skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better title might be “I have made no attempt to learn how this tool works or how to use it, and therefore cannot get it to work”

Many papers about LLM-AI not working follow the same pattern.

It is actually useful to know that people will misuse these tools and get bad results.
The counterpoint is that people using these tools thoughtfully and expertly will outperform inexpert or non users.
AI will be a technological assist and people who aren’t able to figure it out won’t benefit from it.

I suppose it might sound simplistic and trite framed in this way.
This video isn't very informative. There's more information about the vulnerability here: https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/
In browsers 'copy as curl' is decent enough. Do the request through a command line.

If there's ephemeral cookies, they tend to follow a predictable pattern.
> There is a major difference: user-facing applications don't need to maintain backward compatibility.

Of course they do. Users still use extensions and web-pages that they expect to work. Firefox moving from e.g. XUL/XPCOM to WebExtensions could've been a major version bump, for example. Ditto Manifest v3 for Chrome.

I wish people would stop assuming users are too stupid to understand basic information about the software they use!
> it seemed much simpler as you weren't aware of every bad thing that was happening around the world

I strongly disagree with that. I wasn't exactly a teenager back then (past 30 already), but in the 80s and 90s, news papers over here informed you about happenings in the entire world, and social developments in my own country, and neighboring countries (what you exactly got depended on the news paper, as they ranged from populist-conservative to communist; news could be rather biased). I sometimes read the NY Times in that period as well, and it had a huge coverage of world events. Their Saturday edition was no joke, so it wasn't just a European thing.

However, what you didn't read was: American boy assaults someone, twitter is outraged. American celebrity did/said something stupid 10 years ago, twitter explodes! American police officer hurts poor person, twitter has a stroke!! And that 10 times per day. All that online clickbait was missing, and rightly so. I don't care what some idiot does 6000km far from my home. If they start forming a threatening political movement, then I'd like to be informed.

The quality of journalism has degraded considerably since then. There is too much attention to personal stories, either sobbing or ecstatic, never in between, and almost always with an implicit political agenda. Some of that is good, because it makes the abstract policies and distant wars relatable, but it has overtaken the hard news. Even national politics has largely disappeared from the news paper. Only when some politician is accused of intimidating behavior it gets back in the limelight.

And that's why I am ignoring the news more and more. Not because it informs you too much about the bad in the world, but because it informs you about trivia, and lacks the things that really matter. Journalism has made itself irrelevant.
This would be great if it didn’t have any downsides. China has a system like that: QR code to login everywhere. Everything is linked to your phone number which is given after taking a picture of you and official ID.

We are gonna have to live in a slightly bot-rich society to keep this at bay.

It starts with browser control. And then, ends with needing human verification to ssh into a server that you own. Let’s just build better security.
(Almost?) nothing in the paper reproduces, as anyone who is willing to spend a few cents on the API can confirm. Even if you pin the version to before the release of this paper.

The Author was formerly an MIT researcher, how is it possible they have produced this nonsense?

I don't mean to be glib, but do credentials mean nothing anymore? Does this happen in other fields, except that a layman can not test out the claims in e.g. a medical paper for themselves?
The problem is how does the tracking that Google's ad/analytics businesses use know that the Chrome browser on your computer is running in Incognito mode?

Chrome and other browsers don't give a way for websites to detect it (at least not intentionally).
Shades of the "Fair Witness" from Stranger In A Strange Land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Fai...
Time to revive the campaign to rename the species Homo ignis. Rationale:

1. The ability to start and control fire is a defining feature of the species, without which spread to polar and high-elevation climates would have been impossible. Fire was a fundamental defense against predators, allowed humans to eat foods previously unpalatable, and as a result it's impossible to imagine any group of humans living and surviving without fire.

2. Language is not a unique feature of the human species, relatively complex verbal communication has been found in whales and parrots at least. Other intelligence-based activity (tool use) are also found in crows, chimpanzees, etc. This undermines the rationale for 'sapiens' as intelligence is not unique to humans.

3. The steady destruction of the biosphere's oxygen-generating capability along with injection of vast amounts of carbon and nitrogen and pollutants into the air and water doesn't really seem that wise. Homo ignis would at least acknowledge the potentially self-destructive nature of human behavior.
You have to admit, Missing White Woman is a pretty classic storyline. Especially when the husband is the villain!
"In order for the web to remain vibrant"

The people pushing these things do not care about this at all. To them it's like something a child would say and marks the speaker as utterly irellevant and silly, not even a real person due any respect at all.
The type system is certainly not a barrier, it’s actually rather straightforward unless I am missing something.

If you refer to lifetimes and borrow checker, those are different.
Arch is a good into to Linux, for people that want Linux.

It might not be the best for people who want a web browser/computing appliance, but I’m not sure what is, there just might not be a good one yet.
How Twitter lost the libs
> but you can pay for our app using your HSA/ FAS through our partnership with Flex

Presumably they can't? If they are not in the US..
I'm Feeling Lucky for Cloud Infra Searching
>$549 million

Big headline grabbing number. But what % of their quarterly profit is that?

Slap on the wrist, I suspect.
Tweets on profile pages are not sorted chronologically anymore?
Noticed on https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris (mobile, not logged in)
You have talked about everything: climate, inflation, energy, green, politics, Germany, china, US, past, future, rejuvenation, taiwan war, ukraine war, boeing, partisan, communism, western allies, etc etc etc.

Everything except simple current business need.
> “Almost any conspiracy theory starts with a legitimate question that I would agree: yeah, let’s look into that, let’s see what we can find."

Conspiracy theories are the result of the lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the minority in seats of power over the rest of humanity. When there are no explanations forthcoming, it's a natural result of the human mind to look for or create explanations.
Hi, I appreciate the advice in general, but in my case it's not an architectural matter. Basically, I just have one internal, encapsulated function that ought to run in a worker, and I'd like to implement that without doing anything hairy - and without imposing requirements on the end-user to make their own worker. It seems like this isn't possible, but if you know of a way I'd love to hear it!
And the three hard problems in distributed queues are:

2. In-order delivery

1. Once-only delivery

1. Once-only delivery

If someone notes that's only two problems, you can add that reliable delivery is the third.
Don't know how easy that will be. Tunnels built for cars can have much tighter turns than a train/subway tunnel. Unless the tunnels are being planned with future conversion in mind they might need significant rework to be able to carry a train.
> Because it's much easier to end up with a terrible production environment when you use "chaos" languages like Python or JavaScript, the tooling to avoid the pain points is so mature.

Could you describe what you mean, as in what that tooling is? Having done some funky deployments in Python before, I've never been very impressed by the ecosystem and tooling.
Quite literally: the real Gemini was the friends we made all along
Hey Sytten,
I work in the community team for Ory.
OSS is actually very important for us and definitely not second class. (see also https://www.ory.sh/docs/open-source/commitment)

The assumption that Ory does not offer support contracts for self-hosted Ory is wrong (although we did not in the past, when the team was smaller).

We are doing contracts for companies using our software self-hosted: See here and contact us if you are interested! https://www.ory.sh/support/
This way we can assign engineers to your case and work on any issues you encounter or work on any contributions or features required.

Ory releases all features for free for everyone to use.
What is not free however is our time and work. To merge a PR/add a new feature/etc. a significant amount of time is needed to make sure the code lives up to standards, passes all tests, any security implications, etc.
This depends on the feature of course, but the one you are alluding to is probably one of those.
See the Code of Conduct on OSS support as well: https://github.com/ory/hydra/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

I hope that makes it clearer and feel free to reach out to me directly in the Ory Community on github or slack.
Also for weight loss the best time to be hungry is when you're unconscious so timing the meals when the "I'm hungry" time is during sleep helps a lot
I think you are looking for another kind of realism than what the books have. If it was a one to one society with our Middle Ages why would it not take place in our world.

GoT have a world with magic and dragons, I think it would be completely unrealistic if that world ended up with a religious life exactly as ours in the Middle Ages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s

As always its a little more then that..
It’s fueled by my working in restaurants for ~7 years in my 20s. If you’d experienced people throwing food at you because they didn’t like how it was made, sexually harassing and hurling racist insults at your coworkers, among other, myriad abuses, you’d probably feel the same. And that’s just describing the customers, not even addressing how management behaved.

Not all of us have had the luxury to spend our lives musing about trivial things like RuneScape, in between posting on white-collar tech forums.
We can discuss how much he drinks his own Kool Aid when he says things like "X can be half the world's financial system" but I suspect he expected profit. Or at least in April 2022 he did, when he signed.
> Is it possible that you actually don't comprehend the ramifications of eternal human labor trafficking?

Probably not. I don't even know what it means/you mean.
Brief history of credit cards: for consumers and retailers
A lot of games use similar or derived map formats (for instance, most Valve games). There’s a fair bit of game-specific tinkering to do, but you sometimes don’t have to reverse-engineer a new binary format from scratch…
That's a silly argument. Go to Norway (or elsewhere in Scandinavia)—there is "objectively less phenotypical variety there" too; would you extrapolate that all caucasians look alike?
> Arithmetic problems have nothing to do with reasoning

Then try to introduce GPT-4 to Peano's axiom and try to make it "understand" arithmetic that way? Oh, wait, it could already lecture you about it.
Ask ChatGPT if it’s AI.
Ask HN: Career advice and what skills gave you the most leverage
Hi all, new to posting but not to the forum. But, I’m struggling with my career, where to do next, and I’m throwing a line out for anyone that may have their own lessons learned to share.

For context, I’m a project manager in the EV charging infrastructure space. Nothing to do with software, as I’m primarily involved with the physical installation. I’ve been a PM for the better part of a decade in different industries and find myself a bit stuck in the ‘crisis of meaning’ stage.

I’m good at my job, but it’s not fulfilling and although I’m senior level I still haven’t broken through the $100k ceiling. Though, I do live in a medium cost of living area.

So, what am I asking? Well, I want to shift over to a position that will allow higher earnings and decent personal growth. Maybe it’s a unicorn job to get money and fulfillment, but the search continues. Given the housing crisis and crazy prices, I just feel I need to do what I can to increase earnings. Like most people, I just want to comfortably afford a modest house.

So, to all the high earners out there, do have any general advice? Any top of mind jobs I could chase, given my PM background?

I realize how broad this post is, but I’m desperate for a thread to follow and an outside perspective. Thanks
Well I can hear a repetitive rattling sound on the low bass notes, but it is rattling very fast and evenly. So I call that tinny.

A pure treble note like from a computer wave form does not rattle like that, to my ears.

A normal piano is supposed to have impure frequencies, it's part of the timbre and what gives it warmth.

Like a chocolate or winey kind of muddy. Artistically I much prefer that.
I'm not getting a sense of toxicity from this discussion. Sure, people are disagreeing and have distinct positions but the manner of discussion seems constructive.

>> This was never said.

Quotes don't have to used solely to indicate somebody explicitly said something.
The issue is not whether someone knows the links are clickable or not. The issues were raised upthread:

> They lay out the theft, public reaction, some art history, then not a single word on how it resloved, who actually took it and how it was found. The only hint was "an antique dealer got a letter".

It's lazy to not include enough information to make a coherent article. Links in this context are for further information, not for basic information needed to understand the article.
I have a degree in music so I am qualified to say this: that bass is crispy
Would really wish something like that for Go. Rust is cool and all, but I just can’t be arsed to care about the language more than solving actual business problems.
I thought it was older than last year, but I must be mixing up presentations I saw recently by Cory. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
Hardware-wise, my Pixelbook was fantastic. 3:2 screen, touch+pen, solid yet lightweight, decent enough performance.

The software was... tolerable, at best, but the support for Linux desktop and Android apps made it much more tolerable than Windows or macOS. That ChromeOS technically represents the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop" is a depressing thought, but for what it is, it ain't terrible.
Imagine if you entered a party that had a big sign that says you consent to be groped by entering the venue.

"But we notified you!"

Consent does not work that way.

It keeps being pointed out that this is a nonprofit run by volunteers - this simply underscores your utter lack of a legitimate business use case for spying on your users.

The only reason people insist on opt-out (ie nonconsensual) telemetry is because they know they don't actually have consent and their ingest data would drop like a rock if they had to, you know, check with their users for consent before uploading their usage. It's the old "she never said stop!" dodge.

Consent matters.
Floats are still the only sane default.
So many privacy nuts use Chrome and don't realize this:

> What about Google Chrome?

> I tried all of the above in Firefox. So I naturally tried to access the same page in Google Chrome to see if I’d still be blocked. Thankfully, I wasn’t.

> But of course I wasn’t because Chrome doesn’t have the same privacy- and security-enhancing designs that Firefox does. Chrome will happily collect as much private information about me and my browsing history and share them with select parties, as needed. It also doesn’t resist fingerprinting or let me modify settings to the same degree that Firefox does because Chrome relies on those fingerprinting technologies to ensure that I am targeted by ads it deems necessary for me to see.

> Being blocked on Firefox and not blocked on Chrome also tells me that Cloudflare is blocking me based on the fingerprint (or lackthereof) of my browser. Everything about my connection is identical between the two requests, aside from the browser being used. It’s the same security certificates, same corporate VPN, same machine, even the same timeframe when I try to access the site.

If you care about anything these days, don't use Chrome.
That's also my workflow but the "Check the data shape, do a eval() run with the data." is the annoying process I was describing, the iterative "waiting for the model to run", "see that it doesn't work", "print random tensor shape trying the debug the code" etc... There is nothing annoying about having an oracle that can check it instantly unless you think that suffering should be part of the experience.
I do not see what that description shows.

From the OAI API, gpt-4 seems to be an alias for the most recent model two weeks after it is released. There has not been a release since 0613.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4

e: from your edit,

"Note the context size is 4095. Their model has been heavily optimized for speed and, presumably, cost."

No, they are restricting context size to make inference on the chat interface cheaper but that does not mean it is a different model.
> Car registration shouldn't be based on the value of the car, it should be based on how heavy the car is. Because heavier cars cause more wear on the road, they should pay more for road repair.

Probably the only thing New York State 'gets right' from a regulatory perspective: register a Lotus Elise? It's cheaper than an F-250
I would take the opposite end of this bargain in a heartbeat. $20 for humans in 2380 :^)
VanJS: Grab 'N Go Reactive UI Framework Without React/JSX
The post office offers amazing service and its workers have been a key part of the labour movement.

Also next day delivery is almost never an option where I live so I don't bother with it.
What is the benefit to that?
Well it looks like I'm right and LK99 is ferromagnetic and not superconductive.

And the paper that shows it looks a lot more like I'd expect good science to look:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

Difference between science and spectacle.
> It's just all the class inheritance hierarchy stuff that is uglier in F#.

Yes, and that makes it harder for F# code to effectively re-use existing C# libraries. I know it is _possible_, fsc can reference DLLs no problem but unless that code was written to be idiomatic F# then I will have to awkwardly write some classes with a worse syntax than C#.
As we age, we gain wisdom, but we also face an increased risk of serious health issues, such as cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s.
> are you really willing to completely opt out of online banking

Sure, why not? It's not like it's a huge sacrifice on my part. It's just a little reduction in convenience. No big deal.

> because you're not permitted to send fake browser identification?

That's not the issue for me at all. The issue is if sites require me to use specific browsers, to not use specific extensions, to not be able to modify the browsers, or to adhere to specific requirements in terms of the OS I'm using. Having to maintain a completely different environment in order to use certain websites really is a loss of convenience that I object to.

Don't get me wrong -- I don't see this as a huge moral issue. Sites can do what they want, and if I don't like what they want, I don't have to use them. Opting not to use them strikes me as a reasonable and proportional response.

The only thing that makes me a little sad is that it's just another thing that makes the web worse and less useful.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm currently revising some old articles and getting back into writing more often, this is a nice reminder to keep at it.
Uninstall the NightOwl app
Completely. There are lots of laws already on the books but there is nobody actually enforcing them. Everyone from Uber to door dash to Amazon are profitably evading their responsibilities to their employees by miss categorizing them as contractors.

This is bad for the employees, bad for society and bad for competitor companies who are playing by the rules.

The solution is fairly obvious. Invest in bodies to proactively enforce the laws we already have.
The law is that vehicles need to give right of way to emergency vehicles. If autonomous cars repeatedly demonstrate that they cannot do that, then take their license away, just like you would for a natural person. Why do legal persons get to externalize the difficulty of their autonomous driving problem onto the police and fire departments (and the affected citizenry)?
Thanks, asphalt!

Yeah - it happens to concrete, too ...but it takes way longer
Yeah I have a little personal Svelte app from the v3 days too, basically a simple form site that I use to choose boardgames during dinner parties.

It still works locally, been meaning to update it which I think will be painless as well because it's a dead simple site. No regrets either, I really like Svelte and tried to convert some data visualization apps with it but couldn't win mindshare at the time in these companies.

I haven't look into too much, but what made react easy to adopt was that Facebook would put out codemods to help migration during major transitions. It was easy to justify these version bumps when there was tooling that made these transitions somewhat painless.
On my machine, it wouldn't be pretending that remote attestation doesn't exist. It does not exist, and if e.g. banks decided to require it, that'd just be locking me out. I have no attestation daemon, and if I did, it wouldn't be trusted by them. It doesn't matter if Firefox adds it too; it straight up won't work on my computer. People keep talking about browsers, but I'd prefer to continue running an operating system that doesn't have adware and spyware built in. My computer that I own is under my control, which is what these remote attestation features are meant to prevent. That is the fundamental problem.

If this kind of thing gets implemented by my bank/brokerage, I have to either buy a new computer just for them, or do all my banking over the phone or in person. It's incredibly wasteful and doesn't even help with security, but once it exists, it will get added to a checklist that banks will adhere to.
Oh, another Candle and Torch. There are also programs called "Candle" and "Torch" inside the WIX toolset, a widely used generator of Microsoft Windows installers. (Not to be confused with Wix.com, the heavily promoted low-end web hosting service.)