skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with Mastodon was that you can choose between:

* Echo chamber islands with purity spirals that enforce the banning of Problematic instances

* “Free speech” instances where all the refugees from the above go, but which are just a different flavor of cesspool

Moderation is hard.
Bombadillo has settings to limit the width.
Going public with a working title name in the "Project {Keyword}" format isn't a great sign.
The particular method suggested is about using correlatable known text with audio situations to build the accuracy for other recordings of the same typist. I.e. a meeting with a chat feature or an office app may have correlated exanples.
The magazine is called Dame. In Japanese, "dame" (ダメ, 駄目) means "no good," "hopeless," "cannot," or "not allowed."¹

¹ https://www.alexrockinjapanese.com/the-meaning-of-dame-in-ja...
Sure if a majority of users expect apps to not steal your data or misuse your internet connection.

Sadly this isn't the case anymore. The layperson is distrustful by default and can only rely on the more astute to blow a whistle. Even a judge would just say to not install apps that aren't critical to your everyday life and be done with it. Nobody has the time to swat at flies.
For me, it was needing/wanting ZFS.

I still don’t like command line stuff generally, because there’s a sort of tension between the different needs for the CLI being a tool for scripts to interface with, and a tool for humans to interface with.

No complaints about the scripting aspect, that’s all good as far as I care. In fact I would consider that the rightful priority. But there’s problems when using CLI tools as a human manually.

If I want to unpack an archive via CLI, well I only do that intermittently enough that I (who has poor memory) will have to look and parse the options every single time to make sure I’m doing it right. Also, most of the included manpages are obtuse dogshit intended for an audience that is absolutely not me (and I suspect it’s also not intended for anyone except the program author). I end up just googling “how do I x” and copy and paste, which is UI failure in my view. There are alternative manpages which provide task oriented examples, but I tend to forget that’s even there.

CLI programs just don’t have a way to at a glance tell me that I actually need whatever “-r” or “—foo” does, which makes them much slower if I’m doing something only once in a while.

I use ZFS commands all the time so I remember those mostly, but everything else rapidly fades.

Navigation through directories is also a pain I’ve never found a way to make better and faster in a way I can remember.
I installed this app earlier this year, and uninstalled it a few days later after I noticed it constantly using obscene amounts of my internet data.
IDK if using a minimalist aggregator actually solves anything. The links all go back to the same crappy sources.
Looks nice! Will test it tonight.
I thought that young people sorta let down the Democrats as they didn't seem to vote in droves as anticipated. Support yes but not voting when it counted.
FWIW I've noticed that "rattling" (which I think I hear in the Liszt Funerailles video) in some K-pop videos featuring electronic low bass at the ~40Hz level. I think it might be natural and not an artifact or flaw.
Literally illegal for certain with anything non-broadcast about with about 90% certainty for broadcast. It’s such a blatant violation of the first amendment it’s never going to happen.
If you're commenting on the difficulty of policing the intarwebs, I heartily agree with you.

If you're saying CD230 doesn't exist, I encourage you to rejoin consensus reality. But if you're trying to say CD 230 is in need of review, I would heartily agree.
I don't disagree with your argument, but capacity is a useless measurement. Without considering the capacity factor you might as well be comparing apples to zebras.
As a side note I want to mention that I use Night Shift on mac os and every day!!! I need to switch it back on because there is no option to leave it enabled all day long.
Those can at least be blocked with ad blockers and/or disabling JS.
How to Build a Text-Chart Tool
a maker of a really cute text-chart tool shares how he made it and got product of the day, all alone

product + design + engineering
Thanks! The verbiage at the beginning of the announcement seems to go out of its way to not call StableCode a "model," which was confusing. By contrast, the recent release of SDXL 1.0 is described as a "model" in its announcement.
Bah, gopher is just a lousy hytelnet wannabe.
> Which is honestly surprising in this area where it feels like privacy, anonymity and human verification are incompatible with each other.

The thing is, it still allows for some correlation between attestation provider and the websites themselves, potentially exposing part of your browsing history to these companies based on how many tokens you use and what websites consume them.

That doesn't matter much for Cloudflare's implementation (now Cloudflare knows when you visit Cloudflare, oh no!) but with Apple's attestation provider the risks increase. The smaller the attestation provider gets or the fewer parties trust that particular attestation provider, the higher the risk becomes.

It's better for your privacy than the current norm (de-anonimisation through fingerprinting while you fill out a CAPTCHA) but it's still not great. It also allows for attestation providers (and their algorithms) to arbitrarily deny you access to the web if other websites decide to start using them.

Privacy in exchange for power, I'm not so sure about that. I imagine for someone suffering from ADHD the small risk that Cloudflare decides to screw you in particular is worth the massive improvement in browsing experience, but everyone will have to determine the pros and cons for themselves.
@adammartinetti : maybe you could consider developing a new product where you display a GDPR consent banner once, and then these settings apply to all Cloudflare-proxied websites (by passing this consent information as an additional header to the proxied site)
To the extent that the US has an empire, it's not collapsing right now. The US continues to maintain plenty of foreign military bases, US military alliances and partnerships are strong (arguably NATO is now stronger than it was in the recent past), and overseas territories like Guam are still firmly under US control.

What's changed is that China continues to rise in power and exert its influence, combined with Russia's invasion of Ukraine making the West antsy about dependencies on China as well as Taiwan (if China invades or blockades Taiwan).
I do get a strong feeling that tools like this are just the tip of the iceberg and that programming jobs are about to get way easier. This will almost certainly push salaries down right?

I don’t know, but it certainly feels that way to me.
> The lack of corruption and general merit-based placement here compared to so many other places combined with a large degree of vertical integration means that we can accomplish quite a lot and is one of the underappreciated cornerstones of our ability to make war (and why nobody wants to fight us).

First of all, other countries managed to develop and produce large amounts of vaccine in very short timeframe during the pandemic. Second of all, the reason nobody wants to fight the US is that the US spends as much on its military as the next ten or so countries. The US makes up 40% of all global military spending.

> We are decimating (and then some) Russia's military by giving away second tier equipment to Ukraine

The total value of NATO aid to Ukraine is on a similar scale as Russia's entire military budget. NATO is not just giving away second-tier equipment. It's giving Ukraine what it thinks Ukraine can use most effectively right away (such as upgraded T-72 tanks, man-portable air-defense and anti-tank systems early on), and some of that is cutting-edge gear (such as the Storm Shadow missile).
If you genuinely believe voters have literally no control over their representatives in the US, I highly doubt you would spend time writing comments on HN about pharmaceutical pricing and not on more important matters.
Who would build something that could be built with something else using a google platform or tool?
Still 5 years to go.
Hey man, awesome stuff. Surely any JIT compiler will struggle to vectorize something using IntStream.range, though? Looking at matmul, I'd not expect that to be auto-vectorized. The Panama API can be used to do a matmul vectorization, too bad it seems to never launch.
>an AI can't reason, because it is built to stochastically predicts tokens, which is not reasoning and which is different from the activity of reasoning.

A feature indispensable in the generation of a sequence is recovered in the limit of predicting the sequence. So prediction does not exclude higher level cognitive processes. Transformers being universal sequence2sequence modelers give reason to believe they can reach the limit.
Wow! Really interested form factor for that :)
Counterpoint: I use Firefox with every privacy setting maximized and several extensions installed, and I can't remember the last time I had an issue with something posted here. This game works fine for me as well.

The only apps that are noticeably worse in Firefox for me are Google Docs and Google Meet.
You want meat to be a thing only rich people can afford? And you justify this by saying you want to help the poor?
<libertarian>
What's silent about it? It's right there in the TOS, which you agreed to by using the software. Caveat Emptor, and all that.
</libertarian>
How to fix EVERYTHING on a 150cc GY6 Chinese scooter
The irony of Hacker News commenters saying they avoid the news on a site called Hacker News...
AI Is Even Making the Pope Nervous
Fingerprinting is probably load-bearing for captchas and other anti-fraud stuff that many Internet services and businesses depend on:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

It should be replaced with something better. Unfortunately all attempts to do something better get attacked by people who don’t realize that you can’t just get rid of it, or important things will break.
It is sort of like the second law of thermodynamics (before statistical mechanics came around and cleared things up): sure, maybe not well founded in some analytical or philosophical sense, but experimentally bulletproof to the point where anyone who tries to sell you otherwise would be regarded very suspiciously. The idea that any two programs running on a computer can be prevented from snooping on each other.
So what's happening is this: valid arguments have a structure which can be modelled statistically.

But validity isn't a statistical notion: P(-A|A) is zero.

Since P(Premise|Contradiction) is frequently above zero in LLMs they engage in randomly "irrational" reasoning. That's what makes them particularly unreliable.

The reason for any given P(premise|contradiction) having any given freq is just that "its that freq in the corpus". This is a pretty insane reason, and so incomprehensibly insane that many -- i guess -- cannot fathom how an LLM can appear to reason without being able to.

I suppose there's a sort of truman show effect: the reality of the underlying mechanism is so outside anything most people could analogise to, they fail to be able to see the trick taking place.

People talk about "human failures" but we never ascribe confidences to propositions based on their frequency in a text corpus; and the apparent "Reasoning" which arises out of this is incomprehensible.

That is without some systematic training in applied stats so you can set up the model and reason about it regardless of its outputs -- which are irrelevant to its mechanism
The populated areas of Texas have plenty of water.
It probably uses SteamOS, which has no need to include Intel drivers, and probably absolutely no desire to include proprietary Nvidia binary blobs.
My memory may be imperfect, but I thought it was more "we aren't sure and we want to promote a culture of safety" rather than "this is definitely unsafe… oh wait never mind"?
I've had mine for over a year.
I saw the googleblog.com domain and immediately wrote it off as a future entry on Google Graveyard.
I would imagine they have a list of the default / max DHCPv6 blocks that ISPs hand out. They are generally public knowledge so it would be easy for them to say Comcast hands out /56 so when blocking they block at that level for the ASN.
Already avoided the news for some years, the Covid era put the nail in that coffin for good.
It makes me shudder to remember when we had to include some outlandish workarounds just to make shadows work on IE6, not to mention custom web fonts.
Coming from Linux, I also have to say that I was shocked how many apps on mac os are only available as closed source.
I don't trust Google anymore. They will shut down this "experiment" no matter how successful it becomes.
The "full stack" Project IDX is suggesting certainly has an endless sea of complexity: Angular, Flutter, Firebase, and Google Cloud, all together in one "full stack application"? Yeah, that is a ton of Google-created complexity to smash together.

Google: We've made our tech stack so complex you need an AI to get started working with it.
I have the same experience. Dark mode automatically turns on way later than I’d like it to.

From the article:
"It is an alternative to the built in macOS automatic mode which only switches when the user steps away from the computer."

If I set up night shift, it will switch to dark mode at the time I set, but it also tints my screen (even subtly, if I turn the slider all the way down), which I don't care for as someone who does art.
With WiFi, MAC addresses become more of an issue (as you're often scanning and roaming), but we have randomisation algorithms for that.

The same was true for IPv6 for a while, but that too has been solved a long time ago.

For a SLAAC client whose privacy extensions have been disabled for some reason, it's very much possible to figure out your MAC address. This may be a problem on old hardware that doesn't receive updates anymore!
What issues are you seeing? It works fine for me, and I'm pretty sure I have all the fingerprinting protections turned on.
Not your main point, but MongoDB didn't commission Kyle to do that report as they had in the past, he did it on his own time. That's why his report doesn't mention repeat testing. They do actually run his tests in their CI and those new tests were used to isolate that specific bug. Moreover, some of the complaints about weak durability defaults for writing were later fixed: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/default-majority-write-con.... They still do default to a weak read concern, but writes are fully durable unless you specifically change the behavior. For what it's worth I agree with Kyle that they should have stronger defaults, but I don't really see a problem with MongoDB's response to the report because there is room to disagree on that.
If toggling between modes is all that is needed, it can be done right through BetterTouchTool. I just assigned a right-click+option+cmd globally for it and it works like a charm
Stop being a jerk and play nice. Say what you mean without attacking people.
> While Google’s been working on making multiplatform app development easier for years – from Angular and Flutter to Google Cloud and Firebase

Yea, and those products are not doing well. It would be nice to see Google focusing on the ship that's already sinking rather than trying to play with a siny new toy.
Having types lets you get better editor completion and such; I'd say Rust pushes you into bottom-up design, which I find significantly more productive than top-down too; doing bottom-up design is much trickier in a dynamic language, though, because changes to one of your "bottom layers" break upper layers in a way that the compiler/interpreter can't see
Intel's dGPUs have a ~0% market share, Nvidia's driver situation is a shitshow.
"the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything less than "the highest possible returns legally achievable""

One important correction because they definitely aren't getting the highest return by those antics

Fixed: "the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything but the highest expected return when only considering easily quantified first order short term effects"

That's an important distinction that should not be left out.
I use osmand and have all my maps saved locally.
Google's Rich Communication Services (RCS):

https://support.google.com/messages/answer/13508703
I guess it has to do with their lack of open source drivers, and I bet you can install NVidia or Intel drivers by yourself.
Similar threads have the same kind of answers we can find here on HN

https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/15b3wld/what_can_you_b...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivingAlone/comments/14x2vka/what_a...
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I can only concur that multi-region apps are becoming the new normal.

Deploying app instances across distant locations was never an issue. However, databases used to be the bottleneck. I'm glad to see that changing, thanks to CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.

My favorite multi-region deployment mode is geo-partitioned deployment. This is when a database automatically pins user data to specific locations, ensuring low latency for both reads and writes, regardless of user location. One-minute demo how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ESTXEa9QZY&list=PL8Z3vt4qJT...
No it’s not and its use should not be perpetuated in this context.

It’s definitely the homophobia you are perceiving.

No one misses the edge lords of yesteryear.
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what was this, just MySpace for 30-something software developers?
Pardon, but with double quotes, is'nt the expansion going to be done by the current shell anyway?
That "if" is doing a lot of legwork here. Most notably, it's concealing an implication that the LLM may be reasoning in this example, and not merely fitting tokens from its input into a statistical reconstruction of the most basic and thus likely most commonly encountered proof in elementary symbolic logic.

That said, you're not wrong that this seems "good enough" to be wildly disruptive. Part of that disruption, which is already ongoing, is the development of a whole new class of exploits. I expect once companies start firing phone support representatives in favor of LLMs, and similar, this process will accelerate in fascinating ways.
> Gemini is _incredible_ for accessibility

An all new protocol stack focused on accessibility could be pretty cool. Flip the problem. Instead of layering accessibility on top, make it the foundation.

We might learn that an accessibility-focus stack proves better for all use cases. Kinda like accessible consumer goods are also better for every one.

Something fun to think about.
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Does the limit apply to the number of macOS guests specifically or any VMs in general (running Linux for example)? The article mentions macOS guests but the error message reads like the guest type doesn't matter.
I’m a fan of experiments putting editors in the browser, similar to what google does in house.
This is more of a meta skill, but "learning to learn" was a game changer for me. For a long time, I had approached learning in a set and done kind of way, i.e. I'd read and immerse myself on a new topic, declare I'd learned it and move on. But I realized that was not only wrong, but it was blinding me to my shortcomings. I took a few courses, and started testing myself regularly on new topics to overcome that blindspot. YMMV!
It sounds like a proof of work rate limiter similar to something hashcash. I don't think it will stop a bot machine, just make it very expensive to use. Which is actually all regular captchas do anyway.

Whenever this comes up as an alternative to regular captchas I see a lot of push back that we can't do this because it would cost mobile users to much battery power. If that is really such a concern, let the mobile users solve shitty captchas as an alternative and the rest of us use something like this. Mobile users already endure horrible privacy, no easy ad blocking, countless "install our app" popups and a software ecosystem that is infested with dark patterns so I don't see how they would really even notice.
When watching live, No there are no full screen ads in the middle of the race; But if you don't watch this race at 2:30am (Eastern Time) then the rerun will have commercial breaks.
This doesn't make Taiwan less critical for China. They will continue to defend Taiwan as part of China for the foreseeable future.
I have it set to a custom schedule that starts at 4am and ends at 3:59am, effectively leaving it enabled all day long.
Very well written and illustrated, thank you.

When using a local vector db, what is the security model between my data and Airbyte? For example, do I need to permit Airbyte IPs into my enviro, and is there a VPN type option for private connectivity?
I feel first we need to validate the original premise that there's something wrong with this game in Firefox.

I'm running Firefox, with containers enabled, with ublock origins (and as such "somewhat privacy conscious over and above the defaults"), and this works fine for me.

There could be any number of things that cause an individual issue, which may or may not be related to Firefox itself :-/
Not to be confused with NightOwlConnect, which allows one to remotely access NightOwl-brand security camera DVRs.

I'd not be surprised to find that that app has some sketchiness baked into it as well.
>Everyone knows that China is not going back on a territory that is theirs by international treaties

When you said China, which China are we talking about?. the fact is, Taiwan and China is still in a Civil War.

The United States did not explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan in the three US-PRC Joint Communiqués of 1972, 1979, and 1982.

The United States "acknowledged" the "One China" position of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

U.S. policy has not recognized the PRC's sovereignty over Taiwan;

U.S. policy has not recognized Taiwan as a sovereign country; and

U.S. policy has considered Taiwan's status as unsettled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China#United_States_policy
google has a blacklist of countries and individuals, I would imagine
Indeed. We're super happy and honored to support Svelte!
Kind of off topic. But is there any app/service/extension for parsing these TOS with an LLM to catch all these shady things? If not, would one be useful? (I’m also a bit surprised this is in the TOS in the first place, but theres already a thread about that.)
Y'all should team up with the Magic Loop folks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958731

And if you want to talk to a bunch of APIs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020783
At my last job, maybe a good fifth of the company or so seemed to have emotional states which careened from one end of the spectrum to the other based upon whether some new COVID variant had just been announced, or new developments in the will-they/won't-they arrest Donald Trump theater, or whatever. They would occasionally be completely unable to do work based on these news items which, while sometimes of reasonably high importance, had effectively zero chance to change their daily lives in any meaningful way whatsoever. It was really quite something to watch.
I use YouTube without logging in. I got something in between. Instead of a blank page I got a generic page with popular topics instead of videos similar to the ones I watched previously.
Tbh. There's a lot of technical folks, worldwide, here. That's a lot of edge cases in comparison.

And their technical skills probably skews perception ( exotic browsers, behavior, VPN, Tor, ... )

As such, can you say, by indication, what percentage of web surfers "a lot" is? ( = Including non technical)

I don't disagree that people can have problems. I'm just wondering how representative "a lot" in reality is.