do: transforming existing data from one format to another isn't revolutionary, after all.

But the world has a lot of unstructured, machine-inaccessible text. Legal documents saved in PDF format, consultant reports in Word, investor pitches in PowerPoint. And when I say "unstructured" I mean "there is data here that it is not easy for a machine to parse."

Being able to toss this stuff into ChatGPT (or other LLM) and prompt with things like "given the following legal document, give me the case number, the names of the lawyers, and the names of the defendants; the output must be JSON with the following schema..." and that save that information into a database is absolutely killer. Right now companies are recruiting armies of interns and contractors to do this sort of work, and it's time-consuming and awful.
Plasma. It's everywhere.
I'm using Finito, which is like ChatGPT available anywhere in the OS.
https://www.finito.ai/
Frankly, your "primer" is more of an encyclopedia and would absolutely overwhelm a beginner. Where would they start? For me an ideal primer would be a pyramid structure, listing five "start here" concepts, maybe divided into five sub-topics each. The rest of the Chinese menu would be references under those.
No article to confirm that the made up thing isnt real? Your point is ridiculous.
> I ran a local NNTP relay on my home phone back in the day.

Another thing that was sometimes done for BBSes was setting yourself up as a 'point node':

> As the number of messages in Echomail grew over time, it became very difficult for users to keep up with the volume while logged into their local BBS. Points were introduced to address this, allowing technically-savvy users to receive the already compressed and batched Echomail (and Netmail) and read it locally on their own machines.[23]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet#Points

This was obviated a bit with the creation of offline news readers (e.g., BlueWave):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)

The equivalent to QWK for Usenet were SOUP files:

* https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Simple_Offline_USENET_Packet_Fo...

* http://www.faqs.org/faqs/off-line-readers/usenet/intro/
Your root password is stored as a hash. It could leak when you type it in sudo for instance.
Travelling Tales: Kalīlah Wa-Dimnah and the Animal Fable
Right, I would probably play with it a couple times and then forget about it. I should have bought it to see if I could circuit bend it
Maybe it's all determinism and noise, except for humans. Humans get intelligence.

Or maybe it's intelligence all the way down. A thousand different shapes and sizes of memory, logic, communication, etc. All the way down to cells and beyond.

I like the second theory.
I've always laughed at people who insist Whatsapp messages are just as secure as Signal messages.

Like, prove to me Facebook isn't logging and storing every single cryptographic key generated in that entire protocol. Oh, you can't because the entire app is closed source? And you just blindly trust that Facebook is doing the right thing and not decrypting every message to scour it for every bit of information possible?

lol.
Lake Tahoe’s Clear Water Is Brimming with Tiny Plastics
Yeah, that's a fair point. But if things are flowing I regularly see 80+ (which probably lends itself to eventual 20 MPH when someone wrecks and causes awful traffic).

Definitely don't mind those late night drives, as long as you keep an eye out for people not signaling or not having their lights on.

It'd be awesome if we could invest in actual public transport instead of more lanes but...
Called it out a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32282305
Yes, though my point about the circle should have been more clear. I think Audi could be fine with an A inside of an triangle because it would be plenty distinctive.

Similarly the Honda and Hyundai logos use very different frames rather than the common circle which makes them far easier to distinguish than different fonts inside a circle. Namely a box with rounded corners vs an oval. Honda’s H also floats in the frame where Hyundai connects to the oval etc. The point of a logo is to be distinctive and they are.
Pretty sure the extracurricular admissions was itself a racism-motivated development. Once non-WASP groups started to attain adequate admission scores they needed another justification for denying them.
> "collaborating and inventing is easier and more effective when we're in person."

I read this as "when we're in prison" for some reason and couldn't believe someone would seriously say that.
How a forced "voluntary resignation" is different from a being fired? is it some corporate euphemism or is it a thing?
what if every alphabet is within their trademark jurisdiction, then our capitalism is basically doomed.
Github.com receives a slightly better score [1]. I'm surprised we still consider DNSSEC to be a measurable factor in a sites security ranking. How long until that test is removed? We don't test for HPKP Public Key Pinning any more as adoption halted and many people removed it due to complexity traps that could cause outages. DNSSEC has been experiencing the same problems [2] making businesses hesitant to use it [3]. Ycombinator still gets an "A" for security headers [4]. At times HN gets pointed to AWS's CDN so that is perhaps a way to address the IPv6 short term until IPv6 addresses were added to HN's servers.

I can envision fintech eventually being regulated into adopting DNSSEC. For everyone else it would probably require better tooling and fail-safes.

[1] - https://internet.nl/site/github.com/2231928/

[2] - https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

[3] - https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/26/adoption-of-dns-security-m...

[4] - https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinato...
Get ready for people to fight tooth and nail. We tried this in Chicagoland/Cook county. Lasted about two months.
small nitpick but I thought it was just an icon but it turns out to be the button for switching light/dark mode. It would be great if you could replace it.
HN isn't as convention-bound as we thought. I call it a good sign.
Sorry, Musk is a CEO. He's not building the cars. He's not planning the orbital trajectories of SpaceX rockets. He's hired competent people to do that for him. And those competent people have even said that Musk basically needs a full-time babysitter at SpaceX so he doesn't mess up anything.

He got lucky in the 90s and has been riding that high ever since, buying Founder titles, and paying people to do the hard work for him.

Outside of that, I personally cannot support someone who named their children like Xbox usernames.
>> Some people argue that Google possibly can't win the fight vs spam sites, but obviously it works perfectly fine manually blacklisting them.

> Yeah, but then they're editorializing.

> And not in a generic “this kind of content is bad for our users” but very specifically “site x.com is bad for our users.”

Except that shouldn't be a problem because I'm pretty sure Google already blacklists domains.
So your argument is that as long as the harms are invisible enough to the consumer that no action should be taken?

May I introduce you to Tobacco?
So I'm trying to get into VR, but I'm not even sure where to start. Any forum posts regarding what direction to go for headsets and what-not always boil down to fanboy posts shilling for their favorite thing.

So I'll try here - I have an extremely high end gaming PC and am looking for VR options to tag along with it. What suggestions for systems/games do you have?
> It was four heirs, wasn't it?

The direct heir actually didn't split. It was only later the families split.

> And I'd hardly say the Mongols failed just because they couldn't hold to western Europe.

I mean failed to hold Europe.
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
I run through a lot of these concepts, specifically RLHF, in my latest coding stream where I finetune LLama 2 if anyone's interested in getting a LLM deep dive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgtG2Th6fI&t=4002s

Long story short, the size of the model and reward mechanisms used in validating off of human annotating/feedback are the main differences between what we can do as independents in OSS vs OpenAI. BigCode's StarCoder (https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder) has some human labor backing it (I believe correct me if I'm wrong) but at the end of the day a company will always be able to gather people better.

Not knocking Starcoder, in fact I streamed how to fine tune it the other day. However, it's important to mention some of the limitations in the OSS space now (big reason Meta pushing LLama 2 is a nice to have)
Where did anyone say they were personally conned?
Putin also said 4 days ago: "The western territories of present-day Poland are a gift from Stalin to the Poles, have our friends in Warsaw forgotten about this? We will remind you." [1].

So, I wonder what he's doing. Trying to start a conflict in a different spot because he needs some wins but his troops are in a quagmire/losing ground in Ukraine? Trying to bluff to see if NATO will actually respond to an invasion of Poland? I wonder if the NATO leaders is more comfortable doing bombing runs against Belarussian troops, because hey, they're not Russian, so it's not yet a Russia vs NATO conflict?

Apparently he's bombing grain depots in Odesa to starve the poorer regions of the world and expecting it will flood Europe with refugees... which may work very well indeed, and causing a further lurch to the right in Europe.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/21/putin-warn-pol...
Check mail once a month or week and you won't be affected by downtimes.
Especially the "I have the right to shoot myself with my own gun" crowd.
E-graph data structure – A gradual introduction
This reminds me of my last ever SO question. It was many years ago, so I might be misremembering some details, but:

I wanted some information on figuring out what texture serialisation was supported on a given client for a WebGL app. I needed to know this because I was optimising the client and had to deal with very large textures (it was an AR / augmented reality context).

Cue a barrage of comments along the lines of "you shouldn't need to do this" "the abstraction means you can simply assume the GPU has infinite texture memory" (!) "just provide all the formats and let the GPU bridge figure it out". Then the question had a downvote and that was that, cast to the bottom of the pile.

It seemed to me everyone responding to my question had this assumption "questioners are morons". A moron asking about texture serialisation is a paradox, ergo the question must have a faulty premise.
Ask HN: What is the most convoluted log on process you have encountered at work?
As an example, I am working with some healthcare data. I have to:
- Start laptop
- Enter boot password
- Logon
- Connect to VPN
- Start a Citrix session in a browser
- Supply a username, password, pin code and accept T&Cs
- Receive a one time code by email and enter it into the browser
- Start a RDP session via the Citrix session
- From that RDP session, RDP to another server with username and password (pasting is blocked - everything has to be typed)
- ... and I'm in!
If I am inactive for 10 minutes I have to start again with the Citrix step.

Just wondering if others have experienced long, convoluted log on processes to connect to a system?
Honeycomb.io Outage
Honeycomb seems to be down.
For what purpose? That seems pretty inefficient.
> the traffic to ChatGPT is decreasing and has been for over two months now

This seems entirely unsurprising, and isn’t by itself enough to support your general thesis.

Interacting with these LLMs was extremely novel for most people when the tech first dropped, and those earlier months were the peak of the viral growth/expansion into public awareness.

As the novelty dies down, it’s not surprising that there would be less traffic. Early on, I had all sorts of ridiculous conversations just to see what would happen. Now, I only use it when I have some task in mind.

That transition points to this being the opposite of a toy - after the fun dies down, the real work begins.

> My anecdotal evidence…is that many normies tried it a few times and it was a topic of conversation but is no longer mentioned much.

This has not been my experience at all. Most non-technical folks I know who are interested in ChatGPT see value in its ability to expand their technical capabilities/knowledge.

People who are motivated to learn will continue to use this to their advantage.

If some subset of that population has no such interest, this has no bearing on the usefulness of the tech, nor is it representative of the population.

And even if the “normie” population (this is pretty reductive…) abandons it entirely, this again says nothing about the value/utility of LLMs, and hints at a product/market fit issue.

We don’t say programming languages are useless because they’re not adopted by the general public.
moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever.

Yup. And that's why I stopped using SO quite a while (years) back.
Can you imagine being asked to move to a different city, go into the office, only to use Chime all day? The only people who will agree are the ones who sadly have no alternative.
I wrote a lengthy reply and then deleted it because I realized that I too used threaded email conversations. I think I forgot about them because Gmail doesn't have them, and it's been ages since I used Eudora or Thunderbird. (Or text-only Pine, but I honestly cannot remember if it showed threads).
Report finds wealthy students twice as likely to be accepted by Ivy Leagues
> I don't know what Von Neumann "showed us", but IMHO it's not hard to imagine life starting from very simple and humble origins given the enormous timeframes involved

It’s not hard to imagine a fire-breathing red dragon or a unicorn either.

What is hard is coming up with an even remotely testable hypothesis for how non-living molecules became alive.
If I'm reading the parent comment correctly, I think they're saying that that the high rates currently being diagnosed require one of their three conditions to be true.

That is, if ADHD is accurately diagnosed, and never had an evolutionary advantage, and isn't caused by some modern factor, then why would ADHD be so highly diagnosed today? Which is an interesting thought in my view
I am not very surprised either, but it also indicates that we may be overvaluing education when it comes to behavior improvements.
> I feel sorry that USENET is gone. The experience of using a good NNTP newsreader was way way better than the terrible phpBB forums that supplanted it. And the next generation of programmers simply copied the phpBB ideas because they've never seen anything better. So now we have to live with those "forums" where you can't find anything, and you have to wade through screenfuls of decoration just to see any content at all.

For a while, we had gopher, nntp, telnet, ftp, etc. but http/web ultimately provided a more general platform on which you could construct a wide variety of applications without needing to switch clients, removing friction and creating bridges.
I think you're right but it's not advertisers doing any of this. It's the ad networks (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon) who are the ones who've implemented all of these things. The ad business is a shady one but the ones to blame are the ad tech companies. Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are the onces who should be called out and not the more generic advertising industry.
>That is, they're not trademarking the text "X", just that particular visual representation — the colors involved, etc.

However, the 'X' they chose is "just" a single UTF8 character, which would then make it classed as a _standard character mark_.

Hmmm.
It looks like this can be disabled (on iOS)[1]:

- Go to Settings

- Select your user account at the top

- Go to 'Password & Security'

- Scroll down to Advanced and disable 'Automatic Verification'

1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-enable-private-access-tok...
Degradation of analog data stored on magnetic tape is a lie—teach the controversy!

For real though, can't one just... not post about stuff you don't know about?
How can they force their employees to resign, if they're going back on the terms they made before? I'm not familiar with American labour laws but this sounds illegal.
GPT-4 Vision