skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, web components aren't great.

I am using them, because I've landed in a few projects where adding a JS build step is too heavyweight for very minimal JS needs. But here are my gripes:

1. Templates are way too complicated to be useful. I have no idea what they were thinking here.

2. The shadow DOM not inheriting styles means I effectively can't use the shadow DOM for anything useful. My ideal use case would be that I could child elements to the current component into the shadow DOM. This allows me to do (for example) things like have a <tab-area> where the user can define <tab-> child elements which in turn can contain arbitrary content: when the user selects a tab I copy the contents of the <tab-> tag into the shadow DOM so that that's what becomes visible. But if I do that, the element content becomes unstyled. There are a bunch of really useful elements that are just completely blocked by this poor design choice. As a result, I just don't use the shadow DOM, but then I have to mutate the tabs to make them visible in place, and that means changes to the HTML of tabs can potentially cause issues for my <tab-area> and vice versa.

The first is a missed opportunity, but it's fairly easy to just not use them. The second problem is one of the worst API decisions I've ever seen, which would have been detected very quickly if anyone designing this API had been arsed to try to use their own API.
Thats really funny. Part of the appeal of DFW stories is that they are perfectly mundane - nothing fantastical, implausible or scripted happens, the genius is him overthinking it.

I almost don't mind if he made up, say, going to lobsterfest, because the story is about the concept of lobsterfest (and beating his drum about the vapidity of american culture) more than the actual event.

Also, isn't jonathan franzen the guy who got in trouble for fabricating his big book?
Even a 'very small resistance' would likely be prohibitive. Pure silver for instance is an excellent conductor, but when you're talking about the last little bits it's orders of magnitude difference between that and a superconductor, and those orders of magnitude difference in resistance translate into orders of magnitude more current. So even a small resistance would cause your MRI machine to have a resolution so low as to be unusable.
wouldn't that reward the seller, and still be potentially costly for OpenAI?
>What would have stopped that would have been having a way to restrict a charge to a particular merchant so the attacker couldn’t have been able to get the money out.

This is one of the primary use cases for privacy.com (if you are in the US). The virtual cards are either single-use only or they are merchant locked, plus you can set spending limits on the card. I use these for 100% of my online and recurring payment transactions now. The only downside is that it's linked to your bank account so it's debt transactions only, but that's not necessarily a downside to me.
I seriously wonder why, given the Microsoft deal, OpenAI didn't just cede all product development and production-izing of their models to MS while they focus on research.

I know smart people work there, some friends included, but OpenAI was never a product-led startup, they were a research org. Ignoring the closed vs open debate for a moment: for all the talk of focus, focus, focus from YC, it seems unfocused to ship their models from a home-rolled platform when they could just get MS to foot the engineering and infra work. Is any of their platform stuff a real asset to OpenAI proper? Have MS do the cloud stuff, just pass them product design.

just my 2c from the outside.
I tried this and collective wealth does increase: https://imgur.com/a/Zc2aApj

The median person does get poorer over time though, a small percent get extrmeely wealthy: https://imgur.com/a/v2AVyrv
https://imgur.com/a/7pPfKk6
Thank you very much for the suggestion. There are enough words in it I don’t know that I’d need to spend a “new math domain to learn” token, and I’m out of those right now. Need to ship something to earn more. I will remain in a state of wonder for the time being.
Oh, that report. No comment on the accuracy. I did misunderstand you to be talking about all Mac revenue and not just desktops. I work on a 2019 Mac Pro so am familiar with the price range.
No. They say that 5000 retractions happened and it's unlikely to be the total number.

There are informational internet hyperlinks you can follow, and a list of references.
GPT-4 does it very well though. (Not saying OP used it, was just curious if that'd work.)

Prompt:

> Observation of zero resistance above 100∘ K in Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O

> convert this to a title, with the correct usage of unicode

Output:

> Observation of Zero Resistance Above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O
This doesn't seem to be a breach of OpenAI at all, though; the article is pretty clear about that.
I'm surprised anyone is even trying that hard to make faster CPUs anymore, now that they're already so fast. You'd think everything would be done by GPUs or dedicated accelerators by now. Especially when so much of the internet is pretty much just serving video files.

But yet there's still so much that could be accelerated even with current hardware, but isn't.
Solar is competitive with coal for pricing, which means solar power is finally viable. Combined with energy storage devices, our reliance on fossile fuels has an end in sight!
Sorry. :) I should’ve thought to delete instead of edit.
>51 Sky Top Partners, a Connecticut firm that buys and holds real estate, purchased the property for $350,000.

How are we to believe they were scammed and didn't just pay a forger's fee to make it look like a legitimate purchase?

I think the correct way to approach this is for the original owner to seek maximum damages from 51 Sky Top for developing stolen property and leave it to them to pursue their own remedy from the 'fraudster'.

I just don't see how the buyer didn't do any due diligence on this. Didn't check with the county hall of records?

If you buy a stolen car and drive around with it and are caught it's on you to surrender it to original owner and cover any damage you caused to it. You are the suspected thief until you prove otherwise.
It's not that extraordinary.

When people rush to replicate an experiment, everybody with a positive result has something to publish very quickly, and everybody with a negative result need a lot more time to be certain of it.

The kinds of results we are seeing are very hard to get by chance or due to bad experimental setup. But as a rule, we can't really differentiate a real thing from random noise in as little time as have passed.
> I'd love to credit them, but sorry, trying to dig out which comment out of several hundred splayed out across the various early threads was the one I remembered is more work than I can devote at the time.

It was posted by curiousObject at [1]. I upvoted that thread and participated in that discussion (including adding extra information on why cold fusion experiments were inherently problematic), so I have the link.

As the submitter of the current paper, I'm cautiously optimistic based on the recent theoretical and experimental results. But I strongly agree with you that a repetition of cold fusion's initial false-positive replication "success" is a real risk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884183
picking on anybody who cannot debate and cannot defend themselves sounds bitter
> I know that if I really needed to, I could pay all my debt off in a couple of months (e.g. by getting a full-time software job). Instead of seeing the debt as $25,000, I think of it as a few months of work in tech

The assumption that the jobs will always be there, and always pay this well
We'll probably know for sure within the month!
OpenAI doesn’t make money from research.
Any finite collective eventually loses almost surely, but the larger the collective, the longer it takes, and the greater the inequality in the meantime, before everyone loses. In the limit, an infinite collective exhibits the paradoxical behavior from the article: expected value goes up forever, but almost every individual eventually loses.

An ever smaller slice of huge winners is pulling up the average, but in any finite population this slice disappears in finite time. Only in an infinite population can it persist indefinitely.

All of this is fairly straightforward for a mature student of probability. If enough folks want, maybe I could write up the details to prove these things.
I mean I’d love to be able to actually get access to the GPT4 API
Wow, I would've never thought to use ChatGPT for this. Very cool.
Neat. But can it remove MS native spyware & adware?
No, that is called unjust enrichment:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PhKxvA19odg
Person who developed the property should be forced to unwind it. Let him try to sue who he bought it from. It’s not rightful owner’s problem. And all R-E agents involved should lose their licenses.
> No, I don't. I want it to be like pushing or dragging a virtual piece of paper. That's what it is and how it feels the most natural to me.

Yes, that's what makes sense for a trackpad. Many people want that behavior for their trackpad, and also for their mice to scroll in the traditional direction, which is the opposite that of a trackpad.

> That being said I'm pretty sure you can already configure this without an app, in the system preferences.

Have you actually tried it out?

> No way. I love the cmd + tab and pairing that with keyboard shortcuts for navigating browser tabs is super powerful and doesn't require compromising the beautiful giant amount of screen real estate by inducing multitasking with multiple windows open.

I really don't know how macOS-style application vs Windows-style window switchers have any bearing on this. Why should two Firefox windows next to each other be treated differently from a Firefox window next to Safari window? A browser window is a browser window.
> You’re starting with a libertarian premise most people don’t accept. The vast majority of the world accepts that it’s proper to restrict individual freedom even to protect people from themselves.

Do they? The argument I always see is that it's to protect society from them e.g. imposing costs on the healthcare system.
OpenAI doesn't ever see your CC number. They use Stripe and so your credit card number is stored with them, not OpenAI.

But if you're worried and in the US, a privacy.com card could be used to protect you regardless.
This is just author's decision to distribute his audiobook without DRM. I don't see that this decision must necessarily be tied to the actual goals. Maybe author has other goals too and doesn't want to act in conflict with them.
I’m wondering which actual news might be supposed to be swept under the rug by this “wake up” call?

For people who are bored, here is a good long podcast on all the “x-com” angles (with LK-99’s concurrently developing story / potential, really that interesting though?):

https://techwontsave.us/episode/178_are_ufos_really_out_ther...
the St Petersburg paradox is also a problem of ergodicity, since every single player loses with probability 1 over time, even though the "space average" is net positive. No need to invoke messy reality to solve the paradox.

the exponential example is just much more useful, since there are plenty of systems easily described by compound growth
Can you fill me in without search? I somehow missed the whole thing.
What do you recommend as an alternative to stripe?
Next time you should just let us know you're a piece of shit right at the outset; that way no one will need to waste their time replying to you.
Talking about credentials I'm wondering how much they spend on auth0 with their current MAU.
Because react.js, vue.js, angular all had their own version of components and they're the 'mainstream' frontend frameworks.
Someone else coined the term and there was a HN post. I cannot find it though.
Relevant, perhaps: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1685821557321633792?s=20

> I mean, what's yearned for in that sacred space within ourselves can't really be in the discovery of some hidden magic out there in the world, can it? Because even if we discovered it, that would quickly become the mundane norm. If extraterrestrials came down from space and began openly walking among us, it would be a really big deal at first, but for how long? After a while they'd just be one more mundane thing happening in the world; oh there's Vipvorp, he's an ET, he's my manager at Costco and he's a bit of a prick sometimes.
It is not a coincidence. An insect's compound eye is really virtual lens-retina system.

A good diagram of the evolution of eyes

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/eye-evolution/

Also of interest is this article on using metasurfaces to achieve the same.

I'm sure that optical frequency meta-materials will play important roles in AR/VR.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15460-0
What's wrong with blaming App Store for refusing my app for me refusing to participate in a walled garden?
"degrees Kelvin" is wrong? Why's that?
> I heard the research group got scooped by a former researcher. Former researcher outed them before they were ready for all the relevant questions. Not a particularly good thing to do for a career to out colleagues like that.

Either this or they tried to deny proper authorship to the guy, that antecipated the publishing in self-defense. It's early to point who was the party at fault, without proper investigation.
Chatgpt is programmer art. I don’t think they have actual designers or frontend devs working there.

I accidentally deleted my chat history because of the confusing UX.
They dont make money from authentication systems either
I can tell you why places that previous consulting contracts I've taken used it:

1. Its cheaper

2. They're already a C# shop so it just "feels right"

Thats about it, really. That appears to be the sum of the thought that went into it. And that also explains why they had to bring myself (and others) in as very expensive consultants to un-fuck various systems...
"The Internet Con describes how this came to pass, but, more importantly, it tells us how to fix it. It lays out how we can combine different kinds of interop requirements (like the EU's Digital Markets Act and Massachusetts's Right to Repair law) with protections for reverse-engineering and other guerrilla tactics to create a system that is strong without being brittle, hard to cheat on and easy to enforce.

"What's more, this book explains how to get these policies: what existing legislative, regulatory and judicial powers can be invoked to make them a reality."

Cory ignores that we only need Right to Repair laws because GOVERNMENTS made it a crime in the first place! So color me skeptical that governments are going to "fix" the mess they created.

Most of the other problems are simply that most people value things differently than he does: most people are happy with sandboxes from Apple, Facebook, Google, etc., and are not interested in free software, interoperability, etc.

We can't improve that with government intervention and we shouldn't try -- look at how they helped with DRM.
It's likely that impurities in the bulk of the sample are why we aren't seeing the Meissner effect. Seeing super conductivity though is extremely promising.

We've seen a sample be super conductors at 110k ambient pressure, diamagnetism, and (unconfirmed) flux pinning. So it's likely there's something here, but right now the main hurdle is synthesis. It's difficult to make and there's no clear path to consistency, purity or scale.
Yeah, wow, I think a lot of people took that comment way out of the spirit it was made in.

From my perspective it was an observation of my experiences in a variety of cultures and how certain social problems don’t flourish in those environments because people are more conscious about the perceptions of others, and how I see a tendency to replace those social mechanisms with “strong” authority figures as problematic for a functioning democracy… but… it seems I really hit a nerve for some folks and it got taken way out of the intended context. Sorry about that!
Who is directly in charge of the program?
> The stolen OpenAI credentials were stolen using Raccoon Infostealer (78,348), Vidar (12,984), and RedLine (6,773) malware variants.

Nothing to worry about unless you had malware on your computer -- sniffing all your data, OpenAI credentials included. It is only news because ChatGPT logs potentially have exploitable data in them.

Another misleading headline -- OpenAI has not been compromised.
Chinese balloons get shot down over the US and 2 months later a bunch of randos pop up talking about UFOs.

If I were to guess, the Chinese intelligence agencies are simply doing active measures to cow the American public after embarrassing surveillance drone failures
Meanwhile I’m like… That’s a Content Security Policy violation.
This thread was a good read, thanks.
Yes, hence the MS deal (they had trouble raising money as a pure research org). Their research can be turned into a product people pay for -- they've done it! My question is: why did the engineers at OpenAI have to do that? Why couldn't they "toss it over the fence" to MS's Azure team and be happy with a revenue share, for example.
I don't use Bayes factors in my research (2019)
Why don't you just send fraudulent EDNS info?
Correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that farmland is bad for the environment since it produces more carbon than it traps.
Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power
> The stolen OpenAI credentials were stolen using Raccoon Infostealer (78,348), Vidar (12,984), and RedLine (6,773) malware variants.

Correct. The credentials were stolen off the client's side and then they were all aggregated into a dump.
I run google exports and that makes a massive mbox file; thunderbird cannot import it. It hangs and then crashes.
GPT4 API should be available to all paying customers since early July: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability
What did OpenAI do wrong here? As far as I can tell they're guilty of requiring logins?
I should note I am no expert on anything of this, I have a Chromebook as a sort of backup/alternative. FlipC434

Developer mode basically unlocks the r/w firmware, so you can boot from USB and replace the firmware etc, but the Read-only Google Root of Trust stays there, however as far as I know the ChromeOS 'distro' exists only to support running the Chrome Web Browser, and also Android and Linux VMs, +audio/video/input/etc. So if you have root on a ChromeOS device in developer mode, and you are dropped into a shell and want to run firefox, how would you do that?
There are no packages for running on 'ChromeOS'. You can't just apt-get. I don't know if ChromeOS is self-hosted, ie. it is compiled and generated on itself and not some other Linux distro.

which

I don't think adopting Wayland or using the 'Linux' Chrome makes it move towards being a 'general purpose' distro. This just lessens the amount of change between ChromeOS and Linux so no more Freon library. It also seems to greatly reduce the difference between the CHROME_BROWSER_FOR_CHROMEOS and THE_CHROME_BROWSER_FOR_LINUX builds.
Mathematica - great options, easy to change fonts, save as .Tex pdf jpeg whatever - cons expensive and propriety

Matlab - large data sets, great built in functions - cons expensive and proprietary

Python - matplotlib, seaborn

Octave - free matlab

Bonus: Tikz. I've made some really neat stuff in Tikz when I used to work in research.
From what I’ve read I think the japanese strategy, from the very beginning was to bleed the americans. They new they couldn’t compete with the US industrial strength, even before perl harbor. The idea was that if they killed enough soldiers and “showed horrors” to enough of them, then the US public would falter and withdraw.

Because you know democracies are weak and monarchies are strong kinda thing.

There was a real feel of “we’ll be a 110M martyrs, before japan surrenders its land”. And as vietnam war later showed us, a strategy like this can potentially work.

The bombs I think showed that the US appears to have the ability kill those 110M people without setting foot on the island.

Nobody can predict what would have happened without the bombs, it was a very complex situation, but after listening to dan carlin’s Hardcore History account of the pacific war, I’d say I’m convinced they played a major role for sure.
The thing to always remember about debt - is that someone who is much more financially astute than you (the bank) would much rather loan you the money to do whatever it is you're going to do with it than do that thing themselves.
why there are no good videos of superfluids in action in the whole internet?
Technically the units of temperature are "degrees Celsius", "degrees Fahrenheit", "Kelvin", etc. ie "degrees" is part of the name of the units "degrees Celsius" and "degrees Fahrenheit". "Kelvin" is the name of the unit by itself, so "degrees" is not supposed to be used before Kelvin.

In practice everyone's so used to saying "degrees" for temperatures that they end up saying it with Kelvin too.
Get out while you can, Linda.
I meant that only as a thought exercise. I agree with you about Apple cutting prices directly. While I think they’ll drop the price eventually on the Pro, maybe to start at $2000-$2500, it will be a few years.

When the more consumer oriented model comes (assuming things are successful) it will slot in at a lower price point, say $1000. But the Pro will still be up there.

I trust they’ll get to $500 or less (again, assuming success), but it’s going to take a long time. However Apple is the company that with their suppliers can design/make ultra high precision stuff and ship it in mass at prices that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.

Meta in market share: that I question. I don’t think these products compete (AR vs VR, not just price). Even if Apple becomes extremely successful I’m not sure VR demand will take off. And if someone tries to make a much cheaper AR I’d be concerned the experience is below the acceptable threshold. $3500 will never be mass market, but I’m not sure $500 can be good enough at current tech levels.

It’ll be a while before we start to see this play out. Could be totally wrong.
misleading headline
Out of an abundance of caution, I just went to change my password... and I didn't see a way to change my password. I googled it and you have to log out and then choose "Forgot password?". Hope that saves someone some time.
>3) Once you understand the math, it is so much easier than the intuitive approach that the lazy human brain will not allow you to go back to "the hard way". I like to think this is the primary driver of skipping an intuitive teaching approach.

I found that developing a intuitive understanding was required for me to remember something. I could then remember the Math. The Math is nice to give a mathematical understanding but I found the intuitive knowledge much more important.
In this genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2HMP1Co4zw
Well, if what's bad is governance, you may not be able to influence the results of shareholder votes because of the governance issues.
Oh dang! This has been on my reading list for years! Definetly looking forward to checking it out!!!
Show HN: Ask Feynman
Question answering based on all of Richard Feynman's lecture content.
Well it still sounds like a death sentence. Just a few your years